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A Little Princess
Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to settle in and make friends at boarding school. But when she learns that she`ll never see her beloved father gain, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for hard work and a room in
The Tale of Tales
Giambattista Basile was a seventeenth-century Italian poet whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of fairy tales. The Tale of Tales opens with Princess Zoza, unable to laugh no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the king, attempts to make her smile; instead he leaves her cursed whereupon the prince she
The Stonewall Reader
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded itJune 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising – the most significant event in the gay liberation movement and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ
Heidi
At the age of five, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi is fascinated by his long beard and bushy grey eyebrows. She loves her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up amongst the goats
The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
An incredible collection of verse by women poets writing in Persian, many translated into English for the first timeFrom Iran and India, to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, from princesses and entertainers to anonymous wives and daughters, The Mirror of My Heart displays the extraordinary breadth of women writing in Persian. The 83 poets included in this
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
`This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven is telling his fellow realists that at this moment the world`s great powers are far more threatened by climate change than they are by each other` Ivan Krastev, author of The Light That FailedIn the past two centuries we
White Fragility: Why It`s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The International Bestseller`With clarity and compassion, DiAngelo allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to “bad people.” In doing so, she moves our national discussions forward. This is a necessary book for all people invested in societal change` Claudia RankineAnger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness
The iconic New York Times bestseller that `struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter` (Ibram X. Kendi)Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly` Slate` Chronicle of Higher Education` Literary Hub and Book RiotOnce in a great while a book comes along
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
`Kate Manne is the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century` – Amanda Marcotte`I want to press this book on every schoolgirl who thinks that feminism is uncool, any woman who thinks the most important gender battles are won, pretty much every man I know, and say, have you thought about this?` Sophie McBain, New
Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
This is the story of a happy family whose life suddenly fell apart, never to be the same again. Of two devoted parents plunged into a waking nightmare as their eleven-year-old daughter stopped speaking and eating, and her younger sister struggled to cope. This crisis was not theirs alone: they were burned-out people on a
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth. James Lovelock argues that the anthropocene – the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies – is, after three centuries, coming to an end. A new
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific feat of aeronautics. They required new forms of collaboration between the public sector (notably, NASA) and private companies. This book asks: what if the same level of boldness – the boldness that set inspirational goals, took risks and
Poor
Chosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Rough Trade and the BBCShortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionShortlisted for the Rathbones Folio PrizeLonglisted for the Jhalak Prize`Restlessly inventive, brutally graceful, startlingly beautiful . . . a landmark debut` Guardian`Oh my God, he`s just stirring me. Destroying
Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism
Two of the UK`s leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity `provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced` TelegraphThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit. These institutions make the difference between societies that thrive and those paralyzed
