Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
This is a portrait of the lives of modern Muslim women. It illustrates how male pride and power has warped the original message of a once liberating faith. The book traces a journey toward an understanding of these women, and of the often contradictory forces that shape their lives.
White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard by Daniel Johnson
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response by Bernard Lewis
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: Very good
The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ide ...Show more
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media darling in the West, having successfully marketed himself as an enlightened leader with both feet planted firmly on the Eastern borders of Europe. Anti-establishment journa ...Show more
Murder in Samarkand - A British Ambassador's Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror by Craig Murray
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Craig Murray was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing appalling human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of President Islam Karimov. This memoir lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror.
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
From the bestselling author of Lo"sing Ground" and "The Bell Curve," this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes. In "Coming Apart," Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anyth ...Show more
Ulster 1969 - The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland by Max Hastings
$140.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
Empire of Pain - The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author ...Show more
Not on the Label: What Really Goes Into The Food on your plate by Felicity Lawrence
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
We no longer trust what we eat. We lurch instead from food scare to food scare while farming is in crisis around the world. A handful of retailers and food manufacturers exert unprecedented control over what we eat and where we buy it. We have come to depend on processed food that is routinely adulterat ...Show more
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Abacus 40th edition by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explai ...Show more