"Troublemaker" Memories of the Freedom Movement (Freedom Now!, #3)
by Bruce Hartford
You Don't Lose 'til You Quit Trying
by Caroline Lambert and Sammy Lee Davis
At nearly 95, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. He now offers a memoir which - embodying the spirit of the man himself - is youthful, vivacious and enormous fun. Fans of Terkel will be captivated by the unique and eclectic life of one of America's greatest living legends.
‘As educational as it is enlightening … Read this’ SARA PASCOE‘Passionately argued, meticulously researched and angry as hell ... leads the reader beyond the strip club and on to the battlefield where sex workers fight for their rights’ KATE LISTER‘Deeply impressive ... An important book, sorely needed’ CAROL LEIGH'An unflinching takedown of inadequate working conditions … A must read’ JUNO MAC, co-author of Revolting Prostitutes Forget everything you think you know about strippers In this pow...
A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan—and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and female empowerment “Khalida Brohi understands the true nature of honor. She is fearless in her pursuit of justice and equality.”—Malala Yousafzai, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize From a young age, Khalida Brohi was raised to believe in the sanctity of arranged marriage. Her mother was forced to marry a thirteen-year-old boy when she was only nine; K...
Mariposa / Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph
by Yusra Mardini
La increíble e inspiradora historia de una joven extraordinaria. «Yusra, no podríamos estar más orgullosos de tu valor, tu resistencia y el gran ejemplo que das.».-Barack Obama. En verano de 2015, Yusra, de diecisiete años, y su hermana mayor Sara huyeron de su casa en Siria arrasada por las bombas. Desde Damasco emprendieron un peligroso viaje hacia la costa de Turquía, donde consiguieron subir a un pequeño bote con otras veinte personas dispuestas a todo para llegar a Europa.Llevaban treinta...
Fifty-Three Years in Syria (Kiraz Historic Travels Archive)
by Henry Harris Jessup
Following the success of I'm Your Man and Just Kids, legendary Canadian singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn delivers his long-awaited memoir-a chronicle of faith, fear, and activism that is also a lively cultural and musical tour through the late twentieth century. Award-winning songwriter and pioneering guitarist Bruce Cockburn's life has been shaped by politics, protest, romance, and spiritual discovery. For more than five decades he has toured the globe, visiting far-flung places such as Gu...
A Radical Abolitionist And Early Feminist, Francis George Shaw (1809-1882) was a prominent figure in American reform and intellectual circles for five decades. He rejected capitalism in favor of a popular utopian socialist movement; during the Civil War and Reconstruction, he applied his radical principles to the Northern war effort and to freedmen's organizations. A partnership with Henry George in the late 1870s provided an international audience for Shaw's alternative vision of society. Seeki...
I Saw Democracy Murdered (Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics)
by Colin Chambers and Sam Russell
The memoir of Sam Russell (1915-2010), a communist journalist and a British volunteer with the anti-fascist Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. First-hand accounts of significant historical events, from the formerly occupied Channel Islands at the end of World War II to the show trials of communists in Eastern Europe in the 1950s. Fascinating insight into the Spanish Civil War, the history of communism, and British radical history.