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The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions

By Michael Walzer

Contesting Transformation: Popular Resistance in Twenty-First Century South Africa

By Marcelle C. Dawson, Luke Sinwell

A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir

By Benedict Anderson

Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes

By Stephen Howe

In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo

By Michela Wrong

Challenging the Political Order: New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies

By Russell J. Dalton, Manfred Kuecheler, Manfred Kuechler (Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, New York City, USA)

Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues

By Howard Margolis

The Persistent Activist: How Peace Commitment Develops And Survives

By James Downton, Paul Wehr

Extraordinary Politics: How Protest And Dissent Are Changing American Democracy

By Charles Euchner

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration

By E.S.Atieno Odhiambo (Author), John Lonsdale

The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life

By Angela V John

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

By Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

By Dave Rubin

Regulating Womanhood

By Carol Smart

Lobbying: The Art of Political Persuasion

By Lionel Zetter

The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

By David Garland (School of Law and Department of Sociology, School of Law and Department of Sociology, New York University)

Freedom of Speech, 1500-1850

By Robert Ingram (Associate Director), Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber

Freedom of Speech, 1500-1850

By Robert Ingram (Associate Director), Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber

Me and White Supremacy (YA Edition)

By Layla Saad

All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying

By Ruth Coker Burks

The Storm is Here: America on the Brink

By Luke Mogelson

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets'

By Vincent Bevins

All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying

By Ruth Coker Burks

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

By Natasha Walter

The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age

By David E. Sanger

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By Thomas E. Ricks

How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women

By Lindsey German

When Zuma goes

By Ralph Mathekga

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Gillian Slovo