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The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

By Anthony Knivet, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (University of Cambridge)

But You Did Not Come Back

By Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Sandra Smith

Princess Sultana's Circle

By Jean Sasson

Please Don't Take My Baby

By Cathy Glass

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

By John A Hall

With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military

By Michael L Weinstein, Davin Seay

Picturing Algeria

By Pierre Bourdieu (SSRC), Craig Calhoun, Franz Schultheis, Christine Frisinghelli

Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement

By Jane McAlevey, Bob Ostertag

Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession

By Cockburn, Andrew, Cockburn, Patrick

A Tale of Love and Darkness

By Amos Oz

Soldier of the Cuban Revolution: From the Cane Fields to General of the Revolutionary Armed Forces

By Luis Alfonso Zayas

It's Our Turn to Eat

By Michela Wrong

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

By Gerry Adams

Frantz Fanon

By David Macey

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century

By Bahru Zewde

117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation under the South African 90-Day Detention Law

By Ruth First, Gillian Slovo

Gandhi Before India

By Ramachandra Guha

Another Day of Life (Picador Books)

By Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Footprints in the African Sand: My Life and Times

By Dr Michael Cassidy

Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850

By Linda Colley

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By Lessing, Doris

Mill and Liberalism

By Maurice Cowling

The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment

By Asher Horowitz, Terry Maley

Mist Of Memory:

Hobbes (Past Masters S.)

By Tuck, Richard

The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People

By Neil Bennun

A History of South Africa

By Welsh, Frank

Talk of the Devil

By Riccardo Orizio

Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions

By Charles Forsdick, Christian Hogsbjerg

The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde

By S. Salamensky