Winner of the the Betty Trask Prize 2018Winner of the Best Debut Under 35 from the Soeicty of AuthorsWinner of the Prix de le Litterature, Institut Du Monde ArabeA Boston Globe and White Review Book of the YearEgypt, 2011: this is a revolution. On the streets of Cairo, a violent uprising is transforming the course of history. Mariam and Khalil, two young activists, are swept u...

This book takes a new approach to examining the relationship between China and Russia, departing from the standard debate over whether the relationship is a true strategic partnership or merely an axis of convenience. Instead, the book argues that the best way to gain an understanding of ties between Beijing and Moscow is to watch how they interact “on the ground” in regions of the world where they both have important interests at stake. It provides an in-depth analysis of Chinese-Russian ...

________________'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you' - Suad Amiry________________The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringing together writers from all corners of the globe...

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen artistic lin...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

"R.H. Williams, a proslavery English adventurer who had joined the KGC...claimed...its real object was to bring about Secession." - Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire (2013)"R. H. Williams...spent sixteen years out West as lieutenant in the Kansas Rangers and afterwards captain in the Texas Rangers." -The Sphere (1908)"Ranger R.H. Williams...wrote...frontier Rangers...could not effectively protect the lives of ranchers and their property fro...

Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination. Investigating specific legal, economic, and political practices, and including research from interviews with Indigenous political and business leaders, this collection seeks to provide insights grounded in lived experience. Covering such critical topics as economic justice and self-determination, and the barriers faced in pursuing each, Wise Practices sets out to understand ...

Mental toughness is the key to endurance events and business success. Robert Hamilton Owens is a master of the mental game - he completed 5 major endurance events in one year- at the age of 65. This former Air Force Pararescueman shares his compelling stories of overcoming physical and mental pain and how he accomplished so much on one year.

In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent films brought Shakespeare to a wide public who had never had the chance to see his plays in the theatre. And Shakespeare gave the film makers an air of respectability that was badly needed by a med...

Why does history fascinate us and why, in particular, does ancient Greek and Roman history seem to have such a powerful hold on our modern psyches? Is it the huge and heroic characters, like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, who strut across the stage with such ruthless aplomb or is it the fact that nearly all of our laws and institutions are derived from these Greek and Roman civilisations? In my own experience, I find, that the more you delve into the histories of these incredible s...

How far would you travel to save the Earth? Captain John Russell and the crew of the Starship Destiny are sent on a mission to deliver one hundred colonists to Mars, with a secret secondary objective: to prepare for and annihilate a religious cult, known as the Dawn of Revelations, whose sole purpose is to destroy humanity, and possibly the world. While on route, Destiny is flung far into the Andromeda galaxy, millions of light years from home. There, they make a remarkable discovery, that...

" The City Always Wins powerfully transmits the hope and despair of Egypt's Tahrir Square generation . . . one of the defining novels of the Arab Spring." —Toby Lichtig, The Wall Street JournalNamed as one of the Best Books of 2017 by The Boston Globe and The Arts DeskWe've been doing the same thing for hundreds of years. Marching, fighting, chanting, dying, changing, winning, losing. This time will be different. Th...