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Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold War
At the 1884-1885 Conference of Berlin a cartel of largely European states effectively set the rules for the partition of Africa, an event whose historical and structural importance continues to affect and shape Africa’s contemporary international relations.
₦11,000.00Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold War
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
‘THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ’ JOHN LE CARRÉ
A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain’s greatest historians – now with a new afterword
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket.
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I You We Them: Journeys Beyond Evil: The Desk Killer in History and Today
I You We Them is an unprecedented study of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the ‘desk killers’ who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the modern era. From Albert Speer’s complicity in Nazi barbarism to cases of ecocide and the deaths of activists, Gretton shines a light on the figures ‘who, by giving orders, use paper or a phone or a computer to kill, instead of a gun.’
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power
From cholera epidemics to tax hungry monarchs, Mask discovers the different ways street names are created, celebrated, and in some cases, banned. Full of eye-opening facts, fascinating people and hidden history, this book shows how addresses are about identity, class and race. But most of all they are about power: the power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t, and why.
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Great State: China and the World
Timothy Brook examines China’s relationship with the world from the Yuan through to the present by following the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people navigating the spaces where China met and meets the world. Bureaucrats, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, invaders, migrant workers, traitors, and visionaries: this is a history of China as no one has told it before.
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Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma | Matthew Parris
Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that still influence our lives today. And all men and women who experienced, in childhood, trauma so severe that it should have broken them completely.
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From Third World to First: Singapore and the Asian Economic Boom
For more than three decades, Lee Kuan Yew has been praised and vilified in equal measure, and he has established himself as a force impossible to ignore in Asian and international politics. From Third World to First offers readers a compelling glimpse into this visionary’s heart, soul, and mind.
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive change as a society.
This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who appear to welcome them in to the places which cannot accept them.
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Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became a Global Brand
The remarkable story of how Joe Foster developed Reebok into one of the world’s most famous sports brands, having started from a small factory in Bolton.
Like the international bestseller Shoe Dog, by Nike’s Phil Knight, Shoemaker is a powerful tale of triumph against all the odds, revealing the challenges and sacrifices that go into creating a world-beating brand; it is also the story of how a small local business can transform itself, with the right products and the right vision, into something much, much bigger.
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Power Play: Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century
Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, wrestling for control, meltdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all, success.
A story of power, recklessness, struggle, and triumph, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of eccentrics and innovators beat the odds… and changed the future.
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Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe After the Second World War
Rich with original sources and individual voices, Ruin and Renewal is a gripping, authoritative account of how Europe rose from the ashes of the Second World War – and forged itself anew.
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The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
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White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams
In Whit Malice, renowned historian Susan Williams dives into the archives, revealing new, shocking details of America’s covert programme in Africa. The CIA crawled over the continent, poisoning the hopes of 1958 with secret agents and informants; surreptitious UN lobbying; cultural infiltration and bribery; assassinations and coups.
As the colonisers moved out, the Americans swept in―with bitter consequences that reverberate in Africa to this day.
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The Hitler Years ~ Triumph 1933-1939
In The Hitler Years, Frank McDonough charts the rise and fall of In The Hitler Years, Frank McDonough charts the rise and fall of the Third Reich under Hitler’s hand. The first volume, Triumph, ends after Germany’s comprehensive military defeat of Poland in 1939.the Third Reich under Hitler’s hand. The first volume, Triumph, ends after Germany’s comprehensive military defeat of Poland in 1939.
₦6,000.00 – ₦14,000.00The Hitler Years ~ Triumph 1933-1939
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Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900
Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews’ expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian England; a general in Ming China; an opera composer in nineteenth-century Germany.
The story unfolds in Kerala and Mantua, the starlit hills of Galilee, the rivers of Colombia, the kitchens of Istanbul, the taverns of Ukraine and the mining camps of California. It sails in caravels, rides the stage coaches and the railways; trudges the dawn streets of London, hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleon’s ruined army.
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The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World | Vincent Bevins
In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it’s been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system.
The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington’s final triumph in the Cold War.
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The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Sarah Baartman by Rachel Holmes
In The Hottentot Venus; a scintillating and vividly written book, Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Baartman’s extraordinary life for the first time
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On China
On China is written with great authority, complete accessibility and with many wider reflections on statecraft and diplomacy distilled from years of experience. At a moment when the rest of the world is thinking about China more than ever before, this timely book offers insights that no other can.
₦5,500.00On China
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THE OTHER NAMES OF GRIEF
The poems in this Chapbook capture the incessant problems wrecking the poet’s homeland.
From the ravaging effects of the Bokoharam insurgency in Northern Nigeria to the frightening reality of victims of war in Syria, the poet presents to us the grim pictures of our collective tribulations.
The book serves as a way of documenting the years of aches and experiences of people who carried and continue to carry bits of smoldered dreams.
₦1,500.00THE OTHER NAMES OF GRIEF
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1966: THE DARK TRUTH – An Insider’s Account of Nigeria’s First Military Coup
The book “1966: The Dark Truth” is Emmanuel Nwobosi’s witness statement of the critical events in Nigerian history which he played parts in. The book has three essential though unlabelled parts. The first part deals with the Colonel’s story, from his birth in Port-Harcourt, in 1939 to the very last years of his life.
The second part addresses Nigeria’s history, covering the events of independence, the failed first republic and her bloody crises, the 1966 coups and pogroms, the rift between the East and the Northern led Federal Military Government, the Biafran war, battle campaigns, starvation, privations, the collapse of the Biafran dream, post war Nigeria and her missed opportunities, mismanagement, the politicisation of religion and descent to the present day quagmire.
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Man’s Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.
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The Holocaust: A New History
Two fundamental questions about the Holocaust must be answered:
How did it happen? And why?
There is no shortage of books on the Holocaust but Rees’s stands out as a readable and authoritative exposition of how and why it happened, and the barbarous methods by which it was pursued. The amount of ground it covers in 500 pages is remarkable – from the anti-Semitism of popular German literature of the 19th century to Hitler’s suicide and the surrender of his regime. It’s excellently written and skilfully interweaves narrative history, sound interpretation and the recollections (through interviews, listed in the notes as “previously unpublished testimony”) of survivors. Rees provides an exemplary account of how the greatest crime in modern history came about
₦4,500.00The Holocaust: A New History
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. Yet, somehow, the West came to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium.
In this vital, brilliant book, Niall Ferguson reveals the six ‘killer applications’ that the Rest lacked: competition, science, property rights, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. And he asks: do we still have these winning tools? Or is this the end of Western ascendancy?
₦5,200.00Civilization: The West and the Rest
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?
If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion – a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer, happier, more peaceful, more stimulating and more prosperous – not just in the West, but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it’s the gift of a coherent and inspiring value system that many of us embrace without even realizing it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress
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Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
When Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN mission to Rwanda, he thought he was heading off to Africa to help two warring parties achieve the peace both sides wanted. Instead, he and members of his small international force were caught up in a vortex of civil war and genocide.
Dallaire left Rwanda a broken man; disillusioned, suicidal, and determined to tell his story.
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The Mechanism: A Crime Network So Deep it Brought Down a Nation
A gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering uncovered the biggest corruption scandal in human history.
When a small team of investigators discovered that a black market currency dealer was operating out of a Brazilian petrol station, they could never have imagined that their work would destroy the government and lead to the impeachment of two presidents. As the trail leads further and further into the centre of power, the search for the truth and pursuit of justice become ever more crucial.
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The Mafia: The Inside Story of Organized Crime
How did the Mob evolve from a disorganised gang of uncouth killers into the deadly ‘international corporation’ it is today?
Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America, William Balsamo – great-nephew of the original godfather – and George Carpozi Jr draw on two decades of research to tell the true story of the most mythical and misunderstood criminal organisation in history.
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Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
Twilight of Democracy is an essay that combines the personal and the political in an original way and brings a fresh understanding to the dynamics of public life in Europe and America, both now and in the recent past.
Anne Applebaum traces this history in an unfamiliar way, looking at the trajectories of individuals caught up in the public events of the last three decades. When politics becomes polarized, which side do you back? If you are a journalist, an intellectual, a civic leader, how do you deal with the re-emergence of authoritarian or nationalist ideas in your country? When your leaders appropriate history, or pedal conspiracies, or eviscerate the media and the judiciary, do you go along with it?
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