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£7.61
Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism
Jared Davidson - Paperback - AK Press
Philip Josephs was a Latvian-born, Scottish national who emigrated to New Zealand in 1904 and helped launch the organised anarchist movement there. This book is a narrative history of Josephs' life, set in the colonial outpost of New Zealand. Studying the transnationalist networks that flourished during what was a global anarchist upsurge, Davidson connects new dots in an earlier cultural globalisation.
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The Story Of My Boyhood And Youth
John Muir - Paperback - Birlinn
In this moving memoir of an unusual childhood, John Muir recalls his younger days in East Lothian with a startling clarity, depicting a wild boy whose quiet individuality and determination were already emerging.
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The Sinatra Club: My Life Inside The New York Mafia
Salvatore Polisi - Hardback - Mainstream Publishing
Born into one of the New York Mob's feared Five Families, Polisi ran an illegal after-hours gambling den, The Sinatra Club, that was a hangout for up-and-coming mobsters like John Gotti and the three wiseguys immortalised in Goodfellas: Henry Hill, Jimmy Burke and Tommy DeSimone. Yet for Polisi, the glory days spent robbing banks and pulling heists were fleeting. When he was busted, and already sickened by the bloodbath that had engulfed the Mob as it teetered towards extinction, he flipped and became one of a breed he had loathed all his life: a rat. Here, Polisi tells his story of life inside the New York Mob.
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Storming The Falklands: My War And After
Tony Banks - Paperback - Abacus
Tony Banks and his comrades were plunged into a war of night attacks and vicious close-quarters combat as they sought to liberate the Falkland Islands. In 'Storming the Falklands', Tony gives his vivid and harrowing first-hand account of the bloodiest conflict British troops had faced in years.
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Stolen: Escape From Syria
Louise Monaghan - Paperback - Mainstream
In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history Louise Monaghan risked her own life crossing a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old daughter from the father who had snatched her from her home in Cyprus.
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Scottish Mandarin: The Life And Times Of Sir Reginald Johnston
Shiona Airlie - Hardback - Hong Kong University Press
Colonial administrator, writer, explorer, Buddhist, and friend to China's last emperor, Sir Reginald Johnston (1874-1938) was a distinguished sinologist with a tangled love and family life that he kept secret even from his closest friends. Airlie tells the life story of this complex and sensitive character.
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Seven Steps In The Dark
Bob Smith - Paperback - Luath
Smith went into the pit when he was 14 years old, and spent his whole working life in the pits of Scotland until injury forced his retirement. This is his story, but it is also the story of the last 40 years of Scottish coalmining.
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Strike!: The Radical Insurrections Of Ellen Dawson
David Lee McMullen - Paperback - University Press of Florida
This is a biography of Ellen Dawson (1900-1967), a Scottish woman who participated in three of the largest and most dramatic textile strikes in U.S. history - Passaic, New Jersey; New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Gastonia, North Carolina.
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Stolen: Escape From Syria
Louise Monaghan - Paperback - Mainstream
In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history Louise Monaghan risked her own life crossing a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old daughter from the father who had snatched her from her home in Cyprus.
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The Still Single Papers: The Fearless Musings Of A Romantic Adventurer Aged 32 1/2
Alison Taylor - Paperback - Mainstream
Single girls today are smarter, stronger and funnier than ever and journalist Alison Taylor is the witty voice for this new generation who are looking for 'the one' but not willing to undergo a personality lobotomy in the process.