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Snappy McDogg
"Revolutionary Wealth Hacks" is a comprehensive guide that empowers individuals to achieve financial freedom and leave a lasting legacy through innovative wealth hacking strategies.
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William Gustavus Whiteley
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
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Hall Greenland
Michel Pablo (born as Michalis Raptis) was a revolutionary Marxist of Greek origin. Imprisoned during the Metaxas dictatorship in 1936, on the leadership of the Fourth International after WW2, and…
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Jean-Pierre Luminet
Many widely read scientific writers of our day mistakenly attribute the concepts of the expanding universe and the Big Bang to Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein. Hubble did provide evidence…
Assistant Professor Renee Hudson
A necessary reconceptualization of Latinx identity, literature, and politics
In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in…
Laura Snyder Brown, William Fleet Lankford
An exemplary story of solidarity in action, Cultivating a Revolutionary Spirit conveys the exhilarating experience of being part of paradigm-changing revolutions.
Bill Lankford visited Nicaragua in 1984 to see the…
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The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamiltonexplores how the musical confronts conventional conceptions of American history, racial equity, and political power. Scholars of theatre studies, media studies, and communication studies will find…
Joy James
The academic profile is higher than the activist profile, but the activist profile is what I adore. It’s not a profile per se, it’s a practice of humility, and also…
Peter McPhee
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. This…
This book shows how social work can be an agent for promoting revolutionary changes in order to counter the global neoliberal market fundamentalism which is destroying our planet and reinforcing…
Christopher Clark
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history
There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848…
Hossein Nazari
Memoirs of diasporic Iranian-American authors are a unique and culturally powerful way in which Iran, its politics, and people are understood in the USA and the rest of the world…
Kali Ghosh
This is a fascinating autobiography set before the partition of the subcontinent. Kali Prasad Ghosh belonged to a zamindar or landed family in Bengal. He joined the Congress movement and…
Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso
This book examines the role of artists in Egypt during the 2011 revolution, when street art from graffiti to political murals became ubiquitous facets of revolutionary spaces. Through interviews, personal…
Diarmaid MacCulloch
The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII’s bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell’s role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn
Special Operations Research Office
The Conflict Research Group is proud to bring the original 1962 edition of the Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare back into print. Originally published by the Special Operations Research…
Sam Fullerton
This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English Revolution (1640-60) and argues for the long-term significance of that development…
Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis consists of new cutting-edge essays written by interdisciplinary scholars, bringing together a range of intellectual traditions and perspectives. The contributors confront the challenge…
Explores artificial intelligence blended with financial concepts as a promising new area in business and technology-financial technology, or fintech. It introduces the concepts, financial derivatives, and management information systems and…
Ernesto Che Guevara
The dramatic and entertaining account of the revolution in Cuba, from the architect of its success
We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat…
This important volume collects the proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 1929 by the South American Secretariat of the Moscow-based Communist…
Adrian Goldsworthy,Dr Adrian Goldsworthy Ltd
The story of how Augustus rose from an obscure teenager to become Rome’s first and greatest emperor.
Cuthred E a Ivar
American R?v?lut??n, (1775-83), insurrection b? which 13 ?f Gr??t Br?t??n'? N?rth Am?r???n colonies w?n political ?nd???nd?n?? and w?nt on to form the Un?t?d St?t?? ?f Am?r???. The war f?ll?w?d m?r…
Aris Project
Since the original publication of Undergrounds in Insurgent, Revolutionary, and Resistance Warfare in 1963, much has changed, but much remains relevant.
The Internet, the globalization of media, the demise of…
Gary L. Williams
Imagine you were at the American Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You were among the delegates who shaped the founding document of a new nation. You were also…
Douglas M. Branson
The stories of Southern brigadier generals during the Revolutionary War remain largely forgotten or untold, but their experiences were unique. This book demonstrates that, as much as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas…
This groundbreaking work, Undergrounds in Insurgent, Revolutionary, and Resistance Warfare, was written in response to the communist insurgency in South Vietnam. It sought to categorize underground movements encountered during the…
Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah
In autumn 1951, a diverse array of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish students from clubs like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Worker's Vanguard launched a guerrilla struggle against British occupation of…
Kimberly Nath
New narratives on the lived experience of the Revolutionary War through five case studies exploring the spectrum of loyalist experiences in Revolutionary Philadelphia.
Henri Daniel-Rops
The Church of the Revolutionary Age: Facing New Destinies is the eighth installment in Henri Daniel-Rops' History of the Church of Christ. This volume focuses on the momentous political events…
The Church of the Revolutionary Age: Facing New Destinies is the eighth installment in Henri Daniel-Rops' History of the Church of Christ. This volume focuses on major events in personality…
This Casebook provides a summary of twenty-three insurgencies and revolutions and covers the period 1962-2009; the goal of the book is to introduce the reader to modern-style irregular and unconventional…
Valarie Kaur
Renowned civil rights activist Valarie Kaur explains how love can be used to effect transformative political and social change
Savita Pandit
""Exploring the Genius: 100 Scientists and Their Revolutionary Contributions"" is a comprehensive exploration of the groundbreaking work and profound impact of some of the greatest scientific minds in history. From…
Time, media, and visuality are watchwords of modernity across science, culture and the arts. At which point in history, though, did they decisively intersect? Identifying the year 1789 - or…
Tim Harper
Tim Harper shows on an epic scale how Asia’s anti-imperial movements depended on global revolutionary networks, and he traces the lingering power of internationalist utopian dreams in the postcolonial world.
August H. Nimtz, Kyle Edwards
By juxtaposing the political thought and activism of Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, Nimtz and Edwards use comparative real-time political analysis to examine how liberalism and Marxism performed during the…
Orlando Figes
What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? This book deals with these questions.
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Kevin Ochieng Okoth
Salvaging a decolonised future
Renee Vulto
This book sheds new light on the intertwined history of music and politics through an exploration of Dutch political songs. In the emotionally charged climate of the Dutch revolutionary period…
Colin Jones (Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London)
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the…