Our children have the energy, capacity, and passion to create and nurture a global culture in which inclusion, acceptance, respect, and participation are the core values that underpin a human being's every interaction.
An essential gift for every history buff, this boldly illustrated ebook maps out the events that have shaped our world - from the dawn of human civilization to the present day.
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times'Simply one of the best history books I have ever read' BBC HistoryIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen.
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint LouvertureThe Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state.
**Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018 and the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2019**'Weymouth combines acute political, personal and ecological understanding, with the most beautiful writing reminiscent of a young Robert Macfarlane.
'Engaging, hilarious and practical - I will proudly proclaim myself a card-carrying member of the FFC' - Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and bestselling author of Lean InThis is a call to arms.
A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States.
A partir de 1943 comienza un ciclo historico en Argentina que se consolidara con el advenimiento al gobierno de Juan Domingo Peron y de la consolidacion del Justicialismo como marco del Proyecto de desarrollo nacional inclusivo.
Zane Grey's The Ohio River Trilogy gathers Betty Zane, The Spirit of the Border, and The Last Trail into a sweeping frontier sequence set in the late eighteenth-century Ohio Valley, where settler communities, Indigenous nations, scouts, missionaries, and soldiers contend for survival and dominion.
'A completely unforgettable story' Afua HirschThe gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic CircleWITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORScorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which T t -Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa.
The international bestseller that changed how we talk about racism'A critically acclaimed book that gave readers a starting point to demystify conversations about race' The Atlantic'A classic' Jodi PicoultWalk into any racially mixed secondary school and you will see young people clustered in their own groups according to race.
'This is a book for the future: it gives us exactly the tools we need to dismantle racial injustice in our society' Baroness Doreen Lawrence 'A powerful, salient and gracefully written study of the corrosive dynamics of race in Britain from a trusted voice on the subject.
'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival'Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the heart of the civil rights movement show Martin Luther King's rhetorical power at its most fiery and uplifting.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERONE OF BARACK OBAMA S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR TIME S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONEOF THE NEW YORK TIMES S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURYLOS ANGELES TIMES S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARSAN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES 'A brilliant and stirring epic .
'Guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people'First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war.
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin - the new biography of Teddy Roosevelt from the bestselling author of Team of Rivals, the inspiration for Spielberg's LincolnDoris Kearns Goodwin, author of the acclaimed multi-million copy bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, now turns to the birth of America's Progressive Era - that heady, optimistic time when the 20th Century is fresh.
Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have spent four years uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes.
The Three Emperors by Miranda Carter is the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them.
This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation s expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between civilization and wilderness, which for better or worse lies at the heart of American identity today.
In Halik Kochanski's extraordinary book, the untold story of Poland and the Poles in the Second World War is finally heard By almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland was the most terrible of any group in the Second World War.
