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  • Roots, Radicals and Rockers

    How Skiffle Changed the World

    by Billy Bragg ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZERoots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it.It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics

    by Billy Bragg ...
    Billy Bragg is one of Britain's most distinctive and accomplished songwriters, whose work has articulated the passions, both personal and political, of Britain during the past five decades. A Lover Sings contains over seventy of his best-known lyrics, selected and annotated by the author.'Sexuality', 'A New England', 'Levi Stubbs' Tears' - these are unadorned, poetic songs that skilfully ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Three Dimensions of Freedom

    by Billy Bragg ...
    At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we argue over who has the right to speak.To protect ourselves from encroaching tyranny, we must look beyond this one-dimensional notion of what it means to be free and, by reconnecting liberty to equality ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Progressive Patriot

    by Billy Bragg ...
    What does it mean to be English? What does it mean to be British? Is the cross of St George a proud symbol of a great tradition, or the badge of a neo-Nazi? In a world where British citizens can lay bombs to kill their countrymen, where religious fundamentalism is on the increase and where the BNP are somehow part of the democratic process, what does patriotism actually mean?Our identity can ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    The Three Dimensions of Freedom

    by Billy Bragg ...
    Narrated by Billy Bragg ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 56 min

    We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ordinary voters feel helpless to effect change, resulting in outbreaks of populist anger, and traditional platforms for debate are losing their viability as readers source information online. In this short and vital polemic, progressive thinker and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll

    Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich

    by Daniel Rachel ...
    A meticulously researched and sensitively told history examining pop music’s enduring and problematic fascination with the swastika—and Nazism itselfOVER THE LAST SEVEN DECADES, some of rock ’n’ roll’s most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall kitting themselves out in Nazi uniforms to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid ... Read more

    $29.39 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    by Fredrik Backman ...
    Narrated by Joan Walker ...

    Unabridged

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    The international phenomenon: quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny. Perfect for fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared.The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: Soon to be a major film starring Tom Hanks.Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • The Tyranny of Merit

    What's Become of the Common Good?

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    A Times Literary Supplement’s Book of the Year 2020A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?These are dangerous tim... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • I Seek a Kind Person

    My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

    by Julian Borger ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book of the YearThis gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents.**In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Out of the Wreckage

    A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

    by George Monbiot ...
    A leading environmental and political commentator draws a roadmap towards new politics—offering a rallying cry for a new vision of what a ‘good’ society can be—in this “dazzling command of science and relentless faith in people” (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine)What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the 21st century?A toxic ideology of extreme competition and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Story of Ireland

    A History of the Irish People

    by Neil Hegarty ...
    In this groundbreaking history of Ireland, Neil Hegarty presents a fresh perspective on Ireland's past. Comprehensive and engaging, The Story of Ireland is an eye-opening account of a nation that has long been shaped by forces beyond its coasts.The Story of Ireland re-examines Irish history, challenging the accepted stories and long-held myths associated with Ireland. Transporting readers to the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Fourth Revolution

    The Global Race to Reinvent the State

    by John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge ...
    From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-stateDysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited ... Read more

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