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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 8 books in this booklist
£14.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781909829183 | ISBN 10: 1909829188
Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Greenham Common peace protests, this book is packed full of the vibrant fabric banners made for Greenham, many presented here for the first time in decades. In the late summer of 1981, a ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780750995177 | ISBN 10: 0750995173
In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury to protest the siting of US nuclear missiles on British soil. They formed what became the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and stayed there for almost twenty ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786990808 | ISBN 10: 1786990806
The Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and 2000s became notorious for their atrocities, and for the widespread use of child soldiers. Girls and young women accounted for up to 40 per cent of these soldiers, but their unique perspective and experiences ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783607747 | ISBN 10: 1783607742
A leading voice in the environmental movement, Vandana Shiva has played a key role in bringing the struggles for social and ecological justice to international attention. Earth Democracy remains one of her key works, in which she addresses ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781760293260 | ISBN 10: 1760293261
In 1987, 17-year old Niromi de Soyza shocked her middle-class Sri Lankan family by joining the Tamil Tigers. Equipped with a rifle and cyanide capsule she was one of the rebels' first female soldiers. Now married and living in suburban Sydney, this i ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781583229170 | ISBN 10: 1583229175
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palesti ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844084142 | ISBN 10: 1844084140
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,And feel once more I do not live in vain,Although bereft of You... So wrote twenty-two-year-old Vera Brittain, mouring the loss of her fiance Roland Leighton on t ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007256891 | ISBN 10: 0007256892
Since leaving England aged 21 with an invitation to a Karachi wedding and a yearning for adventure, Christina Lamb has spent 20 years living out of suitcases, reporting from around the world and becoming one of Britain’s most highly regarded journali ... more
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