From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. He became identified in the white press as a teacher of race hatred. This autobiography reveals his integrity and the fierce idealism which led him to reject both liberal hypocrisies and black racialism.

‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive or begging him to come back, I was kicking his ass, kicking him out, kicking my own ass too. My Blondie character was an inflatable doll but with a dark, provocative, aggressive side. I was playing it up, yet I was very serious.’

A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth.

A slim volume featuring Georges Perec's writings on the simple task of arranging books and what it can reveal about life

One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these virtuoso writings about books and language, he discusses different ways of reading, a list of the things he really must do be...

* Subtitled 'An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson', this is a true story of a man's rediscovery of his mentor - a book about second chances.

An investigation onto the patriarchy and how it impacts our day-to-day lives.

'A dazzling history of the future - Hamish McRae has given us a tour de force' - Tim Harford

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A bold and illuminating vision of the future, from one of Europe's foremost speakers on global trends in economics, business and society

What will the world look like in 2050? How will complex forces of change - demography, the environment, finance, technology and ideas about governance - affect our global society? And how, with so many unknowns, should we think about the future?

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Is het feminisme een denkrichting, een levenshouding, een emancipatiebeweging, een tegencultuur, of alles tegelijk? In dit Elementair Deeltje beschrijft historica Els Kloek de lange geschiedenis van verzet tegen de ondergeschikte positie van vrouwen, in Nederland en daarbuiten. Van de middeleeuwse ‘strijd om de broek’ tot de ‘querelle des femmes’ en de ‘vrouwenquaestie’. En van de suffragettes en Dolle Mina’s tot intersectionaliteit en MeToo. Een geschiedenis die voert langs ver...

Het koloniale verleden en het slavernijverleden van Nederland staan de laatste tijd volop in de belangstelling, in steeds negatievere termen. Na tientallen jaren borstklopperij is de slinger doorgeslagen naar boetedoening. Dankzij ’s lands bekendste Leidse historici, koning Willem-Alexander en voormalig premier Mark Rutte, staat Nederland nu zelfs bovenaan de Europese ‘ranglijst’ van spijt en excuses. Is dat wenselijk of moet de politiek stoppen met wat volgens velen getuigt van een weg...