Sylvia Pankhurst's career was very different from those of her mother Emmelina or sister Christabel. A promising art student, she was soon a more than active Suffragette, but her insistence on taking the cause to the working women of the East End of London led to her virtual expulsion. Much of the rest of her life was devoted to the causes of anti-fascism, anti-imperialism and the independence of Ethiopia. This book tells her story.

Product Description: Focusing on the turbulent period after the 1917 Russian Revolution, author Ian Bullock examines the impact of the myth of Soviet democracy:the belief that Russia was embarking on a brave experiment in a form of popular government more genuine and advanced than even the best forms of parliamentarism...read more

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive guide to the birds of the Seychelles, a spectacular archipelago of 115 islands north of Madagascar. It describes and illustrates every species for the first time--more than 250 in all--and gives extended species accounts for all 66 breeding species...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)