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A well-dressed young man makes his way into the Bald Faced Stag Inn, Putney Vale, London and books lodging for a few nights. With a wide smile and gracious pleasantries, he takes his key from the unsuspecting innkeeper. Little does the innkeeper know, this young man is about to embark on a journey that is, to say the least, defiant, unpleasant and often shocking. It soon becomes apparent that he's not all that he appears to be. Damn your eyes...Stop! Tells the story of Lewis Jeremiah Avershaw, a notorious highwayman who terrorised travellers in the late 18th century. His short life was one of terror and violence that led to the inevitable conclusion...the gallows.

T. H. Rigby, ‘Harry’ Rigby to many colleagues and friends, was a leading pioneer in Soviet Studies during the Cold War. In this memoir he recounts his career as researcher, teacher, public intellectual and sometime adviser to MI6. He includes fascinating accounts of his time in the British Embassy in Moscow in the 1950s and of his later visits to the USSR, whose leadership labeled him a ‘bourgeois falsifier,' a title he wore with some pride.His story is also of a family and his inauspicious beginnings in a working-class district of Melbourne, his education in the 1930s and 1940s, war service in New Guinea and early interest in political thought. He writes of his beloved wife Norma and their growing family against a background of sweeping change in 20th century Australia.

The story follows four young children who discover a hidden cave containing a space/time warp, leading them to thrilling adventures across different times and places. Each visit to the cave results in a unique journey, allowing them to experience three distinct adventures that challenge their imagination and bravery.

When Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 they sought to scrap the existing structures of government and substitute new ones based on Marxist principles. This book attempts a detailed account of their efforts to create a socialist 'cabinet' (Sovnarkom), to elaborate effective machinery and methods of operation, and to use it to govern the country.

An exploration of Marx's claims about social structure and historical change, which discusses their use and validity. The author argues that Marxism proves most useful when it is seen as a source of questions, concepts and hypotheses rather than as a philosophy of historical development.