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With the Pacing of a Thriller, a Veteran Journalist's Account of the Terrorist behind the Mumbai Attacks and a Planned Attack in Europe
David Headley, the American-Pakistani also known as Daood Gilani, lived a double life. One day he would stroll through Central Park in his tailored Armani suit as a true New Yorker, and the next he would browse in the bazaar in Lahore wearing traditional Pakistani clothes. One day he would drink champagne at the...
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Les réflexions d'un philosophe marxiste des sciences
Ce recueil vise à donner au lecteur francophone un accès à une partie de la réflexion du biologiste britannique John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964) sur les sciences et leur rapport à la philosophie et à la politique. Haldane est surtout connu comme l'un des fondateurs (aux ctés de Ronald Fisher et Sewall Wright), au tournant des années 1930, de la théorie de la génétique des populations,...
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Cet ouvrage réunit les révélations du pédiatre américain, Dr. Richard Day (1905-1989) sous le titre : « Le Nouvel Ordre des Barbares ». Il s'agit d'une transcription de trois bandes s'appelant à l'origine « le nouveau système mondial ». Les cassettes 1 et 2 ont été enregistrées en 1988 et sont les souvenirs du Dr. Lawrence Dunegan concernant une conférence à laquelle il a assisté le 20 mars 1969 lors d'une réunion de la Pittsburgh...
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This authoritative anthology covers the many contributions to science, philosophy and economics made by the great minds of 18th century Scotland.
Through the eighteenth and into the nineteenth centuries, Scotland saw an explosion of intellectual activity in the realms of philosophy, law, economics, politics, linguistics and the physical sciences. Great thinkers such as Adam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, Thomas Reid, James Hutton, and many others...
1805) Guy Debord
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This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord's theoretical work into "French theory." Jappe's focus, to the contrary, is on Debord's debt to the Hegelian-Marxist tradition, to Karl...
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An examination of how America's colleges have become an intellectual hell on Earth for anyone who wishes to think rationally and seek truth and wisdom, as well as a plan for how young citizens can claim and safeguard the learning and heritage to which they are entitled.
From safe-spaces and trigger warnings, to grievance studies and neo-Marxist indoctrination, to sexual degeneracy and hook-up culture, to student loan indentured servitude, to useless...
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The politics of corruption?
With just a little sleaze.
Walk the corridors of power. And some interesting back-alleys.
The combined novels Corrupt and Sleaze as a single anthology
"Electrifying"
"A crash course in manipulation"
"I worry about this...all the time"
"Accelerates past star ratings"
"Jake, Clare, Bigsy, Christina...They are all here!"
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Through stories at once poetic and poignant, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice. The contemporary renewal of Jewish anarchism draws on a history of suffering, ranging from enslavement and displacement to white nationalism and genocide. Yet it also pulls from ancestral resistance, strength, imagination, and humor-all qualities, and wisdom, sorely needed today....
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This major collection of essays brings together in readily accessible form the fruits of research into the political thought and culture of Renaissance and Reformation Scotland. As a collection, it ranges from detailed studies of the writings of figures of international standing, such as John Mair, John Knox, George Buchanan and King James VI and I, to more discursive explorations of the changing self-perceptions of the Scottish political community...
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In 1970 a small group of West German revolutionaries decided to go underground, set up safe houses, and learn the skills of the urban guerilla. They were the Red Army Faction.
Seven years later, almost all of the original combatants were in prison or dead, yet, through their example, they had inspired a militant and illegal support movement, comrades willing to take up arms in defense of the prisoners.
1977 was to be a year of reckoning. Through...
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Jo Spiegel revient sur son parcours et propose un renouveau démocratique.
Maire de Kingersheim (Haut-Rhin), Jo Spiegel refusa en 2014 la Légion d'honneur, pour dénoncer « une démocratie en panne ». En 2015, il a rendu sa carte du PS, devenu selon lui une « officine de conquête du pouvoir ». Comme beaucoup de Français, Jo Spiegel est un citoyen en colère, déçu par le manque de courage de la classe politique. D'autant qu'à son échelle,...
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The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that have experienced the most severe impacts of global climate changes. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights dimensions of the crisis, using creative direct action to press for real, systemic changes.
Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate...
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In Republicanism, Communism, Islam, John T. Sidel provides an alternate vantage point for understanding the variegated forms and trajectories of revolution across the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam, a perspective that is de-nationalized, internationalized, and transnationalized. Sidel positions this new vantage point against the conventional framing of revolutions in modern Southeast Asian history in terms of a nationalist template, on the one...
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The Editor in Chief of The Economist, illuminates what global issues mattered in the last century-and how the ways in which we deal with them will shape our lives in the next.
The attacks on September 11th, 2001, shook the rich West out of its complacency; suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before that time, prosperity was endangered, as campaigns mounted against the purported evils of capitalist globalization, such as inequality, pollution,...
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David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former president of the Organization of American Historians. His books include Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (Princeton) and Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism.
The important role of liberal ecumenical Protestantism in American history
The role of liberalized,...
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The must-read summary of Stephen Breyer's book: "Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution".
This complete summary of "Active Liberty" by Stephen Breyer, a liberal-leaning Supreme Court Justice in the United States, outlines the author's argument that the American Constitution should be used as a guide for the application of American principles. He highlights the fact that the Constitution must not be rigid but adapt to the needs of...
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What was the fight for Africa's independence all about? Was it just about majority rule? Was it to replace foreign economic and political systems with home-grown African systems or for Africa to remain with and/or adopt foreign systems? In "African Nationalism", the late African freedom fighter Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole presents a compelling account of why Africans sought their independence and his vision of a system that would be ideal for Africa's...
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Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their varied lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demographic profiles fit in the economic landscape? How do immigrants narrate belonging in an environment where they are "other" at a time...
1819) Free Dakota
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Don Jenkins wants a divorce from the United States. He's tired of a government that can't balance its budget but thinks it can dictate how much soda he should drink. Combining political intrigue and political theory, Free Dakota explores the new possibilities when Don follows the call of a charismatic diner owner who promises a libertarian paradise on the prairie. After years of struggle they have the votes for a peaceful secession, but the feds say...
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In a time of social and ecological crises, people everywhere are looking for solutions. States and capitalism, rather than providing them, only make matters worse. There's a growing sense that we'll have to fix this mess on our own. But how? Deciding for Ourselves, in the spirit of the Zapatistas, demonstrates that "the impossible is possible." A better world through self-determination and self-governance is not only achievable. It is already happening...
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