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My Name Is Jody Williams

Jody Williams

My Name Is Jody Williams

As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, «Jody Williams is many things—a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist.»<br /><br />From her modest beginnings to becoming the tenth woman—and third American woman—to receive the...

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Jody Williams

Мировой беспорядок

Ричард Хаас

Мировой беспорядок

Правила, политика и институты, которыми руководствовались страны после Второй мировой войны, в значительной степени исчерпали себя. Избрание Дональда Трампа и неожиданное голосование за «Брексит» сигнализируют о том, что многие в современных демократиях отвергают важные аспекты глобализации, включая границы, открытые для торговли и иммигрантов. Мир меняется, и эти изменения не в пользу США. Мировой беспорядок наступает. Но мир не может быть стабильным или процветающим без Соединенных Штатов,...

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Ричард Хаас

Конец конца Земли

Джонатан Франзен

Конец конца Земли

В новом сборнике эссе американский писатель Джонатан Франзен, прекрасно знакомый российскому читателю по романам «Поправки» и «Безгрешность», пишет, в числе прочего, о литературе, которая «побуждает тебя задаваться вопросом, не можешь ли ты быть в чем-то неправ, а то и кругом неправ, и пытаться представить себе, почему кто-то другой может тебя ненавидеть». Какой бы темы Франзен ни касался, он никогда не ориентируется на чужое мнение, непременно ироничен, но всегда готов корректировать свои...

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Джонатан Франзен

ДНК миллиардера. Естественная истор...

Ричард Коннифф

ДНК миллиардера. Естественная история богатых

«Если хотите знать, что Бог думает о деньгах, просто взгляните на тех, кому он их дал», – эту фразу американский журналист Ричард Коннифф поставил эпиграфом своей книги. Для изучения образа жизни, нравов и привычек богатых и сильных мира сего автор посетил самые шикарные места и самых знаменитых людей. Он рассматривает богачей как отдельный подвид homo sapiens с использованием методов социобиологии и генетики, что, по его мнению, оправдано, ведь «состоятельные семьи практикуют...

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Ричард Коннифф

Fiction Focus for Writers

Ксюша Ангел

Fiction Focus for Writers

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Ксюша Ангел

Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone

Megan H. MacKenzie

Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone

The eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002was incomprehensibly brutal—it is estimated that half of allfemale refugees were raped and many thousands were killed.While the publicity surrounding sexual violence helped tocreate a general picture of women and girls as victims of theconflict, there has been little effort to understand female soldiers’involvement in, and experience of, the conflict. FemaleSoldiers in Sierra Leone draws on interviews with 75...

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Megan H. MacKenzie

Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!

Tom De Luca

Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!

The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like “evildoer,” “war on terror,” and “axis of evil” have become commonplace in our discussion of international politics. What ever happened to civil debate? Where has all this moralizing come from? And what harm has this new level of attack caused to democracy in America?In this compelling and cogent account, Tom De Luca and John Buell chart the rise...

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Tom De Luca

Friends of Alice Wheeldon

Sheila Rowbotham

Friends of Alice Wheeldon

In early 1917, as Britain was bogged down in a war it feared would never end, Alice Wheeldon, her two daughters, and her son were brought to trial and imprisoned for plotting the assassination of Prime Minister Lloyd George, who they believed had betrayed the suffrage movement. In this highly evocative and haunting play, British historian and feminist Sheila Rowbotham illuminates the lives and struggles of those who opposed the war. The Wheeldons’ controversial trial became something...

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Sheila Rowbotham

The Ethics of Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard

The Ethics of Liberty

In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the libertarian political position. What distinguishes Rothbard's book is the manner in which it roots the case for freedom in the concept of natural rights and applies it to a host of...

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Murray N. Rothbard

A Portrait of America

John Iceland

A Portrait of America

Portrait of America describes our nation’s changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities. Celebrated authorJohn Iceland covers various topics, including America's historical demographic growth; the American family today; gender inequality; economic well-being; immigration and diversity; racial and ethnic inequality; internal migration and...

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John Iceland

Divide and Deal

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Divide and Deal

Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealth, risk, status, and well-being, this volume explores how institutions, individuals, and coalitions contribute to the often surprising twists and turns of distributive politics.The contributors hail...

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The Obama Syndrome

Tariq Ali

The Obama Syndrome

A prescient dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat, fully updated. Written early in 2010 and initially published in September 2010, The Obama Syndrome predicted the Obama administration’s historic midterm defeat. But unlike myriad commentators who have since pinned responsibility for that Democratic Party collapse on the “reform” president’s lack of firm resolve, Ali’s critique located the problem in Obama’s notion of reform itself. Barack Obama campaigned for the...

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Tariq Ali

Humanitarian Imperialism

Jean Bricmont

Humanitarian Imperialism

Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers—above all, the United States—in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more arbitrary and self-serving, and their form more destructive, from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan to Iraq. Until the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the large parts of the left was often complicit...

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Jean Bricmont

God is a Conservative

Kenneth J. Heineman

God is a Conservative

From Billy Graham and Ronald Regan to Newt Gingrich and William Bennett, God is a Conservative provides an important look at the role of religion in conservative politics in modern America. Kenneth J. Heineman reveals the profoundly religious nature of contemporary conservatism, offering an intriguing look at the social history of moral politics over the last three decades, and the still tremulous aftershocks of the New Deal. With a new Preface that examines the Bush presidency, including a...

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Kenneth J. Heineman

The Spirit of the Laws

Charles de Montesquieu

The Spirit of the Laws

This treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously in 1748, has become one of the most influential works of political science ever written. French philosopher Charles de Montesquieu wrote this piece under the inspiration of such political theorists as René Descartes, Nicholas de Malebranche, and Niccolò Machiavelli. The ideas laid forth by Montesquieu in this work, especially that of balancing power among branches of government, had a prominent influence on the American...

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Charles de Montesquieu

Mediated Democracy

Michael W. Wagner

Mediated Democracy

Mediated Democracy: Politics, the News, and Citizenship in the 21st Century takes a contemporary, communications-oriented perspective on the central questions pertaining to the health of democracies and relationships between citizens, journalists, and political elites. The approach marries clear syntheses of cutting-edge research with practical advice explaining why the insights of scholarship affects students’ lives. With active, engaging writing, the text will thoroughly...

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Michael W. Wagner

Becoming Worthy Ancestors

Benedict Anderson

Becoming Worthy Ancestors

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Benedict Anderson

The Spirit of the Laws

Charles de Montesquieu

The Spirit of the Laws

This treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously in 1748, has become one of the most influential works of political science ever written. French philosopher Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu wrote this piece under the inspiration of such political theorists as René Descartes, Nicholas de Malebranche, and Niccolò Machiavelli. The ideas laid forth by Montesquieu in this work, especially that of balancing power among branches of government, had a prominent influence...

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Charles de Montesquieu

Mediated Democracy

Michael W. Wagner

Mediated Democracy

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Michael W. Wagner

Код адсутнасці

Валянцін Акудовіч

Код адсутнасці

Гэтая кніга нечакана мне самому адасобілася з цыклу лекцыяў “Асновы беларускай ментальнасці”, падрыхтаванага для Беларускага калегіуму. Улёгшыся ў адукацыйную працу, я ў нейкі момант адчуў мусовую патрэбу выйсці за лекцыйны фармат і скінуць да адной купы ўсё тое думанне пра Беларусь, што вярэдзіла мне цягам доўгага часу. Зрэшты, у гэтай эмацыйнай патрэбы была свая, уласная логіка. З XX стагоддзем скончылася і вялікая эпоха “буры і націску”, у выніку якой паўстала незалежная Беларусь. Далей...

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Валянцін Акудовіч

Неоконченная исповедь

Януш Вишневский

Неоконченная исповедь

«Неоконченная исповедь» – это сборник коротких, но чрезвычайно интригующих эссе, в которых Вишневский вновь – с присущим ему мастерством – говорит просто о сложном. Член наблюдательного совета крупного банка, несправедливо осужденная на казнь женщина, мачеха и ее падчерица. Любовь, верность, ложь. Вишневский с непреклонностью ученого и чуткостью писателя слушает исповеди своих героев, даже если они обрываются на полуслове.

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Януш Вишневский

Неоконченная исповедь

Януш Вишневский

Неоконченная исповедь

Сборник коротких, но чрезвычайно интригующих эссе, в которых Вишневский вновь – с присущим ему мастерством – говорит просто о сложном. Член наблюдательного совета крупного банка, несправедливо осужденная на казнь женщина, мачеха и ее падчерица. Любовь, верность, ложь. Вишневский с непреклонностью ученого и чуткостью писателя слушает исповеди своих героев, даже если они обрываются на полуслове. © Copyright by Janusz Leon Wiśniewski © Copyright by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 2018 ©...

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Януш Вишневский

The Republic (Translated by Benjami...

Plato

The Republic (Translated by Benjamin Jowett with an Introduction by Alexander Kerr)

Plato’s most famous work and one of the most important books ever written on the subject of philosophy and political theory, “The Republic” is a fictional dialogue between Socrates and other various Athenians and foreigners which examines the meaning of justice. It is primarily from the writings of Plato that Socrates’s ideas are passed down to us. Written around 380 BC, the work is an important contribution to the age old question of how to best structure a society in a just way. The influence...

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Plato

Global Obscenities

Zillah Eisenstein

Global Obscenities

The New York Times devotes the cover of its magazine to America's declining interest in politics and its obsession with money, finance, and the markets. Bill Gates builds a $50 million mansion while food pantries and homeless shelters overflow with the desperate. The explosive expansion of media and cyber conglomerates creates dreamworlds while the ecology of our actual world is jeopardized. Public space and public democracy withers, as is evidenced by the fact that the closest facsimile of...

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Zillah Eisenstein

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