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Danmark i Krig

Bo Lidegaard

Danmark i Krig

I 1991 sendte Danmark efter lang tids toven korvetten Olfert Fischer til Golfen. For var det ikke bedre med en humanitAer indsats – og horte et lille land hjemme i sa stor en krig? I 2011 var Folketinget kun fa timer om enstemmigt at beslutte, at Danmark skulle sende bombefly til Libyen, og vi blev et af de lande, der kastede flest bomber i det fjerne orkenland. I mellemtiden havde Danmark deltaget i krigene pa Balkan, i Afghanistan og i Irak. Pa 20 ar var holdningen til krig forandret, sa...

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Bo Lidegaard

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto...

Richard Raskin

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto og with Raised Hands

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Richard Raskin

Rez Life

David Treuer

Rez Life

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist’s storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present.With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and...

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David Treuer

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for t...

Ivan Klima

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

A New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light is the story of Pavel, once a promising, award-winning documentary filmmaker, forced to survive under communism by working as a cameraman for the state-run television station. Now middle-aged, he dreams of one day making a film  a searing portrait of his times that the authorities would never allow. When the communist regime collapses, Pavel is unprepared for the new...

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Ivan Klima

The Neon Bible

John Kennedy Toole

The Neon Bible

John Kennedy Toolewho won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of DunceswroteThe Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole’s heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five years after it was written and twenty years after Toole’s suicide at thirty-one, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed...

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John Kennedy Toole

Pirandello's Henry IV

Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello's Henry IV

In this meeting of two of the twentieth century’s greatest playwrights, Tom Stoppard has reinvigorated Luigi Pirandello’s masterpiece of madness and sanity. After a fall from his horse, an Italian aristocrat believes he is the obscure medieval German emperor Henry IV. After twenty years of living this royal illusion, his beloved appears with a noted psychiatrist to shock the madman back to sanity. Their efforts expose that for the past twelve years the nobleman has in fact...

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Luigi Pirandello

Rex

José Manuel prieto

Rex

Now in paperback, José Manuel Prieto’s Rex is a sexy, zany, and sophisticated literary game rife with allusions to Proust and Borges, set in a world of wealthy Russian expats and mafiosos who have settled in western Europe.J. is a young Cuban man who, thanks to his knowledge of Russian and Spanish, has become the tutor of the young son of a wealthy Russian couple living in Marbella, in the part of southern Spain that the Russian mafia has turned into its winter quarters. As...

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José Manuel prieto

Mercier and Camier

Samuel Beckett

Mercier and Camier

Mercier and Camier, Beckett’s first postwar novel and his first in French, has been described as a forerunner of his most famous work, Waiting for Godot. Like the play, Mercier and Camier revolves around two wandering vagabonds. Their journey is described as relatively easy going, with no frontiers or seas to be crossed. The reader never knows where the journey starts or where it ends and the novel is less about the characters’ physical progress than their exchanges regarding...

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Samuel Beckett

How the Dead Live

Уилл Селф

How the Dead Live

Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book yeta novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish.Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughterslumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely successful chain of stationery stores called Waste of Paper, and beautiful...

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Уилл Селф

Operation Dragon

Ion Mihai Pacepa

Operation Dragon

Former Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey and former Romanian acting spy chief Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was granted political asylum in the U.S. in 1978, describe why Russia remains an extremely dangerous force in the world, and they finally and definitively put to rest the question of who killed President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.All evidence points to the fact that the assassination—carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald—was ordered by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev,...

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Ion Mihai Pacepa

Let Freedom Reign

Henry Russell

Let Freedom Reign

On 10 May 1994, Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black president, uttering the words 'let freedom reign' as part of his famous inaugural address. More than 100,000 people turned up to hear him speak. Mandela's great skill as an orator has enabled him to use the power of words as an important weapon in his fight against discrimination and injustice in the world. This collection, which marks the 20th anniversary of Mandela's release from prison in February 1990,...

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Henry Russell

The Unauthorized World Situation Re...

Patrick Foy

The Unauthorized World Situation Report, 2nd Edition

The Unauthorized World Situation Report is a distillation. Its subject matter is world affairs and American history, focusing upon the Twentieth Century and its immediate aftermath. It is in the tradition of the American revolutionary war pamphleteers, to wit, an extended broadside in plain language, with a point of view and humor. This controversial reappraisal is very much at odds with the received version of events. it suggests that America's current difficulties in foreign affairs is...

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Patrick Foy

A Brief Modern Chinese History

Haipeng Zhang

A Brief Modern Chinese History

This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership, providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late. Haipeng Zhang and Jinyi Zhai provide us with a history of China's struggle for national independence and prosperity, reflecting the “humiliation” in the “sinking” period and the “struggle” during the “rising” period. After the Japanese...

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Haipeng Zhang

Antiquity in Gotham

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

Antiquity in Gotham

The first detailed study of “Neo-Antique” architecture applies an archaeological lens to the study of New York City’s structures Since the city’s inception, New Yorkers have deliberately and purposefully engaged with ancient architecture to design and erect many of its most iconic buildings and monuments, including Grand Central Terminal and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch in Brooklyn, as well as forgotten gems such as Snug Harbor on Staten Island and the Gould Memorial Library in the...

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Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

Shell-Shocked

Bonnie Honig

Shell-Shocked

A biting, funny, up-to-the-minute collection of essays by a major political thinker that gets to the heart of what feminist criticism can do in the face of everyday politics. Stormy Daniels offered a #metoo moment, and Anderson Cooper missed it. Conservatives don’t believe that gender is fluid, except when they’re feminizing James Comey. “Gaslighting” is our word for male domination but a gaslight also lights the way for a woman’s survival.Across two dozen trenchant, witty reflections, Bonnie...

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Bonnie Honig

Now What?

Rachel Weiss

Now What?

Now What? is an innovative exploration of artworks and films that return to radical histories subject to erasure or otherwise lost or occluded over time. The moments returned to—the Cuban Revolution, Chile’s 1973 coup d’état , the ambiguous 1989 “revolution” in Romania, and the mayhem surrounding the Red Army Faction in 1970s West Germany—stand as historical watersheds, foundational and precipitate moments in the history of radical politics. Delving into these key historical moments by way of...

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Rachel Weiss

Cottagers and Indians

Drew Hayden Taylor

Cottagers and Indians

Drew Hayden Taylor’s thirty-second play; a powerful dramatization of contemporary North American confrontations taking place between environmentalist and consumerist views, Indigenous and non-Indigenous sensibilities.

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Drew Hayden Taylor

Fate of the Flesh

Daniel Juan Gil

Fate of the Flesh

In the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry. As an emerging empirical scientific world view and a rising Cartesian dualist ontology transformed the ancient hope for the resurrection of the flesh into the fantasy of a soul or mind living on separately from any body, literature complicated the terms of...

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Daniel Juan Gil

Winter's Descent

Don Gutteridge

Winter's Descent

In a wonderful follow up to Summer's Idyll, the book that first introduced his readers to protagonist «Billy» or «Junior,» this second work, Winter's Descent continues this lovely story and will certainly keep readers enthralled from beginning to end. Following Billy and his life as he moves with his mother to the countryside of Ontario during the Second World War, the story is one that provides deeply personal historical detail that Gutteridge's fans have come to know and love....

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Don Gutteridge

The Other Tudors

Philippa Jones

The Other Tudors

Forget everything you thought you knew about Henry the Eighth. While Henry VIII has frequently been portrayed as a womanizer, author Philippa Jones reveals a new side to his character. Although he was never faithful, Jones sees him as a serial monogamist: he spent his life in search of a perfect woman, a search that continued even as he lay dying. This book brings together for the first time the 'other women' of King Henry VIII. When he first came to the throne, Henry VIII's...

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Philippa Jones

Who Is a Muslim?

Maryam Wasif Khan

Who Is a Muslim?

Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question “Who is a Muslim?,” a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English...

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Maryam Wasif Khan

Bewilderment

Don Gutteridge

Bewilderment

An inspiring story set in the time of the Great Depression, Bewilderment: A Novel of the Great Depression follows the story of a coal delivery man, Gabriel «Gabe» Goodfellow, who wants to lighten the hearts of the people in homes he visits. Poverty is felt everywhere and people are hopeless. So, he thinks that there can be some joy and inspiration by arranging for the carnival to visit the town. His intentions are pure and altruistic, but then he has to deal with family problems. Things get...

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Don Gutteridge