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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Usable History?

Tia Sindbaek

Usable History?

When Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and its allies in April 1941, what followed was as much a Yugoslav civil war as a war of occupation and liberation. Several hundred-thousand Yugoslav civilians were killed by other Yugoslavs in large-scale massacres or concentration camps, and the horrific events left the country ruined and deeply divided. Usable History? examines the way in which the history of Yugoslavia's internal problematic past was presented and used politically and...

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Tia Sindbaek

Tantaluskvaler

Mads Julius Elf

Tantaluskvaler

Kunstens fortAellinger kan supplere med nye vinkler pa nutidens psykosociale problemer med appetit, som hidtil har vAeret domineret af biologiske forklaringer.Ifolge bogen Tantaluskvaler beskriver den knap sa kendte klassiske myte om Tantalus samtidens problemer med appetitten bedre end psykoanalysens kanoniserede myter om Odipus og Narcissus. Sagnfiguren Tantalus fik en hard straf, da han fornAermede guderne: Han matte til evig tid sulte og torste, mens han var fanget i en overflod af mad og...

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Mads Julius Elf

Konge, kirke og samfund

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Konge, kirke og samfund

I middelalderen var ovrighedsmagten i Danmark delt mellem konge og kirke. Kongen sikrede freden, kirken gav ham den nodvendige legitimation og var selv aktiv i landets ledelse. Men konge og kirke var kun de to storste i et spektrum at magthavere, og magt var lokaliseret mange steder i samfundet. Det gAelder isAer i senmiddelalderen, hvor adelen styrkede sin position i forhold til konge og kirke, samtidig med at nye politiske og okonomiske muligheder abnede sig for samfundsgrupper som borgeren og...

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The Borders of Europe

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The Borders of Europe

Just like national identities, European identity may be viewed as an imagined community, constituted by different levels of inclusion and exclusion along various border markers as those between included and excluded, between culturally dominating and dominated or between centre and periphery, natives and exiled. This book by researchers within the field of art and architecture, theatrical performance, literature and history, is an important contribution to the ongoing discussion of the borders...

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Post-War Identification

Torsten Kolind

Post-War Identification

Stolac, the town of departure for this book and the site where the author conducted fieldwork, is located in the south-western corner of Bosnia Herzegovina. The war in Bosnia Herzegovina (1992-95) was initially an act of aggression and territorial conquest instigated by Serbian political leaders. However, as the war progressed, it increasingly came to consist of several minor wars, one of them fought in Western Bosnia Herzegovina between Croatian and Muslim forces. This was the one that affected...

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Torsten Kolind

Industri pa udstilling

Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg

Industri pa udstilling

Fremtiden bragede ind over Danmark. I 1888 kunne besogende pa Den nordiske Industri-, Landbrugs- og Kunstudstilling opleve det bedste og nyeste, det unge industrisamfund kunne prAestere. UtrAettelige dampmaskiner, dynamoer og gasmotorer fik hjulene til at snurre, og cykler, koldt smor og konservesdaser imponerede. De fleste var begejstrede, mens andre sa det nye som vejen til moralsk forfald. For hvad skulle unge mAend bruge de lange vinteraftener pa, nar de kunne kobe en stol i stedet for selv...

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Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg

Body, Sport and Society in Norden

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Body, Sport and Society in Norden

This book comprises a number of cultural-historical and ethnographic studies of the history of sport in the Nordic countries. The studies examine the contribution made by sport to the development of Scandinavian nationalism in the nineteenth century, and analyze the ways in which sport became interwoven with the social life of citizens in the various Scandinavian countries in the twentieth century. The main focus of this volume, therefore, is not on the organizational history of sport, nor is it...

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Sproget

Hans Arndt

Sproget

Malet med bogen er at fortAelle om sproget – hvordan det er bygget op, og hvordan det bruges. Om lyd og skrift, ord og udsagn. Om historien bagved, om sproget i samfundet, om det videnskabelige studium af sproget. Sproget er et stykke vAerktoj, det fineste og mest komplicerede, vi har. Alligevel handterer vi det med stor behAendighed, blot fordi vi er vokset op med det. Det er det, der er mirakulost.Bogen er skrevet for den almindelige sproginteresserede lAeser, og eksemplerne er hovedsagelig...

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Hans Arndt

Barn eller fjende?

Kirsten Lylloff

Barn eller fjende?

Historien om Danishmarks og Danishskernes rolle i 2. verdenskrig er i disse ar ved at blive skrevet om. En af de nye historikere er Kirsten Lylloff, som har skrevet ph.d.-afhandling om, hvad der skete med de 250.000 tyske flygtninge, som ankom til Danishmark pa fire maneder i 1945. Med fokus pa de uledsagede tyske flygtningeborn dokumenterer hun her, hvorfor denne flygtningeinvasion ma betegnes som den storste Danishske humanitAere katastrofe i nyere tid.Tyskerne var i en elendig forfatning, da...

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Kirsten Lylloff

Kobstadens metamorfose

Jeppe Norskov

Kobstadens metamorfose

Omkring 1800 var Arhus en lille, fortAettet handels- og handvAerksby beboet af godt 4.000 indbyggere og med torvene i byens midte som det okonomiske og sociale midtpunkt. Ved arhundredets slutning var indbyggertallet vokset til flere end 50.000, byen havde spredt sig ud over de middelalderlige grAenser, og dele af de omkringliggende sognekommuner og landsbyer var blevet indlemmet i kobstadskommunen. Nye kvarterer var opstaet med sAerlige beboer- og erhvervssammensAetninger, og selv om der stadig...

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Jeppe Norskov

Smak dymu

Anna Trojanowska

Smak dymu

O miłości w cieniu Wielkiej Wojny Warszawa, rok 1914. Lea jest pewną siebie, energiczną kobietą, matką trójki dzieci. Pracuje w aptece i próbuje wprowadzić do niej zioła z własnego zbioru. Wydawałoby się, że niczego jej nie brakuje, a jednak nie czuje się szczęśliwa. Po dziesięciu latach małżeństwa z Wincentem z gorącego uczucia, które ich połączyło, niewiele zostało. Gdy niespodziewanie nadarza się okazja, Lea wybiera się w podróż na daleką Syberię. Kiedy powraca do Warszawy, świat jest już...

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Anna Trojanowska

Jihad of the Pen

Rudolph Ware

Jihad of the Pen

Outsiders have long observed the contours of the flourishing scholarly traditions of African Muslim societies, but the most renowned voices of West African Sufism have rarely been heard outside of their respective constituencies. This volume brings together writings by Uthman b. Fudi (d. 1817, Nigeria), Umar Tal (d. 1864, Mali), Ahmad Bamba (d. 1927, Senegal), and Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975, Senegal), who, between them, founded the largest Muslim communities in African history. Jihad of the Pen...

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Rudolph Ware

The Dream

Mohammad Malas

The Dream

In 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary about the country's Palestinian refugee camps, during which time he kept a diary of his impressions. <em>The Dream: A Diary of a Film </em>is Malas's haunting chronicle of his immersion in the life of the camps, including Shatila, Burj al-Barajneh, Nahr al-Bared, and Ein al-Helweh. It also describes the filmmaking process, from the research stage to the film's unofficial release, in...

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Mohammad Malas

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