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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...
| Автор | Haipeng Zhang |
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...
| Автор | Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis |
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...
| Автор | Bonnie Honig |
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...
| Автор | Patrick Foy |
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,...
| Автор | Henry Russell |
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,...
| Автор | Ion Mihai Pacepa |
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...
| Автор | Samuel Beckett |
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...
| Автор | Luigi Pirandello |
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...
| Автор | José Manuel prieto |
John Kennedy Toole—who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces—wroteThe 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...
| Автор | John Kennedy Toole |
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...
| Автор | David Treuer |
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...
| Автор | Ivan Klima |
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...
| Автор | Bo Lidegaard |
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...
| Автор | Tia Sindbaek |
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...
| Автор | Mads Julius Elf |
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...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
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...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
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...
| Автор | Torsten Kolind |
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...
| Автор | Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg |
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...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
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...
| Автор | Hans Arndt |
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...
| Автор | Kirsten Lylloff |
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...
| Автор | Jeppe Norskov |
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...
| Автор | Anna Trojanowska |