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The Tyranny of Numbers by David Boyle
epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:David Boyle [David Boyle ]

IV ‘We are very fond of each other,’ Beatrice confided in her diary in 1887, well into the first year of working side by side with Booth. ‘A close intimate ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )
Karma Of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad
epub |eng | 2001-03-12 | Author:Vijay Prashad [Prashad, Vijay]

Bud Dhillon (right) and Daswanda Singh Mann at Gadar Ashram, 5 Wood Street, San Francisco, on the eve of their departure for a Freedom for India mission (1924). Courtesy of ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 9,2016 )
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

5 Central to modern expectations, and modern ethical feeling, is the conviction that war is an aberration, if an unstoppable one. That peace is the norm, if an unattainable one. ...
( Category: Violence in Society March 8,2016 )
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Susan Sontag [Sontag, Susan]

Godard “It may be true that one has to choose between ethics and aesthetics, but it is no less true that whichever one chooses, one will always find the other ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
Authority and the Individual by Bertrand Russell
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell

Postscript An interesting and painful example of the decay of quality through modern machine methods is afforded by the Scottish tweed industry. Hand-woven tweeds, universally acknowledged to be of superlative ...
( Category: Cultural March 4,2016 )
Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition by Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy
epub |eng | 2013-04-21 | Author:Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy [Erickson, Paul A. & Murphy, Liam D.]

VII Which brings us, finally, to theory. The besetting sin of interpretive approaches to anything—literature, dreams, symptoms, culture—is that they tend to resist, or to be permitted to resist, conceptual ...
( Category: Cultural March 3,2016 )
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and by Nisbett Richard
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Nisbett, Richard [Nisbett, Richard]

Easterners are almost surely closer to the truth than Westerners in their belief that the world is a highly complicated place and Westerners are undoubtedly often far too simple-minded in ...
( Category: Cultural March 2,2016 )
The Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Nigel Barley [Nigel Barley]

9 Ex Africa semper quid nasty Any African hospital is a shock by Western standards. There is nothing here to remind us of the hushed tones and pastel hues of ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 1,2016 )
Fractured Times by Eric Hobsbawm
epub | | | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

Part III UNCERTAINTIES, SCIENCE, RELIGION 13 Worrying About the Future There is a major difference between the traditional scholar’s questions about the past ‘What happened in history, when and why?’ ...
( Category: Criticism March 1,2016 )
The Jewish Writings by Arendt Hannah
epub | | 2009-03-11 | Author:Arendt, Hannah. [Arendt, Hannah]

On the “Salt of the Earth”: Waldo Frank's “Jewish Interpretation” September 22, 1944 No critique can demolish an ideology more utterly than its complete enactment. In the fullness of its ...
( Category: Judaism February 29,2016 )
The True History of Chocolate by Coe Sophie D. & Coe Michael D
epub |eng | 2013-06-28 | Author:Coe, Sophie D. & Coe, Michael D. [Coe, Sophie D.]

Title page of the treatise by León Pinelo, Madrid, 1636, discussing whether chocolate breaks the ecclesiastical fast. (From Antonio de León Pinelo, Questión moral si la bebida del chocolate quebranta ...
( Category: Home Repair February 29,2016 )
The Coyote's Bicycle by Kimball Taylor
epub |eng | | Author:Kimball Taylor

17 El Indio, Javy, Juan, and Solo prepared to pass nine pollos through the little canyon across from the Comercial Mexicana. It was about ten on a weekday morning. The ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies February 15,2016 )
Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
mobi, pdf |eng | 1998-11-05 | Author:John Reader

CHAPTER 38 Africa Transformed The significance of the slave trade for Africa lay less in the number of people lost than in the changed social patterns and reproductive capabilities of ...
( Category: Regional February 15,2016 )
Palestinian Identity by Rashid Khalidi
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Rashid Khalidi

II Among the factors that caused the Arab population of Palestine to identify with the country in the years immediately before World War I, several stand out. We have already ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 10,2016 )
The Mushroom at the End of the World : On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt
epub |eng | 2015-02-05 | Author:Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt

In Japan, one place to begin is not with humans but with the Grey-faced Buzzard (Butastur indicus), a lover of satoyama. These buzzards are migratory, mating in Siberia, then coming ...
( Category: Cultural February 6,2016 )

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