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Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power by Max Haiven
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Max Haiven

The empire strikes back More tragically, how do we re-create ourselves to conform once again with the world as we knew it before the radical event? While many of such ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines June 12,2015 )
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:Simone Weil

1. Written in 1943. [Translator’s note] THE IMPORTANCE OF SIMONE WEIL France offered a rare gift to the contemporary world in the person of Simone Weil. The appearance of such ...
( Category: Political Parties June 12,2015 )
Ecology and Socialism by Chris Williams
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-28 | Author:Chris Williams

The mining and refining of uranium is a highly pollution-and energy-intensive business in its own right. The fissile material needed in nuclear reactors, the isotope of uranium, U- 235, is ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 12,2015 )
Warlords, Inc. by Noah Raford
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Noah Raford [Raford, Noah]

An Alternative Modernity? The climate-changed and multiple-crisis-ridden world that is coming spells the breakdown of modernity as we have known it. What will follow? Other contributors to this book have ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 12,2015 )
Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education by Henry A. Giroux
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Henry A. Giroux

Chapter five On the Urgency for Public Intellectuals in the Academy “The university is a critical institution or it is nothing.” —Stuart Hall I want to begin with the words ...
( Category: Social Policy June 12,2015 )
Tomorrow's Battlefield by Nick Turse
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Nick Turse

10 Christmas in July and the Collapse of America’s Great African Experiment: As a Man-Made Famine Looms, Christmas Comes Early to South Sudan August 7, 2014 Juba, South Sudan. The ...
( Category: History & Theory June 12,2015 )
43* by Jeff Greenfield
epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Jeff Greenfield

September 11, 2001 “I can’t believe it!” First Officer LeRoy Homer said to Jason Dahl, the pilot of the Boeing 757. “Wheels up at 8:10? At Newark? When was the ...
( Category: Executive Branch June 12,2015 )
Ready For a Brand New Beat by Mark Kurlansky
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

We worked at home, Hitsville, where we all felt at home. We had the kitchen working—chili cooking. You could go back and get a cup of chili so you didn’t ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 12,2015 )
Missoula by Jon Krakauer
epub |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Jon Krakauer

On February 17, ignoring Aronofsky’s recommendation to wait until after the opposing parties had a chance to discuss the best way to proceed, Paoli hired a private investigator, Mark Fullerton, ...
( Category: Reform & Policy June 12,2015 )
Boko Haram by Mike Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Smith

* * * When a helicopter landed in Maiduguri in September 2011 carrying former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, there would be a fleeting moment of hope. With the UN building ...
( Category: Nigeria June 12,2015 )
The Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christopher Andrew

Section E The Later Cold War Introduction The Security Service and its Staff in the Later Cold War The aloof management style of two successive DGs, Sir Martin Furnival Jones, ...
( Category: European June 12,2015 )
One Hand Does Not Catch a Buffalo by Aaron Barlow
epub |eng, eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:Aaron Barlow

After graduation from New York University, Eric Stone taught ESL/ESOL in China, Brazil and throughout New York City. He then joined the Peace Corps, launching and managing an HIV/AIDS, malaria ...
( Category: Volunteer Work June 12,2015 )
Boston Strong by Casey Sherman
epub |eng | | Author:Casey Sherman

Over at Massachusetts General Hospital, there was confusion. Patty and Billy Campbell arrived at the hospital at around 2 a.m. with the hope of being reunited with their daughter, Krystle. ...
( Category: State & Local June 12,2015 )
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Prunier Gerard
mobi |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Prunier, Gerard [Prunier, Gerard]

Diplomacy slowly deconstructs the continental conflict The actors start jockeying for position What was the situation of the continental war in early 2001? First of all, one of weariness. The ...
( Category: African June 11,2015 )
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]

All efforts to impose a monolithic set of motives on the assembled delegates at Philadelphia, whether economic or ideological, have been discredited. And the very effort to do so misses ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 11,2015 )

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