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20th century human-condition politics
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Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΡΩΜΙΟΣ: Αρκετά!... Και τώρα μια τελευταία διευκρίνιση. Είπα ότι το έργο μας είναι κωμωδία. Αλλά δεν είναι απλώς διότι έτσι γράφτηκε ή διότι το λέμε εμείς. Είναι κωμωδία για έναν άλλο σοβαρότερο και πολύ πιο έγκυρο λόγο: Το δηλώσαμε ως κωμωδία, το υποβάλαμε στη λογοκρισία ως κωμωδία και ενεκρίθη ως κωμωδία δια της υπ’ αριθμόν 199 αποφάσεως... -
The Blue Estuaries by Louise Bogan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHonored, during the course of her literary career, with almost every major poetry award, Louise Bogan (1898-1970) was the poetry critic for The New Yorker for nearly forty years. The Blue Estuaries contains her five previous books of verse along with a section of uncollected work, fully representing a unique and distinguished contribution to modern poetry over five decades... -
Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American CenterPier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and... -
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before... -
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Project for a Revolution in New York by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself or a foreigner's nightmare of New York as its true protagonist... -
Ανθρωποφύλακες by Περικλής Κοροβέσης
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsΟι «Ανθρωποφύλακες» είναι κάτι παραπάνω από ντοκουμέντο. Ο Κοροβέσης διαθέτοντας ένα γνήσιο συγγραφικό ταλέντο, πείθει πολύ πιο αποτελεσματικά από ό,τι θα μπορούσε κανείς να φανταστεί για τη μη μεταβιβάσιμη εμπειρία του υπέρτατου πόνου... -
...καλά, εσύ σκοτώθηκες νωρίς by Χρόνης Μίσσιος, Chronis Missios
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsΤι να σου πω, όλα αυτά τα χρόνια που εσύ έλειψες, τα χρόνια λέω που μας άντρωσαν μέσα στην κρεατομηχανή, μ' έχουν μπερδέψει... -
What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race -- and scours the psyches of contenders from George... -
الأعمال الكاملة - لافتات by أحمد مطر
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsأحمد مطر شاعر عراقي الجنسية ولد سنة 1954 ابناً رابعاً بين عشرة أخوة من البنين والبنات، في قرية التنومة، إحدى نواحي شط العرب في البصرة. وعاش فيها مرحلة الطفولة قبل أن تنتقل أسرته وهو في مرحلة الصبا، لتقيم عبر النهر في محلة الأصمعي... -
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne Michaud
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhy do good women stay with bad men?What if political wives are just as calculating as their infamous husbands?If Hilary Clinton had left her marriage, she might only be known as the spurned wife of a retired politician. Instead, she became the first woman to run for U.S. president on a major party ticket... -
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the celebrated host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, and created American politics as we know it today... -
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of America’s most complex president. In Richard Nixon, award-winning biographer John A. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America’s most controversial political figures... -
The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPalden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 — just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture... -
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature... -
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What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar by Murray N. Rothbard
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Mises Institute is pleased to present this very beautiful hardbound edition of Rothbard's most famous monetary essay--the one that has influenced two generations of economists, investors, and business professionals. The Mises Institute has united this book with its natural complement: a detailed reform proposal for a 100 percent gold dollar... -
First: Sandra Day O'Connor by Evan Thomas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class at law school in 1952, no firm would even interview her... -
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems... -
The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Napoleonic Wars were nothing if not complex -- an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally-minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat... -
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPerhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist... -
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMarking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which he gave at the Collège de France between January and April, 1978... -
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change by Myles Horton, Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth century was certainly a meeting of giants. Throughout their highly personal conversations recorded here, Horton and Freire discuss the nature of social change and empowerment and their individual literacy campaigns... -
Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century--a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression... -
The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself... -
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Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFollowing his single term as President of the United States (1825-1829), John Quincy Adams, embittered by his loss to Andrew Jackson, boycotted his successor's inauguration, just as his father John Adams had done (the only two presidents ever to do so). Rather than retire, the sixty-two-year-old former president, U.S... -
Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPablo Neruda has been hailed as the greatest poet of the 20th century & was a Nobel laureat. In these memoirs he also recounts his distinguished career as a diplomat & politician, during which he came to know iconic figures including Gandhi, Che Guevara, & Mao Tse Tung... -
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMemphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty... -
The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 4: 1929-1935 by L.M. Montgomery
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOf the earlier volumes of L. M. Montgomery's journals, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields has written: These diaries possess the crisp, honest, unsparing voice of a real woman who fought all her life to bring her two selves together: the celebrated writer and the unloved child... -
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by Leszek Kołakowski
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly infuential study of Marxism... -
American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace by John C. Culver, John Hyde
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman―loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman―loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The first full biography of Henry A. Wallace, a visionary intellectual and one of this century's most important and controversial figures...
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