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Seven Jewish Children: a play for Gaza by Caryl Churchill
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSubtitled "a play for Gaza" this is British playwright Caryl Churchill's response to the situation in Gaza in January of 2009. Structured as the text of seven statements parents might say to their children either in response to the events or attempting to explain them, they express regret, anger, intelligence, blind hatred, fear, and compassion... -
![Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt]()
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlmost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement... -
![Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall]()
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world’s powers and saw two of them—first France, then the United States—attempt to subdue the revolutionary Vietnamese forces... -
![Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin]()
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsStudies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater... -
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![A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes]()
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant event of the twentieth century... -
![Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh]()
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZionist Colonialism in Palestine traces the historical roots of the Zionist movement and the uprooting of the ancient Palestinian Arab people from their ancestral homeland...Categorized as:
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![A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari]()
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings‘A rare and remarkable book.' Times Literary SupplementGilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Félix Guattari (1930-1992) was a psychoanalyst at the la Borde Clinic, as well as being a major social theorist and radical activist...Categorized as:
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![Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge, Charles Lamb]()
Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge, Charles Lamb
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis facsimile edition brings Charles Lamb's critically acclaimed and revered "Elia" essays back into print...Categorized as:
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![The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya]()
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... -
![Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson]()
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCovers a seventy year span in chronological essays. Includes end notes and master index...Categorized as:
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![All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman]()
All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." —Mervyn Jones, New Statesman.The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the old—all have thrust us into a modern world of contradictions and ambiguities...Categorized as:
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![Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály]()
Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHeda Margolius Kovály (1919–2010) endured both the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and the brutality of Czechoslovakia's postwar Stalinist government. Her husband, after surviving Dachau and Auschwitz and becoming Czechoslovakia's deputy minister of foreign trade, was convicted of conspiracy in the infamous 1952 Slansky trial and then executed... -
![To Die For The People : The Writings Of Huey P. Newton by Huey P. Newton]()
To Die For The People : The Writings Of Huey P. Newton by Huey P. Newton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe writings of Huey P Newton African-American activist (1942–1989) who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966, an organization that advocated at various times black nationalism and racial equality, and engaged in several high-profile violent confrontations with police. Signed To Die for the The Writings of Huey P. Newton. First edition, later printing. Random House, 1972...Categorized as:
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![Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant]()
Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in EnglishÉdouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne...Categorized as:
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![Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel]()
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... -
![The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek]()
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century... -
![The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century by Peter Watson]()
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century by Peter Watson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live...Categorized as:
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![Against Empire by Michael Parenti]()
Against Empire by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRichly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy is a victory of finance capital over democracy...Categorized as:
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![Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen]()
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJournalist Victor Sebestyen witnessed much of the 1989 fall of the Soviet empire at first hand, and in this book, he reassesses this decisive moment in modern history...Categorized as:
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![Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha]()
Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearA revelatory work of biography, Gandhi Before India is an illuminating portrait of the life, the work, and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history... -
![The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood]()
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCapitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce.In this original and provocative book Ellen Meiksins Wood reminds us that capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce...Categorized as:
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![Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon]()
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past... -
![The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel]()
The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Power of the Powerless (Czech: Moc bezmocných) is an expansive political essay written in October 1978 by the Czech dramatist, political dissident and later politician, Václav Havel. The essay dissects the nature of the communist regime of the time, life within such a regime and how by their very nature such regimes can create dissidents of ordinary citizens... -
![Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin, V.I. Lenin]()
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin, V.I. Lenin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLenin's Imperialism is one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. Its significance arises not so much from the data it provides; nor does it arise from the sheer fact that it explains imperialism and the World War... -
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![The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi, Joseph E. Stiglitz]()
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism... -
![The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric J. Hobsbawm]()
The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric J. Hobsbawm
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetween 1789 and 1848 the world was transformed by both the French Revolution and also by the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This "Dual Revolution" created the modern world as we know it... -
![Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by Leszek Kołakowski]()
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... -
![Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism by Alain Brossat, Sylvie Klingberg]()
Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism by Alain Brossat, Sylvie Klingberg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRecovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish traditionJewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis... -
![Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin]()
Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClara Zetkin, an organizer of the First International Women’s Day, presented this Report and Resolution on fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International’s executive committee...Categorized as:
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![What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe]()
What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races...
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