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"In America today, more books are being banned than ever before. This censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities. In On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US, respected longtime public librarian James LaRue issues a balanced and reasonable call to action for all citizens. LaRue, who served as director of the American Library Association's Office for...
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"The Constitution is the most significant document in America. But do you fully understand what this valuable document means to you? In How to Read the Constitution--and Why, legal expert and educator Kimberly Wehle spells out in clear, simple, and common sense terms what is in the Constitution, and most importantly, what it means. In compelling terms and including text from the United States Constitution, she describes how the Constitution's protections...
3) El Príncipe
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Las personas que intentan obtener el beneplácito de algún soberano, a menudo le ofrecen algo de gran importancia para ellos mismos, o algo que saben es de su particular agrado. Es por esto que los gobernantes siempre están recibiendo caballos, armas, brocados de oro, joyas y todo tipo de ropas elegantes que los donatarios consideran apropiados. Con la esperanza de traer ante vuestra Majestad una muestra de mi lealtad, me doy cuenta de que no hay...
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Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope - When Phineas's wife dies, he becomes discontented with his life as a minor government functionary and longs to return to his exciting former career of politics in London. His luck is as strong as ever; his party is seeking to return to power with fresh blood, and with its support, he is once again elected to Parliament.
However, he makes a bitter enemy within his own party, Mr. Bonteen. When Bonteen is murdered, there...
5) Poetics
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Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato's Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. His writings were not constrained to simply one field of inquiry but covered such various subjects as physics, biology, metaphysics,...
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In these original readings of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that characterized the Algerian War and continues to surface in the devastation of postcolonial wars today. During France's...
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Many of us know Will Holladay as a roof framing specialist (A Roof Cutter's Secrets, From the Top Plates Up, Roof Framing for the Professional video series), but in this book he reveals that his dedication to rough carpentry comes in third behind his devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ and his love of country. As a staunch patriot, Will is deeply concerned that the USA is being drug further and further off her foundation by socialist leftism. Most certainly...
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This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1908. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian...
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Canadian literature, and specifically the teaching of Canadian literature, has emerged from a colonial duty to a nationalist enterprise and into the current territory of postcolonialism. From practical discussions related to specific texts, to more theoretical discussions about pedagogical practice regarding issues of nationalism and identity, Home-Work constitutes a major investigation and reassessment of the influence of postcolonial theory...
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Literary Freedom: a Cultural Right to Literature is a non-fiction study of literary freedom from a political-philosophical perspective. It adds an original perspective on the issue of literary freedom as it synthesizes debates from human rights as well as providing a new way of addressing the question 'How do we mitigate against the harm caused by hate speech?' by applying Amartya Sen's capability approach to this question.
12) Considérations politiques sur les coups d'État de Gabriel Naudé: Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Considérations politiques sur les coups d'État, par G.N.P. à Rome, 1639 : à qui s'adresse cet ouvrage d'une centaine de pages qui paraît initialement en douze exemplaires ? Au cardinal de Bagni, selon la note préliminaire, puissant patron protecteur du bibliothécaire Gabriel Naudé (1600-1653), que sauront reconnaître tous ceux qui pourront déchiffrer ces trois lettres (Gabriel...
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Escrito en 1848 por dos revolucionarios de 28 y 30 años, olvidado o revitalizado según el momento histórico, el Manifiesto Comunista se irradió por todo el globo y se tradujo a todas las lenguas, excediendo largamente la esfera del movimiento obrero y las izquierdas. Incluso después del fin del comunismo soviético y la declinación de los partidos marxistas, el Manifiesto se afirma como el clásico político más influyente, con mucho que decir...
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During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain's. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H. G. de Lisser and V. S. Reid, and Kenyan Ng gi wa Thiong'o testify to contested events in colonial modernity in ways that question premises underlying approaches in...
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Le traité de Montesquieu (1689-1755), De l'esprit des lois, fut publié anonymement à Genève en 1748, puis corrigé dans l'édition posthume de Londres (en fait Paris) en 1757.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur De l'esprit des lois de Montesquieu
Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la...
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Timely and provocative assessment of various cultural, moral, and political problems in "post-constitutional" America.
America is increasingly defined not only by routine disregard for its fundamental laws, but also by the decadent character of its political leaders and citizens-widespread consumerism and self-indulgent behavior, cultural hedonism and anarchy, the coarsening of moral and political discourse, and a reckless interventionism in international...
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“Blueprint for America” is about the coming up of one of the greatest countries this world will ever know. It is full of considerations and decisions on what has brought the country to its part. Many people have been distinguished in this creation and it is something no other world leader could have come up with. It is a worthy read on the country of America.
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Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture and mass media to understand the changing nature of authoritarianism in Morocco over the past two decades. Using neglected Arabic sources including crime...
19) Essai sur le principe de population de Thomas Robert Malthus: Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
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Ouvrage le plus connu de Malthus (1766-1834), mais déjà en germe dans un pamphlet intitulé The Crisis (1796), l'Essai sur le principe de population (An Essay on the Principle of Population) est en réalité le titre commun à deux ouvrages bien différents qu'on ne saurait assimiler à des versions successives ; entre l'édition anonyme de 1798 et celle de 1803 (et les quatre suivantes...
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Examining various cultural products-music, cartoons, travel guides, ideographic treaties, film, and especially the literary arts-the contributors of these thirteen essays invite readers to conceptualize citizenship as a narrative construct, both in Canada and beyond. Focusing on indigenous and diasporic works, along with mass media depictions of Indigenous and diasporic peoples, this collection problematizes the juridical, political, and cultural...
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