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In this bestselling compilation of essays, written in the clear-eyed, uncompromising language for which he is famous, Orwell discusses with vigor such diverse subjects as his boyhood schooling, the Spanish Civil War, Henry Miller, British imperialism, and the profession of writing.
2) 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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On the People's Democratic Revolution explains the basic concepts and the instruments for achieving the Philippine revolution. The program of the people's democratic revolution seeks to realize the basic demands of the people in the political, economic, social and cultural fields in opposition to the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system of big compradors, landlords and bureaucrat capitalists subservient to foreign monopoly capitalism.The Filipino...
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Para ayudarnos a comprender nuestros dilemas contemporáneos más urgentes, William Shakespeare no tiene igual.
Mientras Isabel I, cada vez más envejecida y obstinada, se aferraba al poder con uñas y dientes, un brillante dramaturgo exploraba las causas sociales, las raíces psicológicas y los retorcidos efectos de la tiranía. Al analizar la psique (y las psicosis) de personajes de la catadura de Ricardo III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolano y de las...
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Au mois de juin 1945, l'Organisation des Nations unies a été créée afin de rassembler tous les États indépendants et d'organiser leurs rapports selon les modalités définies dans sa Charte. Ces modalités servent de cadre à une concertation politique dont la finalité est de maintenir la paix et la sécurité internationales. C'est un des organes
principaux de l'ONU, le Conseil de sécurité, qui en a la responsabilité.
Le Conseil concentre...
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KA JOMA will forever live in every paragraph of essay, in every prose and literature he has written, in every stanza of poetry he has created, in every song he sang, even in the retelling of his humor, and in every ideological and political ideas he has conceived. Most of all, he will continue to exist in the daily endeavor of the people to advance revolution notwithstanding any adversity and bring it to total victory! For as KA JOMA declared, "The...
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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...
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Jose Maria Sison: "Inasmuch as culture is a reflection of economics and politics, literature and art are the finest and most sensitive ideological forms for summing up social reality. We can create revolutionary literature and art only by carefully and meticulously keeping to the revolutionary stand, viewpoint and method of the class which leads the broad masses of the people in the life-and-death struggle between progress and reaction."
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In a world of increasingly strident identity politics, a theological approach, claiming no more than the outworking of subjectivist sentiment, offers no remedy. What if a key factor in this predicament is a misrepresentation of the operation of metaphor? This acknowledged building-block of language looks set to become a mere component of the wearer's spectacles. The consequences for theology, philosophy, literature, and even the sciences are yet to...
10) Service: A Novel
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All stories have a beginning, before the first words are even, written. The idea that germinates for years, in the heart before the mind brings it into form. This story really began in the Presidential campaign of 1960 and the few but fertile years that followed. Fertile because they inseminated in the upcoming generation a drive to either enter public service, or to understand that they ought to be part of the fabric that constitutes what our country...
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"A pathbreaking meditation . . . shifts the discussion . . . from . . . notions of guilt and innocence to the complexities of responsibility and accountability." -Amir Eshel, Stanford University
When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set...
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APPS has the power to eliminate hatred and cultivate civilized acceptance of our most fundamental human differences. The stunning 20 years of APPS research with its market-tested results will surprise you.
The data shows liberals are outer-directed individuals, externals, who value emotions over facts and who consider truth to be, subjective. One external trait is, seen in the superior public speaking talents liberals possess.
The data shows conservatives...
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The Poet and Me 9: Translators Note 13: Ethos 19: Selected Poems: Which Way Shall I Go? 23: I Do Not Sing 24: No Neither Silent, Nor Do I Sing 25: A New Song Now I Sing 26: Who is Wrong? Who is Right? 27: Life Got Spent 28: Confrontation with Death 29: New Milestone 31: On the Turn 32: Come, Let Us Untie the Mental Knots 33: Power Throne 36: The Evening of Life is on its Way to Pass 38: Will Not Allow War 39: Challenging Night 40: Agony 41: Dream...
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Mass murderer or development man', it depends on which side if the spectrum he is viewed from, because Narendra Modi is one of those politicians whose name prompts extremes of hate-filled anger or outright adulation. Despite polarizing Gujarat and India in more ways that one, win elections. Modi, a man, who may have challenged the basic principles of a sovereign secular nation but emerged at its destination as an undisputed and larger than life leader....
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Factores que limitan la acción colectiva de las víctimas del desplazamiento forzado responde por qué a pesar de que en la década del 2000 hubo una explosión de marcos normativos y espacios orientados a favorecer la participación institucional de las personas en condición de desplazamiento forzado, estas poblaciones no lograron incidir en dichos escenarios, ni obtuvieron sus reivindicaciones anheladas. En ese sentido, esta obra analiza tres...
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Quelque 150 Chroniques de Normand Lester (2019-2020) o il aborde dans une perspective critique les événements et les personnalités qui dominent l'actualité.
Parmi les sujets qu'il traite et les questions qu'il pose dans le style impertinent et ironique qui lui est propre :
• Combien de fois Justin Trudeau a-t-il présenté ses excuses à des peuples qui ont été mal traités au Canada ? Pourquoi jamais aux Acadiens ?
• Faux réfugiés expulsés....
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Ante una sociedad aún reacia a creer y entender el peligro sin precedentes que significa el avasallamiento de las instituciones democráticas por parte de una "logia" que gobierna utilizando todos los recursos maquiavélicos tendientes a destruir el sistema representativo republicano para instaurar un totalitarismo socialista, esta obra se constituye en un intento desesperado por concientizar, comprometer e involucrar a esa sociedad en un sistema...
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Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow
of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the
multifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethics manifested in
contemporary Hebrew literature dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and the occupation. In this volume, Mendelson-Maoz analyzes Israeli prose
written between 1987 and 2007, relating mainly to the first and second intifadas,
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19) Camus
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Essential reading for old fans and new admirers of Albert Camus' classic quarantine novel THE PLAGUE-a new bestseller amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
Albert Camus is one of the most famous French writers of the twentieth century, a Nobel Laureate celebrated for his classic existentialist novel The Outsider and urgently relevant allegory of a pandemic, The Plague. But what about his controversial attitudes to race, especially his portrayal of Arabs...
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The Shakespearian idiom, "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune", highlights, describes and even speaks to the Black and minority ethnic experience - though it is hard to tell whether Shakespeare intended the expression to be read in this way. If you are interested in the truth concerning race relations, then this book is required reading.
Otherwise, it is your right to remain deceived and ignorant but, if Plato is your esteemed philosopher,...
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