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Brian S. Mueller (Author)

Democracy's Think Tank: The Institute for Policy Studies and Progressive Foreign Policy

Editura: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

In Democracy's Think Tank, Brian S. Mueller places the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) at the center of a network of activists involved in making the world safe for diversity. Unlike defense intellectuals at the RAND Corporation and other think tanks responsible for formulating military strategy, the "peace intellectuals" at IPS developed blueprints for an alternative to the U.S.-led world order. As the Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe, a triumphalist Cold War narrative emerged proclaiming victory for freedom, democracy, and free enterprise over totalitarianism. Yet for the peace intellectuals at IPS, the occasion did not merit celebration. Since its doors opened in 1963, IPS refused to embrace American exceptionalism and waged a battle against the Cold War and its liberal anti-communist supporters. As IPS founders Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnet saw it, in the process of fighting communism and preserving the liberal capitalist order, Cold War liberals had forsaken democracy. Democracy's Think Tank tells the story of IPS's crusade to resurrect democracy at home and abroad. Borrowing from populist, progressive, and New Left traditions, IPS challenged elite expertise and ...

William Kentridge (Author)

Accounts and Drawings from the Underground: The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book

Editura: SEA BOATING

Anul aparitiei: 2021

In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation in South Africa and transforming them into something entirely new. While Kentridge contributed breathtaking landscape drawings in response to the transient terrain mining created, Morris plumbed the text of the cash book to generate a unique narrative account. Now, they revisit those ruined mines, with a visual and verbal addendum that provides an account of the ongoing metamorphosis of the world that gold mines created. Kentridge works on the threshold between the visible and the invisible, while Morris mines the unsaid in order to make it understandable. Together they've created a landmark book that chronicles the exploitation of African communities and sheds further light on global Black history. With fifteen stunning new color drawings by Kentridge and an additional coda, this revised edition of Accounts and Drawings from Underground continues its remarkable documentation of the stories of migrant laborers and the flows of ...

Ayn Rand (Author)

Anthem [With Battery]

Editura: IN AUDIO

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Dawn Brower (Author)

A Treasured Lily

Editura: INDEPENDENT PUBL GROUP

Anul aparitiei: 2020

What Lilliana Marsden wants--she gets. The thing she believes she desires most is to live in Charleston on a plantation. Her problem? Parents who refuse to listen to her. Lily decides to make her wishes come true and who better than a handsome American ship captain to help her. Randall Collins finds Lilliana bewitching and quickly falls under her spell. When she asks if he can take her with him on his next voyage he finds himself agreeing--for a tiny fee. A kiss as payment and he'll take her anywhere she wants. As they set sail sparks fly between them. Will Lily find something more desirable than owning a plantation and can Rand convince her he's the better choice?

Caleb Rand (Author)

Whitewater Run

Editura: LINFORD WESTERN

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Thinking that being on the run can be no worse than the torment of phoney incrimination and punishme

Raymond Fernandez (Author)

La Mirada: A Brief History

Editura: HISTORY PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

La Mirada began with a vision. Andrew McNally, of the mapmakers Rand McNally and Company, saw the beautiful rolling hills as the perfect place to grow olives and lemons and purchased 2,600 acres of land that would become the modern city it is today. Originally planned as a collection of country estates, the area attracted dairy farmers and citrus growers who operated alongside the McNally Ranch, well known for its olive oil. During the building boom after World War II, families flocked to the area, drawn by idyllic spaces like Neff Park, and voted to incorporate in 1960. Join authors Glen Cantrell and Raymond Fernandez as they share the story of a thriving La Mirada.

David Brin (Author)

Vivid Tomorrows: On Science Fiction and Hollywood

Editura: MCFARLAND & CO INC

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Can science fiction--especially sci-fi cinema--save the world? It already has, many times. Retired officers testify that films like Doctor Strangelove, Fail-Safe, On the Beach and War Games provoked changes and helped prevent accidental war. Soylent Green and Silent Running recruited millions of environmental activists. The China Syndrome and countless movies about plagues helped bring attention to those failure modes. And the grand-daddy of "self-preventing prophecy"--Nineteen Eighty-Four--girded countless citizens to stay wary of Big Brother. It's not been all dire warnings. While optimism is much harder to dramatize than apocalypse, both large and small screens have also encouraged millions to lift their gaze, contemplating how we might get better, incrementally, or else raise grandchildren worthy of the stars. Come along on a quirky quest for unusual insights into the power of forward-looking media. How the romantic allure of feudalism tugs at men and women who benefited vastly from modernity. Or explore why almost every Hollywood film preaches Suspicion of Authority, along with tolerance, diversity and personal eccentricity, and how those messages helped keep us free. No ...

Erica (Author)

The Small Book of Hip Checks: On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing

Editura: DUKE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

In The Small Book of Hip Checks Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check -including an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off-balance and the inspection of racialized gender-to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing. Explicitly attending to processes of writing and revising, Rand pursues interruption, rethinking, and redirection to challenge standard methods of argumentation and traditional markers of heft and fluff. She writes about topics including a trans shout-out in a Super Bowl ad, the heyday of lavender dildos, ballet dancer Misty Copeland, the criticism received by figure skater Debi Thomas and tennis great Serena Williams for competing in bodysuits while Black, and the gendering involved in identifying the remains of people who die trying to cross into the United States south of Tucson, Arizona. Along the way, Rand encourages making muscle memory of experimentation and developing an openness to being conceptually knocked sideways. In other words, to be hip-checked.

Erica (Author)

The Small Book of Hip Checks: On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing

Editura: DUKE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

In The Small Book of Hip Checks Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check -including an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off-balance and the inspection of racialized gender-to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing. Explicitly attending to processes of writing and revising, Rand pursues interruption, rethinking, and redirection to challenge standard methods of argumentation and traditional markers of heft and fluff. She writes about topics including a trans shout-out in a Super Bowl ad, the heyday of lavender dildos, ballet dancer Misty Copeland, the criticism received by figure skater Debi Thomas and tennis great Serena Williams for competing in bodysuits while Black, and the gendering involved in identifying the remains of people who die trying to cross into the United States south of Tucson, Arizona. Along the way, Rand encourages making muscle memory of experimentation and developing an openness to being conceptually knocked sideways. In other words, to be hip-checked.

Rand Paul (Author)

Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America

Editura: HACHETTE AUDIOBOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2015

Josh Pachter (Editor)

The Further Misadventures of Ellery Queen

Editura: WILDSIDE PR

Anul aparitiei: 2020

The editors of The Misadventures of Ellery Queen return with a new volume of Queen pastiches, parodies, and tributes by a stellar lineup of writers--including one by Ellery himself! Here are... THE ADVENTURE OF THE LOGICAL SUCCESSOR, by J. Randolph Cox ONCE UPON A CRIME, by Maxwell E. Siegel Chapter 11 from MURDER IN PASTICHE, by Marion Mainwaring THE CIRCLE OF INK, by Edward D. Hoch THE JAPANESE ARMOR MYSTERY, by Mǎ Tiān THE MAD HATTER'S RIDDLE, by Dale C. Andrews CHANGE OF SCENE, by Janet Hutchings THE INDIAN DIAMOND MYSTERY, by Arthur Porges THE LITHUANIAN ERASER MYSTERY, by Jon L. Breen THE LITTLE SISTER IN CRIME, by Theodore B. Hertel, Jr. THE GERMAN COLOGNE MYSTERY, by Jon L. Breen and Josh Pachter THE POLISH CHICKEN MYSTERY, by Rand B. Lee E.Q. GRIFFEN'S SECOND CASE, by Josh Pachter THE MISTAKE ON THE COVER OF EQMM #1, by Arthur Vidro THE PINK PIG MYSTERY, by Jeffrey Marks THE MISADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN, by Ellery Queen

Sally Weintrobe (Author)

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare

Editura: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also in ourselves. Sally Weintrobe argues that achieving the shift to greater care requires us to stop colluding with Exceptionalism, the rigid psychological mindset largely responsible for the climate crisis. People in this mindset believe that they are entitled to have the lion's share and that they can 'rearrange' reality with magical omnipotent thinking whenever reality limits these felt entitlements. While this book's subject is grim, its tone is reflective, ironic, light and at times humorous. It is free of jargon, and full of examples from history, culture, literature, poetry, everyday life and the author's experience as a psychoanalyst, and a professional life that has been dedicated to helping people to face difficult truths.

Sally Weintrobe (Author)

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare

Editura: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also in ourselves. Sally Weintrobe argues that achieving the shift to greater care requires us to stop colluding with Exceptionalism, the rigid psychological mindset largely responsible for the climate crisis. People in this mindset believe that they are entitled to have the lion's share and that they can 'rearrange' reality with magical omnipotent thinking whenever reality limits these felt entitlements. While this book's subject is grim, its tone is reflective, ironic, light and at times humorous. It is free of jargon, and full of examples from history, culture, literature, poetry, everyday life and the author's experience as a psychoanalyst, and a professional life that has been dedicated to helping people to face difficult truths.

Andrew J. Hoffman (Author)

The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today's World

Editura: STANFORD BRIEFS

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information are all in alarming decline. A 2018 report published by the RAND Corporation labeled this problem "truth decay" and Andrew J. Hoffman lays the challenge of fixing it at the door of the academy. But, as he points out, academia is prevented from carrying this out due to its own existential crisis--a crisis of relevance. Scholarship rarely moves very far beyond the walls of the academy and is certainly not accessing the primarily civic spaces it needs to reach in order to mitigate truth corruption. In this brief but compelling book, Hoffman draws upon existing literature and personal experience to bring attention to the problem of academic insularity--where it comes from and where, if left to grow unchecked, it will go--and argues for the emergence of a more publicly and politically engaged scholar. This book is a call to make that path toward public engagement more acceptable and legitimate for those who do it; to enlarge the tent to be inclusive of multiple ways that one enacts the role of ...

Ayn Rand (Author)

Ideal: The Novel and the Play

Editura: BLACKSTONE AUDIOBOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2015

Ayn Rand (Author)

Anthem

Editura: MINT ED

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Equality 7-2521 finds himself out of step with the collectivist society of the future, and discovers a means to freedom in Ayn Rand's fable of the individual in conflict with society. First published in 1938, Anthem takes place in a dystopian future world in which humanity is enduring a new dark age, human life is regimented in every respect and personal identity has been all but snuffed out by a totalitarian government. The narrator, writing his story in secret, realizes he is a criminal simply for having thoughts of his own. Exploring the ruins of a previous civilization he discovers relics, conducts forbidden experiments and learns enough to question the very structure of his society. Can he share this knowledge with his fellow citizens? The author strips the relationship of humanity to civilization down to its bare essence in this modern parable that starkly illuminates the challenge an oppressive government presents to individuality. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Anthem is both modern and readable.

Dotson (Author)

Sisson's Kingdom: Floyd County's Civil War

Editura: WILDER PUBN

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Like most Southern counties, Floyd County, Virginia, enthusiastically supported the Confederacy at the outset of the Civil War. But by the end of the war, more than 25% of the Floyd County soldiers had deserted, a number that was more than twice the national average. However, what really set Floyd apart from the rest of the South was its inhabitants' willingness to hide and protect deserters, even those who hailed from outside of their county. In the fall of 1864, a regiment of Confederate reserves marched into Floyd County, under orders to capture or drive away as many deserters as it could. By then, hundreds of local soldiers had run away from their units and returned home. Confederate officials believed that most of the county's residents had joined a secret Unionist peace society called the Heroes of America. Guerrilla warfare between Confederate sympathizers, Unionists, and deserters had plunged the county into near anarchy. The district was widely known as "Sisson's Kingdom" in recognition of the two brothers who commanded its largest deserter gang.Meticulously researched and masterfully written. Rand Dotson gives us a fascinating glimpse into the unusual history of Floyd ...

Ayn Rand (Author)

The Fountainhead

Editura: HIGHBRIDGE AUDIO

Anul aparitiei: 2003

"The Fountainhead" studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn R

Rand Emily

In the Darkness of the Night

Editura: Tate Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Emily Rand takes us on a gentle journey through the night, looking at all the sounds and activity that happen whilst you re tucked up warm in your bed! Page dim. 204 x 260 x 11 Weight: 162 grams

Johnson Hugh, Rand Margaret

Hugh Johnson Pocket Wine 2022 The new edition of the no 1 best-selling wine guide

Editura: Octopus Publishing Group

Anul aparitiei: 2021

The brand new edition of the unrivalled and bestselling annual, Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book. Page dim. 198 x 100 x 20 Weight: 306 grams