Bastard Politics

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438481667
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Bastard Politics by : Nick Mansfield

Download or read book Bastard Politics written by Nick Mansfield and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sovereignty is usually seen as either the assertion of national rights in the face of external challenge or the cruel license of unaccountable power. In philosophy, sovereignty has been presented as the earthly manifestation of a potentially limitless, preexisting power, usually belonging to God. This divine sovereignty provides a model and the authority for worldly sovereignty. Yet, divine sovereignty also threatens the human by imagining power as transcendent, unquestionable, and potentially infinite. This infinity makes sovereignty endlessly disruptive and thus potentially infinitely violent. Engaging the complexities of sovereignty through the canon of political philosophy from Hobbes to Foucault and Agamben, Bastard Politics argues that there is no escaping this ambiguity. Nick Mansfield draws on Bataille and Derrida to argue that politics is sovereignty in action. In order to deal with the political challenges of the climate change era—including the enactment of global justice, the future of democracy, and unpredictable surges in population movement—we must embrace the possibilities of human sovereignty while remaining mindful of its dangers.

Bastards

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019975537X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Bastards by : Matthew Gerber

Download or read book Bastards written by Matthew Gerber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the historical evolution of legal debates over the rights and disabilities of children born out of wedlock in early modern France, Bastards offers a political history of the family from the oblique perspective of those who were theoretically excluded from it.

The Book of Bastards

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440503702
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Bastards by : Brian Thornton

Download or read book The Book of Bastards written by Brian Thornton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move over, Benedict Arnold . . . Oh to be sure, America's first traitor is one of the 101 bastards you will find in this one-of-a-kind account of bad guys in Washington. But compared to some of the gross misconduct in this frighteningly funny history book, well, let's just say he's in good company. This page-turner of a potboiler reveals all the dirtiest little secrets readers never learned in history class. From illegitimate children (we thought Grover Cleveland was too boring to have sex) and illicit trysts (Warren G. Harding in the White House phone booth with his secretary) to turncoats (make up your own mind about Daniel Ellsberg) and traitors (General Wilkinson, aka a Spanish secret agent), you will discover all the dirt worth dishing since the founding of Jamestown. The Book of Bastards - because what you don't know about the history of our great nation can make you laugh and cry!

Seceding from Secession

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Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611215072
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis Seceding from Secession by : Eric J. Wittenberg

Download or read book Seceding from Secession written by Eric J. Wittenberg and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening” account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war (Civil War News). “West Virginia was the child of the storm.” —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union’s 35th state. Seceding from Secession chronicles those events in an unprecedented study of the social, legal, military, and political factors that converged to bring about the birth of West Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln, an astute lawyer in his own right, played a critical role in birthing the new state. The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president, and he polled every member of his cabinet before signing the bill. Seceding from Secession includes a detailed discussion of the 1871 U.S. Supreme Court decision Virginia v. West Virginia, in which former Lincoln cabinet member Salmon Chase presided as chief justice over the court that decided the constitutionality of the momentous event. Grounded in a wide variety of sources and including a foreword by Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and Chairman Emeritus of the Lincoln Forum, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in American history.

Don't Vote

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Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196268
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Don't Vote by : P. J. O'Rourke

Download or read book Don't Vote written by P. J. O'Rourke and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] merciless but often humorous look at the shortcomings of American politics” by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Parliament of Whores (Booklist). Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, hilarious, and sobering look at why politics and politicians are a necessary evil—but only just barely necessary. Read P. J. O’Rourke on the pathetic nature of our attempts to govern ourselves and laugh through your tears or—what the hell—just laugh. “Whether readers agree with O’Rourke’s politics or not, his style is funny, cutting, and insightful.” —Booklist “P. J. O’Rourke is like S. J. Perelman on acid.” —Christopher Buckley “The funniest writer in America.” —The Wall Street Journal

Greedy Bastards

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451642237
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Greedy Bastards by : Dylan Ratigan

Download or read book Greedy Bastards written by Dylan Ratigan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ratigan transcends the talking heads and is an award-winning journalist respected and admired across the political spectrum. He rips the lid off of a deeply crooked system--and offers a way out.

Voltaire's Bastards

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476718938
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Book Synopsis Voltaire's Bastards by : John Ralston Saul

Download or read book Voltaire's Bastards written by John Ralston Saul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) astutely dissects the political, economic and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we’ve never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our “rational elites” have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts—“Voltaire’s bastards”—whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertain­ment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process. In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins—whose “pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor” (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)—Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural estab­lishments of the West.

Bastards of Utopia

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025301588X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Bastards of Utopia by : Maple Razsa

Download or read book Bastards of Utopia written by Maple Razsa and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or "globalization from below." Ethnographer Maple Razsa follows individual activists from the transnational protests against globalization of the early 2000s through the Occupy encampments. His portrayal of activism is both empathetic and unflinching—an engaged, elegant meditation on the struggle to re-imagine leftist politics and the power of a country's youth. More information on the film can be found at www.der.org/films/bastards-of-utopia.html.

The Queen's Bastard

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Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345507096
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Book Synopsis The Queen's Bastard by : C. E. Murphy

Download or read book The Queen's Bastard written by C. E. Murphy and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wow. C. E. Murphy is good. Court intrigue in an alternate Elizabethan-era fantasy world: realpolitik with the sex included.” –Kate Elliott, author of Crown of Stars In a world where religion has ripped apart the old order, Belinda Primrose is the queen’s secret weapon. The unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the first queen to sit on the Aulunian throne, Belinda has been trained as a spy since the age of twelve by her father, Lorraine’s lover and spymaster. Cunning and alluring, fluent in languages and able to take on any persona, Belinda can infiltrate the glittering courts of Echon where her mother’s enemies conspire. She can seduce at will and kill if she must. But Belinda’s spying takes a new twist when her witchlight appears. Now Belinda’s powers are unlike anything Lorraine could have imagined. They can turn an obedient daughter into a rival who understands that anything can be hers, including the wickedly sensual Javier, whose throne Lorraine both covets and fears. But Javier is also witchbreed, a man whose ability rivals Belinda’s own . . . and can be just as dangerous. Amid court intrigue and magic, loyalty and love can lead to more daring passions, as Belinda discovers that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. “C. E. Murphy vividly reimagines Renaissance Europe as a world both familiar and strange. Filled with intrigue and betrayal, her story is a chess game with six of seven sides, and I look forward to seeing what the next moves are.” –Marie Brennan, author of Warrior and Witch From the Trade Paperback edition.

Don't Vote

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ISBN 13 : 9780802119605
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Don't Vote by : P. J. O'Rourke

Download or read book Don't Vote written by P. J. O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a humorous take on political theory, the best-selling author of Parliament of Whores and Driving Like Crazy skewers the irresponsibility of many members of Congress and takes a hard, hilarious look at recent legislation. 50,000 first printing.

Anne Orthwood's Bastard

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195144791
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Anne Orthwood's Bastard by : John Ruston Pagan

Download or read book Anne Orthwood's Bastard written by John Ruston Pagan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anne Orthwood's Bastard" tells the story of a maidservant from Bristol, England who emigrated to Virginia's Eastern Shore in 1662, became pregnant by a caddish nephew of a colonial politician, and died in childbirth, leaving an illegitimate son and a host of knotty legal problems. Through a study of the four cases stemming from this birth and the people involved, Pagan uses the community's response to illuminate the emerging distinctiveness of early American law. He argues that the peculiar structure of Virginia's economy and labour system accounts for many of the differences between colonial and English law, and contends that Virginia leaders skilfully shaped legal doctrines and institutions to serve their own agenda.

Adoption Politics

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Adoption Politics by : E. Wayne Carp

Download or read book Adoption Politics written by E. Wayne Carp and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of Measure 58 in Oregon in 1998 was a milestone in adoption reform. E. Wayne Carp here reveals the efforts of the radical adoptee rights organization Bastard Nation to pass this milestone initiative.

World Politics at the Edge of Chaos

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438456093
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis World Politics at the Edge of Chaos by : Emilian Kavalski

Download or read book World Politics at the Edge of Chaos written by Emilian Kavalski and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive overview of the inroads made by Complexity Thinking approaches and ideas in the study and practice of world politics. Why are policymakers, scholars, and the general public so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable? World Politics at the Edge of Chaos suggests that the study of international politics needs new forms of knowledge to respond to emerging challenges such as the interconnectedness between local and transnational realities; between markets, migration, and social movements; and between pandemics, a looming energy crisis, and climate change. Asserting that Complexity Thinking (CT) provides a much-needed lens for interpreting these challenges, the contributors offer a parallel assessment of the impact of CT to anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric (post-human) International Relations. Using this perspective, the result should be less surprise when confronting the dynamism of a fragile and unpredictable global life. Emilian Kavalski is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University, North Sydney. He is the author and editor of several books, including Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers: Contextualizing the Security Governance of the European Union, China, and India.

Lucky Bastard

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453234152
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Lucky Bastard by : Charles McCarry

Download or read book Lucky Bastard written by Charles McCarry and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The KGB grooms a long-lost Kennedy for an explosive assignment in this thriller by an ex-CIA agent and New York Times–bestselling spy novelist. Although in the mid-1940s no one had ever heard of JFK, Jack Adams’s mother insisted her new son be christened John Fitzgerald. Years after his parents’ death, Jack learns the reason for his name: a packet of photos showing his mother in bed with young John Kennedy. As a student at Columbia University, Jack demonstrates that he inherited more than JFK’s good looks. His irresistible charisma and political instinct make him a natural campus leader, but he has his sights set on something bigger than the student council. Young Jack Adams wants to be president of the United States, and the Soviet Union is prepared to help. A KGB spy named Dmitri recruits Jack, promising him the presidency in exchange for treason. Dmitri guides Jack for decades, putting him in a position to become the largest intelligence coup in history—unless the candidate’s libido derails him first.

The Lies of Locke Lamora

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Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 055358894X
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lies of Locke Lamora by : Scott Lynch

Download or read book The Lies of Locke Lamora written by Scott Lynch and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable . . . Scott Lynch’s first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, exports the suspense and wit of a cleverly constructed crime caper into an exotic realm of fantasy, and the result is engagingly entertaining.”—The Times (London) An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game—or die trying. Praise for The Lies of Locke Lamora “Fresh, original, and engrossing . . . gorgeously realized.”—George R. R. Martin “Right now, in the full flush of a second reading, I think The Lies of Locke Lamora is probably in my top ten favorite books ever. Maybe my top five. If you haven’t read it, you should. If you have read it, you should probably read it again.”—Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind “A unique fantasy milieu peopled by absorbing, colorful characters . . . Locke’s wit and audacity endear him to victims and bystanders alike.”—The Seattle Times “A true genre bender, at home on almost any kind of fiction shelf . . . Lynch immediately establishes himself as a gifted and fearless storyteller, unafraid of comparisons to Silverberg and Jordan, not to mention David Liss and even Dickens.”—Booklist (starred review) “High-octane fantasy . . . a great swashbuckling yarn of a novel.”—Richard Morgan

How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300222718
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage by : Peter Lake

Download or read book How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage written by Peter Lake and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of virtue -- Honour and its enemies: women on top - again -- Anti-popery -- Divided we fall: the politics of faction in time of war -- CHAPTER 6 Richard III: political ends, providential means -- The making of a Machiavel -- Monstrous bodies and providential signs -- Signs and prophecies -- The audience as 'high all- seer' -- Ambiguities of 'evil counsel' -- From providence to predestination: the return of legitimacy -- Richard III as a guide to the past, present and future -- CHAPTER 7 Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared

Bastard Feudalism, English Society and the Law

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Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781783274772
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Bastard Feudalism, English Society and the Law written by Gordon Mckelvie and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the idea of bastard feudalism, deploying little-used records to provide new insights.