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Author : Ivan Sviták
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Unbearable Burden of History: Era of abnormalization written by Ivan Sviták and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivan Sviták
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Unbearable Burden of History written by Ivan Sviták and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivan Sviták
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Unbearable Burden of History: Prague spring revisited written by Ivan Sviták and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Michelsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317375882
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Politics and Suicide written by Nicholas Michelsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Suicide argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined. It contends that practices like suicide-bombing do not simply embody a strange or abnormal ‘suicidal’ articulation of the political, but rather, that the existence of suicidal politics tells us something fundamental about the political as such and thinking about political violence more broadly. Recent world events have emphatically shown our need for tools with which to develop better understandings of the politics of suicide. Through the exploration of several arresting case-studies, including the ‘Kamikaze’ bombers of World War Two, Jan Palach’s self-immolation in 1969, Cold War nuclear deterrence, and the suicide-terrorist attacks of 9/11 Michelsen asks how we might talk of a political suicide in any of these contexts. The book charts how political processes ‘go suicidal’, and asks how we might still consider them to be political in such a case. It investigates how suicide can function as ‘politics’. A strong contribution to the fields of philosophy and international relations theory, this work will also be of interest to students and scholars of political theory and terrorism & political violence.
Author : Jiri Holy
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1836242387
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Writers Under Siege written by Jiri Holy and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An history that presents a canvas of post-war Czech literary developments within the cultural and political context of the times. It provides information about the many English-language translations from Czech literature, and the circumstances in which these translations came about.
Author : Jiří Holý
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Writers Under Siege written by Jiří Holý and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the post-war Czech literary developments within the cultural and political context. This book provides information about the English-language translations from Czech literature, and the circumstances in which these translations came about. It gives biographical and bibliographical details about various post-war Czech writers.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book International Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georgina Pearson
Publisher : Dormouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9780956946690
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (466 download)
Download or read book The Burden of Choice written by Georgina Pearson and published by Dormouse Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding out during pregnancy that your much wanted baby has been diagnosed with an abnormality is a traumatic and devastating experience. Deciding to end the pregnancy is a choice no-one should have to make. Gathered here are the experiences of 25 mothers who have lost a baby in these circumstances. Their stories, which are dedicated to the babies they have lost, have been written to help and support anyone facing a similar decision. All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC), a UK national charity that provides non-directive support and information to expectant and bereaved parents throughout and after the antenatal screening and testing process.
Author : Vladk̕a Edmondson
Publisher : Oxford, England : CLIO Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Czech Republic written by Vladk̕a Edmondson and published by Oxford, England : CLIO Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most entries of this revised edition are new as so much has been recently published on Czech affairs. All aspects of the country are covered in selective, critical annotations of pre-eminently English-language publications, making this an invaluale reference work for scholars, students and the general reader alike.
Author : George J. Kovtun
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Czech and Slovak History written by George J. Kovtun and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074565701X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Liquid Modernity written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history. This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning. Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.
Author : Portia de Rossi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849835276
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Unbearable Lightness written by Portia de Rossi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Although there was a certain glamour to anorexics, I didn't want to be one. I just wanted to excel in dieting. And weighing in at 80 pounds on 300 calories a day, I was the best little dieter there ever was." In scalding prose, Portia de Rossi reveals the pain and illness that haunted her for decades. She alternately starved herself and binged, putting her life in danger and lying to herself and everyone around her about the depth of her illness. From her lowest point, Portia began the painful climb back to health and happiness, ultimately falling head over heels in love with Ellen DeGeneres. In this remarkable and landmark book, she tells a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit.
Author : Richard T. Hughes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050800
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Myths America Lives By written by Richard T. Hughes and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.
Author : Marc D. Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351663534
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Dying to be Ill written by Marc D. Feldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with illness. By playing sick, we gained sympathy, care, and attention, and were excused from our responsibilities. Though doing so on occasion is considered normal, there are those who carry their deceptions to the extreme. In this book, Dr. Marc Feldman describes people’s strange motivations to fabricate or induce illness or injury to satisfy deep emotional needs. Doctors, family members, and friends are lured into a costly, frustrating, and potentially deadly web of deceit. From the mother who shaves her child’s head and tells her community he has cancer, to the co-worker who suffers from a string of incomprehensible "tragedies," to the false epilepsy victim who monopolizes her online support group, "disease forgery" is ever-present in the media and in many people’s lives. In Dying to be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception, Dr. Feldman, with the assistance of Gregory Yates, has chronicled this fascinating world as well as the paths to healing. With insight developed from 25 years of hands-on experience, Dying to be Ill is sure to stand as a classic in the field.
Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439170916
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Author : United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
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Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society written by United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- established by President Lyndon Johnson on July 23, 1965 -- addresses the causes of crime and delinquency and recommends how to prevent crime and delinquency and improve law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice. In developing its findings and recommendations, the Commission held three national conferences, conducted five national surveys, held hundreds of meetings, and interviewed tens of thousands of individuals. Separate chapters of this report discuss crime in America, juvenile delinquency, the police, the courts, corrections, organized crime, narcotics and drug abuse, drunkenness offenses, gun control, science and technology, and research as an instrument for reform. Significant data were generated by the Commission's National Survey of Criminal Victims, the first of its kind conducted on such a scope. The survey found that not only do Americans experience far more crime than they report to the police, but they talk about crime and the reports of crime engender such fear among citizens that the basic quality of life of many Americans has eroded. The core conclusion of the Commission, however, is that a significant reduction in crime can be achieved if the Commission's recommendations (some 200) are implemented. The recommendations call for a cooperative attack on crime by the Federal Government, the States, the counties, the cities, civic organizations, religious institutions, business groups, and individual citizens. They propose basic changes in the operations of police, schools, prosecutors, employment agencies, defenders, social workers, prisons, housing authorities, and probation and parole officers.
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473345529
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The Shape of Things to Come written by H. G. Wells and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1933, "The Shape of Things to Come" is science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. Within it, world events between 1933 and 2106 are speculated with a single superstate representing the solution to all humanity's problems. A classic example of Wellsian prophesy, this volume is highly recommended for fans of his work and of the science fiction genre. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
