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Hogarth
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[2024]
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"In the months after Donald Trump's election, Hannah Arendt's seminal work, The Origins of Totalitarianism crashed onto the Amazon bestseller lists. "Never has our future been more unpredictable," she had written in the preface to the first edition in 1951, "never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest - forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2024.
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In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
3) Power Dynamics: Authoritarianism, Regimes, and Human Rights: Analyzing Authoritarian Regimes, Conso
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In a world marked by power struggles, the rise of authoritarian regimes has become a pressing global concern. Dive into the intricate web of political dominance, suppression of dissent, and the far-reaching implications for human rights and civil liberties in "Power Dynamics: Authoritarianism, Regimes, and Human Rights." This thought-provoking book offers a comprehensive analysis of some of the most influential authoritarian regimes of our time, including...
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For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turkey is Authoritarian offers a radical challenge to this conventional narrative. Halil Karaveli highlights the danger in viewing events in Turkey as a war between a 'westernising' state and the popular masses defending their culture and religion, arguing instead for a class analysis that is largely ignored...
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HOUSE OF BROOKLYN PROJECT presenta:«TODAS LAS MANERAS DE MATAR A UN HOMBRE HONRADO»EDICIÓN MMXIX--DESCRIPCIÓN DEL PRODUCTO:"Él soportó dictaduras y encierros por el bien de su pueblo. De su caso se ha escuchado, pero las torturas a la prensa siempre han negado. Hoy su familia pregúntase ¿dónde habrá terminado? Lo buscan en las plazas, en las calles,en los murales del barrio sin saber dónde hallarlo... Y sin querer lo encuentran desafiante,...
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"Manifeste pour gagner la paix – Des Valois à Poutine" explore la culture de la guerre qui s'est imposée à la civilisation de la paix, en février 2022. Il constate que, malgré de nombreuses victoires militaires, la paix a rarement triomphé. Aussi, il alerte contre les régimes totalitaires qui s'efforcent de prendre le guidon de l'histoire tout en soulevant deux interrogations : quelles sont les exigences de la paix ? Comment s'inspirer de...
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Many scholars have tried to assess Adolf Hitler's influence on the German people, usually focusing on university towns and industrial communities, most of them predominately Protestant or religiously mixed. This work by Walter Rinderle and Bernard Norling, however, deals with the impact of the Nazis on Oberschopfheim, a small, rural, overwhelmingly Catholic village in Baden-Wuerttemberg in southwestern Germany.
This incisively written book raises...
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**Longlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2021 - Football Book of the Year**
FC St. Pauli is a football club unlike any other. Encompassing music, sport and politics, its fans welcome refugees, fight fascists and take a stand against all forms of discrimination. This book goes behind the skull and crossbones emblem to tell the story of a football club rewriting the rulebook.
Since the club's beginnings in Hamburg's red-light district,...
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For decades, the United States has underestimated the threat from the People's Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, it has left our country vulnerable to their devious plans-a profound, strategic miscalculation. As a result of this carelessness, the United States is at risk of losing its dominant position in global politics.
But how did this happen? How was it possible that the US could lose its dominant position after its Cold War victory...
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See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim.
In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen culls from his experiences traveling and studying in North Korea to create a multifaceted portrait of the country and its idiosyncratic capital city. Jeppesen challenges the notion that Pyongyang is merely a "showcase capital"...
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Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues to dazzle us, however, in this provocative new book, esteemed historian Enzo Traverso argues powerfully that this cultural epoch has come to an end.
Previously a beacon for critical thinking in the Western world, the mainstream of Jewish thought...
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Despite recent attempts at 'negotiation', the attitudes of both Kim Jong-un's regime and the West seem unchanged. North Korea is still shrouded in mystery, and there are no clear plans for the future... Can we trust either side to bring about peace? And if so, how?
This provocative insider's account blasts apart the myths which paint North Korea as a rogue state run by a mad leader. Informed by extraordinary access to the country's leadership,...
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Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of income has improved in the last thirty years.
However, as protests during the World Cup in 2014 have shown, the country...
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Across Europe and the world, far right parties have been enjoying greater electoral success than at any time since 1945. Right-wing street movements draw huge supporters and terrorist attacks on Jews and Muslims proliferate. It sometimes seems we are returning to the age of fascism.
To explain this disturbing trend, David Renton surveys the history of fascism in Europe from its pre-war origins to the present day, examining Marxist responses to...
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Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his incompetence? Are his populism, illiberalism and nationalism just cynical appeals to existing feelings of abandonment, resentment and rage?
Lawrence Grossberg shows that the truth is bigger and more frightening. Locating Trumpism in the long struggle among traditional conservatism, the new right and the reactionary right,...
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In recent years hundreds of high-profile 'free speech' incidents have rocked US college campuses. Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter and other right-wing speakers have faced considerable protest, with many being disinvited from speaking. These incidents are widely circulated as examples of the academy's intolerance towards conservative views.
But this response is not the spontaneous outrage of the liberal colleges. There is a darker element...
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A dramatisation of Martin Monath's short life (1913-1944) would need little artistic embellishment; his identity shrouded in mystery, and executed by the Gestapo - twice - the historical record reads like a detective novel.
Pieced together for the first time by Wladek Flakin, this biography tells the story of the Jewish socialist and editor of Arbeiter und Soldat ('Worker and Soldier'), and his efforts to turn German rank-and-file soldiers against...
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This collection of early writings by leading Nazi intellectuals sheds light on the evolution of Nazi political thought as the party came to power.
Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp bring together a crucial yet hitherto inaccessible body of material that thoroughly chronicles Nazi ideology before 1933. It includes the extensive writings and programs published by Dietrich Eckart, Alfred Rosenberg, Gottfried Feder, Joseph Goebbels, Gregor and Otto...
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This book is a concise and authoritative introduction to the principles, history, and prospects of socialism, written by one of the leading British economists and statisticians of the early 20th century. Kirkup explains the key concepts and debates of socialist theory and practice, from utopian visions to scientific socialism, from cooperatives to nationalization, from Marx to Bernstein. The book is a lucid and engaging guide to one of the most influential...
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She heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night of the Brexit vote. She heard reasonable people in Turkey say it as Erdoğan rigged elections, rebuilt the economy around cronyism, and labelled his opposition as terrorists. How to Lose a Country is an impassioned plea, a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully-formed into government; they creep. Award winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran, identifies the...
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