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Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire.
The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one man's conscience, courage, and generosity in the face of appalling human brutality.
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Margins of Writing, Origins of Culture
Collectively, the articles here provide well-documented challenges to conventional wisdom about that for which people actually used Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, and Hebrew. This conference was the first to bring leading philologists together with anthropologists and social theorists to explore what writing meant to politics in the ancient Near East.
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Anger, Mercy, Revenge
"Raging with an inhuman desire to inflict pain in combat and shed blood in punishment, it cares nothing for itself provided it can harm the other: it throws itself upon the very weapons raised against it, hungry for a vengeance that will bring down the avenger too."
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The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
There is no artist more celebrated than Michelangelo. Yet the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist often overshadow his devotion to poetry. Michelangelo used poetry to express what was too personal to display in sculpture or painting.
Luís de Camões
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition
The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luís de Camões (1524–80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare.
The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends
This is a concise and entertaining guide to the complex tradition of Chinese mythology. The Chinese Myths not only retells the ancient stories but also considers their place within the patterns of Chinese religions, culture and history.
The Great Escape
The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship.
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Poverty, by America
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg
Relevant today.
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide.
The devil and his entourage have certainly left the Soviet investigators in a tizzy!
(A quotation from The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, P&V translation)
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I was interviewed with @rachelcleves about our new #scifi #sff novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY (written jointly as @RASinn) in the new American University Magazine. Love the kicker. https://www.american.edu/magazine/article/biblio-file-a-second-chance-for-yesterday.cfm #bookstodon @bookstodon @sciencefiction
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Other Minds
The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus.
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Somehow I missed this trend: When did trivial medical romance become trivial #librarian romance? #PulpFiction
Dieser Trend ist irgendwie an mir vorbeigegangen: Wann wurde aus dem trivialen Arztroman der triviale #Bibliothekar:in-Roman? #Trivialliteratur
The Science of Sci-Fi Cinema
Essays on the Art and Principles of Ten Films
This volume of essays examines 10 films, with a focus on discerning the possible, the unlikely, and the purely science fictional. With essays by scientists in relevant fields, chapters provide analyses of the movies themselves, along with examination of the actual science (or lack thereof) in each film.
Did you know that October is #adhdawarenessmonth ? Hi, It’s Me ! I have ADHD is a great book to explain to children and adults what Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is.
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Libraries are one of the few public spaces where people are allowed to exist without money in our capitalist hellscape 🤔😇
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