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En 2011 fuimos testigos (y partícipes) de una serie de acontecimientos emancipadores que sorprendieron a todo el mundo, incluidos sus agentes: desde las primaveras árabes hasta los movimientos 15M (en España) y Occupy Wall Street (en EEUU), desde la revuelta griega hasta los disturbios en el Reino...

An examination of the emerging rural left, from environmentalists blocking pipeline construction to teachers on strike. In Left Elsewhere, volume editor and lead essayist Elizabeth Catte turns a skeptical eye toward “purple” politicians, such as West Virginia Democrat Richard Ojeda, who...

Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese...

Con su penetrante inteligencia, Bolívar Echeverría se ha propuesto descifrar el sentido enigmático que presentan los datos más relevantes de esta vuelta de siglo. Aquí se tratan desde asuntos de orden general hasta otros que se enfocaron en la realidad latinoamericana y su múltiple identidad...

Los trabajos que integran este volumen provienen en su mayoría de un coloquio que intentó acercarse inquisitivamente a la presencia enigmática e inquietante en las Tesis de Benjamín de una teoría de la historia muy especial, que entraña una abierta provocación a lo que a partir del siglo XIX...

Over two decades have passed since the collapse of the USSR, yet the words "Soviet Union" still carry significant weight in the collective memory of millions. But how often do we consider the true meaning of the term "Soviet"? Drawing extensively on left-wing press archives, Romancing...

The best-selling novel about a slave revolt in ancient Rome and the basis for the popular motion picture.

Out of Cuba: Memoir of a Journey is an inspirational story about a woman who embraces a challenge to help a Cuban man change his destiny. Together, they struggle to overcome political and cultural obstacles, as they create a family bond and transform despair into hope. The manuscript...

Back in print for the first time in 30 years, this volume provides a brilliant and accessible summation of the ideas of left Marxist giant C. L. R. James. Originally delivered in 1960 as a series of lectures in his native Trinidad, James’s wide-ranging erudition and enduring relevance are powerfully...

Winner of the 2014 Contemporary Bulgarian Novelist Award co-sponsored by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and the America for Bulgaria Foundation. First novel of Tenev's to be published in English despite Angela Rodel winning a PEN Michael Henry Heim Translation Grant for her work on his short...

"William Murray provides a unique perspective that should be read, particularly by America's youth, at a time central planners are once again promising utopian dreams at a cost to the most productive among us.” —Governor Mike Huckabee Utopian dreamers are deceived and deceiving. Their...

As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determining the extent to which the United States was prepared to defend and support them. Superpowers and developing nations soon became inextricably linked...

澳洲查爾斯史都華大學公共倫理學教授克萊夫．漢米爾頓，針對中共政府對澳洲的滲透所進行的調查研究。他發現從政界到文化圈，從房地產到農業，從大學到工會，甚至連小學都看得到中共的影響力。這些影響力的運作瞄準了澳洲社會的菁英人士，動員了部分澳洲華人買通在政界的影響力、限制學術上的自由、恐嚇批評他們的人、蒐集訊息給中國情報單位、以及在澳洲街頭抗議澳洲政府的措施。 　　說中國共產黨與澳洲民主正在對撞絕對不誇張。中共決心要贏，澳洲卻故意無視。本書針對長久以來一直被澳洲人視為理所當然的威脅予以全面的研究與有力的論述，漢米爾頓教授承認中國對澳洲的經濟繁榮很重要，但他不禁要問，澳洲的主權究竟值多少？ 名人推薦 　　吳介民（中研院社會所副研究員） 好評推薦 　　這本重要著作揭露了中國勢力在澳洲的運作，從而導致澳洲在政策上的改變，並引發許多面臨同樣問題的國家對此事的關注。——美國哥倫比亞大學講座教授黎安友（Andrew...

From Berlin to Bucharest, from Warsaw to Sofia, Soviet tanks crossed national borders across East Central Europe at the end of the Second World War. The arrival of the Red Army marked an important turn in history. Within only a few years, the often unpopular communist parties developed into political...