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Diana McCaulay’s newspaper columns, collected in Writing Jamaica: People, Places, Struggles, deliver a fascinating look at Jamaica, far beyond the island’s image as a tourist paradise.  From the white sand beaches of Jamaica’s north coast – Negril, Montego Bay, Oracabessa, Portland –...

​This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org. The PKK and its projects have attracted attention not just for the Rojava revolution – where a substantial part of the PKK programme is being implemented. The PKK has also attracted world attention for its heroic battle against...

Language interpreters played a vital role in the recent US campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. These men served alongside American soldiers in parts of the world where doing so meant they could not go back home safely. They served with the promise of support, visas and better lives in the US and abroad...

We live in an Acceleration Age. There has never been a time in history in which humans have experienced so much progress, nor progress at such a rapidly increasing rate. Consider the rush of progress in DNA sequencing. Beginning in 1990, it took over a decade and almost $3 billion to decode...

Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the 1990 standoff at Oka. It draws upon history,...

This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers?...

A collection of essays of historical perspective, on the phoney financial system, the psychopaths who own it, the corporate beast it enables, and how we can be free of it. In The Rant, the author lays out a time-lapse history of our civilization, tears apart the consumer-material culture,...

In the follow up to The Cultural Detective, Faking It in Bangkok, and Fear and Loathing in Bangkok, Moore pays caring and critical homage to his residence of choice by diagnosing some of Thailand’s discontents and offering subtle remedies for readers to tease out. The essays in The Age of Dis-Consent...

Il n’y a rien de plus propre à rappeler les philosophes et les hommes d’État à la modestie que l’histoire de notre Révolution ; car il n’y eut jamais d’événements plus grands, conduits de plus loin, mieux préparés et moins prévus....

Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities. However, urban rebirth in the aftermath of great fires offered a chance to shape the future. Ultimately residents and planners created...

Le déclin du pamphlet s'explique tant par une fréquente faiblesse de plume, un propos souvent sectaire et les lois bridant de telles formes d'expression. Aujourd'hui méprisé, on ne peut oublier la qualité et la portée de certains textes qu'il a généré....

Dans son livre-témoignage, Sandra Derevers nous raconte la maltraitance psychologique et la négligence d’une mère envers sa fille, dans un milieu parisien aisé. L’auteure nous fait part de sa stupeur face à l’indifférence quasi générale...

Face aux défis du siècle, le progrès scientifique peut-il encore être une réponse ? On voit aujourd'hui l'émergence d'une nouvelle approche de la recherche et de l'innovation, soucieuse de répondre aux enjeux sociaux et environnementaux. Partout dans le monde, laboratoires, entreprises...

As South Dakotans endured the Great Depression and developing Dust Bowl in 1932, they elected a cowboy as their governor. Tom Berry rode in the great, iconic 1902 cattle roundup ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt. He established the successful Double X ranch next to the Badlands. Big voiced and...