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Acts of Worshipby John Bester, Yukio MishimaISBN 4770014376 (4-7700-1437-6)
Hardcover, Kodansha International
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acts of Worship'Book summary:Part autobiography and part reflection, this document describes the tortuous path Yukio Mishima took from introverted child to acclaimed novelist and playwright, and self-proclaimed conscience of post-war Japan. [via]
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Acts of Worshipby Yukio Mishima, John BesterISBN 4770028938 (4-7700-2893-8)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acts of Worship'Book summary:When Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times and had seen almost all of his major novels appear in English. While the flamboyance of his life and the apparent fanaticism of his death have dominated the public's perception of his achievement, Japanese and Western critics alike are in agreement that his literary gifts were prodigious.
Mishima is arguably at his best in the shorter forms, and it is the flower of these that appears here for the first time in English. Each story has its own distinctive atmosphere and each is brilliantly organized, yielding deeper layers of meaning with repeated readings. The psychological observation, particularly in what it reveals of the turmoil of adolescence, is meticulous.
The style, with its skillful blending of colors and surfaces, shows Mishima in top form, and no further proof is needed to remind us that he was a consummate writer whose work is an irreplaceable part of world literature. [via]More editions of Acts of Worship:
Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homesby Stephen HoweISBN 1859848737 (1-85984-873-7)
Hardcover, Verso Books
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After Britainby Tom NairnISBN 1862073228 (1-86207-322-8)
Softcover, Granta Books
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Ang Bagong Lumipasby Renato ConstantinoISBN 9715421326 (971-542-132-6)
Hardcover, University of the Philippines Press at Foundation for Nationalist Studies
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The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movementby George AntoniusISBN 1931541248 (1-931541-24-8)
Softcover, Simon Pubns
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The Basque History of the Worldby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0140298517 (0-14-029851-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Becoming National: A Readerby Geoff Eley, Ronald Grigor SunyISBN 0195096614 (0-19-509661-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Breakdown of Nationsby Leopold KohrISBN 1870098986 (1-870098-98-6)
Softcover, Green Books
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Die Einbeziehung Des Anderen: Studien Zur Politischen Theorieby Jurgen HabermasISBN 351858233X (3-518-58233-X)
Softcover, Suhrkamp
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The Disuniting of Americaby Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 1879736004 (1-879736-00-4)
Hardcover, Whittle Direct Books
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Eastern European Nationalism in the Twentieth Centuryby Peter F. SugarISBN 1879383403 (1-879383-40-3)
Softcover, University Press of America, Incorporated
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El Rodaballoby Gunter GrassISBN 8420441864 (84-204-4186-4)
Softcover, Alfaguara
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Rodaballo'Book summary:The author uses nine women to help him narrate the history of humanity, from prehistoric times to the uprising of the workers of Gdansk. Hundreds of thousands of years of battles between the sexes and social classes, between progress and superstition, distributed among nine chapters that correspond to the nine-month of the pregnancy of the authors wife. [via]
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The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920by Barbara Jelavich, Charles JelavichISBN 0295964138 (0-295-96413-8)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Faktizitat Und Geltung: Beitrage Zur Diskurstheorie Des Rechts Und Des Demokratischen Rechtsstaatsby Jurgen HabermasISBN 3518581279 (3-518-58127-9)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan Warby Misha GlennyISBN 0140235868 (0-14-023586-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Freedom at Midnightby Larry Collins, Dominique LapierreISBN 8125904808 (81-259-0480-8)
Softcover, South Asia Books
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Gentlemen Poets in Colonial Bengal: Emergent Nationalism and the Orientalist Projectby Rosinka ChaudhuriISBN 8170461855 (81-7046-185-5)
Hardcover, Seagull Books
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Guerrilla Warfare: Authorized Editionby Ernesto Che Guevara, Harry VillegasISBN 1920888284 (1-920888-28-4)
Softcover, Ocean Pr
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Het Belgisch Labyrint: Wakker Worden in Een Ander Landby Geert van IstendaelISBN 9029522488 (90-295-2248-8)
Softcover, Arbeiderspers
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History and National Lifeby Peter MandlerISBN 1861974698 (1-86197-469-8)
Hardcover, Renouf Pub Co Ltd
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Imagining the Balkansby Maria TodorovaISBN 0195087518 (0-19-508751-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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In Search of Nationhood: The Theory and Practice of Nationalism in Africaby Patrick F. WilmotISBN 9782281018 (978-2281-01-8)
Softcover, Lantern Books
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Invisible Enemy: Globalization & Maldevelopmentby Renato Constantino, Foundation for Nationalist Studies (Philippines), Joan OrendainISBN 9718741208 (971-8741-20-8)
Hardcover, Foundation for Nationalist Studies
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Karby Orhan PamukISBN 9754709610 (975-470-961-0)
Softcover, Iletisim
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kar'Book summary:On iki yildir Almanya'da sürgün olan sair Ka Türkiye'ye dönüsünden dört gün sonra, bir röportaj için Kars sehrinde bulur kendini. Agir agir ve hiç durmadan yagan karin altinda sokak sokak, dükkan dükkan bu hüzünlü ve güzel sehri ve insanlari tanimaya çalisir. Kars'ta agzina kadar issizlerle dolu çayhaneler, disaridan gelmis ve kardan mahsur kalmis gezgin bir tiyatro kumpanyasi, intihar eden ve türban direnisi yapan kizlar, çesitli siyasal gruplar, dedikodular, söylentiler, Karpalas Oteli ve sahibi Turgut Bey ile kizlari Ipek ve Kadife ve Ka için bir ask ve mutluluk vaadi vardir.
"O ne bir ideolog, ne bir siyasetçi, ne de bir gazeteci. Orhan Pamuk büyük bir romanci."
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Kleine Nationen Und Ethnische Minderheiten Im Umbruch Europas: Ergebnisse Der Internationalen Wissenschaftlichen Konferenz in Maribor, Slowenien, 3.-5. Februar 1992 = Petites Nations Et Minorites Ethniques Dans Une Europe En Devenir Actes De La...by Gerhard Seewann, Silvo Devetak, Sergej FlereISBN 3927077046 (3-927077-04-6)
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Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and International Citizenshipby Ramesh Chandra Thakur, Albrecht SchnabelISBN 9280810502 (92-808-1050-2)
Softcover, United Nations Univ
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Kosovo: War and Revengeby Tim JudahISBN 0300097255 (0-300-09725-5)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Mazziniby Denis MacK SmithISBN 0300068840 (0-300-06884-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mazzini'Book summary:This book by one of the most distinguished historians of Italy is the first modern biography in English of Giuseppe Mazzini, one of the leading figures in the political and intellectual world of mid-nineteenth-century Europe. Denis Mack Smith reexamines Mazzini's ideological impact and portrays him as a vigorous proponent of patriotism, a pre-eminent figure in the struggle for Italian independence and unity, and a fascinating personality whose ideas brought him into contact with Marx, Carlyle, Mill, and Bakunin. 'Denis Mack Smith's new biography easily surpasses its predecessors in any language. This is not surprising, since Mack Smith is one of the finest living writers of historical biographies and the most distinguished living historian of the Risorgimento.' Derek Beales, New York Review of Books 'This is the definitive biography: the job will not need to be done again.' A. L. Rowse, London Evening Standard 'The doyen of historians of modern Italy, Mack Smith has written a book which has all the usual admirable qualities of his earlier work, combining an accessible and fluent narrative style with lightly worn but meticulous scholarship ... It is to be hoped that Mack Smith's book heralds a reassessment, not just of Mazzini's place in nineteenth-century Italian history, but also of his intellectual contribution to the creation of a Europe of the nations that remains as urgent in our time as it was in his.' Richard Bellamy, Times Literary Supplement 'Definitive, highly readable biography of a revolutionary far more relevant to our time than Marx, Lenin, or Mao.' The London Times 'Superbly reasonable and eminently readable ... It should and most probably will be required reading for all students of modern European history.' Patricia A. Kollander, Historian Denis Mack Smith is a fellow of the British Academy and a Commendatore of the Italian Order of Merit. Fellow of Wolfson College and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, he has written many books, including biographies of Mussolini, Cavour, and Garibaldi, as well as 'Italy and its Monarchy', published by Yale University Press. [via]
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Mein Kampf: My Struggle Unexpurgated Edition, Two Volumes in One a Retrospect/The National Socialist Movementby Adolf HitlerISBN 817224164X (81-7224-164-X)
Softcover, Laurier Books Ltd
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Modern Greece: Nationalism & Nationalityby Martin Blinkhorn, Thanos VeremesISBN 9607061004 (960-7061-00-4)
Softcover, SAGE-ELIAMEP
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The Morality of Nationalismby Jeff McMahan, Robert McKimISBN 0195103920 (0-19-510392-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rightsby Will KymlickaISBN 0198290918 (0-19-829091-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights'Book summary:The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures. It argues that certain "collective rights" of minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic principles, and that standard liberal objections to such rights can be answered. However, the author emphasizes that no single formula can be applied to all groups, and that the needs and aspirations of immigrants are very different from those of indigenous peoples and national minorities. He looks at issues such as language rights, group representation, religious education, federalism, and secession--issues central to an understanding of multicultural politics, but which have been neglected in contemporary liberal theory. Scholars of political theory and philosophy, as well as the general reader, will find this work to be the most comprehensive analysis to date of this crucial political issue. [via]
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George Orwell, Peter DavisonISBN 0151660344 (0-15-166034-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'Book summary:"Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere."
The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One.
Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant "correction" of such records. "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime--in 1984, George Orwell created a whole vocabulary of words concerning totalitarian control that have since passed into our common vocabulary. More importantly, he has portrayed a chillingly credible dystopia. In our deeply anxious world, the seeds of unthinking conformity are everywhere in evidence; and Big Brother is always looking for his chance. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
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On Nationalityby David MillerISBN 0198293569 (0-19-829356-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Nationality'Book summary:Nationalism is a dominating force in contemporary politics, but political philosophers have been markedly reluctant to discuss, let alone endorse, nationalist ideas. In this book, David Miller defends the principle of nationality, arguing that national identities are valid sources of personal identity; that we are justified in recognizing special obligations to our co-nationals; that nations have good grounds for wanting to be politically self-determining; but that recognizing the claims of nationality does not entail suppressing other sources of personal identity, such as ethnicity. Finally, he considers the claim that national identities are dissolving in the late twentieth century. This timely and provocative book offers the most compelling defense to date of nationality from a radical perspective. [via]
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The Origins of Malay Nationalismby William R. RoffISBN 967653059X (967-65-3059-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticismby Irving HoweISBN 0155658115 (0-15-565811-5)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Political Ideologies: An Introductionby Andrew HeywoodISBN 0312072694 (0-312-07269-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenshipby Will KymlickaISBN 0199240981 (0-19-924098-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Postnational Constellation: Political Essaysby Jurgen Habermas, Max PenskyISBN 0262582066 (0-262-58206-6)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Publics and Counterpublicsby Michael WarnerISBN 1890951293 (1-890951-29-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Publics And Counterpublics'Book summary:Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them as members of our world? We are related to them as transient participants in common publics. Indeed, most of us would find it nearly impossible to imagine a social world without publics. In the eight essays in this book, Michael Warner addresses the question: What is a public?According to Warner, the idea of a public is one of the central fictions of modern life. Publics have powerful implications for how our social world takes shape, and much of modern life involves struggles over the nature of publics and their interrelations. The idea of a public contains ambiguities, even contradictions. As it is extended to new contexts, politics, and media, its meaning changes in ways that can be difficult to uncover.Combining historical analysis, theoretical reflection, and extensive case studies, Warner shows how the idea of a public can reframe our understanding of contemporary literary works and politics and of our social world in general. In particular, he applies the idea of a public to the junction of two intellectual traditions: public-sphere theory and queer theory.
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Rebelion en la granja / Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 8423337332 (84-233-3733-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern Chinaby Prasenjit DuaraISBN 0226167224 (0-226-16722-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslaviaby Tim JudahISBN 0300085079 (0-300-08507-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Shadow Linesby Amitav GhoshISBN 8175300434 (81-7530-043-4)
Softcover, South Asia Books
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Studies in the Formation of the Nation-State in Latin Americaby James DunkerleyISBN 1900039419 (1-900039-41-9)
Softcover, Brookings Institution Press
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Ulyssesby James Joyce, Lawrence RaineyISBN 0300108184 (0-300-10818-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
The Wretched of the Earthby Frantz FanonISBN 0140026746 (0-14-002674-6)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Anos De Perroby Gunter GrassISBN 8401421071 (84-01-42107-1)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
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El choque de civilizaciones: Y la reconfiguracion del orden mundialby Samuel P. HuntingtonISBN 8449303664 (84-493-0366-4)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El choque de civilizaciones: Y la reconfiguracion del orden mundial'Book summary:El presente libro, basado en un influyente artículo que "ha configurado la totalidad de los debates políticos de estos últimos años" (Foreign Policy), es un informe incisivo y profético, en la línea del Francis Fukuyama de El fin de la historia, sobre las distintas formas adoptadas por la política mundial tras la caída del comunismo. La fuente fundamental de conflictos en el universo posterior a la guerra fría, según Huntington, no tiene raíces ideológicas o económicas, sino más bien culturales: "El choque de civilizaciones dominará la política a escala mundial; las líneas divisorias entre las civilizaciones serán los frentes de batalla del futuro". Y, a medida que la gente se vaya definiendo por su etnia o su religión, Occidente se encontrará más y más enfrentado con civilizaciones no occidentales que rechazarán frontalmente sus más típicos ideales: la democracia, los derechos humanos, la libertad, la soberanía de la ley y la separación entre la Iglesia y el Estado. Así, Huntington --al tiempo que presenta un futuro lleno de conflictos, gobernado por unas relaciones internacionales abiertamente "desoccidentalizadas"-- acaba recomendando un más sólido conocimiento de las civilizaciones no occidentales, con el fin, paradójicamente, de potenciar al máximo la influencia occidental, ya sea a través del fortalecimiento de las relaciones entre Rusia y Japón, del aprovechamiento de las diferencias existentes entre los estados islámicos o del mantenimiento de la superioridad militar en el este y el sudeste asiáticos. [via]
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El choque de Civilizaciones y la Reconfiguracion del Orden Mundial / The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Orderby Samuel P. HuntingtonISBN 8430937900 (84-309-3790-0)
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La Era Del Imperio, 1875-1914by Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 8484326616 (84-8432-661-6)
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Europa Y La Idea De Nacion/ Europe and The Nation Ideaby OrtegaISBN 842064126X (84-206-4126-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Guerra Virtualby Michael IgnatieffISBN 8449313775 (84-493-1377-5)
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La Historia De Los Arabes / a History of the Arabsby Albert HouraniISBN 8466615385 (84-666-1538-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Historia De Los Arabes / a History of the Arabs'Book summary:Beginning in the 7th century, when Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula to the West, and working through to the modern day, this study effectively documents the history of Arab peoples and their relationship to the major turning points in world history. The expansion of Islamic monotheism to countries as widespread as Egypt, Syria, and Morocco is described, as is the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire, the expansion of European commerce during the 19th century, the surge of nationalism and statehood in the 20th century, the transformation of the Arab culture by modern influences, and the reaffirmation of the Islamic identity in recent decades.[via]More editions of La Historia De Los Arabes / a History of the Arabs:
El Nacionalismo En Bolivia De La Pre Y Posguerra Del Chaco, 1910-1945by Irma LoriniISBN 9990563918 (99905-63-91-8)
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Nieveby Orhan PamukISBN 9707701595 (970-770-159-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nieve'Book summary:A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings for love, art, power and God. Following years of lonely political exile in Germany, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mothers funeral. Strange news of a wave of suicides lead him to Kars, a remote Turkish town where political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Pamuk creates a stark picture of a too-little known part of the world, illuminating the contradictions gripping the individual and collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. Description in Spanish: En pleno invierno, un poeta y periodista regresa a su ciudad natal, la remota ciudad de Kars en la frontera de Turquía, después de largos años de exilio político en Europa Occidental. La ciudad que encuentra es un lugar conflictivo: hay una ola de suicidios de chicas a las que se les ha prohibido llevar las cabezas cubiertas a la escuela, los islamistas van a ganar las elecciones locales, y el jefe de los servicios de inteligencia es de una eficiencia brutal. La nueva novela del premiado y prestigioso autor de Me llamo Rojo es un thriller político que retrata las más diversas formas de la ambición -el amor, el arte, el poder, la religión- y desenmascara las contradicciones que aprisionan el corazón humano en muchos lugares del mundo islámico. [via]
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Rebelion en la granja / Animal Farmby G. OrwelISBN 9706438807 (970-643-880-7)
Softcover, Selector S.A. De C.V.
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El Tambor De Hojalata/the Tin Drumby Gunter GrassISBN 8495501368 (84-95501-36-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Tambor De Hojalata/the Tin Drum'Book summary:On the day of his third birthday the main character, Oskar Matzerath, decides to stop growing. The same day he receives his first tin drum, which will be with him as he travels around Europe. He works as an artist's model, enrolls in a troupe of traveling musicians, deals in the black market, and becomes a leader of a group of anarchists. the drum will be the key to all Oskar's memories, even when some time after the war he is confined to a mental institution convicted of a murder he did not commit.
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El día de su tercer cumpleaños es un fecha determinante en la vida de Oscar, el pequeño que no quería crecer. No sólo es el día en que toma la decisión de dejar crecer, sino que recibe su primer tambor de hojalata, objeto que habrá de convertirse en compañero inseparable para el resto de sus días. La crítica mordaz, la ironía despiadada, el espectacular sentido del humor y la libertad creadora con que Günter Grass construye esta obra maestra convierten a "El tambor de hojalata" en uno de los títulos más deatacados de la historia de la literatura. [via]More editions of El Tambor De Hojalata/the Tin Drum:
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Die Blechtrommelby Günter GrassISBN 3423118210 (3-423-11821-0)
Softcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co KG
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Blechtrommel'Book summary:Nachdem sich der vor der Gendarmerie flüchtende Brandstifter Joseph Koljaiczekauf einem kaschubischen Kartoffelacker unter den Röcken Anna Bronskis versteckthatte, bringt diese neun Monate später ihre Tochter Agnes zur Welt. Späterheiratet Agnes den arglosen Rheinländer Alfred Matzerath, obwohl sie zugleicheine erotische Beziehung zu ihrem Vetter Jan führt. Ihr Kind Oskar Matzerath,gezeugt von Jan, erblickt 1924 das Licht dieser Welt in Gestalt zweierSechzig-Watt-Glühbirnen. Von Beginn an durchschaut er die Erwachsenenweltund beschließt an seinem dritten Geburtstag, an dem er eine Blechtrommelgeschenkt bekommt, durch einen beabsichtigten Sturz von der Kellertreppesein Wachstum einzustellen. Seine Größe, sein infantiles Benehmen und seineBlechtrommel täuschen über Oskars geistige und körperliche Reife hinweg,früh meldet sich sein sexuelles Begehren. Er erlebt die Machtergreifungder Nationalsozialisten, die Reichskristallnacht und den Kriegsausbruch.Seiner Familie bringt Oskar nur wenig Glück Am Tod seiner Mutter sowieseiner beiden Väter ist er nicht ganz unschuldig. Bei Kriegsende beschließtOskar Matzerath wieder zu wachsen, doch ist dieses Vorhaben nur mäßig erfolgreichZwar wächst er tatsächlich einige Zentimeter, doch drückt sich seine Schuldnun auch äußerlich durch Verwachsungen aus, insbesondere durch einen Buckel.Mit seinem Kindermädchen Maria, der er vermutlich ein Kind geschenkt hat,zieht er nach Düsseldorf, wo er als Jazzschlagzeuger ein reicher Mann wird.Der Ermordung einer Krankenschwester angeklagt, wird er in ein Irrenhauseingeliefert. [via]
Der Butt: Romanby Gunter GrassISBN 3472860693 (3-472-86069-3)
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Die Moderne, Ein Unvollendetes Projekt: Philosophisch-Politische Aufsatze, 1977-1990by Jurgen HabermasISBN 3379006580 (3-379-00658-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Moderne, Ein Unvollendetes Projekt: Philosophisch-Politische Aufsatze, 1977-1990'Book summary:Es wird sich vielleicht nicht jeder, der Jürgen Habermas als einen der tiefschürfendsten Denker der zweiten Jahrhunderthälfte kennenlernen möchte, gleich dessen umfangreiches und nicht gerade einfaches Hauptwerk Die Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns vornehmen wollen. Sehr viel zugänglicher ist dieser Band mit zehn Aufsätzen und Reden (von 1977 bis 1992), der zudem die beeindruckende Vielfalt seines Schaffens als Philosoph und Gesellschaftstheoretiker offenlegt.
Ist gibt wohl kaum Themen, mit denen sich Habermas in den letzten vier Jahrzehnten nicht beschäftigt hat. In diesem Fall reicht die Palette von der Rolle der Intellektuellen in Deutschland seit Heinrich Heine bis zum Verhältnis von Wissenschafts- und Umgangssprache. Verblüffend aktuell sind seine Überlegungen zur Krise des Wohlfahrtsstaates und zum Ende der "utopischen Energien" aus dem Jahre 1984. Und nie erschöpft sich Habermas' Denken in philosophischer Gipfelstürmerei, immer geht es auch um konkrete Politik, um kritisch-demokratische Gesellschaftsgestaltung.
Seit eh und je war eines seiner Hauptthemen die Aufklärung und ihre Dialektik. Und auch wenn er die Moderne für ein unvollendetes Projekt hält, so wird er doch nicht müde, sie gegen ihre Kritiker zu verteidigen: Ebenso gegen Neokonservative wie gegen linke postmoderne "Anarchisten", zwischen denen Habermas eine gegenaufklärerische Komplizenschaft vermutet. Denn trotz der Schattenseiten von Aufklärung und Vernunft, kann das Schäbige und Zerstörerische, das mit der Moderne unleugbar in die Welt gekommen ist, nur durch diese selbst -- und keinesfalls durch irgendeinen Antirationalismus -- wieder getilgt werden.
Exemplarisch wird das z.B. in seiner Gegenüberstellung von moderner und postmoderner Architektur. Natürlich seien die Auswüchse modernen Bauens unbestreitbar, "die seelenlose Behälterarchitektur, die Spekulationsgebirge und brutalen Nachkommen der Bunkerarchitektur, die Massenproduktion von Satteldachhundehütten, die autogerechte Zerstörung der Citys usw." -- Enthüllt sich aber in diesen Scheußlichkeiten (und das kann man ebenso auf das Projekt der Moderne insgesamt beziehen) "das wahre Gesicht der Moderne, oder sind es Verfälschungen ihres wahren Geistes?" Diesem wahren Geist ist Jürgen Habermas nach wie vor auf der Spur. --Christian Stahl [via]
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Rede Vom Verlust: uber Den Niedergang Der Politischen Kultur Im Geeinten Deutschlandby Gunter GrassISBN 3882432500 (3-88243-250-0)
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Russland Als Vielvolkerreich: Entstehung, Geschichte, Zerfallby Andreas KappelerISBN 3406364721 (3-406-36472-1)
Hardcover, Beck
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Arm Brusselby Geert van IstendaelISBN 902540054X (90-254-0054-X)
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Het Belgisch Labyrint: De Schoonheid Der Wanstaltigheidby Geert van IstendaelISBN 9029522968 (90-295-2296-8)
Hardcover, Arbeiderspers
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Belgische Toestanden: De Lotgevallen Van Een Kleine Biculturelle Europese Democratieby Marco MartinielloISBN 9076341516 (90-76341-51-6)
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Herman Vos: Van Vlaams-Nationalisme Naar Socialismeby Bernard van CausenbroeckISBN 9052404216 (90-5240-421-6)
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Het Nut Van Belgieby Geert van Istendael, Jean-Maurice DehousseISBN 9025402593 (90-254-0259-3)
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L'autre Cap ; Suivi De La Democratie Ajourneeby Jacques DerridaISBN 2707313793 (2-7073-1379-3)
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Il Faut Defendre La Societe: Cours Au College De France, 1975-1976by Michel FoucaultISBN 2020231697 (2-02-023169-7)
Hardcover, Gallimard/Seuil
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Snellmanin Suomiby Mikko LahtinenISBN 951768181X (951-768-181-X)
Hardcover, Vastapaino
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Hazarski Recnikby Milorad PavicISBN 8644101560 (86-441-0156-0)
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Natsionalnaia Politika V Rossiiskoi Federatsii: Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi Nauchno-Prakticheskoi Konferentsii, (Lipki, Sentiabr 1992 G.)by Valerii Aleksandrovich Tishkov, Institut etnologii i antropologii im. N.N. Miklukho-Maklaia, Gosudarstvennyi komitet Rossiiskoi Federatsii po delam federatsii i natsionalnosteiISBN 5020086193 (5-02-008619-3)
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