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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on Americaby Chris HedgesISBN 0743284437 (0-7432-8443-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America'Book summary:Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In "American Fascists, " Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the National Book Award finalist "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, " challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government to subvert it. The movement's call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools. The movement's yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America.
"American Fascists, " which includes interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques, examines the movement's origins, its driving motivations and its dark ideological underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and '30s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call for dictatorship, nor does it use
physical violence to suppress opposition. In short, the movement is not yet revolutionary. But the ideological architecture of a Christian fascism is being cemented in place. The movement has roused its followers to a fever pitch of despair and fury. All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more national crisis on the order of September 11 for the Christian Right to make a concerted drive to destroy American democracy. The movement awaits a crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly are -- the American heirs to fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned warning. We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant. [via]
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Arrested Voices: Resurrecting the Disappeared Writers of the Soviet Regimeby Vitalii Shentalinskii, John CrowfootISBN 068482776X (0-684-82776-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Autopsy for an Empire Pt. 2 : The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regimeby Dmitri Volkogonov, Harold ShukmanISBN 0684834200 (0-684-83420-0)
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Autopsy for an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regimeby Dmitri Volkogonov, Harold ShukmanISBN 0684871122 (0-684-87112-2)
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Bass Saxophoneby Josef SkvoreckyISBN 0671556819 (0-671-55681-9)
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The Bay of Pigs: The Untold Storyby Peter WydenISBN 0671254138 (0-671-25413-8)
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Bend Sinisterby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679727272 (0-679-72727-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bend Sinister'Book summary:The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime. [via]
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The Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 of Marie Missie Vassiltchikovby Marie VassiltchikovISBN 0701129794 (0-7011-2979-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Diary 1930-38by Bella FrommISBN 0671751395 (0-671-75139-5)
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Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Social Diaryby Bella FrommISBN 0788166204 (0-7881-6620-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Social Diary'Book summary:As a Berlin social reporter in the years leading up to WWII, Bella Fromm mingled with some of the most important and influential members of Hitler's rising Third Reich. Given the Nazis' appreciation for propaganda, this fact alone would be unremarkable, but her writings take on special interest when coupled with the knowledge that she received such access while openly proclaiming her own Jewish background and anti-Nazi sympathies. As she dutifully reported on the countless dinners, galas, and cultural events attended by German high society, Fromm also kept a secret diary that chronicled the seemingly inexplicable growth and horrifying consequences of National Socialism: "It's not curious that all this is beginning to make me feel like a stranger in my own country, that I am beginning to be aware of a feeling of hostility...."
Fearing for her life, Fromm fled Germany in 1938, smuggling her incriminating diary out in separate parcels before she left. First published in 1943, these recollections wear the patina of an Allied effort at public relations, but the prescient accuracy of her dire predictions is intriguing nonetheless. And, while invariably placing herself in the shining glow of absolute moral and ethical integrity, her insightful observations offer an interesting record of the many actions--both heroic and cowardly--she witnessed during this particularly ugly period of mass hysteria. --George Laney [via]
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Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 070110791X (0-7011-0791-X)
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Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffet the World's Most Famous Investorby Mary Buffett, David ClarkISBN 0684837137 (0-684-83713-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffet the World's Most Famous Investor'Book summary:Americans are infatuated with the stock market. The number of households that own stock has increased from around 20 percent in the early 1980s to over 40 percent today. The market offers the hope of quick wealth and early retirement, and just about everyone who is in the market is looking for an edge, from sources such as CNBC and Wall Street Week to the Beardstown Ladies and "The Motley Fool." So it should be no surprise the most successful investor of our time--Warren Buffett--has been the subject of dozens of books and magazine articles. The value of Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, has increased from $18 per share in 1965 to over $70,000 per share today. The interest in Buffett has spawned an approach to investing called "Buffettology," which is the subject of a book by the same name written by Buffett's former daughter-in-law, Mary Buffett.
In Buffettology, Mary Buffett, with the help of David Clark, details Warren Buffett's approach to investing. It's a style of investing based on the work of Benjamin Graham and one that requires a quality that most investors lack--discipline. Mary Buffett writes, "As you read through this book you will come to see that having a business perspective on investing is more about discipline than philosophy.... In short, other people's follies, brought on by fear and greed, will offer you, the investor, the opportunity to take advantage of their mistakes and benefit from the discipline of committing capital to investment only when it makes sense from a business perspective.... You will find that almost everything that relates to business perspective investing is alien to Wall Street folklore.
Buffettology examines Buffett's methods for valuing companies and selecting stocks--it even encourages you to buy a calculator and work through the valuation formulas that Buffett uses when researching companies to buy. The book not only serves as a useful guide to understanding how Buffett invests, it's an excellent primer to investing in stocks, whether you plan to become a Buffettologist or not. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards, Business editor [via]
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin MuirISBN 0679417354 (0-679-41735-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle: Classic Collection'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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Casualties of Warby Daniel LangISBN 0671672533 (0-671-67253-3)
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A Childhood in Prisonby Petr Ionovich IAkirISBN 0698105060 (0-698-10506-0)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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Cuba: Order and Revolutionby Jorge I. DominguezISBN 0674179250 (0-674-17925-0)
Hardcover, Belknap Pr
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Cuban Communism: 1959-2003by Jaime Suchlicki, Irving Louis HorowitzISBN 0765805200 (0-7658-0520-0)
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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Centuryby Mark MazowerISBN 067975704X (0-679-75704-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century'Book summary:As the European Union introduces a common currency to world financial markets, Mark Mazower's Dark Continent critically examines the notion of "Europe." The Euro notwithstanding, Mazower argues that the "'Europe' of the European Union may be a promise or a delusion, but it is not a reality." Renouncing the notion of an essential "Europe," Mazower instead explores the conflicts which dominated the continent in the 20th century and the social value systems which informed them.
Mazower orders his examination chronologically, commencing with the collapse of Europe's continental empires following World War I and the initial European experiments in democracy and national self-determination which followed. He continues with analyses of state interventions in family health and the importance of healthy progeny, the financial crisis of the 1920s, the Hitler regime, the transformed democracy that emerged following World War II, the gradual erosion of the social state in the 1980s, and, finally, the collapse of communism. He consistently displays a firm grip of European history, directing his argument to readers with a foundational knowledge of the events that shaped 20th century Europe rather than historical novices unfamiliar with the period. Provocatively insightful, Dark Continent makes a convincing argument for a European 21st century characterized by continuity and harmony through divergence. "If Europeans can give up their desperate desire to find a single, workable definition of themselves," Mazower concludes, "they may come to terms more easily with the diversity and dissension which will be as much their future as their past." --Bertina Loeffler [via]
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The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating Americaby Philip K. HowardISBN 0679429948 (0-679-42994-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America'Book summary:Distressing, disturbing, devastatingly detailed - this stunning examination of how modern laws are diminishing America exposes the drawbacks of rule-bound government, tells why nothing gets done, reveals the phony pretensions of law, and shows why well-intentioned laws have actually devalued rights. In short, The Death of Common Sense demonstrates how the buck never stops and how well-meaning laws are creating a nation of enemies. [via]
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Down With Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empireby Michael DobbsISBN 0679751513 (0-679-75151-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dubcekby William ShawcrossISBN 0671728709 (0-671-72870-9)
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East Central European Politics Today: From Chaos to Stability?by Keith CrawfordISBN 071904622X (0-7190-4622-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Emperorby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0679722033 (0-679-72203-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of the Intellectuals in China's Great Cultural Revolutionby Anne F. ThurstonISBN 0674253752 (0-674-25375-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Engineer of Human Soulsby Josef SkvoreckyISBN 0671556827 (0-671-55682-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Engineer of Human Souls'Book summary:'"The Engineer Of Human Souls" spins its own story from the torn entrails of Central Europe. Yet what emerges is comedy - clack, grimacing and explosively funny, as peculiarly middle European as the despairing wit of prague's own Franz Kafka' - "Time". [via]
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Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evilby Ron RosenbaumISBN 0679431519 (0-679-43151-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evil'Book summary:Debates concerning the historical and moral significance of Adolf Hitler have gone on since the beginning of his rise to power in Germany. In the decades after his bunker suicide, those debates elevated to arguments over the very nature and existence of evil. An integral part of the arguments has been the ongoing attempt to understand the why of Hitler. In this engaging work of literary journalism, Ron Rosenbaum travels the world to converse with some of the historians, philosophers, filmmakers, and others who have attempted to make sense of Hitler's actions, to find a root cause for the Holocaust.
Rosenbaum methodically examines the evidence for and against all the major hypotheses concerning the origin of Hitler's character. He sifts through all the rumors--including his alleged Jewish ancestry and what biographer Alan Bullock refers to as "the one-ball business"--and the attempts to derive some psychological cause from them. Various Hitlers emerge: Hitler as con man and brutal gangster, Hitler the unspeakable pervert, Hitler the ladies' man, Hitler as modernist artist working in the medium of evil....
But Rosenbaum's portrayals of those who would define Hitler are as fascinating as the shifting perspectives on the führer. Here we see the brave journalists of the Munich Post who attempted to reveal Hitler's evil to the world as early as the 1920s. We witness Shoah director Claude Lanzmann's imperious attempts to stifle analysis of Hitler and the Holocaust, branding such historical inquiries as "obscene." We see the effects, on a frazzled Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, of the controversy surrounding the publication of his Hitler's Willing Executioners. We see the interior crises of Hitler apologist David Irving and philosopher-novelist George Steiner, among others, as they struggle with the ramifications of their work and thought. And, best of all, we have Rosenbaum to serve as an informed, intimate, and on occasion witty guide. In White Noise, Don DeLillo depicted the satirical academic discipline of "Hitler studies;" Ron Rosenbaum breathes a life into the field that no fiction can match. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The File: A Personal Historyby Timothy Garton AshISBN 0679777857 (0-679-77785-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The File: A Personal History'Book summary:When Timothy Garton Ash graduated from Oxford in 1978, he went to live in Berlin, ostensibly to research and write about Nazism. But once there, he gradually immersed himself in a study of the repressive political culture of East Germany. As if to return the favor, that culture--in the form of the dreaded East German secret police, the "Stasi"--secretly began studying him. As was Stasi's practice, over the years its study produced a considerable paper trail. After the fall of the East German communist regime, a government apparatus was established to allow those targeted to see their Stasi files, and Garton Ash discovered and pored over his. He then set about to interview the people who made this gross intrusion possible, the several case officers, and the numerous regular-citizen informers. The result is nothing short of a journey into the darkest recesses of the totalitarian mind, taking its place honorably alongside 1984 and Darkness at Noon. [via]
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Five Months with Solidarity: A First-Hand Report from Inside Hotel Morski, Gdanskby John TaylorISBN 0704504634 (0-7045-0463-4)
Softcover, Wildwood House
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The Flute-Playerby D. M. ThomasISBN 0671508857 (0-671-50885-7)
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For the Good of the Causeby Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynISBN 0722180276 (0-7221-8027-6)
Hardcover, Sphere
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Germans into Nazisby Peter FritzscheISBN 0674350928 (0-674-35092-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Grey Is the Color of Hopeby Irina Ratushinskaya, Alyona KojevnikovISBN 0685306828 (0-685-30682-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Hitler of Historyby John LukacsISBN 0679446494 (0-679-44649-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitler of History'Book summary:In this brilliant, strikingly original book, historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitler's life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers.Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books on him and the Third Reich. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Dangerously, the cumulative portrait that begins to emerge can suggest the face of a mythic antihero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and conquest. By reversing the process, by making Hitler's biographers--rather than Hitler himself--the subject of inquiry, Lukacs reveals the contradictions that take us back to the true Hitler of history.Like an attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial. He gives a masterly account of all the major works and of the personalities, methods, and careers of the biographers (one cannot separate the historian from his history, particularly in this arena); he looks at what is still not known (and probably never will be) about Hitler; he considers various crucial aspects of the real Hitler; and he shows how different biographers have either advanced our understanding or gone off track. By singling out those who have been involved in, or co-opted into, an implicit "rehabilitation of Hitler," Lukacs draws powerful conclusions about Hitler's essential differences from other monsters of history, such as Napoleon, Mussolini, and Stalin, and--equally important--about Hitler's place in the history of this century and of the world. [via]
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Hitler's Generalsby Corelli BarnettISBN 0688103839 (0-688-10383-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Generals'Book summary:With few exceptions, historians of Germany's leadership during WWII have concentrated on Adolf Hitler. This remarkable study probes instead the relationship between Hitler and his generals--men such as Rommel, Beck, and Model. And Hitler's Generals investigates the mystery of how a generation of able commanders came to be seduced step-by-step by Hitler's false patriotism and cunning manipulation. 26 black-and-white photographs; 15 maps. [via]
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The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolutionby Andrei CodrescuISBN 0688088058 (0-688-08805-8)
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Hope Abandonedby Nadezhda MandelstamISBN 0689706081 (0-689-70608-1)
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Hope Against Hope: A Memoirby Nadezhda MandelcshtamISBN 0689705301 (0-689-70530-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope Against Hope: A Memoir'Book summary:Nadezhda means "hope" in Russian. And Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Osip Mandelstam, one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, is aptly named, for it is hope alone that seems to have buoyed her strength during very trying times. In this, the first of two volumes of her memoirs, she offers a harrowing account of the last four years she spent with her late husband. She re-creates in terse, stripped-to-the-bone sentences the atmosphere of intense paranoia that enveloped Russia's literary intelligentsia. In 1933, Osip had written a lighthearted satire ridiculing Stalin. It proved to be a 16-line death sentence. Nadezhda recalls the night the secret police came for him: "There was a sharp, unbearably explicit knock on the door. 'They've come for Osip,' I said." He was arrested, interrogated, exiled, and eventually rearrested. Nadezhda chronicles each turn of event, describing her feelings of heartbreak and joy with self-effacing discipline. Not only does Mandelstam write with the vitality and insight of the classic Russian novelists, she is far too selfless to write an account of her own travails. Instead, she acts as witness to a society's. Similarly, although Osip's mind became unbalanced by his ordeal in prison, his spirit remained unbroken; it is this liberating, imaginative force that Nadezhda celebrates in Hope Against Hope. --Lilian Pizzichini, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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IBM And the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany And America's Most Powerful Corporationby Edwin BlackISBN 0756784891 (0-7567-8489-1)
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Imperiumby Ryszard Kapuscinski, Klara GlowczewskaISBN 067974780X (0-679-74780-X)
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L'Homme Revolteby Albert CamusISBN 0685112349 (0-685-11234-9)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Homme Revolte'Book summary:Essai majeur de l'oeuvre d'Albert Camus, L'Homme révolté est un livre prophétique sur la situation politique et sociale de la France des années cinquante. Marquant l'engagement philosophique de Camus, cet ouvrage est une relecture personnelle des grandes étapes de l'esprit de révolte, de la Révolution française à la Révolution russe. Les grands penseurs, de Sade à Nietzsche en passant par Marx ou Saint-Just sont évoqués et analysés, de même que les grands courants de pensée à la marge ou aux extrêmes, des nihilistes aux surréalistes en passant par les anarchistes ou les royalistes.
Grand essai érudit et cultivé, dans l'esprit de l'honnête homme, cet ouvrage aborde la révolte sous ses aspects métaphysique, historique, et artistique. Plus que de toutes autres de ses oeuvres, on retrouve ici exprimée l'évolution de l'esprit contestataire de Camus, qui fait de cet essai un classique absolu. L'Homme révolté est une sorte de Lipstick Traces avant l'heure, en moins rock'n'roll certes mais tout aussi remarquable. --Florent Mazzoleni [via]
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empireby David RemnickISBN 0679751254 (0-679-75125-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire'Book summary:David Remnick was Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post between 1988 and 1991 and later a staffer at the New Yorker. While with The Post he covered events the emergence of perestroika, the taking of power by democrats, the failed Communist counter-coup of August 1991 and beyond. His gripping personal account of that historic period is filled with vivid sketches of people. He writes with passion of the twofold nature of the crimes of Stalinist communism--"murder and the unending assault against memory." His powerful literary style is suggested in the title, the mausoleum holding Lenin's body being a central image in his book for the construction and maintenance of the dead culture of communism. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. [via]
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The Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickISBN 0679740678 (0-679-74067-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man in the High Castle'Book summary:It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake. [via]More editions of The Man in the High Castle:
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Master And Margaritaby Michael Glenny, Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0679410465 (0-679-41046-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'MASTER AND MARGARITA'Book summary:Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park [via]
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Master And Margaritaby Mikhail Bulgakov, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, Diana Lewis BurginISBN 0679760806 (0-679-76080-6)
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Beganby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679748407 (0-679-74840-7)
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The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the Worldby Christopher M. Andrew, Vasili MitrokhinISBN 0713999063 (0-7139-9906-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World'Book summary:In 1992, MI6 exfiltrated Vasili Mitrokhin, the most senior activist in the KGB, who had been responsible for running the KGB archives. He had noted thousands of documents, described by the FBI as the greatest single cache of intelligence ever received by the West.' This archive resulted in many prosecutions, some of which are still ongoing. After his defection, Mitrokhin teamed up with Christopher Andrew, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and the world's leading intelligence scholar. Their first volume, The KGB in Europe and the West, revealed the extent of KGB penetration of what they called The Main Adversary and the existence of a previously unknown nuclear spy, Melita Norwood. The second volume, The KGB and the World, continues the revelations from the sublime to the absurd - which Third World leaders were in the pay of the KGB, precisely how extensive KGB penetration of foreign governments was, and how KGB agents were instructed to assess the spread of the influence of rival Chinese communism (by going round African capitals trying to count the changing number of posters of Mao Tse-tung in shops and public buildings...) [via]
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Modernity and the Holocaustby Zygmunt BaumanISBN 0745609309 (0-7456-0930-9)
Softcover, Polity Press
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essaysby Albert Camus, Justin O'BrienISBN 0679733736 (0-679-73373-6)
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The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretationby Ian KershawISBN 0713164085 (0-7131-6408-5)
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Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990by Vaclav Havel, Paul WilsonISBN 0679738118 (0-679-73811-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990'Book summary:Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, "I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you." Some of the pieces in Open Letters, such as "Dear Dr. Husak" and the essay "The Power of the Powerless," are by now almost legendary for their influence on a generation of Eastern European dissidents; others, such as some of Havel's prison correspondence and his private letter to Alexander Dubcek, appear in English for the first time. All of them bear the unmistakable imprint of Havel's intellectual rigor, moral conviction, and unassuming eloquence, while standing as important additions to the world's literature of conscience. [via]
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The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Spell of Platoby Karl R. PopperISBN 0691019681 (0-691-01968-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Spell of Plato'Book summary:Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result.
In the book, Popper condemned Plato, Marx, and Hegel as "holists" and "historicists"--a holist, according to Popper, believes that individuals are formed entirely by their social groups; historicists believe that social groups evolve according to internal principles that it is the intellectual's task to uncover. Popper, by contrast, held that social affairs are unpredictable, and argued vehemently against social engineering. He also sought to shift the focus of political philosophy away from questions about who ought to rule toward questions about how to minimize the damage done by the powerful. The book was an immediate sensation, and--though it has long been criticized for its portrayals of Plato, Marx, and Hegel--it has remained a landmark on the left and right alike for its defense of freedom and the spirit of critical inquiry.
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Platon's Republicby PlatonISBN 071484408X (0-7148-4408-X)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Platon's Republic'Book summary:A collection of unique portraits by British born, New York based, fashion photographer Platon, which includes over 120 photographs constituting a unique and dynamic cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's subjects are all leaders in their field and include Al Pacino, Bill Clinton, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen and David Beckham. A collection of unique portraits by British born, New York based, fashion photographer Platon. Over 120 photographs have been selected from an enormous range of powerful images taken over the last decade and together they constitute a unique and dynamic cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's Republic is a window into today's media-led culture that bombards, and sometimes overwhelms, us with images of world-wide importance juxtaposed with frivolity. Platon's Republic replicates the same intense and sometimes surreal experience with portraits of Al Pacino, Bill Clinton, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen as well as more documentary photographs of Jesse Jackson and Bianca Jagger demonstrating against the death penalty and football supporters. Granted extraordinary access to some of the west's most powerful people, Platon's subjects are all leaders in their field. Whether they are from the TV industry, politicians, actors, fashion designers, writers or musicians, they all wield enormous influence within their arena. Platons' portraits are graphic and intimate, but the unusual angles and revealing expressions are his hallmark. [via]
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Political Power and Social Classesby Nicos PoulantzasISBN 0722073046 (0-7220-7304-6)
Hardcover, NLB; Sheed and Ward
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The Porcupineby Julian BarnesISBN 0679744827 (0-679-74482-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Porcupine'Book summary:In his latest novel, Julian Barnes, author of Talking It Over and A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, trains his laser-bright prose on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.
Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader, is placed on trial for crimes that range from corruption to political murder. Petkanov's guilt -- and the righteousness of his opponents -- would seem to be self-evident. But, as brilliantly imagined by Barnes, the trial of this cunning and unrepentant dictator illuminates the shadowy frontier between the rusted myths of the Communist past and a capitalist future in which everything is up for grabs. [via] 
A Question of Realityby Kazimierz BrandysISBN 0684165996 (0-684-16599-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revoltby Albert CamusISBN 0679733841 (0-679-73384-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt'Book summary:By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.
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The Republicby PlatoISBN 0679733876 (0-679-73387-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent European thinking about these subjects owes its character, directly or indirectly, to this most famous (and most accessible) of the Platonic dialogues. Although he describes a society that looks to some like the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, in the course of his description Plato raises enduringly relevant questions about politics, art, education, and the general conduct of life.Translated by A. D. Lindsay [via]
Resistance, Rebellion, and Deathby Albert Camus, Justin O'BrienISBN 0679764011 (0-679-76401-1)
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germanyby William L. ShirerISBN 0671728687 (0-671-72868-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany'Book summary:It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known. William Shirer is one of the very few historians to have gained full access to the secret German archives which the Allies captured intact. He was also present at the Nuremberg trials. This is his authoritative historical account of the years 1933-45, when the Nazis, under the rule of their desporic leader Adolf Hitler, ruled Germany. They commandeered the Holocaust, one of the most shocking acts of evil in modern history, plunged the world into a second war, and changed the face of modern history and modern Europe forever. [via]
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Sideshowby William ShawcrossISBN 0671426826 (0-671-42682-6)
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Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodiaby William ShawcrossISBN 0671641034 (0-671-64103-4)
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Slavery and Freedomby Berdyaev NISBN 0684717115 (0-684-71711-5)
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Small Fires: Letters from the Soviet People to Ogonyok Magazine 1987-1990by Christopher Cerf, Marina AlbeeISBN 0671728768 (0-671-72876-8)
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, J. H. Brumfitt, John C. Hall, G.D.H. ColeISBN 0760770212 (0-7607-7021-2)
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Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Recordby Leopold LabedzISBN 0713902205 (0-7139-0220-5)
Hardcover, Allen Lane the Penguin Press
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Speaking Through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identityby Norma Claire MoruzziISBN 0801437857 (0-8014-3785-7)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Stalin: A Biographyby Robert ServiceISBN 0674022580 (0-674-02258-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Stella/One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germanyby Peter WydenISBN 0671673610 (0-671-67361-0)
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Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracyby Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, Carl J. FriedrichISBN 0674895657 (0-674-89565-7)
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Under the Frogby Tibor FischerISBN 0748661336 (0-7486-6133-6)
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Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Presentby Aleksandr Nekrich, Mikhail HellerISBN 0671645358 (0-671-64535-8)
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The Vietnamese Gulagby David Chanoff, Doan Van ToaiISBN 0671603507 (0-671-60350-7)
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When the War Was over: The Voices of Cambodia's Revolution and Its Peopleby Elizabeth BeckerISBN 0671645595 (0-671-64559-5)
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Why We Were in Vietnamby Norman PodhoretzISBN 0671470612 (0-671-47061-2)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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