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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In his brilliant and provocative examination of why Jews are liberals, Podhoretz reviews the history of Jewish political attitudes and thoroughly examines the available evidence, demonstrating that all the usual explanations--such as a passion for justice allegedly deriving from the prophets of the Hebrew Bible--are either inadequate or flat-out false. Finally he proposes his own answer to the great puzzle of why most Jews remain as committed to liberalism...
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
ix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This accessible, up-to-date look at Latin American politics explores how -- and to what effect -- diverse forces on the left have not only captured the imagination of vast swathes of the continentʹs population, but also taken hold of the reins of government. The authors assess the multiple currents of Latin America's left turns, considering their origins, their relationships to political parties and social movements, and their performance in office....
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Harvard University Press ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Known to the Greeks as opos or opion, as afiun in Persian and Arabic, and fuyung in Chinese, opium is at once a palliative and a poison. Its exotic origins, its literary associations, and the properties that are, often erroneously, attributed to it have ensured an ongoing air of mystery.
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy reveals the long and fascinating history of a powerful and addictive drug and explores the changing fortunes of the modern-day illicit opium...
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador's geography is notably diverse. So too are its history, culture, and politics, all of which are examined from many perspectives in The Ecuador Reader. Spanning the years before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500s to the present, this rich anthology addresses colonialism, independence, the nation's integration into the world economy, and...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
vi, 298 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, America was already a nation of diverse faiths-the First Great Awakening and Enlightenment concepts such as deism and atheism had endowed the colonists with varying and often opposed religious beliefs. Despite their differences, however, Americans found common ground against British tyranny and formed an alliance that would power the American Revolution. In God of Liberty, historian Thomas S. Kidd offers the...
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses biblical themes about the dangers of empire and power that are relevant to today's world, revealing what Scripture says in order to counter biblical misinterpretations that are used to justify present-day military violence.
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over a decade ago, Jorge Castaneda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed, which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American left's fate at the end of the Cold War. Since then, the left across Latin America has travelled in paths no one could have predicted. Latin American nations from Mexico to Argentina wavered for years between leftism and American-supported neoliberalism, but in recent years the left has experienced a tremendous...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
xviii, 279 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--'godless, ' 'full of abominations, ' 'a book forged in hell ... by the devil himself.' Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 230 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The "Irish economic miracle" was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until the 1980s Ireland was by the standards of the developed world so economically backward that the only way was up. And as it began to catch up to European and American averages, the boom lured in investors, the Irish government deregulated and all but abandoned financial oversight, and a great Irish financial ceilidh began....
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan's principal adviser on Soviet and European affairs, and later as the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R., Matlock lived history: He was the point person for Reagan's evolving policy of conciliation toward the Soviet Union. Working from his own papers, recent interviews with major figures, and archival sources...
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