Author: Domenico Losurdo
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Available for the first time in English, this book examines and reinterprets class struggle within Marx and Engels thought. As Losurdo argues, class struggle is often misunderstood as exclusively the struggle of the poor against the rich, of the humble against the powerful. It is an interpretation that is dear to populism, one that supposes a binary logic that closes its eyes to complexity and inclines towards the celebration of poverty as a place of moral excellence. This book, however, shows the theory of class struggle is a general theory of social conflict. Each time, the most adverse social conflicts are intertwined in different ways. A historical situation always emerges with specific and unique characteristics that necessitate serious examination, free of schematic and biased analysis. Only if it breaks away from populism can Marxism develop the ability to interpret and change the world.
Author: Richard Sakwa
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div id=iframeContent dir=autoRussia is back as a major force in global politics, but what does this mean? Is Russia the dangerous revisionist foe that meddles in Western elections and tries to subvert the liberal international order? Or is it a country precariously trying to maintain security and enhance prosperity at home, while re-asserting its place as a great power in the world today? In this book, renowned Russia scholar Richard Sakwa explores current debates on Russia, placing them in historical context and outlining the fundamental challenges currently facing the country. Post-communist Russia had to grapple with a unique set of problems, including reconstituting the political system, rebuilding the economy, re-imagining the nation, and rethinking Russias place in the world. The solutions are still being sought, but this hard-hitting study argues that the failure to create an international system in which Russias transformation became part of a revised world order has made the search far more difficult than it may otherwise have been. Although Russia is one of the oldest states in Europe, in its contemporary guise it is one of the youngest. Russia has had many pasts and, given its size, centrality and complexity, it will also have many futures.ReviewAn original and deeply knowledgeable take on Russia today from the UKs leading expert on Russian politics. -Edwin Bacon, University of LincolnIn this important and engaging book, Sakwa lays low all-too-prevalent simplistic beliefs about Russia and its goals under Putin. Presenting a complex, developed society and a state struggling to create a Russian version of modernity, Russias Futures provocatively calls for rethinking Europe, the global order, and Russias possible place therein. -Henry Hale, The George Washington UniversityAbout the Author Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Author: P. M. Kurpershoek
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Voices from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of P. Marcel Kurpershoek s Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. The first volume appeared in 1994.In the Preface the author looks back on his almost twenty years of involvement with Arabian oral culture. He also discusses some of the striking features of the traditions collected in these volumes, and their significance within the broader political, social, and cultural context of the tribal system stretching from Yemen to the Anatolian highlands.An Introduction is followed by a consolidated Glossary, comprising all data accumulated and integrated from the glossaries of the previous four volumes. This elaborate glossary not only refers to the transcribed original texts in Volumes 1-4, but it has also been extended with many examples originating from corresponding Classical Arabic vocabulary, and additional Western sources.Also included are the three indispensable indices to the complete Corpus the Index of Subjects, the Index of Tribal Names and the Index of Proper Names. A List of Recordings completes this volume. The original recordings of the poets and transmitters, in the order of the published text with a description of the tracks contents, can be downloaded as MP3 files from Brill web site at www.brill.nlkurpershoek
Author: Joli Ballew
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A Must-Have Resource for Power Users!Take control of Windows XP and get the most out of everything this powerful operating system has to offer. Written by Microsoft Windows XP Expert Zone columnist Joli Ballew, this book shows you hundreds of tips and tricks youll be able to use right away. Learn to do everything from kick starting the boot process to disabling unnecessary applications and services to taking advantage of built-in administrative tools. Start at the beginning or jump straight to the task you want to perform. Youll get full details on security and Service Pack 2, remote access, gaming functions, networking features, multimedia capabilities, and so much more. Work faster, smarter, and more securely with help from this definitive guide.Accelerate the boot process and tweak the user interface Manipulate Windows XP applications and services Customize Outlook Express and Internet Explorer Take advantage of Remote Assistance, Remote Desktop, and NetMeeting Ensure system security by using Service Pack 2 Improve gaming performance by increasing RAM, upgrading video and sound cards, and more Organize your digital photos and enjoy multimedia with Windows Media Player 10 and Windows Movie Maker 2 Set up and maintain a wired or wireless network Maximize system performance--without purchasing or installing anything Get the most out of built-in utilities and administrative tools Joli Ballew is a Microsoft Windows XP Expert Zone columnist and the best-selling author of more than a dozen books on Windows XP and other computer-related topics.
Author: Tim Bayne
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This collection of essays focuses on the interface between delusions and self-deception. As pathologies of belief, delusions and self-deception raise many of the same challenges for those seeking to understand them. Are delusions and self-deception entirely distinct phenomena, or might some forms of self-deception also qualify as delusional? To what extent might models of self-deception and delusion share common factors? In what ways do affect and motivation enter into normal belief-formation, and how might they be implicated in self-deception and delusion? The essays in this volume tackle these questions from both empirical and conceptual perspectives. Some contributors focus on the general question of how to locate self-deception and delusion within our taxonomy of psychological states. Some contributors ask whether particular delusions - such as the Capgras delusion or anosognosia for hemiplegia - might be explained by appeal to motivational and affective factors. And some contributors provide general models of motivated reasoning, against which theories of pathological belief-formation might be measured.The volume will be of interest to cognitive scientists, clinicians, and philosophers interested in the nature of belief and the disturbances to which it is subject. **
Author: Jesús Navarro
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Nowadays philosophy is characterized by such heterogeneous intellectual practices that its very unity and coherence seem endangered. What is especially disconcerting is that most authors manage to largely ignore the very existence of methodological positions radically different from their own. Fortunately, there have been exceptions, and the present volume focuses on one of them the failed debate that took place between John Searle and Jacques Derrida. This book thoroughly analyses that exchange, contextualizing it within the respective philosophical traditions of the two thinkers, with the general aim of turning their dispute into what it was not a respectful, sensible and fruitful controversy. This episode is thus taken as an opportunity to reflect on the peculiar nature of philosophy as an intellectual practice, and to discuss some of its main themes language as an instrument for communication, the intentionality of consciousness, and difference as a constitutive element of every text. **
Author: Linda McJannet
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The Sultan Speaks is the first study of English historical plays about the Turks in relation to their sources and analogues, including histories originating in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish. Drawing on Bakhtins concept of the dialogic and on narrative theory, McJannet traces the transmission of these eastern sources and analyzes Richard Knolless citation of the Turks own chronicles, the historiographic equivalent of letting the sultan speak. She demonstrates that while the historians increasingly contain the sultans words with adverse authorial commentary, playwrights such as Marlowe and Fulke Greville use both dialogue and commentary to enhance the sultans stature and to mitigate his negative acts. **
Author: Jessie Morgan-Owens
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The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williamsa slave girl who looked whitewhose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement.When a decades-long court battle resulted in her familys freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Famous abolitionists Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry David Thoreau, and John Albion Andrew would help Mary and her family in freedom, but Senator Charles Sumner saw a monumental political opportunity. Due to generations of sexual violence, Marys skin was so light that she passed as white, and this fact would make her the key to his white audiences sympathy. During his sold-out abolitionist lecture series, Sumner paraded Mary in front of rapt audiences as evidence that slavery was not bounded by race.Weaving together long-overlooked primary sources and arresting images, including the daguerreotype that turned Mary into the poster child of a movement, Jessie Morgan-Owens investigates tangled generations of sexual enslavement and the fraught politics that led Mary to Sumner. She follows Marys story through the lives of her determined mother and grandmother to her own adulthood, parallel to the story of the antislavery movement and the eventual signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.Girl in Black and White restores Mary to her rightful place in history and uncovers a dramatic narrative of travels along the Underground Railroad, relationships tested by oppression, and the struggles of life after emancipation. The result is an expose of the thorny racial politics of the abolitionist movement and the pervasive colorism that dictated where white sympathy layone that sheds light on a shameful legacy that still affects us profoundly today.**ReviewCaptivating... A powerful salute to the memory of Mary Williams, antebellum Americas demure symbol of human freedom. Highly recommended. - Library Journal (starred review) Morgan-Owens has located a fascinating story and tells it with verve, adding a new dimension to the much-studied struggle against slavery in America. - Publishers Weekly A valuable contribution to abolitionist history. - Kirkus Reviews In a tour de force of historical recovery, Girl in Black and White combines a compelling, meticulously researched biography of the slave child abolitionists adored (and exploited) with a fascinating history of photography and visual culture. At the same time, Morgan-Owenss careful inquiry into the complexities of so-called white slavery provides a disturbing look at the limits of social sympathy that relies on similarity. This beautifully written book challenges sentimental notions of national progress and offers new ways to patch together the true story of Americas racial past. - Carla Kaplan, author of *Miss Anne in Harlem The White Women of the Black Renaissance* Girl in Black and White tells a mesmerizing story made vivid by the authors keen eye for detail. This is a riveting story of an individuals life, an important biography of an era, and a phenomenal contribution to discussions about the meaning of race in America. - Emily Bernard, author of Black Is the Body and editor of *Remember Me to Harlem*About the Author Jessie Morgan-Owens is the dean of studies at Bard Early College in New Orleans, Louisiana. A photographer with the team Morgan & Owens, she received her doctorate from New York University and lives in New Orleans with her family.