Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.72
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines e…
Want to Read $ 6.99"Pocas cosas hay más peligrosas que un imperio que persigue su propio interés con la creencia de que le está haciendo un favor a la humanidad."-Eric J. Hobsbawm, Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
"Pocas cosas hay más peligrosas que un imperio que persigue su propio interés con la creencia de que le está haciendo un favor a la humanidad."-Eric J. Hobsbawm, Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
"En términos morales, los imperios siempre se han justificado a sí mismos, y en ocaciones no sin una cierta sinceridad, tanto cuando afirmaban que llevaban (su versión de) civilización o la religión a unos pueblos sumidos en la ignorancia, como cuando decían llevar (su versión de) la libertad a los oprimidos (por otro imperio) o, en la actualidad, cuando se presentan como los campeones de los derechos humanos."-Eric J. Hobsbawm, Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
"En términos morales, los imperios siempre se han justificado a sí mismos, y en ocaciones no sin una cierta sinceridad, tanto cuando afirmaban que llevaban (su versión de) civilización o la religión a unos pueblos sumidos en la ignorancia, como cuando decían llevar (su versión de) la libertad a los oprimidos (por otro imperio) o, en la actualidad, cuando se presentan como los campeones de los derechos humanos."-Eric J. Hobsbawm, Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
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1. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
2. La tregua
By: Mario Benedetti
4.18
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
De las varias y buenas novelas de Mario Benedetti, LA TREGUA es la que ha alcanzado mayor favor del… read more
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"Me aburrí de mí mismo, de mi propia paciencia."-Mario Benedetti, La tregua
"أنا وحدي مثل بطل ولكن دون أي مبرر للاحساس بالشجاعة"-Mario Benedetti, La tregua
"أشعر أحيانا بالتعاسة لمجرد أني لا أعرف ما هو الشيء الذي أحن إليه."-Mario Benedetti, La tregua
"¿Por qué las palmas de mi mano tienen una memoria más fiel que mi memoria?"-Mario Benedetti, La tregua
3. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.28
Format: 627 pages, Paperback
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- world history
"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
4. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- politics
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- sociology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
5. The Wall
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
4.17
Format: None pages,
'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night pr… read more
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6. Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction
By: Charles Townshend
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terroris… read more
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- terrorism
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7. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
By: None , Bela Shayevich
4.29
Format: 192 pages,
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English… read more
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- politics
- history
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9. Electra
By: Sophocles , J. Michael Walton , None
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Drama Classic edition of Sophocles' version of the Electra myth. read more
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10. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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- world history
11. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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12. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more
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13. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more
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- politics
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- world history
14. A History of My Times
By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , George Cawkwell
3.72
Format: 395 pages,
Thucydides' magisterial history told of the unhappy conflict of Greeks against the Greeks in the Pe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. The Yellow Dog (Maigret #6)
By: Georges Simenon , Linda Asher
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town sus… read more
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16. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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17. From the Earth to the Moon
By: Jules Verne
3.76
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Een in de 19e eeuw geschreven verhaal over een reis naar de maan, waaruit blijkt dat de schrijver i… read more
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"Time has no business to keep a whole country in suspense."-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
"No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo."-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
"It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure"-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
"In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war."-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
18. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more
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19. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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20. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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21. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- history
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
22. Hatred of Democracy
By: Jacques Rancière , None
3.19
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jacques Ranciere was a student of Althusser before he famously turned against his mentor; now, he's… read more
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23. Almost Transparent Blue
By: Ryū Murakami , Nancy Andrew
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American… read more
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24. The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
By: Aeschylus
3.73
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
Third play of a trilogy (the other two are lost) about the doomed family of Laius and Oedipus and h… read more
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"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best."-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
"Obedience is mother to success and is wedded to safety."-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
"But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor."-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
"Commander against commander, brother against brother, enemy against enemy, I will take my stand. Quick, bring my greaves to protect against spears and stones!"-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
25. Le Malade imaginaire
By: Molière
3.63
Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more
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"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire
"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire
26. Chess Story
By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more
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27. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
28. Bloodbath Nation
By: Paul Auster
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate and astonishing rumination on gun violence in America from one of our greatest living w… read more
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29. Cuentos de navidad
By: Charles Dickens
3.80
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Junto a la célebre Canción de Navidad, este volumen reúne otros tres cuentos de Charles Dickens (18… read more
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"Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
"A la hermosa vida de un plácido crepúsculo otoñal, a la vida tranquila una habitación silenciosa, con un enorme ventanal abierto; más allá, una terraza donde se movían las hojas y las flores perfumab…"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
"She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed — as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about …"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
"The Grocers'! oh the Grocers'! nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sou…"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
30. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
By: Ibn Khaldun
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Written by the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history.… read more
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"اعلم أن الدنيا كلها و أحوالها (عند الشارع) مطية للآخرة، و من فقد المطية فقد الوصول."-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
"قال المولي مخاطباً بني إسرائيل علي لسان موسى {يَا قَوْمِ ادْخُلُوا الأَرْضَ المُقَدَّسَةَ} فكان جوابهم {إِنَّ فِيهَا قَوْمًا جَبَّارِينَ وَإِنَّا لَن نَّدْخُلَهَا حَتَّىَ يَخْرُجُواْ مِنْهَا فَإِن يَخْرُجُواْ مِنْهَا} وقالوا له {فَاذْهَبْ أَنتَ وَرَبُّكَ فَقَاتِلا} = فعاقبهم …"-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
"من كان مرباه بالعسف والقهر من المتعلمين أو المماليك أو الخدم سطا به القهر، وضيّق على النفس فى انبساطها، وذهب بنشاطها، ودعاه إلى الكسل، وحُمِلَ على الكذب والخبث وهو التظاهر بغير ما فى ضميره خوفـًا من انبسا…"-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
"الفصل الثالث و العشرون : في أنالمغلوب مولع ابدا بالاقتداء بالغالب في شعاره, و زيه,و نحلته, و سائر أحواله و عوائده: و السبب في ذلك: أن النفس أبدا تعتقد الكمال في من غلبها و انقادت إليه. إما لنظره بالك…"-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
31. Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.72
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines e… read more
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"Pocas cosas hay más peligrosas que un imperio que persigue su propio interés con la creencia de que le está haciendo un favor a la humanidad."-Eric J. Hobsbawm, Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
"En términos morales, los imperios siempre se han justificado a sí mismos, y en ocaciones no sin una cierta sinceridad, tanto cuando afirmaban que llevaban (su versión de) civilización o la religión a…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
"Francamente, não consigo entender como o que ocorreu a partir do Onze de Setembro nos Estados Unidos pôde permitir a um grupo de alucinados políticos pôr em execução planos há muito acalentados de um…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
