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1) Lord Jim
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Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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Tyler Cowen is professor of economics at George Mason University. His books include Creative Destruction (Princeton) and Create Your Own Economy. He frequently writes for the New York Times, Slate, and the economics blog Marginal Revolution.
Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the...
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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession-but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA-whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account...
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve...
The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve...
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"Based on a four-year research project, which included five months in Havana, this book documents the approaches to culture that evolved out of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Deploying micro and macro perspectives, it introduces all the main protagonists to the debate and follows the polemical twists and turns that ensued in the volatile atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s. The picture that emerges is of a struggle for cultural dominance between Soviet-derived...
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In Western Civilization, the arts embody the eternal battle between good and evil, and through understanding the arts, we can address the political issues that plague us. Far from being museum pieces, simple recreation, or tales and artifacts from the past, the arts should be seen at the wellspring of our politics, and in particular in public policy debates. They are actually the reason we have public and foreign policy in the first place. In an age...
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In her new book, The Truth About Obamacare, Sally C. Pipes-president of the Pacific Research Institute and an acknowledged expert on health care reform-reveals what Democrats in Congress and President Obama don't want you to know: Obamacare is even worse than most critics suspect. Debunking the myths that the current administration has touted, Pipes shows exactly what the new health care law will mean for you, your family, your doctor, and your wallet....
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Ahora más que nunca es necesario tanto plantear las preguntas adecuadas como evitar posibles respuestas basadas en ideas preconcebidas. Y ese es precisamente el objetivo de este libro, que intenta averiguar cuáles y cómo han sido los consensos básicos entre los españoles, cómo se han desarrollado los gobiernos que han guiado el país, de qué manera se han gestionado las crisis que se han sufrido o qué estrategias se han desplegado para cooperar...
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The rise of the Internet has challenged traditional concepts of jurisdiction, governance, and sovereignty. Many observers have praised the Internet for its ubiquitous and "borderless" nature and argued that this global medium is revolutionizing the nature of modern communications. Indeed, in the universe of cyberspace there are no passports and geography is often treated as a meaningless concept. But does that mean traditional concepts of jurisdiction...
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Food nourishes the body, but our relationship with food extends far beyond our need for survival. Food choices not only express our personal tastes but also communicate a range of beliefs, values, affiliations and aspirations-sometimes to the exclusion of others. In the media sphere, the enormous amount of food-related advice provided by government agencies, advocacy groups, diet books, and so on compete with efforts on the part of the food industry...
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Weltweit zählt die Freimaurerbewegung sechs Millionen Mitglieder. In jüngster Zeit sind sie aufgrund populistischer Romane als Weltverschwörer wieder in aller Munde. Und doch kaum jemand weiß, woher sie stammen, wer sie sind, und was sie wirklich tun. Tom Goeller, selbst Freimaurer, befasst sich nicht nur mit den Ursprüngen der philosophischen Vereinigung, die sich teils begründet, teils spekulativ auf die mittelalterlichen Bauhütten zurückführen...
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An astonishing graphic novel that brings Chomsky's political analysis to bear on real people's stories on the frontlines of America's struggle for economic justice and human dignity. The Instinct for Cooperation innovatively balances those real-life stories of struggle with conversations the author has had with Chomsky on how best to understand them. Although the themes are wide-ranging, this book is ultimately about the importance and need for spaces...
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En Política cultural y desacuerdo, Alexandre Barbalho propone salir del terreno conocido, e incluso autocomplaciente, para experimentar la cultura como desacuerdo. La incomodidad que genera la propuesta es acorde al tamaño del desafío que debemos enfrentar en la actualidad: construir nuevas maneras de vincularnos y estar juntos/as pospandemia Covid-19. Es cierto que la cuestión relativa a la necesidad de "sacudir" el campo cultural es anterior...
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"The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself, was obsessed with art--in particular, the aesthetic of a purified regime, scoured of 'degenerate' influences that characterized Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. When they came to power in 1933, Hitler and Goebbels set their aesthetic vision into motion and removed degenerate art from German life: artists fled the country; museums were purged;...
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Corren tiempos de un implacable avance de nuevos fascismos y el odio, entendido no como una pasión homogénea, sino como un condensador de afectos diversos, cumple una función clave en su desarrollo cotidiano, en su injerencia en diferentes ámbitos de la vida social. El odio lleva al límite los pactos discursivos, las formas de relación social, los protocolos de la vida civil y las reglas de lo democrático.
Gabriel Giorgi y Ana Kiffer analizan...
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En el campo de la cultura, se dice que los que hacen no reflexionan y los que reflexionan no hacen. Esta disociación entre los responsables de la gestión cultural y los académicos se convierte en un obstáculo para que la cultura funcione no sólo como un espacio de trabajo, sino también de intervención y compromiso social. En esa área cada vez más afianzada, no se pueden elaborar políticas sin saber a quiénes afecta la exclusión social...
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El profesor Antonio Albino Canelas Rubim es un intelectual con una extensa y rica trayectoria académica, un comprometido militante político y cultural, y fundamentalmente un generoso maestro de varias generaciones que nos hemos dedicado al estudio de la comunicación y de las políticas culturales.
Comunicación, cultura y políticas culturales reúne textos de la producción de los últimos veinte años del trabajo de Canelas Rubim en torno a los...
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Este libro ilustra cómo se ha implementado la política pública de los Planes de Salvaguardas en la etnia kággaba. En el Caribe colombiano, los kággaba, al igual que otros pueblos serranos, fueron identificados por la Corte Constitucional de Colombia en alto riesgo de extinción física y cultural a causa del conflicto armado y otras expresiones de violencia. La política pública está destinada a garantizar la atención, protección y salvaguarda...
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Joan Fuster (Sueca, 1922-1992) ejerció la crítica cultural de manera continuada a lo largo de su intensa trayectoria literaria, y en ella desplegó su gran sagacidad y su pensamiento "hipercrítico"—en palabras de J. M. Castellet—para opinar y reflexionar sobre cuestiones relacionadas con la literatura, las artes plásticas, la música, la filosofía, la historia... Este volumen recoge una selección representativa de estos escritos de "estética...
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The backlash against globalization and the rise of cultural anxiety has led to considerable re-thinking among social scientists. This book provides multiple theoretical, historical, and methodological orientations to examine these issues. While addressing the rise of populism worldwide, the volume provides explanations that cover periods of both cultural turbulence and stability. Issues addressed include populism and cultural anxiety, class, religion,...
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