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Understanding Russia

the challenges of transformation

This timely book provides a balanced and comprehensive overview of the geographical, historical, political, cultural, and geostrategic factors that drive Russia today. Russia has long inspired fear in the West, but as the authors argue, Russia is fearful as well. Three decades after the transformations ...

Beyond duty

the reasons some soldiers commit atrocities

This book examines reasons for the horrific cruelty of members of the Japanese in Nanking, China in 1937; the German Einsatzgruppen in Russia, from 1941-1943; the Russian Army in Dresden, Germany in 1945; the Americans at Nogunri, Korea in 1950; the Americans at My Lai ...

St. George and the Dragon

the making of english identity

St George's Day has become a topic of debate as more and more organizations promote celebrations on 23 April and more people wave the flag of St George to proclaim their allegiance and identity. But who was St George? How did this Near Eastern ...

Straf Battalion

Hitler's Penal Battalions

Hitler's penal battalions were designed to change attitudes of prisoners towards national policy while instilling a sense of duty honour and purpose. These goals were to be achieved through harsh discipline and punishments, indoctrination programs and leave restrictions. Troops surviving their missions were eventually ...

Wars and battles of Ancient Greece

This is the thrilling story of Greece's endless battling and warring in the Mediterranean region. It is a detailed survey of conflict in ancient Greece from the Mycenaean Age to the end of the Peloponnesian War, based on primary sources--mainly Herodotus, Thucydides and other ...

Passions and politics

The dominant model of democratic politics emphasises reason at the expense of the passions. Passions have been treated as dangerous, the opposite of reason and the enemy of virtue. Paul Ginsborg and Sergio Labate challenge this model and put forward a very different view, developing ...

A concise history of Modern Europe

liberty, equality, solidarity

Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the political, economic, and ...

Nihilism and technology

Heidegger, Marcuse, and Ellul warned against the rise of a technological mass culture. Philosophy of technology has since turned away from such dystopic views, promoting instead the view that we shape technologies just as technologies shape us. Yet the rise of Big Data has exceeded ...

Cuban foreign policy

transformation under Raúl Castro

This volume illustrates the sweeping changes in Cuban foreign policy under Raúl Castro. Leading scholars from around the world show how the significant shift in foreign policy direction that started in 1990 after the implosion of the Soviet Union has continued, in many ways taking ...

The politics of the Anthropocene

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities. However ...

The moral psychology forgiveness

The feeling that one can’t get over a moral wrong is challenging even in the best of circumstances. This volume considers challenges to forgiveness in the most difficult circumstances. It explores forgiveness in criminal justice contexts, under oppression, after genocide, when the victim is ...

Exploring the political economy and social philosophy of F.A. Hayek

This volume critically explore and extend Hayek’s Nobel Prize-winning work on knowledge and social interconnectedness from the disciplines of law, economics, philosophy, anthropology, political science, and history. Hayek’s insights about knowledge become even more important once it is recognized that nothing in the ...

Anne of Cleves

Henry VIII's unwanted wife

Anne of Cleves left her homeland in 1539 to marry the king of England. She was not brought up to be a queen, yet out of many possible choices she was the bride Henry VIII chose as his fourth wife. But, from their first meeting ...

All things are nothing to me

the unique philosophy of Max Stirner

Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld reconstructs the unique philosophy of Max Stirner (1806-1856), a figure that strongly influenced-for better or worse-Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche ...

Ludopolitics

videogames against control

If the fantasy of control is the problem, then videogame controllers are the solution. What can videogames tell us about the politics of contemporary technoculture, and how are designers and players responding to its impositions? To what extent do the technical features of videogames index ...

The meaning of Trump

The election of Donald Trump was a shattering moment to the political sensibilities of America; immediately sending the country into a frenzy of commentary, critique, and a never-ending media coverage that has bordered on the absurd. But the question still remains: what does it all ...

Japan story

in search of a Nation, 1850 to the present

It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress. We encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where modernity itself is the ...

La responsabilidad del escritor

El valor de Sartre radica en que su voz fue muchas veces la de una conciencia crítica vivamente sensible a la injusticia y a la opresión, sin concesiones al poder establecido, y en esto consiste su interés para el mundo actual.

De bibliotheca

Este texto de 1981, leído para celebrar los 25 años de la biblioteca pública del Palazzo Sormani de Milán, es a la vez un canto a la libertad de la mente inquisitiva, un irónico lamento por algunos inveterados vicios de las antiguas bibliotecas y bibliotecarios ...

75 Cuentos sufíes

los caminos de la luz

A través de su atmósfera encantada, de la magia de los desiertos y la poesía de oasis y ciudades orientales que se desprende de sus páginas, estos cuentos sufíes transmiten el puro perfume de la espiritualidad del Islam.