Missing The Revolution

Author : Jerome H. Barkow,Professor of Psychology and Anthropology Jerome H Barkow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195130027

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Missing the Revolution by Jerome H. Barkow,Professor of Psychology and Anthropology Jerome H Barkow Pdf

"The naturalizing perspective of Darwinian thought has become one of the major intellectual currents of our time, pervading contemporary understandings of human nature and society. Unfortunately, many social scientists in sociology, psychology, and sociocultural anthropology have failed to engage with it. Barkow asks his fellow social scientists to put aside their all-too-common preconceptions and stereotypes of the "biological" and to consider a powerful argument that is far different from that of those who once invoked a vocabulary of genes and Darwin as a justification for genocide. He argues that the theoretical perspective that has been so successful when applied to the behavior of every other animal speicies can be applied just as successfully to our own, and that the real debate is about how to apply it."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300195248

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The Men Who Lost America by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy Pdf

Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Author : Robert Evans
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849354639

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After the Revolution by Robert Evans Pdf

What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-seat answer to that question. In the year 2070, twenty years after a civil war and societal collapse of the "old" United States, extremist militias battle in the crumbling Republic of Texas. As the violence spreads like wildfire and threatens the Free City of Austin, three unlikely allies will have to work together in an act of resistance to stop the advance of the forces of the white Christian ethnostate known as the "Heavenly Kingdom." Out three protagonists include Manny, a fixer that shuttles journalists in and out of war zones and provides footage for outside news agencies. Sasha is a teenage woman that joins the Heavenly Kingdom before she discovers the ugly truths behind their movement. Finally, we have Roland: A US Army vet kitted out with cyberware (including blood that heals major trauma wounds and a brain that can handle enough LSD to kill an elephant), tormented by broken memories, and 12,000 career kills under his belt. In the not-so-distant world Evans conjures we find advanced technology, a gender expansive culture, and a roving Burning Man-like city fueled by hedonistic excess. This powerful debut novel from Robert Evans is based on his investigative reporting from international conflict zones and on increasingly polarized domestic struggles. It is a vision of our very possible future.

Author : Brian Hanley,Scott Millar
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141935010

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The Lost Revolution by Brian Hanley,Scott Millar Pdf

The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement, a story told here for the first time - from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and '70s through the Workers' Party's eventual rejection of irredentism. A roll-call of influential personalities in the fields of politics, trade unionism and media - many still operating at the highest levels of Irish public life - passed though the ranks of this secretive movement, which never achieved its objectives but had a lasting influence on the landscape of Irish politics. 'A vibrant, balanced narrative' Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times Books of the Year 'An indispensable handbook' Maurice Hayes, Irish Times 'Hugely impressive' Irish Mail on Sunday 'Excellent' Sunday Business Post

Author : M.Todd Henderson,Salen Churi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108494236

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The Trust Revolution by M.Todd Henderson,Salen Churi Pdf

Traces the history of innovation and trust, demonstrating how the Internet offers new ways to rehabilitate and strengthen trust.

Author : Julia V. Douthwaite
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226160580

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The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France by Julia V. Douthwaite Pdf

The French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution. Douthwaite explores how the works within this corpus announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley.

Author : Igor Cherstich,Martin Holbraad,Nico Tassi
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520343795

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Anthropologies of Revolution by Igor Cherstich,Martin Holbraad,Nico Tassi Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study of revolutions? The first book-length attempt to develop an anthropological approach to revolutions, Anthropologies of Revolution proposes that revolutions should be seen as concerted attempts to radically reconstitute the worlds people inhabit. Viewing revolutions as all-embracing, world-creating projects, the authors ask readers to move beyond the idea of revolutions as acts of violent political rupture, and instead view them as processes of societal transformation that penetrate deeply into the fabric of people’s lives, unfolding and refolding the coordinates of human existence.

Author : Rajesh valse
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781642490695

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Missing Leaders by Rajesh valse Pdf

Missing Leaders is a book for people to awaken and strengthen their leading potential within them. It is about realizing not to regret dreams forgotten or missed. The destiny to avail any presidential post is a dream for desirables in prior fields. But it becomes harder for many to find and fulfil it. Though many sources are available on this particular subject, i.e., leadership, some lacking elements are missed, and they are wonderfully placed in this book. Things unfamiliar and obscured are notified through this book as supplemental lack. Material in this book might help in sharpening someone intensely to become a leader. The experiments done on this basis has helped to effectuate leaders. Age has no bar to possess leadership in various fields. But the examples abstracted from the political field are necessary to make this subject to dare and complete the dream. Nature has given 24 hours without discrimination and by no reason can it be extended. Nobody is special for time but dreamers have to set time to be special.

Author : Katherine Mason
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804798923

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Infectious Change by Katherine Mason Pdf

In February 2003, a Chinese physician crossed the border between mainland China and Hong Kong, spreading Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—a novel flu-like virus—to over a dozen international hotel guests. SARS went on to kill about 800 people and sicken 8,000 worldwide. By July 2003 the disease had disappeared, but it left an indelible change on public health in China. The Chinese public health system, once famous for its grassroots, low-technology approach, was transformed into a globally-oriented, research-based, scientific endeavor. In Infectious Change, Katherine A. Mason investigates local Chinese public health institutions in Southeastern China, examining how the outbreak of SARS re-imagined public health as a professionalized, biomedicalized, and technological machine—one that frequently failed to serve the Chinese people. Mason recounts the rapid transformation as young, highly-trained biomedical scientists flooded into local public health institutions, replacing bureaucratic government inspectors who had dominated the field for decades. Infectious Change grapples with how public health in China was reinvented into a prestigious profession in which global impact and recognition were paramount—and service to vulnerable local communities was secondary.

Author : Miguel A. Faria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89099682577

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Cuba in Revolution by Miguel A. Faria Pdf

Author : Daniel José Older
Publisher : Imprint
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250185822

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The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older Pdf

The Book of Lost Saints is an evocative multigenerational Cuban-American family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds from New York Times-bestselling author Daniel José Older. Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her tenacious spirit visits her nephew, Ramón, in modern-day New Jersey. Her hope: that her presence will prompt him to unearth their painful family history. Ramón launches a haphazard investigation into the story of his ancestor, unaware of the forces driving him on his search. Along the way, he falls in love, faces a run-in with a murderous gangster, and uncovers the lives of the lost saints who helped Marisol during her imprisonment. The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older is a haunting meditation on family, forgiveness, and the violent struggle to be free. An Imprint Book "Spellbinding." —Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf "A lyrical, beautiful, devastating, literally haunting journey." —N.K. Jemisin, award-winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy

Author : Chris Harman
Publisher : International Socialism
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 160846539X

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The Lost Revolution by Chris Harman Pdf

Without understanding the defeat of the German Revolution, the great barbarisms that swept Europe in the 1930s cannot be understood.

Author : Russell Brand
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781101882917

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Revolution by Russell Brand Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER We all know the system isn’t working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there’s nothing we can do: “It’s just the way things are.” In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates the straw men and paper tigers of our conformist times and presents, with the help of experts as diverse as Thomas Piketty and George Orwell, a vision for a fairer, sexier society that’s fun and inclusive. You have been lied to, told there’s no alternative, no choice, and that you don’t deserve any better. Brand destroys this illusory facade as amusingly and deftly as he annihilates Morning Joe anchors, Fox News fascists, and BBC stalwarts. This book makes revolution not only possible but inevitable and fun.

Author : M. Davis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230509382

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Radicalism and Revolution in Britain 1775-1848 by M. Davis Pdf

The spectre of revolution and the nature of radicalism in Britain from the late eighteenth century through to the age of the Chartists has for some time engaged the interest of scholars and been the topic of much debate. This book honours one of the subject's most renowned and respected historians, Professor Malcolm I. Thomis. In a collection distinguished by its formidable range of contributors, a series of stimulating essays explores and re-examines the threats and ideas of revolution and the byzantine networks and character of British radical culture in the turbulent and intriguing years between 1775 and 1848.

Author : Jesse Ventura,Dick Russell
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602397163

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Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! by Jesse Ventura,Dick Russell Pdf

The former governor recounts his gubernatorial years, discussing his decision not to seek a second term, frustration with internal corruption in the two-party system, suspicions about the September 11 attacks, and views on the war in Iraq.