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The Arcades Project»rank: 15972par: Walter Benjamin
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the ... |
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Black Skin, White Masks»rank: 10079par: Frantz Fanon
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the ... |
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Penguin Classics Storm Of Steel»rank: 17902par: Ernst Junger
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the ... |
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Marine Sniper»rank: 41372par: Charles Henderson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the ... |
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The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885»rank: 43528par: Pierre Berton
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:His books are so omnipresent and wide-ranging that one would be forgiven for thinking that the prolific Pierre Berton was the sole chronicler of Canada's history. Berton found his ideal subject in one of the greatest dramas of the developing nation: the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. lt took him two books, The National Dream and The Last Spike, to tell a tale full of the sorts of ruthless tycoons, nail-biting adventures, and human tragedies on which Berton's matchless storytelling skills thrive. Amazon.ca:The Last Spike, ... |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom»rank: 18571par: Conrad Black
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:His books are so omnipresent and wide-ranging that one would be forgiven for thinking that the prolific Pierre Berton was the sole chronicler of Canada's history. Berton found his ideal subject in one of the greatest dramas of the developing nation: the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. lt took him two books, The National Dream and The Last Spike, to tell a tale full of the sorts of ruthless tycoons, nail-biting adventures, and human tragedies on which Berton's matchless storytelling skills thrive. Amazon.ca:The Last Spike, ... |
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House Of Rothschild Moneys Prophets 1798 To 1848»rank: 7102par: Niall Ferguson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Founded in the late 18th century by expatriate German Jews, the London-based House of Rothschild was within decades the largest banking enterprise in the world. lts principals controlled a vast portion of the industrial world's wealth--more so, 0xford historian Niall Ferguson writes, than any family has since--and as a result enjoyed tremendous political influence in the major capitals of Europe, counting as allies such important figures as Metternich and Wellington. That influence would provoke countless anti-Semitic tracts fulminating against Jewish usury and against the power of 'Eastern ... |
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Common Sense»rank: 10697par: Thomas Paine
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'These are the times that try men's souls,' begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified ... |
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Critique of Pure Reason»rank: 36752par: Immanuel Kant
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'These are the times that try men's souls,' begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified ... |
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Palestine Peace Not Apartheid»rank: 40604par: Jimmy Carter
Chroniques et points de vue: :The crowning achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the Camp David Accords between lsrael and Egypt, and he has continued his public and private diplomacy ever since, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of work for peace, human rights, and international development. He has been a tireless author since then as well, writing bestselling books on his childhood, his faith, and American history and politics, but in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, he has returned to the Middle East and to the question of lsrael's ... |