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Читать книгу 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Автор:
Chang Ha-Joon
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
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58

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From Publishers Weekly Chang (Bad Samaritans) takes on the 'free-market ideologues,' the stentorian voices in economic thought and, in his analysis, the engineers of the recent financial catastrophe. Free market orthodoxy has inserted its tenterhooks into almost every economy in the world–over the past three decades, most countries have privatized state-owned industrial and financial firms, deregulated finance and industry, liberalized international trade and investments, and reduced income taxes and welfare payments. But these policies have unleashed bubbles and ever increasing income disparity. How can we dig ourselves out? By examining the many myths in the narrative of free-market liberalism, crucially that the name is itself a misnomer: there is nothing 'free' about a market...
Читать книгу A Cynic Look at Life
A Cynic Look at Life
Автор:
Bierce Ambrose
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-01
Язык книги:
English
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11

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Читать книгу A History of the End of the World
A History of the End of the World
Автор:
Kirsch Jonathan
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-10-31
Язык книги:
English
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98

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“[The Book of] Revelation has served as a “language arsenal” in a great many of the social, cultural, and political conflicts in Western history. Again and again, Revelation has stirred some dangerous men and women to act out their own private apocalypses. Above all, the moral calculus of Revelation—the demonization of one’s enemies, the sanctification of revenge taking, and the notion that history must end in catastrophe—can be detected in some of the worst atrocities and excesses of every age, including our own. For all of these reasons, the rest of us ignore the book of Revelation only at our impoverishment and, more to the point, at our own peril.” The mysterious author of the Book of Revelation (or the Apocalypse, as the last book of the New Testament...
Читать книгу After America
After America
Автор:
Steyn Mark
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-10-31
Язык книги:
English
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119

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Optimistic About America’s Future? Don’t Be. In his giant New York Times bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction. It’s not just our looming financial collapse; it’s not just a culture that seems on a fast track to perdition, full of hapless, indulgent, childish people who think government has the answer for every problem; it’s not just America’s potential eclipse as a world power because of the drunken sailor policymaking in Washington—no, it’s all this and more that spells one word for America: Armageddon. What will a world without American leadership look like? It won’t be...
Читать книгу Aftermath
Aftermath
Автор:
Rosen Nir
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-26
Язык книги:
English
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183

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Nir Rosen’s Aftermath, an extraordinary feat of reporting, follows the contagious spread of radicalism and sectarian violence that the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing civil war have unleashed in the Muslim world. Rosen—who the Weekly Standard once bitterly complained has “great access to the Baathists and jihadists who make up the Iraqi insurgency”— has spent nearly a decade among warriors and militants who have been challenging American power in the Muslim world. In Aftermath, he tells their story, showing the other side of the U.S. war on terror, traveling from the battle-scarred streets of Baghdad to the alleys, villages, refugee camps, mosques, and killing grounds of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and finally Afghanistan, where Rosen has a terrifying encounter with...
Читать книгу Asexuality: A Brief Introduction
Asexuality: A Brief Introduction
Автор:
AsexualityArchive
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-09-28
Язык книги:
English
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27

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Sometimes called “A Fourth Orientation”, asexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by a persistent lack of sexual attraction toward any gender. This book explores love, sex, and life, from the asexual point of view. This book is for anyone, regardless of orientation. Whether you’re asexual, think you might be, know someone who is, or just want to learn more about what asexuality is (and isn’t), there’s something inside for you. This is one of the first books exclusively dedicated to the subject of asexuality as a sexual orientation. Written by an asexual, it discusses the topic from the...
Читать книгу Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Автор:
Chang Ha-Joon
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
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78

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Читать книгу Bad Science
Bad Science
Автор:
Goldacre Ben
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-27
Язык книги:
English
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70

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Читать книгу Bobby Fischer Goes to War
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
Автор:
Edmonds David
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3
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2013-12-01
Язык книги:
English
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82

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In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men—the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer—met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film. Thirty years later, David Edmonds and John Eidinow, authors of the national bestseller Wittgenstein’s Poker, have set out to reexamine the story we recollect as the quintessential cold war clash between a lone American star and the Soviet chess machine—a machine that had delivered the world title to the Kremlin for...
Читать книгу Camp America
Camp America
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3
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2013-11-27
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English
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54

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Каждое лето Америка переживает иностранное вторжение. Тысячи людей — в основном, участники международных студенческих программ — приезжают в страну на работу. На несколько месяцев супермаркеты, парки развлечений, детские лагеря, стройки и рестораны пополняют свой штат иностранными студентами. В США сегодня так много работы, что с ней не справляется ни местное население, ни иммигранты. Поэтому американские предприниматели,...
Читать книгу Collected Essays
Collected Essays
Автор:
Huxley Aldous
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-05
Язык книги:
English
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108

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All over the English-speaking world critics have greeted these essays with such comments as “brilliant… provocative… magnificent.” Many find that Huxley is the finest essayist since Montaigne. It has been said that “Mr. Huxley is not only a literary giant, but one of the greatest thinkers of our time.” Mr. Huxley’s topic is man, the total compass of his faculties in science, literature, music, religion, art, love, sex, speculative thinking and simple being. Here, displayed to the full, is the astonishing virtuosity of Huxley’s genius. The range of Aldous Huxley’s thinking was astonishing. His opinions on art were as original and well-founded as his discussions of biology or architecture, poetry, music, or history. As a virtuoso of letters, he was...
Читать книгу Conservatives Without Conscience
Conservatives Without Conscience
Автор:
Dean John
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-16
Язык книги:
English
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73

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Читать книгу Distrust That Particular Flavor
Distrust That Particular Flavor
Автор:
Gibson William
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3
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2013-11-28
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English
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33

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William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, to his more recent contemporary bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. During those nearly thirty years, though, Gibson has been sought out by widely varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture. Wired magazine sent him to Singapore to report on one of the world's most buttoned-up states. The New York Times Magazine asked him to describe what was wrong with the Internet. Rolling Stone published his essay on the ways our lives are all 'soundtracked' by the music and the culture around us. And in a speech at the 2010 Book Expo, he memorably described the interactive relationship between writer and reader. These essays and...
Читать книгу Drift
Drift
Автор:
Maddow Rachel
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-25
Язык книги:
English
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52

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“One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Found­ers could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of “privateers”; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rust­ing nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow’s Drift argues that we’ve drifted away from America’s original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we’ve arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to...
Читать книгу Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully — in Ten Minutes
Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully — in Ten Minutes
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-27
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English
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2

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Good writing isn't an easy task for all of us, even for… get ready for it, Stephen King! This article he wrote in 1988 describes how he learned to write and started his career. Enjoy his 12 tips that will teach you to write like a King in ten...
Читать книгу Fire
Fire
Автор:
Junger Sebastian
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-10-31
Язык книги:
English
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47

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A riveting collection of literary journalism by the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, capped off brilliantly by a new Afterword and a timely essay about war-torn Afghanistan—a superb eyewitness report about the Taliban’s defeat in Kabul—new to book form. Sebastian Junger has made a specialty of bringing to life the drama of nature and human nature. Few writers have been to so many disparate and desperate corners of the globe. Fewer still have met the standard of great journalism more consistently. None has provided more starkly memorable evocations of extreme events. From the murderous mechanics of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone, to an inferno forest fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho, to the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this collection of...
Читать книгу Free Software, Free Society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman. 2nd edition.
Free Software, Free Society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman. 2nd edition.
Автор:
Stallman Richard
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3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
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82

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The intersection of ethics, law, business and computer software is the subject of these essays and speeches by MacArthur Foundation Grant winner, Richard M. Stallman. This collection includes historical writings such as The GNU Manifesto, which defined and launched the activist Free Software Movement, along with new writings on hot topics in copyright, patent law, and the controversial issue of “trusted computing.” Stallman takes a critical look at common abuses of copyright law and patents when applied to computer software programs, and how these abuses damage our entire society and remove our existing freedoms. He also discusses the social aspects of software and how free software can create community and social justice. Given the current turmoil in copyright and patent laws,...
Читать книгу Future Shock
Future Shock
Автор:
Toffler Alvin
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-05
Язык книги:
English
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92

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This book was first published in 1970 and was a call to take heed of the looming 'Future Shock' or backlash of humanities biggest, unresolved dilemmas such as: the widening disparity between rich and poor, ie, the wealth of the world being monopolized by smaller and smaller percentage of the world human population, while the growing number of poor or outright poverty stricken are growing by leaps and bounds; burgeoning human population pressures with it's ever-increasing demands on limited resources; pollution of the food chains; technology with it's blessings and baggage of intrusive, dehumanizing side-effects; world health crisis, etc. While humanity is currently preferring to live in a state of denial about the impending backlash of the mostly human-caused problems facing our...
Читать книгу God Is Not Great
God Is Not Great
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3
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2013-11-16
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English
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61

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In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double...
Читать книгу Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Автор:
Graham Paul
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-05
Язык книги:
English
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47

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'The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. ' –from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care? Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970....
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