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From  NEW! Chapters 1-5From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "Silver Charm and Apple Trees", "Despair Was the Secret of My Courage", "Holy", "From Syria’s Next Great Writer to Dog Food", … | Jamal Saeed | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Editor’s PrefaceFrom: Decolonize Hipsters |
In the Preface, series editor Bhakti Shringarpure explains the series Decolonize That!: Handbooks for the Revolutionary Overthrow of Embedded Colonial Ideas and why hipsters would be the first … | Bhakti Shringarpure | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! ForewordFrom: Postcards from Congo |
Foreword by Dr. Didier Gondola, professor of African History at John Hopkins University. | Edmund Trueman | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From  ForewordsFrom: The Einstein File |
Forewords: "Einstein and McCarthyism – Old and New" by Ajamu Baraka, "Squelching Scientists Then and Now" by David Suzuki | Ajamu Baraka; David Suzuki | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
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From  IntroductionLiberalism and the New Scramble for Africa From: Slouching Towards Sirte |
- | Maximilian C. Forte | 15 | 2012 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Introduction |
In the introduction, Robert Philpot reflects on the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the shooting down of the Rwandan president’s plane which triggered war, destruction, and massacres in … | Robin Philpot | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Introduction |
From 1963 onward, Syrian governments in which Ba’ath Arab Socialist Party members Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar played principal roles, were committed to the Arab nationalist values of … | Stephen Gowans | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Introduction |
- | Stephen Gowans | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From  IntroductionThe Wall Disease From: Walls |
The author introduces the book and the history and concept of wall-building, and how this practice has served humanity and served to cement discord and divisions. | Marcello Di Cintio | 7 | 2013 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Introduction – Democracy Between Revolution and WarFrom: Myths of Modern History |
The author introduces the book, discussing myths and mythologized history and the importance of teaching of teaching history and acknowledging bias. He also explores the history of democracy and … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 31 | 2022 | $3.10 Add |
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From  One Country—Two States |
The introduction, One Country-Two States explains how as a nation, Korea has existed for over a thousand years within clearly delineated and recognized borders; however, Korean have had the great … | Stephen Gowans | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! PrefaceFrom: Up the Coast |
An introduction to the methodology, maps, and the explanation of “up the coast.” | Kathryn Willcock | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Prologue |
The introduction describes an encounter between the author and a man named Xi Xin Zhu, whose home was destroyed as a result of China’s rapid economic development. The author discusses the … | Michael Cormier | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add |
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From  The Knowledge of Suffering |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan begins by recounting his own experiences coming to Canada from Iran as a result of the upheval of the 1970s. He interweaves personal … | Payam Akhavan | 76 | 2017 | $9.12 Add |
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From Anti-Semitism |
Chapter One examines the history of anti-semitism as a tool of the political Right. The chapter explores how the roots of anti-semitism go much farther back than Hitler, but trace their roots … | Stephen Gowans | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Chapters 6-10From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "My Penelope Wove Nothing", "The Berlin Wall, Saddam Hussein, and the Wooden Penis", "Rufaida (1996)", "The Bank of Little Stones (March … | Jamal Saeed | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
