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From  NEW! Chapters 51-54From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "Passports and Visas", "Dubai", "The Upside-Down Coffee Cup of God", and "The World Keeps Turning . . . So Do We". Topics discussed … | Jamal Saeed | 46 | 2022 | $4.60 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 |
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From  Class of ’88 |
This chapter explores the author’s feelings about AIDS as a young man; he believed that if he did not admit he was gay, he would not contract the disease. He also believed that, since the … | Roberto Gonzalez | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Conclusion |
In the Conclusion, Philpot reiterates the need for another look at the war in Rwanda. Between 1990 and 1994 the Anglosphere and Europe effectively wrung all decision-making powers out of the … | Robin Philpot | 10 | 2013 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Conclusion |
The Conclusion reflects on how the values which secular Arab nationalists promoted were antithetical to U.S. capitalist class interests, which were embodied in U.S. imperialist ideology. That … | Stephen Gowans | 30 | 2017 | $3.00 Add |
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From  ConclusionFrom: The Einstein File |
Conclusion. | Fred Jerome | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Conclusion – Capitalism and Democracy, Not a Love StoryFrom: Myths of Modern History |
The author explores the fraught relationship between capitalism and democracy. | Jacques R. Pauwels | 30 | 2022 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Congo Free State and Its Formation1874–1908 From: Postcards from Congo |
This chapter explores the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium from 1874 to 1908. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Contemporary Canada and the Rise of FascismFrom: Canada in the World |
Armoured Neoliberalism – The Ukraine Crisis – Uncreating Hugo Chávez – The Friendly Far Right: Colombia and Brazil – Blood of Extraction – Poisoning the Well … | Tyler A. Shipley | 55 | 2020 | $5.50 Add |
 Decolonize Hipsters |
Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that … | Grégory Pierrot | 148 | 2021 | View |
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From NEW! Democracy’s Post-1945 Worldwide Rise and DeclineFrom: Myths of Modern History |
The author examines the myths concerning the winding, up-and-down road taken by democracy from 1945 to the present. He argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the 1989 fall of the Berlin … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Deng Xiaoping’s Victory |
This chapter begins with an account of Deng Xioping’s tour of southern China in 1992. The chapter goes on to discuss the economic miracle of the 1990’s, engineered by Deng Xiaoping, … | Michael Cormier | 20 | 2013 | $2.00 Add |
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From DenouementFrom: The Einstein File |
This chapter explores the early 1950s, the context of the McCarthy era/McCarthyism and the McCarthy/Hoover anti communist crusade, and Einstein’s life and position during this period. It … | Fred Jerome | 41 | 2018 | $4.10 Add |
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From Disclosure |
In this chapter, Birch explores the many meaning of "disclosure" among gay men. | Robert Birch | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From Discovering AmericaFrom: The Einstein File |
This chapter offers some historical context, discusses some major events in the lives of Einstein and his family, Einstein’s political beliefs and criticisms in both the US and Europe, his … | Fred Jerome | 49 | 2018 | $4.90 Add |
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From  Diversion |
The conclusion Diversion reflects on how at the end of World War II, US officials celebrated the Middle East as a ‘stupendous source of strategic power’ and an immense ‘material … | Stephen Gowans | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
