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Chapters 51-54
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Chapters 51-54

From: 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 … 46 $4.60 Add
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Chapters 6-10
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Chapters 6-10

From: 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 … 29 $2.90 Add
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Class of '88

Class of ’88

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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 … 9 $0.90 Add
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Conclusion

Conclusion

From: Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa

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 … 10 $1.00 Add
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Conclusion

Conclusion

From: Washington's Long War on Syria

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 … 30 $3.00 Add
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Conclusion

Conclusion

From: The Einstein File

Conclusion. 7 $0.70 Add
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Conclusion - Capitalism and Democracy, Not a Love Story
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Conclusion – Capitalism and Democracy, Not a Love Story

From: Myths of Modern History

The author explores the fraught relationship between capitalism and democracy. 30 $3.00 Add
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Congo Free State and Its Formation
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Congo Free State and Its Formation

1874–1908

From: Postcards from Congo

This chapter explores the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium from 1874 to 1908. 10 $1.00 Add
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Contemporary Canada and the Rise of Fascism

Contemporary Canada and the Rise of Fascism

From: 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 … 55 $5.50 Add
Decolonize Hipsters

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 … 148 View
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Democracy's Post-1945 Worldwide Rise and Decline
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Democracy’s Post-1945 Worldwide Rise and Decline

From: 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 … 26 $2.60 Add
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Denouement

Denouement

From: 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 … 41 $4.10 Add
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Disclosure

Disclosure

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this chapter, Birch explores the many meaning of "disclosure" among gay men. 8 $0.80 Add
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Discovering America

Discovering America

From: 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 … 49 $4.90 Add
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Diversion

Diversion

From: Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East

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 … 10 $1.00 Add