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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  IntroductionFrom: The Einstein File |
Introduction. | Fred Jerome | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! IntroductionFrom: Postcards from Congo |
The Introduction provides an overview of the 150 year history of the modern state of the Democratic Republic of Congo, maps, and etymology. | Edmund Trueman | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Look at That Fucking HipsterChapter 1 From: Decolonize Hipsters |
In Look at That Fucking Hipster, Pierrot provides a history of modern subcultures and where the hipster phenomenon arose from to its peak to its eventual decline post-2016. The chapter explores … | Grégory Pierrot | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Regime Change |
Two forces sought to topple the secular Arab nationalists of Ba’athist Syria, each for its own, and separate reasons. Both forces were equally determined to end the influence of secular … | Stephen Gowans | 31 | 2017 | $3.10 Add |
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From  SirteTouchstone of Imperialism From: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In Chapter Two Sirte: Touchstone of Imperialism, Forte examines how Sirte represented a post-colonial Libya, as the seat of the Al-Fateh Revolution and later the focus of international attention … | Maximilian C. Forte | 68 | 2012 | $6.80 Add |
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From  Sun Yat-sen’s Unfinished Dream |
This chapter begins with the story of Sun Yat-sen, the first president of the Republic of China. The chapter goes on to provide a historical account of the overthrow of the Qing dynasty and the … | Michael Cormier | 20 | 2013 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Surviving My Cousin |
In this essay, the author writes about his childhood relationship with his close cousin Dee, who was also gay, and Dee’s death of AIDS-related penumonia in 1998. He posits that Dee’s … | Bryan M. Holdman | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! The Road to the War Against DemocracyFrom: Myths of Modern History |
This chapter focuses on the First World War and the myth that this was an unexpected war triggered by an "accident;" rather, as the author explores, this war was wanted, expected, … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From  The Will to Intervene |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan discusses efforts by the international community to respond to human rights abuses an atrocities. He provides a history of UN peacekeeping … | Payam Akhavan | 61 | 2017 | $7.32 Add |
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From  Zionism |
Chapter Two focuses on the roots of political Zionism. Since its creation by Theodor Herzl, Zionism has envisaged a return to an imagined glorious past. The distinguishing feature of political … | Stephen Gowans | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapters 16-20From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "Geography and Galileo Destroyed My Piety", "The Radio War of 1967", "Haifa and the Breaker of Shackles", "A Small Black Radio", and … | Jamal Saeed | 33 | 2022 | $3.30 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 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 NEW! Early HistoryPre-1874 From: Postcards from Congo |
This chapter explores the early history of the Congo region before colonization began in 1874. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Fired or DeadFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Three focuses on Willcock’s time working in Swanberg’s cook house, Greasy Erickson, getting “Up the hill”, becoming a “Whistle punk”, the risks of logging, and the Schnarr girl’s … | Kathryn Willcock | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From From the HipChapter 2 From: Decolonize Hipsters |
In From the Hip, Pierrot explores the etymology of the word ‘hip’ and how it has been used over the centuries, before delving deeper into the larger history of white hegemonic culture … | Grégory Pierrot | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
