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If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?

Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:17:54 PST

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This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, which induced a belief in a strongly socialist egal ...

Coup D'Etat

Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:16:39 PST

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:44:34 PST

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From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown-but underlying both is the irrationality of global capitalism.

Push

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:38:48 PST

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An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her ...

American Pastoral

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:36:33 PST

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As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and ...

Language in Society

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:34:26 PST

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Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language or a dialect? Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken, while sociology generally overlooks the role of language in the constitution of society. In this book Suzanne ...

Le poesie

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:32:56 PST

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Questo volume raccoglie tutte le maggiori opere poetiche "italiane" di Amelia Rosselli: le opere giovanili in italiano, inglese e francese di "Primi scritti" (1980, ma risalenti al periodo tra il 1952 e il 1963); il poemetto "La libellula" (1959); le raccolte "Variazioni belliche" (1963), "Serie ospedaliera" (1969) e "Documento" (1976); il poemetto "Impromptu" (1981). Completano il volume alcuni ...

Bibo

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:30:46 PST

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La scomparsa di un Veneto primigenio contadino e la violenza che caratterizza il Veneto contemporaneo, convertito in cupo distretto industriale, nella narrazione di una antropologa, la cui personale vicenda biografica attraversa questo lacerante passaggio e la costringe a fare i conti con le proprie origini, la memoria, la politica e la religione, con le questioni di genere e anche con il mutare ...

Ill Fares the Land

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:29:48 PST

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Il cavaliere inesistente

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:28:04 PST

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Marco e Mattio

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:16:45 PST

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Swing Low

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:15:56 PST

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Miriam Toews has her father tell his story from bed as he waits in a Steinbach hospitalto be transferred to a psychiatric facility in Winnipeg.

A Complicated Kindness

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:15:15 PST

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Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” East Village is a town with no train and no bar whose job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Hap ...

Family Matters

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:12:58 PST

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For Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry puts his own spin on Tolstoy's maxim that "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The result is a thoroughly absorbing tale about matters of family, told with wise, gentle humour. In the early 1990s, Hindu fundamentalists, the Shiv Sena, razed the Babri mosque, a Muslim holy site in the Indian city of Ayodhya. This incide ...

Lonesome Dove

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:11:53 PST

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Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the author, Lonesome Dove is reprinted in an ...

The Bluest Eye

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 7:04:53 PST

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Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examinati ...