On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback)

On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback / softback)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback)

#1 New York Times Bestseller - A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism.The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not

Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able

The Road to Unfreedom (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. 'A brilliant analysis of our time.'--Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed

Thinking the Twentieth Century (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback / softback)

Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform (Cooper Jonathon A.)(Pevná vazba)

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first understand its historical origins in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Such a historical grounding is further employed to consider where policing is heading now in

Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism (Ghodsee Kristen)(Paperback)

In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader (Brayshaw Teresa)(Paperback)

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners

Relational Judaism: Using the Power of Relationships to Transform the Jewish Community (Wolfson Ron)(Paperback)

How to transform the model of twentieth-century Jewish institutions into twenty-first-century relational communities offering meaning and purpose, belonging and blessing.What really matters is that we care about the people we seek to engage. When we genuinely care about people, we will not only

Tyranny Lessons: International Prose, Poetry, Essays, and Performance (Stewart Frank)(Paperback)

The 21st century has seen a resurgence of authoritarian rule that often replicates past totalitarian systems, but is more refined and nuanced in its strategies of repression and exploitation. Entertainment, media, international travel, and prosperity create the appearance of flourishing individual

Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism (Ghodsee Kristen)(Pevná vazba)

In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive

Introducing Major Theologians - From The Apostolic Fathers To The Twentieth Century (Reeves Dr Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept (Clark Timothy)(Paperback)

The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged.Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Harari Yuval Noah)(Paperback / softback)

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. | How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism?

Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century (Bethencourt Francisco)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking history of racismRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the

Viking at School (Strong Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Sigurd, the Viking from the tenth century, is still stuck in the twentieth century. He lives with his friends the Ellis family in a seaside hotel and constantly causes chaos. When Tim and Zoe Ellis take him to school with them, a series of seriously funny disasters

Jesus the Magician (Smith Morton)(Paperback)

A twentieth-century classic, uncannily smart, incredibly learned.--from the foreword by Bart EhrmanThis book challenges traditional Christian teaching about Jesus. While his followers may have seen him as a man from heaven, preaching the good news and working miracles, Smith asserts that the truth

Contemporary Painting (Hudson Suzanne)(Paperback)

The twentieth century brought radical changes in art--including the shift from modernism to postmodernism--which were accompanied by fierce debates regarding the place of painting in contemporary culture. Contemporary Painting argues that the medium has not only persisted in the twenty-first

Road to Unfreedom - Russia, Europe, America (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback / softback)

The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia. | Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and falsities. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already

Ethics (Bonhoeffer Dietrich)(Paperback)

From one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, Ethics is the seminal reinterpretation of the role of Christianity in the modern, secularized world. The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. Hence,

Meditations (Krishnamurti J.)(Paperback)

A classic collection of excerpts from one of the great spiritual leaders of the twentieth century--now in the newly designed Shambhala Pocket Library series. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) went from his origins in a small south Indian village to become one of the great spiritual teachers of the twentieth

The Japanese Empire (Paine S. C. M.)(Paperback)

The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland

The Twentieth Century Performance Reader (Brayshaw Teresa)(Paperback)

The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years. Extracts from over fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and live art form an essential sourcebook for students,

Penguin History of Modern Russia - From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition (Service Robert)(Paperback / softback)