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The James Bond epic is the most popular film series in silver screen history. This book chronicles how Bond, a representative of a British Empire, became a symbol of his nation's might in a Cold War world where Britain was no longer a primary actor. It also explores how the movie...s struggle with changing societal ethics.
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Andrei Sinyavsky wrote In Gogol's Shadow in a Soviet labor camp. He challenges the view that Gogol was first and foremost a political writer, revealing a writer more obsessed with language than with politics. This irreverent and incisive analysis of Gogol's life and work is a pat...h-breaking exploration of literary creativity in times of strict censorship and ideological control.
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Explores the rise of department stores and supermarkets of the United States, France, and Great Britain. This book claims that, despite their differences, the two institutions belong together as emblematic of their respective eras' social developments. It is useful for those who ...regard shopping as a spectator or participatory sport.
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In this systematic, fundamental text, Hedley Bull explores three key questions: What is the nature of order in world politics? How is it maintained within the contemporary states system? And do desirable and feasible alternatives to the states system exist? Contrary to common wis...dom, Bull asserts that the sovereign states system is not in decline. Rather, it persists, if not thrives, for it is essential to maintaining an international world order. More than three decades after its publication, Bull's classic work continues to define and direct research in international relations. In this thirty-fifth anniversary edition, the text has been updated throughout and includes a new, interpretive foreword by the world's leading expert on Bull and his theoretical achievements. The Anarchical Society identifies and confronts the unwritten rules supporting the international order across time, despite sweeping changes in laws and institutions. It considers and rejects the idea that the states system is giving way to an alternative world government or some method of neo-medieval rule, or that the states system has ceased to be viable or compatible with objectives such as peace, economic justice, and ecological control. Bull also reviews and comments upon a variety of proposals for states system reform.
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Through almost 800 images, this book tells the story of the city from its origins in the early seventeenth century through the end of the twentieth century. In lithographs, paintings, drawings, and broadsides, it portrays New York as rising from a small Dutch outpost to a republi...can seaport.
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Combines imagery, music, and the spoken language with text and narrative. This book incorporates the perspectives of economics, politics, history, sociology, literature, the visual and performing arts, anthropology, religion, and education. It includes an approach to learning abo...ut China.
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Democracy begins with classical statements on the value of democracy and follows with texts defining the concepts of freedom and autonomy, equality, representation, majority rule, markets, multiculturalism, and citizenship. It also covers feminist, conservative, and elitist criti...ques of democracy and contemporary issues. For this edition, the authors include new sections on the rapidly changing relations among democracy and globalization, the Internet, religion, and violence, providing a valuable introduction to standard articulations of democracy and its current concerns in the modern, interconnected, and conflict-ridden world.
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The thirtieth anniversary of the death of Steve Biko (1946-1977), a South African activist who as murdered while being detained in police custody, came in 2007. Biko's essays called on black Africans to break their chains of servitude and rise up against an oppressive regime. His... writings, later collected in the boo I Write What I Like, became the foundational text for the Black Consciousness Movement that Biko later helped establish.Celebrating the life, legacy, and work of this phenomenally important figure, Celebrating Steve Biko offers both a personal and political tribute to Biko and his contribution to the freedom struggle in South Africa. Essays discuss his intellectual legacy and the inspiration he still provides to those who struggle against oppression. Most important, the anthology considers Biko's memory and precious legacy: the freedom to say, think, and write what we like.The contributors to this volume are friends, followers, fellow activists, and scholars, including Achille Mbembe and Thabo Mbeki. Biko's renowned essay Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity is also featured.
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In 1970, The New York Times launched Op-Ed art, a tool designed to add intellectual resonance and emotional impact to the paper's prose. All the Art reveals Op-Ed's story from its conception to today while recounting the stormy confrontations between artist and editor. Illustrati...ons throughout.
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Marriage is no excuse for not loving. That which a lover takes against the will of his beloved has no relish. When made public love rarely endures. Love can deny nothing to love. This book relates to Arthurian romance, troubadour lyric, and other genres. It offers understandings ...of the Middle Ages, especially the phenomena known as courtly love.
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