Product Description: A Yorkshire lawyer called John Bladen produced a tract called ‘Miscellaneous Observations of the Principal Matters in the Court and State as they consist at this present, August 1636’. Bladen’s ‘Observation’ evaluated the state-of-the-realm in 1636 to encourage discourse of the Establishment, resources of the country, its strengths and the merits of two of the most powerful men of the time...read more

Product Description: Happiness expert and best selling author, Will Jelbert shares a candid, twenty-five day diary as he chooses one scientifically proven way to exercise happiness a day.  Jelbert gives an open account of  his success in finding happiness health in spite of  his daily mental struggles...read more

Product Description: Charles Graves learned about the hypothesis that the 17th Earl of Oxford was the real 'Shakespeare' when he read Thomas Looney's exposition of Edward de Vere's poetry. Graves studied the literature published since the 1920s on this topic and wrote the essays which have been included...read more

Product Description: Las naciones ricas tienen un gran problema. Sueldos cada vez más altos. Funcionarios (necesarios pero que no producen) en número creciente. Sanidad cada vez mejor, que cubre a más personas y más especialidades. Enseñanza cada vez mejor con exceso de titulados...read more

Product Description: La realidad compleja está constituida de una pluralidad de tiempos, conectados unos con los otros según articulaciones sutiles y múltiples. La historia, sea la de un ser vivo o la de una sociedad, no podrá jamás ser reducida a la sencillez monótona de un tiempo único...read more

Product Description: Durante mucho tiempo los adolescentes lesbianas, gays, transexuales o bisexuales (LGTB) han sido los grandes olvidados de nuestra sociedad. Algunos sectores de esta incluso han negado su existencia. Sin embargo, existen. Adolescencia y sexualidades minoritarias: voces desde la exclusion partio de la premisa de que era absolutamente necesario escucharlos, darles la oportunidad de dar a conocer sus vivencias, sus ilusiones, sus problemas Cuando se inicio la investigacion que dio origen a este texto se planteo como una de las cuestiones a estudiar las situaciones de exclusion que sufren estos adolescentes...read more

Product Description: A collection of key articles on the irrational in mass culture, relevant to the understanding of phenomena such as astrology and New Age cults, the power of neo-fascist propaganda and the psychological basis of popular culture, showing Theodor Adorno at his brilliant and maddening best...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Compton pushes us to look beneath the surface—past those comforting tales of nationhood and racial solidarity—to the more nebulous and ever-shifting truth. This is a brilliant and original work that should be mandatory reading for any student of race and history...read more

Product Description: Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen and done things that have no place in civilian life? In Aftershock, Matthew Green tells the story of our veterans' journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return...read more

Robert Fisk has amassed a massive and devoted global readership with his eloquent and far-ranging articles on international politics. Now, for the first time, his brave and incisive essays have been collected in a single volume that ranges in scope from the recent war in Lebanon to the rise of Hamas; from the invasion of Kuwait to the looting of Baghdad; from America’s imperial ambitions to the inescapable influence of the Treaty of Versailles. Taken together, these articles form an unparalleled account of our war-torn recent history.  

Product Description: La marimba es un instrumento musical sin una procedencia cierta, son muchas las versiones que la sitúan en África, en Japón o en Centroamérica, donde a priori parece estar más arraigada. De todas maneras, no importa mucho de dónde proviene, en este caso lo importante es lo que la identifica con el folclore nicaragüense...read more

Product Description: All great world powers, every empire down through history, all of them have failed, have grown corrupt and have declined. America is no different. America has grown fat and corrupt, rotting from the inside. America has overspent, overextended and is now about to decline...read more

Product Description: Critical and balanced, this study by a group of scientists explores the history of the United States in order to discover not only the effects that certain events have had on the image Americans have of themselves but also on the image others have of them...read more

On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, columnist and provocateur Dan Savage weighs in on such diverse issues as healthcare, gun control, and marriage equality with characteristic straight talk and humor. Dan Savage has always had a loyal audience, thanks to his syndicated sex-advice column “Savage Love,” but since the incredible global success of his It Gets Better project—his book of the same name was a New York Times bestseller—his profile has skyrocketed. In addition, he’s written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Onion, GQ, The Guardian, Salon.com, and countless other widely read publications. Savage is recognized as someone whose opinions about our culture, politics, and society should not only be listened to but taken seriously.Now, in American Savage, he writes on topics ranging from marriage, parenting, and the gay agenda to the Catholic Church and sex education.

Product Description: To celebrate The American Scholar’s thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years. These selections include the best essays that appeared throughout the life of one of the leading publications of the country...read more

Product Description: This anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social change. Living American writers produced each piece between 1980 and the present; works were selected based on literary merit and the manner in which they address one or more pressing social issues...read more

Product Description: Peter Kropotkin was born into the nobility of 19th century Russia, however even at an early age he began to reject the trappings of aristocracy. Kropotkin advocated for a form of socialism that differed from the Bolsheviks. His version of socialism was one in which the society was free from central government and based on voluntary associations between workers...read more

Product Description: "Most of the time," Theodor Adorno has noted, "records are virtual photographs of their owners." The Annotated Mixtape, a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music with personal history and American history and culture (the 2008 recession, AM radio, Reaganomics, nuclear war) to show how music has informed the author's life...read more