The Vertigo Years

The Vertigo Years

Author: Philipp Blom

Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

Published: 2010-11-02

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 0465020291

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Examines how changes from the Industrial Revolution prior to World War I brought about radical transformation in society, changes in education, and massive migration in population that led to one of the bloodiest events in history.


Monster of the Twentieth Century

Monster of the Twentieth Century

Author: Robert Thomas Tierney

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0520961595

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This extended monograph examines the work of the radical journalist Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s anti-imperialist movement of the early twentieth century. It includes the first English translation of Imperialism (Teikokushugi), Kotoku’s classic 1901 work. Kotoku Shusui was a Japanese socialist, anarchist, and critic of Japan’s imperial expansionism who was executed in 1911 for his alleged participation in a plot to kill the emperor. His Imperialism was one of the first systematic criticisms of imperialism published anywhere in the world. In this seminal text, Kotoku condemned global imperialism as the commandeering of politics by national elites and denounced patriotism and militarism as the principal causes of imperialism. In addition to translating Imperialism, Robert Tierney offers an in-depth study of Kotoku’s text and of the early anti-imperialist movement he led. Tierney places Kotoku’s book within the broader context of early twentieth-century debates on the nature and causes of imperialism. He also presents a detailed account of the different stages of the Japanese anti-imperialist movement. Monster of the Twentieth Century constitutes a major contribution to the intellectual history of modern Japan and to the comparative study of critiques of capitalism and colonialism.


Magick Without Tears

Magick Without Tears

Author: Aleister Crowley

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781561840182

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Crowley at his absolute best. An annotated and very personal encyclopedia of magical instruction covering the Qabalah, the major schools and symbols of magick, meditation and astral projection, the tarot, astrology, pentacles, lamens, talismans, and much, much more.


Godard On Godard

Godard On Godard

Author: Jean-luc Godard

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 1986-03-22

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780306802591

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Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinéma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cinéma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit, maddening judgments, and complete unpredictability. In writing about Hitchcock, Welles, Bergman, Truffaut, Bresson, and Renoir, Godard is also writing about himself-his own experiments, obsessions, discoveries. This book offers evidence that he may be even more original as a thinker about film than as a director. Covering the period of 1950-1967, the years of Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, this book of writings is an important document and a fascinating study of a vital stage in Godard's career. With commentary by Tom Milne and Richard Roud, and an extensive new foreword by Annette Michelson that reassesses Godard in light of his later films, here is an outrageous self-portrait by a director who, even now, continues to amaze and bedevil, and to chart new directions for cinema and for critical thought about its history.


J'accuse !

J'accuse !

Author: Émile Zola

Publisher: Bibebook

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782824702377

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J'accuse...! est le titre d'un article rédigé par Émile Zola lors de l'affaire Dreyfus et publié dans le journal L'Aurore du 13 janvier 1898 sous forme d'une lettre ouverte au Président de la République Félix Faure. Zola s'est appuyé en partie sur un dossier écrit en 1896 par l'écrivain Bernard Lazare. J'accuse...! paraît deux jours après l'acquittement d'Esterhazy par le conseil de guerre (11 janvier), qui semble ruiner tous les espoirs nourris par les partisans d'une révision du procès condamnant Dreyfus. Zola y attaque nommément les généraux, les officiers responsables de l'erreur judiciaire ayant entraîné le procès et la condamnation, les experts en écritures coupables de « rapports mensongers et frauduleux. » Extrait : Un homme néfaste a tout mené, a tout fait, c'est le lieutenant-colonel du Paty de Clam, alors simple commandant. Il est l'affaire Dreyfus tout entière ; on ne la connaîtra que lorsqu'une enquête loyale aura établi nettement ses actes et ses responsabilités. Il apparaît comme l'esprit le plus fumeux, le plus compliqué, hanté d'intrigues romanesques, se complaisant aux moyens des romans-feuilletons, les papiers volés, les lettres anonymes, les rendez-vous dans les endroits déserts, les femmes mystérieuses qui colportent, de nuit, des preuves accablantes. C'est lui qui imagina de dicter le bordereau à Dreyfus ; c'est lui qui rêva de l'étudier dans une pièce entièrement revêtue de glaces ; c'est lui que le commandant Forzinetti nous représente armé d'une lanterne sourde, voulant se faire introduire près de l'accusé endormi, pour projeter sur son visage un brusque flot de lumière et surprendre ainsi son crime, dans l'émoi du réveil.


J'Accuse

J'Accuse

Author: Emile Zola

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2018-11-05

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 9781730902116

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J'accuse (+Biographie et Bibliographie) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish):J'accuse...! est le titre d'un article rédigé par Émile Zola lors de l'affaire Dreyfus et publié dans le journal L'Aurore du 13 janvier 1898 sous forme d'une lettre ouverte au Président de la République Félix Faure. Zola s'est appuyé en partie sur un dossier écrit en 1896 par l'écrivain Bernard Lazare.J'accuse...! paraît deux jours après l'acquittement d'Esterhazy par le conseil de guerre (11 janvier), qui semble ruiner tous les espoirs nourris par les partisans d'une révision du procès condamnant Dreyfus. Zola y attaque nommément les généraux, les officiers responsables de l'erreur judiciaire ayant entraîné le procès et la condamnation, les experts en écritures coupables de « rapports mensongers et frauduleux. »


The Martyrs of Columbine

The Martyrs of Columbine

Author: J. Watson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-05-02

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1403970009

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On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve fellow students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Two of the victims of the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the gunmen if they believed in God. Both supposedly answered 'Yes' and were killed. Within days of their death, Cassie and Rachel were being hailed as modern-day martyrs and are seen by many American evangelicals as the sparks of a religious revival among teenagers. Cassie and Rachel, as innocents martyred for faith, also became useful symbols for those seeking to advance a conservative political agenda and to lay the blame for Columbine at the feet of their liberal opponents. According to police investigators, however, Cassie and Rachel may never have been asked by their killers about God. They may have been simply victims of a senseless crime rather than martyrs to a cause. The Martyrs of Columbine provides a careful examination of the available evidence and attempts to discover what really occurred. Despite these questions the martyr-stories continued to be told and the religious and political use of Cassie and Rachel continues. The popular significance of the martyrs of Columbine persists, and may even be growing. How and why is this happening? The Martyrs of Columbine is a groundbreaking investigation of what this tragedy has come and will come to mean in American religion, politics, and culture.