What's So Funny, Comrade?
Author: Rodger Swearingen
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 182
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What's So Funny, Comrade?
Author: Rodger Swearingen
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 182
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's Only a Joke, Comrade!
Author: Jonathan Waterlow
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-13
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781999343408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's Only a Joke, Comrade! uncovers how ordinary people joked, coped, and struggled to adapt in Stalin's brave new world. It asks what it means to live under a dictatorship: How do people make sense of their lives? How do they talk about it? And whom can they trust to do so?
Restricted Data
Author: Alex Wellerstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-04-09
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 022602038X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--
R�sistance
Author: Agnes Humbert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1596916362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA diary by a Parisian art historian and key member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of 1940 recounts her group's betrayal to the Gestapo, her imprisonment and deportation to Germany, and the brutal treatment she and her friends endured in labor camps. Reprint.
Language and Power
Author: Benedict R. O'G. Anderson
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9789793780405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lively book, Benedict R. O'G. Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history: that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian nation is ancient originating in the early seventeenth-century Dutch conquests; and that contemporary politics are conducted in a new language. Bahasa Indonesia, by peoples (especially the Javanese) whose cultures are rooted in medieval times. Analyzing a spectrum of examples from classical poetry to public monuments and cartoons, Anderson deepens our understanding of the interaction between modern and traditional notions of power, the mediation of power by language, and the development of national consciousness. Language and Power, now republished as part of Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series, brings together eight of Anderson's most influential essays over the past two decades and is essential reading for anyone studying the Indonesian country, people or language. Benedict Anderson is one of the world's leading authorities on Southeast Asian nationalism and particularly on Indonesia. He is Professor of International Studies and Director of the Modern Indonesia Project at Cornell University, New York. His other works include Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism and The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World.
Comrades and Chicken Ranchers
Author: Kenneth Kann
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780801480751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a portrait of the Petaluma Jewish community from the early years of the century to the present day. Kenneth L. Kann interviewed more than two hundred residents, representing three generations of Jewish Americans. The picture that emerges from their testimony is of a wonderfully animated and fractious community. Its history blends many of the familiar themes of American Jewish life into a richly individual tapestry. In the first few decades of this century, many Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe wound up in Petaluma. This first generation of chicken farmers consisted largely of educated, often professional men and women; many were drawn to chicken farming as much by Marxist or Zionist beliefs in the dignity of labor as by economic necessity. They helped establish the particular character of a community, with its combination of arduous work and cultural aspiration.
Delphi Complete Novels of Sinclair Lewis (Illustrated)
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Published: 2022-01-15
Total Pages: 5498
ISBN-13: 1801700338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, Sinclair Lewis was revered for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to fashion, with wit and humour, innovative and inspiring characters. Masterpieces such as ‘Main Street’, ‘Babbitt’, 'Arrowsmith' and ‘Dodsworth’ are noted for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism in the interwar period, while promoting strong characterisations of modern working men and women. This comprehensive eBook presents Lewis’ complete novels, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lewis’ life and works * Concise introductions to the major novels * All 23 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting * Rare short stories digitised here for the first time * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Hike and the Aeroplane (1912) Our Mr. Wrenn (1914) The Trail of the Hawk (1915) The Job (1917) The Innocents (1917) Free Air (1919) Main Street (1920) Babbitt (1922) Arrowsmith (1925) Mantrap (1926) Elmer Gantry (1927) The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928) Dodsworth (1929) Ann Vickers (1933) Work of Art (1934) It Can’t Happen Here (1935) The Prodigal Parents (1938) Bethel Merriday (1940) Gideon Planish (1943) Cass Timberlane (1945) Kingsblood Royal (1947) The God-Seeker (1949) World So Wide (1951) The Shorter Fiction Selected Short Stories (1935) Miscellaneous Short Stories Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Roxanne and the Netherworld
Author: Dean Marquis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 1796063991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe War on two Worlds continue. On Earth the Soviet 8th Guard Army launches an Air Mobile Assault in order take Budweiss, in order to relieve the pressure at the Fulda Gap. The Battle heats up and NATO sends in reinforcements for a counterattack. On the Netherworld the Becks Commonwealth launches an Attack on Budweiss in and take it for good. On the Netherworld the Emperor issues an Orange Light Call and all the Landsknecht Legions respond but two. As the War heats up on both Worlds, the Machines of Destruction arrives and brings the book to its dramatic conclusion.
