Описание: When Volkswagen launched the Golf GTI, over thirty years ago, it could hardly have known the impact its compact and sporty model would have on the car-buying public. Through an uncertain birth to its class-topping iconic status of today, rarely does a new model of car make a whole new market segment for itself but the Golf was the original hot hatch, a car that others would copy but seldom equal.
Описание: Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, Sierra Leone, this remarkable poetry collection aims to breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone`s civil war, delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon.
Автор: Chomsky, Noam Название: Crime, Social Control and Human Rights ISBN: 1843922282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843922285 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Gerry Adams Название: Before the Dawn: An Autobiography ISBN: 0268103771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268103774 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 11497.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In this fascinating memoir of his early life, Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn F?in, describes the development of the modern “Troubles’’ in the North of Ireland, his experiences during that period, including secret talks with the British government and imprisonment, his leadership role in Sinn F?in, and the tragic hunger strike by imprisoned IRA prisoners in 1981. Born in 1948, Adams vividly recalls growing up in the working-class Ballymurphy district of West Belfast, where he became involved in the civil rights campaign in the late 1960s and was active in campaigns around issues of housing, unemployment, and civil rights. The unionist regime, which had been in interrupted power for 50 years, reacted violently to the protests, and the situation exploded into conflict. Adams recounts his growing radicalization, his work as a Sinn F?in activist and leader, his relationship with the IRA, and the British use of secret courts to condemn republicans. Adams was a political prisoner. He was arrested many times and recounts his torture. He spent a total of five years in the notorious Long Kesh prison camp. First as an internee, held without charge, and then as a sentenced prisoner after he made two failed attempts to escape. Adams chronicles the dramatic hunger strikes of Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, and others in 1980–81 which saw ten men die. Though he opposed the hunger strike Adams was instrumental in organizing the mass campaign in support of the hunger strikers which saw Bobby Sands elected as a member of the British Parliament and Ciaran Doherty and Kevin Agnew elected to the Irish Parliament. Before the Dawn is an engaging and revealing self-portrait that is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand modern Ireland. First published in 1996—at a time when politics in the North of Ireland was in crisis and the Good Friday Agreement was still two years away—this new edition contains a brand new introduction and epilogue written by the author, covering Adams’s family, Brexit, and the peace process.
Автор: Carlson Julie A., Weber Elisabeth Название: Speaking about Torture ISBN: 0823242242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823242245 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 14243.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again compelled to entertain debates about the legality of torture, this volume speaks about the practice in an effort to challenge the surprisingly widespread acceptance of state-sanctioned torture among Americans, including academics and the media–entertainment complex. Speaking about Torture also claims that the concepts and techniques practiced in the humanities have a special contribution to make to this debate, going beyond what is usually deemed a matter of policy for experts in government and the social sciences. It contends that the way one speaks about torture—including that one speaks about it—is key to comprehending, legislating, and eradicating torture. That is, we cannot discuss torture without taking into account the assaults on truth, memory, subjectivity, and language that the humanities theorize and that the experience of torture perpetuates. Such accounts are crucial to framing the silencing and demonizing that accompany the practice and representation of torture. Written by scholars in literary analysis, philosophy, history, film and media studies, musicology, and art history working in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, the essays in this volume speak from a conviction that torture does not work to elicit truth, secure justice, or maintain security. They engage in various ways with the limits that torture imposes on language, on subjects and community, and on governmental officials, while also confronting the complicity of artists and humanists in torture through their silence, forms of silencing, and classic means of representation. Acknowledging this history is central to the volume’s advocacy of speaking about torture through the forms of witness offered and summoned by the humanities.
Автор: White Название: Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s ISBN: 1403994781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403994783 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14673.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Following the American War of Independence and the French Revolution, ideas of the `Natural Rights of Man` (later distinguished into particular issues like rights of association, rights of women, slaves, children and animals) were publicly debated in England.
Автор: Johnson Название: The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law ISBN: 1403935734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403935731 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14673.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study focuses on the critique of the social contract in radical novels of the 1790s. Johnson examines narrative investigations into the intricate relationships between theories of rights, the requirements of proprietorship in civil society, and the construction of the legal subject.
Автор: Miller W. Jason Название: Origins of the Dream: Hughes`s Poetry and King`s Rhetoric ISBN: 0813060443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813060446 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Since Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, some scholars have privately suspected that King’s “dream” was connected to Langston Hughes’s poetry. Drawing on archival materials, including notes, correspondence, and marginalia, W. Jason Miller provides a completely original and compelling argument that Hughes’s influence on King’s rhetoric was, in fact, evident in more than just the one famous speech.King’s staff had been wiretapped by J. Edgar Hoover and suffered accusations of communist influence, so quoting or naming the leader of the Harlem Renaissance—who had his own reputation as a communist—would only have intensified the threats against the civil rights activist. Thus, the link was purposefully veiled through careful allusions in King’s orations. In Origins of the Dream, Miller lifts that veil and shows how Hughes’s revolutionary poetry became a measurable inflection in King’s voice. He contends that by employing Hughes’s metaphors in his speeches, King negotiated a political climate that sought to silence the poet’s subversive voice. By separating Hughes’s identity from his poems, King helped the nation unconsciously embrace the incendiary ideas behind his poetry.
Название: Chinese poetry and translation ISBN: 946298994X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789462989948 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 27034.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Stretching from queer-feminist engagement with China`s newest poetry to philological reflection on its oldest, this book brings a wealth of new thinking to the interrelationships between poetry, translation, and China.
Автор: Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud Название: Radical Orientalism: Rights, Reform, and Romanticism ISBN: 110752704X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107527041 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This fascinating study explores why ideas of the East mattered to Romantic writers, including Byron and the Shelleys, as well as their readers, political reformers and working-class activists. Imagining and invoking the Muslim world helped radicals to formulate their opposition to electoral disenfranchisement, police repression, and economic exploitation in Britain.
Автор: Catherine M. Jones, William W. Kibler, Logan E. Whalen Название: An Old French Trilogy: Texts from the William of Orange Cycle ISBN: 0813066468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813066462 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 14137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While most English-language readers are familiar with Old French epic poetry, or chansons de geste, through the Song of Roland and its tale of gallant martyrdom, this volume provides a broader and richer view of the tradition by introducing songs devoted to the exploits of a different sort of hero.
Описание: Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, Sierra Leone, this remarkable poetry collection aims to breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone`s civil war, delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon.
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