Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All w ...
Scathing and hilarious takedown of a frontman for the rich and powerful. Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than U2’s iconic frontman, Bono—a fact neither sunglasses nor leather pants can hide. More than a mere philanthropist—indeed, he lags behind many of his peers when it comes to parting with his own money—Bono is better described as an advocate ...
The Communist Manifestois, perhaps surprisingly, a most engaging and accessible work, containing even the odd shaft of humour in this translation by Samuel Moore for the 1888 English edition. It is, of course, an essential introduction to the thoughts and theories of Karl Marx and his collaborator and editor Friedrich Engels and therefore to the development of communism. This brief but iconoclastic work, essentially a pamphlet, covers the histor ...
Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only thirty years old, but his ideas and political activities changed the course of South African history and helped hasten the end of apartheid. The year 2007 saw the thirtieth anniversary of Biko?s death. To mark the occasion, the then Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Mosibudi Mangena, commissioned Chris van Wyk to compile a ...
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living prosperously under a constitutional democracy remains elusive. This edited volume examines the way in which various strands of left thought have addre ...
Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism all understand the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Marxism, which had encapsulated the idea of freedom for most of the twentieth century, was found wanting when it came to thinking emancipation because social interests and identities were understood as ...
The author has consulted for businesses and governments on public policy and taught international management at American and Canadian universities Examines the history of liberal ideas over the past 200 years Proposes the changes required to overcome major limitations like economic policy and preparing for technology disruption ...
Darf mich mein Lehrer anschreien? Darf er mir mein Smartphone wegnehmen und dann sogar darin herumsuchen? Kriege ich Schmerzensgeld, wenn ich mich im Sportunterricht verletze? Wie viele Klassenarbeiten durfen pro Woche uberhaupt geschrieben werden? Dieses Buch bietet leichtverstandliche, fachkundige Antworten auf typische Fragen rund ums Schulrecht. Mit vielen anschaulichen Beispielen und wichtigen Informationen zur Gesetzeslage. ...
At long last, America's most notorious political operative has released his operating manual! A freedom fighter to his admirers, a dirty trickster to his detractors, the flamboyant, outrageous, articulate, and extraordinarily well-dressed Roger Stone lays out Stone's Rules – the maxims that have governed his legendary career as a campaign operative for four American presidents, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump. As a raconteur, pundit ...
