Violence by Slavoj Žižek (Big Ideas//Small Books)
Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence …
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Lawrence rated My War Gone By, I Miss It So: 4 stars
My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony William Vivian Loyd
Nothing can prepare you for Anthony Loyd 's portrait of war. It is the story of the unspeakable terror and …
Lawrence rated WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy: 2 stars
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by Luke Harding, David Leigh
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy is a 2011 book by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding. It …
Lawrence rated The Black Swan: 3 stars
Lawrence rated The Stranger: 5 stars
The Stranger by Albert Camus, Jacques Ferrandez
The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from …
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (A New Directions Paperbook)
A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port …
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim (2001, Broadview Press)
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Broadview literary texts)
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its …
Lawrence rated The Secret Agent: 5 stars
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (Oxford world's classics)
Inspired by an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up London's Greenwich Observatory, here is a chillingly prophetic examination of …
Lawrence rated First as tragedy, then as farce: 3 stars
First as tragedy, then as farce by Slavoj Žižek
"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events …
Lawrence rated The Shock Doctrine: 4 stars
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
An introduction to "disaster capitalism" argues that the global free market has exploited crises, violence, and shock in the past …
Lawrence rated GLOBALISATION, DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM.: 3 stars
Lawrence rated Hopes and prospects: 3 stars
Lawrence rated The Selfish Gene: 4 stars
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement …
Lawrence rated Moscow 1812 : Napoleon's fatal march: 4 stars
Adam Zamoyski: Moscow 1812 : Napoleon's fatal march
Moscow 1812 : Napoleon's fatal march by Adam Zamoyski
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March is a non-fiction book analysing the events and circumstances during the French Invasion of Russia …