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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Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence …
Nothing can prepare you for Anthony Loyd 's portrait of war. It is the story of the unspeakable terror and …
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy is a 2011 book by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding. It …
L'Étranger (French: [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]) is a 1942 novella by French author Albert Camus. Its theme and outlook are often cited as …
A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port …
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its …
Inspired by an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up London's Greenwich Observatory, here is a chillingly prophetic examination of …
"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events …
An introduction to "disaster capitalism" argues that the global free market has exploited crises, violence, and shock in the past …
Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement …
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March is a non-fiction book analysing the events and circumstances during the French Invasion of Russia …