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Song Of Unmaking
Caitlin Brennan
Luna
, 2005
A Solid Middle Pillar of theTrilogy
This book follows the first one in the series, The Mountain's Call, picking up with Euan vying for the position of High King and Kerrac's magic forcing him from the mountain. What follows is a winding road of self-discovery, sacrifice, and above all, an eloquent ...
By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer
Victor Ostrovsky
Wilshire Press Inc.
, 2002
Insightful look at Mossad
Highly recommend this book. He covers a lot in this book and most importantly how the intelligence agency commonly use False Flag operations. Operations committed by Mossad, but which are made to look as though they come from Palestinians or Arab militants, with the ...
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Elaine Scarry
Oxford University Press, USA
, 1987
Densely written but rewarding treatise
Elaine Scarry's "The Body in Pain", an influential study on the relationship between pain, torture, warfare and creativity is a stunning achievement, from the standpoint of Marxism. I confess that I have not read the sections on the structure of warfare, but I was ...
Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King
Reymundo Sanchez
Chicago Review Press
, 2004
Reality in Today's World
In a world dominated by drugs, sex, and violence Raymundo Sanchez begins to see an exit to the Latin Kings, one of Chicago's most feared Latino Gangs. He knows that to leave the gang will mean taking a three minute head to toe beating by three Latin Kings, something ...
Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class
Christopher Newfield
Harvard University Press
, 2008
A Great Read on a Complex Subject
What a delight, after several years of dull, self-important books on the state of academia, to receive another clearly thought through book from Chris Newfield. As usual his research is not only well documented, but widely drawn. His curiosity lends each example the ...
Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine (Feral House)
Tyler E. Boudreau
Feral House
, 2008
Thoughtful and Convincing
Tyler Boudreau's Packing Inferno is provocative and moving. It is the story of a gradual awakening. Boudreau does relate some hellish experiences in some detail, but he also interprets those experiences, and provides their context. Many of the best passages of the ...
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Rick Perlstein
Nation Books
, 2009
A brilliant narrative history of the underdog American conservative movement of the 1960s
~Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus~ is a sweeping narrative history of the American conservative movement in the 1960s. The author Richard Perlstein, a liberal journalist, actually offers a fairly balanced and objective view ...
The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands
Jeremy Salt
University of California Press
, 2008
Written for those who want to know more about the Middle East than the mainstream media is willing or able to tell, this book begins by examining a question that has been asked by numerous commentators since September 11, 2001: "Why do they hate us?" Jeremy Salt offers the background essential for understanding the Middle East today by chronicling ...
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
Lawrence James
St. Martin's Griffin
, 2000
A remarkably revealing and thought provoking book
This book spoke to me from the shelf in a college. I borrowed it and immediately knew I had to buy it. I consider it to be the single most informative book on the shaping of the world politics between 1600's and the 20th century. The details included in this book ...
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Peter Guralnick
Back Bay Books
, 2000
Magnificent
Extremely revealing portrait that makes clear that Elvis became a drug addict even before he went into the Army in 1958. This bio leaves out nothing, including all the dreary and the tawdry as well as the musical genius. While Jerry Lee Lewis lost his career for ...
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
Claudio Saunt
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2006
The Complexities of Race in America
I will always see the history of race in America differently after reading this courageous book. Professor Saunt complicates issues that once seemed more simple, but I take this as a result of his deep research and honesty about a sensitive matter. The book left me ...
The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left, With a New Preface
Todd Gitlin
University of California Press
, 2003
Important contribution to media studies
This book is widely used in college courses because it provides an important example of how the media works as a part of social organization.
Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
Stanford University Press
, 2008
What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology?the study of ignorance?provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know? The essays assembled in Agnotology show that ...
The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
Todd Gitlin
University of California Press
, 1981
SDS and the Media
"The Whole World is Watching," is Todd Gitlin's doctoral dissertation modified for publication. Gitlin was president of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960's before moving on to other radical causes. Gitlin was educated at Harvard and is ...
Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization
Christopher Manes
Back Bay Books
, 1991
Best Book on Environmental Crisis, Ecowarriors
Green Rage is the best book on the market portraying the roots of our environmental problems. It gives an in-depth, personal account of the brave activists who are fighting to protect the Wild. Most important, the book cuts through the usual rhetoric about sustained ...
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