Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857426000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An account of the life and death of Buenaventura Durruti, a Spanish Civil War leader, that turns his life into a larger story of revolution, commitment, and failed struggles for freedom.
Anarchy's Brief Summer
Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857426000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An account of the life and death of Buenaventura Durruti, a Spanish Civil War leader, that turns his life into a larger story of revolution, commitment, and failed struggles for freedom.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857426000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An account of the life and death of Buenaventura Durruti, a Spanish Civil War leader, that turns his life into a larger story of revolution, commitment, and failed struggles for freedom.
Thank You, Anarchy
Author: Nathan Schneider
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520276795
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Examines the Occupy Wall Street Movement in its first year in New York City, discussing its origins, organizers, beliefs that inspired its formation, and its impact on the media and the political status quo.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520276795
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Examines the Occupy Wall Street Movement in its first year in New York City, discussing its origins, organizers, beliefs that inspired its formation, and its impact on the media and the political status quo.
A Beautiful Anarchy
Author: David Duchemin
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.
ISBN: 1681982366
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.
ISBN: 1681982366
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
The Edge of Anarchy
Author: Jack Kelly
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250128862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"Timely and urgent...The core of The Edge of Anarchy is a thrilling description of the boycott of Pullman cars and equipment by Eugene Debs’s fledgling American Railway Union..." —The New York Times "During the summer of 1894, the stubborn and irascible Pullman became a central player in what the New York Times called “the greatest battle between labor and capital [ever] inaugurated in the United States.” Jack Kelly tells the fascinating tale of that terrible struggle." —The Wall Street Journal "Pay attention, because The Edge of Anarchy not only captures the flickering Kinetoscopic spirit of one of the great Labor-Capital showdowns in American history, it helps focus today’s great debates over the power of economic concentration and the rights and futures of American workers." —Brian Alexander, author of Glass House "In gripping detail, The Edge of Anarchy reminds us of what a pivotal figure Eugene V. Debs was in the history of American labor... a tale of courage and the steadfast pursuit of principles at great personal risk." —Tom Clavin, New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities. This epochal tale offers fascinating portraits of two iconic characters of the age. George Pullman, who amassed a fortune by making train travel a pleasure, thought the model town that he built for his workers would erase urban squalor. Eugene Debs, founder of the nation’s first industrial union, was determined to wrench power away from the reigning plutocrats. The clash between the two men’s conflicting ideals pushed the country to what the U.S. Attorney General called “the ragged edge of anarchy.” Many of the themes of The Edge of Anarchy could be taken from today’s headlines—upheaval in America’s industrial heartland, wage stagnation, breakneck technological change, and festering conflict over race, immigration, and inequality. With the country now in a New Gilded Age, this look back at the violent conflict of an earlier era offers illuminating perspectives along with a breathtaking story of a nation on the edge.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250128862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"Timely and urgent...The core of The Edge of Anarchy is a thrilling description of the boycott of Pullman cars and equipment by Eugene Debs’s fledgling American Railway Union..." —The New York Times "During the summer of 1894, the stubborn and irascible Pullman became a central player in what the New York Times called “the greatest battle between labor and capital [ever] inaugurated in the United States.” Jack Kelly tells the fascinating tale of that terrible struggle." —The Wall Street Journal "Pay attention, because The Edge of Anarchy not only captures the flickering Kinetoscopic spirit of one of the great Labor-Capital showdowns in American history, it helps focus today’s great debates over the power of economic concentration and the rights and futures of American workers." —Brian Alexander, author of Glass House "In gripping detail, The Edge of Anarchy reminds us of what a pivotal figure Eugene V. Debs was in the history of American labor... a tale of courage and the steadfast pursuit of principles at great personal risk." —Tom Clavin, New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities. This epochal tale offers fascinating portraits of two iconic characters of the age. George Pullman, who amassed a fortune by making train travel a pleasure, thought the model town that he built for his workers would erase urban squalor. Eugene Debs, founder of the nation’s first industrial union, was determined to wrench power away from the reigning plutocrats. The clash between the two men’s conflicting ideals pushed the country to what the U.S. Attorney General called “the ragged edge of anarchy.” Many of the themes of The Edge of Anarchy could be taken from today’s headlines—upheaval in America’s industrial heartland, wage stagnation, breakneck technological change, and festering conflict over race, immigration, and inequality. With the country now in a New Gilded Age, this look back at the violent conflict of an earlier era offers illuminating perspectives along with a breathtaking story of a nation on the edge.
Brand Anarchy
Author: Stephen Waddington
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408159694
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
As the media landscape looks increasingly diverse and anarchic, individuals, organisations and governments should not waste time wondering whether they have lost control of their reputations. The simple fact is that they have never had control. The question is what they can do about it now, and what they need to consider for the future. The fragmentation of media and the rise of social media has brought brand and personal reputational risk into sharp focus like never before. Disaffected shareholders, customers and staff are voicing their opinions to a global internet audience. In a brand context, it's reputation anarchy. In Brand Anarchy, Steve Earl and Stephen Waddington draw on insight from opinion-makers and shapers such as Greg Dyke, Alastair Campbell, Mark Thompson and Seth Godin to explore how reputations can be better managed and the new challenges that the future of media may bring. This plain-speaking, shrewd book pulls no punches. It's a survival guide for anyone concerned what others think or say about them.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408159694
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
As the media landscape looks increasingly diverse and anarchic, individuals, organisations and governments should not waste time wondering whether they have lost control of their reputations. The simple fact is that they have never had control. The question is what they can do about it now, and what they need to consider for the future. The fragmentation of media and the rise of social media has brought brand and personal reputational risk into sharp focus like never before. Disaffected shareholders, customers and staff are voicing their opinions to a global internet audience. In a brand context, it's reputation anarchy. In Brand Anarchy, Steve Earl and Stephen Waddington draw on insight from opinion-makers and shapers such as Greg Dyke, Alastair Campbell, Mark Thompson and Seth Godin to explore how reputations can be better managed and the new challenges that the future of media may bring. This plain-speaking, shrewd book pulls no punches. It's a survival guide for anyone concerned what others think or say about them.
A History of Clouds
Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher: Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9781906497453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
POETRY TEXTS & ANTHOLOGIES. In these ninety-nine meditations, poet and novelist Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking - a pair of scissors, perhaps - is both a small, human victory and a quiet reminder of our own ephemeral nature. He sets his quotidian reflections against a broad historic and political backdrop - the cold war and its accompanying atomic threat, the German student revolt, would-be socialism in Cuba, China, and Africa, and World War II as experienced by the youthful poet. Enzensberger's poems are conversational, skeptical, and serene; they culminate in the extended set of observations that gives the collection its title. Clouds, alien and yet symbols of human life, are for Enzensberger at once a central metaphor of the Western poetic tradition and "the most fleeting of all masterpieces. 'Cloud archaeology', writes Enzensberger, is "a science for angels.
Publisher: Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9781906497453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
POETRY TEXTS & ANTHOLOGIES. In these ninety-nine meditations, poet and novelist Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking - a pair of scissors, perhaps - is both a small, human victory and a quiet reminder of our own ephemeral nature. He sets his quotidian reflections against a broad historic and political backdrop - the cold war and its accompanying atomic threat, the German student revolt, would-be socialism in Cuba, China, and Africa, and World War II as experienced by the youthful poet. Enzensberger's poems are conversational, skeptical, and serene; they culminate in the extended set of observations that gives the collection its title. Clouds, alien and yet symbols of human life, are for Enzensberger at once a central metaphor of the Western poetic tradition and "the most fleeting of all masterpieces. 'Cloud archaeology', writes Enzensberger, is "a science for angels.
Anarchy in Action
Author: Colin Ward
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1629633186
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and their superstitious separatism. Anarchist ideas are so much at variance with ordinary political assumptions and the solutions anarchists offer so remote, that all too often people find it hard to take anarchism seriously. This classic text is an attempt to bridge the gap between the present reality and anarchist aspirations, “between what is and what, according to the anarchists, might be.” Through a wide-ranging analysis—drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few—Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as they might at first seem but lie precisely in the ways that people have always tended to organize themselves when left alone to do so. The result is both an accessible introduction for those new to anarchism and pause for thought for those who are too quick to dismiss it. For more than thirty years, in over thirty books, Colin Ward patiently explained anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism to climate change—and celebrated unofficial uses of the landscape as commons, from holiday camps to squatter communities. Ward was an anarchist journalist and editor for almost sixty years, most famously editing the journal Anarchy. He was also a columnist for New Statesman, New Society, Freedom, and Town and Country Planning.
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1629633186
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and their superstitious separatism. Anarchist ideas are so much at variance with ordinary political assumptions and the solutions anarchists offer so remote, that all too often people find it hard to take anarchism seriously. This classic text is an attempt to bridge the gap between the present reality and anarchist aspirations, “between what is and what, according to the anarchists, might be.” Through a wide-ranging analysis—drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few—Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as they might at first seem but lie precisely in the ways that people have always tended to organize themselves when left alone to do so. The result is both an accessible introduction for those new to anarchism and pause for thought for those who are too quick to dismiss it. For more than thirty years, in over thirty books, Colin Ward patiently explained anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism to climate change—and celebrated unofficial uses of the landscape as commons, from holiday camps to squatter communities. Ward was an anarchist journalist and editor for almost sixty years, most famously editing the journal Anarchy. He was also a columnist for New Statesman, New Society, Freedom, and Town and Country Planning.
Escape from Leviathan
Author: J. Lester
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511546
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The principal criticism of libertarianism is that it would damage human welfare. In response, this book considers an extreme libertarian thesis: there is no conceptual or practical clash among the most plausible accounts of economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare, and private-property anarchy. Eschewing moral advocacy as a distraction, it offers a critical-rationalist defence of this objective thesis from many criticisms in the literature.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511546
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The principal criticism of libertarianism is that it would damage human welfare. In response, this book considers an extreme libertarian thesis: there is no conceptual or practical clash among the most plausible accounts of economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare, and private-property anarchy. Eschewing moral advocacy as a distraction, it offers a critical-rationalist defence of this objective thesis from many criticisms in the literature.
Conceptual Anarchy
Author: Peter Payack/The First Poet Populist of Cambridge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982440803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Peter Payack is a unique talent and Cambridge Massachusetts' first Poet Populist (2007-2009). This seminal selection of poems, prose poems, epigrams, collages, short play and short story showcase Payack's style combining humor and philosophy, science and everyday observations. Payack calls this blend ¿Conceptual Anarchy.¿ Payack has published more then 1,000 poems including four appearances in The Paris Review, ten poems in Rolling Stone, over thirty poems in The New York Times, and three dozen appearances in Asimov¿s Science Fiction Magazine. His poem, ¿The Migration of Darkness¿, won 1980¿s Rhysling Award for best Science Fiction poem. Payack was the founding editor of Phone-A-Poem, The Cambridge/Boston Poetry hotline (1976-2006), and the creator of The Edible Anthology of Poetry, now in its fifth baking (see Poet Populist Peter Payack¿s Poetry Cookies ISBN 978-0-9824408-2-7) including poets Robert Pinsky, Sam Cornish and Gail Mazur.Payack is the inventor of the world renowned Stonehenge Watch¿ (www.stonehengewatch.com), an infinitesimal replica of the megaliths at Stonehenge inside an old-fashioned pocket watch, which has been featured on BBC-TV, in Astronomy and Playboy magazines. The Watch and Payack¿s accompanying booklet, Stonehenge Unraveled ISBN 978-0-9824408-3-4 is part of the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics permanent Database.Payack has published six nationally distributed books, the latest, Blanket Knowledge (ISBN 0-944072-83-6, Zoland Books) is available from the poet.A Sky Artist, Payack has been commissioned to do poetry projects for New York Avant Garde Festival, MIT¿s International Sky Art Conference at Cambridge, Athens, and The European Cultural Centre in Delphi, Greece, and The Harvard 350 Celebration.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982440803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Peter Payack is a unique talent and Cambridge Massachusetts' first Poet Populist (2007-2009). This seminal selection of poems, prose poems, epigrams, collages, short play and short story showcase Payack's style combining humor and philosophy, science and everyday observations. Payack calls this blend ¿Conceptual Anarchy.¿ Payack has published more then 1,000 poems including four appearances in The Paris Review, ten poems in Rolling Stone, over thirty poems in The New York Times, and three dozen appearances in Asimov¿s Science Fiction Magazine. His poem, ¿The Migration of Darkness¿, won 1980¿s Rhysling Award for best Science Fiction poem. Payack was the founding editor of Phone-A-Poem, The Cambridge/Boston Poetry hotline (1976-2006), and the creator of The Edible Anthology of Poetry, now in its fifth baking (see Poet Populist Peter Payack¿s Poetry Cookies ISBN 978-0-9824408-2-7) including poets Robert Pinsky, Sam Cornish and Gail Mazur.Payack is the inventor of the world renowned Stonehenge Watch¿ (www.stonehengewatch.com), an infinitesimal replica of the megaliths at Stonehenge inside an old-fashioned pocket watch, which has been featured on BBC-TV, in Astronomy and Playboy magazines. The Watch and Payack¿s accompanying booklet, Stonehenge Unraveled ISBN 978-0-9824408-3-4 is part of the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics permanent Database.Payack has published six nationally distributed books, the latest, Blanket Knowledge (ISBN 0-944072-83-6, Zoland Books) is available from the poet.A Sky Artist, Payack has been commissioned to do poetry projects for New York Avant Garde Festival, MIT¿s International Sky Art Conference at Cambridge, Athens, and The European Cultural Centre in Delphi, Greece, and The Harvard 350 Celebration.
Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country
Author: Rosalind Miles
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307420825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Camelot--a vibrant pageant of love, heartbreak, hatred, jealousy, revenge, and desire--as seen through the eyes of its queen, Guenevere Raised in the tranquil beauty of the Summer Country, Princess Guenevere has led a charmed and contented life, until the sudden, violent death of her mother, Queen Maire, leaves the Summer Country teetering on the brink of anarchy. Only the miraculous arrival of Arthur, heir to the Pendragon dynasty, allows Guenevere to claim her mother's throne. Smitten by the bold, sensuous princess, Arthur offers to marry her and unite their territory while still allowing her to rule in her own right. Their love match creates the largest and most powerful kingdom in the Isles. Arthur's glorious rule begins to crumble, however, when he is reunited with his mother and his long-lost half-sisters, Morgause and Morgan. Before Arthur's birth, his father--the savage and unscrupulous King Uther--banished his wife's young daughters, selling Morgause into a cruel marriage and imprisoning Morgan in a far-off convent. Both daughters will avenge their suffering, but it is Morgan who strikes the deadliest blows against the King and Queen, using her evil enchantments to destroy all Guenevere holds dear. When the Queen flees to Avalon, Morgan casts a spell on Arthur and seduces him. In the chaos that follows his betrayal, Arthur sends a new courtier to protect Guenevere, the young French knight Lancelot. Her loyalty to Arthur already destroyed, Guenevere falls in love with Lancelot, a love that may spell ruin for Camelot.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307420825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Camelot--a vibrant pageant of love, heartbreak, hatred, jealousy, revenge, and desire--as seen through the eyes of its queen, Guenevere Raised in the tranquil beauty of the Summer Country, Princess Guenevere has led a charmed and contented life, until the sudden, violent death of her mother, Queen Maire, leaves the Summer Country teetering on the brink of anarchy. Only the miraculous arrival of Arthur, heir to the Pendragon dynasty, allows Guenevere to claim her mother's throne. Smitten by the bold, sensuous princess, Arthur offers to marry her and unite their territory while still allowing her to rule in her own right. Their love match creates the largest and most powerful kingdom in the Isles. Arthur's glorious rule begins to crumble, however, when he is reunited with his mother and his long-lost half-sisters, Morgause and Morgan. Before Arthur's birth, his father--the savage and unscrupulous King Uther--banished his wife's young daughters, selling Morgause into a cruel marriage and imprisoning Morgan in a far-off convent. Both daughters will avenge their suffering, but it is Morgan who strikes the deadliest blows against the King and Queen, using her evil enchantments to destroy all Guenevere holds dear. When the Queen flees to Avalon, Morgan casts a spell on Arthur and seduces him. In the chaos that follows his betrayal, Arthur sends a new courtier to protect Guenevere, the young French knight Lancelot. Her loyalty to Arthur already destroyed, Guenevere falls in love with Lancelot, a love that may spell ruin for Camelot.