[PDF] The Day Of Revolution eBook

Author : Mikiyo Tsuda
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781569708897

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"It's official -- Megumi is the most popular "girl" at school! With collectible black market photos of her sweet face circulating on the playground (and a gang of the sexiest guys competing to win her heart), Megumi has outrageous boy vs. boy action to contend with. But when a new rival enters the fiery courtship battle, even the coolest campus clique can't help but wonder if they'll lose their dream girl to a total outsider...and he's only in junior high!" -- from publisher's web site.

Author : Cari Luna
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935639641

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In the midnineties, New York’s Lower East Side contained a city within its shadows: a community of squatters who staked their claims on abandoned tenements and lived and worked within their own parameters, accountable to no one but each other. With gritty prose and vivid descriptions, Cari Luna’s debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, imagines the lives of five squatters from that time. But almost more threatening than the city lawyers and the private developers trying to evict them are the rifts within their community. Amelia, taken in by Gerrit as a teen runaway seven years earlier, is now pregnant by his best friend, Steve. Anne, married to Steve, is questioning her commitment to the squatter lifestyle. Cat, a fading legend of the downtown scene and unwitting leader of one of the squats, succumbs to heroin. The misunderstandings and assumptions, the secrets and the dissolution of the hope that originally bound these five threaten to destroy their homes as surely as the city’s battering rams. The Revolution of Every Day shows readers a life that few people, including the New Yorkers who passed the squats every day, know about or understand.

Author : V. I. Lenin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 178663189X

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One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today V. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, in this new study and collection of Lenin’s original texts, Slavoj Žižek argues that his true greatness can be better grasped in the last two years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo and a terrifying civil war, as well as internal revolts such as the one at Kronstadt in 1921. But the new state was exhausted, isolated and disorientated. As the anticipated world revolution receded into the distance, new paths had to be charted if the Soviet state was to survive. With his characteristic brio and provocative insight, Žižek suggests that Lenin’s courage as a thinker can be found in his willingness to face this reality of retreat unflinchingly. In today’s world, characterized by political turbulence, economic crises and geopolitical tensions, we should revisit Lenin’s combination of sober lucidity and revolutionary determination.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062470981

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“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati Enquirer The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Day Before the Revolution" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

Author : N. T. Wright
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0062334409

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The renowned scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author widely considered to be the heir to C. S. Lewis contemplates the central event at the heart of the Christian faith—Jesus’ crucifixion—arguing that the Protestant Reformation did not go far enough in transforming our understanding of its meaning. In The Day the Revolution Began, N. T. Wright once again challenges commonly held Christian beliefs as he did in his acclaimed Surprised by Hope. Demonstrating the rigorous intellect and breathtaking knowledge that have long defined his work, Wright argues that Jesus’ death on the cross was not only to absolve us of our sins; it was actually the beginning of a revolution commissioning the Christian faithful to a new vocation—a royal priesthood responsible for restoring and reconciling all of God’s creation. Wright argues that Jesus’ crucifixion must be understood within the much larger story of God’s purposes to bring heaven and earth together. The Day the Revolution Began offers a grand picture of Jesus’ sacrifice and its full significance for the Christian faith, inspiring believers with a renewed sense of mission, purpose, and hope, and reminding them of the crucial role the Christian faith must play in protecting and shaping the future of the world.

Author : V.I. Lenin
Publisher : Verso
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781859845462

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Edited, with a Foreword and Afterword, by Slavoj Zizek.

Author : Csaba Békés
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9633863864

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If there had been all-news television channels in 1956, viewers around the world would have been glued to their sets between October 23 and November 4. This book tells the story of the Hungarian Revolution in 120 original documents, ranging from the minutes of the first meeting of Khrushchev with Hungarian bosses after Stalin's death in 1953 to Yeltsin's declaration made in 1992. Other documents include letters from Yuri Andropov, Soviet Ambassador in Budapest during and after the revolt. The great majority of the material appears in English for the first time, and almost all come from archives that were inaccessible until the 1990s.