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An Impatient Life

A Memoir

By: Daniel Bensaid

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A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensaïd was a man deeply entrenched in both the French and the international left. Raised in a staunchly red neighbourhood of Toulouse, where his family owned a bistro, he grew to be France’s leading Marxist public intellectual, much in demand on talk shows and in the press. A lyrical essayist and powerful public speaker, at his best expounding large ideas to crowds of students and workers, he was a founder member of the Ligue Communiste and thrived at the heart of a resurgent far left in the 1960s, which nurtured many of the leading figures of today’s French establishment. The path from the joyous explosion of May 1968, through the painful experience of defeat in Latin America and the world-shaking collapse of the USSR, to the neoliberal world of today, dominated as it is by global finance, is narrated in An Impatient Life with Bensaïd’s characteristic elegance of phrase and clarity of vision. His memoir relates a life of ideological and practical struggle, a never-resting endeavour to comprehend the workings of capitalism in the pursuit of revolution.

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An Impatient Life

A Memoir

By: Daniel Bensaid

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A Memoir

By: Daniel Bensaid

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The Dispossessed

Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor

By: Daniel Bensaïd

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The Dispossessed

Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor

By: Daniel Bensaïd

Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization The politics of dispossession are everywhere. Troubling developments in intellectual property, genomics, and biotechnology are undermining established concepts of property, while land appropriation and ecological crises reconfigure basic institutions of ownership. In The Dispossessed, Daniel Bensaïd examines Karl Marx’s early writings to establish a new framework for addressing the rights of the poor, the idea of the commons, and private property as a social institution. In his series of articles from 1842–43 about Rhineland parliamentary debates over the privatization of public lands and criminalization of poverty under the rubric of the “theft of wood,” Marx identified broader anxieties about customary law, property rights, and capitalist efforts to privatize the commons. Bensaïd studies these writings to interrogate how dispossession continues to function today as a key modality of power. Brilliantly tacking between past and present, The Dispossessed discloses continuity and rupture in our relationships to property and, through that, to one another. In addition to Bensaïd’s prescient work of political philosophy, The Dispossessed includes new translations of Marx’s original “theft of wood” articles and an introductory essay by Robert Nichols that lucidly contextualizes the essays.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452965625

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Democracy in What State?

By: Giorgio Agamben,Daniel Bensaid,Slavoj Zizek

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Democracy in What State?

By: Giorgio Agamben,Daniel Bensaid,Slavoj Zizek

Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben traces the tense history of constitutions and their coexistence with various governments. Alain Badiou contrasts current democratic practice with democratic communism. Daniel Bensaid ponders the institutionalization of democracy, while Wendy Brown discusses the democratization of society under neoliberalism. Jean-Luc Nancy measures the difference between democracy as a form of rule and as a human end, and Jacques Rancière highlights its egalitarian nature. Kristin Ross identifies hierarchical relationships within democratic practice, and Slavoj Zizek complicates the distinction between those who desire to own the state and those who wish to do without it. Concentrating on the classical roots of democracy and its changing meaning over time and within different contexts, these essays uniquely defend what is left of the left-wing tradition after the fall of Soviet communism. They confront disincentives to active democratic participation that have caused voter turnout to decline in western countries, and they address electoral indifference by invoking and reviving the tradition of citizen involvement. Passionately written and theoretically rich, this collection speaks to all facets of modern political and democratic debate.

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Columbia University Press

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023115299X

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Marx for Our Times

Adventures and Misadventures Of a Critique

By: Daniel Bensaïd

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Marx for Our Times

Adventures and Misadventures Of a Critique

By: Daniel Bensaïd

The end of Soviet Socialism signalled to some observers that the ghost of Marx had finally been laid to rest. But history's refusal to grind to a halt and the global credit crisis that began in 2008 have rekindled interest in capitalism's most persistent critic. Written during the mid-nineties, a period of Western complacency and neo-liberal reaction, Marx for Our Times is a critical reading of dialectical materialism as a method of resistance. Without denying the contradictory character of Marx's thought, and with a sensitivity to the plurality of theories it has inspired, Daniel Bensaid sets out to discover what in Marx remains dynamic and relevant in our era of accelerating economic change. Marx's theory emerges, not as a doctrinal system, but as an intellectual tool of social struggle and global transformation in a world where capital continues to dominate social relations.

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Adventures and Misadventures Of a Critique

By: Daniel Bensaïd

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Adventures and Misadventures Of a Critique

By: Daniel Bensaïd

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Operation Dragon Shield

By: Daniel Hutmacher

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Operation Dragon Shield

By: Daniel Hutmacher

After Taiwan declares its independence from China the Chinese react like they said the would: full-scale invasion. For Brad Johnson and the men of the 67th fighter squadron the war becomes a battle for survival. A battle that not everyone will win"--Page 2 of cover

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0741422549

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The Supernaturals Of Gatner House

By: Daniel Rendall

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The Supernaturals Of Gatner House

By: Daniel Rendall

When Ben and Margaret Gaffney relocate their family to New Hampshire for a business opportunity, they think they have found the perfect home when they move into Gatner House; an old, abandoned house with a very dark past. Almost from the beginning they realize the house is already occupied by strange supernatural forces. Doors opening and closing on their own, unexplained voices, and eerie apparitions. Their niece Francesca takes on a fascination to the paranormal, becoming more vulnerable to the dark presence lurking in the house. The family has found themselves in a spiritual battle they cannot seem to win; until they meet Reverend Isaiah Larynmeyer, a man with a strong faith in God and well educated in spiritual warfare. Can the minister help the family rescue Francesca's soul and get to the bottom of the supernaturals of Gatner House?

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Lulu.com

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0359759076

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Seeing Red, More Red Daley Stories

By: Daniel Rowe

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Seeing Red, More Red Daley Stories

By: Daniel Rowe

Red Daley, the two-fisted ex-cop turned newsman, is back on the street to right wrongs, expose corruption and make criminals sorry they ever broke the law. If you like hard-boiled detective action, you'll love Red Daley,

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0557119863

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The World Can Break Your Heart

By: Daniel Curzon

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The World Can Break Your Heart

By: Daniel Curzon

Living in the closet in the not-too-distant past

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The Last Flight of Poxl West

A Novel

By: Daniel Torday

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The Last Flight of Poxl West

A Novel

By: Daniel Torday

Poxl West fled the Nazis' onslaught in Czechoslovakia. He escaped their clutches again in Holland. He pulled Londoners from the Blitz's rubble. He wooed intoxicating, unconventional beauties. He rained fire on Germany from his RAF bomber. Poxl West is the epitome of manhood and something of an idol to his teenage nephew, Eli Goldstein, who reveres him as a brave, singular, Jewish war hero. Poxl fills Eli's head with electric accounts of his derring-do, adventures and romances, as he collects the best episodes from his storied life into a memoir. He publishes that memoir, Skylock, to great acclaim, and its success takes him on the road, and out of Eli's life. With his uncle gone, Eli throws himself into reading his opus and becomes fixated on all things Poxl. But as he delves deeper into Poxl's history, Eli begins to see that the life of the fearless superman he's adored has been much darker than he let on, and filled with unimaginable loss from which he may have not recovered. As the truth about Poxl emerges, it forces Eli to face irreconcilable facts about the war he's romanticized and the vision of the man he's held so dear. Daniel Torday's debut novel, The Last Flight of Poxl West, beautifully weaves together the two unforgettable voices of Eli Goldstein and Poxl West, exploring what it really means to be a hero, and to be a family, in the long shadow of war.

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Fire in the Canyon

A Novel

By: Daniel Gumbiner

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Fire in the Canyon

A Novel

By: Daniel Gumbiner

A new novel from National Book Award nominee Daniel Gumbiner about a California grape-grower, his family, and the climate disaster that upends their quiet lives. Since his release from prison after serving an eighteen-month sentence for growing cannabis, Ben Hecht’s life has settled into a familiar routine. On his farm in the foothills of California, he stays busy cultivating a dozen acres of grapes and tending to a flock of mistrustful sheep. Meanwhile, from her desk in their old redwood barn, his novelist wife, Ada, continues to work on what may be her most important book yet. When their only son, Yoel, comes home from Los Angeles for a rare visit, Ben is forced to confront their long troubled relationship, which has continued to degrade in recent years. But before the two of them can truly address their past, a wildfire sweeps through the region, forcing the Hecht family to flee to the coast, and setting into motion a chain of events that will transform them all. This is a story about grape growing and wine, financial and familial struggles, and the peculiar characters and unlikely heroes one will always find in small-town California. Through the experiences of the Hechts and the escalating challenges that face their community, Fire in the Canyon is an intimate look at the lives of those already living through the climate crisis.

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1662602413

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Globalization and Its Enemies

By: Daniel Cohen

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Globalization and Its Enemies

By: Daniel Cohen

A provocative argument that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created and the lagging economic reality in poor countries. The enemies of globalization—whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition of Western values on traditional cultures—see the new world economy as forcing a system on people who do not want it. But the truth of the matter, writes Daniel Cohen in this provocative account, may be the reverse. Globalization, thanks to the speed of twenty-first-century communications, shows people a world of material prosperity that they do want—a vivid world of promises that have yet to be fulfilled. For the most impoverished developing nations, globalization remains only an elusive image, a fleeting mirage. Never before, Cohen says, have the means of communication—the media—created such a global consciousness, and never have economic forces lagged so far behind expectations. Today's globalization, Cohen argues, is the third act in a history that began with the Spanish Conquistadors in the sixteenth century and continued with Great Britain's nineteenth-century empire of free trade. In the nineteenth century, as in the twenty-first, a revolution in transportation and communication did not promote widespread wealth but favored polarization. India, a part of the British empire, was just as poor in 1913 as it was in 1820. Will today's information economy do better in disseminating wealth than the telegraph did two centuries ago? Presumably yes, if one gauges the outcome from China's perspective; surely not, if Africa's experience is a guide. At any rate, poor countries require much effort and investment to become players in the global game. The view that technologies and world trade bring wealth by themselves is no more true today than it was two centuries ago. We should not, Cohen writes, consider globalization as an accomplished fact. It is because of what has yet to happen—the unfulfilled promises of prosperity—that globalization has so many enemies in the contemporary world. For the poorest countries of the world, the problem is not so much that they are exploited by globalization as that they are forgotten and excluded.

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MIT Press

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0262266636

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Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions

By: Daniel Weberg,Sandra Davidson

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Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions

By: Daniel Weberg,Sandra Davidson

Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions, Second Edition takes a patient-centered approach, discusses the perspectives on the dynamic of innovation and evidence as well as emerging competencies for leaders of healthcare innovation, making it the ideal textbook for DNP and Masters level leadership courses.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284171361

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Malevolence

By: daniel storm

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Malevolence

By: daniel storm

A mother's revenge for the murder of her child, has no limits. How, when and where this mother seeks her revenge on the killer, is unlike anyone has ever seen or thought of before. She is cunning and her method is almost perfection. This author is the fresh life to fiction, replacing the Old Guard that has entertained readers for decades.

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SECOND CHANCE PUBLICATIONS

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Aurora

By: Daniel Kennedy

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Aurora

By: Daniel Kennedy

Ben Patrick finds himself freezing and empty handed on a January day in Missouri, 1850. His life is saved and eventually changed by a group of people who established their own way of living in changing America. Patrick is forced to leave his home in the south, and build a new life in a new America. His past refuses to leave him, but with the help of people very unlike himself, he changes his future.

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The Dispossessed

Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor

By: Daniel Bensaïd

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The Dispossessed

Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor

By: Daniel Bensaïd

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The Aesculapian

By: Dan Cloud,Daniel T Cloud

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The Aesculapian

By: Dan Cloud,Daniel T Cloud

A medical thriller on a surgeon in Phoenix who discovers mass corruption in the American Medical Association with ties to organized crime in Japan. This places his life in jeopardy and his wife is killed, but it also helps him win the love of another woman. A debut in fiction.

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Nine Novels by Younger Americans

By: Sara Bradshaw,Rachel Barber,Daniel Cowen

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Nine Novels by Younger Americans

By: Sara Bradshaw,Rachel Barber,Daniel Cowen

This anthology collects nine exceptional novels that were written by high school students from New York City during the summer of 2005 in 826NYC's Young Adult Writers' Colony. Ranging from comedic, to fiercly political, to deeply personal, these novels are immensely entertaining and forecast a bright future for this brand new generation of novelists. As novelist Richard Powers says in his foreword, There comes a time when we must decide whether we love the world enough to hand it over to its next lover . . . [This is a book of] nine worlds that nine people could not find and so had to make themselves. Here it is before you: how the story ends this time. And how it starts again.

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826 Books

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0977084442

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Strange Encounters

Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist

By: Daniel B. Botkin

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Strange Encounters

Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist

By: Daniel B. Botkin

The warm, witty anecdotal adventures of a world-renowned scientist, spanning thirty years and dozens of countries. Most people only dream of having the life Daniel B. Botkin has led. He has studied whales and elephants, tramped over high mountain passes and through rain forests, worked with NASA, and spent substantial time walking in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, and Henry David Thoreau. In Strange Encounters, Botkin does for the natural world what Richard Feynman did for physics and Oliver Sacks for human behavior. Whether rebuilding an old mill in New Hampshire while ruminating on notions of "progress," researching the most weight-efficient high-protein food for space travel, or working in a radioactive forest on an early Cold War research project, Botkin experiences the kind of adventures that illuminate the complex and ever-changing relationship between human beings and their environment.

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