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Cybernetic Revolutionaries

Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

By: Eden Medina

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Cybernetic Revolutionaries

Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

By: Eden Medina

A historical study of Chile's twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics. In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized—Allende's government ended with a violent military coup; the system, known as Project Cybersyn, was never completely implemented—but they hold lessons for today about the relationship between technology and politics. Drawing on extensive archival material and interviews, Medina examines the cybernetic system envisioned by the Chilean government—which was to feature holistic system design, decentralized management, human-computer interaction, a national telex network, near real-time control of the growing industrial sector, and modeling the behavior of dynamic systems. She also describes, and documents with photographs, the network's Star Trek-like operations room, which featured swivel chairs with armrest control panels, a wall of screens displaying data, and flashing red lights to indicate economic emergencies. Studying project Cybersyn today helps us understand not only the technological ambitions of a government in the midst of political change but also the limitations of the Chilean revolution. This history further shows how human attempts to combine the political and the technological with the goal of creating a more just society can open new technological, intellectual, and political possibilities. Technologies, Medina writes, are historical texts; when we read them we are reading history.

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Cybernetic Revolutionaries

Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

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Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

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Why Meadow Died

The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students

By: Andrew Pollack,Max Eden

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Why Meadow Died

The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students

By: Andrew Pollack,Max Eden

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER As featured in the New York Post and as seen on Tucker Carlson, Fox and Friends, Martha MacCallum, and more. Voted by Book Authority as one of the ten best social policy books of all time! The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the policies that made it inevitable are being forced into public schools across America. “After my sister Meadow was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the media obsessed for months about the type of rifle the killer used. It was all clickbait and politics, not answers or justice. That wasn’t good enough for us. My dad is a real tough guy, but Meadow had him wrapped around her little finger. He would do anything she wanted, and she would want him to find every answer so that this never happens again. My dad teamed up with one of America’s leading education experts to launch his own investigation. We found the answers to the questions the media refused to ask. Questions about school safety that go far beyond the national gun debate. And the answers to those questions matter for parents, teachers, and schoolchildren nationwide. If one single adult in the Broward County school district had made one responsible decision about the Parkland shooter, then my sister would still be alive. But every bad decision they made makes total sense once you understand the district’s politically correct policies, which started here in Broward and have spread to thousands of schools across America.” —Hunter Pollack, “Foreword”

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Simon and Schuster

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1642932205

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9781642932201

Dark Angel

By: Eden Maguire

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Dark Angel

By: Eden Maguire

Tania's heart belongs to Orlando. Nothing can rip them apart. Until the seduction begins in a flurry of glamour and magic, music and parties all orchestrated by the mysterious and mesmerising Zoran, an iconic rock star who has retired to a remote ranch in the nearby mountains. And there Tania meets the dark side. Can she resist temptation?

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Hachette Children's

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1444905309

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9781444905304

God Save the USSR

Soviet Muslims and the Second World War

By: Jeff Eden

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God Save the USSR

Soviet Muslims and the Second World War

By: Jeff Eden

During the Second World War, as the Soviet Red Army was locked in brutal combat against the Nazis, Joseph Stalin ended the state's violent, decades-long persecution of religion. In a stunning reversal, priests, imams, rabbis, and other religious elites--many of them newly-released from the Gulag--were tasked with rallying Soviet citizens to a "Holy War" against Hitler. To the delight of some citizens, and to the horror of others, Stalin's reversal encouraged a widespread perception that his "war on religion" was over. A revolution in Soviet religious life ensued: soldiers prayed on the battlefield, entire villages celebrated once-banned holidays, and state-backed religious leaders used their new positions not only to consolidate power over their communities, but also to petition for further religious freedoms. Offering a window on this wartime "religious revolution," God Save the USSR focuses on the Soviet Union's Muslims, using sources in several languages (including Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Uzbek, and Persian). Drawing evidence from eyewitness accounts, interviews, soldiers' letters, frontline poetry, agents' reports, petitions, and the words of Soviet Muslim leaders, Jeff Eden argues that the religious revolution was fomented simultaneously by the state and by religious Soviet citizens: the state gave an inch, and many citizens took a mile, as atheist Soviet agents looked on in exasperation at the resurgence of unconcealed devotional life.

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Oxford University Press

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0190076291

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Explorer's Guide Playa Del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya

A Great Destination

By: Joshua Eden Hinsdale

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Explorer's Guide Playa Del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya

A Great Destination

By: Joshua Eden Hinsdale

A comprehensive travel guide to Mexico's Playa del Carmen, Tulum, and the Riviera Maya, with detailed maps and information on accommodations and restaurants, ancient ruins, and other interesting places to see.

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The Countryman Press

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1581571321

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Explorer's Guide Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya (Fifth Edition) (Explorer's Complete)

By: Joshua Eden Hinsdale

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Explorer's Guide Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya (Fifth Edition) (Explorer's Complete)

By: Joshua Eden Hinsdale

The best guide to Mexico’s finest vacation destination Joshua Hinsdale’s insider knowledge and selective recommendations make this book a must- have for your sojourn on the Yucatán Peninsula. Let it help you make the most of your time in this beautiful place: delve deep into fascinating Mayan ruins, explore the pedestrian boardwalk in Playa del Carmen, or fish for elusive bonefish along the famous Sian Ka’an biosphere reserve in Punta Allen. This new edition features gorgeous new photography; detailed maps; rich history; a glossary of English to Spanish phrases; a rundown of the best local swimming lagoons, hidden beaches, and taco bars; events calendars; and much more. Regions include: • Puerto Aventuras • Cozumel • Cancún • Isla Mujeres

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The Countryman Press

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1682682188

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Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

By: Jeff Eden

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Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

By: Jeff Eden

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central Asia's relations with Russia, England, and Iran, and would serve as a major justification for the Russian conquest of this region in the 1860s–70s. Challenging the consensus that the Russian Empire abolished slavery with these conquests, Eden uses these documents to reveal that it was the slaves themselves who brought about their own emancipation by fomenting the largest slave uprising in the region's history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108580904

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9781108580908

Cold Kitchen

A Year of Culinary Travels

By: Caroline Eden

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Cold Kitchen

A Year of Culinary Travels

By: Caroline Eden

A Financial Times and Observer "best summer read" 'With its union of practicality and magic, a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary. Offering opportunities to cook, imagine and create ways back into other times, other lives and other territories. Central Asia, Turkey, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, Russia, the Baltics and Poland. Places that have eased into my marrow over the years shaping my life, writing and thinking. They are here, these lands I return to, in this kitchen.' A welcoming refuge with its tempting pantry, shelves of books and inquisitive dog, Caroline Eden finds comfort away from the road in her basement Edinburgh kitchen. Join her as she cooks recipes from her travels, reflects on past adventures and contemplates the kitchen's unique ability to tell human stories. This is a hauntingly honest, and at times heartbreaking, memoir with the smell, taste and preparation of food at its heart. From late night baking as a route back to Ukraine to capturing the beauty of Uzbek porcelain, and from the troublesome nature of food and art in Poland to the magic of cloudberries, Cold Kitchen celebrates the importance of curiosity and of feeling at home in the world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526658968

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9781526658968

Warrior Saints of the Silk Road

Legends of the Qarakhanids

By: Jeff Eden

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Warrior Saints of the Silk Road

Legends of the Qarakhanids

By: Jeff Eden

For generations, Central Asian Muslims have told legends of medieval rulers who waged war, died in battle, and achieved sainthood. Among the Uyghurs of East Turkistan (present-day Xinjiang, China), some of the most beloved legends tell of the warrior-saint Satuq Bughra Khan and his descendants, the rulers of the Qarakhanid dynasty. To this day, these tales are recited at the saints' shrines and retold on any occasion. Warrior Saints of the Silk Road introduces this rich literary tradition, presenting the first complete English translation of the Qarakhanid narrative cycle along with an accessible commentary. At once mesmerizing, moving, and disturbing, these legends are essential texts in Central Asia's religious heritage as well as fine, enduring works of mystical literature.

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BRILL

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9004384278

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9789004384279

Explorer's Guide Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya: A Great Destination (Fourth Edition)

By: Joshua Eden Hinsdale

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Explorer's Guide Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya: A Great Destination (Fourth Edition)

By: Joshua Eden Hinsdale

Hidden beaches, great taco bars, secret fishing holes, and buzzing nightspots await . . . Explorer's Guides show you how to visit great places like a local, getting under the touristy surface with insights into the area's history, culture, economy, and more. Explorer's Guides Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya: A Great Destination is no exception. The author’s insider knowledge and selective recommendations make this book a must-have for your sojourn in Mexico. Let it help you make the most of your time in this beautiful place: delve deep into fascinating Mayan ruins; explore the pedestrian boardwalk in Playa del Carmen; or fish for elusive bonefish along the famous Sian Ka’an biosphere reserve in Punta Allen. This fully revised and updated fourth edition features color photography; detailed maps; rich history; a glossary of English to Spanish phrases; a rundown of the best local swimming lagoons, hidden beaches, and great taco bars; events calendars; and much more. It's all you need to help you plan your best vacation yet.

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The Countryman Press

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1581576250

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The Modernization of Inner Asia

By: Cyril E. Black,Louis Dupree,Elizabeth Endicott-West,Daniel C. Matuszewski,Eden Naby,Arthur N. Waldron

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The Modernization of Inner Asia

By: Cyril E. Black,Louis Dupree,Elizabeth Endicott-West,Daniel C. Matuszewski,Eden Naby,Arthur N. Waldron

Inner Asia - in premodern times the little-known land of nomads and semi-nomads - has moved to the world's front page in the 20th century as the complex struggles for the future of Afghanistan, Soviet Central Asia, Tibet and other territories make clear. But because Inner Asia as a whole is divided among several states politically and among area specialists academically, broad perspectives on recent events are difficult to find. This work treats the region as a single unit, providing both an account of the region's past and an analysis of its present and its prospects in a thematic, rather than a strictly country-by-country manner.

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458

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Routledge

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131548899X

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9781315488998

The State of the Poor

Or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period

By: Frederick Morton Eden

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The State of the Poor

Or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period

By: Frederick Morton Eden

Published in 1797, this three-volume work describes poverty in England and the various measures introduced to deal with it.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108036872

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Cybernetic Revolutionaries

Cybernetic Revolutionaries

Cybernetic Revolutionaries

Cybernetic Revolutionaries

Why Meadow Died

Why Meadow Died

Dark Angel

Dark Angel

God Save the USSR

God Save the USSR

Explorer's Guide Playa Del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya

Explorer's Guide Playa Del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya

Explorer's Guide Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya (Fifth Edition) (Explorer's Complete)

Explorer's Guide Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya (Fifth Edition) (Explorer's Complete)

Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

Cold Kitchen

Cold Kitchen

Warrior Saints of the Silk Road

Warrior Saints of the Silk Road

Explorer's Guide Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya: A Great Destination (Fourth Edition)

Explorer's Guide Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya: A Great Destination (Fourth Edition)

The Modernization of Inner Asia

The Modernization of Inner Asia

The State of the Poor

The State of the Poor

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