A Social History of Truth

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Reducere. Discover the remarkable history of the most widely known secretive fraternal organization in A Dictionary of Freemasonry. This comprehensive and co...

Reducere. The poodle as emblem in the subversive multimedia works of the influential Canadian collectiveFounded in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this pathbreaking study of the gendering of the practices of history, Bonnie Smith resurrects the amateur history written by women in...

Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "Old Elizabeth, " an ex-slave who courageou...

The crits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structura...

Reducere. Description"Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country."-- Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, ...

Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the c...

Reducere. Finally, the truth is revealed about Manhattan's Deutsche Bank building fire. The devastating fire at 130 Liberty Street in the heart of Manhattan'...

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Reducere. In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil...

DescriptionThis volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed ...

The essays in this collection, by one of the most recognized figures in the field of intellectual history, touch on a wide variety of topics, rangi...

Reducere. Description Lynched chronicles the history and aftermath of lynching in America. By rooting her work in oral histories, Angela D. Sims gives voice ...

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most contro...

Since the 1960s the South Bronx has been reduced to an archetype of the "inner city, " the exemplar of urban decay and of the cultural renaissance ...

Reducere. The Truth of Myth is a thorough and accessible introduction to the study of myth, surveying the intellectual history of the topic, methods for stud...

Reducere. In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science...

A contempary anecdote not only confirms that Martha commanded respect in her own right during her lifetime, but also suggests an awkward truth late...

Reducere. A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power The first volume of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell the Tru...

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Reducere. Enduring Truth argues that faithfulness to Scripture is the solution to a "crisis" among African American preaching. Though misinterpreting God's W...

"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are ground...

Reducere. Representing Michigan for thirty-six years in the U.S. Senate, Carl Levin, the longest-serving senator in Michigan history, was known for his dogge...

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Reducere. Do you know that you are programmed to be who you are at this moment, with all your predicted successes and failures?About the Author: Daniel Marqu...

In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence ...

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Reducere. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focus...

Reducere. Political polarization and unrest are not exclusive to our era, but in the twenty-first century, we are living with seemingly unresolvable disagree...

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From Native Americans' use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have b...

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Reducere. Seeking Truth in A Country of Lies is a collection of lyrical and critical essays offering keen insight into a very wide range of topics: from prob...

Reducere. In these lectures delivered in 1980, Michel Foucault gives an important new inflection to his history of "regimes of truth." Following on from the ...

A slave without a past. A master without a future. A journey of discovery that will forever change the lives of both men. The ancient world comes a...

Reducere. ``Tremendous. This guy has done history like you would not believe.``--Glenn BeckThe secrets of history's most enduring mystery are finally reveale...

Reducere. Since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's findings, administrators, faculty members and students have heard that universities s...

The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and...

Reducere. The COVID-19 pandemic will forever be remembered as a pivotal event in American history. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on leadersh...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James PerloffTwenty-five years after publication of The Shadows of Power, James Perloff returns to the venue of political h...

DescriptionBadiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory ...

Reducere. This text examines the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that...

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DescriptionOn Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the ...

Reducere. This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual c...

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Reducere. Can teaching media literacy really change the world? Researchers predict that, in 2015, the average American will spend more than fifteen hours eve...

"Kovalik helps cut through the Orwellian lies and dissembling which make so-called 'humanitarian' intervention possible." --Oliver Stone War is the...

Reducere. The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Coll ge de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous y...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Zena Halpern"We make landfall on an island of oaks." So reads a 12th century Templar manuscript recovered from a medieval I...

In a media landscape dominated by advocacy news networks pushing competing points of view, how can the average person uncover the truth about any p...

In the final days of 2019, a new and deadly virus was quietly spreading through the city of Wuhan, China. Within six months it would kill half a mi...

Reducere. Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden i...

Reducere. Communist humor is the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. Th...

Reducere. To anyone paying attention, it seems as though "The world has gone crazy", but there is still hope for America and for the American people. America...

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Reducere. In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which h...

Reducere. Some of the most significant obstacles to human well-being today are habits of Western thought that have been exported around the world. These habi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathe...

Reducere. DescriptionMany people in America today are totally unaware of the unfolding New World Order. This textbook is intended to remedy that defect. Hist...

Reducere. Claston A. Bernard is proud to call himself a black conservative, even if this identity has earned him ire from many in the community. His new work...

Reducere. Founded in 1854 as an abolitionist outpost, Lawrence is a seemingly unassuming college town with a long history of hauntings. A ghostly guest never...