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A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation

A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation

by Gustavo Gutie?rrez

This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. The book burst upon the scene in the early seventies, and was swiftly acknowledged as a pioneering and prophetic approach to theology which famously made an option for the poor, placing the exploited, the alienated, and the economically wretched at the centre of a programme where "the oppressed and maimed and... (more)

The Hidden Face of Eve

Women in the Arab World

by Nawal El Saadawi

This powerful account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including female... (more)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

This text argues that the ignorance and lethargy of the poor are the direct result of the whole economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that in some countries the oppressors use the system to maintain a 'culture of silence'. Through the right kind of education, the book suggests, avoiding authoritarian teacher-pupil models and based on the actual experiences of students and on continual shared... (more)

Radical Honesty, The New Revised Edition: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth

Radical Honesty, The New Revised Edition: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth

by Brad Blanton

This new edition of the source book of the whole Radical Honesty movement includes Brad's accumulated observations since 1994 of those people whose lives have been transformed by getting out of the self-made jails of their minds into the truth they have always known.

Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building

Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building

by Terry Wolverton

An artist's memoir of her years at the Woman's Building, a pivotal institution of West Coast cultural feminism In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Women from across the country were drawn to the experiment of creating a female-centered culture through artmaking, exhibitions, and education. In Insurgent... (more)

To Lie Is Human: Not Getting Caught Is Divine

To Lie Is Human: Not Getting Caught Is Divine

by Christopher S. Hyatt

The lies you've been told---and the lies you tell yourself---keep you neatly and blindly confined in a prison that society doesn't want you even to see. In his inimitable style, Dr. Hyatt takes you on a walking tour of your cell, and then gives you the tools to tunnel out!

LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND: Liberation and Capture Missions

LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND: Liberation and Capture Missions

by David C. Isby

If the big wars of the 20th century were about saving civilization and countries, small wars are about saving people. Instead of defeating Hitler, they are concerned with the capture of international pariahs like Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Radovan Karadic or Colonel Aideed. The capture of such people and the rescue of hostages or prisoners-of-war: this is the twofold mission of the US Army’s Special Forces,... (more)

Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization

Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization

by Guillermo Bonfil Batalla

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be... (more)

GIAI PHONG! The Fall and Liberation of Saigon. Translated from the Italian by John Shepley.Tiziano: Terzani

GIAI PHONG! The Fall and Liberation of Saigon. Translated from the Italian by John Shepley.

by Tiziano: Terzani

Telling: A Loving Hagadah for Passover (Nonsexist Yet Traditional Judaism: Fast and Feast)Dov Ben-Khayyim

Telling: A Loving Hagadah for Passover (Nonsexist Yet Traditional Judaism: Fast and Feast)

by Dov Ben-Khayyim

From the Introduction: "The Pesakh story has been told for several thousand years, but its lessons and magic continue to provide meaning to this very day. It is especially relevant today, when so many of us are alientated, pessimistic, fearful and in need of spiritual sustenance." The late Dov Ben Khayyim, changed very little of the traditional Hagadah, when he first edited the book in 1983. He said "I simply... (more)

Tinh Ben-tre: Trong lich-su Viet-nam: Tu' nam 1757 den 1945Duy Oanh Nguyen

Tinh Ben-tre: Trong lich-su Viet-nam: Tu' nam 1757 den 1945

by Duy Oanh Nguyen

Red Star Over China

by Edgar Snow

The Liberation of Planet Earth

Rebels and Devils III: The Psychology of Liberation

Rebels and Devils III: The Psychology of Liberation

by Timothy Leary

"Rebels & Devils" brings together some of the most talented, controversial and rebellious people of all time. Many - such as William S. Burroughs, Dr Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and Aleister Crowley - are world famous. Others contributors, such as James Wasserman, S Jason Black and Peter J Carroll, are well-accomplished in their own fields. Still others are lesser-known - for now. But every contributor,... (more)

Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army

Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army

by Edgar Snow

Originally published in 1939, this is both a far-reaching history and an eyewitness account of the communist revolution in China. Contains a number of excellent historical photographs. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern... (more)

Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love

Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love

by Elizabeth Stevens Prioleau

In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history’s greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world—from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to such lesser-known women as the infamous Violet Gordon Woodhouse, who lived in a ménage with four men. Smarts, imagination, courage, and killer charm... (more)

History of Celibacy: From Athena to Elizabeth I, Leonardo Da Vinci, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, And Cher

History of Celibacy: From Athena to Elizabeth I, Leonardo Da Vinci, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, And Cher

by Elizabeth Abbott

This surprise bestseller from Canada traces the groups and individuals who are part of a timeless phenomenon that transcends culture and religion. Joan of Arc was one. So was Sir Isaac Newton. A monk vows to be one. A prisoner has no choice. History tells of many avowed celibates, and today's society reflects a renewed interest in celibacy. But what caused -- and still causes -- people to give up sex, the... (more)

Ceremonial Magic & The Power of Evocation: A System of Personal Power

Ceremonial Magic & The Power of Evocation: A System of Personal Power

by Joseph C. Lisiewski

For centuries, the ceremonial evocation of spiritual beings has been Magic's darkest corner. Reputed to fulfill the Magician's material desires, evocation has been the topic of the most famous Grimoires---the Grammars of Magic. From the Sworn Book of Honorius the Magician, to the Greater Key of Solomon and the Goetia; from the Grand Grimoire, to the complete treatise of the Lemegeton, all give direct, yet... (more)

Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

by Susan Griffin

This title offers an unprecedented, provocative look at the extraordinary world of the great courtesans, from Veronica Franco, who graced the palazzi of sixteenth-century Venice, and Madame de Pompadour, the arbiter of all things fashionable at Versailles, to La Belle Otero of the Grand Boulevards of fin-de-siecle Paris, who frequently sported jewel-encrusted garters, and Marion Davies who took Hollywood by storm.... (more)

Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

Amid rising public concern about the proliferation and privitization of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits, world-renowned author and activist Angela Y. Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America’s social ills. “In thinking about the possible obsolescence of the prison,” Davis writes, “we should ask how it is that so many people could end up in... (more)

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by Gustavo Gutie?rrez

Women in the Arab World

by Nawal El Saadawi

by Paulo Freire

by Brad Blanton

by Terry Wolverton

by Christopher S. Hyatt

by David C. Isby

by Guillermo Bonfil Batalla

by Tiziano: Terzani

by Dov Ben-Khayyim

by Duy Oanh Nguyen

by Edgar Snow

by Timothy Leary

by Edgar Snow

by Elizabeth Stevens Prioleau

by Elizabeth Abbott

by Joseph C. Lisiewski

by Susan Griffin

by Angela Y. Davis