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  A Good Man in Africa

  by William Boyd

  In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation Kingpin and is charged with monitoring the front runner in Kinjanja’s national elections, Morgan senses an opportunity to... (more)
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  The Communist Manifesto

  by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

  Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom. This new edition... (more)
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  American Theocracy

  The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

  by Kevin P. Phillips

  From America’s premier political analyst, an explosive examination of the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nation In his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy , Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling—and imperiling—the United... (more)
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  Politics

  by Aristotle

  Politics (Greek Πολιτικά) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle. The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise, or perhaps connected lectures, dealing with the "philosophy of human affairs." The title of the Politics literally means "the things concerning the polis."
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  Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus

  by Dinesh D'Souza

  As it "illuminates the crisis of liberal education and offers proposals for reform which deserve full debate" (Morton Halperin, American Civil Liberties Union), "Illiberal Education" "documents how the politics of race and gender in our universities are rapidly eating away traditions of scholarship and reward for individual achievement" (Robert H. Bork). (Education/Teaching)
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  The World Turned Upside Down

  Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

  by Christopher Hill

  Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic - the ideology of the propertied class - there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success 'might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished the state church and rejected the protestant ethic. In "The World... (more)
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  Swimming in the Volcano

  by Bob Shacochis

  Winner of the American Book Award for Easy in the Islands, Bob Shacochis returns to the setting of his first collection of stories with Swimming in the Volcano, a haunting and evocative novel possessed of the same beauty as the places and people of the Caribbean. Set on the fictional Caribbean island of St. Catherine, an American expatriate becomes unwittingly embroiled in an internecine war between rival factions... (more)
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  Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin into a Global Business

  by James Harding

  Alpha Dogs is the story of the men from an enormously influential campaign business called Sawyer Miller who served as backroom strategists on every presidential contest from Richard Nixon’s to George W. Bush’s. David Sawyer was a New England aristocrat with dreams of a career as a filmmaker; Scott Miller, the son of an Ohio shoe salesman, had a knack for copywriting. Unlikely partners, they became a political... (more)
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  T.R. The Last Romantic

  by Brands H.W.

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  Marie-antoinette

  by Evelyne Lever

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  Blood River

  by Tim Butcher

  A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the outside world — vividly told by a daring and adventurous journalist. Ever since Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the Congo has epitomized the dark and turbulent history of a failed continent. However, its troubles only served to increase the interest of Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher,... (more)
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  Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

  by David Ricardo

  There can be no rise in the value of labor without a fall of profits. If the corn is to be divided between the farmer and the laborer, the larger the proportion that is given to the latter the less will remain for the former -from "On Value" Friend to, colleague of, and influence on the likes of James Mill, Jeremy Bentham, and Thomas Malthus, revolutionary British writer DAVID RICARDO (1772-1823) was one of... (more)
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  The Crucible

  by Arthur Miller

  Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 — one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history — and the Red Scare which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice is a savage attack on McCarthyism that brings to light the evils of mindless... (more)
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  Global environmental change and human security

  In recent years, scholars in international relations and other fields have begun to conceive of security more broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of national security toward the idea of human security, which emphasizes the individual and human well-being. Viewing global environmental change through the lens of human security connects such problems as melting ice caps and carbon emissions to poverty,... (more)
• El mundo es ancho y ajeno (Biblioteca Ayacucho, Nº 41)Ciro Alegria

  

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  El mundo es ancho y ajeno (Biblioteca Ayacucho, Nº 41)

  by Ciro Alegria

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  The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It

  by Joshua Cooper Ramo

  Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction. The traditional physics... (more)
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  After Words

  by PJ Keating

  The speeches collected in After Words, virtuosic in their scale and range of subjects, are remarkably the work of one eye and one mind: that of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. The speeches reveal the breadth and depth of Keating's interests - be they cultural, historical, or policy-focused - dealing with subjects as broad as international relations, economic policy and politics. Individual chapters... (more)
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  O Que é Comunismo

  by Arnaldo Spindel