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Автор: Jack London
Название: Novels and Social Writings (Loa #7): The People of the Abyss / The Road / The Iron Heel / Martin Eden / John Barleycorn / Selected Essays
ISBN: 0940450062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780940450066
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 24520.00 T
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Описание: By turns an impoverished laborer, a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent in Mexico, a declared socialist, and a writer of enormous popularity the world over, Jack London was the author of brilliant works that reflect his ideas about twentieth-century capitalist societies while dramatizing them through incidents of adventure, romance, and brutal violence. His prose, always brisk and vigorous, rises in The People of the Abyss to italicized horror over the human degradations he saw in the slums of East London. It also accommodates the dazzling oratory of the hero of The Iron Heel, an American revolutionary named Ernest Everhard, whose speeches have the accents of some of London's own political essays, like the piece (reprinted in this volume) entitled "Revolution." London's prophetic political vision was recalled by Leon Trotsky, who observed that when The Iron Heel first appeared, in 1907, not one of the revolutionary Marxists had yet fully imagined "the ominous perspective of the alliance between finance capitalism and labor aristocracy."

Whether he is recollecting, in The Road, the exhilarating camaraderie of hobo gangs, or dramatizing, in Martin Eden, a life like his own, even to the foreshadowing of his own death at age forty, or confessing his struggles with alcoholism in the memoir John Barleycorn, London displays a genius for giving marginal life the aura of romance. Violence and brutality flash into life everywhere in his work, both as a condition of modern urban existence and as the inevitable reaction to it.

Though he is outraged in The People of the Abyss by the condition of the poor in capitalist societies, London is even more appalled by their submission, and in the novel he wrote immediately afterward, The Call of the Wild (in the companion volume, Novels and Stories), he constructed an animal fable about the necessary reversion to savagery. The Iron Heel, with its panoramic scenes of urban warfare in Chicago, envisions the United States taken over by fascists who perpetuate their regime for three hundred years. It constitutes London's warning to his fellow socialists that mere persuasion is insufficient to combat a system that ultimately relies on force.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Автор: Taksa Brandon C.
Название: Americhilles Heel: American Popular Support in a Long War
ISBN: 1249358493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781249358497
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Цена: 71050.00 T
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Автор: Bradshaw Paul, Gooder Paula, Chapman Mark
Название: Grasping the Heel of Heaven: Liturgy, Leadership and Ministry in Today`s Church
ISBN: 1786220024 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786220028
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Описание: This collection of essays from leading figures in the Church of England explores how its theology, polity and practice have evolved during the past forty years. Focusing on the three areas of liturgy, governance and inclusive ministry, it reflects on the theological journeys the church has undertaken to arrive at its present understanding. It aims to enable readers to engage theologically with these issues and offer a significant contribution to thinking in these areas for the future and the challenges it holds.

Chapters include:

Paul Bradshaw on doing liturgical theology
William Fittall on taking national decisions
Mark Chapman on the theology of rule by synod
Paula Gooder on women and the episcopate
Nicholas Holtam on making the church more inclusive

The volume is dedicated to Bishop Michael Perham in thanksgiving for his ministry, and reflects some of Michael's greatest priorities. The Archbishop of Canterbury provides a foreword and the first female diocesan bishop and Michael's successor at Gloucester, an afterword.

Автор: Jack London
Название: The Iron Heel
ISBN: 1359714952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781359714954
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Цена: 45070.00 T
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Автор: Summer Brennan
Название: High Heel
ISBN: 150132599X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501325991
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 10550.00 T
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Описание: Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Paste Magazine Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that matter, a man) to choose to wear them?Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairytale, from foot binding to feminism, and from the golden ratio to glam rock. Summer Brennan considers this most provocative of fashion accessories as a nexus of desire and struggle, sex and society, violence and self expression, setting out to understand what it means to be a woman by walking a few hundred years in her shoes.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic .

Автор: Daniel S. Pierce
Название: Tar Heel Lightnin`: How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World
ISBN: 1469653559 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469653556
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Tells the real history of moonshine in North Carolina as never before. This well-illustrated, entertaining book introduces a surprisingly varied cast of characters who operated secret stills and ran liquor from the swamps of the Tidewater to Piedmont forests and mountain coves.

Автор: Neste Dan Van
Название: The Magnificent Heel: The Life and Films of Ricardo Cortez
ISBN: 1629331287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781629331287
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Цена: 34490.00 T
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