That Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince–the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous straightforward style that reflects its author’s realism this treatise on states statecraft and the ideal ruler is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how human society actually works.[]
Monday, March 19, 2012
The Prince (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
That Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince–the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous straightforward style that reflects its author’s realism this treatise on states statecraft and the ideal ruler is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how human society actually works.[]
Sunday, March 18, 2012
The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition
A modern edition on the 150th anniversary of the Manifesto.
The Communist Manifesto drafted on the eve of the 1848 revolutions is the most brilliant and incisive political text ever written; a work of great literary power as well as historical insight. Eric Hobsbawm whose writing has brilliantly described the century and a half of history that has been both shaped and illuminated by the Manifesto presents it here.As the "age of extremes" draws to an end and capitalism seems everywhere to be triumphant as it did one hundred and fifty years ago Eric Hobsbawm critically appraises a work which he argues is now more timely than ever. Hobsbawm notes the curious fact that the Manifesto remained a subterranean text for many decades and did not circulate on a mass scale or achieve a canonical status until comparatively recently. He argues that only the complete unfolding of capitalism on a global scale in recent times allows us to take the full measure of Marx and Engels's truly astounding mixture of passion science and poetry.[]
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Friday, March 16, 2012
More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement
What if we could alter our genes to cure Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s?
What if we could halt or even reverse the human aging process?
What if we could communicate with each other simply by thinking about it?
These questions were once the stuff of science fiction. Today advances in biotechnology have shown that they’re plausible even likely to be accomplished in the near future. In labs around the world researchers looking for ways to help the sick and injured have stumbled onto techniques that enhance healthy animals—making them stronger faster smarter and longer-lived—in some cases even connecting their minds to robots and computers across the Internet. Now science is on the verge of applying this knowledge to healthy men and women allowing us to alter humanity in ways we’d previously only dreamed possible. The same research that could cure Alzheimer’s is leading to drugs and genetic techniques that could boost human intelligence. The techniques being developed to stave off heart disease and cancer have the potential to slow or even reverse human aging. And brain implants that restore motion to the paralyzed and sight to the blind are already allowing a small set of patients to control robots and computers simply by thinking about it.
Not everyone welcomes this scientific progress. Cries of “against nature” arise from skeptics even as scientists break new ground at an astounding pace. Across the political spectrum the debate roils: Should we embrace the power to alter our minds and bodies or should we restrict it?
Distilling the most radical accomplishments being made in labs worldwide including gene therapy genetic engineering stem cell research life extension brain-computer interfaces and cloning More Than Human offers an exciting tour of the impact biotechnology will have on our lives. Throughout this remarkable trip author Ramez Naam shares an impassioned vision for the future with revealing insight into the ethical dilemmas posed by twenty-first-century science.
Encouraging us to celebrate rather than fear these innovations Naam incisively separates fact from myth arguing that these much-maligned technologies have the power to transform the human race for the better so long as individuals and families are left free to decide how and if to use them.
If you’ve ever wondered about the boundaries of humanity More Than Human offers a vision of a world where we use our knowledge to improve ourselves unhindered by the fear of change.[]
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
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Sunday, March 11, 2012
Sayings of Confucius
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Friday, March 2, 2012
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
At the beginning of the twentieth century there is strictly speaking
no frontier to the United States. At the beginning of the nineteenth
century the larger part of the country was frontier
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life death and hope in a Mumbai undercity
In this brilliantly written fast-paced book based on three years of uncompromising reporting a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport and as India starts to prosper Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck her sensitive beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians like Kalu a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”
But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion caste sex power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so too are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.
With intelligence humor and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds and into the lives of people impossible to forget.[]
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