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An urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of
Rights—and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans.
Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of
freedom. For some, freedom meant the provision of life’s
necessities, those basic conditions for the “pursuit of
happiness.” For others, freedom meant the civil and political
rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and unfettered access to
the marketplace—nothing more. As Mark Paul explains, the
latter interpretation—thanks in large part to a particularly
influential cadre of economists—has all but won out among
policymakers, with dire repercussions for American society: rampant
inequality, endemic poverty, and an economy built to benefit the
few at the expense of the many. In this book, Paul shows how
economic rights—rights to necessities like housing, employment,
and health care—have been a part of the American conversation
since the Revolutionary War and were a cornerstone of both the New
Deal and the Civil Rights Movement. Their recuperation, he argues,
would at long last make good on the promise of America’s founding
documents. By drawing on FDR’s proposed Economic Bill of Rights,
Paul outlines a comprehensive policy program to achieve a more
capacious and enduring version of American freedom. Among the
rights he enumerates are the right to a good job, the right to an
education, the right to banking and financial services, and the
right to a healthy environment. Replete with discussions of some of
today’s most influential policy ideas—from Medicare for All to
a federal job guarantee to the Green New Deal—The Ends of Freedom
is a timely and urgent call to reclaim the idea of freedom from its
captors on the political right—to ground America’s next era in
the country’s progressive history and carve a path toward a more
economically dynamic and equitable nation.
Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques,
people's war raises what has always been present in military
history, irregular warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what
has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and the
effort to seize power. The result is a strategic approach for
waging revolutionary warfare, the effort "to make a revolution."
Voluntarism is wedded to the exploitation of structural
contradiction through the building of a new world to challenge the
existing world, through formation of a counterstate within the
state in order ultimately to destroy and supplant the latter. This
is a process of far greater moment than implied by the label
"guerrilla warfare" so often applied to what Mao and others were
about. This volume deals with the continuing importance of Maoist
and post-Maoist concepts of people's war. Drawing on a range of
examples that include Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, the Caucasus, and
Afghanistan, the collection shows that the study of people's war is
not just an historical curiosity but vital to the understanding of
contemporary insurgent and terrorist movements. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Small
Wars & Insurgencies.
Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques,
people's war raises what has always been present in military
history, irregular warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what
has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and the
effort to seize power. The result is a strategic approach for
waging revolutionary warfare, the effort "to make a revolution."
Voluntarism is wedded to the exploitation of structural
contradiction through the building of a new world to challenge the
existing world, through formation of a counterstate within the
state in order ultimately to destroy and supplant the latter. This
is a process of far greater moment than implied by the label
"guerrilla warfare" so often applied to what Mao and others were
about. This volume deals with the continuing importance of Maoist
and post-Maoist concepts of people's war. Drawing on a range of
examples that include Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, the Caucasus, and
Afghanistan, the collection shows that the study of people's war is
not just an historical curiosity but vital to the understanding of
contemporary insurgent and terrorist movements. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Small
Wars & Insurgencies.
This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to
its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very
differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the
context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of
global capitalism, is China's history of revolutionary socialism an
aberration that is soon to be forgotten, or can it serve as a
resource for creating a more fully human and radically democratic
China with implications for all of us? Ranging from the early years
of China's revolutionary twentieth-century to the present, the
essays collected here look at the past and present of China with a
view toward better understanding the ideas, ideals, and people who
have dared to imagine radical transformation of their worlds and to
assess the conceptual, political, and social limitations of these
visions and their implementations. The volume's chapters focus on
these issues from a range of vantage points, representing a
spectrum of current scholarship. The first half of the book brings
new insights to understanding how early-twentieth century
intellectuals interpreted ideas that allowed them to break with
China's past and to envision new paths to a modern future. It
treats of Chen Duxiu, a founder of the Communist party, Mao Zedong,
and Mao in relation to the non-Communist Liang Shuming and with the
Dalai Lama. With continuing threads of nation and nationalities, of
peasants, utopias and dystopias linking the chapters, the book's
second half looks broadly at the consequences of the
implementations of radical ideas, at the same time critiquing our
accepted frameworks of analysis. Moving up to the present, the book
investigates the effects of the reforms since the 1980s on
long-term environmental degradation and on the emergence of a
capitalist rural economy. It gives an unsparing view into
contemporary rural China through independent films. The book
concludes with an analysis of the unshakable persistence of the
shibboleth, "the rise of China," in popul
Joshua Butler directs this US teen comedy starring Mark-Paul
Gosselaar. Having failed to make it in L.A. as a TV weatherman, Tim
Maroon (Gosselaar) returns to his dead-end hometown of Eureka and
hooks up with his old friends Rut (Nick von Esmarch) and Neal (J.P.
Manoux). The three head for a camping trip which predictably
involves a lot of drinking but, less predictably, an encounter with
an alien. Sensing a chance to make their fortune, the three misfits
attempt to capture the alien in the belief that they could sell it
to the highest bidder. But will getting the better of an alien
prove straightforward?
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Saved By the Bell: Season 4 (DVD)
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All 26 episodes from the fourth season of the popular US teen
sitcom from the early 1990s. Set in the fictional town of
Palisades, California, the series follows six teenagers through
their fun-filled days at Bayside School and their nights together
at their favourite hang-out, The Max. The episodes are: 'The
Fight', 'Student Teacher Week', 'Screech's Spaghetti Sauce', 'The
New Girl', 'The Bayside Triangle', 'Teen Line', 'Masquerade Ball',
'Day of Detention', 'Wrestling With the Future', 'Drinking and
Driving', 'Love Machine', 'Class Rings', 'Isn't It Romantic?', 'The
Will', 'Teacher's Strike', 'Slater's Sister', 'The Senior Prom',
'Video Yearbook', 'Screech's Birthday', 'Snow White and the Seven
Dorks', 'Earthquake', 'Best Summer of My Life', 'Slater's Friend',
'School Song', 'The Time Capsule' and 'Graduation'.
All 26 episodes from the third season of the popular US teen sitcom
from the early 1990s. Set in the fictional town of Palisades,
California, the series follows six teenagers through their
fun-filled days at Bayside School and their nights together at
their favourite hang-out, The Max. The episodes are: 'The Last
Dance', 'Zack's Birthday', 'The Aftermath', 'The Game', 'The
Surgery', 'Fourth of July', 'Check Your Mate', 'My Boyfriend's
Back', 'Fake IDs', 'Boss Lady', 'Pipe Dreams', 'The Last Weekend',
'Wicked Stepbrother: Part 1', 'Wicked Stepbrother: Part 2', 'Date
Auction', 'All in the Mall', 'S.A.T.s', 'Palm Springs Weekend: Part
1', 'Palm Springs Weekend: Part 2', 'Hold Me Tight', 'No Hope With
Dope', 'Rockumentary', 'Cut Day', 'Home for Christmas: Part 1',
'Home for Christmas: Part 2' and 'Mystery Weekend'.
This volume is based on the LENT V NCI-sponsored meeting held in
May 2004 and the CURED I Conference in 2006. Written by experts in
the field, it addresses a critical topics relating to late effects,
such as mechanisms of injury, the role of screening, options for
interventions, second malignancies, and prevention. It is hoped
that these findings will help readers to prevent and treat the
long-term side-effects of irradiation.
This is the first book to bring together the work of a modern
motion picture film laboratory together with the specialist
techniques for preservation and restoration of archival film.
The books data has its origins in a training programme called FILM
which was written by members of the Gamma Group with funding from
the EU fund Force. The committee comprised senior film archivists
and technicians in charge of film conservation departments or
working film laboratories within national film archives, together
with technicians from commercial laboratories which specialise in
archival film conservation and who do not work for national and
local archives. The final group consisted of many of the most
experienced individuals in their fields.
Restoration of Motion Picture Film is an extremely informative,
well-researched book which is an unmissable addition to the
bookshelves of conservators, archivists and curators worldwide.
Film history and film conservation students will also find it of
great interest and use.
* Only book in English on this subject
* Prepared by leading specialists in their field
* Includes coverage of digital technology
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