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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
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Description
In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally managed social plans derail when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot be - fully understood. Further the success of designs for social organization depends on the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as...
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes novel volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Beyond the Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger as the Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, Laia of Serra, and Elias Veturius all face increasing dangers.
The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable, while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power... the lives of all those in the Empire hang in the balance. Far to the east, Laia...
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Language
English
Description
The Sane Society is a continuation and extension of the psychiatric concepts Erich Fromm first formulated in Escape from Freedom; it is also, in many ways, an answer to Freud's "Civilization and its discontents." Fromm examines man's escape into overconformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society: modern humanity has, he maintains, been alienated from the world of their own creation. Here Fromm offers a complete and systematic...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Description
The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar,...
16) Middle East authoritarianisms: governance, contestation, and regime resilience in Syria and Iran
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. Two core components of liberal democracy--individual rights and the popular will--are at war, putting democracy itself at risk. In plain language, Yascha Mounk describes how we got here, where we need to go, and why there is little time left to waste.--
Author
Series
Colección Argumentos volume 534
Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro arranca con aviones de combate sobrevolando Estambul, con bombas y disparos. Es el 15 de julio de 2016, y la autora contempla a través de la ventana el desarrollo del chapucero golpe de Estado que Erdogan sofocará en pocas horas, y que le proporcionará la excusa para activar un engranaje de detenciones y purgas. ¿Cómo llegó Turquía, que aspiraba a ser europea y moderna, a semejante situación?Es tan claro como terrible:...
