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The Wrong Side - $495

19 April, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In 2008 the photographer Jérôme Sessini started the Mexican project: a dive into the drug cartel war in Mexico. This compelling reportage, lasting two years, is a valuable document about the most dangerous cities in the country: Culiacán, Tijuana, and especially, Ciudad, Juárez. In 2010 this work was awarded with the F Award for Concerned Photography, “Jérôme Sessini’s ongoing exploration of drug-related violence in Mexico at the US border is remarkable for its sustained engagement with an increasingly alarming and […]

Categories: Ciudades, Drogas, Fotografía, Guerra, Periodismo • Tags: 2013, Art, Ciudades, contrasto, drug cartel, Drugs, Frontera, Jerome Sessini, Juarez, México, Narc, narco, narcotrafico, Photo essays, photography, Social sciences, Violencia

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World Report 2013: Events of 2012 (Human Rights Watch World Report) - $375

19 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books “An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to dominate.”—Simon Jenkins, former editor of The Times (London) In the aftermath of 2011′s Arab Spring uprisings, unexpected new challenges and imperatives of building rights-respecting democracies appeared in their wake. Human Rights […]

Categories: Actualidad, Derecho, Economía y Política, Fotografía, Guerra, Periodismo, Relaciones Internacionales, Represión, Sociología, Uncategorized • Tags: 2013, Derechos humanos, Human rights, Human Rights Watch, politica, politics, report, reporte, Seven Stories Press, yearbook

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The Liberal Defence of Murder - $355

19 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

An updated account of how liberal calls for humanitarian intervention provide a smoke screen for imperial conquest. A war that has killed more than a million Iraqis was a “humanitarian intervention”, the US army is a force for liberation, and the main threat to world peace is posed by Islam. These are the arguments of a host of liberal commentators, including such notable names as Christopher Hitchens, Kanan Makiya, Michael Ignatieff, Paul Berman, and Bernard-Henri Lévy. In this critical […]

Categories: Actualidad, Economía y Política, Guerra, Historia, Represión, Terror, U.N. • Tags: 2012, domination, Empire, Guerra, liberal, murder, politica, politics, Security, Verso, violence, war

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38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End - $295

22 February, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution, but anger won the day. Forced to either lead his warriors in a war he knew they could not win or leave them to their fates, he declared, “[Little Crow] is not a […]

Categories: Guerra, Historia • Tags: 2012, attack, Civil war, Dakota, execution, Historia, History, indians, Lincoln, Pantheon, war

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Life and Fate – $375

7 February, 2013 by rgonzalezr

A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century.Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an immense, […]

Categories: Guerra, Historia, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2006, 20th century, Grossman, modern classics, New York Review of books, Russia, stalin, USSR, war, WW2, WWII

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The Liberator: One World War II Soldier’s 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau – $315

29 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe – from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau. From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared – the entire time it […]

Categories: Guerra, Historia • Tags: 2012, Alex Kershaw, Allied, Crown, Germany, History, Italy, Nazi, soldiers, USA, war, WW2, WWII

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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel – $285

19 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at “the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal”—three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew—has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America’s most sought-after heroes. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration has sent them on a media-intensive nationwide Victory Tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, on this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of America’s Team, the Dallas […]

Categories: Guerra, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2012, American, Ben Fountain, Ecco, Iraq, military, Novel, war

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Alone in Berlin – $275

19 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Its Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a […]

Categories: Guerra, Novela Ficción • Tags: Germany, Hans Fallada, Hitler, intrigue, Nazi, Novel, penguin, war, WW2, WWII

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The Sojourn – $245

24 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The Sojourn, finalist for the National Book Award and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and inaugural Chautauqua Prize, is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser’s army, surviving a perilous trek across the frozen Italian […]

Categories: Guerra, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2011, Bellevue Literary Press, Boston College, Krivak, Novel, sniper, World War 1

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The Femicide Machine (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series) – $235

21 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

In Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn’t just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guarantee impunity for those crimes and even legalize them. A lawless city sponsored by a State in crisis. The facts speak for themselves. — from The Femicide Machine Best known to American readers for his cameo appearances as The Journalist in […]

Categories: Actualidad, Feminismo, Guerra, Periodismo • Tags: Ciudad Juarez, Feminism, González Rodríguez, México, MIT, murder, Semiotext(e), violence, Violencia, women

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The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set) – $1,095

21 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The definitive, Nobel Prize–winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. From Britain‘s darkest and finest hour to the great alliance and ultimate victory, the Second World War remains the most pivotal event of the twentieth century. Winston Churchill was not only the war’s greatest leader, he was the free world’s singularly eloquent voice of defiance in the face of Nazi tyranny, and it’s that voice that animates this […]

Categories: Boxed Set, Guerra, Historia • Tags: Britain, Guerra, Historia, Mariner Books, Nazi, war, Winston Churchill, WW2, WWII

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Journey to a War – $445

14 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Record of a journey from Hong Kong to Shanghai, made by Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden between February and June, 1938. The writers had been commissioned by their publisher to write a travel book about the East, the choice of itinerary left to their own discretion. With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the pair decided to go to China. As Isherwood says in the foreword: “We spoke no Chinese, and possessed no special knowledge of Far Eastern affairs.” […]

Categories: Guerra, Viajes • Tags: Auden, China, Christopher Isherwood, Faber & Faber, Hong Kong, Japan, Shanghai, Travel, war

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Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA – $315

13 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanced examination now–at the end of its long war in the north of Ireland–than it was even a few years ago. Richard English’s brilliant book offers a detailed history of the IRA, providing invaluable historical depth to our understanding of the modern-day Provisionals, the more militant wing formed in 1969 dedicated to the removal of the […]

Categories: Guerra, Historia, Revolución • Tags: 2004, army, IRA, Ireland, Oxford University Press, war

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Occupation Diaries – $245

2 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

This title deals with life in Palestine today – what it is really like – day to day, from the Orwell Prize winning author, Raja Shehadeh. It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be carefully thought about and planned for: When will the post be allowed to get through? Will there be enough water for […]

Categories: Actualidad, Guerra, Relaciones Internacionales, Revolución • Tags: ocupacion, Palestina, Profile Books, rebelión, Shehadeh

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Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad – $435

23 September, 2012 by rgonzalezr

When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came to power upon his father’s death in 2000, many in- and outside Syria held high hopes that the popular young doctor would bring long-awaited reform, that he would be a new kind of Middle East leader capable of guiding his country toward genuine democracy. David Lesch was one of those who saw this promise in Assad. A widely respected Middle East scholar and consultant, Lesch came to know the president better than anyone […]

Categories: Actualidad, Guerra, Periodismo, Política, Relaciones Internacionales • Tags: Assad, medio oriente, Syria, Yale University Press

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Category Archives: Guerra

World Report 2013: Events of 2012 (Human Rights Watch World Report) - $375

The Liberal Defence of Murder - $355

38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End - $295

Life and Fate – $375

The Liberator: One World War II Soldier’s 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau – $315

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel – $285

Alone in Berlin – $275

The Sojourn – $245

The Femicide Machine (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series) – $235

The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set) – $1,095

Journey to a War – $445

Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA – $315

Occupation Diaries – $245

Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad – $435

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