Waiting for the Revolution

Waiting for the Revolution
Author: Jo Anne Troxel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781591522577

"This memoir focuses on Jo Anne Troxel's young life during the Communist era of the 20s and 30s in Plentywood, Montana. Troxel was born of an affair between Plentywood's Communist Sheriff, Rodney Salisbury, and Marie Chapman Hansen, a married woman with two children. Her story wraps the reader up in the vivid world of early 20th century radical politics, the wild Montana prairie, and a love affair with tumultuous consequences."--

The Queue

The Queue
Author: Basma Abdel Aziz
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612195172

“Weird and wild.” —BookRiot “An effective critique of authoritarianism.” —NPR “Equal parts dystopia, satire, and allegory. —Los Angeles Review of Books Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising in Egypt, this chilling debut evokes Orwellian dystopia, Kafkaesque surrealism, and a very real vision of life after the Arab Spring. In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as ‘the Gate’ has risen to power in the aftermath of the ‘Disgraceful Events,’ a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer. Citizens from all walks of life mix and wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a sheikh, a poor woman concerned for her daughter’s health, and even the brother of a security officer killed in clashes with protestors. Among them is Yehia, a man who was shot during the Events and is waiting for permission from the Gate to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his pelvis. Yehia’s health steadily declines, yet at every turn, officials refuse to assist him, actively denying the very existence of the bullet. Ultimately it is Tarek, the principled doctor tending to Yehia’s case, who must decide whether to follow protocol as he has always done, or to disobey the law and risk his career to operate on Yehia and save his life. Written with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it.

Why We Can't Wait

Why We Can't Wait
Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2011-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807001139

Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963—during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Asia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.” King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’”

How Change Happens

How Change Happens
Author: Duncan Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2016
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198785399

"DLP, Developmental Leadership Program; Australian Aid; Oxfam."

Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18

Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 740
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415094108

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Words from an unknown poet

Words from an unknown poet
Author: brendan Clark
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2013-02-12
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1300732903

this book is full with a lot of poems made by a young poet from Chicago,IL with this book this young poet hope to open up people's mind.

The Postcolonial World

The Postcolonial World
Author: Jyotsna G. Singh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 772
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1315297671

The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the intersection of several disciplinary inquiries. Framed by an introductory chapter and a concluding essay, the eight sections examine: Affective, Postcolonial Histories Postcolonial Desires Religious Imaginings Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices Human Rights and Postcolonial Conflicts Postcolonial Cultures and Digital Humanities Ecocritical Inquiries in Postcolonial Studies Postcolonialism versus Neoliberalism The Postcolonial World looks afresh at re-emerging conditions of postcoloniality in the twenty-first century and draws on a wide range of representational strategies, cultural practices, material forms, and affective affiliations. The volume is an essential reading for scholars and students of postcolonialism.

Posthumous

Posthumous
Author: Richard Wagner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1899
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Revolution’s Other World

Revolution’s Other World
Author: Ken Post
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349258644

Ken Post examines the 'turn to the East' by the international communist movement in fostering world revolution after the success in Russia in 1917, which led to communism's greatest gains after the Second World War. Based on a theorisation of the building of revolutionary movements, this study critically assesses communist strategy and tactics using three key cases, China, India and Brazil, drawing out implications for possible future developments in less-developed countries.