Posts Tagged Brief

The Brief History of the Dead

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 20 July, 2010

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From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation’s most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between.

The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newsp… More >>

The Brief History of the Dead


A Brief History of Neoliberalism

Posted by admin on Sunday, 18 July, 2010

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Neoliberalism–the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action–has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. Through critical eng… More >>

A Brief History of Neoliberalism


A Brief History of Time

Posted by admin on Saturday, 5 June, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9780553380163
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world–observations that have confirmed many of Hawking’… More >>

A Brief History of Time