Taylor: 6538 books
by Thomas Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Fragments Of The Lost Writings Of Proclus
by Thomas Taylor
"Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 - April 17, 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Classical philosophers (see Damascius). He set forth one...
Materializing Poverty
How the Poor Transform Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation. Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities,...
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along the American frontier that served to define and complete the American Revolution. Taylor shows how Maine's militant settlers organized secret companies to defend their populist understanding of the Revolution.
Exorcising Hitler
The Occupation and Denazification of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 was an event nearly
unprecedented in history. Only the fall of the Roman Empire fifteen
hundred years earlier compares to the destruction visited on Germany.
The country's cities lay in ruins, its economic base devastated. The
German people stood at the brink...
Brits
The War Against the IRA
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
In the final part of his trilogy exploring 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, Peter Taylor talks to undercover agents of the British state and reveals for the first time the hidden secrets of the war they waged against the IRA for thirty years. PROVOS and LOYALISTS told the story of the conflict...
The Girls from See Saw Lane
A novel of friendship, love and tragedy in 1960s Brighton
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Brighton 1963. Mary Pickles and I walked along the street with our arms linked, looking in shop windows. We were best friends and together we were invincible.
Dottie and Mary forged a friendship over a bag of penny sweets when they were eight years old. They’ve shared everything together...
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black...
The Berlin Wall
August 13, 1961 - November 9, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“This vivid account of the Wall and all that it meant reminds us that symbolism can be double-edged, as a potent emblem of isolation and repression became, in its destruction, an even more powerful totem of freedom.” — The Atlantic Monthly
NOW WITH AN UPDATED EPILOGUE 30 YEARS AFTER...
The Anti-Inauguration
Building resistance in the Trump era
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Featuring contributions from Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Anand Gopal, and Owen Jones.
The five essential speeches presented here are taken from The Anti-Inauguration, held on inauguration night 2017 at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. The Anti-Inauguration event and ebook are joint projects of Jacobin, Haymarket Books and Verso Books.
by Bob Ashley, Joanne Hollows, Steve Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the world around us. Yet, food has only recently become...
Do the Poor Count?
Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by...
The Voyage of the Beagle
Darwin's Extraordinary Adventure Aboard FitzRoy's Famous Survey Ship
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Beagle has become synonymous with Charles Darwin and his groundbreaking title On the Origin of Species. But how did Darwin come to be on board? For the first time in a single volume all the various strands of the Beagle story have been woven together to reveal the circumstances that set the expedition...
by Stephen Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2005
"This incredible true story reads like the wildest fiction."—Booklist
In the summer of 1783 the grandees of the East India Company were horrified to learn that one of their finest ships, the 741-ton Grosvenor, had been lost on the wild and unexplored coast of southeast Africa. Astonishingly,...
The French Revolution
Faith, Desire and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The French Revolution was one of the greatest events in world history, filled with remarkable characters and dramatic events. From its beginning in 1789 to the Reign of Terror in 1793–94, and through the ups and downs of the Directory era that followed, the Revolution showed humanity at its optimistic...