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The actuality of communism / by Bosteels, Bruno

Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India / by Lelyveld, Joseph

Islands and empires : Western impact on the Pacific and east Asia / by Dodge, Ernest Stanley

The rise of Islamic state : ISIS and the new Sunni revolution / by Cockburn, Patrick

Empire in question : reading, writing, and teaching British imperialism / by Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…: interrogating "British" history -- Thinking beyond the boundaries : empire, feminism, and the domains of history -- Deja vu all over again -- When was Britain? nostalgia for the nation at the end of the "American century" -- Archive stories : gender in the making of imperial and colonial histories -- Gender, colonialism, and feminist collaboration (with Jean Allman) -- Fearful bodies into disciplined subjects: pleasure, romance, and the family drama of colonial reform in Mary Carpenter's Six months in India -- Contesting the zenana: the mission to make "lady doctors for India", 1874-85. -- Recapturing Jane Eyre : reflections on historicizing the colonial encounter in Victorian Britain -- From child bride to "Hindoo lady" : Rukhmabai and the debate on sexual respectability in imperial Britain -- Tongues untied : Lord Salisbury's "black man" and the boundaries of imperial democracy -- India Inc. : nostalgia, memory, and the empire of things -- New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century -- Coda. empire of/and the world? …”
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Flirting with disaster : why accidents are rarely accidental / by Gerstein, Marc S.

Table of Contents: “…The bystanders among us -- Human biases and distortions -- Understanding uncertainty : why did so many people bet against Katrina? -- Space Shuttle Challenger : cold, warm, and hot causes of disasters -- Chernobyl, faulty design, and the interplay of humans and technology -- The Vioxx disaster and BP : the seduction of profits -- When all the backups failed : how American F-15s accidentally shot down two U.S. …”

Globalization and local development in India : examing the spatial dimension /

Table of Contents: “…Swadeshi in the throes of liberalization / Gilles Boquérat -- Healthcare systems caught in the twists and turns of globalization / Alain Vaguet -- The limited globalization of the electricity secto / Joël Ruet -- Endogenous development and globalization : an industrial district in Tamil Nadu / Loraine Kennedy -- The saga of the diesel engines of Kolhapur (Maharashtra) / Pierre Lachaier -- The price of progress : a large planned project with different players / Gérard Heuzé -- Globalization and self-sufficiency : a tentative revolution in oilseeds / Bruno Dorin -- Explaining the production of milk in Gujarat and Haryana : a matter of scale / Véronique Alary, Anne-Claire Degail, Rachel Riviére -- From the top or from the bottom? …”

Philosophers on film from Bergson to Badiou : a critical reader /

Table of Contents: “…Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- The film and the new psychology, 1945 / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- On contemporary alienation or the end of the pact with the devil, 1970 / Jean Baudrillard -- The looking glass, from the other side, 1977 / Luce Irigaray -- Acinema, 1978 / Jean-François Lyotard -- Cinema I the movement-image, 1983 / Gilles Deleuze -- Cinema II the time-image, 1985 / Gilles Deleuze -- The malady of grief: Duras, 1987 / Julia Kristeva -- Notes on gesture, 1992 / Giorgio Agamben -- "In his bold gaze my ruin is writ large", 1992 / Slavoj Žižek -- And life goes on: life and nothing more, 1995 / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Contesting tears, the Hollywood melodrama of the unknown woman, 1996 / Stanley Cavell -- From one manhunt to another: Fritz Lang between two ages, 2001 / Jacques Rancière -- Cinema as philosophical experimentation, 2003 / Alain Badiou -- Cinematic time, 2011 / Bernard Stiegler -- The analogy of photography, or the history of photography, part 1, 2015 / Kaja Silverman.…”

Ho Chi Minh/ by Lacouture, Jean

Ho Chi Minh/ by Lacouture, Jean

Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history / by Baucom, Ian, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…: credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation -- "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event -- "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative -- Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness -- Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception -- The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity" -- The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness -- The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment -- "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering -- And the case of liberal cosmopolitanism -- This/such, for instance : the witness against "history" -- "The sea is history" -- "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation.…”
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What is fiction for? : literary humanism restored / by Harrison, Bernard, 1933-

To be cared for : the power of conversion and foreignness of belonging in an Indian slum / by Roberts, Nathaniel, 1970-

Indie games in the digital age /

The Rule of law and the measure of property / by Waldron, Jeremy

Masir-I- Alamgiri: a history of the emperor Aurangzib-Alamgir(reign 1658-1707) of Saqi Must'ad Khan / by Khan, Saqi Must'ad

Algerian chronicles / by Camus, Albert, 1913-1960

Table of Contents: “…Crisis in Algeria -- Famine in Algeria -- Ships and justice -- The political malaise -- The party of the manifesto -- Conclusion -- Letter to an Algerian militant. …”

Objectivity / by Daston, Lorraine, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: objectivity shock -- Epistemologies of the eye -- Blind sight -- Collective empiricism -- Objectivity is new -- Histories of the scientific self -- Epistemic virtues -- The argument -- Objectivity in shirtsleeves -- Truth-to-nature -- Before objectivity -- Taming nature's variability -- The idea in the observation -- Four-eyed sight -- Drawing from nature -- Truth-to-nature after objectivity -- Mechanical objectivity -- Seeing clear -- Photography as science and art -- Automatic images and blind sight -- Drawing against photography -- Self-surveillance -- Ethics of objectivity -- The scientific self -- Why objectivity? …”
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Borderland lives in northern South Asia /

Muslim, Dalit and subaltern narratives /

Table of Contents: “…on the role of Maql scholars in the events of 1857-1858 / Jan-Peter Hartung -- Rebellious against rebellion, Kashful Baghaavat Gorakhpur : a pro-British -- Account of the revolt of 1857 by a Sufi aristocrat / Farhat Nasreen -- Mutiny's children : race, childhood and authority after 1857 / Satadru Sen -- About the editor and contributors -- Index.…”