Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Art & Politics

In Egypt's Thousand Days of Revolution, author Alexander Murray provides a vivid and fascinating eyewitness account of Egyptian life in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. A Scotsman and confirmed Egyptophile, Murray first arrived in Cairo just weeks before the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and has returned to the country for many extended visits since the fall of Hosni Mubarak. In his remarkable book - part travel guide, part personal memoir, part sociopolitical commentary - the author vividly recalls and illustrates with his own full-colour photographs his time spent in a...

Martemjan Nikiti Rjutin (1890-1937) estis bol evisto ekde 1914. En 1927-1930 -- kandidato al anoj de la CK de VKP(b). En 1928 li estis akuzita pri tio, ke li okupis «bufran starpunkton rilate al la tiel nomata «dekstra devio, estis eksigita el la postenoj. En 1929-1930 li estis plenrajtigito de la CK de VKP(b) pri kolektivigo de la agrikulturo en la Orienta Siberio. Post reveno en Moskvon li turnis sin al la Politburoo de la CK kun raporto pri faktoj de perfortoj kaj troigoj en konstruado de kol ozoj. En 1930 li estis ekskomunikita el la VKP(b), arestita pro akuzo pri...

In this satirical comedy, Pierre LeBlanc sets the stage for the financial crisis of the 1980's. Using his wit and sense of humor he shows us the follies which lead to the Savings and Loan debacle.

Ignace Boudreaux and his nephew Pierre are on a journey through the "Washington Bingo Dome" to discover the whereabouts of the missing Lafite Savings capital. It has disappeared Ignace has to solve this mystery and save the little town of Lafite, Louisiana.

A financial crisis began in the late 1970's with inflation at 15-17% and interest rates from 16-20%. Government actions are...

Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain its legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art--music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and literature--from the point of view of its longue duree, Barbara Mittler suggests it was able to build on a tradition of earlier art works, and this allowed for its sedimentation in cultural memory and its proliferation in contemporary China.

Taking the aesthetic experience of...