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A Colder War
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A Colder WarA Colder War

Charles Stross - A Colder War

The biggest single threat to NATO may be the Shoggoth Gap. The wild card is Lt. Col. Oliver North, President Reagan's man. Roger Jourgensen, CIA operative, is at the center of this crisis. If all the political wrangling doesn't work out perfectly, there will be hell to pay, or worse - far, far worse. Here is a modern novelette in H.P. Lovecraft's

 
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Tags: worse, Colder, wrangling, political, crisis
Singularity Sky
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Singularity SkySingularity Sky

Charles Stross - Singularity Sky

In his first novel, British author Stross, one of the hottest short-story writers in the field, serves up an energetic and sometimes satiric mix of cutting-edge nanotechnology, old-fashioned space opera and leftist political commentary reminiscent of Ken MacLeod. Spaceship engineer Martin Springfield and U.N. diplomat

 
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Tags: Stross, Singularity, political, commentary, leftist, opera
Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism
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Political Theory and Feminist Social CriticismPolitical Theory and Feminist Social Criticism

In Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism, Brooke Ackerly demonstrates the shortcomings of contemporary deliberative democratic theory, relativism, and essentialism for guiding the practice of social criticism in the real, imperfect world. Drawing theoretical implications from the activism of Third World feminists who help bring to public audiences the voices of women silenced by coercion, she provides a practicable model of social criticism.
 
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Tags: social, Political, Criticism, criticism, Feminist, Social, Theory
The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality
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The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of PersonalityThe Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality

In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened, diminished and divided, why Obama must be defeated—and how he can be.


 
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Tags: Obama, Leftist, political, Personality, Politics, Nation
The Second Funeral of Napoleon
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The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray

An interesting book about the re-burial of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in Paris. Thackeray penned it using Michael Angelo Titmarch as his nom-de-plum. Composed of three letters, this book is not only significant for its historical content but also throws light on the political scenario of the time. Riveting!

Reuploaded Thanks to arcadius

 
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Tags: Napoleon, Thackeray, political, light, content, Funeral, Second, Makepeace, significant, historical