Book Description
The characters of The Rotters’ Club–Jonathan Coe’s beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s–have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium.
Author : Jonathan Coe
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307428265
The characters of The Rotters’ Club–Jonathan Coe’s beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s–have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium.
Author : Lorenzo Vidino
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231550448
The Muslim Brotherhood in the West remains a mysterious entity. In The Closed Circle, Lorenzo Vidino offers an unprecedented inside view into how one of the world’s most influential Islamist groups operates. He marshals unique interviews with prominent former members and associates from Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America, shedding light on why and how people join and leave Western outfits of the Muslim Brotherhood. Drawing on these striking personal accounts, Vidino weaves together the experiences of individuals who participated in and later renounced Brotherhood groups. Their perspectives provide a wealth of new information about the Brotherhood’s secretive inner workings and the networks that connecting the small yet highly organized cluster of Brotherhood-influenced groups. The Closed Circle examines the tactics the Brotherhood uses to recruit and retain participants as well as how and why individuals make the difficult decision to leave. Through the stories of diverse former members, Vidino paints a portrait of a highly structured, tight-knit movement. His unprecedented access and understanding of the group’s activities and motivations has significant policy implications concerning Western Brotherhood organizations and also illuminates the underlying mechanisms found in a range of extremist groups.
Author : Jonathan Coe
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030742927X
Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings. Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by guitar rock; an earnest radical with socialist leanings; and a quiet dreamer obsessed with poetry, God, and the prettiest girl in school. As the world appears to self-destruct around them, they hold together to navigate the choppy waters of a decidedly ambiguous decade.
Author : David Pryce-Jones
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566638265
As the violence of the Middle East has come to America, many Westerners are stunned and confounded by this new form of mayhem that appears to be a feature of Arab societies. This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-Jones examines the forces which "drive the Arabs in their dealings with each other and with the West." In the postwar world, he argues, the Arabs reverted to age-old tribal and kinship structures, from which they have been unable to escape. In tribal society, loyalty is extended to close kin and other members of the tribe. The successful nation-state--the model that Westerners understand--generates broader loyalties, but the tribal world has no institutions that have evolved by common consent for the general good. Those who seek power achieve it by plotting secretly and ruthlessly eliminating their rivals. In the Arab world, violence is systemic. "This is a healthy corrective, a thought-provoking study. And Mr. Pryce-Jones has done his research, bringing a wealth of reading to his task; the book is extensively documented, with a good section of reference notes."--David K. Shipler, New York Times Book Review. "Acute insights into how the Middle East works, or fails to work. This is definitely a book to be read, if also one to be thought about carefully and rather critically."--David Morgan, Times Literary Supplement.
Author : Robert Goddard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671890921
Donated.
Author : George Wolk
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
LILA Crazed or possessed? LILA Shy bride or wanton bitch? LILA By day, quietly religious. By night, lewd and possessed of a strange psychic power that enables her to witness events a continent away—weird events, diabolic orgies, and a cult of evil which calls itself…THE CLOSED CIRCLE.
Author : Corinne Gerson
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Prejudices
ISBN : 9780590402569
Author : Barney Parrish
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 1976
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Corinne Gerson
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9780590317924
When her family moves to a new town, twelve-year-old Audrey has no trouble making friends. But she finds it harder to gain the same acceptance for her new friend Hope, ostracized because of her strict Pennsylvania Dutch background.
Author : Barry Commoner
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486837467
"May be the best book on ecology ever written." -- Michael Crichton, The New York Times. Radical 1971 argument about the root causes of climate change remains a must-read for environmentalists.