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  • The Spectacle of History

    Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings

    Edited by Michael E. Lynch, David Bogen ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    How is history produced? How do individuals write—or rewrite—their parts while engaged in the production of history? Michael Lynch and David Bogen take the example of the Iran-contra hearings to explore these questions. These hearings, held in 1987 by the Joint House-Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaragua Opposition, provided the nation with a media ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Chomsky-Foucault Debate

    On Human Nature

    by Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, John Rajchman ...
    In this historic 1971 debate, two of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers discuss whether there is such a thing as innate human nature.In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to debate an age-old question: ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conspiracy Theory in America

    by Lance deHaven-Smith ...
    Series series Discovering America
    Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service—and possibly even senior government officials—were also involved. Why has suspicion of criminal wrongdoing at the highest levels ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Informal Logic

    A Pragmatic Approach

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Conspiracy Theories

    Secrecy and Power in American Culture

    by Mark Fenster ...
    JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton, both George Bushes—all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues. Two years after Mark Fenster first published Conspiracy Theories, the attacks of 9/11 stirred the imaginations of a new generation of believers. Before the black box from United 93 had even been found, there were ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Chomsky For Beginners

    by David Cogswell ...
    Series series For Beginners
    Noam Chomsky has written some 30 books, he is one of the most-quoted authors on Earth, The New York Times calls him “arguably the most important intellectual alive” – yet most people have no idea who he is or what he’s about.Chomsky For Beginners tells you what he’s about: Chomsky is known for his work in two distinct areas – Linguistics and... “Gadflying.” (“Gadfly,” the word applied to Socrates, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Chomsky

    Language, Mind and Politics

    by James McGilvray ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Noam Chomsky has made major contributions to three fields: political history and analysis, linguistics, and the philosophies of mind, language, and human nature. In this thoroughly revised and updated volume, James McGilvray provides a critical introduction to Chomsky's work in these three key areas and assesses their continuing importance and relevance for today.In an incisive and comprehensive ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Solitary Confinement

    Social Death and Its Afterlives

    by Lisa Guenther ...
    Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons—even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly important and original book, Lisa Guenther examines the death-in-life experience of solitary confinement ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Series series Critical Reasoning and Argumentation
    Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, and ethical arguments are analyzed. Illustrating the most common kinds of arguments, the book also ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Noam Chomsky

    by Wolfgang Sperlich ...
    Series Book 8 - Critical Lives
    Noam Chomsky has become the acknowledged supreme anti-authoritarian figure of our age. A prolific writer, researcher and critical thinker, he has shaped contemporary linguistics, philosophy and liberal thought like no other. Volumes on Chomsky abound, yet an approachable and up-to-date introduction to the man and his life has until now been lacking, due perhaps to the sometimes dense and technical ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Archives of the Insensible

    Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory

    by Allen Feldman ...
    In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to truth. Whether responding to the fantasy of weapons of mass destruction or an existential threat to civilization, Western political sovereignty seeks ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law

    Edited by Peter M. Tiersma, Lawrence M. Solan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. It outlines the range of legal areas in which linguistics plays an increasing role and describes the tools and approaches used by linguists and lawyers in this vibrant new field. Through a combination of overview chapters, case studies, and theoretical descriptions, the volume ... Read more

    $43.19 USD