Welcome to the Desert of the Real

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781680191
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Žižek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.

Dissent from the Homeland

Author: Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Noted scholars, theologians, and others question the U.S. government’s reaction to the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real!

Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859844212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, Zizek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating and insightful comprehension of the events of September 11.

The Matrix and Philosophy

Author: William Irwin
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
ISBN: 9780812695014
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Presents essays exploring the philosophical themes of the motion picture "The Matrix," which portrays a false world created from nothing but perceptions.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781680310
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Living in the End Times

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781683700
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 502

Book Description
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major new analysis of our global situation, Zizek argues that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the stages of grief: ideological denial, explosions of anger and attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and withdrawal. For this edition, Zizek has written a long afterword that leaves almost no subject untouched, from WikiLeaks to the nature of the Chinese Communist Party.

The Desert of Souls

Author: Howard Andrew Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1781854629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 716

Book Description
Acclaimed fantasy debut introducing a ripsnorting swords and sorcery adventure, inspired by the tales of One Thousand and One Nights. THE CHRONICLE OF SWORD & SAND: Baghdad, AD 790. Caliph Harun al-Rashid presides over the greatest metropolis on Earth, ruler of an empire stretches from China to Byzantium. His exploits will be recorded in Alf Layla or, as we know it, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. But The Thousand and One Nights are silent on the deeds and adventures that befell two of the Caliph's subjects: the renowned scholar Dabir ibn Kahlil, and his shield and right hand, Asim el Abbas. For their story, we must turn to the Chronicle of Sand and Sword... THE DESERT OF SOULS: Amid the trackless sands of ancient Arabia, two companions – a swordsman and a scholar – search for the ruins of the lost city of Ubar. Before their quest is over, they will battle necromancers and animated corpses, they will confront a creature that has traded wisdom for the souls of men since the dawn of time and they will fight to save a city's soul.

Welcome to the Desert

Author: Honor Head
Publisher: Nature's Neighborhoods: All ab
ISBN: 9781911341932
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Profiles the plants and animals that live in the desert, including cacti, bats, and mountain lions.

Gobi

Author: John Man
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300076097
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
In intelligent, jargon-free prose, the author takes readers on a colorful tour of the Gobi Desert, from its natural wonders to its conflicts with society. Illustrations.

Desert Queen

Author: Janet Wallach
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307744361
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466

Book Description
The definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. With a new Afterword "Desert Queen...plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." —The Boston Globe Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements—a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.