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In Bulgakov’s ‘Diaboliad’, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare.
This early satirical story, reminiscent of Gogol and Dostoevsky, was first published in 1924 and incurred the wrath of pro-Soviet critics. Along with the three other stories in this volume, which also explore the themes of the absurd and bizarre, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of The Master and Margarita.
Contains ‘Diaboliad’, ‘No.13 – The Elpit Workers’ Commune Building’, ‘A Chinese Tale’, ‘The Adventures of Chichikov’.
It’s the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek’s ‘socialism with a human face’ is smiling on the world.
Meanwhile Sam Wareham, a first secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with a mixture of diplomatic cynicism and a young man’s passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konecková, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. It seems that, for the first time, nothing is off limits behind the Iron Curtain.
Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek and the Red Army is massed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD and EXILE comes Marc Dane's most terrifying case yet.
A terrible threat from the depths of the dark net.
A devastating betrayal at the heart of a covert strike force.
A deadly pursuit across a digital battlefield.
A ruthless terrorist fuelled by revenge.
As devastating attacks unfold across the globe, Marc Dane must call on all his skills and ingenuity to track down the mysterious figure behind it all – a faceless criminal known only as "Madrigal".
Before they plunge the world into war . . .
Praise for the Marc Dane series:
'Unputdownable. A must-read' Wilbur Smith
'Britain's answer to Jason Bourne' Daily Mail
'An ultra fast paced, worldwide chase to stop a madman, while leaving the reader breathless' Choice
'Explosive' Irish Examiner
'This is edge of the seat stuff that is terrifyingly real in places' Closer
'A killer of a thriller' Weekend Sport
Niniejsze opracowanie to pierwsze w literaturze przedmiotu kompendium wiedzy ukazujące genezę i rozwój polskich agencji prasowych, od tworzenia zalążków tych instytucji aż do chwili obecnej. Jest to zarazem synteza podsumowująca stulecie istnienia rodzimych agencji prasowych.
W opracowaniu prześledzono proces ewolucji polskich agencji prasowych, od agencji telegraficznych do agencji elektronicznych (e-agencji). Autorka podkreśla kontekst polityczny wyrażający się w uwikłaniu agencji prasowych w bieżącą politykę, ukazując rolę omawianych instytucji w procesie rozpowszechniania informacji. Książka wykracza znacznie poza problematykę właściwą dla historii mediów, podejmując refleksję nad perspektywami rozwoju współczesnych agencji informacyjnych.
Walor opracowania stanowi materiał ilustracyjny w postaci fragmentów biuletynów prasowych. Książka adresowana jest do medioznawców, historyków mediów, politologów oraz studentów dziennikarstwa.
Dr hab. prof. UJK Renata Piasecka-Strzelec - pracownik naukowy Instytutu Dziennikarstwa i Informacji Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach. Swoje zainteresowania badawcze koncentruje wokół historii mediów oraz historii najnowszej Polski. W ostatnich latach analizuje również kierunki rozwoju współczesnych polskich agencji informacyjnych w kontekście społeczeństwa sieci.
Autorka wielu artykułów naukowych, rozdziałów w monografiach oraz trzech publikacji zwartych. Najważniejsze opracowanie w jej dotychczasowym dorobku naukowym to monografia Polskie agencje prasowe w latach 1944-1972. Upowszechnianie i reglamentacja informacji, działalność propagandowa (Wydawnictwo UJK, Kielce 2012).
Powieść ""Tyfus, teraz słowiki"" - wymieniana obok ""Na nieludzkiej ziemi"" Józefa Czapskiego, ""Innego świata"" Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego czy ""W domu niewoli"" Beaty Obertyńskiej jako jedno z najważniejszych świadectw GUŁagu w literaturze polskiej - pozostaje dotąd dziełem znanym tylko wtajemniczonym. Funkcjonuje jako książka osobna - nazbyt drastyczna, przesadnie poetycka, nadmiernie, jak na podejmowany w niej temat, niekonwencjonalna. Kreślona przez Mariana Czuchnowskiego opowieść o losach Polaka Jana Rawy, który w początkach 1942 roku, w czasie jednej z największych epidemii tyfusu plamistego w dziejach Azji Środkowej, trafia wprost z obozu do szpitala zakaźnego w Taszkencie, gdzie następnie zmaga się nie tylko z wycieńczającą chorobą, lecz i z rzeczywistością kreowaną przez sowiecką propagandę, bez wątpienia wyłamuje się ze schematów pisania o doświadczeniach łagrów. Jest opowieścią niezmiennie wstrząsającą, ale i na wskroś nowoczesną. Związaną z konkretnym okresem i miejscem, a zarazem uniwersalną. Stanowiącą nie tyle oskarżenie totalitarnego systemu, ile wielką pochwałę życia w jego najprostszych przejawach.
„Pozostaje więc fragment, jako emanacja, przebłysk cząstkowej prawdy, przybliżający nas do nadziei poznania i zrozumienia. Tak rozumiany fragment odkrywa trop, daje jakiś punkt podparcia, choćby zawarta w nim myśl była raczej pytaniem niż odpowiedzią”.
Publikowane w tym tomiku fragmenty i zapiski w zamyśle autora mają stać się impulsem do namysłu nad pytaniami przybliżającymi zrozumienie pewnych ważnych aspektów naszej współczesności.
Turgenev’s final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to “go to the people” by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the countryside’s locals. They include the daydreaming impoverished young tutor Nezhdanov – employed by the liberal councillor Sipyagin and his vain and beautiful wife Valentina – the naive young radical Maryanna and the progressive factory manager Solomin.
Their liaisons, intrigues and conspiracies, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, form the matter of Turgenev’s most ambitious and elaborate work, which cemented the author’s place in the West as Russia’s foremost novelist while at the same time proving controversial at home – culminating in the arrest of fifty-two real-life revolutionaries barely a month after it was published.
Based on Dovlatov’s actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to-day life of a camp in an insightful and unusual way, challenging commonly held perceptions of the relations between incarcerators and the incarcerated.
A priceless chronicle of its time which highlights universal themes, Dovlatov’s genre-defying novel also provides moments of high entertainment and humour, rendered in his characteristically sharp, concise and sardonic style.
Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes a story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crêpe socks bring back memories of his attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer.
Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov’s characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century.
A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official’s son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task – an ailing, world-weary “nobody” – seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy.
Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, The Story of a Nobody bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov’s genius, and perfectly captures the political and social tensions of its day.
‘If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.’
- Karl Popper, from the Preface
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of all time. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a ‘vigorous and profound defence of democracy’, its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed the dangers inherent in centrally planned political systems and through underground editions become an inspiration to lovers of freedom living under communism in Eastern Europe.
Popper’s highly accessible style, his erudite and lucid explanations of the thoughts of great philosophers and the recent resurgence of totalitarian regimes around the world are just three of the reasons for the enduring popularity of The Open Society and Its Enemies and why it demands to be read today and in years to come.
One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of contemporary Western societies, capitalist and communist.' Yet it also expressed the hopes of a radical philosopher that human freedom and happiness could be greatly expanded beyond the regimented thought and behaviour prevalent in established society. For those who held the reigns of power Marcuse's call to arms threatened civilization to its very core. For many others however, it represented a freedom hitherto unimaginable.
The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world's governments and to the academics who studied them: how would world order be remade in an age no longer dominated by the competing ideologies of capitalism and communism? Samuel P. Huntington was one of the many political scientists who responded to this challenge by conceiving works that attempted to predict the ways in which conflict might play out in the 21st century, and in The Clash of Civilizations he suggested that a new kind of conflict, one centred on cultural identity, would become the new focus of international relations. Huntington's theories, greeted with scepticism when his book first appeared in the 1990s, acquired new resonance after 9/11.
The Clash of Civilizations is now one of the most widely-set and read works of political theory in US universities; Huntington's theories have also had a measurable impact on American policy. In large part, this is a product of his problem-solving skills. Clash is a monument to its author's ability to generate and evaluate alternative possibilities and to make sound decisions between them. Huntington's view, that international politics after the Cold War would be neither peaceful, nor liberal, nor cooperative, ran counter to the predictions of almost all of his peers, yet his position – the product of an unusual ability to redefine an issue so as to see it in new ways – has been largely vindicated by events ever since.
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States until the mid-1960s, The New Jim Crow argues that while America is now legally a colorblind society – treating all races equally under the law – many factors combine to build profound racial weighting into the legal system.
The US now has the world’s highest rate of incarceration, and a disproportionate percentage of the prison population is comprised of African-American men. Alexander’s argument is that different legal factors have combined to mean both that African-Americans are more likely to be targeted by police, and to receive long jail sentences for their crimes. While many of Alexander’s arguments and statistics are to be found in other books and authors’ work, The New Jim Crow is a masterful example of the reasoning skills that communicate arguments persuasively. Alexander’s skills are those fundamental to critical thinking reasoning: organizing evidence, examining other sides of the question, and synthesizing points to create an overall argument that is as watertight as it is persuasive.
Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values.
In 1993, a conference was organized around the question, 'Whither Marxism?’, and Derrida was invited to open the proceedings. His plenary address, 'Specters of Marx', delivered in two parts, forms the basis of this book. Hotly debated when it was first published, a rapidly changing world and world politics have scarcely dented the relevance of this book.
Now in its third edition, this leading undergraduate textbook has been revised and updated throughout to take account of recent developments in world politics. Concise and engagingly written, the book is core reading for courses on international organizations, international law and politics, and global governance. Unlike other textbooks in the field, it takes readers behind the scenes of the world's most important international institutions to explore their legal authority and the political controversies that they generate. It presents chapter-length case studies of the world's leading international organizations, with attention to the legal, political, and practical aspects. The new edition adds depth to the discussion of international relations theory and features new case material on Brexit, the Argentine sovereign debt, the Syrian war, the cholera epidemic in Haiti, and more.
Intrygująca książka jednego z najbardziej znanych ekonomistów na świecie, która podważa nasze przekonania na temat ryzyka i korzyści, polityki i religii, finansów i osobistej odpowiedzialności
W swojej najbardziej jak dotąd prowokacyjnej książce jeden z czołowych myślicieli naszych czasów definiuje na nowo, co to znaczy zrozumieć świat, odnieść sukces w zawodzie, współtworzyć rzetelne i sprawiedliwe społeczeństwo, umieć wykrywać nonsensy i wpływać na innych. Powołując się na przykłady od Hammurabiego do Seneki, od giganta Anteusza po Donalda Trumpa, Nassim Nicholas Taleb pokazuje, jak gotowość do zaakceptowania ryzyka własnego stanowi niezbędny atrybut bohaterów, świętych i ludzi odnoszących sukcesy we wszystkich dziedzinach życia. Autor, w sposób jak zawsze jednocześnie przystępny i obrazoburczy, rzuca wyzwanie wielowiekowym przekonaniom na temat cnót tych, którzy stoją na czele wojskowych interwencji, dokonują inwestycji finansowych oraz promują religijne wyznania.
„Głos najbardziej proroczy ze wszystkich. . . Taleb jest prawdziwie wybitnym filozofem. . . kimś, kto jest w stanie zmienić nasz sposób postrzegania struktury świata - dzięki sile, oryginalności i prawdziwości swoich idei".
John Gray, GQ
Working after the war, Hayek's writing was very much against the tide of mainstream Keynesian economic thought. But in the 1970s and 1980s - the eras of Thatcherism and Reaganomics - he was championed as a prophet of neo-liberalism by those who were seeking to revolutionize the post-war social consensus. The Constitution of Liberty is crucial reading for all those seeking to understand ideas that have become the orthodoxy in the age of the globalized economy.
With a new foreword by Paul Kelly
'I regard Hayek's work as a new opening of the most fundamental debate in the field of political philosophy' – Sir Karl Popper
'This promises to be the crowning work of a scholar who has devoted a lifetime to thinking about society and its values. The entire work must surely amount to an immense contribution to social and legal philosophy' - Philosophical Studies
Law, Legislation and Liberty is Hayek's major statement of political philosophy and one of the most ambitious yet subtle defences of a free market society ever written. A robust defence of individual liberty, it is also crucial for understanding Hayek’s influential views concerning the role of the state: far from being an innocent bystander, he argues that the state has an important role to play in defending the norms and practices of an ordered and free society. His arguments had a profound influence on the policies of Thatcher in the 1980s and resonate today in visions of the ‘Big Society’.
First published in three separate volumes, this Routledge Classics edition makes one of his most important books available in a single volume. Essential reading for understanding the background to the recent world economic turmoil and financial crisis, it also foreshadows the subsequent heated debate about regulation and political governance if such disasters are to be avoided in the future.
A key theme of Gayatri Spivak's work is agency: the ability of the individual to make their own decisions. While Spivak's main aim is to consider ways in which "subalterns" – her term for the indigenous dispossessed in colonial societies – were able to achieve agency, this paper concentrates specifically on describing the ways in which western scholars inadvertently reproduce hegemonic structures in their work.
Spivak is herself a scholar, and she remains acutely aware of the difficulty and dangers of presuming to "speak" for the subalterns she writes about. As such, her work can be seen as predominantly a delicate exercise in the critical thinking skill of interpretation; she looks in detail at issues of meaning, specifically at the real meaning of the available evidence, and her paper is an attempt not only to highlight problems of definition, but to clarify them.
What makes this one of the key works of interpretation in the Macat library is, of course, the underlying significance of this work. Interpretation, in this case, is a matter of the difference between allowing subalterns to speak for themselves, and of imposing a mode of "speaking" on them that – however well-intentioned – can be as damaging in the postcolonial world as the agency-stifling political structures of the colonial world itself. By clearing away the detritus of scholarly attempts at interpretation, Spivak takes a stand against a specifically intellectual form of oppression and marginalization.
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