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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its time that scientists today, from string theorists to neurobiologists, count themselves among Spinoza’s progeny. In Betraying Spinoza, Rebecca Goldstein sets out to rediscover the flesh-and-blood man often hidden beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality, and to crack the mystery of the breach between the philosopher and his Jewish past. Goldstein argues that the trauma of the Inquisition’s persecution of its forced Jewish converts plays itself out in Spinoza’s philosophy. The excommunicated Spinoza, no less than his excommunicators, was responding to Europe’s first experiment with racial anti-Semitism. Here is a Spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and hero—a surprisingly contemporary figure ripe for our own uncertain age..
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Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War
In this shocking exposé, two government fraud experts reveal how private contractors have put countless soldiers in danger while damaging America's strategic interests and image abroad. From the shameful profiteering of well-known companies to the sinister influence of lobbyists on U.S. foreign policy, this is the inside story of how gross corporate negligence has left American troops lacking in basic supplies. Drawing on exclusive government and military sources, the authors show how those with money and power have conspired to undermine U.S. fighting forces while compromising America's own security interests. .
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The Investor's Dilemma: How Mutual Funds Are Betraying Your Trust And What To Do About It
Based on cutting-edge research by leading corporate critic Louis Lowenstein, The Investor’s Dilemma: How Mutual Funds Are Betraying Your Trust and What to Do About It reveals how highly overpaid fund sponsors really operate and walks you through the conflicts of interest found throughout the industry. Page by page, you’ll discover the real problems within the world of mutual funds and learn how to overcome them through a value-oriented approach to this market..
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Betraying Season (Leland Sisters, Book 2)
Penelope (Pen) Leland has come to Ireland to study magic and prove to herself that she is as good a witch as her twin sister, Persy. But when the dashing Niall Keating begins to pay her court, she can’t help being distracted from her studies Little does Pen know, Niall is acting upon orders from his sorceress mother. And although it starts as a sham, Niall actually falls deeply in love with Pen, and she with him. But even if he halts his mother’s evil plan, will Pen be able to forgive him for trying to seduce her into a plot? And what of Pen’s magic, which seems to be increasingly powerful? .
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Betraying Hitler: The Story of Fritz Kolbe
The extraordinary story of the German foreign ministry official who, at risk to his life, spied for the Allies in the Second World War. During the Second World War Fritz Kolbe worked as a Foreign Ministry official in Germany He hated the Nazi regime, and in an attempt to aid its demise he offered to spy for free for the Allied forces. The Americans assigned him the code name 'George Wood' and between 1943 and 1945, at great risk to his life, he smuggled more than 1,600 top secret Nazi documents - from details of military tactics to reports on missile developments and plans to deport Jews to the death camps. Miraculously escaping detection by the Gestapo, he continued to work as an informer until the final days of the war, influencing the outcome of a number of conflicts. But when the war ended, Kolbe's efforts were not officially recognized by the Allies. Denied a visa to the US, he was ostracized by his colleagues at the German Foreign Ministry where he was branded a traitor. He later moved to Switzerland where he became a salesman for a US power tools company, dying in obscurity in 1971. His extraordinary story has remained hidden until four years ago, when the CIA de-classified nearly 500,000 documents, many of which detail Kolbe's exploits. Using previously unseen archival material, Lucas Delattre has pieced together the extraordinary story of perhaps the Second World War's most important spy..
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Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People
As America’s leaders fight pre-emptive wars abroad and ordinary Americans fight to keep their heads above water here at home, Arianna Huffington offers a no-holds-barred account of where we stand and a clear and remarkable vision of where we should be headed. Taking aim at the ruthless fanatics in the Bush White House and the feckless fools in the all-too-compliant Democratic opposition, the best-selling author of Pigs at the Trough paints a scathing picture of our contemporary political landscape—peopled with scoundrels and cowards, and awash in the constant and corrosive tow of dirty money. But the book doesn’t stop there. Over the course of her run for governor of California, Arianna Huffington learned that criticism and outrage are not enough. She lays out her game plan for winning back America from our not-so-compassionately-conservative president, now firmly and happily in the grip of right-wing radicals like Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and John Ashcroft. With the 2004 election fast approaching, Arianna Huffington sees fire in the ashes of the Democratic Party and reason for hope that this can be the year that the people finally take back control of their government and their country. Fearless, funny, in full command of the facts, and ever passionate, Arianna Huffington offers not just a chapter-and-verse diagnosis of the fanaticism that drives the Bush White House but a bold vision of New Responsibility for rebuilding our broken democracy. If you want to know what you can do to restore America to the promise and moral greatness envisioned by our greatest leaders, from Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt to FDR and Bobby Kennedy, this book is required reading. These are big dreams, but, as Arianna argues, anything smaller guarantees the reelection of George Bush..
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Power Grab: How the National Education Association Is Betraying our Children
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Betraying well.(Gilles Deleuze)(Critical Essay): An article from: Criticism
This digital document is an article from Criticism, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 4176 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Betraying well.(Gilles Deleuze)(Critical Essay) Author: Eleanor Kaufman Publication:Criticism (Magazine/Journal) Date: September 22, 2004 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 46 Issue: 4 Page: 651(9) Article Type: Critical Essay Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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