The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of the truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa; war-crime prosecutions in Nuremberg and Bosnia; and reparations in America, Minow looks at the strategies and results of these riveting national experiments in justice and healing.

American workers and children are rebelling violently all around us. Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has both plagued and baffled America for the last three decades, offering provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s—when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average-worker earnings—Ames crafts a convincing argument that these schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. He explores numerous fascinating and unexpected cases in detail, showing that as with slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context, thereby revealing their true meaning. Ames updates this edition with an eye toward recent events, including several new essays taking on the violent episodes at Northern Illinois and Virginia Tech universities, as well as workplace outrages like that in Alabama in March 2009. With the economy slumping and shooting rampages seemingly on the rise, Ames’s wide-scoped explanations have never been more prudent.

Surveys the historical development of science and technology and the interrelations between science and society

Isaiah Berlin's new book contains two studies. The first deals with the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher, Giovanni Battista Vico, a profound and original thinker who, after being overshadowed by his contemporary, Montesquieu, has been rediscovered at intervals ever since, but has even more to say to the present age than to his own. Johann Gottfried Herder, the subject of the second study, although commonly regarded as the father of European nationalism, originated three, perhaps equally influential, currents of thought: populism; the idea of artistic commitment and of art as the voice of its time and social milieu; and that of the autonomy of cultures and the equal validity of many dissimilar systems of values. The two essays attempt, from different points of view, to assess the value of identifying the progress of modern civilization with that of the natural sciences, and, in particular, to consider the criticisms of this position from within the ranks of the Enlightenment.

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The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen Ullman lived and worked inside that rising culture of technology, and in Life in Code she tells the continuing story of the changes it wrought with a unique, expert perspective. When Ellen Ullman moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s and went on to become a computer programmer, she was joining a small, idealistic, and almost exclusively male cadre that aspired to genuinely change the world. In 1997 Ullman wrote Close to the Machine, the now classic and still definitive account of life as a coder at the birth of what would be a sweeping technological, cultural, and financial revolution. Twenty years later, the story Ullman recounts is neither one of unbridled triumph nor a nostalgic denial of progress. It is necessarily the story of digital technology’s loss of innocence as it entered the cultural mainstream, and it is a personal reckoning with all that has changed, and so much that hasn’t. Life in Code is an essential text toward our understanding of the last twenty years—and the next twenty.

When Armand Hammer died at the age of 92, he was chairman of the Occidental Petroleum Company, lauded for his financial support of cancer research and for his art collection. But behind the facade of respectability lay a lifetime of fraud, both personal and professional. Now, the bestselling author of The Assassination Chronicles reveals the true story of this manipulative and corrupt man. of photos.

Photographs and text detail the now quadrennial international sports competitions, tracing their development from their ancient Greek origins and highlighting outstanding twentieth-century events and champions

Recounts forty-eight hours in John F. Kennedy's presidency in which he delivered two addresses to the public that would result in the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

"This book, consisting in the main of interpretations of a large part of Horace's writings, attempts to outline the history of the poet's work from his earliest epodes and satires to his maturest epistles and odes. Its purpose is not to replace existing commentaries but rather to enable the reader to understand a poem of Horace as a whole and to appreciate the character and arrangement of his books in their entirety. The interpretation aims at being as comprehensive as the subject requires; it deals both with Horace's forerunners and models and with his views on poetry, politics and society -- including his relations with Maecenas and Augustus -- philosophy and religion. Problems of language and style, of Greek and Latin literature and of Roman history are discussed wherever appropriate. An introductory chapter provides a commentary on Suetoniuus' Life of Horace." [Back cover].