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LifestreamI keep getting these manga volumes out of tradition I guess. Call me nostalgic. Volume 13 should be out June 8. I haven’t seen any news on the Gunnm movie in a very long time. James Cameron’s Avatar was released on schedule and became a monumental success so I guess nothing should be standing [...]
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Haven’t been doing much reading this last year, but perhaps that can change. Here are a few items for the season. Also on back-order: Nato’s Secret Armies
I ordered (UP) volume eight and nine of Last Order. Apparently the next volume of "Battle Angel Alita" will be out December 9, 2008 (wikipedia). Don’t know what’s up with the long delay. I can’t say that I am entirely thrilled about the Last Order series on the whole. Less is more as the saying [...]
Now that is better. The story is starting to come together — even if Last Order is turning out to be quite meandering and frankly outlandish, even in Gunnm terms. Still getting mine from United Publications btw. The next graphic novel is due for December 2006 and if that is any indication, the series will [...]
Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower William Blum. 3rd ed. 2006. 320 pp. Zed Books. 1842778277. Zed Books – “Rogue State” and its author came to sudden international attention when Osama Bin Laden quoted the book publicly in January 2006, propelling the book to the top of the bestseller charts in a [...]
So I was filling up the bookshelf for the autumn season. Unfortunately there was this book by Michel Chossudovsky that I couldn’t get from any of the Swedish resellers, so I had to turn to Amazon UK. A compromise in that the books are generally the same price but the shipping and handling (airmail) is [...]
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal Terence Ball, Richard Dagger. 5th ed. 2003. 320 pp. Longman. Written with the firm belief that ideology is the driving force of nation-states, history, and politics, this innovative text covers the range of contemporary political ideologies, from the standard categories of liberalism, conservatism, and socialism to newly emerging ideological [...]
Nationalism Ernest Gellner. 134p, paperback. 1995. Nya Doxa. Swedish. A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has caused enormous suffering, both directly and indirectly. Nationalism remains a powerful influence today; in the [...]
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson. 240p. Verso, 1999. What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality – the personal and cultural feeling of [...]
Beyond Chutzpah. On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Norman G. Finkelstein. University of California Press, 2005, 343p. UC Press – In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption [...]
