“…From James Freys controversial A Million Little Pieces, to memoirs about bar-tending, Iran, the liberation of Dachau, computer hacking, and the impact of 9/11, this book argues that the memoir boom is more than a publishing trend. …”

“…Tracing the tumultuous course of regional affairs from the late 1940s through the early 1990s, "Latin America's Cold War" delves into the myriad crises and turning points of the period - the Cuban revolution and its aftermath; the recurring cycles of insurgency and counter-insurgency; the emergence of currents like the National Security Doctrine, liberation theology, and dependency theory; the rise and demise of a hemispheric diplomatic challenge to U.S. hegemony in the 1970s; the conflagration that engulfed Central America from the Nicaraguan revolution onward; and, the democratic and economic reforms of the 1980s. …”

“…Loin des siens restés dans la zone soviétique d'occupation, il doit surmonter ses souffrances physiques et morales. Libéré fin décembre 1947, il sort transformé de sa captivité. …”

“…De Gandhi à Steve Jobs, de Bouddha à Picasso, ils sont nombreux, ceux qui se sont libérés des déterminismes et des idéologies, pour choisir leur destin et changer le monde. …”

“…La respuesta es una inteligente denuncia de las contradicciones del antiamericanismo y de las incongruencias de los críticos de la globalización liberal…”

“…Ultimately, Shershow joins other contemporary thinkers in envisioning a community of unworking, grounded neither in ideals of production and progress, nor in an ethic of liberal generosity, but simply in our fundamental being-in-common. …”
Sumario

“…Dentro de la amplia obra alfonsí de carácter astromágico se han agrupado aquí para su estudio, por una parte, el Picatrix, como exponente de la literatura propiamente mágica, el Liber Razielis, por su relación con la Cábala y las tradiciones místicas y esotéricas previas existentes en el mundo hebreo, por otra un libro vinculado, entre otras disciplinas, con la alquimia, el Lapidario, y, por último, los distintos libros dedicados a la astrología, que forman el grupo más numeroso dentro de la obra alfonsí…”

“…Frente al discurso de la izquierda, simple y eficaz, donde las ideas devienen dogmas que pueden socavar una civilización, el pensamiento liberal garantiza la permanencia de la sociedad abierta…”

“…The book explores the main criticisms of the contemporary liberal tradition by communitarians, libertarians, feminists, and critical race theorists, and analyzes the gaps and contradictions within these traditions. …”

“…Tradition is shaken to its core as a triumphant procession of liberated lifestyles emerges. Women conquer the racetracks and tennis courts, go out alone in the evenings, cut their hair short and cast the idea of marriage aside. …”

“…Celle-ci, d'abord tolérée par les autorités de Vichy, sera interdite, mais elle réapparaîtra à la Libération. Chevalier, engagé depuis toujours contre le "laïcisme", deviendra ministre du Maréchal Pétain. …”

“…Gabrielle Lyon Show "Post Traumatic Growth and Resiliency"· Lex Fridman Podcast Episode #230Fresh out of high school, Kelsi Sheren, a diminutive nineteen-year-old woman, sought to join the military to help liberate those oppressed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. …”

“…Arguing instead that while some aspects of the war did end abruptly in 1945, in many corners of the world ‘war’ bled directly and raggedly into the ‘postwar’ such as Allied Occupation in Italy, the civil war in Greece, the rise of US hegemony and struggles for national liberation in India. From World War to Postwar shows how critical developments in the latter half of the 20th century were a direct result of the Second World War, and reconceptualizes the conflict as an intersecting series of regional wars as well as an overarching world war. …”

“…It re-inscribes important intellectuals and political figures, considered 'national fathers' of Italy and Greece (such as Ugo Foscolo, Dionysios Solomos, Ioannis Kapodistrias and Niccolo Tommaseo), into their regional and multicultural context, and shows how nations emerged from an intermingling, rather than a clash, of ideas concerning empire and liberalism, Enlightenment and religion, revolution and conservatism, and East and West" -- Contracubierta…”

“…Starting with Southern Europe in post-Franco Spain, then in the ex-Communist countries in Central Europe, post-apartheid South Africa, and now in the Arab world, constitution making has become a project not only of radical political movements, but of liberals and conservatives as well. Wherever new states or new regimes will emerge in the future, whether through negotiations, revolutionary process, federation, secession, or partition, the making of new constitutions will be a key item on the political agenda. …”

“…Against Turner and other revisionists, it argues that this change was the product of careful and consistent theological reasoning and reflection, and that anti-liberalism was just as integral to it as anti-evangelicalism"--…”