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2017.
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English
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What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried examines the semantic twists and turns the term has endured since the 1930s and traces the word's polemical function within the context of present ideological struggles. Like "conservatism,"...
3) Emerald sea
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Series
Council wars volume 2
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Edmund Talbot and Herzer Herrick are sent to the Southern Isles to enlist the aid of the mer-folk--people who had altered their bodies into the shape of mythical sea dwellers--in the battle against the fascist dictators of New Destiny.
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[2018]
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English
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"As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. In fact, fascism's roots have been present in the United States for more than a century. Alarmed by the pervasive rise of fascist tactics both at home and around the globe, Stanley focuses...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
"Nina Argenta doesn't want the traditional life of a rural Italian woman. The daughter of a strong-willed midwife, she is determined to define her own destiny. But when her brother emigrates to America, she promises her mother to never leave... As Mussolini's fascists throw the country into chaos and Hitler's Nazis terrorise their town, each day becomes a struggle to survive greater atrocities. A future with Pietro seems impossible when they lose...
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Italiano
Description
This drama is set in Italy in 1938, when Mussolini's anti-Semetic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden.
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English
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"Traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century"--...
8) Liberal fascism: the secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
9) The forsaken
Author
Series
Forsaken trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After the formation of the United Northern Alliance--a merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico into one nation--sixteen-year-old Alenna is sent to an desolate prison island for teenagers believed to be predisposed to violence.
Author
Series
Rowland Sinclair novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's 1933, and the political landscape of Europe is darkening. Eric Campbell, the man who would be Australia's Fiihrer, is on a fascist tour of the Continent, meeting dictators over cocktails and seeking allegiances in a common cause. Yet the Australian way of life is not undefended. Old enemies have united to undermine Campbell's ambitions. The clandestine armies of the Establishment have once again mobilized to thwart any friendship with the Third...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
Portofino, Italy, 1943. A young woman steps off a boat in a scenic coastal village. Although she knows how to disappear in a crowd, Elodie is too terrified to slip by the German officers while carrying her poorly forged identity papers. She is frozen until a man she's never met before claims to know her. In desperate need of shelter, Elodie follows him back to his home on the cliffs of Portofino. Only months before, Elodie Bertolotti was a cello prodigy...
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English
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder of modern art history and as one of the key thinkers of the nineteenth century, Burckhardt changed not only the way we think about the Renaissance in relation to European and world history, but the value placed on art as a tool for understanding historical developments.
The Civilization of the Renaissance...
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English
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After an endless slew of best sellers dwelling upon the dastardly deeds of Donald Trump, at last an unvarnished look at the real threat we face as a nation when we complacently ignore evil that has hidden in plain sight for years.
Whether you have sheltered in place to the left or to the right of the commendable gooey center of this "American Life", The Deplorables: America Interrupted will challenge your conception of the events occurring over the...
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Español
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Desde principios del siglo XX y hasta poco antes del estallido de la Gran Guerra en junio de 1914, Rafael Altamira redactó numerosos escritos de temática «obrera», una buena muestra de los cuales, debidamente ordenados y clasificados, recopiló en el libro titulado Cuestiones obreras. En conjunto, los escritos de Altamira recibían la denominación de «cuestiones obreras». Al obrero como tal y como hombre no sólo le importaban cosas relativas...
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Get the Summary of Michael Nehls's The Indoctrinated Brain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Indoctrinated Brain" by Michael Nehls explores the societal and psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that the response to the virus and the push for a Great Reset are part of a strategy to erode constitutional freedoms and establish a technocratic regime. Nehls compares current events to dystopian...
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"We are at war, in WWIII for many decades now. We have been systematically targeted on different fronts and locations. Alas, my beloved America has not recognized it yet..." This nonfiction work chronicles the development of world politics in the 21st century. Discover the single driving force behind today's threat of global terrorism. Learn why the 9/11 attack was just one link in a long chain of battles against Western civilization and how Islam...
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Get the Summary of Alex Jones and Kent Heckenlively's The Great Awakening in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Great Awakening" by Alex Jones and Kent Heckenlively examines the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) and the implications of technological advancements on humanity. The authors discuss the risks of AI, referencing an incident where an AI drone attacked its human operator, and Elon Musk's...
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Get the Summary of Richard Evans's The Coming of the Third Reich in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Otto von Bismarck's governance, marked by suppression of liberal ideologies and militarization, laid the groundwork for the Third Reich by fostering authoritarianism and nationalism. The ineffective Anti-Socialist Law paradoxically strengthened the Social Democratic Party, making it a significant political force....
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