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    How Fascism Works (eBook, ePUB)
    "A vital read for a nation under Trump."-The Guardian "No single book is as relevant to the present moment."-Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen "One of the defining books of the decade."-Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • Fascist politics are running rampant in America today-and spreading around the world. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history. 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 here on the structures that unite them, laying out and analyzing the ten pillars of fascist politics-the language and beliefs that separate people into an "us" and a "them." He knits together reflections on history, philosophy, sociology, and critical race theory with stories from contemporary Hungary, Poland, India, Myanmar, and the United States, among other nations. He makes clear the immense danger of underestimating the cumulative power of these tactics, which include exploiting a mythic version of a nation's past; propaganda that twists the language of democratic ideals against themselves; anti-intellectualism directed against universities and experts; law and order politics predicated on the assumption that members of minority groups are criminals; and fierce attacks on labor groups and welfare. These mechanisms all build on one another, creating and reinforcing divisions and shaping a society vulnerable to the appeals of authoritarian leadership. By uncovering disturbing patterns that are as prevalent today as ever, Stanley reveals that the stuff of politics-charged by rhetoric and myth-can quickly become policy and reality. Only by recognizing fascists politics, he argues, may we resist its most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals. "With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism."-William Jelani Cobb, author of The Substance of Hope
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    A Corpus-Based Study of Nominalizations Predicated by English Deverbal Nouns in -tion
    A Corpus-Based Study of Nominalizations Predicated by English Deverbal Nouns in -tion - A Cognitive Grammar Approach. Dissertationsschrift: ab 71.99 €
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    Vagabond Tramp
    Unkle Nancy is a prolific, almost manic songwriter, and this is his third full-length project in less that two years. His vaudeville- and ragtime-style compositions tell stories of interesting characters and their foibles, including some semi-autobiographical tales. Use and distribution of this article is subject to our Publisher Guidelines whereby the original author's information and copyright must be included. Album: Unkle Nancy - Vagabond Tramp by Bradley Wilson in Entertainment / Music (submitted 2009-12-10) OREGON MUSIC NEWS December 8, 2009 by Bradley Wilson Somewhere in the landscape inhabited by Tom Waits, Unkle Nancy and the Family Jewels hopped a train for nowhere in particular. Their album Vagabond Tramp begins as a tentative foray into familiar territory before wending it's way to a personality all it's own in just 11 tracks. The instruments include a washboard, flute, cello, kazoo, and a ratchet. Lyrics such as 'I like to wakeup hungover, wake up in hell / Each day the difference, gets harder to tell' at first induce the listener to assume this work is paean to dissipation, and it is partly that. The album starts out like a cold shower in the morning. Subjects include 'Bobby Bumbleton' who murdered his parents, and a tramp who goes home with a woman ('Mr. James') telling her husband in the morning: 'If you could just hand me the pants that you're standin' on / I bid good-day to you and your wife.' Nancy affects a Waitsian growl for the first four songs. 'Baby Blue' is when the mood changes from cynical to playful, though at no time does it lose a sly, sardonic edge. After the denouement of 'Cowz Come Home,' in which human voices and instruments whimsically approximate the sounds of barnyard animals, and the bounding energy of 'Top of the Hill': 'I'm goin', goin', goin' to the top of the hill,' we have grounds to expect toe-tapping happiness for the rest of the album. Fortunately, Unkle Nancy and company ascribe to an approach predicated on presenting listeners with the unexpected. The next track, 'Mighty King' is a direct confrontation of the Bush administration, briefly alluding to the twin towers, with the mournful chorus, 'Down, down, they all went down / Now the new war's begun.' A hollow wail, first vocal, then instrumental, resets our expectations from whimsical to rueful. Bradley Wilson is a contributor to OREGON MUSIC NEWS.
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