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This essay examines four influential books on the trends & themes of the 20th century: The Age of Extremes, The Passing of an Illusion, Dark Continent & Triangulating Peace. All four books discuss the same historical events but incorporate them in very different stories. The main differences between the books are in the literary forms that they most closely conform to tragedy, comedy, satire & romance, respectively. The essay concludes by asking why historians tend to bypass in silence the remarkable fact which constitutes the core of Triangulating Peace -- & which might well be the most important feature of the 20th century -- namely, that no democracy has gone to war against another democracy. 28 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications Ltd.]

The deadly world of high-level espionage is on full display in this heart-pumping exposé on the world's most glamorous and dangerous jobs A unique investigation of the most important cases of the twentieth century, this exploration of the world's most thrilling, high-profile, and undercover jobs—including information newly released under the Freedom of Information Act—is enthralling to the last page. Among others, it includes the dark secrets of: Sidney Reilly, considered by many to be the greatest spy of the century and an inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond; the "Atom Bomb" spy Klaus Fuchs, who gave the Russians atomic capability; George Blake, who betrayed more than 40 British agents, and is still alive in Moscow; and the Cambridge Spies, the double agents who did more damage to British intelligence in the 20th century than any other group. Focusing on the personalities of these enigmatic figures, this insightful book discusses their motivations and influences, and asks whether they were heroes, traitors, or just plain scapegoats.

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Congress occupies a central place in the U.S. political system. Its reach into American society is vast and deep. Overtime, the issues it has confronted have increased in both quantity and complexity. At the beginning, Congress dealt with a handful of matters, whereas today it has its hands in every imaginable aspect of life. It has attempted to meet these challenges and has changed throughout the course of its history, prodded by factors both external and internal to the institution. The essays in this volume argue therefore that as society changed throughout the twentieth century, Congress responded to those changes.

Introduction: A Map of Twentieth-Century Philosophy by Hans Bynagle.Edmund Husserl.Phenomenology (from Encyclopaedia Brittanica). The Crisis of European Science and Transcendental Phenomenology (Part III, A, ʹ33 and ʹ34).John Dewey.The Quest for Certainty (Chapter 10).W.E.B. Du Bois.The Souls of Black Folks (Chapter 1).Bertrand Russell.The Problems of Philosophy (Chapters 1, 5, and 15). Logical Atomism.G.E. Moore.The Refutation of Idealism.Martin Heidegger.An Introduction to Metaphysics (Chapter 1). Building Dwelling Thinking.Ludwig Wittgenstein.Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (in part). Philosophical Investigations (À1-47, 65-71, 241, 257-258, 305, and 309).A.J. Ayer.Language, Truth and Logic, (Preface and Chapter 1).Hans-Georg Gadamer.Truth and Method (Selections from Part II).Jean-Paul Sartre.Being and Nothingness (Chapter 2). Existentialism Is a Humanism.Simone De Beauvoir.The Second Sex (Introduction).Willard Van Orman Quine.Two Dogmas of Empiricism.Maurice Merleau-Ponty.Phenomenology of Perception (Preface).J.L. Austin.How to Do Things with Words (Lectures 1 and 2).Donald Davidson.The Method of Truth in Metaphysics.John Rawls.A Theory of Justice (Chapter 1, Sections 1-4).Michel Foucault.What Is an Author? Truth and Power.Jacques Derrida.Signature, Event, Context.Richard Rorty.Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Selections from Chapter 4).The Conversation Continues: Emerging Classics Since 1980.Luce Irigaray, The Sex Which Is Not One (Selections), Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (Chapter 15), Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Lecture XI, Parts II and III), Charles Taylor, Overcoming Epistemology.