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THIS ESSAY ARGUES THAT THE WORLD IS ENTERING A NEW STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT: "TRANSPERIALISM." THIS NEW STAGE IS CHARACTERIZED BY TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS AND ASSEMBLY THAT ALLOW TRANSNATIONAL FIRMS TO BREAK THE BONDS OF DEPENDENCE ON PARTICULAR NATION-STATES. AMIDST THIS TIME OF TRANSITION, FOUR MAJOR MODES OF POLITICAL ANALYSIS HAVE REMAINED AND/OR EMERGED: VALIDATION OF NEOLIBERALISM, POSTMODERNISM; SOCIAL "SCIENCE"; AND, A REVITALIZING PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT. THIS ESSAY CONSIDERS EACH OF THESE MODES IN TURN AND ASSESSES THEIR USEFULNESS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.

"Sharing is emphasized to children seemingly from birth! But, it's not until children are about 4 years old that they are developmentally able to truly understand how and why to share with friends and siblings. In this adorable book, early readers see many examples of sharing at home, at school, and out and about. The low-ATOS text is written in complete sentences to aid reading fluency. Full-color photographs correlate with the achievable text to help readers overall comprehension of the text"--

"By preschool, many kids have a sense of what being "nice" means: sharing with a sibling, using please and thank you, and not arguing. Kindness encompasses so many behaviors, and one of the best ways for kids to learn them all is by exposure. This book helps readers recognize and understand what behaviors are kind to others, including friends, teachers, siblings, and caregivers. Low-ATOS text written in complete sentences aids reading fluency and full-color photographs correlate with text to help comprehension"--

"So many young learners are excited to engage with their peers and teachers in a school or class setting. But, this eagerness can quickly devolve into chaos if rules about speaking and taking turns speaking aren't implemented. In this book, readers encounter many examples of kids just like them raising their hands to ask and answer questions, to ask to go the bathroom, or otherwise communicate with grown-ups. Full-color photographs directly correlate to the low-ATOS text to aid reading comprehension"--

THE ANARCHIST INQUISITION -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Two Children of Modernity -- Part I: The Propagandist by the Deed -- 1. "With Fire and Dynamite" -- 2. Propaganda by the Deed and Anarchist Communism -- 3. The Birth of the Propagandist by the Deed -- 4. Introducing the "Lottery of Death" -- 5. "There Are No Innocent Bourgeois" -- Part II: El Proceso de Montjuich -- 6. The Anarchist Inquisition -- 7. The Return of Torquemada -- 8. Germinal -- 9. Montjuich, Dreyfus, and el Desastre -- 10. "All of Spain Is Montjuich" -- Part III: The Shadow of Montjuich -- 11. The General Strike and the Montjuich Template of Resistance -- 12. The Iron Pineapple -- 13. Tossing the Bouquet at the Royal Wedding -- 14. "Truth on the March" for Francisco Ferrer -- 15. Francisco Ferrer and the Tragic Week -- Epilogue: "Neither Innocent nor Guilty" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Anarchist Inquisition explores the groundbreaking transnational human rights campaigns that emerged in response to a brutal wave of repression unleashed by the Spanish state to quash anarchist activities at the turn of the twentieth century. Mark Bray guides readers through this tumultuous era: from backroom meetings in Paris and torture chambers in Barcelona, to international antiterrorist conferences in Rome and human rights demonstrations in Buenos Aires.Anarchist bombings in theaters and cafes in the 1890s provoked mass arrests, the passage of harsh anti-anarchist laws, and executions in France and Spain. Yet, far from a marginal phenomenon, this first international terrorist threat had profound ramifications for the broader development of human rights, as well as modern global policing, and international legislation on extradition and migration. A transnational network of journalists, lawyers, union activists, anarchists, and other dissidents related peninsular torture to Spain's brutal suppression of colonial revolts in Cuba and the Philippines to craft a nascent human rights movement against the "revival of the Inquisition." Ultimately their efforts compelled the monarchy to accede in the face of unprecedented global criticism.Bray brings to life the assassins, activists, torturers, and martyrs whose struggles set the stage for a previously unexamined era of human rights mobilization. Rather than assuming that human rights and "terrorism" are inherently contradictory forces, The Anarchist Inquisition analyzes how these two modern political phenomena worked in tandem to constitute dynamic campaigns against Spanish atrocities

Coming to power -- Sarajevo in Vienna -- Threats to the independence of Austria -- Thirty days from pariah to dictator -- Parliament dissolved -- Schuschnigg and the Jewish question -- Hitler's Austrian intermediaries -- Ambush at Berchtesgaden -- "Leo is ready to travel" -- Swallowed by the beast -- The "dirty business" -execution -- The best days.

""This is a book about what it would mean to be a bit moody in the midst of being theological and political. It's framing assumption is that neoliberal economics relies on narratives in which not being in the right mood means a cursed existence." So begins Grave Attending: A Political Theology for the Unredeemed, which mounts a challenge to neoliberal narratives of redemption. Mapping the contemporary state of political theology, Karen Bray brings it to bear upon secularism, Marxist thought, affect theory, queer temporality and other critical modes as a way to refuse separating one's personal mood from the political or philosophical. Introducing the concept of bipolar time, she offers a critique of neoliberal temporality by countering capitalist priorities of efficiency through the experiences of mania and depression. And it is here Bray makes her crucial critical turn, one that values the power of those who are unredeemed in the eyes of liberal democracy - those too slow, too mad, too depressed to be of productive worth -- suggesting forms of utopia in the poetics of crip theory and ordinary habit. Through performances of what she calls grave attending -- being brought down by the gravity of what is and listening to the ghosts of what might have been -- Bray asks readers to choose collective care over individual overcoming"--