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The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Melanie Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2011-12-13
The World Turned Upside Down written by Melanie Phillips and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-13 with Religion categories.
In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories: AIDS was created in a CIA laboratory, Princess Diana was assassinated, and the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. In The World Turned Upside Down, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Scientists skeptical of global warming are hounded from their posts, Israel is demonized, and the US is vilified over the war on terror—all on the basis of blatant falsehoods and obscene propaganda. Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to its legitimate threats. Faced with the very real challenges of spiraling demographics and violent, confrontational Islamism, the West is no longer willing or able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it once brought into being.
The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Alfredo Toro Hardy
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2013
The World Turned Upside Down written by Alfredo Toro Hardy and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Political Science categories.
Acting as a Sorcerer's Apprentice, the West incorporated 1.3 billion Chinese and 1.2 billion Indians into the world's labour equation within a context of lower production costs. This resulted in erosion of its competitive capacity and social stability, while greatly benefiting developing economies, many of which were able to emerge with unprecedented speed. With China as the main engine, the developing economies have become increasingly integrated, sustaining in the process a fundamental part of the global trade growth. While this phenomenon took shape, excesses within Western economies generated a seismic crisis that dramatically accelerated a slow decline. As the ascendant and descendant curves of developing and developed economies are crossing each other, a decoupling tendency between both has become evident. The economic partnership between China and Latin America epitomizes well the growing integration between emerging economies. Even if mostly benefiting from it, Latin America is under the double sign of threat and opportunity due to this complex relation. For Latin America to succeed, it will need to reinvent itself.The analyses and information contained in this book will be of interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers alike.
When The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Kathleen Starck
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009
When The World Turned Upside Down written by Kathleen Starck and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
This collection of essays explores post-1989 Western perceptions of Eastern Europe and how these manifest themselves in cultural representations. It starts out from findings in the academic field of â oepost-socialismâ , claiming that â oeEasternersâ and â oeWesternersâ are still very much under the influence of the socialisation they underwent during the Cold War and its aftermath. As a consequence, the revolutions of 1989 and 1990 and the subsequent opportunities for exchange did not necessarily bring about a reconciliation of the different worldviews. It seems the East-West divide has not simply vanished with the collapse of socialism. The essays included in this book examine in how far the divide is mirrored in the cultural arena. They focus on portrayals of post-1989 Eastern European political and social transformations in Western poetry, fiction, travel writing, autobiography, theatre and documentaries and investigate the Westâ (TM)s fascination with the â oeWild Eastâ and how outsiders view or have experienced Eastern life after the iron curtain was lifted.
The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Richard Ferrie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The World Turned Upside Down written by Richard Ferrie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This examination of the events surrounding the pivotal Revolutionary War battle that led to the defeat of the British forces at Yorktown, Virginia, focuses on the central role of General George Washington.
The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Yang Jisheng
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-01-19
The World Turned Upside Down written by Yang Jisheng and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with History categories.
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.
The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Cottesloe Theatre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
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The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Jonas Dennis (Prebendary.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
The World Turned Upside Down written by Jonas Dennis (Prebendary.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with categories.
The Story Of John G Paton
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Author : James Paton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Story Of John G Paton written by James Paton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Oceania categories.
Handley Cross
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Author : Robert Smith Surtees
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Handley Cross written by Robert Smith Surtees and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
The Apocryphal Books
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
The Apocryphal Books written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Bible categories.