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The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc
Enriched edition. A Tale of Courage and Redemption in 15th-Century France
- Translated by
- Daniel De Leon
2019
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Eugène Sue's "The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc" is a gripping narrative that entwines historical fiction with social commentary. Set in the tumultuous times of the Hundred Years' War, Sue artfully weaves the story of Joan of Arc'—a figure emblematic of faith, heroism, and nationalism. Employing a romantic literary style characterized by vivid imagery and emotional depth, Sue critiques the societal structures of his own time, evoking the spirit of chivalry while simultaneously unmas...
Learning Our Names
Asian American Christians on Identity, Relationships, and Vocation
2022
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What's your name?Asian Americans know the pain of being called names that deny our humanity. We may toggle back and forth between different names as a survival strategy. But it's a challenge to discern what names reflect our true identities as Asian Americans and as Christians. In an era when Asians face ongoing discrimination and marginalization, it can be hard to live into God's calling for our lives.Asian American Christians need to hear and own our dive...
One Line Drive
A Life-Threatening Injury and a Faith-Fueled Comeback
Unabridged
4 hours 42 min
2021
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Daniel Ponce de Leon's hard-fought journey to Major League Baseball and recovery from a near-death injury, followed by his astonishing big league debut, will inspire readers to trust God in all circumstances.The path you take to achieving your dreams is not always easy. Daniel Ponce de Leon, an acclaimed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, overcame many challenges to get to the Major Leagues. Drafted four times, he spent a long four years climbing his way up throu...
The Ultimate Karl Marx Collection
Enriched edition. Capital, Communist Manifesto, Wage Labor and Capital, Critique of the Gotha Program, Wages…
2022
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The Ultimate Karl Marx Collection offers an unparalleled exploration of Marxist thought, tracing the intricate threads of socio-economic critique and revolutionary ideas woven into the tapestry of modern political and economic discourse. Spanning a variety of literary styles—from analytical essays to persuasive speeches—this anthology captures the profound and enduring impact of Marx's theories. Within its pages, readers will encounter groundbreaking works that articulate the struggles and...
2021
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Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America provides fourteen contributions to understand, from a multidisciplinary perspective, processes of socio-political reconfigurations in the region from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s.The Left Turn was the regional shift to left-of-center governments and social movements that sought to replace the neoliberal policies of the 1990s. This volume aims to answer the overarching research question: how do state...
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
Enriched edition. Class Struggle, Historical Materialism, and the 1851 Coup in Post-1848 France
- Translated by
- Daniel De Leon
2023
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In "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon," Karl Marx examines the political upheaval in France following the 1848 Revolution, culminating in Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power. Written in a vibrant and incisive style, the text combines historical analysis with Marx's materialist conception of history, highlighting class struggles, political tactics, and the interplay between individual agency and broader socio-economic conditions. Marx's narrative is steeped in the context of th...
One Line Drive
A Life-Threatening Injury and a Faith-Fueled Comeback
2021
EN
Daniel Ponce de Leon's hard-fought journey to Major League Baseball and recovery from a near-death injury, followed by his astonishing big league debut, will inspire readers to trust God in all circumstances.The path you take to achieving your dreams is not always easy. Daniel Ponce de Leon, an acclaimed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, overcame many challenges to get to the Major Leagues. Drafted four times, he spent a long four years climbing his way up throu...
Cyber Security
Second International Symposium, CSS 2015, Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA, April 7-8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
2016
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Cyber Security, CSS 2015, held in Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA, in April 2015.The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 papers. The papers reflect four areas of scholarly work: permissions and trust evaluation, implementation and management; cloud and device security and privacy; social implications of networked and mobile applications; system and process assessm...
The Essential Karl Marx (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Capital, Communist Manifesto, Wage Labor and Capital, Critique of the Gotha Program, Wages, Price and Profit, Theses on Feuerbach
2019
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The Essential Karl Marx gathers the central arguments, polemical energies, and analytic methods that made Marx's work foundational to modern social thought. Moving among manifesto, historical interpretation, economic critique, and revolutionary theory, the volume situates class struggle, labor, capital, alienation, and ideology within a broad literary and intellectual field. Its selections reveal both the urgency of political address and the rigor of systematic critique. The collection is ...
Arrian the Historian
Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire
2021
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During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful of these literary figures were sophists, whose highly influential display oratory has been the prevailing focus of scholarship on Roman Greece over the past fifty years. Often overlooked are the period’s historians, who spurned sophistic oral performance in favor of written accounts. One such ...
- Translated by
- Daniel De Leon
2025
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"Hegel says somewhere that that great historic facts and personages recur twice. He forgot to add: "Once as tragedy, and again as farce." With this famous opening line, Karl Marx launches into one of the most brilliant and biting works of political analysis ever written. In 1851, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the great emperor, seized absolute power in France through a coup d'état. To the stunned observers of the day, it was an inexplicable reversal of history. Marx alone could unrav...
Violence in the Barrios of Caracas
Social Capital and the Political Economy of Venezuela
2019
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This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios. It helps situate readers familiar or not with Latin American in the context that is Caracas, Venezuela, a city displaying one of the world’s highest homicide rates. The book offers a qualitative comparison of the informal mechanisms of social control in three barrios of Caracas. This comprehensive analysis can help explain high homicide rates, while socio-economic conditions improve...











