A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution—Jean-Paul Marat.Who better to pen an authoritative biography of Jean-Paul Marat (1743–93) than preeminent historian of France Keith Michael Baker? Decades in the making, this monumental work takes readers on a journey through the intriguing, sometimes shocking life of this writer and thinker.Starting with Marat's Swiss family and upbringing, Baker then ...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a developer who wants to have your development environment accurately reflect your live servers to tackle the ever-increasing complexity of web and software projects, this book is most certainly intended for you! It's assumed that you know the basics of Linux systems in the context of web-based projects.What you will learnIntegrate your own machine with the virtual machine of your development envi...

In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and `overdetermined' character of identity. Further, in attempting to avoid essentialism, people have frequently looked to their territorial roots to establish their constituency. A cultural politics of resistance, as exemplified by Black politics, feminism, and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimintion...

Is MER (The Mystical Experience of Reality) What Humans Are All About?The Mystical Experience of Reality book and blog series by Keith Michael Hancock is a uniquely serious case history of newly emerging facts about the mystical experience of Reality (MER). It is presented here to add to the growing scientific and academic literature being produced around the world today–what human existence is really all about.Does God exist, or is much more revealing itself in our evoluti...

Build a social or community website with friends lists, groups, custom user profiles, and much moreKey FeaturesStep-by-step instructions for putting together a social networking site with Drupal 7Customize your Drupal installation with modules and themes to match the needs of almost any social networking siteAllow users to collaborate and interact with each other on your siteRequires no prior knowledge of Drupal or PHP; but even experi...

In a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become central to thinking about the future of humanity. Yet the study of cities is fragmented among different silos of expertise, diverse genres of scholarship, and widening chasms between theory and practice. How can we do better?Cities Rethought suggests that we need to remake the way we see and know cities in order to rethink how we act and intervene within them. To this end, it offers the contours...

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Nestled beneath the escarpment and a short drive from the beach, Nunnkirk has been a dairy farming town for a hundred and fifty years. It's the kind of place where everyone knows your name-and your business-and where the local footy team, the Bulls, still matters. But Nunnkirk is changing, and not everyone can afford the price of progress.House prices are soaring as cashed-up Sydneysiders snap up property, pushing locals to the margins. School enrolments are shrinking. The Bulls ca...

This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, becoming a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime. Lüsebrink and Reichardt use this semiotic reading of the Bastille to reveal how historical symbols are generated; what these symbols’ funct...

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American LiteratureChallenges the commonplace narrative that the African American experience of captivity in the United States is reducible to the legal institution of slavery, a status remedied through emancipationIn Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861, Keith Michael Green examines key texts that illuminate forms of black bo...

Originally published in 1993, this was the first systematic attempt to understand the criminalization of Black people without resorting to either crude state conspiracy theories or pathological portrayals of Black communities. Instead, the author places police/Black conflict in a geographical and historical context. A rigorous analysis of recent riots in London, informed by theoretical debates at the time, allowed Keith to demonstrate that both the riots and subsequent popular and official...

The Unfinished Politics of Race argues that the past few decades have seen important transformations in the politics of race. Contending that existing accounts have focused narrowly on the mainstream political sphere, this study argues that there is a need to explore the role of race more widely. By exploring the mainstream as well as transitional and alternative spheres of political mobilisation the authors stress the need to link the analysis of both local and national processes in order...