age ~62
from Amarillo, TX
The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana’s celebrated phrase, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an inde...
Author
David Rieff
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
160
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN #
0300182791
EAN Code
9780300182798
ISBN #
11
"I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating experience—does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful—I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly...everything matters!"So wrote...
Author
Susan Sontag
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
336
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN #
6
This, thesecond of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag’s evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and do...
Author
Susan Sontag
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
544
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN #
0374100764
EAN Code
9780374100766
ISBN #
3
In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all...
Author
Graham Greene
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
Penguin Classics
ISBN #
0143039733
EAN Code
9780143039730
ISBN #
15
Writing from the front lines of the hot wars of the post-Cold War world -- the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq for The New York Times Magazine -- David Rieff witnessed firsthand most of the armed interventions waged by the West or the United Nations in the na...
Author
David Rieff
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN #
074328707X
EAN Code
9780743287074
ISBN #
13
In a groundbreaking book, based on six years of on the ground reporting, expert David Rieff offers a masterly review about whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as increasingly promised.Can we provide enough food for 9 billion (2 billion more than today) in 2050, e...
Author
David Rieff
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
432
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN #
143912387X
EAN Code
9781439123874
ISBN #
12
"A reference that has no counterpart…. Civilization is in debt to all [the contributors]."―International Herald Tribune Originally published in 1999, this A-to-Z guidebook of wartime atrocities has received worldwide acclaim and has been translated into eleven languages. Now substantially updated, w...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
432
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN #
0393328465
EAN Code
9780393328462
ISBN #
7
In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations for standing by and doing nothing to stop the genocide of the Bosnian Muslims. Slaughterhouse is the d...
Author
David Rieff
Binding
Paperback
Pages
274
Publisher
Touchstone
ISBN #
0684819031
EAN Code
9780684819037
ISBN #
5
David Rieff is an American polemicist and pundit. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. He has ...