Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction docx
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction docx
... Petit-Palais, France.
Photo © Giraudon/Bridgeman
Art Library
3 Michael Bakunin 7
4 Peter Kropotkin 9
5 Zapatista billboard,
Chiapas, Mexico 17
© Daniel Aguilar/Reuters
6 Emiliano Zapata and
Pancho ... government.
The anarchist press re-emerged in Germany after Hitler, in Italy
after Mussolini, in Spain after Franco, in Portugal after Salazar, in
Argentina after the generals, and in Russia aft...
African History: A Very Short Introduction docx
... is a massive plateau of ancient rocks, elevated towards the
east but dominated by a series of vast alluvial flatlands. Like Africa’s
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The idea of Africa
rocks, its soils are ancient – and many, ... huge Indian Ocean island of Madagascar as part of
Africa – although both, as is also conventional, have very little to
say about it.
Other scholars argue for the inclusion of the diaspora, i...
Economics: A Very Short Introduction
... parents can afford to be egalitarian. In contrast,
Becky’s household can always afford enough food. Her parents
allocate food equally every day – again, allowing for differences in
nutritional ... due
care has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protection
against moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Law
of Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together,
a...
Game theory: A very short introduction
... Von
Neumann’s toy model abstracts all such complications away.
Alice and Bob are each dealt a number between 0 and 1. Both aim
to maximize their average dollar earnings on the assumption that
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all ... in launching an angry attack
on Alice after she has treated him unfairly. His behaviour might
then easily be dismissed as irrational by observers who fail to
notice that he isn’t...
Global catastrophes: A very short introduction
... the planet, sending up a
gigantic plume of gas and debris and blasting outwards a rapidly
expanding shock wave. As fragment after fragment hammered into
the planet, spectacular images were gathered ... waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, and
wildfires. Many urban centres in Europe, Africa, and Asia appear to
have collapsed almost simultaneously around 2350 bc, and records
abound of flood, fire, qu...
Photography: a very short introduction
... is an index of a speaker; writing of a hand employing a pen
or moving over a keyboard; traffic signs of both a fabricator and an
act of planning. What is particular, and peculiar, about photographs
is ... a distinction between actual and virtual
phenomena.) Assuming a good, flat mirror with a clean surface,
there are three factors that enable a beholder to determine that
what...
Nuclear weapons: A very short introduction
... is moral; offense is immoral.’ Ironically,
three and a half decades later, James M. Lindsay and Michael
E. O’Hanlon argued a national security policy that deliberately
leaves the American people ... Watkins concluded, to
have a long-range programme to ‘develop systems that would
defeat a missile attack’. Reagan gravitated to Watkins’s missile
defence idea as a way to alleviate...
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