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How to Win a Cosmic War: Confronting Radical Religions
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Why do they hate us? An entire cottage industry has arisen to answer this question. But what no one has really figured out is, who exactly are they? Is it al-Qaeda? Islamic nationalists? The whole Muslim world? “How to Win a Cosmic War” lays out, for the first time, a comprehensive definition of the movement behind and surrounding al-Qaeda and the like, a global ideology properly termed Jihadism. Contrasting twenty-first-century religious extremism across Christianity, Judaism and Islam with its historical antecedents, Aslan demonstrates that while modern Jihadis may have legitimate social grievances – the suffering of the Palestinians, American support for Arab dictators, the presence of foreign troops in Muslim lands, to name a few – they have no real goals or actual agenda. So, what do the Jihadists want? Aslan’s answer is: nothing. The Jihadists have no earthly agenda; they are fighting a metaphysical conflict, a theological war. And ever since 9/11, we have unfortunately been fighting the same cosmic war, the war they want: the so-called ‘War on Terror’. How do we win a Cosmic War? By refusing to fight in one. And in this stunning new work, Aslan reveals surprising conclusions about how we can deal with this predicament.
How to Win a Cosmic War: Confronting Radical Religions
Highlights:
Why do they hate us? An entire cottage industry has arisen to answer this question. But what no one has really figured out is, who exactly are they? Is it al-Qaeda? Islamic nationalists? The whole Muslim world? “How to Win a Cosmic War” lays out, for the first time, a comprehensive definition of the movement behind and surrounding al-Qaeda and the like, a global ideology properly termed Jihadism. Contrasting twenty-first-century religious extremism across Christianity, Judaism and Islam with its historical antecedents, Aslan demonstrates that while modern Jihadis may have legitimate social grievances – the suffering of the Palestinians, American support for Arab dictators, the presence of foreign troops in Muslim lands, to name a few – they have no real goals or actual agenda. So, what do the Jihadists want? Aslan’s answer is: nothing. The Jihadists have no earthly agenda; they are fighting a metaphysical conflict, a theological war. And ever since 9/11, we have unfortunately been fighting the same cosmic war, the war they want: the so-called ‘War on Terror’. How do we win a Cosmic War? By refusing to fight in one. And in this stunning new work, Aslan reveals surprising conclusions about how we can deal with this predicament.
How to Win on the Battlefield
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The essential military tactics that have enabled commanders from Alexander the Great to General Giap to achieve victory on the battlefield. This groundbreaking book examines battle tactics that have achieved victory through the ages. Drawing on examples of battles on land, at sea, and in the air, the authors reveal the enduring value of each tactic in clear and compelling descriptions and analysis. How can you draw your enemy off-balance? When is the best moment to deliver a counterattack? What is the effect of shock action or defense in depth? This book shows how certain tactical concepts have stood the test of time. It illustrates how General Robert E. Lee, although heavily outnumbered, achieved a remarkable victory through an audacious flanking maneuver at Chancellorsville in 1863, and how the same bold move had been used effectively in Europe more than 600 years before by the king of France at Bouvines. It examines how Allied armies seized and retained the initiative through the airborne landings in Normandy in 1944, and how Soviet General Zhukov pierced enemy lines using Blitzkrieg tactics in Mongolia in 1939. The book features evocative photographs, illustrations, and paintings, and 28 specially commissioned battle plans.
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
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Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including ”Howl”, whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history.
”I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked”
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. They include the apocalyptic ”Howl”, which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956; the moving lament for his dead mother, ”Kaddish”; the searing indictment of his homeland, ”America”; and the confessional ”Mescaline”. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.
Huis Clos and Other Plays
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These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre’s major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. “Lucifer and the Lord”, Sartre’s favourite among his plays, explores this theme in depth, dealing in the process with fundamental questions of faith and disillusionment; in “Huis Clos” – arguably Sartre’s most important play – he contends that ‘Hell is other people’, and details the afterlife of three souls trapped together in locked room and the torments that they inflict on each other; while “The Respectable Prostitute”, set in the Deep South of America, is concerned with racism, subjugation and the demands of conscience.
Hujjat Allah al Baligha
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This is the master work of Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (1762), considered to be the most important Muslim thinker of the 18th century.
Human
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What does it really mean to be human? How do we actually differ from apes? All your questions answered in this definitive visual guide to being Human. From biology to beliefs, evolution to our future, a team of expert writers and consultants – led by author and broadcaster Robert Winston – tell the complete story of our remarkable species. People watching – it’s only human nature.