Novedades

When France fell in 1940, Britain was vulnerable to invasion and in their desperation tubes filled with explosive chemicals were installed under key points all over southeast England. These McNaughton Tubes were ready to blow in the faces of the invading Germans and thankfully never used. At the end of the war these tubes were removed, but unfortunately some tubes were missed. After 75 years they are still in the ground and some are under people's houses. This report examines who and why they were installed, who took them out, why some were missed and who is being falsely blamed for them ...

What does it mean to call something "new"? Why is Western art and culture, even after postmodernism, still so obsessed with the concept? What are the consequences of relying on culture to bring about social change? In this provocative book, David Balzer argues that Western culture was never designed to produce truly new or original artifacts. Rather, we move from fixation to fixation, trend to trend—a cycle of creation and destruction with deep origins in Judeo-Christianity and the paganism that preceded it.

What does it mean to be cosmopolitan? Typically, cosmopolitanism is understood as a broad moral orientation, involving some kind of commitment to global moral equality. On this understanding, to be cosmopolitan is simply to evidence that moral orientation oneself. By contrast, Being Cosmopolitan takes up a thoroughly political approach. The focus is on what it might mean, and what it is like, to be political in a distinctly cosmopolitan form.