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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics)

25 reviews
Judith Butler

Routledge, 2006

Fascinating Ideas, Infuriating Writing Style
Readers who are willing to tolerate labyrinthine sentences and brain-cramping scholarly vocabulary and who already have a working understanding of Freud, Lacan, Foucault, and deconstruction will find in Butler a challenging, highly stimulating theorist of sex, gender, and sexuality. Readers looking for a breezy and accessible discussion of gender roles in modern society should definitely look ...

Loser Take All: Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000 - 2008

4 reviews

Ig Publishing, 2008

A Disturbing Deceit of Democracy
This book encapsulates years of research to provide what used to come from investigative journalists -- before mainstream corporate media cornered the market on misinformation and tabloid news. A loser can win a rigged election in America because counting the vote is now the privy of private enterprise. Allegations of election fraud are doused by a state of denial that it can't happen in the ...

Bodies of Subversion, Second Edition: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo

11 reviews
Margot Mifflin

powerHouse Books, 2001

Interesting info on two fascinating subjects
Ok, I love women and I love tattoos. While my "woman" history is nobody's business but my own, I can say that I got my first tattoo at age 52 (8 years ago--you do the math) and now have a body full. Early on in my tat career, I devoured every book and mag I could find, looking for ideas (some would say "validation") and, frankly,got tired of the semi-salacious boob shots. I KNEW there was ...

Version Control with Subversion

21 reviews
C Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

I wish all documentation was this good
This is one of the only software books I've read cover to cover. It makes sense, it tells you thing in the right order: It gives you the big picture then goes into detail. The authors are smart and this book makes you smart like them. I went 15 years rarely using but not really understanding or trusting CVS. Now I run my own subversion server and love it.

Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

4 reviews
Travis Swicegood

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Great resource on learning Git quickly
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Git: - It explains concepts clearly and succinctly without being dry - It's short: you can go through this book in a day or two. - It succeeds in explaining what Git is and what the main most useful features are without going into unnecessary details. For anything in depth, Git manual is an excellent complementary source of information. - ...

The Subversion of Christianity

5 reviews
Jacques Ellul

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1986

an important work for all contemporary church-lovers
When I first read this book, so many things fell into place that I've been buying up copies and giving them to my friends to read. Ellul ably holds to the essential core of Christian teaching while showing how the church throughout history has consistently been led away from truly living out the gospel -- whether by outside forces or by the weight of its own success, the church has continually ...

Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy

38 reviews
Charlie Savage

Back Bay Books, 2008

Those who warp the Constitution and evade accountability
A most disturbing aspect of the Bush Administration is how Cheney and his chief counsel (now Chief of Staff) David Addington have maneuvered their way into essentially giving themselves a blank check that allows them to do whatever they want behind the scenes in the name of national security. The enemy has been depicted as an incalculable threat, capable of the most murderous rampages with the ...

Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion (The Pragmatic Starter Kit Series)(2nd Edition)

26 reviews
Mike Mason

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006

Fantastic
This book had everything a non-expert would need to understand the basics of the version control system with Subversion. The tone is very readable. And the use of graphics was good but could be better Overall, I recommend this book to anyone who is trying to build a strong foundation in source code versioning. It really cuts to the chase so the reader can be doing real work in a matter ...

Practical Subversion, Second Edition (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

7 reviews
Daniel Berlin, Garrett Rooney

Apress, 2006

An updated guide and reference to Subversion
The second edition of Practical Subversion has been updated, but not substantially changed. The new edition has somewhat higher production quality and editing. The reference material on the various svn subcommands has been updated to be more current. This is very important because the first edition was badly out-of-date in this area. The book has many good features, such as the "Best ...

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization
Jack Zipes

Routledge, 2006

The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives -- their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, ...

Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance (Texas Film and Media Studies Series)

1 review
Charles Ramírez Berg

University of Texas Press, 2002

Great for students who are looking for Media bias.
Just as Reel Bad Arabs, this book looks deep into media bias when it comes to minorities. This particular book looks deep into Latino imgaes in cinema! So sad that a minority needs to be vilified so fil producers can make some money!

Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement ...

2 reviews
Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall

South End Press, 2001

The suppression of domestic dissent by the FBI
This book maintains that the primary purpose of the FBI, from its inception and at least through to the late 1980s when Agents of Repression was first published, was to repress political groups and individuals who posed a threat to the status quo. The text is accompanied by heavy documentation and I was often reminded of the writing style of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman. The focus here, ...

Practical Perforce

19 reviews
Laura Wingerd

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

What every Perforce admin should know
Or anyone else who has any input into their company's software control decisions. (Or pretty much anyone using Perforce, or thinking about using Perforce, etc.) Unlike some I've found the standard documentation (and online knowledge base) easy to work with and understand, but like most I've longed for more examples and theory. This book provides those and more. If you're an admin, buy an extra ...

The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life

2 reviews
George Katsiaficas

AK Press, 2006

clear and brilliant treatment of the subject
this is a major book, by a progressive thinker of long standing

Popaganda: The Art And Subversion Of Ron English

5 reviews
Ron English

Last Gasp, 2004

English speaks my language
This glossy, colorful book collects Ron English's great works and accomplishments, spanning his 20 years of using and twisting pop art to subvert itself, popular culture, and commercialistic overkill. Although a painter, street artist, and musician, English is best known for his hilarious - and sometimes dangerous - billboard work, whereby he would covertly paint over hundreds of billboards to ...

Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party

2 reviews
Curtis J. Austin

University of Arkansas Press, 2008

Fascinating, Engaging & Provoking...
This book provides an important look at the Black Panther Party in all of its complexities. Although the main focus is on violence in the creation and deterioration of the BPP, the book has a wealth of historical information about the time period as a whole. As someone who has only a limited education on the Black Panther Party and the Black Power movement, I found this book to be a major ...

There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political ...

42 reviews
Jim Hightower

Harper Paperbacks, 1998

Give 'em Hell, Hightower!
I voted for Jim Hightower (for Land Commissioner or something like that) way back when I'd just turned 18 and was able to vote for the first time. I'm very glad to see he's still fighting for the little guy. I live abroad, and whenever anyone asks where home is, I always used to proudly say, "Texas!" These days, it's getting harder and harder to be proud. At least with Bush the First, we could ...

In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage

29 reviews
John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr

Encounter Books, 2005

Extremely Important Account of Liberal Historical Bias
A key principle of psychoanalytic theory is that wish distorts perception and leads to denial, self deception, and deceit. The authors of In Denial give many examples with detailed quotations which illustrate how Liberal/Socialist bias has blinded many historians to the realities of Communist Russia, Joseph Stalin, Russian espionage activities against America, and the role of the American ...

Thundersqueak

2 reviews
Liz Angerford, Ambrose Lea

The Mouse That Spins, 2003

free yourself from the tyranny of Reality
This book is absolutely phenomenal... it is nearly impossible to convey how amazing it is, or to even touch upon how deeply it probes into reality as we know it. Subtitled "Confessions of a Right Wing Anarchist", the book dissects government and media in order to free us from "seeing through other peoples visions of the world". Ultimately though, the book reaches far far far beyond politics or ...

Subversion Version Control: Using the Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects (Bruce ...

6 reviews
William Nagel

Prentice Hall PTR, 2005

Subvert your development process!
This is a straightforward book on a straightforward topic. Subversion is an open-source version control (VC) system conceived as a replacement for CVS. While improving on CVS in a number of ways, it nonetheless feels comfortable and familiar to CVS users. Furthermore, because it avoids some of CVS's worst "gotchas", it's easier for VC novices to learn. Nagel writes this book for both of these ...

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