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Coriolanus was one of Shakespeare's last tragic plays along with Romeo and Juliet. It was adapted for stage by Bertolt Brecht and made into a movie in 2011 starring Ralph Feinnes. In this adaptation, Coriolanus is the name given to a general after his more than adequate military successes against various uprisings challenging the government of Mundus Novus. A 40 Years' war is underway. His arch enemy, Gulmatyar Kekbuddin, is leader of the tribal Achaemenidian Empire. Following this success, Coriolanus becomes active in politics and seeks political leadership. His temperament is unsuited for popular leadership and he is quickly deposed, whereupon he aligns himself to set matters straight according to his own will. The alliances he forges along and the interests he sets to overturn along the way result in his ultimate downfall. Shakespeare's universal themes of war and individual power offer the reader a fresh look at the conflicts raging in the 21st century.

Ernst Toller's Poems 1918-1921 contain his complete ""Poems of the Prisoners"" and his first play ""Die Wandlung"" (Transformation). Ernst Toller was born in Samotschin, Province of Posen, Prussia in 1893 into a Jewish family. At the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered for military duty, spent thirteen months on the Western Front, and suffered a complete physical and psychological collapse. His first drama, Transformation (Die Wandlung), was to be inspired by his wartime experiences.

Richard Avenarius (born November 19, 1843, Paris-died August 18, 1896, Z rich) was a German-Swiss philospher who formulated the radical positivist doctrine of ""empirical criticism"" or empirio-criticism. The major task of philosophy is to develop a "natural concept of the world" based on pure experience. Traditional metaphysicians believed in two categories of experience, inner and outer, and held that outer experience applies to sensory perception, which supplies raw data for the mind, and that inner experience applies to the processes that occur in the mind, such as conceptualization and abstraction. Avenarius, in his most noted work, Kritik der reinen Erfahrung, 2 volumes (1888-1900), argued that there is no distinction between inner and outer experience, but only pure experience. Avenarius produced a complete and innovative system of philosophy, aiming at investigate the laws of knowledge.

"The Lessons of Marxism in Light of the Russian Revolution by Boris Brutzkus" examines the Russian economic system after the Russian Revolution. The book includes a biography of Boris Brutzkus and generous footnotes to aid the reader unfamiliar with the theoretical and historical background of this event. A complete copy of "The Communist Manifesto 1848" is included. This is the first time this book has appeared in the English language. The work offers a fresh look at Capitalism and Socialism and is an indispensable companion for understanding contemporary political and economic issues.

Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 - 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism and an avowed pacifist. In 1919, during the German Revolution, he was briefly Commissioner of Enlightenment and Public Instruction of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. He was brutally murdered when this Republic was overthrown by right wing elements. In his work "Skepticism and Mysticism", Landauer offers insights into the continual dialectical role of mystics and skeptics in advancing human knowledge over the ages. In his search for true cognition and the meaning of the world he explores man's psyche and what it means to be a sentient being.

The Blue Moon Tavern, opened a few months after Prohibition was lifted in 1934, is the first and oldest tavern in the U-District. It also provided a haven for UW professors who were caught up in the McCarthyist purges, such as Joe Butterworth, who used the bar as his writing desk. Specializing in Old English, he never found work again. He eventually went on public assistance. Accounts describe a "broken man" who haunted the Blue Moon Tavern in the '50s. Butterworth died in 1970. The Blue Moon's heyday continued into the 1950s and 1960s. Regulars included authors Tom Robbins and Darrell Bob Houston, poets Theodore Roethke, Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, Stanley Kunitz, and David Wagoner, and painters Richard Gilkey and Leo Kenney. Other visitors included Dylan Thomas, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg and Mik Moore. Today, the Blue Moon Tavern struggles to remain part of the Seattle scene. This book of poetry is dedicated to its legacy and to all those who found inspiration and respite there.

The Soviet Union was an important part of the 20th century. Yet few Americans know or understand this period. Born in the blood of the First World War, the USSR survived the Nazi invasion and World War Two. The Cold War, a global conflict that tested the social, political and economic fiber of all nations, left a landscape of war and the continuing specter of nuclear Armageddon. I was one of the few Americans travelling inside the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in 1984. This included all the major Russian cities as well as brief trips inside Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany. In this memoir, I try to provide some background and in doing so help make sense of it all for myself. The experience changed my life in many ways driving me to a graduate degree in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Washington and devote 40 years to studying Russian history and language. I graduated the year the Soviet Union disbanded. The "Containment" solution crafted by George Kennan worked. Life would proceed in a unipolar world. The "Soviet Problem" was solved. Russia fell off the American foreign policy radar and important time and lessons were lost as the world drifted into chaos and war. But it was only a matter of time before Russia resumed its mission to reestablish Russia's place in the world. Russia it seems wouldn't just go away. Today, America faces a Russia more determined than ever not to forget its past. It is important to remember the Soviet period if only to relearn the lesson that history repeats itself. Discovering what forces created the Soviet Union, the power of Russian nationalism and war, is critical for understanding Russia today. From the early Muscovite state to the last speech by Mikhail Gorbachev, we see that Russian history is cyclical. Timeless authors like Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Boris Pasternak, Anton Chekhov and others, describe a universal Russian experience which withstood the Soviet experiment. These humanist themes are still part of the Russian story unfolding today.

"The Principles of Swing and Balance and the New Political Realism: A Quantum Lens and American Foreign Policy - A Critical New Perspective" offers a groundbreaking exploration of the intersections between quantum theory, strategic balance, and the evolving dynamics of American foreign policy. Challenging traditional paradigms, this thought-provoking work examines how the principles of quantum mechanics-such as uncertainty, entanglement, and duality-can illuminate the complexities of global diplomacy, power shifts, and realpolitik in an interconnected world. With a bold reinterpretation of "swing" states and "balance" strategies, the book redefines political realism for the 21st century, providing readers with an innovative framework to navigate the uncertainties of modern geopolitics. A must-read for scholars, policymakers, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of international relations through the lens of science and philosophy.

The Immeasurable House of Being is a collection of koans, haikus and an assortment of poems dedicated to the art of poetry and those sentient beings that struggle to live in our world.

Marina Tsvetaeva's translated "Poems to Bohemia", with other original translations from Czech poet Josef Hora.

Lantern on the Borders of Uncreated Spaces is a book of contemporary American poems and writings that inspire and widen the reader experience. The work seeks to travel to borders of contemporary thought and inspire a more compassionate tomorrow through poems, haikus and other writings. Discover something new!

Paper Mache 1917 is the author's first novella and celebrates the centenary of the Russian Revolution. The epic work explores timeless themes of war, love and hate, tragedy and redemption and offers a fresh historical look at the revolutionary forces unleashed before and after the Russian Revolution in 1917. In some cases, the story uses images made popular by Imaginism, a poetic school founded in Moscow after the Revolution in 1918. The story opens in 1905 and follows the lives of Johan Wagner, a radio specialist in the German Wehrmacht and Rosa Kautsky, a Polish born pianist and translator. The story performs a delicate dance between the meta and macro of people and places in a complex time - against the backdrop of the two major ideologies of the 20th century: the rise of German National Socialism and Soviet Communism. Original translations capture the creative forces of writers like Marina Tsvetaeva, and Goethe - voices not often heard in the West.

"Schweigen in den verschneiten Feldern" (1962) war Robert Blys erster Gedichtband. Der Autor feiert die Unschuld der Natur und das Leben in Amerika. Diese besondere Andacht feiert die ursprYngliche Stimme der amerikanischen Poesie von Robert Bly.

Als Begr nder des Empiriokritizismus erlangte Richard Avenarius (1843-1896) Weltruhm und bte erheblichen Einflu auf Philosophen wie Edmund Husserl und Ernst Mach aus. Sein Hauptwerk ist die "Kritik der reinen Erfahrung," in der Avenarius vor allem der kantischen Erkenntnistheorie eine Absage erteilt. In seinem System tritt an die Stelle eines reinen Bewu tseins das Bewu tsein "von etwas." Allein Sinneserfahrungen werden als wirklich betrachtet. Gedankliche Inhalte erkl rt Avenarius zu Scheinbegriffen, denen keine Wahrheit, sondern nur ein vorl ufiger N tzlichkeit zukommt. Avenarius' Philosophie gilt als einer der erfolgreichsten Versuche, Physik und Psychologie in einer Wissenschaft zu vereinen. Zu den prominentesten Gegnern des Empiriokritizismus z hlte Lenin, der in seinen philosophischen Schriften Avenarius heftig attackierte.

Americans had been designing state and local governments since 1776. The American experience included a long period of British colonial domination and a Revolutionary War. It had taken some time for the Continental Congress to propose and implement the Articles of Confederation (1781). John Jay, Henry Know and Rufus King provided ideas about a new form of government. Congress adopted a resolution that endorsed a convention ""for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation."" What these pages contain are the ""unplugged"" goings-on recorded by James Madison, a key participant in the convention, that took place May-September 1787. At last, a simple, handy guide to the making of the American Constitution.

Considered one of the brightest thinkers in fin-de-si cle Europe, Landauer believed in a form of communitarian anarchism of the head and heart, of thought and action. His desire to "turn your dreams of beauty into a desire for realization" were important ideas before World War One. The 1893 novel "Der Todesprediger" (Preacher of Death) is an introduction to Landauer's ideas. In the book, he describes the transformation of a Karl Starkblom, shadowing Landauer's own experiences first as a socialist and later as an advocate of social-anarchism. His later work "Skepticism and Mysticism" appeared in 1903 and together the two works, along with Landauer's role in the failed Munich Revolution 1918-1919, give a clear foundation for Landauer's brand of socialist-anarchism and the importance of community in launching bottom up change.