Hanna Pustuła-Lewicka Libri

The last collection of stories written by Raymond Carver before his death.

In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia's war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin's obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation and post-imperial ressentiment, a culmination of Putin's regime and of Russia's entire imperial history. Building on his prize-winning book The Return of the Russian Leviathan, Medvedev argues that It was not only Putin that started this war, but Russia itself, which, by and large, has imagined and embraced the war with enthusiasm, seeking to relive its own military glory and colonial past. Medvedev examines the ways in which three building blocks of Russia's identity - the cult of violence, the cult of memory and the cult of war - have combined to produce this war, a war which has come to represent a national idea that Russia has been seeking to realize since the demise of the Soviet Union. He shows that the brutal way this war is fought is not an excess but the norm, a true embodiment of Russia as it is, with its rule of violence, terror and disregard for human life and dignity.

In the last decade, No Logo has become a cultural manifesto for the critics of unfettered capitalism worldwide. As the world faces a second economic depression, No Logo's analysis of our corporate and branded world is as timely and powerful as ever. Equal parts cultural analysis, political manifesto, mall-rat memoir, and journalistic exposé, No Logo is the first book to put the new resistance into pop-historical and clear economic perspective. It tells a story of rebellion and self-determination in the face of our new branded world.