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"Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet."—New York Times Book Review"Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the US military's global Interventions. Shock and awe!"—Vanity FairBecause We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative to official accounts of US politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on the increasing urgency of climate change, the ongoing impact of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, nuclear politics, cyberwar, terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, and the Middle East, security and state power, as well as deeper reflections on the Obama doctrine, political philosophy, the Magna Carta, and the importance of a commons to democracy.Because We Say So is the third in a series of books by Chomsky published by City Lights Publishers that includes Making the Future (2012) and Interventions (2007), a book banned by US military censors. Taken together, the three books present a complete collection of the articles Chomsky writes regularly for the New York Times Syndicate, and are largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. Because We Say So offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by America's foremost public intellectual and political dissident.Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most well-known critics of US policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking and best-selling books on global politics, history, and linguistics.

In this influential and provocative book Vassaf deals with the psychology of totalitarianism in everyday life. Totalitarianism is maintained through oppression and by the individual's acceptance of a limited state of freedom. Those who don't create their own freedoms choose to live with things as they are, limiting themselves to what the establishment offers - "this" or "that".

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF.Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer's stories so far-plus an eighth story written especially for this volume.What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Stories of your life . . . and others.

Ben bu anı daha önce de yaşamamıştım sanki…”Gül bahçesi maziye, kanlı bir yolculuk…Kan ve Gül, fantastik bir polisiye. Rengini kandan, kokusunu gülden alan bir roman. Ziyadesiyle hazin, epey hareketli, hayli komik.İkinci sınıf aşk romanları çevirmeni, orta sıklet avare Aziz, bir yangında küle dönüşmek üzereyken, zamanda yolculuk yaparak yirmi yıl öncesine döner; üstelik yirmi yaş gençleşmiş bir halde.Henüz işlenmemiş bir cinayeti çözmek üzere harekete… geçmesi pekala mümkündür. Karizmatik sosyopat Abdül’ün hayatını kurtarması… galiba iyi olacaktır. Mazi tesisatını tamir edebilirse, hayatı, istikbal musluklarından temiz ve tazyikli bir su gibi akacaktır. Biricik aşkı Nergis’ten hiç ayrılmayacak, kızı Zeynep’e hakkıyla babalık edecektir.Peki, bu amatör dedektif, kaderin hükmünü değiştirebilecek midir?Maktulü kurtardığına, katili bulduğuna memnun olacak mıdır?Geleceği görmek mi daha zordur yoksa geçmişi mi?Kara mizah ustası Alper Canıgüz, beşinci romanında, kurgu ve anlatımdaki yetkinliğini bir adım daha öteye taşıyor.

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel "The Name of the Rose," he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, "How to Write a Thesis," in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis -- from choosing a topic to organizing a work schedule to writing the final draft. Now in its twenty-third edition in Italy and translated into seventeen languages, "How to Write a Thesis "has become a classic. Remarkably, this is its first, long overdue publication in English.Eco's approach is anything but dry and academic. He not only offers practical advice but also considers larger questions about the value of the thesis-writing exercise. "How to Write a Thesis" is unlike any other writing manual. It reads like a novel. It is opinionated. It is frequently irreverent, sometimes polemical, and often hilarious. Eco advises students how to avoid "thesis neurosis" and he answers the important question "Must You Read Books?" He reminds students "You are not Proust" and "Write everything that comes into your head, but only in the first draft." Of course, there was no Internet in 1977, but Eco's index card research system offers important lessons about critical thinking and information curating for students of today who may be burdened by Big Data."How to Write a Thesis" belongs on the bookshelves of students, teachers, writers, and Eco fans everywhere. Already a classic, it would fit nicely between two other classics: "Strunk and White" and "The Name of the Rose."This MIT Press edition will be available in three different cover colors.ContentsThe Definition and Purpose of a ThesisChoosing the TopicConducting ResearchThe Work Plan and the Index CardsWriting the ThesisThe Final Draft

Turkey’s greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal is an unsurpassed storyteller who brings to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemal’s books delve deeply into the entrenched social and historical conflicts that scar the Middle East. At the same time scents and sounds, vistas of mountain and stream and field, rise up from the pages of his books with primitive force.Memed—introduced in Kemal’s legendary first novel, Memed, My Hawk, and a recurrent character in many of his books—is one of the few truly mythic figures of modern fiction, a desperado and sometime defender of the oppressed who is condemned to wander in the blood-soaked gray zone between justice and the law. In They Burn the Thistles, one of the finest of Kemal’s novels, Memed is on the run. Hunted by his enemies, wounded, at wit’s end, he has lost faith in himself and has retreated to ponder the vanity of human wishes. Only a chance encounter with an extraordinarily beautiful and powerful stallion, itself a hunted creature, serves to restore his determination and rouse him to action.

Peter Singer is often described as the world’s most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words.In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings should be decriminalized, and he reiterates his case against the idea that all human life is sacred, applying his arguments to some recent cases in the news. In addition, he explores, in an easily accessible form, some of the deepest philosophical questions, such as whether anything really matters and what is the value of the pale blue dot that is our planet. The collection also includes some more personal reflections, like Singer’s thoughts on one of his favorite activities, surfing, and an unusual suggestion for starting a family conversation over a holiday feast.Provocative and original, these essays will challenge—and possibly change—your beliefs about a wide range of real-world ethical questions.

Türkçenin ustalarından Ferit Edgü’nün büyük eseri Hakkâri’de Bir Mevsim, ilk kez 1977 yılında yayımlandığında Türkçe yazında pek çok şeyi değiştirdi. Edebi kıymetinin yanı sıra o “uzak” coğrafyayı ele alışıyla, bölgenin okur nezdinde görünürlük kazanmasında mütevazıama önemli bir katkı oluşturdu.Japonca ve Çince dâhil birçok dile çevrilen, Türkiye’de olduğu kadar dünyada da ses getiren, aynı zamanda Erden Kıral yönetmenliğinde filme uyarlanarak, 33. Berlin Film Festivali’nde aralarında Gümüş Ayı’nın da olduğu 5 ödül kazanan eserin bu yıl 40. yılını kutluyoruz.Yıllar geçtikçe gücünü, yitirmek şöyle dursun, daha da artıran Hakkâri’de Bir Mevsim, 40. yılı vesilesiyle özel bir basımla yeniden okurla buluşuyor.Hakkâri’de Bir Mevsim, ciltli ve özel kâğıtlı yeni tasarımıyla raflarda.“O”yu (Hakkâri’de Bir Mevsim) sadece gerçekçi bir roman olarak saymak yetmez, gerçeğin inanılmaz bir düşe dönüştüğü, şaşırtıcı bir öyküdür bu. Ferit Edgü'nün gerçek bir yaşamı, bir roman yaşamına çevirmesindeki beceriye hayran oldum. Çünkü “O” gözlem gücünü anlatı ustalığından alıyor.- Melih Cevdet Anday

This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot, an exiles French schoolteacher who discovered in 1818 an unconventional teaching method that spread panic throughout the learned community of Europe.Knowing no Flemish, Jacotot found himself able to teach in French to Flemish students who knew no French; knowledge, Jacotot concluded, was not necessary to teach, nor explication necessary to learn. The results of this unusual experiment in pedagogy led him to announce that all people were equally intelligent. From this postulate, Jacotot devised a philosophy and a method for what he called "intellectual emancipation"—a method that would allow, for instance, illiterate parents to themselves teach their children how to read. The greater part of the book is devoted to a description and analysis of Jacotot's method, its premises, and (perhaps most important) its implications for understanding both the learning process and the emancipation that results when that most subtle of hierarchies, intelligence, is overturned.The book, as Kristin Ross argues in her introduction, has profound implications for the ongoing debate about education and class in France that has raged since the student riots of 1968, and it affords Rancière an opportunity (albeit indirectly) to attack the influential educational and sociological theories of Pierre Bourdieu (and others) that Rancière sees as perpetuating inequality.

Tuiavii, a Samoan chief, traveled to Europe at the turn of the 20th century and wrote a commentary condemning the very foundations of Western society. Today, at the dawn of the millenium, his words promise to cast a spell over a new generation of readers. By looking at ourselves through Tuiavii's eyes we are saddened by the loss of simplicity and humanity in our society. Yet each page, filled with Tuiavii's insight, brings us a step closer to the truth and, ultimately, to understanding ourselves. Masterfully translated; with a cultural and literary perspective by Peter C. Cavelti.

Aramızda bir sessizlik oluyor. Yatış pozisyonumuzu değiştiriyoruz, yorgan hışırdıyor. Başlattığımız tartışma içimde, öncekinden de şiddetli bir biçimde devam ediyor. Traudel'le bu tür konuşmalar yapmaya alışık değilim. Ayrıca, gerçekten korkuyorum. Bana göre, bu konuşma bile, çok korktuğum yıkımın gizlice başladığının bir işareti... Şimdi biraz kafa dağıtmayı çok isterdim, ama cinsel birleşmeden sonra televizyonu açmayı ikimiz de kaba buluruz. Fakat burada böyle karanlıkta yatıp duramam da. Yalnızlık normal de, birdenbire ortaya çıkması öyle iğrenç ki.Sürekli hayat üzerine kafa yoran ve bir imge avcısı gibi etrafındaki küçük ayrıntıları gözlemleyerek mutluluk kırıntıları yakalamaya, bunlara tutunmaya çalışan bir adam iç dünyasıyla, hayatla, işiyle iyi kötü idare ederken, bir gün her şey sevgilisinin çocuk sahibi olmak istemesiyle altüst oluyor. Dengeler bozulmuş, sorgulama ve hesaplaşma başlamıştır artık…"Kafka'nın anlatı geleneğini sürdüren Genazino, titiz ayrıntılarla ördüğü romanlarını giderek mükemmelleştiriyor... Bu kitap küçük bir şaheser."-Jan Bürger, Literaturen-"Gündelik hayatın ince ince gözlemlenmesi, mizah duygusu, sıradanlığı evrensel bir insanlık durumu olarak yorumlama eğilimi... Genazino'nun tipik özellikleri."-Ulrich Greiner, Die Zeit-

A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's best books of the yearAn instant #1 New York Times Bestseller, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the remarkable story of a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. Here Haruki Murakami—one of the most revered voices in literature today—gives us a story of love, friend­ship, and heartbreak for the ages.

Old Istanbul aristocrats, Turkish teashops, imperial diamonds, and great and humble mosques are juxtaposed with the almost non-descriptive portrayals of neighborhood friendships, family relations, and local public figures who could be found in any city in Turkey or, perhaps, any Eastern setting where the old way of life adopts new and Western counterparts. Ahmet H. Tanpinar's portrayal of modern, post-Ottoman Turkey weaves a theater of the absurd, suggestively representative of the early days of the young Republic. This translation is introduced by an essay by the late Berna Moran, a leading Turkish literary critic.

"Bir şey sunulmuştu bana, bir hediye, bir meyve. Ama ben o meyveden tadamadım, gök erik gibi kaldı avcumda dünya. Şimdi ben uykusuzum, yalınayağım, kendimle meşgulüm. Kapımın önünde boş peynir tenekeleri, yağmur suyu biriktiriyorum. Kendi kendime, sanatçı tecrübe edinemeyen insandır, diyorum, bu dünyada hiçbir tecrübesi olmayan insandır ama şimdi sen karala bunun üstünü, yırt sen bunu, olmadı çünkü, olmadı işte. Nafile."Bir intiharın çevresinde, insanlar...O kızın intiharıyla birbirlerine yaklaşan...Kendi içlerine ve geçmişe dalan...Onu kaybetmenin acısıyla başka sevdiklerine eğilen...Nasıl da mühimdir aşk sakarlıkları, sevgi ihmalleri; nasıl hayat kurtarır eşin-dostun bakım, onarımı...Barış Bıçakçı'dan, yine usul usul edebiyat."Barış Bıçakçı'nın dingin, gösterişsiz, suskusundan güç alan öykülerinin son zamanlarda okuduğum en güzel öyküler arasında olduğunu söyleyebilirim. Ne anlattığı sanki önemli değilmiş, ama anlatım biçimi ve diliyle de sıradanmış gibi görünüyorsa size, okuma alışkanlıklarınızı adam akıllı gözden geçirmeniz gerekir."-Semih Gümüş-

In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on those who surrounded her -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler -- and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desire and her public life.The Mandarins won France's highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only just met . . . A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career . . . A young cellist whose tutor promises to “unwrap” his talent . . . Passion or necessity—or the often uneasy combination of the two—determines the place of music in each of these lives. And, in one way or another, music delivers each of them to a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp. An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed works of fiction.

In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa, The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. It etches the limits of human reason and intelligence--perhaps even the limits of human life --when they touch the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.