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الأبعاد الفكرية والنفسية في نصوص عدنان مردم بك المسرحية
إن فكرة الكتابة عن الشخصيات الفنية والأدبية هي ظاهرة في المجال الذي ينتمون إليه، هي فكرة لسيت بالجديدة، ولكن الجديد في هذا الكتاب أنه ليس تتبع سيرة الكاتب من خلال مراحل حياته، بقدر ما هي دراسة تخصصية في النقد الأدبي تكشف الأبعاد الفكرية والنفسية التي يمكن أن نستقيها من نصوص الشاعر والكاتب المسرحي عدنان مردم بك، ذلك الأديب اللامع والقاضي والمفكر السوري الذي لم ينصفه الباحثون بسبب ظروف عديدة.
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Dodged Bullet or Missed Opportunity? A History of Planned Monorails for Manila, 1961–1985
This article tells the largely untold history of the unrealized plans to construct a monorail mass transit system in Metropolitan Manila from the 1960s to 1980s, with particular focus on the proposals of a firm called Philippine Monorail Transit Systems, Inc. Besides giving attention to these mostly forgotten plans, this article seeks to contribute to the global history of mass transit technology adoption, showing how hitherto unexplored political dynamics (especially during the particularly volatile Ferdinand Marcos regime) interact with \"unbiased\" technical feasibility assessments, with the latter becoming moot and academic in light of the primarily financial and political concerns of ultimate decision makers.
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Producing Ferdinand E. Marcos, the Scholarly Author
This article discusses the compelling evidence—found in various primary and secondary sources and analyzed through methods drawn from book history and plagiarism detection—that not one of the books authored by Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos was actually written by him. The article also shows how many of \"Marcos's\" books had either plagiarized content (e.g., republishing contents from previous works) or were \"padded\" with lengthy appendices. It also explains the seemingly far-reaching distribution network of these books. Lastly, the article looks into how these books, although they have not been republished for decades, continue to serve their intended functions.
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Metaphorizing Martial Law: Constitutional Authoritarianism in Marcos's Rhetoric (1972-1985)
This article discusses the metaphorical constructions of martial law that emerge from selected speeches and publications of Ferdinand Marcos from 1972 to 1985. Using a sociocognitive perspective informed by conceptual metaphor studies, the author surfaces conceptualizations that constitute a schema in which constitutional authoritarianism is central to national life and Marcos as an authoritarian is rendered a democrat. This schema had been sustained throughout Marcos's authoritarian rule and has become so embedded in Philippine political discourse that it gets to be invoked by political rhetors long after the fall of the Marcos dictatorship.
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The last year of President Kennedy and the \multiple path\ policy toward Cuba
\"This book presents new aspects of the U.S. \"multiple path\" policy towards Cuba that was designed and adopted after the Missile Crisis (October 1962) until the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, from a Cuban perspective. The policy was characterized by its contradictory profile, since simultaneously as aggressions were directed at Cuba, it also included the establishment of channels of communication with the Cuban government. The book also analyzes the Cuban-Soviet dispute during the same period. The Cuban experiences have still not been sufficiently discussed, and the aspects offered will enrich the knowledge of the U.S.-Cuban relationship during the mentioned period.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Political Conjuncture and Scholarly Disjunctures: Reflections on Studies of the Philippine State under Marcos
This professorial address contends that a scholarly, systematic, and impartial study of Marcos's authoritarian rule is necessary, given the highly politicized interpretations of the past bequeathed to younger generations through textbooks and social media as well as the Philippine academic community's general inability to analyze the defunct regime and to influence public discourse and shape public history. Social scientists must tap new sources of information, such as the Marcos Papers, to produce truthful and nuanced narratives of the past, even as they must endeavor to understand the Marcosian social fantasy and the sources of Filipino authoritarianism, which can illumine both the past and the present.
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Kennedy, Johnson, and the nonaligned world
\"In 1961, President John F. Kennedy initiated a bold new policy of engaging states that had chosen to remain nonaligned in the Cold War. In a narrative ranging from the White House to the western coast of Africa, to the shores of New Guinea, Robert B. Rakove examines the brief but eventful life of this policy during the presidencies of Kennedy and his successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Engagement initially met with real success, but it faltered in the face of serious obstacles, including colonial and regional conflicts, disputes over foreign aid and the Vietnam War. Its failure paved the way for a lasting hostility between the United States and much of the nonaligned world, with consequences extending to the present. This book offers a sweeping account of a critical period in the relationship between the United States and the Third World\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Scotty, Sage of Sagada
These reminiscences are personal experiences and anecdotes drawn from my decades-long close relationship with William Henry Scott (1921–1933), an Episcopal lay missionary in the Philippines who was famous in that land as a world-class historian and scholar, a prominent voice against the Marcos dictatorship, and one of the most unusual personalities that could be imagined.
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