Cem’ul-Fevaid min Cami’il-usul ve Mecma’iz-zevaid (9 Kitap Takım) itibaren Ocak Yayınları içinde LIT biçim

Emily Tichonuk emily_tichonuk — Larry Barkdull is an awesome writer. This book and the idea of portraying this time period in stimulating detail kept me riveted to my seat. This helped me understand this time period in the scriptures much better.

Ae Moldova aemoldova29163 — enthralling tales. Read as myth not fact and dont get worked up with hubris (note to other reviewers... it is fiction). Would really have read this forever. fascinating

123 Atx 123txaec0 — An amazingly smart and witty book about presidential assassinations written by a woman who's love of placards rivals my own. Sarah Vowell is unabashedly in love with history and its many quirks, and it shows in her writing; granted, I love reading books on history in any way shape or form, but it can't be denied that Vowell does a fantastic job at making history both entertaining and approachable... Not to mention accurate. -C

Xr Ka xkapnoula905b — Huser's study is based on the implications of two intersecting issues: 1) the military as an autonomous force capable of independent political action (such as either direct or indirect intervention in government affairs) vs. the military as an instrument of government, to be used at the discretion of civil society and absent a political identity of its own, and 2) given this latter determination, whether the military should serve purposes of both internal and external security, or abandon completely a constabulary role in favor of one based solely on issues of national defense and international cooperation. According to Huser, since the downfall of the Proceso government of the 1970s, the Argentine government has set itself on a slow but steady path toward the instrumentalist, externalist view of the civil-military relationship. This process has been at times abortive due to residual ill will stemming from the Dirty War and the Malvinas disaster (the Alfonsín administration often was so concerned with preventing further military abuses that it failed to focus at all on a redefinition of military responsibility), and due also to economic constraints (the military budget was maintained at such low levels in the effort to rebuild Argentine economic standing that it was unable at times even to function). Nevertheless, Huser notes a definite transition from military independence to military subordination to a civilian government, evidenced by the failure of the military to intervene during the violent economic meltdown of 2001/2002, a failure which stood in marked contrast to the armed forces' tendencies earlier in the century. Ultimately, Huser argues, the issue in the Argentine struggle over civil-military relations is the absence of consensus concerning legitimacy of authority. While the nation has had a nominally constitutional structure since 1853, leftover influences from Spanish colonial days have created a multiplicity of legitimations for political authority which the country seems to be overcoming only recently. This is an interesting thesis, with one flaw: while Huser recognizes the progress made in recent years, and while he also recognizes an increasingly diverse European demographic in Argentina, he never bothers to address the possible connection between these two phenomena. In a country which in many ways doesn't seem to belong to its South American context (the names alone of many of the people involved in the process detailed by Huser underscore this fact), it would be interesting to explore the Argentine journey not only chronologically but also away from its Hispanic-American origins toward a more Europeanized modernity. Such an exploration would provide, I think, the missing link in Huser's logical chain: not just how the situation has progressed since 1983, but why it has progressed in that direction.

Uriel Ribón urielribon — Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Daegua Jeong dgjung — Really enjoyable escapism. Not for the squeamish. Death, blood, etc.