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Praised Be Our Lords: A Political Education

Product Description: The captivating autobiography of one of France’s leading political activists and intellectuals.Régis Debray is one of France’s leading intellectuals, whose life has intersected with key moments of the twentieth century. In this explosive memoir, Debray recounts his journey from Louis Althusser and the Parisian lecture theatres, to Cuba and the revolution of the 1960s...read more

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9781844671397 | Verso Books, April 1, 2007, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The captivating autobiography of one of France’s leading political activists and intellectuals.

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9781844671403 | Verso Books, April 1, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The captivating autobiography of one of France’s leading political activists and intellectuals.

A Modest Proposal: A Plan for the Golden Years

Product Description: In this scathingly funny satire, one of France’s leading philosophers observes that modern society is burdened by numerous questions of how to care for the elderly. How to pay for their staggering medical bills? How to ensure their conscientious treatment? How to simply house them all? It’s more than the resources of our culture can handle, says Régis Debray—and it’s making life difficult for everyone else...read more

By Regis Debray and Jeffrey Mehlman (trans)

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9781933633039 | Melville Pub House, July 11, 2006, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: In this scathingly funny satire, one of France’s leading philosophers observes that modern society is burdened by numerous questions of how to care for the elderly.

The New Testament: Through 100 Masterpieces of Art

Product Description: The New Testament spectacularly presents 100 great paintings illustrating 100 key stories from the Bible. In this accessible primer each story is concisely retold in everyday language, followed by a commentary on how it has been depicted in Western art...read more

By Regis Debray

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9781858942629 | Merrell, November 30, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The New Testament spectacularly presents 100 great paintings illustrating 100 key stories from the Bible.

The Old Testament: Through 100 Masterpieces of Art

Product Description: The Old Testament spectacularly presents 100 great paintings illustrating 100 key stories from the Bible. In this accessible primer each story is concisely retold in everyday language, followed by a commentary on how it has been depicted in Western art...read more

By Regis Debray

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9781858942612 | Merrell, November 30, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Old Testament spectacularly presents 100 great paintings illustrating 100 key stories from the Bible.

A La Sombra De La Ilustracion: Debate Entre Un Filosofo Y Un Cientifico

By Jean Bricmont and Regis Debray

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9788449315848, titled "A la sombra de la ilustracion / in the Shadow of the Illustration: Debate Entre Un Filosofo Y Un Cientifico" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, June 15, 2004, cover price $25.95

Empire 2.0: A Modest Proposal for a United States of the West

Product Description: Written by fictional character "Xavier de C***" as a plea to an American president, Empire 2.0 is a scorching satire of totalitarianism. In it, the hero, a Frenchman, renounces his citizenship to become an American. This breezy book argues that resistance to America's overwhelming power is futile and that to survive, Europe must allow itself to be annexed by the U...read more

By Xavier De C., Regis Debray (contributor) and Joseph Rowe (trans)

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9781556434952 | North Atlantic Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Written by fictional character "Xavier de C***" as a plea to an American president, Empire 2.

God: An Itinerary

Product Description: Traces the episodes of the genesis of God, His itinerary and the costs of His survival, with an eye on the machinery of its production.God, who has changed the lives – and deaths – of men and women, has in turn changed His face and His meaning several times over since His birth three thousand years ago...read more

By Regis Debray and Jeffrey Mehlman (trans)

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9781859845899 | Verso Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traces the episodes of the genesis of God, His itinerary and the costs of His survival, with an eye on the machinery of its production.

Vida y muerte de la imagen/ Life and Death of the Image: Historia De La Mirada En Occidente

By Regis Debray

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9788475099811 | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, April 25, 2002, cover price $42.95

Introduccion a La Mediologia / Introduction to Mediologie

By Regis Debray

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9788449310263 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, March 9, 2001), cover price $29.95

Transmitting Culture

Product Description: An examination of the difference between communication and transmission that stresses technologies and institutions long overlooked in the study of symbols and signs throughout the history of civilizations. (Issue 13) (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Regis Debray and Eric Rauth (trans)

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9780231113441 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $83.50 | About this edition: An examination of the difference between communication and transmission that stresses technologies and institutions long overlooked in the study of symbols and signs throughout the history of civilizations.

Against Venice

Product Description: This is the first book in a new Anti-Voyages series which aims to subvert the clichés of travel and travel writing. In a world glutted with books extolling foreign lands and intrepid travelers, Against Venice stands alone. Noted intellectual Regis Debray evokes a vivid picture for us in hyperbolic, tongue-in-cheek prose of a cultural amusement park, a kind of Euro-Disney for snobs...read more

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9781556433054 | North Atlantic Books, January 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This is the first book in a new Anti-Voyages series which aims to subvert the clichés of travel and travel writing.

Alabados Sean Nuestros Senores

Product Description: Una insólita trayectoria ileológica y política que lo lleva desde la Cuba recolucionaria hasta las cárceles bolivianas y el Chile socialista, brillante en su contenido y de una aplastante sinceridad.

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9788492386932 | Del Taller De Mario Muchnik, June 1, 1999, cover price $33.24 | About this edition: Una insólita trayectoria ileológica y política que lo lleva desde la Cuba recolucionaria hasta las cárceles bolivianas y el Chile socialista, brillante en su contenido y de una aplastante sinceridad.

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9788401012822 | Plaza & Janes Editories Sa, March 1, 1999, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Una insólita trayectoria ileológica y política que lo lleva desde la Cuba recolucionaria hasta las cárceles bolivianas y el Chile socialista, brillante en su contenido y de una aplastante sinceridad.

LA Republica Explicada a Mi Hija

By Regis Debray

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9789505572809 | Fondo De Cultura Economica El, January 1, 1999, cover price $10.00

Olivier, Olivier

Product Description: Agnieszka Holland's Olivier, Olivier has been described as "perverse" and "subversive" by some, and as "profoundly religious" by others. It is a family tragedy, a tale of assumed identities and debts that must be repaid. Made in France in 1992, Olivier, Olivier was based on a newspaper account of the disappearance of a nine-year-old boy in a small French town, and his supposed return as a teenager six years later...read more

By Regis Debray, Agnieszka Holland, Yves Lapointe and Gaile Sarma (trans)

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9780435070038 | Heinemann Drama, October 7, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Agnieszka Holland's Olivier, Olivier has been described as "perverse" and "subversive" by some, and as "profoundly religious" by others.

Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms

Product Description: This volume launches a new sub-discipline of the human science, "mediology". It includes: a new way in which to analyze and think about the media from the city state to the Internet; a debate on the transition, from quill to print, to video and the effects of these changes on society; and an examination of the work of Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, C...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Regis Debray and Eric Rauth (trans)

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9781859849729 | Verso Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This volume launches a new sub-discipline of the human science, "mediology".

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9781859840870 | Verso Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This volume launches a new sub-discipline of the human science, "mediology".

Charles De Gaulle: Futurist of the Nation

Product Description: In this study of De Gaulle, the author offers an indictment of the shallowness of contemporary politics in the West. He suggests that De Gaulle's disdain for electioneering reaffirms the vocation of political leadership as something other than adapting to popular preferences.

By Regis Debray and John Howe (trans)

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9780860916222 | Verso Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In this study of De Gaulle, the author offers an indictment of the shallowness of contemporary politics in the West.

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9780860914525 | Verso Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In this elegant and original book, Regis Debray argues that for two hundred years the defeats of the left have stemmed from its failure to understand what it likes to call the 'national question', while equally its successes have grown from an unacknowledged liaison with the 'unreal reality' of the nation.

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