Livros adquiridos online ou em sebos eletrônicos, 2016-19 - Paulo Roberto de Almeida

O que seria de nós, de mim, sem os livros?
Pergunta difícil de responder. No que me concerne, eu vivo com livros, pelos livros, para o livros e soterrado por livros, esperando que uma boa fada, algum dia, resolva esse problema (acho que nenhuma se apresentará...).
O bom das compras online é que elas deixam registro dessas aquisições, permitindo que a gente se lembre de livros por acaso esquecidos nas catacumbas do Kindle, ou em estantes de difícil acesso.

Acabo de adquirir este livro em livraria, e aposto como ele vai desaparecer em mais algumas semanas, soterrado por outros, deixado no escritório ou depositado na mesa de dormir, esperando uma noite com luz...
Ele começa, obviamente, pela criminosa queima de livros realizada pelos nazistas, em 1933, e se prolonga em todos os roubos, saques, pilhagens e destruições que esses bárbaros provocaram nesses preciosos objetos de conhecimento.
Mas ele não figura nas listas abaixo, como qualquer outro dos livros adquiridos em livraria.
Nelas figuram apenas três tipos de aquisições: as feitas na Amazon.com, na Amazon.com.br e na Estante Virtual.
Mas existem muitos outros manipulados ao longo desses três anos de levantamento; aqueles retirados de bibliotecas, por exemplo (a do Itamaraty ou do Instituto Rio Branco), ou emprestado por amigos, ou adquiridos por Carmen Lícia Palazzo, que lê muito mais do que eu...

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Livros adquiridos online e via sebos, 2016-2019

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The OSS and CIA: The History of America's Intelligence Community during World War II and the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency

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Operation Condor: The History of the Notorious Intelligence Operations Supported by the United States to Combat Communists across South America

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The Portuguese Inquisition: The History of the Portuguese Empire's Religious Persecution of Non-Christians in Portugal and Asia

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The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

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American Legends: The Life of Woodrow Wilson

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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

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The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities: Economic Growth, Stagflation and Social Rigidities

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The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

Bethanne Patrick

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The Opium Wars and Sino-Japanese Wars: The History of the Conflicts that Ended China's Standing as a World Power

Charles River Editors

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World Order

Henry Kissinger

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Churchill

Paul Johnson

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Las virtudes burguesas. Ética para la era del comercio (Politica) (Spanish Edition)

Deirdre N. McCloskey, Óscar Figueroa Castro

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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

Deirdre N. McCloskey

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The Rhetoric of Economics (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)

Deirdre N. McCloskey

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Economical Writing, Second Edition

Deirdre McCloskey

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American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold

Sebastian Edwards

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The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal: The History and Legacy of the War Crimes Trials against Japan after World War II

Charles River Editors

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O pior emprego do mundo: 14 ministros da fazenda contam como tomaram as decisões que mudaram o brasil e mexeram no seu bolso (Portuguese Edition)

Thomas Traumann

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Theodore Roosevelt: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of US Presidents Book 26)

Hourly History

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A KGB: A História e Legado da Notória Agência de Espionagem da União Soviética (Portuguese Edition)

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What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything (Edge Question Series)

John Brockman

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Alfred Nobel: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Scientist and the Nobel Prizes

Charles River Editors

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Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity

H.E. Jacob

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1919 Versailles: The End of the War to End All Wars

Charles L. Mee Jr.

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The Russian Revolution

Richard Pipes

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Age of Enlightenment: A History From Beginning to End

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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Tony Judt

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Our Culture, What's Left Of It

Theodore Dalrymple

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Benjamin Franklin: A Life From Beginning to End

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The KGB and the Stasi: The History of the Eastern Bloc's Most Infamous Intelligence Agencies

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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

Margaret MacMillan

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For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Ayn Rand

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A Man Without a Country

Kurt Vonnegut

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The Rise and Fall of Communism

Archie Brown

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Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government

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John Buchan

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North Korea's Nuclear Program: The History of the Hermit Kingdom's Development of Nuclear Weapons

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The Partition of the British Mandate of Palestine: The History and Legacy of the United Nations Partition Plan and the Creation of the State of Israel

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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

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From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

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O homem que pensou o brasil (Ciências Jurídicas) (Portuguese Edition)

PAULO ROBERTO DE ALMEIDA

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How Churchill Saved Civilization: The Epic Story of 13 Years That Almost Destroyed the Civilized World

John Harte

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Decolonization: The History and Legacy of the End of Western Imperialism in the 20th Century

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The Jews: Story of a People

Howard Fast

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The Tiananmen Square Massacre: The History and Legacy of the Chinese Government's Crackdown on the 1989 Protests

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El Imperio Británico: Historia y legado del surgimiento y caída del Imperio más famoso del mundo moderno (Spanish Edition)

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La Compañía Neerlandesa de las Indias Orientales: La historia de la primera corporación multinacional del mundo (Spanish Edition)

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Franklin (The Thomas Fleming Library)

Thomas Fleming

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From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States Book 12)

George C. Herring

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Direitos máximos, deveres mínimos: O festival de privilégios que assola o Brasil

Garschagen, Bruno

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R$ 36,40

Entregue 3 de jan de 2019

Caixa von Mises - Box Edição Premium

Ludwig von Mises

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R$ 399,90

PEDIDO REALIZADO

20 de julho de 2018

Somos Nós com Uma Voz. Do Megafone à Tribuna Defendendo a Liberdade, o Estado de Direito e a Democracia

Marcel van Hattem

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R$ 45,07

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17 de julho de 2018

TOTAL: R$ 777,00

Adaptador de tomada

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R$ 79,00

Kindle Paperwhite com 3G grátis + Wi-Fi, iluminação embutida, tela de 6" sensível ao toque de alta definição

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R$ 599,00

Capa para Kindle Paperwhite, cor preta (compatível somente com modelos Kindle Paperwhite)

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R$ 99,00

PEDIDO REALIZADO

5 de maio de 2018

TOTAL: R$ 41,00

O Caminho de Abraão. Fé, Amor e Guerra em Travessias Separadas Pelo Tempo

Jamil Chade

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R$ 33,10

PEDIDO REALIZADO

1 de maio de 2018

TOTAL: R$ 30,12

A Mente Imprudente

Mark Lilla

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R$ 22,22

PEDIDO REALIZADO

5 de abril de 2018

TOTAL: R$ 25,10

Sobre a Tirania. Vinte Lições do Século XX Para o Presente

Timothy Snyder

Vendido por: Amazon Serviços de Varejo do Brasil, Ltda.

R$ 17,20

PEDIDO REALIZADO

4 de abril de 2018

TOTAL: R$ 45,80

História do Liberalismo Brasileiro

Antonio Paim

Vendido por: Amazon Serviços de Varejo do Brasil, Ltda.

R$ 47,90

PEDIDO REALIZADO

30 de janeiro de 2018

TOTAL: R$ 13,65

O Relativo Atraso Brasileiro E Sua Difícil Superação

Antonio Paim

Vendido por: Sebo Estação Cultural Piracicaba

R$ 8,00

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Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Brasília, 7 de maio de 2019 

Os anos "9", momentos sempre decisivos na China - The Economist

1919 foi importante, não apenas na China, mas no mundo, quando as potências vencedoras trataram de "compor" uma nova "ordem mundial" que de fato se revelou insuficiente para acomodar os interesses não só diversificados, mas também contraditórios dos países que emergiam do primeiro grande conflito global do século XX. Depois veio 1949, a vitória do comunismo, e 1989, o primeiro desafio ao comunismo em uma China emergente...
Paulo Almeida

The Communist Party grapples with a momentous anniversary

Student protests a century ago led to the party’s birth. They also inspired subsequent generations of dissidents

The Economist, May 2nd 2019

A SHORT WALK from Tiananmen Square, young carworkers wearing company tracksuits stand with their fists in the air. They are renewing their vows to the Communist Youth League by chanting promises to “resolutely support” the Communist Party and “strictly follow” the league’s regulations. When they step aside for a group photo, 40 students from a technical college take their place to make their own pledges of loyalty. A growing queue of youngsters waits nearby to do the same.

The oath-swearing spot is in the courtyard of an imposing edifice of russet brick, known as the Red Building. A century ago it belonged to Peking University, one of China’s most prestigious seats of learning (now in a north-western suburb). There is a striking contrast between these professions of faith in a dictatorial party and an exhibition the same young people are taken to see inside the building. It is about the students who, 100 years ago on May 4th, set off from the Red Building and other sites around the city to join a protest at Tiananmen provoked by the shabby treatment of China by its allies after the first world war. The Treaty of Versailles had awarded a former German colony in China to Japan.

Today May 4th is officially celebrated as Youth Day. Its significance is strongly contested. The party recalls the May 4th Movement, which refers to the protest in Tiananmen as well as similar ones elsewhere in China and intellectual soul-searching around that time, as the backdrop to the party’s birth two years later. Liberals remember the movement as a cry for democracy by patriots who believed that China had no hope of standing tall without adopting Western learning, including in politics. In a year packed with sensitive anniversaries—including the 30th on June 4th of the army’s crushing of student protests in the same square in 1989 (an event barely known to many young people in China, owing to the assiduous efforts of censors)—the party is bent on ensuring that its version of history is the only one heard.

Both the party and dissidents agree that in 1919 the country was at its nadir. The last imperial dynasty, the Qing, weakened by decades of internal strife and foreign encroachment on Chinese territory, had collapsed in 1911. A military strongman, Yuan Shikai, had tried to reinstate the monarchy with himself as the new emperor. His death in 1916 had unleashed struggles between rival warlords. The young protesters had hoped that China’s support for the allies against Germany—it had sent about 140,000 men to work as labourers on the front in Europe—would result in the return to China of colonised territory. Not only had their hopes been dashed, but, as they saw it, China’s own government had been complicit in the betrayal.

But the party prefers not to delve deeply into the political aspirations of the May 4th Movement, including the view of many participants that China’s weakness was in part the result of flaws in its traditional culture. China’s current leader, Xi Jinping, is trying to recast the party as a champion of ancient Chinese values. The reformers of 1919 would be horrified.

There is only one aspect of the movement that officials want to dwell on, namely its links with the party’s founding, says Rana Mitter of Oxford University. But public discussion even of the party’s early ideals is curtailed. The party does not want to be reminded that its supporters were once attracted by its promise of liberation from autocracy, not by the dictatorship it came to represent. In recent decades the party has downplayed the iconoclasm of the May 4th Movement, preferring to portray it as something far blander. A student leader tells one of the groups outside the Red Building that “the spirit of May 4th” is today found in young doctors who battle epidemics and young soldiers who rescue citizens from natural disasters.

If there is something galling about a government that brooks no dissent making heroes of long-dead protesters, no one at the Red Building is willing to admit it. China today is far more tightly controlled than it was during the early months of 1989 when the party was almost brought down by students who claimed that they, not China’s geriatric leaders, were the true heirs of 1919. Those protests were fanned by excitement about the 70th anniversary of the May 4th Movement (hundreds of thousands took to the streets on that day 30 years ago—a high point of the unrest). The party frets that the proximity this year of two big anniversaries—of the demonstrations in 1919 as well as in 1989—will encourage dissidents to air their grievances.

Given the intensity of security in the capital, this is highly unlikely to happen on the streets. But the party’s anxiety has some basis. Campus activism has been bubbling up in the form of #MeToo campaigning against sexual harassment and an attempt by self-described Marxists to help factory workers in southern China establish a free trade union. Police have arrested dozens of these labour activists. (Six students connected with the cause are reported to have been taken into custody on April 28th, presumably for fear that they might speak out during the centenary.) Academics are cowed, but not crushed. Lately the bravest have been speaking up for Xu Zhangrun, an academic in Beijing who was suspended earlier this year for attacking Mr Xi’s authoritarianism.

The party can at least claim to have fulfilled one dream of the protesters of 1919: China is now a global power (Mr Xi will be careful to ensure that his trade agreement with America’s president, Donald Trump, expected soon, does not look like surrender). But on April 30th, at a commemoration of the centenary in the Great Hall of the People next to Tiananmen, Mr Xi gave a veiled warning to dissidents. He described being unpatriotic as “disgraceful” and said that loving the country was closely entwined with loving the party and socialism. The traditional May Day public holiday was recently extended from three days to four. The party may hope to nudge Beijingers to enjoy a break outside the city and leave its history behind. The “spirit” of the centenary looks a lot like mistrust and fear.

This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline"Tiananmen 1919"

Olavo de Carvalho, o “Trotski de direita” - General Villas Boas

Uma declaração que deveria servir para encerrar o “debate” destrambelhado provocado pelo Rasputin de subúrbio, que ainda possui seguidores desmiolados dentro e fora do governo, ademais de uma horda de fanáticos ululantes — como soe acontecer com esse tipo de milenarista salvacionista — cujos integrantes mais militantemente devotados ficam perturbando o ambiente de definição de políticas públicas com suas cruzadas surrealistas contra aqueles que eles consideram “heréticos” (como este mesmo que aqui escreve).

Supõe-se que, a partir de agora, com a manifestação do General Villas Boas, os olavistas e olavetes dentro e fora do governo colocarão as barbas de molho, sobretudo aqueles que as têm. Escreveu o Gal. VB:

Mais uma vez o Sr. Olavo de Carvalho a partir de seu vazio existencial derrama seus ataques aos militares e as FAA demonstrando total falta de princípios básicos de educação, de respeito e de um mínimo de humildade e modéstia. Verdadeiro trotski de direita, não compreende que substituindo uma ideologia pela outra não contribui para a elaboração de uma base de pensamento que promova soluções concretas para os problemas Brasileiros. Por outro lado, age no sentido de acentuar as divergências nacionais no momento em que a sociedade Brasileira necessita recuperar a coesão e estruturar um projeto para o país. A escolha dos militares como alvo é compreensível por sua impotência diante da solidez dessas instituições e a incapacidade de compreender os valores e os princípios que as sustentam.

Não sei bem o que o Gal. VB quis dizer com “Trotski de direita”, ao referir-se ao Olavo de Carvalho, mas considero a designação um excelente acréscimo a meus já conhecidos dois epítetos dirigidos ao mesmo personagem: sofista da Virgínia e Rasputin de subúrbio.

Talvez seja pelo fato que Trotski foi o primeiro grande dissidente da revolução bolchevique, depois da emergência do segundo ditador, depois de Lênin, ao comando da URSS, Stalin, além de Trotski ter dividido o movimento comunista mundial, ao criar, ao lado da, e em concorrência à III, o Komintern, uma IV Internacional, a Troskista, que não sei se ainda subsiste, pois trotskistas são persistentes. A III Internacional foi declarada extinta por Stalin em 1943, no contexto da sua aliança de ocasião com as duas grandes democracias ocidentais, Estados Unidos e Grã-Bretanha, para poder enfrentar a máquina de guerra nazista. Depois da guerra, Stalin criou o Cominform, o Escritório de Informação Comunista, para combater dissidentes do movimento comunista internacional, como Tito, da Iugoslávia. Uma sobrevivência atual dessas excrescências comunistas é o Foro de São Paulo, sabujamente criado pelo PT em 1990, para seguir as ordens dos comunistas cubanos, a tirania dos Castro.
Os trotskistas atrapalharam bastante o monolitismo stalinista, dai a decisão de Stalin, depois de primeiro exilar o concorrente em Alma Ata, depois expulsá-lo da União Soviética, para finalmente ter decidido eliminá-lo fisicamente, o que foi feito a golpes de picareta, no México, em 1940.

Não sei se este será o destino do guru bolsonarista, pois acredito que ele se extinguirá por sua própria irrelevância teórica e total alucinação prática no terreno da política brasileira.

Em matéria de política externa ele já provocou um desastre considerável com sua estúpida oposição a um monstro metafísico alimentado por ele mesmo, o tal de antiglobalismo, endossado beatamente, da forma mais sabuja possível, por esse patético chanceler que obedece ainda a dois outros olavistas fundamentalistas, que já provocaram, conjuntamente, enormes distorções na diplomacia brasileira (entre elas uma adesão servil, indigna e ignóbil, não aos Estados Unidos, mas a esse histriônico personagem que ocupa a presidência). 

O Brasil vem sendo exposto ao ridículo universal, com esses três mosqueteiros do surrealismo diplomático, o nominal em terceiro escalão, como sempre foi.

A manifestação acima do Gal. Villas Boas deveria encerrar um “debate” que na verdade nunca existiu, pois a única fonte de excitação irracional nas hostes olavistas — inclusive deputados da base do governo e pelo menos um membro da família bolsonarista —foram impropérios grosseiros contra os militares no governo, geralmente considerados como um dos únicos blocos de racionalidade em face do caos mental que subsiste em outras esferas, inclusive, infelizmente, na diplomacia.

Paulo Roberto de Almeida 

Brasília, 6 de maio de 2019