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America Besieged

Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872863385
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book America Besieged written by Michael Parenti and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America Besieged deals with the underlying forces within U.S. society that deeply affect our lives. Showing how we are being misled and harmed by those who profess to have our interests at heart, Michael Parenti writes: "We are indeed a nation besieged, not from without but from within, not subverted from below but from above; the moneyed power exercises a near monopoly influence over our political life, over the economy, the state, and the media. Some Americans are astonished to hear of it. Others have had their suspicions, although they may not be quite sure how it all adds up. This book invites the reader to stop blaming the powerless and poor and, in that good old American phrase, start 'following the money.' That is the first and most important step toward lifting the siege and bringing democracy back to life." Michael Parenti, one of America's most astute and entertaining political analysts, is the author of Against Empire, Dirty Truths, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, Democracy for the Few, Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America, and many other books.

From Superpower to Besieged Global Power

Author : Edward A. Kolodziej
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336351
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book From Superpower to Besieged Global Power written by Edward A. Kolodziej and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, squandered enormous military and economic resources, diminished American power, and undermined America’s moral reputation as a defender of democratic values and human rights. The Bush Doctrine misguidedly assumed that the United States was a superpower, a unique unipolar power that could compel others to accede to its preferences for world order. In reality the United States is a formidable but besieged global power, one of a handful of nations that could influence but certainly not dictate world events. The flawed doctrine has led to failed policies that extend America’s reach beyond its grasp, most painfully evident in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Leading scholars and policy analysts from nine countries assess the impact of the Bush Doctrine on world order, explain how the United States reached its current low standing internationally, and propose ways that the country can repair the untold damage wrought by ill-conceived and incompetently executed security and foreign policies. Contributors focus on the principal regions of the world where they have expertise: Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Russia. The contributors agree that future security and foreign policies must be informed by the limitations of U.S. economic, cultural, and military power to shape world order to reflect American interests and values. American power and influence will increase only when the United States binds itself to moral norms, legal strictures, and political accords in cooperation with other like-minded states and peoples.

Besieged

Author : Anthony J. Tata
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786039523
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Besieged written by Anthony J. Tata and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive novel of domestic terrorism and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year from the national bestselling author of Three Minutes to Midnight. It starts with the unthinkable. A school under siege. A shooter in the classroom. A nightmare scenario that has become all too common in today’s United States. But this time, former Delta Captain Jake Mahegan is there when it happens. Checking in on the schoolteacher daughter of a colleague, Mahegan finds himself face to face with a merciless gunman rigged as a suicide bomber. Without warning, the school is attacked from the outside as well—and all hell breaks loose. The teacher shoots the gunman, Mahegan is knocked unconscious, and a twelve-year-old autistic girl named Misha is kidnapped. When the smoke clears, Mahegan is left with a long list of unanswered questions—and a deeply personal mission to rescue Misha. Racing against the clock, his search will take him from the tech-fueled think-tanks of a North Carolina factory to the top-secret nerve centers of embedded Iranian agents. It’s all part of a bigger, darker conspiracy that’s taking domestic terrorism to a whole new level. And it’s up to Mahegan to stop what could be the most devastating attack in U.S. history . . . Praise for the Jake Mahegan series from #1 New York Times-bestselling authors “Tata writes with a gripping and gritty authority.” —Richard North Patterson “Absolutely fantastic . . . pulse-pounding.” —Brad Thor “An explosive, seat of your pants thriller!” —W.E.B. Griffin “Topical, frightening, possible, and riveting.” —James Rollins

Besieged

Author : William G. Howell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815797699
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Besieged written by William G. Howell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School boards are fighting for their survival. Almost everything that they do is subject to regulations handed down from city councils, state boards of education, legislatures, and courts. As recent mayoral and state takeovers in such cities as Baltimore, Chicago, and New York make abundantly clear, school boards that do not fulfill the expectations of other political players may be stripped of what few independent powers they still retain. Teachers unions exert growing influence over board decision-making processes. And with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal government has aggressively inserted itself into matters of local education governance. B esieged is the first full-length volume in many years to systematically examine the politics that surround school boards. A group of highly renowned scholars, relying on both careful case studies and quantitative analyses, examine how school boards fare when they interact with their political superiors, teachers unions, and the public. For the most part, the picture that emerges is sobering: while school boards perform certain administrative functions quite well, the political pressures they face undermine their capacity to institute the wide-ranging school reforms that many voters and local leaders are currently demanding.

Memos from the Besieged City

Author : Djelal Kadir
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804770506
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Memos from the Besieged City written by Djelal Kadir and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature—the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers—at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik.

Superpatriotism

Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872864337
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Superpatriotism written by Michael Parenti and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the true meaning of patriotism by examining how political leaders and the media use fear to win support for military interventions and inflated arms budgets at the expense of projects that serve the real needs of humanity.

The Agony of Heroes

Author : Thomas S Helling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594164187
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book The Agony of Heroes written by Thomas S Helling and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of the men and women who risked their lives alongside the soldiers fighting some of the most desperate actions in American history Bataan, Anzio, Bastogne, Chosin, Khe Sanh: names that define the American spirit. They are synonymous with courage, resilience, and determination against great odds. At each of these battles American soldiers and Marines weathered desperation and fear to survive, advance, and triumph. Along with these heroes of the battlefield were no less determined and courageous providers of medical care. From the heat and disease-ridden jungles of Bataan, the precarious beachhead of Anzio, the encircled town of Bastogne, the frozen fields of Chosin, and the forsaken plateau of Khe Sanh, doctors and nurses worked under intense conditions with whatever means at hand, to staunch bleeding, repair damage, and resurrect the dying. In so doing they gave a glimmer of hope for the warriors facing possible death or capitulation. Often completely cut off from vital supplies and modern technology, and under the threat of enemy fire, these medical professionals--men and women--never lost sight of their passionate commitment to the sick and wounded. As noncombatants, this took extraordinary resolve to ignore the mortal threats of explosions and gunfire to focus on the mission of relieving pain, dragging from the brink of death damaged soldiers completely dependent on their resourcefulness. Some of these brave men and women would suffer the same fate as their fighting comrades, cut down by enemy fire in the prime of life, many times in the very task of rendering the bottomless compassion that was their hallmark and sometimes their only tonic. In The Agony of Heroes: Medical Care for America's Besieged Legions from Bataan to Khe Sanh, distinguished surgeon Thomas S. Helling relates the inspirational and compelling stories of the doctors, nurses, corpsmen, aides, and others who braved the most frightening conditions in order to save lives. Their experiences testify to the indomitable human grit that, when asked, transforms ordinary behavior into extraordinary achievements.

Besieged by the Boers

Author : Evelyn Oliver Ashe
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Besieged by the Boers written by Evelyn Oliver Ashe and published by London : Hutchinson. This book was released on 1900 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture Counts

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458763536
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Culture Counts written by Roger Scruton and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boldly standing up to today's nihilisms and debasements of taste. Culture Counts offers a noble and compelling defense of high culture and the centrality of rich aesthetic experience for a full human life. The wisdom of roger scruton's judgments and the elegance of his prose are themselves powerful evidence for the truth of his thesis.

Mountains Touched with Fire

Author : Wiley Sword
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312155933
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Mountains Touched with Fire written by Wiley Sword and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-04-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian dramatically recreates a turning point in the Civil War--the battle for the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Lively narrative, dozens of previously unpublished photographs, maps, and excerpts from private journals and letters capture every side of this crucial battle whose aftermath sealed the fate of the South.

Bees Besieged

Author : Bill Mares
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780936028187
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Bees Besieged written by Bill Mares and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen H. Morris (Randolph, VT) - "Bees Besieged" portrays the current state of honeybees and their keepers in America. Hobbyist Mares comes out to his hive one day and finds all his bees dead. His curiosity about what had befallen his bees leads to a spiraling journey to learn about what he describes as "the manifold problems facing bees generally, and their keepers." Mares is very much the observer, adopting an impartial journalistic stance as his base of knowledge grows. Occasionally, he will venture an opinion or take a stance, but mostly he is content to find the experts and let them be the storytellers. He begins in Vermont. Each interview points to a new referral, a new perspective, and another piece to the puzzle. The story becomes bigger, more complex, and more important. After a while the author is not trying to understand why his bees died, but what will happen to life on the planet if endangered pollinators become extinct. His circle widens as he travels to the District of Columbia, Texas, Louisiana, and beyond to learn about the current state of bees. It's not a pretty picture. Bees are besieged from all directions-environmental degradation, insidious mites (such as the ones that caused the author's bees to die), fluctuating honey prices, and aggressive, invasive species such as the much-ballyhooed African killer bees. It's a much larger story than just about bees and honey, as these insects play a vital role in the pollination of many agricultural crops. Threats to the bee population, therefore, are threats to the worldwide food supply. "Bees Besieged" is a must read for beekeepers, but its also for environmentalists, naturalists, and social observers.

Contrary Notions

Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 0872864820
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Contrary Notions written by Michael Parenti and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Michael Parenti is one of America's most astute and engaging political analysts. Parenti's work has enlightened and enlivened readers for many years, covering a wide range of subjects. Here is a rich selection of his most lucid and penetrating writings on real history, political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture, ideology, media, environment, sex, and ethnicity. Also included are a few choice selections drawn from his own life experiences and political awakening. Parenti goes where few political observers dare to tread. Time and again he takes the extra step beyond the parameters of permissible opinion, and time and again he succeeds in carrying the reader with him. The selections herein, that are reprinted from previously published works, have been revised and updated. Other offerings appear here for the very first time. "Radical in the true sense of the word, [Parenti] digs at the roots which...sustain our public consciousness."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "Prominent leftist public intellectual Parenti has built a reputation for himself as a trenchant, yet engaging and accessible, critic of capitalism, imperialism, and other forms of exploitation and violence and this diverse collection of his writings will not disappoint his fans (nor, probably, convince his detractors). Over the course of the collection he takes on the corporate media, intellectual repression in academia, the stolen presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 (not that he's a fan of Al Gore or John Kerry), right wing judicial activism, free-market orthodoxies and mythologies, racism, sexism, homophobia, postmodern attacks on Marxism, the distortions of dominant history, ill-informed demonizations of the Venezuelan political process, his own life, and many other topics."--Book News, Inc. "A prolific author, a charismatic speaker, and a regular guest on radio and television talk shows, Parenti communicates his message in an accessible, provocative, and historically informed style that is unrivaled among fellow progressive activists and thinkers."--Aurora Online Michael Parenti is a critically acclaimed author and an extraordinary public speaker. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. He is the author of twenty books, including Superpariotism , The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Inventing Reality, and Democracy for the Few.

Dirty Truths

Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872863170
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Dirty Truths written by Michael Parenti and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political essays and poems. In Young People Are Different, he writes: "Hostage in their homes, / kept alive by the telephone / fully animated only when taking flight / in rough formation. / They rebel / so better to submit / to their totalitarian peerage."

Rhodes Besieged

Author : Robert Douglas Smith
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752461786
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Rhodes Besieged written by Robert Douglas Smith and published by History Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhodes besieged

BESIEGED BY THE BOERS

Author : Evelyn Oliver Ashe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781360752075
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book BESIEGED BY THE BOERS written by Evelyn Oliver Ashe and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Besieged

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195219309
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Besieged written by Paul K. Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient times to the present, great sieges have had an enormous impact on the shaping of world history. Now, in this spectacular, fully-illustrated volume, one hundred of the world's most monumental and mind-boggling sieges are laid out in detail. Besieged covers the most important sieges from around the world throughout history--from Joshua's assault on Jericho in the fifteenth century B.C. to the Russian attack on the Chechen capital of Grozny at the end of the twentieth. Each entry provides the name and date of the siege, its exact location in terms of today's world, the number of forces engaged, when known, the names of the commanders on each side, and the overall importance of the siege in its historical context. Thoroughly examining the actions of both the attackers and the defenders, the book explores the motivations of both, and strategically surveys the technical and tactical innovations and conditions both inside besieged positions and in the besiegers' ranks. The entries detail the historical setting, the particular circumstances of the event itself, and the long-term results of the siege. These riveting accounts are enhanced by illustrations, over seventy maps, and references for further reading. A glossary and a comprehensive index complete the book. Global in scope, and with stirring accounts of familiar sieges as well as many lesser known conflicts, Besieged is essential reading for military buffs and everyone interested in how the modern world came to be. Includes the sieges of: * Jericho (1405 B.C.) * Troy (1250 B.C.) * Acre (1189--1191) * Constantinople (1453) * Tenochtitlan (1521 * La Rochelle (1627--1628) * Leningrad (1941--1944) * Malta (1940--1942) * Dien Bien Phu (1954) * Khe Sanh (1968) * Beirut (1982) * Sarajevo (1991--1995)

A Nation Among Nations

Author : Thomas Bender
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429927593
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Nation Among Nations written by Thomas Bender and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context–from 1492 to today. Immerse yourself in an insightful exploration of American history in A Nation Among Nations. This compelling book by renowned author Thomas Bender paints a different picture of the nation's history by placing it within the broader canvas of global events and developments. Events like the American Revolution, the Civil War, and subsequent imperialism are examined in a new light, revealing fundamental correlations with simultaneous global rebellions, national redefinitions, and competitive imperial ambitions. Intricacies of industrialization, urbanization, laissez-faire economics, capitalism, socialism, and technological advancements become globally interconnected phenomena, altering the solitary perception of these being unique American experiences. A Nation Among Nations isn’t just a history book–it's a thought-provoking journey that transcends geographical boundaries, encouraging us to delve deeper into the globally intertwined series of events that spun the American historical narrative.