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Book Synopsis Guarded Conversations by : Ken Albertsen
Download or read book Guarded Conversations written by Ken Albertsen and published by Ken Albertsen. This book was released on 2010-08-08 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle; 'How Thailand was Won and Lost in the 1st Decade of the 21st Century' takes a cheeky view of the topsy turvy career of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin, or 'Sintax' in the book. Whether his clandestine conversations with his wife 'Manpoj', his son 'Elm', or his many lawyers and underlings ring true, is up to the reader. Also offers poignant insight to the Red rallies of 2010.
Download or read book The Guarded Gate written by Daniel Okrent and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE “100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR” BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call—this “rigorously historical” (The Washington Post) and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America keep out “inferiors” in the 1920s is “a sobering, valuable contribution to discussions about immigration” (Booklist). A forgotten, dark chapter of American history with implications for the current day, The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who argued that certain nationalities were inherently inferior, providing the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history. Brandished by the upper class Bostonians and New Yorkers—many of them progressives—who led the anti-immigration movement, the eugenic arguments helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the US for more than forty years. Over five years in the writing, The Guarded Gate tells the complete story from its beginning in 1895, when Henry Cabot Lodge and other Boston Brahmins launched their anti-immigrant campaign. In 1921, Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that “biological laws” had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law was enacted three years later. In his trademark lively and authoritative style, Okrent brings to life the rich cast of characters from this time, including Lodge’s closest friend, Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Darwin’s first cousin, Francis Galton, the idiosyncratic polymath who gave life to eugenics; the fabulously wealthy and profoundly bigoted Madison Grant, founder of the Bronx Zoo, and his best friend, H. Fairfield Osborn, director of the American Museum of Natural History; Margaret Sanger, who saw eugenics as a sensible adjunct to her birth control campaign; and Maxwell Perkins, the celebrated editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. A work of history relevant for today, The Guarded Gate is “a masterful, sobering, thoughtful, and necessary book” that painstakingly connects the American eugenicists to the rise of Nazism, and shows how their beliefs found fertile soil in the minds of citizens and leaders both here and abroad.
Download or read book Shiniwa written by Michael La Vasani and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battered and psychologically abused by an alcoholic father and neglected by an equally abused mother, Michael, age seven, descended into rage at the murder of his beloved pet rooster and the death of his adored sister. Consumed by murderous hate, Michael was exiled to an obscure monastery between China and Tibet in the back of beyond, from a place it was assumed he would never return. A very special Buddhist monk,Kako, made it his life's work to reclaim the wreck that was this belligerent boy. It took Kako eleven years to transform Michael into the man of peace and charity he is today. The path was difficult and often seemed impossible as Michael resisted all of Kako's patient teaching. Michaels transformation was aided by a handwoven soccer ball made from bamboo and coconut skin and a team of young monks who played a game they had never seen before in their lives. By the time Kako passed away at the age of forty-four, Michael was ready to return to a world that had long ago forgotten him. Shinawa: The Story of a Reclaimed Life is the remarkable story of the long and difficult path to Michael's transformation.
Book Synopsis The Prisoner in His Palace by : Will Bardenwerper
Download or read book The Prisoner in His Palace written by Will Bardenwerper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein provides “a brief, but powerful, meditation on the meaning of evil and power” (USA TODAY). The “captivating” (Military Times) The Prisoner in His Palace invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Shortly after being deployed to Iraq, they learn their assignment: guarding Saddam Hussein in the months before his execution. Living alongside, and caring for, their “high value detainee and regularly transporting him to his raucous trial, many of the men begin questioning some of their most basic assumptions—about the judicial process, Saddam’s character, and the morality of modern war. Although the young soldiers’ increasingly intimate conversations with the once-feared dictator never lead them to doubt his responsibility for unspeakable crimes, the men do discover surprising new layers to his psyche that run counter to the media’s portrayal of him. Woven from firsthand accounts provided by many of the American guards, government officials, interrogators, scholars, spies, lawyers, family members, and victims, The Prisoner in His Palace shows two Saddams coexisting in one person: the defiant tyrant who uses torture and murder as tools, and a shrewd but contemplative prisoner who exhibits surprising affection, dignity, and courage in the face of looming death. In this thought-provoking narrative, Saddam, known as the “man without a conscience,” gets many of those around him to examine theirs. “A singular study exhibiting both military duty and human compassion” (Kirkus Reviews), The Prisoner in His Palace grants us “a behind-the-scenes look at history that’s nearly impossible to put down…a mesmerizing glimpse into the final moments of a brutal tyrant’s life” (BookPage).
Book Synopsis Appendix F. Lucifer's Most Guarded Secret Revealed by : Yeriel Even-Pinah
Download or read book Appendix F. Lucifer's Most Guarded Secret Revealed written by Yeriel Even-Pinah and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book briefly takes you through creation, including angels who were given the assignment to find the fluffy planet. The story then changes to follow the chief angel, Lucifer, as he is outcast to earth. You will learn why Lucifer needed to destroy what God created and why, after hearing God tell Eve that one of her descendants would wound Lucifer's head, he followed the chosen people closely, determined to destroy who he called, The Man, as soon as he could be identified; and having destroyed that which God has chosen, actually defeat God and win his freedom from earth and the restoration of his authority as the highest angel. Lucifer discovered that mankind was easily manipulated until he met The Man who he could not defeat. Broken, Lucifer identified the source of The Man's power and dedicated his efforts since then to keep it hidden. I pried the secret out of him and present it to you in this book.
Book Synopsis Something in the Soil by : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Download or read book Something in the Soil written by Patricia Nelson Limerick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive."--Garry Wills
Download or read book Get Your Man written by Ethel Dorrance and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia by : South Australia. Parliament
Download or read book Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia written by South Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Divergent Paths by : Richard A. Posner
Download or read book Divergent Paths written by Richard A. Posner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges—at the risk of intellectual stagnation—to dismiss most academic discourse as opaque and divorced from reality. In Divergent Paths, Richard Posner turns his attention to this widening gap within the legal profession, reflecting on its causes and consequences and asking what can be done to close or at least narrow it. The shortcomings of academic legal analysis are real, but they cannot disguise the fact that the modern judiciary has several serious deficiencies that academic research and teaching could help to solve or alleviate. In U.S. federal courts, which is the focus of Posner’s analysis of the judicial path, judges confront ever more difficult cases, many involving complex and arcane scientific and technological distinctions, yet continue to be wedded to legal traditions sometimes centuries old. Posner asks how legal education can be made less theory-driven and more compatible with the present and future demands of judging and lawyering. Law schools, he points out, have great potential to promote much-needed improvements in the judiciary, but doing so will require significant changes in curriculum, hiring policy, and methods of educating future judges. If law schools start to focus more on practical problems facing the American legal system rather than on debating its theoretical failures, the gulf separating the academy and the judiciary will narrow.
Download or read book That's That written by Colin Broderick and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutally honest and deeply affecting memoir about growing up in the countryside in rebel country in Northern Ireland. Colin Broderick was born in 1968 and spent his childhood in Tyrone county, in Northern Ireland. It was the beginning of the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles, and Colin's Catholic family lived in the heart of rebel country. The community was filled with Provisional IRA members whose lives depended on the silence and complicity of their neighbors. At times, that made for a confusing childhood. We watch as he and his brothers play ball with the neighbor children over a fence for years, but are never allowed to play together because it is forbidden. We see him struggle to understand why young men from his community often just disappear. And we feel his confusion when he is held at gunpoint at various military checkpoints in the North. But even when Colin does ask his parents about these events, he never receives a clear explanation. Desperate to protect her children, Colin's mother tries to prevent exposure to or knowledge of the harm that surrounds them. Spoken with stern finality, "That's that" became the refrain of Colin's childhood. The first book to paint a detailed depiction of Northern Ireland's Troubles is presented against a personal backdrop and is told in the wry, memorable voice of a man who's finally come to terms with his past.
Book Synopsis Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated by : Robert DeMott
Download or read book Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated written by Robert DeMott and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated offers a judicious selection of interviews spanning the writing career of Jim Harrison (1937–2016) from its beginnings in the 1960s to the last interview he gave weeks before his death in March 2016. Harrison labeled himself and lived as a “quadra-schizoid” writer. He worked in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and screenwriting, and he published more than forty books that attracted an international following. These interviews supply a lively narrative of his progress as a major contemporary American author. This collection showcases Harrison's pet peeves, his candor and humility, his sense of humor, and his patience. He does not shy from his authorial obsessions, especially his efforts to hone the novella, for which he is considered a contemporary master, or the frequency with which he defied polite narrative conventions and created memorable, resolute female characters. Each conversation attests to the depth and range of Harrison’s considerable intellectual and political preoccupations, his fierce social and ecological conscience, his aesthetic beliefs, and his stylistic orientations in poetry and prose.
Book Synopsis The Law of Public Communication by : Kent Middleton
Download or read book The Law of Public Communication written by Kent Middleton and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2005 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the implications of the law for practitioners, this annually updated text examines legal issues affecting journalism, political and commercial speech, and electronic media. The 2005 Edition of this top-selling media law text includes the most current information available, explaining the law as it applies to the daily work of writers, broadcasters, advertisers, cable operators, Internet service providers, public relations practitioners, photographers, and other public communicators. By presenting statutes and cases in a cohesive manner that is understandable even to students studying law for the first time, the authors ensure that students will acquire a firm grasp of the legal issues affecting the media.
Download or read book Guarded Moments written by William Sunke and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HE SENTENCED HIMSELF TO PRISON AS A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER The harrowing journey of a boy raised by a brutal criminal father who sentenced himself to prison as a correctional officer rather than be sent there as an inmate. Guarded Moments is an unblinking descent into the solitary confinement of one man's heart Seeing the terror in the eyes of a child visiting his father at San Quentin, the correctional officer finally breaks through the prisons inside him. Walls come tumbling down. Guarded Moments is one man's key to the freedom of himself.
Book Synopsis Insanely Indian by : Ayesha Chawla Raj
Download or read book Insanely Indian written by Ayesha Chawla Raj and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insanely Indian is a political romance, which captures the human need for being rooted and asserting one's identity. It is a story about love and marriage, divorce and life after it, parenthood, and "Indian-ness" in contemporary times. Follow Aanya's journey as an educated, affluent Indian woman living in London, who finds that her husband is determined to express his patriotism towards India, and her son to express his religious identity in London. Being a dutiful Indian daughter, Aanya remains deeply attached to her family in India, even though she has not lived there for two decades. Insanely Indian is about the connectedness of the "global Indian" to India, to one's past, and it brings to the forefront the cycle of continuous expectations faced by the global Indian from family and society in India.
Download or read book American Law Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forms of Talk written by Erving Goffman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1981-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together five of Goffman's seminal essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk."
Download or read book MYSTIKAL written by Kerwayne "The Hawk!" and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a book inside. The question simply becomes will you write the book inside of you? Not everyone has the discipline or desire to do so. Everyone is a story based upon one’s unique experiences, wisdom, insights, and the life GOD has gifted you with. AS simple as it seems what you give back to GOD is your gift to him. The book you write upon this earth is your gift in time to the Kree-a-tor divine. This book is one of my gifts back to you GOD.
