Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Letters From The American Gulag full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Letters From The American Gulag ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Tim Rivers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The American Gulag Chronicles written by Tim Rivers and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Clean
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781456353520
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Letters from the American Gulag written by John Clean and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-11-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Erika, a 23 year old African American mother of 3 year old twins who was accosted at a night club and thrown to the ground. In defending herself, she cut two of her attackers. The attackers lied to the police and Erika was charged with attempted murder, aggravated mayhem, and assault. This book is the love letters between Erika and her fiance, through an unbelievable ordeal devoid of humanity and reeking of racial prejudice, who desperately tried to hold onto their love and commitment to themselves and to the children. Sometimes raw but always honest, this narrative highlights the tragedy of our modern day judicial system that has gone beyond convicting criminals of any and all crimes and instead condemns them with no hope of redemption. How many watchers do we need to keep us safe? The prison population has grown over 400 percent since 1980, the general population just 20 percent. This is a story of love, lost in that system.
Author : Mark Dow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520239423
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book American Gulag written by Mark Dow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the harsh conditions that exist within the cruel system of immigration detention, bringing to light realities such as illegal beatings and inhumane conditions inside the secret and repressive prisons run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services.
Author : Mark Dow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520239425
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (394 download)
Download or read book American Gulag written by Mark Dow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The freelance writer and poet takes an unprecedented look inside the secret and repressive world of U.S. immigration prisons.
Author : Dennis Wepman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108109
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Immigration written by Dennis Wepman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a chronological study of immigration to the United States throughout history.
Author : Lou Marinoff
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781402743443
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Middle Way written by Lou Marinoff and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human world is wobbly wildly off balance. Everywhere you look -- from the halls of Congress to the deserts of the Middle East -- institutions and societies are riven by discord. To his crisis-laden situation -- one that globalization cannot correct by economic means alone -- philosopher Lou Marinoff brings a much-needed antidote to extremism, offfering hope and guidance to everyone who feels powerless, frustrated, or frightened in a world that flirts daily with disaster. Drawing inspiration from three of humankind's greatest philosophers -- Aristotle, Buddha, and Confucius -- Marinoff maps a route from chaos to order, a path whose signposts can be read in the perennial wisdom of these "ABCs." Marinoff offers us a way to travel into a less violent, more cooperative, and most fulfilling future: "The Middle Way". -- From publisher's description.
Author : David J. Garrow
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504038924
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book MLK: An American Legacy written by David J. Garrow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three meticulously researched works—including Pulitzer Prize winner Bearing the Cross—spanning the life of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. This collection from professor and historian David J. Garrow provides a multidimensional and fascinating portrait of Martin Luther King Jr., and his mission to upend deeply entrenched prejudices in society, and enact legal change that would achieve equality for African Americans one hundred years after their emancipation from slavery. Bearing the Cross traces King’s evolution from the young pastor who spearheaded the 1955–56 bus boycott in Montgomery to the inspirational leader of America’s civil rights movement, focusing on King’s crucial role at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Garrow captures King’s charisma, his moral obligation to lead a nonviolent crusade against racism and inequality—and the toll this calling took on his life. Garrow delves deeper into one of the civil rights movement’s most decisive moments in Protest at Selma. These demonstrations led to the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 that, along with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, remains a key aspect of King’s legacy. Garrow analyzes King’s political strategy and understanding of how media coverage—especially reports of white violence against peaceful African American protestors—elicited sympathy for the cause. King’s fierce determination to overturn the status quo of racial relations antagonized FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. follows Hoover’s personal obsession to destroy the civil rights leader. In an unprecedented abuse of governmental power, Hoover led one of the most invasive surveillance operations in American history, desperately trying to mar King’s image. As a collection, these utterly engrossing books are a key to understanding King’s inner life, his public persona, and his legacy, and are a testament to his impact in forcing America to confront intolerance and bigotry at a critical time in the nation’s history.
Author : Kaia Stern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113669255X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Voices from American Prisons written by Kaia Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices From American Prisons: Faith, Education and Healing is a comprehensive and unique contribution to understanding the dynamics and nature of penal confinement. In this book, author Kaia Stern describes the history of punishment and prison education in the United States and proposes that specific religious and racial ideologies - notions of sin, evil and otherness - continue to shape our relationship to crime and punishment through contemporary penal policy. Inspired by people who have lived, worked, and studied in U.S. prisons, Stern invites us to rethink the current ‘punishment crisis’ in the United States. Based on in-depth interviews with people who were incarcerated, as well as extensive conversations with students, teachers, corrections staff, and prison administrators, the book introduces the voices of those who have participated in the few remaining post-secondary education programs that exist behind bars. Drawing on individual narrative and various modern day case examples, Stern focuses on dehumanization, resistance, and community transformation. She demonstrates how prison education is essential, can provide healing, and yet is still not enough to interrupt mass incarceration. In short, this book explores the possibility of transformation from a retributive punishment system to a system of justice. The book’s engaging, human accounts and multidisciplinary perspective will appeal to criminologists, sociologists, historians, theologians and scholars of education alike. Voices from American Prisons will also capture general readers who are interested in learning about a timely and often silenced reality of contemporary modern society.
Author : Sidney Hook
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563244872
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Letters of Sidney Hook written by Sidney Hook and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hook (1902-1989) was a philosopher, college professor, and an anti-communist intellectual. His letters, selected from the collection at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University, span the years 1929 to 1987, and contain his views on war and peace, Marxism and communism, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Includes a chronology of Hook's life and a bibliography of his works. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : E. Johanna Hartelius
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271076534
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Rhetorics of US Immigration written by E. Johanna Hartelius and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current geopolitical climate—in which unaccompanied children cross the border in record numbers, and debates on the topic swing violently from pole to pole—the subject of immigration demands innovative inquiry. In The Rhetorics of US Immigration, some of the most prominent and prolific scholars in immigration studies come together to discuss the many facets of immigration rhetoric in the United States. The Rhetorics of US Immigration provides readers with an integrated sense of the rhetorical multiplicity circulating among and about immigrants. Whereas extant literature on immigration rhetoric tends to focus on the media, this work extends the conversation to the immigrants themselves, among others. A collection whose own eclecticism highlights the complexity of the issue, The Rhetorics of US Immigration is not only a study in the language of immigration but also a frank discussion of who is doing the talking and what it means for the future. From questions of activism, authority, and citizenship to the influence of Hollywood, the LGBTQ community, and the church, The Rhetorics of US Immigration considers the myriad venues in which the American immigration question emerges—and the interpretive framework suited to account for it. Along with the editor, the contributors are Claudia Anguiano, Karma R. Chávez, Terence Check, Jay P. Childers, J. David Cisneros, Lisa M. Corrigan, D. Robert DeChaine, Anne Teresa Demo, Dina Gavrilos, Emily Ironside, Christine Jasken, Yazmin Lazcano-Pry, Michael Lechuga, and Alessandra B. Von Burg.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004285024
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Global Convict Labour written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Convict Labour offers a global history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from Antiquity to the present, including transportation, prisons, workhouses and labour camps. The editors' essay surveys the available literature, and sets the theoretical basis to approach the issue. The fifteen chapters explore the genealogies of convict labour and its relationships with coloniality and governmentality. The volume re-establishes convict labour firmly within labour history, as one of the entangled, multiple labour relations that have punctuated human history. Similarly, it places convictism back within migration history at large, bridging the gap between the growing literature on convict transportation and research on slavery and other forms of free and bonded migration. Contributors are: Carlos Aguirre, David Arnold, Marc Buggeln, Timothy Coates, Christian G. De Vito, Mary Gibson, Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga, Stacey Hynd, Padraic Kenney, Alex Lichtenstein, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Alice Rio, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Jean-Lucien Sanchez, Pieter Spierenburg, Stephan Steiner, Laurens E. Tacoma, Heather Ann Thompson, Lynne Viola.
Author : Richard L. Abel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108641547
Total Pages : 939 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Law's Wars written by Richard L. Abel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US 'war on terror', which Bush declared and Obama continued, repeatedly violated fundamental rule of law values. Law's Wars: The Fate of the Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror' is the first comprehensive account of efforts to resist and correct those violations. It focuses on responses to abuses in Abu Ghraib, efforts by Guantánamo Bay detainees to improve conditions of confinement in and win release, exposés of and efforts to end torture and electronic surveillance, and civilian casualties on the battlefield, including targeted killings. Abel deploys a law and society perspective to construct and analyze detailed narratives of the roles of victims, whistle-blowers, the media, NGOs, lawyers, doctors, politicians, military personnel, foreign governments and international organizations in defending the rule of law. Only by understanding past errors can we hope to prevent their repetition in what promises to be an endless 'war on terror'.
![Download Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues [4 volumes] PDF Online Free](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/xbrOEAAAQBAJ?fife=w200-h370)
Author : Michael Shally-Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313392056
Total Pages : 1988 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues [4 volumes] written by Michael Shally-Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 1988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single-source reference will help students and general readers alike understand the most critical issues facing American society today. Featuring the work of almost 200 expert contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues comprises four volumes, each devoted to a particular subject area. Volume one covers business and the economy; volume two, criminal justice; volume three, family and society; and volume four, the environment, science, and technology. Coverage within these volumes ranges from biotechnology to identity theft, from racial profiling to corporate governance, from school choice to food safety. The work brings into focus a broad array of key issues confronting American society today. Approximately 225 in-depth entries lay out the controversies debated in the media, on campuses, in government, in boardrooms, and in homes and neighborhoods across the United States. Critical issues in criminology, medicine, religion, commerce, education, the environment, media, family life, and science are all carefully described and examined in a scholarly yet accessible way. Sidebars, photos, charts, and graphs throughout augment the entries, making them even more compelling and informative.
Author : Martha F. Lee
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603658
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Earth First! written by Martha F. Lee and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1980, Dave Foreman, along with four conservationist colleagues, founded the millenarian movement Earth First!. A provocative counterculture that ultimately hoped for the fall of industrial civilization, the movement emerged in response to rapid commercial development of the American wilderness. “The earth should come first” was a doctrine that championed both biocentrism (an emphasis on maintaining the earth’s full complement of species) and biocentric equality (the belief that all species are equal). Martha Lee was successful in gaining extraordinary access to information about the movement, as well as interviews with its members. While following Earth First’s development and methods, she illustrates the inherent instability and the dangers associated with all millenarian movements. This book will be of interest to environmentalists and those interested in political science and sociology.
Author : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110434466
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Global Histories of Work written by Andreas Eckert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First title of the new series Work in Global and Historical Perspective that introduces the conceptual approach towards the field of global labour history through a collection of essays chosen by the editors.
Author : Dan Berger
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1904859410
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Outlaws of America written by Dan Berger and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fiery true story of America's most famous radical fugitives, urgently and passionately told.
Author : Joanna Bourke
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619020289
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book What It Means to Be Human written by Joanna Bourke and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In fact, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses, and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. The Earnest Englishwoman's heartfelt cry was for women to "become–animal" in order to gain the status that they were denied on the grounds that they were not part of "mankind." In this fascinating account, Joanna Bourke addresses the profound question of what it means to be "human" rather than "animal." How are people excluded from political personhood? How does one become entitled to rights? The distinction between the two concepts is a blurred line, permanently under construction. If the Earnest Englishwoman had been capable of looking 100 years into the future, she might have wondered about the human status of chimeras, or the ethics of stem cell research. Political disclosures and scientific advances have been re–locating the human–animal border at an alarming speed. In this meticulously researched, illuminating book, Bourke explores the legacy of more than two centuries, and looks forward into what the future might hold for humans, women, and animals.
