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Author : Arkadij Strugackij
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140051346
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of Power written by Arkadij Strugackij and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arkady Strugatsky
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613736002
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Inhabited Island written by Arkady Strugatsky and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maxim Kammerer, a young space explorer from twenty-second-century Earth, crash-lands on an uncharted world, he thinks of himself as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact with the planet's humanlike inhabitants, he finds himself increasingly entangled in their primitive way of life. After his experiences in their nightmarish military, criminal justice, and mental health systems, Maxim begins to realize that his sojourn on this radioactive and war-scarred world will not be a walk in the park. The Inhabited Island is one of the Strugatsky brothers' most popular and acclaimed novels, yet the only previous English-language edition (Prisoners of Power) was based on a version heavily censored by Soviet authorities. Now, in a sparkling new edition by award-winning translator Andrew Bromfield, this land-mark novel can be newly appreciated by both longtime Strugatsky fans and new explorers of the Russian science fiction masters' astonishingly rich body of work.
Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847651348
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book The 48 Laws Of Power written by Robert Greene and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'If power is your ultimate goal, this is the book you need' The Times Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distils three thousand years of the history of power into forty-eight well-explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws require prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), some stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and some the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"), but like it or not, all have applications in real-life situations. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissenger, P T Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded - or been victimised by - power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing or defending against ultimate control.
Author : T. Ugelvik
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137307862
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Power and Resistance in Prison written by T. Ugelvik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the relationship between power, practices of resistance and prisoner subjectivity.
Author : Kelly Lytle Hernández
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469631199
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book City of Inmates written by Kelly Lytle Hernández and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307819299
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Discipline and Punish written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Author : Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468311611
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book My Fellow Prisoners written by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post). Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, Khodorkovsky began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and fight corruption. Then he was arrested at gunpoint. Sentenced to ten years in a Siberian penal colony on fraud and tax evasion charges in 2003, Khodorkovsky was put on trial again in 2010 and sentenced to fourteen years on new charges that contradicted the previous ones. While imprisoned, Khodorkovsky fought for the rights of his fellow prisoners, going on hunger strike four times. After he was pardoned in 2013, he vowed to continue fighting for prisoners’ rights, and this book is dedicated to that work. A moving portrait of the prisoners Khodorkovsky met, My Fellow Prisoners is an eye-opening account of Russia’s brutal prison system. “Vivid, humane and poignant” —Financial Times
Author : D. Tibbs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137013060
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book From Black Power to Prison Power written by D. Tibbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the landmark case Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union to examine the strategies of prison inmates using race and radicalism to inspire the formation of an inmate labor union.
Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982178639
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Power of Geography written by Tim Marshall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Great Britain in 2021 by Elliott and Thompson Limited"--Copyright page.
Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063119447
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Prisoner's Dilemma written by Richard Powers and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment. “Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist.”— New Republic Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and given his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world, and everything that’s in it. A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner’s Dilemma is a story of the power of individual experience.
Author : Arthur Janov
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prisoners of Pain written by Arthur Janov and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501121472
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of Geography written by Tim Marshall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Elliott and Thompson Limited.
Author : Robin Casarjian
Publisher : Lionheart Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780964493308
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Houses of Healing written by Robin Casarjian and published by Lionheart Foundation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Berger
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618249
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Captive Nation written by Dan Berger and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Author : Robert T. Chase
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653583
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book We Are Not Slaves written by Robert T. Chase and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards Best Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of Criminology In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states adopted northern prison design reforms. Texas presented the reforms to the public as modern, efficient, and disciplined. Inside prisons, however, the transition to penitentiary cells only made the endemic violence more secretive, intensifying the labor division that privileged some prisoners with the power to accelerate state-orchestrated brutality and the internal sex trade. Reformers' efforts had only made things worse--now it was up to the prisoners to fight for change. Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert T. Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. Prisoners forged an alliance with the NAACP to contest the constitutionality of Texas prisons. Behind bars, a prisoner coalition of Chicano Movement and Black Power organizations publicized their deplorable conditions as "slaves of the state" and initiated a prison-made civil rights revolution and labor protest movement. These insurgents won epochal legal victories that declared conditions in many southern prisons to be cruel and unusual--but their movement was overwhelmed by the increasing militarization of the prison system and empowerment of white supremacist gangs that, together, declared war on prison organizers. Told from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book weaves together untold but devastatingly important truths from the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the United States as it narrates the transition from prison plantations of the past to the mass incarceration of today.
Author : Talitha L. LeFlouria
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469622483
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Chained in Silence written by Talitha L. LeFlouria and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid work of history, Talitha L. LeFlouria draws from a rich array of primary sources to piece together the stories of these women, recounting what they endured in Georgia's prison system and what their labor accomplished. LeFlouria argues that African American women's presence within the convict lease and chain-gang systems of Georgia helped to modernize the South by creating a new and dynamic set of skills for black women. At the same time, female inmates struggled to resist physical and sexual exploitation and to preserve their human dignity within a hostile climate of terror. This revealing history redefines the social context of black women's lives and labor in the New South and allows their stories to be told for the first time.
Author : Arkady Strugatsky
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613748310
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Hard to Be a God written by Arkady Strugatsky and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest of their works. It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to influence, but never to directly interfere. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler and a brawler, Don Rumata is never defeated but can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the machinations of Don Reba, the First Minister to the king. But given his orders, what role can he play? Hard to Be a God has inspired a computer role-playing game and two movies, including Aleksei German's long-awaited swan song. Yet until now the only English version (out of print for over thirty years) was based on a German translation, and was full of errors, infelicities, and misunderstandings. This new edition—translated by Olena Bormashenko, whose translation of the authors' Roadside Picnic has received widespread acclaim, and supplemented with a new foreword by Hari Kunzru and an afterword by Boris Strugatsky, both of which supply much-needed context—reintroduces one of the most profound Soviet-era novels to an eager audience.
