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Push Nevahda and the Vicious Circle

Author : Jeremy Williams
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595495281
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Push Nevahda and the Vicious Circle written by Jeremy Williams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seated at the table are the typical eclectic looking group of educated, bourgeoisie wannabe, brothas and sistas who are arguing, analyzing, and contemplating the organizing of a protest movement against an Arab-owned supermarket across the street that continuously sell bad hamburger meat. Jimmy the bartender tells me that these cats-some of whom are cantankerous college students, wannabe-poets, and "spoken word artists" that came with Gypsy-have been at it all night, always gathering at the same circled table to discuss everything from politics, neighborhood revitalization, socio-cultural criticism, and James Baldwin, to the New Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, and the failure of black leadership. Jimmy calls us "Push Nevahda and the Vicious Circle." Me, Gypsy, BJ, Carmen and this new bitch I met on Black Planet named Melina. She's a mixed bitch from Rochester or Belleville who thinks that she's better than everybody else, especially other black folks, because she's educated and has white blood in her. The last time we were here I had to remind her fake ass that everybody sitting at the bar with me got degrees, she ain't the only one. Other friends come and go but we are basically what make up the crew.

The Money and the Power

Author : Sally Denton
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375414444
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Money and the Power written by Sally Denton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-05-07 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las Vegas—the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city’s historic network of links to Wall Street, international drug traffickers, and the CIA. In doing so, they expose the disturbing connections amongst politicians, businessmen, and the criminals that harness these illegal activities. Through this lucid and gripping indictment of Las Vegas, Morris and Denton uncover a national ethic of exploitation, violence, and greed, and provide a provocative reinterpretation of twentieth-century American history. Now this neon maelstrom of ruthlessness and greed stands to not as an aberrant “sin city,” but as a natural outgrowth of the corruption and worship of money that have come to permeate American life.

Mining and Scientific Press

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining and Scientific Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Over the Top and Back

Author : Sir Tom Jones
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399576363
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Over the Top and Back written by Sir Tom Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited autobiography of legendary singer Tom Jones, following six decades of unparalleled experiences in the spotlight to coincide with his 75th birthday. Across six decades, Sir Tom Jones has maintained a vital career in a risky, unstable business notorious for the short lives of its artists. With a drive that comes from nothing but the love for what he does, he breaks through and then wrestles with the vagaries of the music industry, the nature of success and its inevitable consequences. Having recorded an expansive body of work and performed with fellow artists from across the spectrum and across every popular music genre, from rock, pop and dance to country, blues and soul, the one constant throughout has been his unique musical gifts and unmistakable voice. But how did a boy from a Welsh coal-mining family attain success across the globe? And how has he survived the twists and turns of fame and fortune to not only stay exciting, but actually become more credible and interesting with age? In this, his first ever autobiography, Tom revisits his past and tells the tale of his journey from wartime Pontypridd to LA and beyond. He reveals the stories behind the ups and downs of his fascinating and remarkable life, from the early heydays to the subsequent fallow years to his later period of artistic renaissance. It's the story nobody else knows or understands, told by the man who lived it, and written the only way he knows how: simply and from the heart. Raw, honest, funny and powerful, this is a memoir like no other from one of the world's greatest ever singing talents. This is Tom Jones and Over the Top and Back is his story.

Mr. Mob

Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786453621
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Mob written by Michael Newton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morris "Moe" Dalitz was America's most secretive and most successful mobster. As a major architect of the United States' national crime syndicate, Dalitz was active in various fields of organized crime from 1918 until his death, all while spinning a web of myth and mock-respectability around himself so dense that decades after his demise, most mistake the legend for reality. From Prohibition-era bootlegging to the Reagan years, no other individual was present at so many pivotal events in gangland history. It's impossible to fully understand the modern Mob without knowing about Dalitz, his career, and the cunning publicity campaign that transformed his image from thug to that of a revered philanthropist. This exhaustive biography tells the story of Dalitz's life and the syndicate that he and like-minded individuals built from scratch.

The Monopoly Press

Author : Виталий Петрусенко
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Monopoly Press written by Виталий Петрусенко and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - IT Means and Tools

Author : Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401791368
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - IT Means and Tools written by Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this volume is comprised of the fundamentals, models, and information technologies (IT) methods and tools for disaster prediction and mitigation. A more detailed list of topics includes mathematical and computational modeling of processes leading to or producing disasters, modeling of disaster effects, IT means for disaster mitigation, including data mining tools, knowledge-based and expert systems for use in disaster circumstances, GIS-based systems for disaster prevention and mitigation and equipment for disaster-prone areas. A specific type or class of disasters (natural or human-made), however will not be part of the main focus of this work. Instead, this book was conceived to offer a comprehensive, integrative view on disasters, seeking to determine what various disasters have in common. Because disaster resilience and mitigation involve humans, societies and cultures, not only technologies and economic models, special attention was paid in this volume to gain a comprehensive view on these issues, as a foundation of the IT tool design.

Birds and Mammals of the Sierra Nevada

Author : Lowell Sumner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520367480
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Birds and Mammals of the Sierra Nevada written by Lowell Sumner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

Wildfire Risk

Author : Wade E. Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136523898
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Wildfire Risk written by Wade E. Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing encroachment of human settlements into fire-prone areas and extreme fire seasons in recent years make it urgent that we better understand both the physical and human dimensions of managing the risk from wildfire. Wildfire Risk follows from our awareness that increasing public knowledge about wildfire hazard does not necessarily lead to appropriate risk reduction behavior. Drawing heavily upon health and risk communication, and risk modeling, the authors advance our understanding of how individuals and communities respond to wildfire hazard. They present results of original research on the social, economic, and psychological factors in responses to risk, discuss how outreach and education can influence behavior, and consider differences among ethnic/racial groups and between genders with regard to values, views, and attitudes about wildfire risk. They explore the role of public participation in risk assessment and mitigation, as well as in planning for evacuation and recovery after fire. Wildfire Risk concludes with a dedicated section on risk-modeling, with perspectives from decision sciences, geography, operations research, psychology, experimental economics, and other social sciences.

Unmaking the Bomb

Author : Shannon Cram
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520395131
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Unmaking the Bomb written by Shannon Cram and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that endeavor. In particular, this lyrical book engages in a kind of narrative contamination, toggling back and forth between cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that overspill them. It spends time with the statistical people that inhabit cleanup's metrics and models and the nonstatistical people that live with their effects. And, in the process, it explores the uneven social relations that make toxicity a normative condition.

Daily Summary of Japanese Press

Author : United States. Embassy (Japan)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Daily Summary of Japanese Press written by United States. Embassy (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1987-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perilous Bounty

Author : Tom Philpott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635573149
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Perilous Bounty written by Tom Philpott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and former farmer Tom Philpott. More than a decade after Michael Pollan's game-changing The Omnivore's Dilemma transformed the conversation about what we eat, a combination of global diet trends and corporate interests have put American agriculture into a state of "quiet emergency," from dangerous drought in California--which grows more than 50 percent of the fruits and vegetables we eat--to catastrophic topsoil loss in the "breadbasket" heartland of the United States. Whether or not we take heed, these urgent crises of industrial agriculture will define our future. In Perilous Bounty, veteran journalist and former farmer Tom Philpott explores and exposes the small handful of seed and pesticide corporations, investment funds, and magnates who benefit from the trends that imperil us, with on-the-ground dispatches featuring the scientists documenting the damage and the farmers and activists who are valiantly and inventively pushing back. Resource scarcity looms on the horizon, but rather than pointing us toward an inevitable doomsday, Philpott shows how the entire wayward ship of American agriculture could be routed away from its path to disaster. He profiles the farmers and communities in the nation's two key growing regions developing resilient, soil-building, water-smart farming practices, and readying for the climate shocks that are already upon us; and he explains how we can help move these methods from the margins to the mainstream.

Made Men

Author : Antonio Nicaso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442222271
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Made Men written by Antonio Nicaso and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family. As a result of this movie and other popular portrayals, the image of mobsters as “men of honor and tradition” has become iconic throughout America. Yet the truth of the matter belies this more noble image. The Mafia is a ruthless organization. Their concept of family is a twisted one. But viewed through the lens of popular culture, it is often difficult to separate the fiction from the reality. Made Men demystifies this image by dismantling the code of honor that Mafiosi live by, including its attendant symbols, rituals, and the lifestyle that it demands. Since the end of World War II, the Mafia in Italy and America has undergone major changes, which are charted by the authors through the present day. Nicaso and Danesi also consider all kinds of related organizations, not only the Italian ones, including the Yakuza, the Triads, and the Russian Mafia. The authors look at organized criminal culture in general, attempting to explain why its symbols, rituals, and practices continue to draw people in, both as literal members, or as consumers of the pop culture that glorifies them. This story traces and decodes the origins, history and success of the mafia in the U.S., bringing a better, and more accurate understanding of this ultimately brutal, violent, and corrupting “family business.” It is a story that has rarely been told in this way, but which is believed, nonetheless, important to tell.

The Current Digest of the Soviet Press

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Current Digest of the Soviet Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Press Summary - Illinois Information Service

Author : Illinois Information Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Press Summary - Illinois Information Service written by Illinois Information Service and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gangster Priest

Author : Robert Casillo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 080209113X
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Gangster Priest written by Robert Casillo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed as America's greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian American artist. Although he has treated various subjects in over three decades, his most sustained filmmaking and the core of his achievement consists of five films on Italian American subjects - Who's That Knocking at My Door?, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, and Casino - as well as the documentary Italianamerican. In Gangster Priest Robert Casillo examines these films in the context of the society, religion, culture, and history of Southern Italy, from which the majority of Italian Americans, including Scorsese, derive. Casillo argues that these films cannot be fully appreciated either thematically or formally without understanding the various facets of Italian American ethnicity, as well as the nature of Italian American cinema and the difficulties facing assimilating third-generation artists. Forming a unified whole, Scorsese's Italian American films offer what Casillo views as a prolonged meditation on the immigrant experience, the relationship between Italian America and Southern Italy, the conflicts between the ethnic generations, and the formation and development of Italian American ethnicity (and thus identity) on American soil through the generations. Raised as a Catholic and deeply imbued with Catholic values, Scorsese also deals with certain forms of Southern Italian vernacular religion, which have left their imprint not only on Scorsese himself but also on the spiritually tormented characters of his Italian American films. Casillo also shows how Scorsese interrogates the Southern Italian code of masculine honour in his exploration of the Italian American underworld or Mafia, and through his implicitly Catholic optic, discloses its thoroughgoing and longstanding opposition to Christianity. Bringing a wealth of scholarship and insight into Scorsese's work, Casillo's study will captivate readers interested in the director's magisterial artistry, the rich social history of Southern Italy, Italian American ethnicity, and the sociology and history of the Mafia in both Sicily and the United States.

Psi-Power: Brain Twister, The Impossibles & Supermind (Complete Trilogy)

Author : Randall Garrett
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 802724921X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Psi-Power: Brain Twister, The Impossibles & Supermind (Complete Trilogy) written by Randall Garrett and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Psi-Power Trilogy follows adventures and misadventures of Kenneth J, Malone, the Government's expert on "impossibilities," who lives in a world of supernatural and psychic powers such as telepathy and teleportation. "Brain Twister" – In the near future FBI agent Ken Malone, the Government's expert on "impossibilities," has to track down a psychic spy with the help of an insane old lady who thinks she is the Queen. "The Impossibles" – Ken Malone and the FBI are engrossed in another case of psychic abilities and impossible crimes. New models of cars start to drive away with no one at the driving sit, valuable things are disappearing from locked safes, and the criminal is apparently walking through the walls. "Supermind" – FBI has arrested three low level Soviet spies – Brubitsch, Borbitsch, and Garbitsch. As they didn't commit any serious crimes, FBI decides to ship them back under the surveillance of Ken Malone. But things are not that simple when the psionic powers are involved.