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Book Synopsis The Girl from Guantanamo by : Donald Lloyd Roth
Download or read book The Girl from Guantanamo written by Donald Lloyd Roth and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A young girl flees with her family from Cuba and Batista's despotic rule to settle in Miami in the 1950s. When her family's better life is endangered by the suspicion of her father's ties to Castro's rebels, she escapes to her beloved homeland and becomes an 18-year-old heroine of the Cuban Revolution, only to be betrayed again"--Provided by publisher"--
Book Synopsis The Girl from Guantanamo by : Donald Lloyd Roth
Download or read book The Girl from Guantanamo written by Donald Lloyd Roth and published by Select Books (NY). This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A young girl flees with her family from Cuba and Batista's despotic rule to settle in Miami in the 1950s. When her family's better life is endangered by the suspicion of her father's ties to Castro's rebels, she escapes to her beloved homeland and becomes an 18-year-old heroine of the Cuban Revolution, only to be betrayed again"--Provided by publisher"--
Book Synopsis The Mauritanian (originally published as Guantánamo Diary) by : Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Download or read book The Mauritanian (originally published as Guantánamo Diary) written by Mohamedou Ould Slahi and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "profound and disturbing" (New York Times Book Review) bestseller written by a Guantánamo prisoner is now a major feature film starring Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster. When The Mauritanian was first published as Guantánamo Diary in 2015—heavily redacted by the U.S. government—Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ruling ordering his release, and it was unclear when or if he would ever see freedom. In October 2016 he was finally released and reunited with his family. During his fourteen-year imprisonment the United States never charged him with a crime. Now he is able to tell his story in full, with previously censored material restored. This searing diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir—terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. The Mauritanian is a document of immense emotional power and historical importance.
Book Synopsis The Girl from Kandahar by : James Ward
Download or read book The Girl from Kandahar written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Afghanistan, British secret servicewoman Marcie Brown, posing as the third wife of one of ISAF’s most trusted operatives, is killed in a drone strike. Or at least, that’s what the official report states. Deep inside enemy territory, what remains of her body is deemed irrecoverable. Seven thousand miles away, in Britain, her grieving husband, MI7 Officer Nicholas Fleming, joins a police investigation which stumbles onto an Islamist plot to bomb central London. Handed responsibility for the counter-terrorism initiative, he uncovers evidence that one of the bombers is his wife. By degrees, the utterly unbelievable becomes plausible and, at last, undeniable. Questions such as what really happened to her become academic as love and duty are rendered incompatible. To save the lives of hundreds of innocent people, Fleming must order the destruction of the only woman he has ever loved. To make matters worse, there is evidence that she is slowly recovering her memory … The Girl From Kandahar is a love story played out on both sides of the War on Terror. Its detailed understanding of Pashtun culture and Islam is matched by a corresponding recognition of Western motives and concerns. Above all, it deals with the human side of the conflict: families split, loved ones lost, communities broken, distrust, hostility, grief. Yet its prognosis is far from bleak. In the end, it may be that no ideology is as powerful as the simple truth that our best hope lies in each other.
Book Synopsis Women as Weapons of War by : Kelly Oliver
Download or read book Women as Weapons of War written by Kelly Oliver and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women.
Download or read book The Spirit of Missions written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English by : Tom Dalzell
Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. This informative, entertaining and sometimes shocking dictionary is an unbeatable resource for all language aficionados out there.
Download or read book Guantanamo written by Jana K. Lipman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors—it has required workers. This revealing history of the women and men who worked on the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay tells the story of U.S.-Cuban relations from a new perspective, and at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people. Drawing from rich oral histories and little-explored Cuban archives, Jana K. Lipman analyzes how the Cold War and the Cuban revolution made the naval base a place devoid of law and accountability. The result is a narrative filled with danger, intrigue, and exploitation throughout the twentieth century. Opening a new window onto the history of U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean and labor history in the region, her book tells how events in Guantánamo and the base created an ominous precedent likely to inform the functioning of U.S. military bases around the world.
Book Synopsis Don't Forget Us Here by : Mansoor Adayfi
Download or read book Don't Forget Us Here written by Mansoor Adayfi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gauntánamo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gauntánamo on the eve of its 20th anniversary"--
Book Synopsis The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1009, April 29, 1899 by : Various
Download or read book The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1009, April 29, 1899 written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly forgotten to time "The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1009, April 29, 1899" is a seminal piece of women's literature. A periodical written for women, by women, it can almost be considered a precursor for the modern women's magazine or book. The text contained stories on a variety of interests for women during its time. From society to family life. While some modern readers may find the articles to be "tame" by the standards of those you can find today, "The Girl's Own Paper" walked so modern works can run.
Download or read book Night horrors written by Meiko DaButcher and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frightening stories from The Mark of everything that is scary that is the dark of night...... feel free to be scared and terrified when you read this creepypasta horror stories. Just in time for Halloween.
Book Synopsis The United States Patents Quarterly by :
Download or read book The United States Patents Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis One Woman and Four Others by : Mireya Robles
Download or read book One Woman and Four Others written by Mireya Robles and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Woman and Four Others describes, in the first person, the childhood, the adolescence and the young adulthood of a woman born in Cuba in the middle thirties, who subsequently emigrates to the United States. The first part of the novel depicts the joyous wonder of an emotionally and artistically sensitive child discovering the world that surrounds her in an accurate portrayal of a particular geography and of a well-defined epoch. Yet, the real subjects of One Woman and Four Others are the passage of time and its impact on the growth of a human being, and the sensation of transitoriness of life that impels us to cling to the memories of our past. In this sense Robles’s novel can be compared to Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu – In Search of Lost Time. The figure of the mother dominates the whole book. For Proust and for Robles the persistent presence of the mother during the entire life of the protagonists is, evidently, related to the search for lost time. Among the four women loved by the narrator of One Woman and Four Others the most important is Marisol, whose influence can be felt throughout the novel and who affects all the other love relationships of the protagonist. Anna Diegel, Translator and Literary Critic
Book Synopsis My Guantanamo Diary by : Mahvish Khan
Download or read book My Guantanamo Diary written by Mahvish Khan and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, she volunteered to translate for the prisoners. She spoke their language, understood their customs, and brought them Starbucks chai, the closest available drink to the kind of tea they would drink at home. And they quickly befriended her, offering fatherly advice as well as a uniquely personal insight into their plight, and that of their families thousands of miles away. For Mahvish Khan the experience was a validation of her Afghan heritage -- as well as her American freedoms, which allowed her to intervene at Guantanamo purely out of her sense that it was the right thing to do. Mahvish Khan's story is a challenging, brave, and essential test of who she is -- and who we are.
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Surgeon General, U.S. Navy ... by : United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Download or read book Annual Report of the Surgeon General, U.S. Navy ... written by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 2220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Guantánamo Diary by : Mahvish Rukhsana Khan
Download or read book My Guantánamo Diary written by Mahvish Rukhsana Khan and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, she volunteered to translate for the prisoners. She spoke their language, understood their customs, and brought them Starbucks chai, the closest available drink to the kind of tea they would drink at home. And they quickly befriended her, offering fatherly advice as well as a uniquely personal insight into their plight, and that of their families thousands of miles away. For Mahvish Khan the experience was a validation of her Afghan heritage - as well as her American freedoms, which allowed her to intervene at Guantanamo purely out of her sense that it was the right thing to do. Mahvish Khan's story is a challenging, brave, and essential test of who she is - and who we are.
Book Synopsis Duvalier's Ghosts by : Jana Evans Braziel
Download or read book Duvalier's Ghosts written by Jana Evans Braziel and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Urgently pursues those nameless ghosts of Haitians lost in the liminal space of the Black Atlantic."--New West Indian Guide "Foregrounds the experiences of refugees (particularly those refused asylum and detained in camps), the political mobilization of the diaspora in the United States, the ramifications of the policies and adjustment programmes imposed on Haiti by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and USAID."--Bulletin of Latin American Research "Theoretically sound and well researched. Braziel has written a compelling book on the literatures of post-Duvalier Haiti."--Millery Polyne, New York University "A very original study, a tour-de-force that crisscrosses the disciplinary boundaries typically separating the social sciences and the humanities. It is richly researched, beautifully written, and will surely attract much critical attention and praise."--Valerie Kaussen, University of Missouri From a position of urgent political engagement, this provocative book offers novel and compelling interpretations of several well-known Haitian-born authors, particularly regarding U.S. intervention in their homeland. Drawing on the diasporic cultural texts of several authors, such as Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferrière, Jana Evans Braziel examines how writers participate in transnational movements for global social justice. In their fictional works they discuss the United States’ many interventionist methods in Haiti, including surveillance, foreign aid, and military assistance. Through their work, they reveal that the majority of Haitians do not welcome these intrusions and actively criticize U.S. treatment of Haitians in both countries. Braziel encourages us to analyze the instability and violence of small nations like Haiti within the larger frame of international financial and military institutions and forms of imperialism. She forcefully argues that by reading these works as anti-imperialist, much can be learned about why Haitians and Haitian exiles often have negative perceptions of the U.S.
