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Book Synopsis The Ribbon Around the Pentagon by : Linda Pershing
Download or read book The Ribbon Around the Pentagon written by Linda Pershing and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consideration of British history and identity breaking traditional chronological and regional borders to debate the major issues of the British state from its medieval foundations. 19 historians investigate questions in "the Anglo-Saxon achievement," overlordship, the incorporation of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and modern questions of imperial multinational polity in conflict with very contemporary realities of sovereignty. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The ribbon around the Pentagon by : Linda Pershing
Download or read book The ribbon around the Pentagon written by Linda Pershing and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House of War written by James Carroll and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A masterful achievement...[Carroll's] prose is elegant, his viewpoint bold." —Howard Zinn, author of The People's History of the United States "One cannot understand the impact of the Pentagon on US foreign policy. . . without reading James Carroll's House of War." —Lawrence Korb, former Undersecretary of Defence under Ronald Reagan From the National Book Award–winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast—often hidden—impact on America. This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it, and the pathologies it has spawned. James Carroll proves a controversial thesis: the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society. It is the biggest, loosest cannon in American history, and no institution has changed this country more. To argue his case, he marshals a trove of often chilling evidence. He recounts how "the Building" and its denizens achieved what Eisenhower called "a disastrous rise of misplaced power"—from the unprecedented aerial bombing of Germany and Japan during World War II to the "shock and awe" of Iraq. He charts the colossal U.S. nuclear buildup, which far outpaced that of the USSR, and has outlived it. He reveals how consistently the Building has found new enemies just as old threats—and funding—evaporate. He demonstrates how Pentagon policy brought about U.S. indifference to an epidemic of genocide during the 1990s. And he shows how the forces that attacked the Pentagon on 9/11 were set in motion exactly sixty years earlier, on September 11, 1941, when ground was broken for the house of war. Carroll draws on rich personal experience (his father was a top Pentagon official for more than twenty years) as well as exhaustive research and dozens of extensive interviews with Washington insiders. The result is a grand yet intimate work of history, unashamedly polemical and personal but unerringly factual. With a breadth and focus that no other book could muster, it explains what America has become over the past sixty years.
Download or read book Mother Jones Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Jones is an award-winning national magazine widely respected for its groundbreaking investigative reporting and coverage of sustainability and environmental issues.
Download or read book In Full Bloom written by Sharon Creeden and published by august house. This book was released on 1999 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Full Bloom is a celebration of mature women. Sharon Creeden draws on folktales to illuminate female heroism and life issues women face. Each folktale is paired with a vignette about a notable American woman.
Download or read book The Ribbon written by Marianne Philbin and published by Lark Books (NC). This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Folkloristics by : Robert A. Georges
Download or read book Folkloristics written by Robert A. Georges and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Excellent."" -- The Reader's Review ""Anybody contemplating the study and pursuit of folklore... will benefit from reading this presentation thoroughly to determine your place in this most exciting scholastic world."" -- Come-All-Ye This is the most complete and up-to-date study of folklore and folklore methodologies available. The authors describe the pervasiveness of folklore, including its uses in literature, films, television, cartoons, comic strips, advertising, and other media in a variety of cultures.
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research by : Tarja Väyrynen
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research written by Tarja Väyrynen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace. The volume argues that critical feminist thinking is necessary to analyse core peace and conflict issues and is fundamental to thinking about solutions to global problems and promoting peaceful conflict transformation. Contributions to the volume consider questions at the intersection of feminism, gender, peace, justice, and violence through interdisciplinary perspectives. The handbook engages with multiple feminisms, diverse policy concerns, and works with diverse theoretical and methodological contributions. The volume covers the gendered nature of five major themes: • Methodologies and genealogies (including theories, concepts, histories, methodologies) • Politics, power, and violence (including the ways in which violence is created, maintained, and reproduced, and the gendered dynamics of its instantiations) • Institutional and societal interventions to promote peace (including those by national, regional, and international organisations, and civil society or informal groups/bodies) • Bodies, sexualities, and health (including sexual health, biopolitics, sexual orientation) • Global inequalities (including climate change, aid, global political economy). This handbook will be of great interest to students of peace and conflict studies, security studies, feminist studies, gender studies, international relations, and politics. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Book Synopsis Assembly by : West Point Association of Graduates (Organization).
Download or read book Assembly written by West Point Association of Graduates (Organization). and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Children of the Prophet by : J.G. Stevens
Download or read book Children of the Prophet written by J.G. Stevens and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Sterling has climbed the ladder to the rank of Lt. Commander. An Assistant Secretary of State leans on him to go under-cover to trap Russians involved in a drug smuggling ring. Gary and his wife, Ingrid, move to Sedona, Arizona. Ingrid becomes a volunteer sheriff while Gary inserts himself into the drug ring. The Sterlings are almost killed by a Sedona drug lord, and Gary is injured so badly the doctor feels it is almost impossible for him to live.
Book Synopsis The Role of Place Identity in the Perception, Understanding, and Design of Built Environments by : Hernan Casakin
Download or read book The Role of Place Identity in the Perception, Understanding, and Design of Built Environments written by Hernan Casakin and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an era of globalization, where the progressive deterioration of local values is a dominating characteristic, identity is seen as a fundamental need that encompasses all aspects of human life. One of these identities relates to place and the physical en"
Book Synopsis "Say to This Mountain": by : Chad Myers
Download or read book "Say to This Mountain": written by Chad Myers and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 'Say to this Mountain' Myers is joined by a team of authors, Catholic and Protestant, committed to the work of justice and peace, the renewal of the church, and to Christian discipleship. With Myers they share in the conviction that Mark's story has transforming power only as it intersects with our own life-stories and the broader story of the times in which we live. Together, this team has designed a process for reading the Gospel of Mark in which each of the three circles of story informs the other."--
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Download or read book The Pentagon's Wars written by Mark Perry and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadership The Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of the deep and divisive debates between America's civilian leaders and its military officers. Renowned military expert Mark Perry investigates these internal wars and sheds new light on the US military-the most powerful and influential lobby in Washington. He reveals explosive stories, from the secret history of Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy to how the military plotted to undermine Barack Obama's strategy in Afghanistan, to show how internal strife and deep civilian-military animus shapes America's policy abroad, often to the nation's detriment. Drawing on three decades of high-profile interviews, both on and off the record, Perry yields sobering judgments on the tenures of our nation's most important military leaders. The Pentagon's Wars is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the inner workings of the making of America's foreign policy.
Download or read book Sew to Speak written by Linda Pershing and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1984 she has devoted much of her time to exploring fabric art, a medium that is frequently devalued because of the historical association of textiles with women's domestic labor. But for Milne something special happens when she is working with cloth. The tactile, sensual, and aesthetic qualities of fabrics generate her creative energy and stimulate her to incorporate themes of social protest into her craft. Many of her pieces offer potent messages.
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Book Synopsis Inside the Five-Sided Box by : Ash Carter
Download or read book Inside the Five-Sided Box written by Ash Carter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D. employs millions of Americans. It owns and operates more real estate, and spends more money, than any other entity. It manages the world’s largest and most complex information network and performs more R&D than Apple, Google, and Microsoft combined. Most important, the policies it carries out, in war and peace, impact the security and freedom of billions of people around the globe. Yet to most Americans, the dealings of the D.O.D. are a mystery, and the Pentagon nothing more than an opaque five-sided box that they regard with a mixture of awe and suspicion. In this new book, former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter demystifies the Pentagon and sheds light on all that happens inside one of the nation’s most iconic, and most closely guarded, buildings. Drawn from Carter’s thirty-six years of leadership experience in the D.O.D., this is the essential book for understanding the challenge of defending America in a dangerous world—and imparting a trove of incisive lessons that can guide leaders in any complex organization. In these times of great disruption and danger, the need for Ash Carter’s authoritative and pragmatic account is more urgent than ever.
