It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country

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Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541762649
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Book Synopsis It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country by : David Shulkin

Download or read book It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country written by David Shulkin and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former VA secretary describes his fight to save veteran health care from partisan politics and how his efforts were ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials appointed by the Trump White House. Known in health care circles for his ability to turn around ailing hospitals, Dr. David Shulkin was originally brought into government by President Obama to save the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs. When President Trump appointed him as secretary of the VA, Shulkin was as shocked as anyone. Yet this surprise was trivial compared to what Shulkin encountered as secretary: a team of political appointees devoted to stopping anyone -- including the secretary himself -- who stood in the way of privatizing the agency and implementing their political agenda. In this uninhibited memoir, Shulkin opens up about why the government has long struggled to provide good medical care to military veterans and the plan he had to solve these problems. This is a book about the commitment we make to the men and women who risk their lives fighting for our country, how the VA was finally beginning to live up to it, and why the new administration may now be taking us in the wrong direction.

My Country

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ISBN 13 : 9781925816075
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis My Country by : Ezekiel Kwaymullina

Download or read book My Country written by Ezekiel Kwaymullina and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author and internationally renowned painter Sally Morgan teams up with Ezekiel Kwaymullina for a picture book celebrating country.

Home Is Not a Country

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Publisher : Make Me a World
ISBN 13 : 0593177088
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis Home Is Not a Country by : Safia Elhillo

Download or read book Home Is Not a Country written by Safia Elhillo and published by Make Me a World. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “Nothing short of magic.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X From the acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa’s “30 Under 30” list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an unexpected journey to face the ephemeral girl she might have been. Woven through with moments of lyrical beauty, this is a tender meditation on family, belonging, and home. my mother meant to name me for her favorite flower its sweetness garlands made for pretty girls i imagine her yasmeen bright & alive & i ache to have been born her instead Nima wishes she were someone else. She doesn’t feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land. She doesn’t feel accepted in her suburban town; yet somehow, she isn't different enough to belong elsewhere. Her best friend, Haitham, is the only person with whom she can truly be herself. Until she can't, and suddenly her only refuge is gone. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen—the name her parents meant to give her at birth—Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might be more real than Nima knows. And the life Nima wishes were someone else's. . . is one she will need to fight for with a fierceness she never knew she possessed.

Dude, Where's My Country?

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141938390
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis Dude, Where's My Country? by : Michael Moore

Download or read book Dude, Where's My Country? written by Michael Moore and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's the man everyone's talking about. He's taken on gun freaks, stupid white men and corporate crooks. Now Michael Moore is on a new mission: to get us of our behinds and kicking out the corrupt political elites who rule our lives.

Go Back to Your Country

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ISBN 13 : 9780578780023
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Go Back to Your Country by : Issa Musharbash

Download or read book Go Back to Your Country written by Issa Musharbash and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting tale of the American Dream manifested in the life of a young immigrant boy and his heart-rending story of hope and resilience in the face of hatred and adversity.

Immigrants

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165912
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Immigrants by : Philippe Legrain

Download or read book Immigrants written by Philippe Legrain and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the death toll in the past decade now exceeds 9/11's, Philippe Legrain has written the first book about immigration that looks beyond the headlines. Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in the United States, Europe, and Australia? Can we keep them out? Should we even be trying? Combining compelling firsthand reporting from around the world, incisive socioeconomic analysis, and a broad understanding of what's at stake politically and culturally, Immigrants is a passionate but lucid book. In our open world, more people will inevitably move across borders, Legrain says--and we should generally welcome them. They do the jobs we can't or won't do--and their diversity enriches us all. Left and Right, free marketeers and campaigners for global justice, enlightened patriots--all should rally behind the cause of freer migration, because They need Us and We need Them.

How to Betray Your Country

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Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1913394522
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Betray Your Country by : James Wolff

Download or read book How to Betray Your Country written by James Wolff and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PW STARRED REVIEW: “Brilliant sequel to 2018’s Beside the Syrian Sea. James Wolff skillfully portrays an espionage agent on the verge of losing himself to his demons. This is spy fiction like no other.” Publishers Weekly ------- April thriller of the Month: "Wolff’s examination of the crises of conscience caused by spying, however, make this a distinctly more thought-provoking novel than is customary in the genre. Turkish delight.” The Times------ Disgraced British spy August Drummond is on his way to Istanbul when he sees a passenger throw away directions to a cemetery just moments before being arrested. August can’t resist the temptation to go in his place. But when he comes face to face with a terrifying figure from Islamic State, he realizes he’s about to confront the greatest challenge of his career...

Your Country, My Country

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190269405
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis Your Country, My Country by : Robert Bothwell

Download or read book Your Country, My Country written by Robert Bothwell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and unparalleled failure, a country of heights and abysses. The straitlaced country in the north could hardly have much to tell about its powerhouse of a neighbor to the south, eh? Not so, according to historian Robert Bothwell. In this witty and accessible book, Bothwell argues that the shared history of the United States and Canada reveals more about each country than most would suspect. Your Country, My Country takes readers back to the seventeenth century, when a shared British colonial heritage set the two lands on paths that would remain intertwined to the present day. Tracing Canadian-American relations, shared values, and differences through the centuries, Bothwell suggests that Americans are neither unique nor exceptional, in terms of both their good characteristics and their bad ones. He brings this contention down to the present day by examining Canadian and American differences over such questions as universal health care in domestic policy and the Iraq war in foreign policy. What happens in Canada often reflects what has happened in the United States, but by the same token, what happens in Canada signals what could happen in its American neighbor. From whatever direction, this innovative volume contends, Canada's story illuminates America's-and vice-versa.

For God and My Country

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532682522
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis For God and My Country by : J. J. Carney

Download or read book For God and My Country written by J. J. Carney and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devout Catholic politician assassinated by a capricious dictator. A Cardinal standing up for his people in the face of political repression. A priest leading his nation’s constitutional revision. The “Mother Teresa of Uganda” transforming the lives of thousands of abandoned children. Two missionaries who founded the best community radio station in Africa. A peace activist who has amplified the voices of grassroots women in the midst of a brutal civil war. Such are the powerful stories in For God and My Country, a book that explores how seven inspiring leaders in Uganda’s largest religious community have shaped the social and political life of their country. Drawing on extensive oral research, J. J. Carney analyzes how personal faith, theological vision, and Catholic social teaching have propelled these leaders to embody Vatican II’s call for the Church to be a sign of communion and unity in the world. Readers will gain rich insight into Uganda’s postcolonial politics and the history of one of Africa’s most important Catholic communities. Each chapter closes with leadership lessons and reflection questions, making this an ideal text for classroom and parish adoption.

How to Build Your Own Country

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Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554533104
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Build Your Own Country by : Valerie Wyatt

Download or read book How to Build Your Own Country written by Valerie Wyatt and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches readers the basics of building a nation and highlights events that have shaped countries throughout history.

You Can Help Your Country

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Publisher : UCL Institute of Education Press (University College London Institute of Education Press)
ISBN 13 : 9780854738892
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)

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Book Synopsis You Can Help Your Country by : Berry Mayall

Download or read book You Can Help Your Country written by Berry Mayall and published by UCL Institute of Education Press (University College London Institute of Education Press). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing in the harvest. Rescuing survivors from the wreckage of bombed houses. Raising money for Spitfires and warships. Keeping the family business running when parents were enlisted into war-work. These are just a few examples of how children and young people made substantial contributions to the war effort during the Second World War. --

Your Country, My Country

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195448804
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (954 download)

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Book Synopsis Your Country, My Country by : Robert Bothwell

Download or read book Your Country, My Country written by Robert Bothwell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book might almost be entitled Canadians in the Attic. Canada is the United States' forgotten twin, the country that resembles the United States more than any other, and that shares a history with America that goes back to the seventeenth century, and that includes the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the anti-slavery movement, to name only a few. Canada is in a way a measure of, a barometer of, American exceptionalism. What happens in Canada is often a reflection of what has happened in the United States, but by the same token, what happens in Canada is often a sign of what could happen in its American neighbor. While the two countries have distinct political systems, and particular histories, ideologically they are closer together than standard Canadian histories suggest. (Canadians are left out of standard American histories.) Arguably, Canada is the part of North America where the New Deal came to fruition in the 1960s, when it was frustrated in the United States. But no American political idea fails to penetrate Canada, and in the 2000s many Canadians, including the current Canadian government, seek to imitate or replicate the hard-right turn in American politics. From whatever direction, the Canadian experience illuminates American experience-- and vice-versa"--

Where Is My Country?

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Publisher : LernerClassroom
ISBN 13 : 082251981X
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis Where Is My Country? by : Robin Nelson

Download or read book Where Is My Country? written by Robin Nelson and published by LernerClassroom. This book was released on 2002 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple introduction to the idea of countries and geography.

Your Country, Our War

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190879424
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Your Country, Our War by : Katherine A. Brown

Download or read book Your Country, Our War written by Katherine A. Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalists are actors in international relations, mediating communications between governments and publics, but also between the administrations of different countries. American and foreign officials simultaneously consume the work of U.S. journalists and use it in their own thinking about how to conduct their work. As such, journalists play an unofficial diplomatic role. However, the U.S. news media largely amplifies American power. Instead of stimulating greater understanding, the U.S. elite, mainstream press can often widen mistrust as they promote an American worldview and, with the exception of some outliers, reduce the world into a tight security frame in which the U.S. is the hegemon. This has been the case in Afghanistan since 2001, particularly as emerging Afghan journalists have relied significantly on U.S. and other Western news outlets to report events within their government and their country. Based on eight years of interviews in Kabul, Washington, and New York, Your Country, Our War demonstrates how news has intersected with international politics during the War in Afghanistan and shows the global power and reach of the U.S. news media, especially within the context of the post-9/11 era. It reviews the trajectory of the U.S. news narrative about Afghanistan and America's never-ending war, and the rise of Afghan journalism, from 2001 to 2017. The book also examines the impact of the American news media inside a war theater. It examines how U.S. journalists affected the U.S.-Afghan relationship and chronicles their contribution to the rapid development of a community of Afghan journalists who grappled daily with how to define themselves and their country during a tumultuous and uneven transition from fundamentalist to democratic rule. Providing rich detail about the U.S.-Afghan relationship, especially former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai's convictions about the role of the Western press, we begin to understand how journalists are not merely observers to a story; they are participants in it.

"Catch if you can your country’s moment"

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443810584
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis "Catch if you can your country’s moment" by : William S. Waddell

Download or read book "Catch if you can your country’s moment" written by William S. Waddell and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight essays in this collection explore the work of Adrienne Rich, one of America’s most significant living writers and a poet and a public intellectual with a substantial audience both inside and outside the academy. Taken together, the essays argue for a shift in the perceived center of gravity of Rich’s career, from the passionate and eloquent poems of a largely personal feminist awakening, from the mid 60s to the early 80s, to the equally (if differently) passionate and eloquent poems of a more broadly public re-imagination of our country and its history, beginning with her work of the mid 1980s. Rich has remained committed to the reconstruction of poetry’s place in public as well as private life, nationally and globally. From varied perspectives, accessible to the common reader as well as the specialist, the collection addresses Rich’s negotiation of the boundary between these public and private spheres and the potential of poetry as a revolutionary medium and alternate epistemology, a means, as the title expresses it, of recovery and regeneration. Rich has aimed always, as the last lines of her poem “Planetarium” (1968) have it, at “the relief of the body / and the reconstruction of the mind,” and this collection works to describe her effort to extend the reach of that healing motive across a continent and a culture. "In these eight keenly executed essays edited by William Waddell, we see Rich finally removing those “asbestos gloves” once used to handle sizzling political topics. Critics in this volume show Adrienne Rich struggling barehanded with changing poetic strategies, complex new subject positions and the relations of power and cultural practice in the constitution of history. Transformative cartographer of words and perceptions, Rich, as Waddell argues, outlines “a method for redefining American space,” remapping North American culture for the marginalized, the repressed and the resistant. Waddell’s collection celebrates the polyphony of politics and aesthetics in Rich’s work, shaping for the reader an ethical discourse intensively visible, for the first time, in volumes such as An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991, but equally present throughout Rich’s prose and poetry." Mary Lynn Broe, Caroline Werner Gannett Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology

Your Country Needs You : The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster

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Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 1908643110
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Your Country Needs You : The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster by : James Taylor

Download or read book Your Country Needs You : The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster written by James Taylor and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic image by Alfred Leete of Lord Kitchener with outstretched hand and finger, exhorting you to ‘do your bit’, is a design classic and has been repeatedly imitated worldwide. In the run-up to the World War I anniversary, Your Country Needs YOU celebrates the magnificent artwork of Leete and his fellow designers, and explores their legacy. Featuring colour reproductions of propaganda posters and drawing on fresh analysis of the archives, this book challenges received historical wisdom about these hugely popular and enduring images, and reveals a surprising new history that is no less than groundbreaking.

Mapping Skills with Google Earth: Map Your Country

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Publisher : Classroom Complete Press
ISBN 13 : 1771673435
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Book Synopsis Mapping Skills with Google Earth: Map Your Country by : Paul Bramley

Download or read book Mapping Skills with Google Earth: Map Your Country written by Paul Bramley and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **This is the chapter slice "Map Your Country" from the full lesson plan "Mapping Skills with Google Earth"** Move on from a basic understanding of map reading to a more complex one with our engaging resource designed for students in grades six to eight. Students will further develop their ability to read and understand maps by looking at weather and population maps. Then, students will engage in mapping their country in detail, including states, provinces, capitals, cultural and geographical features. Finally, students will move on to mapping their continent and then the world. Comprised of reading passages, map activities, crossword, word search and comprehension quiz, our resource incorporates curriculum-based lessons with Google Earth™ so students can further understand the complexities of map reading with the help of visual and interactive technology. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.