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Download or read book Bombs Over Baghdad written by Ron Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Iraq by : Beth K. Dougherty
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Iraq written by Beth K. Dougherty and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Iraq, Second Edition covers the history of Iraq through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Iraq.
Book Synopsis Dawn Over Baghdad : How The Us, Military Is Using Ballots To Remake Iraq by : Karl Zinsmeister
Download or read book Dawn Over Baghdad : How The Us, Military Is Using Ballots To Remake Iraq written by Karl Zinsmeister and published by Manas Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the guerilla struggle in Iraq. This title is built on weeks spent with US soldier in the most dangerous parts of the Sunni triangle in early 2004, and direct polling of Iraqis.
Book Synopsis I Lost My Love in Baghdad by : Michael Hastings
Download or read book I Lost My Love in Baghdad written by Michael Hastings and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-anticipated book by first time author Michael Hastings which was sold by the Wylie agency in a very high-profile deal to Scribner in the USA. MUP is proud to have acquired the ANZ rights to I Lost My Love in Baghdad. In January 2007, Andi Parhamovich was killed in Baghdad. She was a 28-year-old American aid worker whose car had been ambushed in one of Baghdad's worst neighbourhoods. Andi was also engaged to the author, Newsweek's Iraqi correspondent Michael Hastings. Hastings charts the ups and downs of their relationship, a modern love story played out against the ultra-violent backdrop of Iraq. From the day they met in New York to her tragic killing, it is a story that tries to answer questions about our involvement in the war in Iraq. This is Michael Hastings' scathing, savage picture of a hopeless war gone horribly wrong.
Book Synopsis Black Butterflies Over Baghdad by : David Allen Sullivan
Download or read book Black Butterflies Over Baghdad written by David Allen Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by Tim Seibles for The Hilary Tham Capital Collection. Brian Turner says Sullivan "listens across cultures and across languages in order to undo the erasures of time and power," calling this "a book of compassion and deep humanity." Poems spring from inspirations as various as paintings by Iraqi painters, the voices of Iraqi poets, co-translation projects with poets living there or in exile, and daily life in Iraq itself. Co-translations comprise one section of the collection and give a priceless cross-section of Iraqi poets today. Says Seibles: "David Allen Sullivan gives us an intimate tour of war-torn Iraq, an intricate look at the minds of people for whom military violence had become a defining part of daily life. Because these figures speak with such authority and desperation, reading this collection disrupts and deepens the way we, who have not lived with war, perceive its terrible damage. The poems are at times poignantly lyrical and in other moments darkly magical--as if the reader has somehow entered the poet's more than real dreamscape. I don't know if art can save us from self-annihilation, but to echo Muriel Rukeyser slightly: David Allen Sullivan's poetry is the kind of thing that might help us back away from the brink." Lola Haskins adds: "Sullivan's book left me in a state of shock and awe: shocked by the terrible sufferings of the Iraqi people, and awed by the high and heart-breaking grace of the survivors who present them. For me, the most resonant word in the poems is 'blood,' not because it's so often used, but because of its double meanings: the literal--the substance in all our veins that's essential to life, and the figurative--'family,' which is the heart the whole collection wears on its metaphoric sleeve: that we are all, wherever we come from, family." Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies.
Download or read book Shelterball written by D.G. Mago and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante Grabina was the latest great point guard coming out of New York City and the world seemingly was at his feet. Not unlike many before him, his dream was soon transformed when he saw nothing but dollar signs; he declined to go to college and instead chose to go straight to the NBA. Nicknamed Blur, he was physically and mentally unprepared for the NBA, and as a result, he did not last. When he tries to cash in on some easy money with an old friend from the neighborhood, he is arrested and spends five long years in jail. Shelterball picks up years later when, unhappy with his tedious life, Blur attempts to turn it around. At the age of 35, he applies and is accepted to college. While he is there, he pushes himself to be a better student and citizen. Focusing on educating himself and gaining a broader worldview, he is approached by the basketball coach who remembers him from years ago and convinces him to come try out for the team. With basketball back in his life, he gradually transforms from the selfish boy of his youth to the selfless, empathetic man that he always saw and admired in his father. Moreover, once his championship pedigree on the court transitions to the real world, he begins a journey where loyalty, honor, friendship, and a man’s word become more valuable than money or fame. Shelterball is about Blur's struggle with his family, his friends, a woman that he becomes involved with who is in an abusive relationship, and most importantly himself.
Download or read book Bombing Civilians written by Yuki Tanaka and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians? From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent policies in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing Civilians analyzes in detail the history of indiscriminate bombing, examining the fundamental questions of how this theory justifying mass killing originated and why it was employed as a compelling military strategy for decades, both before and since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Book Synopsis Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad by : Bee Rowlatt
Download or read book Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad written by Bee Rowlatt and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A London mum and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they're the firmest of friends . . . Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit is a touching and poignant portrait of an unlikely friendship. Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry? May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets before breakfast, bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars and battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. Bee, on the other hand, is a London mum of three, busy fighting off PTA meetings and chicken pox, dealing with dead cats and generally juggling work and family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house. They should have nothing in common. But when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion and age. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad is the story of two women who share laughter and tears, and swap their confidences, dreams and fears. And, between the grenades, the gossip, the jokes and the secrets, they also hatch an ingenious plan to help May escape the bombings of Baghdad . . . Bee Rowlatt is a former show-girl turned BBC World Service journalist. A mother of three and would-be do-gooder, she can find keeping her career going while caring for her three daughters (and husband) pretty tough, even in leafy North London. May Witwit is an Iraqi expert in Chaucer and sender of emails depicting kittens in fancy dress. She is prepared to face every hazard imaginable to make that all-important hairdresser's appointment.
Download or read book Hey Ya! written by Chris Nickson and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1994 OutKast have been reinventing the rules of hip-hop, blending different styles of music into a Southern style that is wholly their own, soulful, outrageous, and addictive. They've captured the hearts of fans and music critics alike, and have achieved records and scaled heights in the music world that most artists can only dream of. The full story of OutKast has never before been told. Now in Hey Ya! you'll go behind the scenes into the world of Big Boi and Andre 3000, from their start as teenage hopefuls in Atlanta to their international rise to fame. Along the way you'll learn about the creative forces that have kept them on the cutting edge of hip-hop for a decade, and keep them pushing forward into tomorrow. From their first breakthrough with "Player's Ball" to their six Grammy wins, their upcoming movie and more, Hey Ya! Is the ultimate look at two of the most creative forces in music today and is the definitive guide to everything OutKast!
Download or read book Spy written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart. Funny. Fearless."It's pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York's cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all. There's no magazine I know of that's so continually referenced, held up as a benchmark, and whose demise is so lamented" --Dave Eggers. "It's a piece of garbage" --Donald Trump.
Book Synopsis Aftermath: The Remnants of War by : Donovan Webster
Download or read book Aftermath: The Remnants of War written by Donovan Webster and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-05-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of memory and enduring terror: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the undetonated bombs and mines of World War I that are now rising up in fields, gardens, and backyards; in a sixty-square-mile area outside Stalingrad that was a cauldron of destruction in 1941 and is today an endless field of bones; in the Nevada deserts, where America waged a hidden nuclear war against itself in the 1950's, the results of which are only now becoming apparent; in Vietnam, where a nation's effort to remove the physical detritus of war has created psychological and genetic devastation; in Kuwait, where terrifyingly sophisticated warfare was followed by the Sisyphean task of making an uninhabitable desert capable of sustaining life. Aftermath excavates our century's darkest history, revealing that the destruction of the past remains deeply, inextricably embedded in the present.
Book Synopsis The Book of Collateral Damage by : Sinan Antoon
Download or read book The Book of Collateral Damage written by Sinan Antoon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood’s project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland’s past and its present—destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes—in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.
Book Synopsis Off Target by : Jill Ammon Vanderwood
Download or read book Off Target written by Jill Ammon Vanderwood and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if your friend showed you a gun?You are new in town and it's your first day at a new school. Your neighbor, Trevor introduces you to a group of three boys and two girls. Right away you notice that Eric, one of the guys in the group, is being bullied at school. When you go to Eric's house with your new friends, he shows the group a fully loaded handgun that is left in his mother's nightstand. You are faced with some hard choices when someone suggests that Eric should take the gun to school.___________________________________________What should you do? It's time to choose a path: If you're worried that Eric will take the gun to school-continue on page 7.If you decide to take the gun to prevent anyone from being hurt-continue on page 9.If you leave the house with the others and plan to come back for target practice the next day-continue on page 10.____________________________________________Off Target is the first book in The Path You Choose series. You, the reader determine the outcome by the choices you make. Once you read one story, go back and choose a different story. There are thirteen possible endings in this book.What path will you choose
Book Synopsis Two Minutes Over Baghdad by : Uri Bar-Joseph
Download or read book Two Minutes Over Baghdad written by Uri Bar-Joseph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the way Israel dealt with the Iraqi nuclear buildup between its launch in 1974 and the destruction of the Tamuz I reactor on 7 June 1981. This updated account includes formerly classified information and photographs taken during the mission and from US spy satellites.
Book Synopsis Gulf War Air Power Survey: Operations and effects and effectiveness by :
Download or read book Gulf War Air Power Survey: Operations and effects and effectiveness written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution by : Dick Weissman
Download or read book Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution written by Dick Weissman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the relationship between American music and politics from music expert Weissman. Unprecedented in its approach, the book offers a multidisciplinary discussion that illuminates how social events impact music as well as how music impacts social events.
Book Synopsis The Blue Wore Through by : John Patton O'Dell
Download or read book The Blue Wore Through written by John Patton O'Dell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains the fi rst fi ve books completed by John Patton ODell. They appear in the order they were written. The fi rst four books are volumes of poetry, ranging from epic to lyric. The poetry is emotional, spiritual, and at times religious. The fi rst and fourth books do not contain long poems, nearly half the poems in the fourth book were written as song lyrics. The fi fth book is a collection of short stories which house elements of drama, fantasy, suspense, and the supernatural. A touch of humor, also a focus on nature, can be found throughout the books.