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Outposts of the Forgotten

Author : Harvey Alan Siegal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351319221
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Outposts of the Forgotten written by Harvey Alan Siegal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The single-room occupancy (SRO) tenements and welfare hotels located throughout New York City, but concentrated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, provided housing for many of society's troubled, marginal members in the late 1970s, when this book was originally published. The predominant population of these buildings was old, non-white, unemployed, disabled, and in poor health. What distinguished this community, however, was not that it is was part of a ghetto or slum, but that it was composed of poor people living amidst affluence, combining elements of both the law-abiding and criminal worlds. Institutionally, the SRO tenement world described in this book is seen as a half-way area between open society and the total institution. Without the support and control available in the SROs, confinement in a total institution would be a certainty for many of the residents. This book, a participant-observer journal as well as an ethnographic study, suggests an alternative to institutionalization. As Edward Sagarin notes in his preface, Siegal does not lack compassion for the sufferings of the people, but the focus is on the descriptions of their lives. Outposts of the Forgotten documents the circumstances of some of New York's forgotten residents.

Outposts of the forgotten

Author : Harvey A. Siegal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Outposts of the forgotten written by Harvey A. Siegal and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outposts

Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141011890
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Outposts written by Simon Winchester and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: in 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from Mediterranean to the Far East, to capture a last glint of imperial glory. His adventures in these distant and forgotten ends of the earth make compelling and often funny reading and tell a story most of us had thought was over: a tale of the last outposts in Britain's imperial career and of those who keep the flag flying. With a new introduction and additional material in many of the chapters, this revised edition tells us what happened to these extraordinary places while the author's been away.

Outposts on the Frontier

Author : Jay Chladek
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149620106X
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Outposts on the Frontier written by Jay Chladek and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile adventures such as the Apollo moon landings. A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success, Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past fifty years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty. Jay Chladek documents the historical tapestry of the people, the early attempts at space station programs, and how astronauts and engineers have contributed to and shaped the ISS in surprising ways. Outposts on the Frontier delves into the intriguing stories behind the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Almaz and Salyut programs, Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Spacelab, Mir station, Spacehab, and the ISS and gives past-due attention to Vladimir Chelomei, the Russian designer whose influence in space station development is as significant as Sergei Korolev's in rocketry. Outposts on the Frontier is an informative and dynamic history of humankind's first outposts on the frontier of space.

The Forgotten Kingdom

Author : Signe Pike
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501191470
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Kingdom written by Signe Pike and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Lost Queen, hailed as “Outlander meets Camelot” (Kirsty Logan, the author of The Gloaming) and “The Mists of Avalon for a new generation” (Linnea Hartsuyker, the author of The Golden Wolf), a “rich, immersive” (Kirkus Reviews) new novel in which a forgotten queen of 6th-century Scotland claims her throne as war looms and her family is scattered to the winds. AD 573. Imprisoned in her chamber, Languoreth awaits news in torment. Her husband and son have ridden off to war against her brother, Lailoken. She doesn’t yet know that her young daughter, Angharad, who was training with Lailoken to become a Wisdom Keeper, has been lost in the chaos. As one of the bloodiest battles of early medieval Scottish history abandons its survivors to the wilds of Scotland, Lailoken and his men must flee to exile in the mountains of the Lowlands, while nine-year-old Angharad must summon all Lailoken has taught her to follow her own destiny through the mysterious, mystical land of the Picts. In the aftermath of the battle, old political alliances unravel, opening the way for the ambitious adherents of the new religion: Christianity. Lailoken is half-mad with battle sickness, and Languoreth must hide her allegiance to the Old Way to survive her marriage to the next Christian king of Strathclyde. Worst yet, the new King of the Angles is bent on expanding his kingdom at any cost. Now the exiled Lailoken, with the help of a young warrior named Artur, may be the only man who can bring the warring groups together to defeat the encroaching Angles. But to do so, he must claim the role that will forever transform him. He must become the man known to history as “Myrddin.” “Intrigue, rivalry, and magic among the mists of old Britain—The Forgotten Kingdom is an enchantment of a read” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network).

Exiled in America

Author : Christopher P. Dum
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542399
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Exiled in America written by Christopher P. Dum and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans—released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid, unsafe, and demeaning circumstances that few of us can imagine. For a year, the sociologist Christopher P. Dum lived in the Boardwalk Motel to better understand its residents and the varied paths that brought them there. He witnessed moments of violence and conflict, as well as those of care and compassion. As told through the voices and experiences of motel residents, Exiled in America paints a portrait of a vibrant community whose members forged identities in response to overwhelming stigma and created meaningful lives despite crushing economic instability. In addition to chronicling daily life at the Boardwalk, Dum follows local neighborhood efforts to shut the establishment down, leading to a wider analysis of legislative attempts to sanitize shared social space. He also suggests meaningful policy changes to address the societal failures that lead to the need for motels such as the Boardwalk. The story of the Boardwalk, and the many motels like it, will concern anyone who cares about the lives of America's most vulnerable citizens.

Living Downtown

Author : Paul Groth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520219540
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Living Downtown written by Paul Groth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.

The Outpost

Author : Jake Tapper
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316215856
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Outpost written by Jake Tapper and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis of the film starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, The Outpost is the heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan, acclaimed by critics everywhere as a classic. At 5:58 AM on October 3rd, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating, located in frighteningly vulnerable terrain in Afghanistan just 14 miles from the Pakistani border, was viciously attacked. Though the 53 Americans there prevailed against nearly 400 Taliban fighters, their casualties made it the deadliest fight of the war for the U.S. that year. Four months after the battle, a Pentagon review revealed that there was no reason for the troops at Keating to have been there in the first place. In The Outpost, Jake Tapper gives us the powerful saga of COP Keating, from its establishment to eventual destruction, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of soldiers and their families, and to a place and war that has remained profoundly distant to most Americans. A runaway bestseller, it makes a savage war real, and American courage manifest. "The Outpost is a mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice. If you want to understand how the war in Afghanistan went off the rails, you need to read this book." -- Jon Krakauer

The Forgotten Highlander

Author : Alistair Urquhart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628731508
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Highlander written by Alistair Urquhart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “Death Railway” and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese “hellship,” his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart. After five days adrift on a raft in the South China Sea, he was rescued by a Japanese whaling ship. His luck would only get worse as he was taken to Japan and forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later, he was just ten miles from ground zero when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. In late August 1945, he was freed by the American Navy—a living skeleton—and had his first wash in three and a half years. This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one, but three encounters with death, any of which should have probably killed him. Silent for over fifty years, this is Urquhart’s inspirational tale in his own words. It is as moving as any memoir and as exciting as any great war movie.

Pittsburgh’s Lost Outpost: Captain Trent’s Fort

Author : Jason A. Cherry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467141623
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Pittsburgh’s Lost Outpost: Captain Trent’s Fort written by Jason A. Cherry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As 1753 came to a close, European empires were set on a collision course for a triangular piece of land known as the Forks of the Ohio. The valuable patch of land, now known as Point State Park, is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers; the navigable waterways were valuable to the French to complete their control of the Ohio Valley as the British looked to create a center for their booming fur trade and westward expansion. Former soldier turned trader William Trent set out for the untamed wilderness to stake Britain's claim, and he would build the first fort to form the humble beginnings of Pittsburgh and to set the stage for the French and Indian War. Author Jason A. Cherry details the history of William Trent and Pittsburgh's forgotten first outpost.

Maeve Brennan

Author : Edward O’Rourke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040216897
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Maeve Brennan written by Edward O’Rourke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intricate interplay between physical spaces and psychological landscapes in the works of Irish-American author Maeve Brennan. Brennan’s writing is now classed amongst the most important of twentieth-century Irish women’s fiction, having undergone a significant reclamation and reappraisal in the 30 years since her death. Single and childfree for most of her life, Brennan eschewed the securities of family and home, experiencing an "otherness" that she shared with her fellow New Yorkers, many of them left, she wrote, hanging on to a city half-capsized––“most of them still able to laugh as they cling to the island that is their life’s predicament.” It is a suitably ambiguous expression for a writer who cultivated an interstitial existence, whose stories inhere within a dream cycle of reiterative pasts, and whose works augment and elevate the canon of radical Irish fiction.

The Rise of Darkness

Author : StoryBuddiesPlay
Publisher : StoryBuddiesPlay
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Darkness written by StoryBuddiesPlay and published by StoryBuddiesPlay. This book was released on 2024-06-08 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the war-torn realm of Asura, a young warrior named Wrath grapples with a destiny far greater than he ever imagined. Raised on tales of celestial cruelty, Wrath finds his world shattered when he uncovers a hidden library filled with forbidden knowledge. Here, amidst crumbling scrolls and forgotten texts, Wrath discovers a truth that challenges everything he thought he knew. The war against the human realm, a conflict that has consumed generations of Asura warriors, is built on a lie. As Wrath delves deeper, he unearths the chilling prophecy of the Chasm King, a monstrous entity imprisoned by a pact forged between Asuras and their celestial enemies. Vrathos, the ruthless leader who commands the Asura forces, seeks to exploit this prophecy, unleashing the Chasm King and plunging both worlds into chaos. Wrath, fueled by a newfound sense of purpose, joins forces with a band of unlikely allies – Anya, a warrior haunted by a premonition of impending doom, and Drakos, a veteran whose loyalty is shaken by the revelations. Together, they embark on a perilous quest to expose Vrathos' deception and unite the Asura warriors. Their journey takes them through treacherous caverns, forgotten outposts, and the labyrinthine depths of the hidden library. They face not only Vrathos' elite guards but also their own doubts and the ever-present threat of the Chasm King's influence. Armed with the knowledge gleaned from ancient scrolls and wielding the legendary Starfall Axe, a weapon capable of channeling celestial energy, Wrath and his companions become a beacon of hope in a world teetering on the brink of destruction. Will they be able to unite the Asura warriors and prevent the rise of the Chasm King? Or will their world succumb to the forces of darkness unleashed by Vrathos' ambition? Dive into a thrilling tale of rebellion, forbidden knowledge, and the fight for unity in a world where the lines between good and evil are blurred. Explore a richly imagined fantasy realm where warriors grapple with the burdens of the past and fight to forge a new future. This captivating story is perfect for readers who enjoy epic adventures, complex characters, and the struggle for peace in a world on the brink of war.

Great American Outpost

Author : Maya Rao
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610396472
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Great American Outpost written by Maya Rao and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. With an eye for the dark, absurd, and humorous, Rao fearlessly immersed herself in their world to chronicle this modern-day gold rush, from its heady beginnings to OPEC's price war against the US oil industry. She rode shotgun with a surfer-turned-truck driver braving toxic fumes and dangerous roads, dined with businessmen disgraced during the financial crisis, and reported on everyone in between -- including an ex-con YouTube celebrity, a trophy wife mired in scandal, and a hard-drinking British Ponzi schemer--in a social scene so rife with intrigue that one investor called the oilfield Peyton Place on steroids. As the boom receded, a culture of greed and recklessness left troubling consequences for investors and longtime residents. Empty trailers and idle oil equipment littered the fields like abandoned farmsteads, leaving the pioneers who built this unlikely civilization to reckon with their legacy. Part Barbara Ehrenreich, part Upton Sinclair, Great American Outpost is a sobering exploration of twenty-first-century America that reads like a frontier novel.

Outpost

Author : Jane G. Austin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368334379
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Outpost written by Jane G. Austin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Outposts

Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061978329
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Outposts written by Simon Winchester and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empire Outposts is Simon Winchester’s journey to find the vanishing empire, “on which the sun never sets.” In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey—from the chill of the Antarctic to the blue seas of the Caribbean, from the South of Spain and the tip of China to the utterly remote specks in the middle of gale-swept oceans—he discovered such romance and depravity, opulence and despair tht he was inspired to write what may be the last contemporary account of the British empire. Written with Winchester’s captivating style and breadth, here are conversations and anecdotes, myths and political analysis, scenery and history—a poignant and colorful record of the lingering beat of what was once the heart of the civilized world.

American Studies

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521266871
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book American Studies written by Jack Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major three-volume bibliography, including an additional supplement, of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1900 and 1988.

Outposts on the Gulf

Author : William Warren Rogers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Outposts on the Gulf written by William Warren Rogers and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 1986 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A solid history of a relatively unknown area of Florida. The rich detail of destruction by hurricanes and fires; the building of lighthouses, schools, banks, and bars; and the stories of the people who were associated with those events and facilities makes lively reading. Rogers writes with vivacity and a quick wit. His book will be welcomed not only by Florida historians interested in state and local history but also by a much wider reading public."--Journal of American History "A painstakingly researched account of the economic, social, and political history of Apalachicola and Saint George Island."--Civil War History "Traces the history of Saint George Island and Apalachicola, Florida, from the time Florida became a possession of the United States in 1821 to 1941. . . . This book represents the best in local history."--Florida Historical Quarterly "Whether detailing the life cycle of the oyster, the North's blockade of Apalachicola during the Civil War, the great fire of 1900, or the courtroom drama of the Popham trial, Rogers writes with the easy command of an expert. One seldom finds history so fascinatingly written."--Ralph T. Eubanks, University of West Florida