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Policing Ireland’S Twisted History

Author : Inspector Alan M Wilson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462064698
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Policing Ireland’S Twisted History written by Inspector Alan M Wilson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland has long been a country of conflict. More than 400 years ago, the occupying English planted pre-Celtic Scots in the northern province of Ulster and divested the native Irish Celts of the land their ancestors owned for 2,000 years. This created a deep-seated enmity between the English and Irish, Protestant and Catholicand it finally exploded in the Troubles. Author Alan M. Wilson was on the front lines for the bloodbath that tore Northern Ireland apart from the late 1960s through the first years of the twenty-first century. Policing Irelands Twisted History reveals Wilsons remarkable, true story of growing up in Belfast and serving in the Royal Ulster Constabulary as an inspector and as a member of an elite anti-terrorism unit. Wilsons only goal was to help protect the innocent on both sides. Unfortunately, he became a target himself. Brutally honest and unflinching, Wilson traces his experiences serving Irelands divided society for nearly ten years. From watching friends die to the tit-for-tat murders occurring on the streets to staring death in the eye more than once, Wilson reveals the deep, gut-wrenching search for the meaning of it all in the midst of the worlds longest-running terrorist situation. A firsthand look at the Northern Ireland conflict, Policing Irelands Twisted History offers an eye-opening, intimate examination of this devastating struggle.

Amid the Twisted History

Author : Keisha M. Alexander
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Amid the Twisted History written by Keisha M. Alexander and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young girl, the author once asked her mother where in Africa their family was from, but the reply totally contradicted everything that she was learning in school. It has taken decades for the author to finally be able to say with confidence that she is who her mother said she is. In searching for the truth of her ancestry within the history of America and the world, one woman uncovers astonishing information. Amid the Twisted History: An American Negro Story lays out her research, revealing the whitewashing of history that systematically made the black-and-brown-skin people vanish from our recorded past. We all are part of the human race. Skin color does not change that. Go on this fascinating journey with the author and understand that reading and researching for yourself is the only way to find the truth. About the Author Keisha M. Alexander is the mother of five children and has seven grandchildren. She and her husband have been married for twenty-eight years. She is a self-educated lover of history and scripture. That love is what has facilitated the writing of this book.

A Twisted History: Genesis and the Cosmos

Author : Charles N. Pope
Publisher : DomainOfMan.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Twisted History: Genesis and the Cosmos written by Charles N. Pope and published by DomainOfMan.com. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January of 2016, Mike Brown, the discoverer of Sedna and other dwarf planets beyond Neptune and Pluto, made the stunning announcement that at least one full size planet (dubbed “Planet 9”) is still waiting to be detected in our outer solar system. Astronomers and Astrophysicists have embarked upon an intensive five-year program to scour the heavens in search of this missing corner piece to the solar system puzzle. In honor of that non-trivial pursuit, “A Twisted History: Genesis and the Cosmos” has been freshly edited and greatly expanded. It is not only a trusty bird dog to the epic scavenger hunt that is “Mission Planet 9,” but your companion in exploring the mysteries of the larger Milky Way Galaxy as well. The central figure of the Book of Genesis is not a mighty hunter (of men or beasts), but a mild-mannered cultivator of human relations and the celestial arts. It is not Nimrod, but Abraham who is reckoned as deserving of twelve entire chapters (Genesis 12 -23) and portions of two others (Genesis 24-25). He is curiously commanded to look toward the heavens and hunt for stars. In extra-Biblical tradition, Abraham is more specifically identified as the leading astronomer of his Age. With this in mind, an interpretation of the Torah from the perspective of Cosmology takes on renewed focus and significance, and especially in light of recent events. In the Book of Genesis, stargazer Abraham has a Nemesis named Abimelech. Adam is cursed with the company of an older, wiser and higher Serpent. Even more tellingly, Jacob (likened by his son Joseph to the Sun) wrestles with his slightly older, reddish and surly twin (Dwarf Sun) brother Esau. Twins are quite prominent and considered special in the Bible and Myth. Astrophysicists have also recently determined that multiple star systems predominate in our galactic neighborhood, and a number of young, developing star systems of this type are now being studied in detail. What we have not suspected is that our own solar system begun as a binary. In retrospect, it perhaps should have been intuitively obvious. There is two of everything! There are two gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn. There are two nearly identical other gas planets with extensive damage, Neptune and Uranus. There are two nearly identical rocky planets, Earth and Venus. There are two heavily damaged rocky planets, Mercury and Mars. There may even be the remains of two proto-planetary disks, those being the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt. How many more clues do we really need? Mike Brown and his colleagues are looking for a planet (and maybe two), but may end up rediscovering our solar system’s missing stunted twin instead.

The Twisted History of the GOP

Author : Mike Luckovich
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1778520448
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book The Twisted History of the GOP written by Mike Luckovich and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist shreds the GOP’s record of backward policies and abysmal leaders. Luckovich takes aim at the NRA, Trump, Bush, Ted Cruz, and more. The Twisted History of the GOP is an editorial cartoon exploration into the ongoing crack-up of the Republican party. Once a proud, competent counterbalance to the Democratic party, the GOP began to change in the ’90s with the arrival of Republican representative and future House Speaker Newt Gingrich to Congress, assisted by radical radio host Rush Limbaugh and a new television network, the right-wing, propaganda-spewing Fox News. In the years that followed, they were aided by Mitch McConnell and the George W. Bush and Trump administrations, in transforming into what they are now: a fascist, racist, anti-science, pro-conspiracy cult, in thrall to the twice-impeached conman and former president, Donald Trump. These cartoons will shock and delight you, and you won’t be able to look away from Luckovich’s witty editorial wisdom. Combining a rapier wit alongside exceptional caricatures, The Twisted History of the GOP will make you laugh until you cry.

Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts

Author : Deborah B. Gewertz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521395878
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts written by Deborah B. Gewertz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington have worked as anthropologists in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. In this, their second joint study of the Chambri, they consider the way those in a small-scale society, peripheral to the major centres of influence, struggle to sustain some degree of autonomy. They describe the Chambri caught up in world processes of social and cultural change, and attempt to create a 'collective biography' which conveys the intelligibility and significance of the twentieth-century experience of these Papua New Guineans whom they have come to know well. This biography consists of interlocking stories, twisted histories, commentaries and contexts about Chambri who are negotiating their objectives while entangled in systemic change and confronting Western representations of modernization and development.

Twisted History

Author : Frank Corey Voorhies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Twisted History written by Frank Corey Voorhies and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Twisted History

Author : Howard Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770855564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Twisted History written by Howard Watson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twisted History brings to life the incredible stories of 32 historical figures -- murderers, assassins and traitors who embraced the dark side, and martyrs and innocents who paid with their lives in the pursuit of good. All changed world history. The book is lavishly illustrated with stunning illustrations and period photographs. Accessible text and fact boxes describe evil and angelic acts across the centuries, like Judas, whose name would come to define betrayal, Joan of Arc, victorious virgin soldier and patron saint of France, and René Goupil, tortured and martyred by Native Americans, who became the first American saint. Twisted History puts readers face to face with vile villains and true heroes. They include: William Wallace, the Scottish hero who was hanged, drawn and quartered by the English for high treason (c.1270-1305) Vlad the Impaler, who enjoyed torturing and impaling his victims (1431-76) Bernie Madoff (1938- ), architect of the biggest financial scam in history, a $65-billion Ponzi scheme that shattered banks, insurance companies and private investors Kazuo Taoka, boss of the most powerful and merciless Japanese yakuza gang (1913-81). Twisted History is an engaging, informative and gripping read for all teen and adult readers.

Transgressive Itineraries

Author : Marc Maufort
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9789052011783
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Transgressive Itineraries written by Marc Maufort and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fast-growing body of postcolonial drama is progressively gaining its just recognition in the twentieth-century canon of English-language plays. From the vantage point of various samplings along the Trans-Pacific axis linking English Canada, Australia and New Zealand, this monograph seeks to document the significance of this emerging postcolonial theater. More specifically, it examines the myriad ways in which, over the last two decades, representative mainstream, ethnic and First Nations playwrights have dramatized Europe's «Other» in its multiple guises. In their efforts to match new content with innovative form, these artists have followed transgressive itineraries, redrawing the boundaries of conventional Western stage realism. Their new aesthetics often relies on techniques akin to Homi Bhabha's notions of hybridity and mimicry. The present study offers detailed analyses of the modes of hybridization through which Judith Thompson, Louis Nowra, Tomson Highway, Jack Davis, Hone Kouka, and other prominent writers have articulated subtle forms of psychic, grotesque, and mythic magic realism. Their legacy will undoubtedly affect the postcolonial dramaturgies of the twenty-first century.

A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670–1918

Author : William O. McCagg
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253206497
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670–1918 written by William O. McCagg and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William McCagg has done a great service for scholarship—and for Habsburg scholarship in particular—through his book. Scholars are in his debt." —History of European Ideas " . . . strongly recommended to those interested in either Jewish or Habsburg history." —American Historical Review " . . . McCagg tells a fascinating story with expert knowledge, with the sure eye and sound judgment of the experienced historian . . . " —Midstream " . . . exceptionally fine research and the time frame of the study which make it quite remarkable and original." —German Politics & Society "William McCagg brings out the extent to which Jews were divided not only as Jews, but also as citizens of Austro-Hungary . . . McCagg writes perceptively of Kafka's predicament as a German-speaking Jew in Prague, living through the Czech nationalist revival . . . " —New York Review of Books Drawing on a wide variety of European sources, McCagg has produced the first history of this important but often forgotten community to be written since the nineteenth century.

Mapping Early Modern Japan

Author : Marcia Yonemoto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052092830X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Early Modern Japan written by Marcia Yonemoto and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias—to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more generalized, flexible, and widespread in the Tokugawa period. In the broadest sense, her book grasps the elusive processes through which people came to name, to know, and to interpret their worlds in narrative and visual forms.

Ubuntu

Author : Vuyiswa Nodada
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664116389
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Ubuntu written by Vuyiswa Nodada and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to inspire readers to be social agents of what the author calls: a “new” virtuous cycle. This book reveals in the most creative of ways, the beautiful mystery, the eternal secret of life, the missing glue for social cohesion, the great philosophy called Ubuntu. The portrait of Ubuntu painted on its pages leaves no room for this concept to be the next generation’s figment of imagination. This is done by means of poetry proven to be fluid and crafted effortlessly. Like any imperative, the discourse is urgent. To say this book is a must read would be an understatement. It leaves the reader enlightened and feeling well travelled.

Twisted History

Author : Frank C Voorhies
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022669086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Twisted History written by Frank C Voorhies and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revisionist history, Voorhies and Lawrence challenge some of the most enduring myths about American history. Drawing on a wealth of little-known archival material, the authors explore topics ranging from the Revolutionary War to the Civil Rights Movement, offering new and often startling insights into some of the most important events in the nation's past. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Cumulative Book Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

The Blue Parakeet, 2nd Edition

Author : Scot McKnight
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310538939
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Parakeet, 2nd Edition written by Scot McKnight and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings to keep them where we want them. Scot McKnight contends that many, conservatives and liberals alike, attempt the same thing with the Bible. We all try to tame it. McKnight's The Blue Parakeet calls Christians to stop taming the Bible and to let it speak anew to our heart. McKnight challenges us to rethink how to read the Bible, not just to puzzle it together into some systematic belief but to see it as a Story that we're summoned to enter and to carry forward in our day.

Kitchen Witchery

Author : Laurel Woodward
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738768049
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Kitchen Witchery written by Laurel Woodward and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2021-08-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform Your Cooking into a Magickal Act of Healing, Manifesting, and Creating Featuring a wide variety of recipes, correspondences, and techniques, this practical guide elevates the way you cook and prepare meals. Laurel Woodward shares the magick of everyday things, revealing how each task can become a ritual of creation. Organized by food type, this book teaches the magickal ins and outs of: • Wheats and Flours • Beans and Lentils • Nuts and Seeds Oils and Vinegars • Sweets • Spices and Herbs • Vegetables • Fruits Dairy and Eggs • Drinks • Gluten-Free Meals Kitchen Witchery also provides recipes for the seasons and holidays, oil and seasoning blends, and clever ways to turn your pantry items into magickal tools. From homemade hummus to herbal teas and so much more, this book nourishes your practice and shows you the bountiful magick right in your kitchen.

Playing Place

Author : Chad Randl
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262047837
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Playing Place written by Chad Randl and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essay collection exploring the board game’s relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space. Board games harness the creation of entirely new worlds. From the medieval warlord to the modern urban planner, players are permitted to inhabit a staggering variety of roles and are prompted to incorporate preexisting notions of placemaking into their decisions. To what extent do board games represent the social context of their production? How might they reinforce or subvert normative ideas of community and fulfillment? In Playing Place, Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky have curated a collection of thirty-seven fascinating essays, supplemented by a rich trove of photo illustrations, that unpack these questions with breadth and care. Although board games are often recreational objects, their mythologies and infrastructure do not exist in a vacuum—rather, they echo and reproduce prevalent cultural landscapes. This thesis forms the throughline of pieces reflecting on subjects as diverse as the rigidly gendered fantasies of classic mass-market games; the imperial convictions embedded in games that position player-protagonists as conquerors establishing dominion over their “discoveries”; and even the uncanny prescience of games that have players responding to a global pandemic. Representing a thrilling convergence of historiography, architectural history, and media studies scholarship, Playing Place suggests not only that tabletop games should be taken seriously but also that the medium itself is uniquely capable of facilitating our critical consideration of structures that are often taken for granted.

The Thomas Sowell Reader

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465028047
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Thomas Sowell Reader written by Thomas Sowell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-volume introduction to over three decades of the wide-ranging writings of one of America's most respected and cited authors These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell's letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from late-talking children to "tax cuts for the rich," baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians. These topics are dealt with by sometimes drawing on history, sometimes drawing on economics, and sometimes drawing on a sense of humor. The Thomas Sowell Reader includes essays on:* Social Issues* Economics* Political Issues* Legal Issues* Race and Ethnicity* Educational Issues* Biographical Sketches* Random Thoughts "My hope is that this large selection of my writings will reduce the likelihood that readers will misunderstand what I have said on many controversial issues over the years. Whether the reader will agree with all my conclusions is another question entirely. But disagreements can be productive, while misunderstandings seldom are." -- Thomas Sowell