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National Security Cinema - Government Control in Hollywood by Matthew Alford & Tom Secker
epub |eng | 2017-06-26 | Author:Matthew Alford & Tom Secker

United 93 Paul Greengrass’s United 93 was generally received as a neutral piece of work with emphasis placed on its avoidance of a sensationalist style, through the use of unknown ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 5,2018 )
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen & Jeffrey B. Perry
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Theodore W. Allen & Jeffrey B. Perry [Allen, Theodore W. & Perry, Jeffrey B.]

13 The Invention of the White Race – and the Ordeal of America What Virginia’s laboring-class people, free and bond, were fighting for in Bacon’s Rebellion was not the overthrow ...
( Category: Americas August 5,2018 )
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism by Staughton Lynd
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Staughton Lynd [Lynd, Staughton]

II Quakerism provided American abolitionists not only with Elizabeth Heyrick’s program of “immediate emancipation,” but with a systematic discussion of civil disobedience in the works of Jonathan Dymond. Dymond was ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 5,2018 )
Thirsty Dragon by Suzanne Mustacich
epub |eng | | Author:Suzanne Mustacich

8 Shifting Winds The turbulence on the Place de Bordeaux created risk—and opportunity. Jean-Pierre Rousseau considered whether this might be the time to grasp the cash offer sitting before him. ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 5,2018 )
How the Other Half Banks by Baradaran Mehrsa
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Baradaran, Mehrsa

REVIVAL OF BANKS WITH A SOUL? Despite ShoreBank’s politicized failure, the bank had already created a modern banking movement. In 1992, Bill Clinton made a campaign promise that he would ...
( Category: Americas August 5,2018 )
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Reece Jones

The enclosure of the ocean At the turn of the twentieth century, the oceans were one of the last bastions of free movement and unclaimed resources on earth. Through the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 5,2018 )
The Journey to Tahrir by Jeannie Sowers
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Jeannie Sowers

CHAPTER 15 The Gama‘a Islamiyya: From Impasse to Opportunity Ewan Stein In the early 1990s, the security forces of Egypt were embroiled in a low-grade civil war with the Gama‘a ...
( Category: Middle East August 5,2018 )
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello Di Cintio
epub |eng | 2012-08-16 | Author:Marcello Di Cintio

It rained hard in the morning, but the sky cleared and the aroma of orange blossoms hung like honey from the trees on Ledra Street. They seemed to have bloomed ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 4,2018 )
Dinner in Camelot by Joseph A. Esposito
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph A. Esposito

Seated on either side of Pauling were the wives of men prominent in different fields. On his right was Mary Waterman, whose husband was director of the National Science Foundation, ...
( Category: Americas August 4,2018 )
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-06 | Author:Michael Axworthy

The Islands of Madness In the second part of February 1984 the Iranians launched their biggest offensive so far, in three phases – Operations Fajr-5 and -6, and Khaibar. All ...
( Category: Middle East August 4,2018 )
Harvey Milk by Lillian Faderman
epub |eng | 2018-08-03 | Author:Lillian Faderman

10 Supervisor Milk HARVEY ALWAYS FELT wounded by his older brother’s long-standing opinion of him as a lightweight who never grew out of being a showoff. It was not just ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 4,2018 )
Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change by Frank Sejersen
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Sejersen [Frank Sejersen]

Even though Feenberg finds a footing in such a deterministic stand, based on substantive theory, he does not write off human agency, choice or the will to transform the goal-horizon ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 3,2018 )
Brexit and Ireland by Tony Connelly
epub |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:Tony Connelly

11. The Great Disruption Natural gas rises from beneath the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic and is piped westwards through the Continental expanse. It also comes up from North ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 3,2018 )
Summits by David Reynolds
epub |eng | | Author:David Reynolds

IT IS UNLIKELY that Nixon knew about Watergate before the arrests. But thereafter he participated actively and illegally in the cover-up—suppressing evidence, funneling hush money to the accused and using ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 3,2018 )
The Strategist by Bartholomew Sparrow
epub |eng | | Author:Bartholomew Sparrow [Sparrow, Bartholomew]

22 ONE GERMANY IN EARLY 1989, it would have been hard to find a single prominent journalist or political leader who favored the creation of a single, united Germany. “Neither ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 3,2018 )

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