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Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior by Dick Couch
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-03-06 | Author:Dick Couch [Couch, Dick]

Author’s Note: Soldiers selected for Phase II who are coming from combat support and combat service support units, like 811’s Sergeant Aaron Dunn, are now being sent to the Special ...
( Category: Military October 6,2017 )
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mike Davis

Off Worlds In contrast to Second Empire Paris, contemporary Haussmannization often reclaims the center for ungrateful upper classes whose bags are already packed for the suburbs. If the poor bitterly ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers by Frank Bardacke
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Frank Bardacke [Bardacke, Frank]

Meanwhile, back on the farm, the UFW had a mixed record. In Salinas, InterHarvest–United Brands was under orders from its CEO, Eli Black, to cooperate with the union, and had ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Tibet on Fire by Tsering Woeser
epub |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Tsering Woeser

International Media One very cold afternoon in 2013, the weather in Beijing terrible as always, I sat in a coffee shop with a French journalist from Le Monde and a ...
( Category: Death & Grief October 6,2017 )
The S Word by John Nichols
epub |eng | | Author:John Nichols

enormous crimes against the constitutional principle of free speech, in a country that prides itself on its freedom and declares itself a model for democracy all over the world. The ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Kennedy & Nixon by Chris Matthews
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Matthews

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Coup de Grâce HAVING made the leap into the gubernatorial race, Nixon realized the depths of his misjudgment. For one thing, he saw from crowd reactions just how ...
( Category: Historical October 6,2017 )
Being Arab by Samir Kassir
epub |eng | | Author:Samir Kassir

V THE ARAB MALAISE IS NOT THE RESULT OF MODERNITY BUT OF MODERNITY’S COLLAPSE IF THE NAHDA had been an isolated historical phenomenon, without sequel, one might be justified in ...
( Category: World October 6,2017 )
The New Way of the World by Pierre Dardot
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Pierre Dardot

DISCIPLINE (1): A NEW SYSTEM OF DISCIPLINES The very concept of governmentality – acting on the actions of individuals who are supposedly free to choose – makes it possible to ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy by Lori Andrews
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Lori Andrews [Andrews, Lori]

Even if we specifically designate our social network pages as private, social network sites do a particularly bad job of protecting privacy. In 2011, Joanne Kuzma of the University of ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Change We Can Believe In by Barack Obama
epub |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Barack Obama

• Reduce America’s carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050 through a market-based cap-and-trade system. • Create the Global Energy Forum—a new forum of the largest greenhouse gas emitters that will ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Capitalism in the Web of Life by Jason W. Moore
epub |eng | | Author:Jason W. Moore

Second, in Harvey’s broader theory of spatial fix, the initial flexibility of capital, and acceleration of turnover time, achieved through a “built environment” (urban spaces) favorable to capital in one ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 6,2017 )
Mapping Ideology (Mappings Series) by
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:

Ideology in Western Marxism AHT indirectly admit that they had some difficulties in fitting Gramsci into their picture – difficulties avoided in other cases because of AHT’s option to remain ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America by
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-17 | Author:

OCCUPY THE BOARD-ROOM MARK GREIF On the night that police attacked the Occupy protesters in Oakland, Tuesday, October 25, “non-lethally” fired on them and gassed them and threw stun grenades, ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
The Bullet and the Ballot Box by Aditya Adhikari
epub |eng | | Author:Aditya Adhikari

At the Mercy of the People On the night of 18 March, 2004, Ganga Bahadur Lama came to Chhailung VDC in Lamjung district as political commissar of a group of ...
( Category: Asia October 6,2017 )
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Owen Jones [Jones, Owen]

The contempt for working-class people that built up under Thatcherism had reached its terrible zenith in the Hillsborough Disaster. Today, football continues to offer clues to the dramatic change in ...
( Category: Sociology October 6,2017 )

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