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Author | : Cari Luna |
Publisher | : Tin House Books |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1935639641 |
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In the midnineties, New York’s Lower East Side contained a city within its shadows: a community of squatters who staked their claims on abandoned tenements and lived and worked within their own parameters, accountable to no one but each other. With gritty prose and vivid descriptions, Cari Luna’s debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, imagines the lives of five squatters from that time. But almost more threatening than the city lawyers and the private developers trying to evict them are the rifts within their community. Amelia, taken in by Gerrit as a teen runaway seven years earlier, is now pregnant by his best friend, Steve. Anne, married to Steve, is questioning her commitment to the squatter lifestyle. Cat, a fading legend of the downtown scene and unwitting leader of one of the squats, succumbs to heroin. The misunderstandings and assumptions, the secrets and the dissolution of the hope that originally bound these five threaten to destroy their homes as surely as the city’s battering rams. The Revolution of Every Day shows readers a life that few people, including the New Yorkers who passed the squats every day, know about or understand.
Author | : Mary Elaine Hegland |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2013-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804788855 |
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Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies "Aliabad." Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of 1978, unaware of the momentous changes that would sweep this town and this country in the months ahead. She became the only American researcher to witness the Islamic Revolution firsthand over her eighteen-month stay. Days of Revolution offers an insider's view of how regular people were drawn into, experienced, and influenced the 1979 Revolution and its aftermath. Conventional wisdom assumes Shi'a religious ideology fueled the revolutionary movement. But Hegland counters that the Revolution spread through much more pragmatic concerns: growing inequality, lack of development and employment opportunities, government corruption. Local expectations of leaders and the political process—expectations developed from their experience with traditional kinship-based factions—guided local villagers' attitudes and decision-making, and they often adopted the religious justifications for Revolution only after joining the uprising. Sharing stories of conflict and revolution alongside in-depth interviews, the book sheds new light on this critical historical moment. Returning to Aliabad decades later, Days of Revolution closes with a view of the village and revolution thirty years on. Over the course of several visits between 2003 and 2008, Mary Hegland investigates the lasting effects of the Revolution on the local political factions and in individual lives. As Iran remains front-page news, this intimate look at the country's recent history and its people has never been more timely or critical for understanding the critical interplay of local and global politics in Iran.
Author | : Blair Denholm |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2021-09-19 |
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ISBN | : |
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In Soviet Russia, the truth is a lie. In Soviet Russia, there are no murders. One defiant officer has the courage to seek the truth. Winter 1987, Moscow. On the eve of the USSR's 70th Anniversary of the 1917 Communist Revolution, Captain Viktor Voloshin of the Moscow Militsiya speeds to the scene of a grisly murder. A man's mutilated naked body hangs from a tree, a cross carved into his back. But there's something different about this crime. The victim is a black African student. With Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika giving society new freedoms, right wing extremists are emerging from the shadows. Voloshin fears the murder can only be a race-hate crime. On the eve of the Revolution Day parade, security is tight and the city is on high alert. Anonymous bomb threats linked to the lynching escalate fears Moscow is about to explode. But is this all a distraction? The authorities issue a directive. Cover up the murder and protect the reputation of the Communist regime. But Voloshin, no friend of the system, ignores the order. With the KGB and government ministries obstructing his search for justice, the Captain must also conquer his own frailties that threaten to cripple the investigation. Set in the final years of the Soviet empire, this explosive thriller is perfect for fans of Martin Cruz Smith, John Le Carre and Robert Ludlum Inspired by real events.
Author | : Frederick Wallace Pyne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780788447990 |
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"Wars don't unfold event-by-event or even battle-by-battle. They unfold day-by-day. Activities are underway simultaneously across the theater of operations, some significant and some minor, but their sum shows how the war progresses. Pyne's book [The War of the American Revolution: Day by Day] portrays that reality for the American Revolutionary War-progress in time as the participants would have experienced it."-Dave R. Palmer, Lieutenant General (USA, Ret.), author, television presenter, former superintendent of the United States Military Academy (USMA). "The War of the American Revolution: Day by Day, compiled by Frederick W. Pyne, will make a substantial contribution to the literature on the War of Independence. It will be of use to scholars, but it should find an especially receptive audience among general readers with an interest in the Revolutionary War. Readers will have a veritable encyclopedia of the war in their hands. They can consult this treasure trove of information to discover what occurred on any given day between the outbreak of the war at Lexington-Concord in April 1775 and General Washington's retirement to Mount Vernon near the end of 1783. Readers will also be able to see the ebb and flow of the war. As with no other book, readers will be aware of just how long this war must have seemed to contemporaries. Finally, readers will grasp that this was an extremely difficult war and that victory was elusive until literally the last moment."-John Ferling, professor, author of Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. Numerous illustrations, maps, a glossary, a bibliography, appendices, and an index to full names, places and subjects enhance this exceptional work.
Author | : Frederick Wallace Pyne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780788481079 |
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Author | : Zoltan Szucs |
Publisher | : Szűcs Zoltán |
Total Pages | : 743 |
Release | : 2022-04-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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List of World Days and International Action Days. List and descriptions of world days. Indicating the date, name and description of the day. "This list includes World Days and International Days of Action, ie annual, global or multi-country celebrations and awareness-raising days proclaimed by various international organizations on a current topic: eg UN Thematic Awareness Days, Trade Day Days and other one-day events. , events of international significance. "
Author | : Don Brown |
Publisher | : Roaring Brook |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2008-12-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781596432215 |
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Provides an informative look at the events that lead up to this important day in history when American heroes took a stand against an oppressive monarch in order gain the freedom they deserved in the new land they worked hard to build.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : World politics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rageh Omaar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Rageh Omaar reported from Iraq for six years prior to the conflict in 2003. He evaded the official minders to meet ordinary Iraqis, finding out how they lived under Saddam's brutal regime. Then war came, and instead of retreating he chose to stay in Baghdad, to see firsthand the country he loved crumble beneath the Allied onslaught. His shocking account of the years of siege, of the war that followed and its terrifying fallout is a heartbreaking and fascinating testament to a people enduring deprivation and destruction, told by the man who was there before, during and after.