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Author | : Christian Parenti |
Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-06-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1568586620 |
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From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.
Author | : Christian Parenti |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465009891 |
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On a typical day, you might make a call on a cell phone, withdraw money at an ATM, visit the mall, and make a purchase with a credit card. Each of these routine transactions leaves a digital trail for government agencies and businesses to access. As cutting-edge historian and journalist Christian Parenti points out, these everyday intrusions on privacy, while harmless in themselves, are part of a relentless (and clandestine) expansion of routine surveillance in American life over the last two centuries-from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice and tracking immigrants. Parenti explores the role computers are playing in creating a whole new world of seemingly benign technologies-such as credit cards, website "cookies," and electronic toll collection-that have expanded this trend in the twenty-first century. The Soft Cage offers a compelling, vitally important history lesson for every American concerned about the expansion of surveillance into our public and private lives.
Author | : Margaret Doody |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2007-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812239843 |
Download Tropic of Venice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this journey through the work of artists and the writings of travelers who have been both smitten and repelled by the influence of Venice, Margaret Doody explores ways in which this is a city profoundly unlike any other on earth—and one that simultaneously unsettles and reveals many of our most deeply rooted cultural values.
Author | : Christian Parenti |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1786633914 |
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In retelling the story of the Radical Alexander Hamilton, Parenti rewrites the history early America and global economic history writ large. For much of the twentieth century, Hamilton - sometimes seen as the bad boy of the founding fathers or portrayed as the patron saint of bankers- was out of fashion. In contrast his rival Thomas Jefferson, the patrician democrat and slave owner who feared government overreach, was claimed by all. But more recently, Hamilton has become a subject of serious interest again. He was a contradictory mix: a tough soldier, austere workaholic, exacting bureaucrat, yet also a sexual libertine, and a glory-obsessed romantic with suicidal tendencies. As Parenti argues, we have yet to fully appreciate Hamilton as the primary architect of American capitalism and the developmental state. In exploring his life and work, Parenti rediscovers this gadfly as a path breaking political thinker and institution builder. In this vivid historical portrait, Hamilton emerges as a singularly important historical figure: a thinker and politico who laid the foundation for America's ascent to global supremacy - for better or worse.
Author | : Thomas Sanchez |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1400042321 |
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A string of murders being committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin on the exotic island city of Key West pits a crusading environmental shock-jock and a homicide detective against a maelstrom of unscrupulous developers, scammers and everyday citizens. 25,000 first printing.
Author | : Henry Miller |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2013-02-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781482568967 |
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A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris.
Author | : Linda Robinson |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2009-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786738154 |
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Special Forces soldiers are daring, seasoned troops from America's heartland, selected in a tough competition and trained in an extraordinary range of skills. They know foreign languages and cultures and unconventional warfare better than any U.S. fighters, and while they prefer to stay out of the limelight, veteran war correspondent Linda Robinson gained access to their closed world. She traveled with them on the frontlines, interviewed them at length on their home bases, and studied their doctrine, methods and history. In Masters of Chaos she tells their story through a select group of senior sergeants and field-grade officers, a band of unforgettable characters like Rawhide, Killer, Michael T, and Alan -- led by the unflappable Lt. Col. Chris Conner and Col. Charlie Cleveland, a brilliant but self-effacing West Pointer who led the largest unconventional war campaign since Vietnam in northern Iraq. Robinson follows the Special Forces from their first post-Vietnam combat in Panama, El Salvador, Desert Storm, Somalia, and the Balkans to their recent trials and triumphs in Afghanistan and Iraq. She witnessed their secret sleuthing and unsung successes in southern Iraq, and recounts here for the first time the dramatic firefights of the western desert. Her blow-by-blow story of the attack on Ansar al-Islam's international terrorist training camp has never been told before. The most comprehensive account ever of the modern-day Special Forces in action, Masters of Chaos is filled with riveting, intimate detail in the words of a close-knit band of soldiers who have done it all.
Author | : Matt Dickinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press - Children |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0192757172 |
Download Mortal Chaos: Speed Freaks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Butterfly effect: The scientific theory that a single occurence, no matter how small, can change the course of the universe forever. A father and son diving off the coast of Hawaii, with the sharks closing in. A scientist in a forest under attack from a savage bear. A young girl who has been kidnapped by drug dealers in Rio. The teenagers surfing on top of a speeding bullet train. For them, and many others, things will never be the same again. Some will live. Many will die. All are connected. The action is non-stop in this tense and compelling adventure.
Author | : Lev Raphael |
Publisher | : Daniel & Daniel Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Americans |
ISBN | : 9781880284681 |
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Edith Wharton scholar and untenured English professor Nick Hoffman escapes academic madness to vacation with his partner, Stefan, at a Caribbean getaway, but ends up face-to-face with murder.
Author | : Nick Buxton |
Publisher | : Transnational Institute |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Climate change mitigation |
ISBN | : 9780745336961 |
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An exploration into how the elite exploit the impact of climate change and how communities can resist this process.