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Author | : Francesco Pecoraro |
Publisher | : Italian List |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780857424822 |
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When Life in Peactime opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is sixty-nine years old. He's disillusioned and angry--but morbidly attached to life. As he makes a day-long trip home from his job in Sharm el Sheik reconstructing the coral reefs of the Red Sea using synthetics, he reflects on both the brief time he sees remaining ahead and on everything that has happened already in his life to which he can never quite resign himself. We see his slow bureaucratic trudge as a civil servant, long summer vacations on a Greek island, his twisted relationship with his first boss, the turmoil and panic attacks he faced during the student uprisings in 1968 that pushed him away from philosophy and into engineering, and his fearful childhood as a postwar evacuee. A close-up portrait of an ordinary existence, Life in Peacetime offers a new look at the postwar era in Italy and the fundamental contradictions of a secure, middle-class life.
Author | : Khristianekay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : David Halberstam |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501141503 |
Download War in a Time of Peace Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post Cold War America. Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who did not, have shaped America's role in global events. He provides fascinating portraits of those in power—Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Kissinger, James Baker, Dick Cheney, Madeleine Albright, and others—to reveal a stunning view of modern political America.
Author | : Jeff Hobbs |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2015-07-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476731918 |
Download The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jeff Hobbs tells the story of Robert DeShaun Peace, who went from a New Jersey ghetto to Yale but never truly escaped his past.
Author | : Mary L. Dudziak |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019931585X |
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"When is wartime? In common usage, it is a period of time in which a society is at war. But we now live in what President Obama has called 'an age without surrender ceremonies,' where the war on terror remains open-ended and presidents announce an end to conflict in Iraq, even as conflict on the ground persists. It is no longer easy to distinguish between wartime and peacetime. In this inventive meditation on war, time, and the law, Mary L. Dudziak argues that wartime is not a discrete or easily defined period of time. Indeed, America has been engaged in some form of ongoing overseas armed conflict for over a century. Yet policy makers and the American public continue to view wars as exceptional events that eventually give way to normal peace times--a conception that Dudziak believes has two significant consequences. First, because war is thought to be exceptional, 'wartime' remains a shorthand argument justifying extreme actions like torture and detention without trial. Second, ongoing warfare is enabled by the inattention of the American people. More disconnected than ever from the wars their nation is fighting, public disengagement leaves us without political restraints on the exercise of American war powers. Articulately exposing the disconnect between the way we imaging wartime and the practice of American wars, Dudziak illuminates the way the changing nature of American warfare undermines democratic accountability, yet makes democratic engagement all the more necessary."--Dust jacket.
Author | : Stanley Meisler |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2012-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807050512 |
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When the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps’s first fifty years. Revelatory and candid, journalist Stanley Meisler’s engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers’ unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. In the years since, in spite of setbacks, the ethos of the Peace Corps has endured, largely due to the perseverance of the 200,000 Volunteers themselves, whose shared commitment to effect positive global change has been a constant in one of our most complex—and valued—institutions.
Author | : Chris Hedges |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416583149 |
Download What Every Person Should Know About War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.
Author | : Matt Forney |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2014-03-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781497457348 |
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A Story of Love, Lust and Fame in Modern America Life During Peacetime is a comic memoir I wrote about a weekend I spent with a female fan of mine in upstate New York. I had invited her to my house partly because of my ego, partly because I cared about her (or at least thought I did). However, what happened next nearly killed the two of us. I originally wrote Life During Peacetime as a series of posts on my blog. This book is based on those posts and has been edited for a general audience.
Author | : Jean Edward Smith |
Publisher | : Random House Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 977 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 140006693X |
Download Eisenhower Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In his magisterial bestseller "FDR," Smith provided a fresh, modern look at one of the most indelible figures in American history. Now this peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's 34th president.
Author | : Vandana Shiva |
Publisher | : Fernwood Publishing |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781849649285 |
Download Making Peace with the Earth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Making Peace with the Earth outlines how a paradigm shift to earth-centred politics and economics is our only chance of survival and how collective resistance to corporate exploitation can open the way to a new environmentalism."--pub. desc.