Author : Amber Murrey
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780745337579
Celebrating and critiquing the life of one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders
Author : Amber Murrey
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780745337586
Thomas Sankara (1949-87) was one of the most important anti-imperialist leaders of twentieth-century Africa. His declaration that fundamental change would require "a certain amount of madness" was a driving force behind the Burkinab Revolution that eventually led to his being elected president of Burkina Faso. This book examines Sankara's political philosophies and legacies and their relevance today. Amber Murrey analyzes his synthesis of Pan-Africanism and humanist Marxist politics, as well as his approach to gender, development, ecology, and decolonization. She doesn't shy away from detailing the limitations of the revolution he led, but nonetheless she finds potent sources of inspiration for today's struggles in Sankara's example.
Author : Amber Murrey
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781786802255
Celebrating and critiquing the life of one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders.
Author : Brian J. Peterson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253053781
Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Coming to power in 1983, Sankara set his sights on combating social injustice, poverty, and corruption in his country, fighting for women's rights, direct forms of democracy, economic sovereignty, and environmental justice. Drawing on government archival sources and over a hundred interviews with Sankara's family members, friends, and closest revolutionary colleagues, Brian J. Peterson details Sankara's political career and rise to power, as well as his assassination at age 37 in 1987, in a plot led by his close friend Blaise Compaoré. Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers a unique, critical appraisal of Sankara and explores why he generated such enthusiasm and hope in Burkina Faso and beyond, why he was such a polarizing figure, how his rivals seized power from him, and why T-shirts sporting his image still appear on the streets today.
Author : Allen Salkin
Publisher : All Points Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250202817
A Rosetta Stone for understanding Donald Trump's style, mindset, and every action, made up of over one hundred interviews with his closest associates and adversaries over the last 15 years. To his critics, Donald Trump is an impulsive, undisciplined crackpot who accidentally lucked into the presidency. But in The Method to the Madness, reporters Allen Salkin and Aaron Short reveal that nothing could be further from the truth. This objective, nonpartisan oral history shows that Trump had carefully planned his bid for the presidency since he launched what many considered to be a joke candidacy in 1999. Between 2000 and 2015, when he announced his candidacy in the lobby of Trump Tower, he was able to identify an unserved political constituency, hone a persuasive message that appealed to their needs, and deliver it effectively, despite intense media opposition. Through candid conversations with more than 100 subjects close to the President, Salkin and Short make the case that Donald Trump’s ostensibly erratic approach to politics is consistent with his carefully honed personal and professional style of information gathering, opinion seed-planting, and conclusion sharing. His business, media, and political dealings from this era serve as a guide for understanding the man, his mindset, and his every action. The Method to the Madness is an accessible and unbiased oral history that brings readers into the private rooms where decisions are made, confidences are broken, strong words fly, and not all eye-witnesses see the same scene in quite the same way. Full of scoops both large and small, this is the first book to bring Trump, the politician, into focus.
Author : John Galloway
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Restaurants
ISBN : 0595337775
A behind-the-scenes look at life in a restaurant.
Author : Nalini Singh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593099087
New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh welcomes you to a remote town on the edge of the world where even the blinding brightness of the sun can’t mask the darkness that lies deep within a killer.… On the rugged West Coast of New Zealand, Golden Cove is more than just a town where people live. The adults are more than neighbors; the children, more than schoolmates. That is until one fateful summer—and several vanished bodies—shatters the trust holding Golden Cove together. All that’s left are whispers behind closed doors, broken friendships, and a silent agreement to not look back. But they can’t run from the past forever. Eight years later, a beautiful young woman disappears without a trace, and the residents of Golden Cove wonder if their home shelters something far more dangerous than an unforgiving landscape. It’s not long before the dark past collides with the haunting present and deadly secrets come to light.
Author : Eric Schlosser
Publisher : HMH
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 054752675X
New York Times Bestseller: The shadowy world of “off the books” businesses—from marijuana to migrant workers—brought to life by the author of Fast Food Nation. America’s black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids’ nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness, the award-winning investigative journalist Eric Schlosser turns his exacting eye to the underbelly of American capitalism and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstays—pot, porn, and illegal immigrants—Schlosser shows how the black market has burgeoned over the past several decades. He also draws compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, and how big business learns—and profits—from the underground. “Captivating . . . Compelling tales of crime and punishment as well as an illuminating glimpse at the inner workings of the underground economy. The book revolves around two figures: Mark Young of Indiana, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his relatively minor role in a marijuana deal; and Reuben Sturman, an enigmatic Ohio man who built and controlled a formidable pornography distribution empire before finally being convicted of tax evasion. . . . Schlosser unravels an American society that has ‘become alienated and at odds with itself.’ Like Fast Food Nation, this is an eye-opening book, offering the same high level of reporting and research.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Somtow Sucharitkul
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671454395
Kelver, a boy, is taken to Uran s'Varek, where he will become one of the Inquestors, responsible for the future of all humanity
Author : Petteri Pietikäinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317484452
Madness: A History is a thorough and accessible account of madness from antiquity to modern times, offering a large-scale yet nuanced picture of mental illness and its varieties in western civilization. The book opens by considering perceptions and experiences of madness starting in Biblical times, Ancient history and Hippocratic medicine to the Age of Enlightenment, before moving on to developments from the late 18th century to the late 20th century and the Cold War era. Petteri Pietikäinen looks at issues such as 18th century asylums, the rise of psychiatry, the history of diagnoses, the experiences of mental health patients, the emergence of neuroses, the impact of eugenics, the development of different treatments, and the late 20th century emergence of anti-psychiatry and the modern malaise of the worried well. The book examines the history of madness at the different levels of micro-, meso- and macro: the social and cultural forces shaping the medical and lay perspectives on madness, the invention and development of diagnoses as well as the theories and treatment methods by physicians, and the patient experiences inside and outside of the mental institution. Drawing extensively from primary records written by psychiatrists and accounts by mental health patients themselves, it also gives readers a thorough grounding in the secondary literature addressing the history of madness. An essential read for all students of the history of mental illness, medicine and society more broadly.
