Author : Richard Gott
Publisher : Verso
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Civil-military relations
ISBN : 9781859847756
In a first-hand report from Venezuela, veteran correspondent Richard Gott places the county's controversial president in historical perspective. Examining Chavez's plans and programmes and the support these attract, Gott argues that this unique experiment may prove a new way forward for Latin America.
Author : Beverly Davis
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0310404835
For years, tales of DRAGONS from another world kidnapping and enslaving humans have been circulating in Jason Masters’ world, while for a slave girl named Koren, the stories of a human world seem pure myth. Together, these two teens will need to bridge two planets in order to overthrow the draconic threat and bring the lost slaves home. The Time Has Come As the long-awaited invasion of human forces looms, Jason, Koren, and Elyssa struggle to alert the soldiers to an unforeseen menace on the planet of Starlight—a deadly illness that already has Koren in its grip. Starlighter Cassabrie harbors a secret she believes can counter the dragon king Taushin’s latest maneuverings, but she can disclose little of her risky plan. As Cassabrie fights to save her people, the dragon Magnar works to move the Starlight prophecy in his favor. His actions could make the plight of humans even more perilous. Wishing only to free the slaves and bring peace, a few young warriors are poised to face three armies as they battle for control of two worlds. Can love, faith, and courage be enough? Will Cassabrie be humanity’s last hope?
Author : Robert F Dorr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782008330
The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. Accounts of the 'Mighty Eighth' in Europe, and indeed many of the books and films that emerged from the greatest air campaign in history, often overlook the B-24, even though it was in action for as long as the Flying Fortress, and participated in just as many perilous daylight bombing missions.
Author : Bart Jones
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1586421697
Ruling elites in Venezuela, the United States and Europe, and even Hugo Chávez himself though for different reasons, have been eager to have the world view him as the heir to Fidel Castro. But the truth about this increasingly influential world leader is more complex, and more interesting.. The Chávez that emerges from Bart Jones’ carefully researched and documented biography is neither a plaster saint nor a revolutionary tyrant. He has an undeniably autocratic streak, and yet has been freely and fairly re-elected to his nations presidency three times with astonishing margins of victory. He is a master politician and an inspired improviser, a Bolivarian nationalist and an unashamed socialist. His policies have brought him into conflict with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and major oil companies. They have also provided a model for new governments and social movements in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. When in September 2006 he declared at the United Nations that ‘the devil came here yesterday … the President of the United States’, it was clear that he was taking on challenging the most powerful nation on earth, in conscious imitation of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 1923
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Leila Levinson
Publisher : Cable Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2011
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781934980545
"After her father died, Leila Levinson discovered his haunting photos of the Nazi concentration camp where Captain Reuben Levinson had encountered hell. To understand war's horror, Leila sought out other veterans who had also witnessed the unimaginable. [This] is the story of war's trauma as it wreaks its hidden havoc over generations."--Publisher's description.
Author : John Kenneth Muir
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476604932
Blake's 7, Terry Nation's science fiction tale of cosmic freedom fighters, became a hit series in Great Britain when it premiered in 1978. Eight years later, the show quickly became a cult program in America. A dramatization of futuristic outlaw heroes who defend the innocent from both alien and human conquering forces, the series might better be said to be equal parts Robin Hood and The Magnificent Seven. The series defied traditional genre elements of science fiction television, and developed the concept of the continual "story arc" years before such shows as Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine. This book provides a critical history and episode guide for Blake's 7, including commentaries for all 52 episodes. Also included are analytical essays on the show, dealing with such topics as themes, imagery and story arc; a consideration of the series as a futuristic Robin Hood myth; cinematography and visual effects; and an overview of Blake's 7 in books, comics and videos. A detailed appendix lists the genre conventions found in the series. The author also includes information about Blake's 7 fan clubs and Internet sites.
Author : William Stanley Braithwaite
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1923
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Volume for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."
Author : Allan Antliff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2001-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226021034
Reveals that during the World War I era modernists participated in a wide-ranging anarchist movement that encompassed lifestyles, literature, and art, as well as politics.
Author : Edlie L. Wong
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814794556
Studies lawsuits to gain freedom for slaves on the grounds of their having traveled to free territory, starting with Somerset v. Stewart (England, 1772), Commonwealth v. Aves (Massachusetts, 1836), Dred Scott v. Sanford, and cases brought questioning the legitimacy of Negro Seamen Acts in the antebellum coastal South. These lawsuits and accounts of them are compared to fugitive slave narratives to shed light on both. The differing impact of freedom obtained from such suits for men and women (women could claim that their children were free, once they were judged free) is examined.
