Author : C. A. Gearty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198787634
The repeal of the Human Rights Act is one of the major political questions of our day. In an engaging insight into the fantasies and myths driving the case for repeal, Conor Gearty defends the importance of the HRA and debunks the arguments that would see a UK Bill of Rights. An essential book for all readers who want to be informed on the debate.
Author : Ed Morales
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1568588984
A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane María, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests. Taking readers from San Juan to New York City and back to his family's home in the Luquillo Mountains, Morales shows us the machinations of financial and political interests in both the US and Puerto Rico, and the resistance efforts of Puerto Rican artists and activists. Through it all, he emphasizes that the only way to stop Puerto Rico from being bled is to let Puerto Ricans take control of their own destiny, going beyond the statehood-commonwealth-independence debate to complete decolonization.
Author : Roger Bennett
Publisher : Crown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Humor
ISBN :
The authors of the cultural phenomenon Bar Mitzvah Disco pick up the story of their generation's coming of age where that tome left off, painstakingly retelling tall tales of golden summers from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Full-color photos throughout.
Author : Julie Sze
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520262484
"The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory--combined with an increasing worldwide desire for inexpensive toys, clothes, and food--are altering the way people live and consume. At the same time, the world appears wary of the real costs of this desire: toys drenched in lead paint, dangerous medicines, and tainted pet food. Examining sites in China, including the plan for a new eco-city called Dongtan on the island of Chongming, suburbanization projects, and the Shanghai World Expo, JulieSze interrogates Chinese, European, and American 'eco-desire' and the eco-technological fantasies that underlie contemporary development of global cities and mega-suburbs. In doing so, she challenges readers to rethink how cities must undergo alterationsto become true 'eco-cities.' Sze frames her analysis of these case studies in the context of the problems of global economic change and climate crisis, and she explores the flows, fears, and fantasies of Pacific Rim politics that shaped plans for Dongtan. She looks at the flow of pollution from Asia to the United States (ten billion pounds of airborne pollutants annually). Simultaneously, she considers the flow of financial and political capital for eco-city and ecological development between elite powerstructures in the UK and China, and charts how climate change discussions align with US fears of China's ascendancy and the related demise of the American Century. Ultimately, Fantasy Islands examines how fears and fantasies about China and historical and political power change the American imagination."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Nick Harkaway
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385352425
From the award-winning author of The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker—a novel at once heartfelt and thrilling about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind. “An irresistible delight, something like Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand as played by James Bond.” —The Washington Post Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. After a long career of being shot at, he's about to retire. The mildly larcenous, backwater island of Mancreu, a former British colony in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste and facing imminent destruction by an international community afraid for their own safety, is the ideal place to serve out his time. There is an illicit Black Fleet lurking in the bay: spy stations, arms dealers, offshore hospitals, drug factories and torture centers. Lester's brief, however, is to sit tight and turn a blind eye, so he drinks tea and befriends a brilliant, Internet-addled street kid with a comic-book fixation. When Mancreu’s fragile society erupts in violence, Lester must be more than just an observer: he has no choice but to rediscover the man of action he once was, and find out what kind of hero the island—and the boy—will need.
Author : Conor Gearty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191091634
In the 2015 UK General Election, the Conservative party pledged to reset the UK's relations with Europe, holding an in-out referendum on membership of the European Union and repealing the Human Rights Act, to be replaced with a UK Bill of Rights. With the decision now taken to leave the EU, the future of the Human Rights Act and the UK's relations to the European Convention on Human Rights remains uncertain. Conor Gearty, one of the country's leading experts on human rights, here dissects the myths and fantasies that drive English exceptionalism over Europe, and shape the case for repealing the Human Rights Act. He presents a passionate case for keeping the existing legal framework for protecting human rights and our relationship with the European Convention. Analysing the reform agenda from the perspective of British law, history, politics, and culture, he lays bare the misunderstandings of the human rights system that have driven the debate so far. Structured in three parts, the book first exposes the myths that drive the anti-Human Rights Act argument. Second, Gearty outlines how the Act operates in practice and what its impact really is on the ground. Third, he looks to the future and the kind of Britain we want to live in, and how, for all its modesty, the survival or otherwise of the Human Rights Act will play a pivotal part in that future.
Author : Mark Rice
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2014-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472052187
A biography of the man whose photographic activities had a profound influence on the way that Americans perceived the Philippines throughout the twentieth century
Author : Abby Gold
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Erotic stories
ISBN : 9781326999315
Author : Henrik Brandao Jonsson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Brasília (Distrito Federal, Brazil)
ISBN : 9781926780191
Fantasy Island documents how it was possible to build the most highly planned city in the world, and also what has happened to the people living there. It describes the city from which Dilma Rousseff"one of the most powerful women of our time"leads the country that is well on its way to becoming the fifth largest economy in the world. Nowhere is the story of modern Brazil so clear to us as it is in its capital city, Brasilia.
Author : Chris Sgambati
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2016-04-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781530884421
An age old question presents itself to three different families during a mysterious all expenses paid vacation to a beautiful island in the South Pacific. Their vacations prove to not be what they thought they would. Being forced with life changing decisions, they are forced "to choose." Can they do it? Would you do it? Will they survive? What will happen when they all decide to make....The Choice
