Author: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569768226
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Onetime seemingly unstoppable boxing champion, victim of a false conviction for a triple homicide, and spokesperson for the wrongfully incarcerated, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is a controversial twentieth century icon. In this moving narrative, Dr. Carter tells of the metaphoric and physical prisons he has survived: his poverty-stricken childhood, his troubled adolescence and early adulthood, his 19-year imprisonment with 10 years in solitary confinement, and the knowledge that his life was forever altered by injustice. A spiritual as well as factual autobiography, his is not a comfortable story or a comfortable philosophy, but he offers hope for those who have none, and his words are a call to action for those who abhor injustice. Eye of the Hurricane may well change the way we view crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.
Eye of the Hurricane
Author: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569768226
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Onetime seemingly unstoppable boxing champion, victim of a false conviction for a triple homicide, and spokesperson for the wrongfully incarcerated, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is a controversial twentieth century icon. In this moving narrative, Dr. Carter tells of the metaphoric and physical prisons he has survived: his poverty-stricken childhood, his troubled adolescence and early adulthood, his 19-year imprisonment with 10 years in solitary confinement, and the knowledge that his life was forever altered by injustice. A spiritual as well as factual autobiography, his is not a comfortable story or a comfortable philosophy, but he offers hope for those who have none, and his words are a call to action for those who abhor injustice. Eye of the Hurricane may well change the way we view crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569768226
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Onetime seemingly unstoppable boxing champion, victim of a false conviction for a triple homicide, and spokesperson for the wrongfully incarcerated, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is a controversial twentieth century icon. In this moving narrative, Dr. Carter tells of the metaphoric and physical prisons he has survived: his poverty-stricken childhood, his troubled adolescence and early adulthood, his 19-year imprisonment with 10 years in solitary confinement, and the knowledge that his life was forever altered by injustice. A spiritual as well as factual autobiography, his is not a comfortable story or a comfortable philosophy, but he offers hope for those who have none, and his words are a call to action for those who abhor injustice. Eye of the Hurricane may well change the way we view crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.
In the Hurricane's Eye
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698153227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."--The New York Times Book Review The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower. In the concluding volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick tells the thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War. In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But coordinating his army's movements with those of a fleet of warships based thousands of miles away was next to impossible. And then, on September 5, 1781, the impossible happened. Recognized today as one of the most important naval engagements in the history of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake—fought without a single American ship—made the subsequent victory of the Americans at Yorktown a virtual inevitability. A riveting and wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected turns, In the Hurricane's Eye reveals that the fate of the American Revolution depended, in the end, on Washington and the sea.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698153227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."--The New York Times Book Review The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower. In the concluding volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick tells the thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War. In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But coordinating his army's movements with those of a fleet of warships based thousands of miles away was next to impossible. And then, on September 5, 1781, the impossible happened. Recognized today as one of the most important naval engagements in the history of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake—fought without a single American ship—made the subsequent victory of the Americans at Yorktown a virtual inevitability. A riveting and wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected turns, In the Hurricane's Eye reveals that the fate of the American Revolution depended, in the end, on Washington and the sea.
At the Hurricane's Eye
Author: Greg Walker
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780804109550
Category : Guerrilla warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
No one doubts the abilities of Special Operations Forces (SOF) after Desert Storm. But their impressive accomplishments are rooted in the lessons learned from Vietnam, Iran, Grenada, El Salvador, and Panama. AT THE HURRICANE'S EYE is the first book to take an unflinching look at SOF's growth since Vietnam. Author Greg Walker, with sixteen years of U.S. Army special operations experience as a ground operator, provides information and eyewitness acounts never before reported, from the tragic raid on Panama's Paitilla airfield to the first insider accounts of Special Forces, Marine Force Recon, and NAVY SEAL operations before and during Desert Storm.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780804109550
Category : Guerrilla warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
No one doubts the abilities of Special Operations Forces (SOF) after Desert Storm. But their impressive accomplishments are rooted in the lessons learned from Vietnam, Iran, Grenada, El Salvador, and Panama. AT THE HURRICANE'S EYE is the first book to take an unflinching look at SOF's growth since Vietnam. Author Greg Walker, with sixteen years of U.S. Army special operations experience as a ground operator, provides information and eyewitness acounts never before reported, from the tragic raid on Panama's Paitilla airfield to the first insider accounts of Special Forces, Marine Force Recon, and NAVY SEAL operations before and during Desert Storm.
Eye of the Storm
Author: Rick Thomas
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781404818453
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Looks at hurricanes, how they form, the effects they can have, and how to stay safe.
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781404818453
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Looks at hurricanes, how they form, the effects they can have, and how to stay safe.
Thriving in the Eye of the Hurricane
Author: Joseph Bailey
Publisher: Mango
ISBN: 9781642506600
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
For the past forty years, bestselling author Joe Bailey has been working as a clinical psychologist and has been teaching and writing about the exciting new paradigm called the Three Principles. In this book, he seeks to pass on how these Principles have allowed him to access his own resilient nature in the midst of all this uncertainty. Having experienced professional and personal burnout, Joe has learned not only how to live, but to thrive in the eye of the hurricane.
Publisher: Mango
ISBN: 9781642506600
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
For the past forty years, bestselling author Joe Bailey has been working as a clinical psychologist and has been teaching and writing about the exciting new paradigm called the Three Principles. In this book, he seeks to pass on how these Principles have allowed him to access his own resilient nature in the midst of all this uncertainty. Having experienced professional and personal burnout, Joe has learned not only how to live, but to thrive in the eye of the hurricane.
In the Eye of the Hurricane
Author: Ellis Amdur
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998522494
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur walks families through a multitude of strategies they can use to keep themselves and their mentally ill family member safe.Amdur's work is imbued with a powerful compassion for all members of the family. When we act with integrity and hold people to their best possibilities, everyone involved frequently transcends the limitations within high both family members and the person suffering with a mental illness believe they are trapped.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998522494
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur walks families through a multitude of strategies they can use to keep themselves and their mentally ill family member safe.Amdur's work is imbued with a powerful compassion for all members of the family. When we act with integrity and hold people to their best possibilities, everyone involved frequently transcends the limitations within high both family members and the person suffering with a mental illness believe they are trapped.
In the Hurricane's Eye
Author: Raymond VERNON
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044665
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The world's multinational enterprises face a spell of rough weather, political economist Ray Vernon argues, not only from the host countries in which they have established their subsidiaries, but also from their home countries. Such enterprises--a few thousand in number, including Microsoft, Toyota, IBM, Siemens, Samsung, and others--now generate about half of the world's industrial output and half of the world's foreign trade; so any change in the relatively benign climate in which they have operated over the past decade will create serious tensions in international economic relations. The warnings of such a change are already here. In the United States, interests such as labor are increasingly hostile to what they see as the costs and uncertainties of an open economy. In Europe, those who want to preserve the social safety net and those who feel that the net must be dismantled are increasingly at odds. In Japan, the talk of hollowing out takes on a new urgency as the country's lifetime employment practices are threatened and as public and private institutions are subjected to unaccustomed stress. The tendency of multinationals in different countries to find common cause in open markets, strong patents and trademarks, and international technical standards has been viewed as a loss of national sovereignty and a weakening of the nation-state system, producing hostile reactions in home countries. The challenge for policy makers, Vernon argues, is to bridge the quite different regimes of the multinational enterprise and the nation-state. Both have a major role to play, and yet must make basic changes in their practices and policies to accommodate each other.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044665
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The world's multinational enterprises face a spell of rough weather, political economist Ray Vernon argues, not only from the host countries in which they have established their subsidiaries, but also from their home countries. Such enterprises--a few thousand in number, including Microsoft, Toyota, IBM, Siemens, Samsung, and others--now generate about half of the world's industrial output and half of the world's foreign trade; so any change in the relatively benign climate in which they have operated over the past decade will create serious tensions in international economic relations. The warnings of such a change are already here. In the United States, interests such as labor are increasingly hostile to what they see as the costs and uncertainties of an open economy. In Europe, those who want to preserve the social safety net and those who feel that the net must be dismantled are increasingly at odds. In Japan, the talk of hollowing out takes on a new urgency as the country's lifetime employment practices are threatened and as public and private institutions are subjected to unaccustomed stress. The tendency of multinationals in different countries to find common cause in open markets, strong patents and trademarks, and international technical standards has been viewed as a loss of national sovereignty and a weakening of the nation-state system, producing hostile reactions in home countries. The challenge for policy makers, Vernon argues, is to bridge the quite different regimes of the multinational enterprise and the nation-state. Both have a major role to play, and yet must make basic changes in their practices and policies to accommodate each other.
In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew
Author: Eugene F. Provenzo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813025667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the worst hurricane in modern Florida's history, this bold, eye-opening portrait of a killer storm tracks Andrew's devastating march across Florida and gauges the storm's impact on the state and its people.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813025667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the worst hurricane in modern Florida's history, this bold, eye-opening portrait of a killer storm tracks Andrew's devastating march across Florida and gauges the storm's impact on the state and its people.
Lebanon and the Arab Uprisings
Author: Maximilian Felsch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317503325
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Arab uprisings have put Lebanon under increased strain. While the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt caused limited reverberations, the war in Syria echoed in the fine-tuned political and confessional balance of Lebanon. Over one million refugees, equal to one-quarter of Lebanon’s population, have moved in from Syria. The country’s economy and its already weak public infrastructure have been impacted heavily. Hizbullah’s engagement in Syria has posed questions about Lebanon’s disassociation policy. Terrorist attacks by ISIL and the growing risk of radicalization across the confessional spectrum have left the country at unease. However, Lebanon’s political elites have vowed to shield the country from regional turbulences. Lebanon recently saw a series of demonstrations because of the inability of the government to manage the garbage crisis, but it has been far from witnessing a large-scale citizen uprising similar to the 2005 Cedar Revolution or the revolts next door. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current situation in Lebanon, and a detailed assessment of the difficulties which the country is currently facing.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317503325
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Arab uprisings have put Lebanon under increased strain. While the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt caused limited reverberations, the war in Syria echoed in the fine-tuned political and confessional balance of Lebanon. Over one million refugees, equal to one-quarter of Lebanon’s population, have moved in from Syria. The country’s economy and its already weak public infrastructure have been impacted heavily. Hizbullah’s engagement in Syria has posed questions about Lebanon’s disassociation policy. Terrorist attacks by ISIL and the growing risk of radicalization across the confessional spectrum have left the country at unease. However, Lebanon’s political elites have vowed to shield the country from regional turbulences. Lebanon recently saw a series of demonstrations because of the inability of the government to manage the garbage crisis, but it has been far from witnessing a large-scale citizen uprising similar to the 2005 Cedar Revolution or the revolts next door. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current situation in Lebanon, and a detailed assessment of the difficulties which the country is currently facing.
Through the Eye of the Storm
Author: Cholene Espinoza
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1933392185
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A pioneering female fighter pilot loses her soul in the Iraq war, only to find it again in the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in this true story of recovery, relief, and redemption on the Mississippi coast.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1933392185
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A pioneering female fighter pilot loses her soul in the Iraq war, only to find it again in the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in this true story of recovery, relief, and redemption on the Mississippi coast.