Author: Bob Diggs Brown
Publisher: Clifton House USA
ISBN: 9780975415801
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Your Neighbor Went to War is the moving account of a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces. A Green Beret in the Colorado National Guard, Captain Diggs takes us through his remarkable 7-month tour in war-torn Afghanistan - facing challenges in the oppressive atmosphere of terrorism, winning the hearts and minds of the impoverished people in an Afghan village, organizing American school children to help rebuild a bombed-out school, and more. You will feel what it's like to be a citizen soldier in a far-off country while also getting a rare look inside the War on Terror. Riveting and poignant, Your Neighbor Went to War is a book you will never forget! Book jacket.
Your Neighbor Went to War
Author: Bob Diggs Brown
Publisher: Clifton House USA
ISBN: 9780975415801
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Your Neighbor Went to War is the moving account of a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces. A Green Beret in the Colorado National Guard, Captain Diggs takes us through his remarkable 7-month tour in war-torn Afghanistan - facing challenges in the oppressive atmosphere of terrorism, winning the hearts and minds of the impoverished people in an Afghan village, organizing American school children to help rebuild a bombed-out school, and more. You will feel what it's like to be a citizen soldier in a far-off country while also getting a rare look inside the War on Terror. Riveting and poignant, Your Neighbor Went to War is a book you will never forget! Book jacket.
Publisher: Clifton House USA
ISBN: 9780975415801
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Your Neighbor Went to War is the moving account of a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces. A Green Beret in the Colorado National Guard, Captain Diggs takes us through his remarkable 7-month tour in war-torn Afghanistan - facing challenges in the oppressive atmosphere of terrorism, winning the hearts and minds of the impoverished people in an Afghan village, organizing American school children to help rebuild a bombed-out school, and more. You will feel what it's like to be a citizen soldier in a far-off country while also getting a rare look inside the War on Terror. Riveting and poignant, Your Neighbor Went to War is a book you will never forget! Book jacket.
Love Thy Neighbor
Author: Peter Maass
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
ISBN: 9780230768406
Category : Bosnia and Herzegovina
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An up-close account of the devastating conflict in Bosnia, 1992-3
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
ISBN: 9780230768406
Category : Bosnia and Herzegovina
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An up-close account of the devastating conflict in Bosnia, 1992-3
Judge Thy Neighbor
Author: Patrick Bergemann
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231542380
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
From the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. What motivates citizens to inform on the people next door? In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives. In case studies of societies in which denunciations were widespread, Bergemann merges historical and quantitative analysis to explore individual reasons for participation. He sheds light on Jewish converts’ shifting motives during the Spanish Inquisition; when and why seventeenth-century Romanov subjects fulfilled their obligation to report insults to the tsar’s honor; and the widespread petty and false complaints filed by German citizens under the Third Reich, as well as present-day plea bargains, whistleblowing, and crime reporting. Bergemann finds that when authorities use coercion or positive incentives to elicit information, individuals denounce out of self-preservation or to gain rewards. However, in the absence of these incentives, denunciations are often motivated by personal resentments and grudges. In both cases, denunciations facilitate social control not because of citizen loyalty or moral outrage but through the local interests of ordinary participants. Offering an empirically and theoretically rich account of the dynamics of denunciation as well as vivid descriptions of the denounced, Judge Thy Neighbor is a timely and compelling analysis of the reasons people turn in their acquaintances, with relevance beyond conventionally repressive regimes.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231542380
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
From the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. What motivates citizens to inform on the people next door? In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives. In case studies of societies in which denunciations were widespread, Bergemann merges historical and quantitative analysis to explore individual reasons for participation. He sheds light on Jewish converts’ shifting motives during the Spanish Inquisition; when and why seventeenth-century Romanov subjects fulfilled their obligation to report insults to the tsar’s honor; and the widespread petty and false complaints filed by German citizens under the Third Reich, as well as present-day plea bargains, whistleblowing, and crime reporting. Bergemann finds that when authorities use coercion or positive incentives to elicit information, individuals denounce out of self-preservation or to gain rewards. However, in the absence of these incentives, denunciations are often motivated by personal resentments and grudges. In both cases, denunciations facilitate social control not because of citizen loyalty or moral outrage but through the local interests of ordinary participants. Offering an empirically and theoretically rich account of the dynamics of denunciation as well as vivid descriptions of the denounced, Judge Thy Neighbor is a timely and compelling analysis of the reasons people turn in their acquaintances, with relevance beyond conventionally repressive regimes.
Neighbors at War
Author: Ward Lucas
Publisher: Ward Lucas
ISBN: 0985697814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Publisher: Ward Lucas
ISBN: 0985697814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Hitler, My Neighbor
Author: Edgar Feuchtwanger
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590518659
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family--the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author, Lion Feuchtwanger. He was a carefree five-year-old, pampered by his parents and his nanny, when Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, moved into the building opposite theirs in Munich. In 1933 the joy of this untroubled life was shattered. Hitler had been named Chancellor. Edgar's parents, stripped of their rights as citizens, tried to protect him from increasingly degrading realities. In class, his teacher had him draw swastikas, and his schoolmates joined the Hitler Youth. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he would make a new life, a career, have a family, and strive to forget the nightmare of his past--a past that came rushing back when he decided, at the age of eighty-eight, to tell the story of his buried childhood and his infamous neighbor.
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590518659
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family--the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author, Lion Feuchtwanger. He was a carefree five-year-old, pampered by his parents and his nanny, when Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, moved into the building opposite theirs in Munich. In 1933 the joy of this untroubled life was shattered. Hitler had been named Chancellor. Edgar's parents, stripped of their rights as citizens, tried to protect him from increasingly degrading realities. In class, his teacher had him draw swastikas, and his schoolmates joined the Hitler Youth. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he would make a new life, a career, have a family, and strive to forget the nightmare of his past--a past that came rushing back when he decided, at the age of eighty-eight, to tell the story of his buried childhood and his infamous neighbor.
One Man's War Story
Author: Charles Neighbor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988935174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This is the fascinating true story of a small town boy from Kansas who is drafted into the United States Army at the age of eighteen. Taken far away from everything he knows, this young soldier becomes part of the famous 29th Infantry Division. Before long he finds himself storming a beach in Normandy, carrying a spare tank of flamethrower fuel on his back and enduring withering fire from German soldiers perched upon the cliffs above. After knocking out an enemy stronghold, he and his section of infantrymen spend many days climbing over hedgerows in the French countryside, always pushing the German forces back despite their own dwindling numbers. Eventually he sustains life-threatening wounds and is sent away from the front lines to recover in a hospital in England. There, as he mends slowly over time, he tastes the other side of life in a foreign land. One Man's War Story details both sides of a World War II soldier's existence: the harrowing combat and the day-to-day experiences that make life interesting and bearable.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988935174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This is the fascinating true story of a small town boy from Kansas who is drafted into the United States Army at the age of eighteen. Taken far away from everything he knows, this young soldier becomes part of the famous 29th Infantry Division. Before long he finds himself storming a beach in Normandy, carrying a spare tank of flamethrower fuel on his back and enduring withering fire from German soldiers perched upon the cliffs above. After knocking out an enemy stronghold, he and his section of infantrymen spend many days climbing over hedgerows in the French countryside, always pushing the German forces back despite their own dwindling numbers. Eventually he sustains life-threatening wounds and is sent away from the front lines to recover in a hospital in England. There, as he mends slowly over time, he tastes the other side of life in a foreign land. One Man's War Story details both sides of a World War II soldier's existence: the harrowing combat and the day-to-day experiences that make life interesting and bearable.
Your Neighbor's Hymnal
Author: Jeffrey F. Keuss
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1608993698
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Your Neighbor's Hymnal provides a winsome and thoughtful exploration of popular music, from rock to hip-hop to metal to soul, as a vital source contemporary culture continues to go to learn about faith, hope, and love. Where some Christians have kept their focus only on a hymnal found in their church or formed by the genre of Contemporary Christian Music, Keuss argues that your neighbor's hymnal is filled with great music that God is using and deserves a deeper listen. Offering forty songs spanning time and genres, each section includes a number of representative reflections on the history and artist that created the song, reflections on its lyrical content, and theological and biblical connections that will hopefully show some ways in which the song illustrates how your neighbor is hearing, seeking, and finding faith, hope, and love through popular music. This book can be approached in a number of ways. As an introduction to this stream of popular culture, the overviews and short introductions to each song provide a glossary useful in courses needing texts in theology and popular culture. For use with church groups, whether adult bible studies or youth groups, Your Neighbor's Hymnal provides points of reference for connecting key aspects of the Christian faith with illustrations readily available for discussion. For interested music listeners, the book will provide a means of giving voice to their own musings on faith. As with faith, good music is meant to be shared, and Your Neighbor's Hymnal offers a wonderful opportunity to do both.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1608993698
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Your Neighbor's Hymnal provides a winsome and thoughtful exploration of popular music, from rock to hip-hop to metal to soul, as a vital source contemporary culture continues to go to learn about faith, hope, and love. Where some Christians have kept their focus only on a hymnal found in their church or formed by the genre of Contemporary Christian Music, Keuss argues that your neighbor's hymnal is filled with great music that God is using and deserves a deeper listen. Offering forty songs spanning time and genres, each section includes a number of representative reflections on the history and artist that created the song, reflections on its lyrical content, and theological and biblical connections that will hopefully show some ways in which the song illustrates how your neighbor is hearing, seeking, and finding faith, hope, and love through popular music. This book can be approached in a number of ways. As an introduction to this stream of popular culture, the overviews and short introductions to each song provide a glossary useful in courses needing texts in theology and popular culture. For use with church groups, whether adult bible studies or youth groups, Your Neighbor's Hymnal provides points of reference for connecting key aspects of the Christian faith with illustrations readily available for discussion. For interested music listeners, the book will provide a means of giving voice to their own musings on faith. As with faith, good music is meant to be shared, and Your Neighbor's Hymnal offers a wonderful opportunity to do both.
When Your Neighbor is the Savior
Author: Botrus Mansour
Publisher: Hope Publishing House
ISBN: 9781932717235
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: Hope Publishing House
ISBN: 9781932717235
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Author: Larry L. Rasmussen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664227043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664227043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Munsey's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description