Author: John Winthrop Hammond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258032845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Prologue By Philip D. Reed And Charles E. Wilson.
Men and Volts
Author: John Winthrop Hammond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258032845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Prologue By Philip D. Reed And Charles E. Wilson.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258032845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Prologue By Philip D. Reed And Charles E. Wilson.
A Call to Arms
Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596916079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 913
Book Description
A narrative account of the American mobilization for World War II reveals its colossal scale and enduring impact on history, exploring how the nation's productivity became a decisive factor in shaping America's economy and the war's outcome. By the author of Rainbow's End. 30,000 first printing.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596916079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 913
Book Description
A narrative account of the American mobilization for World War II reveals its colossal scale and enduring impact on history, exploring how the nation's productivity became a decisive factor in shaping America's economy and the war's outcome. By the author of Rainbow's End. 30,000 first printing.
Evil Men
Author: James Dawes
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674073991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, Evil Men confronts atrocity head-on—how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. Drawing on firsthand interviews with convicted war criminals from the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), James Dawes leads us into the frightening territory where soldiers perpetrated some of the worst crimes imaginable: murder, torture, rape, medical experimentation on living subjects. Transcending conventional reporting and commentary, Dawes’s narrative weaves together unforgettable segments from the interviews with consideration of the troubling issues they raise. Telling the personal story of his journey to Japan, Dawes also lays bare the cultural misunderstandings and ethical compromises that at times called the legitimacy of his entire project into question. For this book is not just about the things war criminals do. It is about what it is like, and what it means, to befriend them. Do our stories of evil deeds make a difference? Can we depict atrocity without sensational curiosity? Anguished and unflinchingly honest, as eloquent as it is raw and painful, Evil Men asks hard questions about the most disturbing capabilities human beings possess, and acknowledges that these questions may have no comforting answers.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674073991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, Evil Men confronts atrocity head-on—how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. Drawing on firsthand interviews with convicted war criminals from the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), James Dawes leads us into the frightening territory where soldiers perpetrated some of the worst crimes imaginable: murder, torture, rape, medical experimentation on living subjects. Transcending conventional reporting and commentary, Dawes’s narrative weaves together unforgettable segments from the interviews with consideration of the troubling issues they raise. Telling the personal story of his journey to Japan, Dawes also lays bare the cultural misunderstandings and ethical compromises that at times called the legitimacy of his entire project into question. For this book is not just about the things war criminals do. It is about what it is like, and what it means, to befriend them. Do our stories of evil deeds make a difference? Can we depict atrocity without sensational curiosity? Anguished and unflinchingly honest, as eloquent as it is raw and painful, Evil Men asks hard questions about the most disturbing capabilities human beings possess, and acknowledges that these questions may have no comforting answers.
Blood and Volts
Author: Th Metzger
Publisher: Underworld Amusements
ISBN: 9781943687312
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An ax murderer, two of the most brilliant scientific minds of the century, billions of dollars in profit, precedent-setting legal battles, secrets of life and death - all of these come together in the story of the first electric chair. In Blood and Volts, Th. Metzger creates a unique synthesis of scholarship, storytelling, and cultural critique. Though it draws from a number of disparate fields - true crime, history of technology, conspiracy theory, criminal law - Blood and Volts presents a clear and compelling story: America struggling to define itself through scientific innovation. At the dawn of the twentieth century, General Electric (using Edison's direct current) and Westinghouse (employing Tesla's groundbreaking alternating current) were locked in combat to determine which would dominate the electro-technical fate of the nation. Electricity was thought to be a highly ambiguous force: both godlike creative power and demonic destroyer of life. Metzger argues the electric chair was both harbinger and early pinnacle of modernity, the high altar of the rising cult of progress. In the popular imagination, Tesla and Edison were seen as nearly superhuman beings, and their struggle was not only for wealth and power, but to reshape the face of America.
Publisher: Underworld Amusements
ISBN: 9781943687312
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An ax murderer, two of the most brilliant scientific minds of the century, billions of dollars in profit, precedent-setting legal battles, secrets of life and death - all of these come together in the story of the first electric chair. In Blood and Volts, Th. Metzger creates a unique synthesis of scholarship, storytelling, and cultural critique. Though it draws from a number of disparate fields - true crime, history of technology, conspiracy theory, criminal law - Blood and Volts presents a clear and compelling story: America struggling to define itself through scientific innovation. At the dawn of the twentieth century, General Electric (using Edison's direct current) and Westinghouse (employing Tesla's groundbreaking alternating current) were locked in combat to determine which would dominate the electro-technical fate of the nation. Electricity was thought to be a highly ambiguous force: both godlike creative power and demonic destroyer of life. Metzger argues the electric chair was both harbinger and early pinnacle of modernity, the high altar of the rising cult of progress. In the popular imagination, Tesla and Edison were seen as nearly superhuman beings, and their struggle was not only for wealth and power, but to reshape the face of America.
Option
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Transactions
Author: National Safety Council
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Document
Author: Boston (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1932
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1932
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Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Safety Maintenance & Production
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Report[s]
Author: New York (State) Commission on employers' liability
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description