Author: Alan Gibbons
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
Published: 2010-12-23
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1444004018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Set in a Northern town, where right-wingers are determined to stir up hatred and racial prejudice, CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE is about six teenagers whose lives are woven together by a series of shocking and tragic events. A British Muslim brother and sister, two Irish brothers who take different sides, and two lads out looking for trouble: all of them get caught in the crossfire. Inspired by the Oldham riots and the events of September 11th, this is a book that needed to be written. It is a chilling account of what is happening in Britain today, but as always Alan Gibbons writes with humour and understanding and is utterly on the wavelength of his many readers.
Author: Joe Nick Patoski
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780316160681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the life of one of America's greatest guitarists, from his early years in the Texas music scene, his rivalry with his brother Jimmie, and his battles with drugs and alcohol, to his tragic death in 1990.
Author: Matina Jewell
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1742693156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2006, while part of an unarmed UN peacekeeping team at the border junction of Lebanon, Israel, and Syria, Australian Major Matina Jewell and her colleagues were caught in a full-scale war with tragic consequences. In the days that followed she and her teammates reported hundreds of violations of the peace agreement as Israeli artillery, tank fire, and aerial bombs, as well as rockets fired by Hezbollah fighters, exploded only meters away and shrapnel rained down around them. But the story does not end there. Matti Jewell is the kind of soldier every country is proud to have--fearless, honora.
Author: Thomas David Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780742525399
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The puzzle of revolution in the Third World -- Theories of revolution : the evolution of the field -- Dependent development and the crisis of rural stability -- Mobilizing peasant social movements -- The response of the state : reform or repression? -- State repression and the escalation of revolutionary violence -- Win, lose, or draw : how civil wars end -- Reform, repression, and revolution in El Salvador -- Peruvian land reform the rise of Sendero Luminoso -- The future of revolutions in the countryside : globalization, democratization, and peacekeeping.
Author: Adam Gorightly
Publisher: Feral House
Published: 2014-09-15
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1627310045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Adam Gorightly offers a unique take on virtually every conspiracy of our time."—Erskine Payton, Erskine Overnight Kerry Thornley never imagined that after starting a spoof religion in the 1950s that worshipped Eris—the Greek goddess of chaos and discord—that this seeming joke would unleash a torrent of actual chaos into his life in the years to follow. During the late 1950s, Thornley became friends with Lee Harvey Oswald when the two served together in the Marines, and was actually writing a novel based on Oswald three years before John F. Kennedy's assassination. These connections would later cause New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison to suspect that Thornley was one of the notorious Oswald doubles and a part of a JFK assassination plot. Initially, Thornley denied these allegations, but later came to believe that he'd been used as an unwitting pawn in the conspiracy. Adam Gorightly is best known for his book on the Manson Family, The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos. Adam has appeared as a guest on numerous radio shows such as Coast To Coast AM with Ian Punnett and Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis. Television appearances include the History Channel's documentary The Manson Murders.
Author: Maria Ousseimi
Publisher: Walker
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uses incidents from Lebanon, El Salvador, Mozambique, Bosnia-Herzegovinia, and Washington, D.C., to examine the effect on children of growing up in a war zone.
Author: Annette Broadrick
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1426880421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Busted! And in only boxer briefs in the bed of a senator'sdaughter! Despite no memory of their night together,Jared Crenshaw knew that nothing had happened. Heck,Lindsey Russell was still wearing a neck-to-toe nightgown.And Jared knew that had he tasted this woman's passion,not even amnesia could make him forget.Still, there was the appearance of a Texas-size scandal….So, Jared married Lindsey to do right by her. And their firsttime in the marriage bed confirmed what Jared suspected:he'd never been with this woman because she'd neverbeen with any man. Clearly, he'd been set up, albeitsweetly so. Now, it was simply a matter of figuring outwho…and why.
Author: Lawrence Grossberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-03
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1317262743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Caught in the Crossfire reveals how the United States has been gradually changing from a society that celebrates childhood into one that is hostile to and afraid of its own children. Today kids are often seen as a threat to our social and moral values. In schools, some behavior is criminalized, and growing numbers of kids find themselves in penal and psychiatric confinement. This breakdown is often too readily attributed to bad parenting, the crisis of the family, or the greed of capitalism. Grossberg offers a new and original understanding of the changes transforming contemporary America, and of the choices Americans face about their future. He documents the relations between economic ideologies and economic realities and explores what is going on in the "culture wars" as well as on the Internet and other new media. Caught in the Crossfire argues that all of these changes and tn struggles, including those involving the state of kids, only make sense as integral parts of a larger transformation to define America's uniqueness and to develop its own sense of modern culture. Part of the Cultural Politics and the Promise of Democracy Series.
Author: Nancy Bo Flood
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2016-11-04
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1629795976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This gripping historical novel is set on the tiny island of Saipan, which the Japanese had long governed, near the end of World War II. Thirteen-year-old Joseph, the son of a local village chief, and his half-Japanese best friend, Kento, have their loyalties tested when U.S. troops arrive and one of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific war is fought. Caught in the crossfire between the Americans and Japanese, the boys learn what it really means to be a warrior. The novel is based on historical facts, and an afterword describes the real-life account of what happened on Saipan—the unimaginable horrors of what is now called Suicide Cliff.