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Author: Patrick Albouy
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2019-07-31
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 198223170X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a fictional book about the gang of Black Eagles. The main character finally believed that “Christ has risen!” as what he confessed out loud.
Author: Patrick Albouy
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2019-07-31
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781982231699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a fictional book about the gang of Black Eagles. The main character finally believed that "Christ has risen!" as what he confessed out loud.
Author: Patrick "Rapace" Albouy
Publisher:
Published: 2023-05-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781643148304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Even on the nicest, happiest days in our lives, our time here on Earth is never as good as it will be in Paradise." Why did Patrick's mother abandon him? Will she ever come back? Where is God amid a six-year-old's loneliness and feeling of betrayal? Life will answer some of these questions for Patrick during childhood, imbuing him with profound peace. He wonders to this day about the answers to others. What he knows for sure is that in November of 1953, his deeply depressed single mother dropped him off at an orphanage for the children of Russian refugees in France known as The Russian Boarding School. The school is a repurposed medieval castle, complete with an aristocratic lady, exiled during the Russian Revolution, whom staff and students alike call "the Princess." This is a novel heavily based on the author's childhood. Albouy lived in an orphanage from age six to age seventeen, when he reunited with his mother and moved into her apartment. He readily admits that even his sensitive self experienced moments of an entirely human desire to make boyish mischief as he aged. As adolescents, he and his closest friends received the nickname The Gang of Black Eagles because of their inseparableness and their unceasing search for adventure. These recollections keep the narrative from a tone of extreme religiosity. Still, teenage bravado cannot entirely hide Patrick's fancifully tender nature. He recounts to his friends a conversation he claims to have had with an injured raven. Their unquestioning belief in what he says sets him apart as the gang's leader. Patrick shows a softness and vulnerability more commonly seen in male protagonists in the novels of such Victorian authors.
Author: Leslie Lee
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780573693014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Max G. Manwaring
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012-10-11
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0806185945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the first decade of the twenty-first century has made brutally clear, the very definitions of war and the enemy have changed almost beyond recognition. Threats to security are now as likely to come from armed propagandists, popular militias, or mercenary organizations as they are from conventional armies backed by nation-states. In this timely book, national security expert Max G. Manwaring explores a little-understood actor on the stage of irregular warfare—the gang. Since the end of the Cold War, some one hundred insurgencies or irregular wars have erupted throughout the world. Gangs have figured prominently in more than half of those conflicts, yet these and other nonstate actors have received little focused attention from scholars or analysts. This book fills that void. Employing a case study approach, and believing that shadows from the past often portend the future, Manwaring begins with a careful consideration of the writings of V. I. Lenin. He then scrutinizes the Piqueteros in Argentina, gangs in Colombia, private armies in Mexico, Hugo Chavez’s use of popular militias in Venezuela, and the looming threat of Al Qaeda in Western Europe. As conventional warfare is increasingly eclipsed by these irregular and “uncomfortable” wars, Manwaring boldly diagnoses the problem and recommends solutions that policymakers should heed.
Author: Louis Kontos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2007-11-30
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 031334891X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In light of Los Angeles' gang state of emergency, ethnic and minority gangs are arguably more high profile now than at any other time in our history. News media typically focus on the crime and violence associated with gangs, but not much else. This encyclopedia seeks to illuminate the world of gangs, including gang formations, routine gang activities, aberrations and current developments. One hundred essay entries related to gangs in the United States and worldwide provide a diffuse overview of the gang phenomenon. Each entry defines and explains the term, provides an historical overview, and explains its significance today. As the following entries demonstrate, gangs are part of the fabric of American society. They are not only in our communities but also our schools and other social institutions. Understanding the world of gangs is therefore needed to understand American society. Entries include: Bikers, Bloods, Cholas, Crips, gang mythology, gang warfare, graffiti, Hell's Angels, Hong Kong Triads, Latin Kings, law enforcement, occultic gangs, mafia, media, prison gangs, rites, Skinheads, Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act, tattoos, trafficking, Wanna-bes, West Side Story, Witness Protection programs, and youth gangs.
Author: Charles Daly
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2023-05-15
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1439677832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover the untold story of the Windy City's Ghost Shadows. Even in a town notorious for gangsters like Al Capone, much of Chicago's lawless lore has remained uncharted. Chicago's Chinatown, in particular, was home to a vast criminal enterprise, strictly bound by old country rituals, rules and traditions. Few know of Moy Dong Chew, aka "Opium Dong," one of Chinatown's original godfathers, much less Frank Moy, his fedora-wearing predecessor. While incidents like the St. Valentine's Day Massacre dominated newspaper headlines, the Tong Wars were being waged in the shadows. Author Harrison Fillmore relates the long and sordid history of Chinatown's underbelly from the early 1880s to the late 1980s when a Federal Indictment essentially ended organized crime's grip on their good citizens
Author: Francis Ianni
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0684863685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Francis Iannni . . . has drawn upon over 1500 hours of listening to 300 adolescents, studied over a period of ten years, to weave a mosaic of insights into the protean nature of adolescence".--Edmund W. Gordon, Yale University.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 1268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Bunker J
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1135715521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years, the south-western border of the United States has come under increasing pressure from the activities of Mexican narco-insurgents. These insurgents have developed rapidly from beginnings as nebulous gangs into networked cartels that have exposed the porosity of the border. These cartels declare no allegiance to any nation and are engaging in asymmetrical warfare against sovereign states throughout Mexico and in Central America. Within such states, de facto political control is shifting to the cartels in the ‘areas of impunity’ that have emerged. This book addresses these concerns and focuses on the criminal insurgencies being waged by the gangs and cartels. It is divided into sections on theory, Mexico, and the Americas and contains a number of introductory essays pertaining to this premier security threat to the United States and her allies in the region. Topics covered include criminal and spiritual insurgency, cartel weapons, corruption, feral cities, Los Zetas, politicized gangs, and threat analysis in Central America. This book will be a valuable resource to scholars in the fields of regional security, criminal justice and American Studies. It will be of great benefit to military and civil policymakers and practitioners in the areas of law enforcement and counternarcotics. This book was published as a special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies.
