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Author: John Hawkes
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780811206402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the south of France, an elegant sportscar is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the "privileged man" justifies, in sustained monologue, his firm persuasion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination.
Author: John Laughland
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2006, Slobodan Milosevic died in prison in the Hague during a four-year marathon trial for war crimes. John Laughland was one of the last Western journalists to meet with him. Laughland had followed the trial from its beginning and wrote extensively on it in the Guardian and the Spectator, challenging the legitimacy of the Yugoslav Tribunal and the hypocrisy of "international justice." In this short book, Laughland gives a full account of the trial---the longest trial in history---from the moment the indictment was issued at the height of NATO's attack on Yugoslavia to the day of Milosevic's mysterious death in custody. "International justice" is supposed to hold war criminals to account, but---as the trials of both Milosevic and Saddam Hussein show---the indictments are politically motivated and the judicial procedures are irredeemably corrupt. Laughland argues that international justice is an impossible dream and that such show trials are little more than propaganda exercises designed to distract attention from the war crimes committed by Western states.
Author: Timothy T. Schwartz
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Second edition of a work that reveals realities behind the foreign aid industry. Schwartz, an anthropologist who has worked with foreign aid agencies in Haiti for extended periods, exposes the fraud, greed, corruption, apathy and political agendas that permeate the industry.
Author: K. J. Sutton
Publisher: Library and Archives Canada
Published: 2020-07-08
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781777006679
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A CITY RULED BY VAMPIRES. A FORBIDDEN ROMANCE. A SOCIETY TORN APART BY REBELLION.Charlotte Travesty lives in a world of comfort. Glittering nightclubs, a lavish mansion, and a staff of humans at her beck and call. Being a royal vampire means her future is secured-all she has to do is get through the Awakening, an ancient ceremony every vampire experiences when they come of age that determines their future.But when her Awakening arrives, everything changes in one terrifying instant. Cast from her home and rejected by the royal family, Charlie is forced into a life of fear and brutality. Where creatures called weepers live in tunnels below the city, kept at bay by an unlucky sector of fighters enslaved by the very king who banished her. And now Charlie finds herself among the ranks.Just when she thinks things can't get worse, Charlie is partnered with the infamous bounty hunter Noah Forrest and enlisted to investigate increased weeper attacks and illegal vampire venom dealing. She finds an unexpected ally in him, despite his ability to get under her skin like nobody else. With Noah at her side and the human she's come to care deeply for on the other, Charlie discovers that nothing is what it seems in the world she thought she knew.Amidst endless turmoil and so many unanswered questions, only one thing is certain... Charlie Travesty's Awakening is just the beginning.
Author: Jennifer L. Armstrong
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1489739661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fingers and toes with no pruning. No rigor mortis. No livor mortis. Blood glucose levels that revealed a recent death. Neighbors who saw Samira Frasch alive two and a half hours after her husband left the house. Phone records and eyewitnesses to support his alibi. A prison snitch who told a story filled with contradictions. A golf club that mysteriously appeared in the master bedroom a year after the controversial death. A handyman who lied repeatedly. Mental health issues that were ignored. A prosecutor with a grudge. It all said the same thing, that Dr. Adam Frasch had not killed his wife. The true and frightening story of how the State of Florida created a case out of planted evidence and disjointed testimonies to put an innocent man in prison.
Author: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781934819845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The majority of the poems in this book were drafted using computer coding and programming, mostly Python and JavaScript but also Perl"--Page 76.
Author: Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-03-02
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0226983595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An American Travesty is the first scholarly book in half a century to analyze the justice system’s response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. Writing with a refreshing dose of common sense, Franklin E. Zimring discusses our society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. Too often, he argues, the American legal system ignores age and developmental status when adjudicating young sexual offenders, in many cases responding as they would to an adult. “An opinionated, articulate, and forceful critique of current politics and practices. . . . I would recommend this book for anyone interested in rethinking the fundamental questions of how our courts and systems should respond to these cases.”—Law and Politics Book Review “One of the most important new books in the field of juvenile justice. . . . Zimring offers a thoughtful, research-based analysis of what went wrong with legal policy development.”—Barry Krisberg, President, National Council on Crime and Delinquency
Author: Margie Shepherd
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2009-02-11
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1425187315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Inspired by what she describes as a true story, Travesty chronicles the life of Margie Shepherd--a 58-year-old woman who claims a nurse abducted her from a plastic surgeon's recovery room following breast surgery. Three days later, Margie awakens in a hotel room to discover more than $19,000 missing from her checking account, an initial loss that soon balloons to nearly $2 million. Amid Margie's dogged effort to achieve justice, discover her persistent and relentless battles with lawyers, police investigators, a bank and the medical industry. When the national media finally discovers her plight, is it too late to jail the alleged perpetrator?
Author: Shrill Travesty
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-05-24
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 144244066X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We all know the story of the “selfless” tree that gave all she had just to make sure a young boy was “happy.” This is a different tree. This is a different boy. This is a very different book. The Taking Tree is not pleased when the boy takes her twigs to pick on his sister, or when he cuts off her branches to build a house that he burns for insurance money. And the boy is not sorry at all. Ever. In fact, he’s kind of a jerk. So what happens when the tree finally gets fed up? Let’s just say the story doesn’t end sweetly with an old man sitting on a stump.
Author: Jack Turner
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2021-12-21
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0816547394
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what it's called, ceases to be wild. Moreover, what little wildness we have left is fast being destroyed by the very systems designed to preserve it. Natural resource managers, conservation biologists, environmental economists, park rangers, zoo directors, and environmental activists: Turner's new book takes aim at these and all others who labor in the name of preservation. He argues for a new conservation ethic that focuses less on preserving things and more on preserving process and "leaving things be." He takes off after zoos and wilderness tourism with a vengeance, and he cautions us to resist language that calls a tree "a resource" and wilderness "a management unit." Eloquent and fast-paced, The Abstract Wild takes a long view to ask whether ecosystem management isn't "a bit of a sham" and the control of grizzlies and wolves "at best a travesty." Next, the author might bring his readers up-close for a look at pelicans, mountain lions, or Shamu the whale. From whatever angle, Turner stirs into his arguments the words of dozens of other American writers including Thoreau, Hemingway, Faulkner, and environmentalist Doug Peacock. We hunger for a kind of experience deep enough to change our selves, our form of life, writes Turner. Readers who take his words to heart will find, if not their selves, their perspectives on the natural world recast in ways that are hard to ignore and harder to forget.
