A Savage Act

Author : Patti Griffin
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039122000

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One evening on a quiet west coast beach, an Indigenous shaman is viciously beaten and his teepee is burned to the ground. Outraged, the community demands answers. As Constable Julie Morneau investigates the crime, she crosses paths with three siblings in foster care. Jimmy, the eldest, has gone missing, but Jonathan and Lisa, the younger two, eventually admit to being at the scene. The crown prosecutor is eager to make an example of Jonathan, who faces charges of assault and a heavy punishment. But when the shaman wakes from his coma, he doesn’t place the blame on the children—instead, he forgives and embraces them, showing them a different path to take in their lives. A path of empathy and acceptance, and of love for the land, which ultimately leads them to fight for the environment in a world where money is king. But as corporate interests and social prejudices work against them, will they be able to achieve their goals and reconcile with a ghost from their past?

Author : Patti Griffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1039121993

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Author : Rachel Kleinfeld
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525432968

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A Savage Order by Rachel Kleinfeld Pdf

The most violent places in the world today are not at war. They are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some places—from Colombia to the Republic of Georgia—have been able to recover. Taking on existing literature and popular theories about war, crime, and foreign intervention, A Savage Order is a blistering yet inspiring investigation into what makes some countries peaceful and others war zones, and a blueprint for what we can do to help. Drawing on fifteen years of study and firsthand field research—interviewing generals, former guerrillas, activists, politicians, and law enforcement in countries around the world—Rachel Kleinfeld tells the stories of societies, including our own, that successfully fought seemingly ingrained violence and offers penetrating conclusions about what must be done to build governments that are able to protect the lives of their citizens.

Author : Williamson Murray,Wayne Hsieh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400889372

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A Savage War by Williamson Murray,Wayne Hsieh Pdf

How the Civil War changed the face of war The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. A Savage War sheds critical new light on this defining chapter in military history. In a masterful narrative that propels readers from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox, Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh bring every aspect of the battlefield vividly to life. They show how this new way of waging war was made possible by the powerful historical forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, yet how the war was far from being simply a story of the triumph of superior machines. Despite the Union’s material superiority, a Union victory remained in doubt for most of the war. Murray and Hsieh paint indelible portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and other major figures whose leadership, judgment, and personal character played such decisive roles in the fate of a nation. They also examine how the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Northern Virginia, and the other major armies developed entirely different cultures that influenced the war’s outcome. A military history of breathtaking sweep and scope, A Savage War reveals how the Civil War ushered in the age of modern warfare.

Author : Robbie Richardson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487503444

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The Savage and Modern Self by Robbie Richardson Pdf

The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain. Author Robbie Richardson argues that depictions of "Indians" in British literature were used to critique and articulate evolving ideas about consumerism, colonialism, "Britishness," and, ultimately, the "modern self" over the course of the century. Considering the ways in which British writers represented contact between Britons and "Indians," both at home and abroad, the author shows how these sites of contact moved from a self-affirmation of British authority earlier in the century, to a mutual corruption, to a desire to appropriate perceived traits of "Indianess." Looking at texts exclusively produced in Britain, The Savage and Modern Self reveals that "the modern" finds definition through imagined scenes of cultural contact. By the end of the century, Richardson concludes, the hybrid Indian-Brition emerging in literature and visual culture exemplifies a form of modern, British masculinity.

Author : Robert Olmstead
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616207656

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Savage Country by Robert Olmstead Pdf

“The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . .” Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his dead brother’s debt. Together with his widowed sister-in-law, Elizabeth, bankrupted by her husband’s folly and death, they embark on a massive, and hugely dangerous, buffalo hunt. Elizabeth hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who now depend on her; the buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving the land. Elizabeth and Michael plunge south across the aptly named “dead line” demarcating Indian Territory from their home state of Kansas. Nothing could have prepared them for the dangers: rattlesnakes, rabies, wildfire, lightning strikes, blue northers, flash floods—and human treachery. With the Comanche in winter quarters, Elizabeth and Michael are on borrowed time, and the cruel work of harvesting the buffalo is unraveling their souls. Bracing, direct, and quintessentially American, Olmstead’s gripping narrative follows that infamous hunt, which drove the buffalo to near extinction. Savage Country is the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as a road to economic salvation. But it’s also the intimate story of how that hunt changed Michael and Elizabeth forever.

Author : Morris Arnold
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0938626760

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Unequal Laws Unto a Savage Race by Morris Arnold Pdf

Partly because its colonial settlements were tiny, remote, and inconsequential, the early history of Arkansas has been almost entirely neglected. Even Arkansas Post, the principal eighteenth-century settlement, served mainly as a temporary place of residence for trappers and voyageurs. It was also an entrepot for travelers on the Mississippi—a place to be while on the way elsewhere. Only a very few inhabitants, true agricultural settlers, ever established themselves a or around the Post. For most of the eighteenth century, Arkansas’s non-Indian population was less than one hundred, and never much exceeded five or six hundred. Its European residents of that era, mostly French, have left virtually no physical trace: the oldest buildings and the oldest marked graves in the state date from the 1820s. Drawing on original French and Spanish archival sources, Morris Arnold chronicles for the first time the legal institutions of colonial Arkansas, the attitude of its population towards European legal ideas as were current in Arkansas when Louisiana was transferred to the United States in 1803. Because he views the clash of legal traditions in the upper reaches of the Jefferson’s Louisiana as part of a more general cultural conflict, Arnold closely examines the social and economic characteristics of Arkansas’s early residents in order to explain why, following the American takeover, the common law was introduced into Arkansas with such relative ease.

Author : Charles W. Smith,Larry Savage
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774835411

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Unions in Court by Charles W. Smith,Larry Savage Pdf

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Canadian unions have scored a number of important Supreme Court victories, securing constitutional rights to picket, bargain collectively, and strike. Unions in Court documents the evolution of the Canadian labour movement’s engagement with the Charter, demonstrating how and why labour’s long-standing distrust of the legal system has given way to a controversial, Charter-based legal strategy. This book’s in-depth examination of constitutional labour rights will have critical implications for labour movements as well as activists in other fields.

Author : Rachel Kleinfeld
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781524746872

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A Savage Order by Rachel Kleinfeld Pdf

The most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some places—from Colombia to the Republic of Georgia—have been able to recover. In this powerfully argued and urgent book, Rachel Kleinfeld examines why some democracies, including our own, are crippled by extreme violence and how they can regain security. Drawing on fifteen years of study and firsthand field research—interviewing generals, former guerrillas, activists, politicians, mobsters, and law enforcement in countries around the world—Kleinfeld tells the stories of societies that successfully fought seemingly ingrained violence and offers penetrating conclusions about what must be done to build governments that are able to protect the lives of their citizens. Taking on existing literature and popular theories about war, crime, and foreign intervention, A Savage Order is a blistering yet inspiring investigation into what makes some countries peaceful and others war zones, and a blueprint for what we can do to help.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015053127554

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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100502338Z

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The Works of William Shakspere by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Albert Gibson,Robert McLean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B4958768

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Law Notes by Albert Gibson,Robert McLean Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:C3024965

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The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : F Claudius Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600069538

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The Young Middy: Or, the Perilous Adventures of a Boy-officer Among the Royalists and Republicans of the First French Revolution by F Claudius Armstrong Pdf

Author : Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)
Publisher : Melbourne : Published for the Trustees of the Public Library by Robt. S. Brain
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : UCAL:$B567085

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Letters from Victorian Pioneers by Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.) Pdf

Addressed by pioneers to His Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe ... ; Each paper listed separately in this Bibliography.