Across The Red Line

Author : Richard Karl
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 159213193X

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Across The Red Line by Richard Karl Pdf

Richard Karl, a doctor and teacher, takes the reader closer than any writer before into the corridors of the hospital, on the surgical table, and into the world of medicine. In these pages we see the tragedies and triumphs of modern medicine: the beauty of surgery done well, and the aftermath of operations that fail to deliver on the hopes of the doctor and patient. We witness the "M&M"—the morbidity and mortality meeting—where doctors scrutinize their own work and mistakes, and the often inevitable outcomes of treatment. Suffused throughout are Karl’s keen observations on the workings of the human body and its immense capacity for healing. "...I celebrate the rich privilege accorded the practicing surgeon. The surgical life is really about bearing witness to the human condition and about respecting the many almost whimsical variations of biology and about the intersection of the two. It is remarkable, really, the way I get to know people so intimately so quickly, and to observe the brave and often noble behavior in them, while I witness the relentless push of biology, the aging and decay, the growth and development, but most especially the healing, both physical and emotional. It is this natural drive of our bodies to repair themselves from all injuries (including the surgeon's wounds) that is the centerpiece of medicine. Without it no surgeon could cut." Written with economy and subtlety, Across the Red Line offers a vivid picture of disease and the miracle of life. It will interest anyone who's ever been on either side of the surgical table.

Author : David A. Andelman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781643136493

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A Red Line in the Sand by David A. Andelman Pdf

A longtime CNN columnist astutely combines history and global politics to help us better understanding the exploding number of military, political, and diplomatic crises around the globe. The riveting and illuminating behind-the-scenes stories of the world's most intense “red lines," from diplomatic and military challenges at particular turning points in history to the ones that set the tone of geopolitics today. Whether it was the red line in Munich that led to the start of the Second World War, to the red lines in the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, Syria and the Middle East. As we traverse the globe, Andelman uses original documentary research, previously classified material, and interviews with key players, to help us understand the growth, the successes and frequent failures that have shaped our world today. Andelman provides not just vivid historical context, but a political anatomy of these red lines. How might their failures be prevented going forward? When and how can such lines in the sand help preserve peace rather than tempt conflict? A Red Line in the Sand is a vital examination of our present and the future—where does diplomacy end and war begin? It is an object lesson of tantamount importance to every leader, diplomat, citizen, and voter. As America establishes more red lines than it has pledged to defend, every American should understand the volatile atmosphere and the existential stakes of the red web that encompasses the globe.

Author : Marlies Glasius,Meta de Lange,Jos Bartman,Emanuela Dalmasso,Aofei Lv,Adele Del Sordi,Marcus Michaelsen,Kris Ruijgrok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319689661

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Research, Ethics and Risk in the Authoritarian Field by Marlies Glasius,Meta de Lange,Jos Bartman,Emanuela Dalmasso,Aofei Lv,Adele Del Sordi,Marcus Michaelsen,Kris Ruijgrok Pdf

This open access book offers a synthetic reflection on the authors’ fieldwork experiences in seven countries within the framework of ‘Authoritarianism in a Global Age’, a major comparative research project. It responds to the demand for increased attention to methodological rigor and transparency in qualitative research, and seeks to advance and practically support field research in authoritarian contexts. Without reducing the conundrums of authoritarian field research to a simple how-to guide, the book systematically reflects and reports on the authors’ combined experiences in (i) getting access to the field, (ii) assessing risk, (iii) navigating ‘red lines’, (iv) building relations with local collaborators and respondents, (v) handling the psychological pressures on field researchers, and (vi) balancing transparency and prudence in publishing research. It offers unique insights into this particularly challenging area of field research, makes explicit how the authors handled methodological challenges and ethical dilemmas, and offers recommendations where appropriate.

Author : Walt Gragg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698409842

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The Red Line by Walt Gragg Pdf

WWIII explodes in this electrifying debut military thriller in the tradition of Red Storm Rising and The Third World War. “Delta-Two, I’ve got tanks through the wire! They’re everywhere!” World War III explodes in seconds when a resurgent Russian Empire launches a deadly armored thrust into the heart of Germany. With a powerful blizzard providing cover, Russian tanks thunder down the autobahns while undercover Spetsnaz teams strike at vulnerable command points. Standing against them are the woefully undermanned American forces. What they lack in numbers they make up for in superior weapons and training. But before the sun rises they are on the run across a smoking battlefield crowded with corpses. Any slim hope for victory rests with one unlikely hero. Army Staff Sergeant George O'Neill, a communications specialist, may be able to reestablish links that have been severed by hostile forces, but that will take time. While he works, it’s up to hundreds of individual American soldiers to hold back the enemy flood. There’s one thing that’s certain. The thin line between victory and defeat is also the red line between life and death.

Author : Madhur Anand
Publisher : Strange Light
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771007774

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This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Madhur Anand Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION “Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…This is an important book: an emotional and intellectual tour de force.” —Jane Urquhart An experimental memoir about Partition, immigration, and generational storytelling, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma, using the imagined voices of the past and the vital authority of the present. We begin with a man off balance: one in one thousand, the only child in town whose polio leads to partial paralysis. We meet his future wife, chanting Hai Rams for Gandhiji and choosing education over marriage. On one side of the line that divides this book, we follow them as their homeland splits in two and they are drawn together, moving to Canada and raising their children in mining towns and in crowded city apartments. And when we turn the book over, we find the daughter's tale—we see how the rupture of Partition, the asymmetry of a father's leg, the virus of a mother's rage, makes its way to the next generation. Told through the lenses of biology, physics, history and poetry, this is a memoir that defies form and convention to immerse the reader in the feeling of what remains when we've heard as much of the truth as our families will allow, and we're left to search for ourselves among the pieces they've carried with them.

Author : Minnesota
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:HL3ACM

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The Constitution of the United States, the Ordinance of 1787, the Organic Act, Act authorizing a state government, the State Constitution, the Act of Admission into the Union, and sections 1 to 4821 of the general statutes by Minnesota Pdf

Author : Jemera Rone,Human Rights Watch/Africa
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 1564321649

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Behind the Red Line by Jemera Rone,Human Rights Watch/Africa Pdf

Arrest of Church Leaders

Author : Joby Warrick
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780385544474

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Red Line by Joby Warrick Pdf

In Red Line, Joby Warrick, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags, shares the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State. In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, President Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line.” Assad did it anyway, bombing the Damascus suburb of Ghouta with sarin gas, killing hundreds of civilians, and forcing Obama to decide if he would mire America in another unpopular war in the Middle East. When Russia offered to broker the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons, Obama leapt at the out. So began an electrifying race to find, remove, and destroy 1,300 tons of chemical weapons in the midst of a raging civil war. The extraordinary little-known effort is a triumph for the Americans, but soon Russia’s long game becomes clear: it will do anything to preserve Assad’s rule. As America’s ability to control events in Syria shrinks, the White House learns that ISIS, building its caliphate in Syria’s war-tossed territory, is seeking chemical weapons for itself, with an eye to attack the West. Drawing on astonishing original reporting, Warrick crafts a character-driven narrative that reveals how the United States embarked on a bold adventure to prevent one catastrophe but could not avoid a tragic chain of events that led to another.

Author : Peter Pedersen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118238325

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ANZACS on the Western Front by Peter Pedersen Pdf

A lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front--complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields With rare photographs and documents from the Australian War Memorial archive and extensive travel information, this is the most comprehensive guide to the battlefields of the Western Front on the market. Every chapter covers not just the battles, but the often larger-than-life personalities who took part in them. Following a chronological order from 1916 through 1918, the book leads readers through every major engagement the Australian and New Zealanders fought in and includes tactical considerations and extracts from the personal diaries of soldiers. This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to explore the battlefields of the Western Front, either in-person or from the comfort of home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Book of Civilization and Future by Anonim Pdf

A book of Civilization and Future. This book shows the path to our civilizations grand Future. This book shows the right way. To rightneousness, goodness and positivity. A future worth writing about. Enjoy.

Author : Rick Reichart,Sasha Reichart
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780307985224

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Extreme Cakeovers by Rick Reichart,Sasha Reichart Pdf

Wanted: Must love candy, cookies, frosting, and fun. No experience required! Make over any purchased sheet cake or frozen pound cake into a stunning creation that looks like it came from a fancy bakery—no special skills or equipment necessary! Even if you’ve never tried to decorate a cake before, with a good supply of candies and other store-bought treats and the detailed instructions in Extreme Cakeovers, you’ll be able to accomplish forty unique designs. You can: • Fashion robot hands from chocolate-covered doughnuts • Make Fruit Roll-ups blossom into a bouquet of red roses • Roll Rice Krispies Treats and Swedish Fish into realistic sushi • String a pretty strand of gumball pearls • Create a train smokestack from an ice cream cone and marshmallow Including tips and designs to please everyone from five to one hundred, Extreme Cakeovers is a whimsical guide to crafting cakes that will be the centerpiece of any occasion, from kids’ birthdays to Halloween, Father’s Day to Valentine’s Day, engagement parties to retirement gatherings.

Author : Christopher Knowles
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781473887466

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The Red Line by Christopher Knowles Pdf

The Red Line is the story of a train journey from London to Hong Kong. It is set in 1981, the year Christopher made the first of twenty-four such journeys as a tour guide, when the Cold War was still very much a fact of life. Although China appeared to be on the brink of significant change, no one could know for certain; Poland was stirring but the prospect of change in the USSR and its other allies seemed remote. This made a journey by train across that landscape particularly fascinating, because by using standard, scheduled services that together created one of the longest possible railway routes, one was necessarily immersed in the various countries in ways that otherwise would have been impossible. Equally fascinating were the reactions of Western travelers to finding themselves incarcerated for weeks on end in the eccentric world behind the Iron Curtain.In order to give the journey some coherence, the most memorable events over those years have been condensed into a single journey and the most notable personalities, plucked from various times and places, have been thrown together. To emphasize the fact that these events took place in the recent past, and to be able to show how extraordinarily quickly the world has changed in the few intervening years, the story is told by a narrator. Everything that occurs is true, although some circumstances have been slightly adapted for the sake of fluency and names of individuals have been changed.

Author : Paul R. Albert
Publisher : Paul R. Albert
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Plainville Baseball by Paul R. Albert Pdf

Town team baseball was a popular sport in the mid-west during the late 1800s and 1900s. Towns would compete against area towns with the best teams advancing to semi-pro state and national tournaments. Plainville had a town baseball team as early as 1882; four years after the town was founded. The last town team was fielded in 1958. This book details the teams, memorable games and players who represented Plainville during that time. (All profits go to Plainville not for profit organizations.)

Author : Douglas McTaggart,Christopher Findlay,Michael Parkin
Publisher : Pearson Higher Education AU
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781486003624

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Macroeconomics by Douglas McTaggart,Christopher Findlay,Michael Parkin Pdf

High quality, engaging content for students…ultimate flexibility for educators The seventh edition of this benchmark Australian text continues to offer students a comprehensive and relevant introduction to economics whilst offering educators the ability to customise and deliver content – your way. Economics 7th edition provides a streamlined approach to study and recognises the difficulties some students may face in comprehending key concepts. By leaving the more technical content and application until later, students can enjoy the more exciting policy material from the beginning and engage with the content early. Through compelling examples, clear explanations and the latest instructive on-line resources, the text draws students into the content and reinforces learning through practice and solving problems which are relevant to them. The authors train students to think about issues in the way real economists do, and learn how to explore difficult policy problems and make more informed decisions by offering a clear introduction to theory and applying the concepts to today’s events, news, and research.

Author : Douglas McTaggart,Christopher Findlay,Michael Parkin
Publisher : Pearson Higher Education AU
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442550988

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Microeconomics by Douglas McTaggart,Christopher Findlay,Michael Parkin Pdf

High quality, engaging content for students…ultimate flexibility for educators The seventh edition of this benchmark Australian text continues to offer students a comprehensive and relevant introduction to economics whilst offering educators the ability to customise and deliver content – your way. Microeonomics 7th edition provides a streamlined approach to study and recognises the difficulties some students may face in comprehending key concepts. By leaving the more technical content and application until later, students can enjoy the more exciting policy material from the beginning and engage with the content early. Through compelling examples, clear explanations and the latest instructive on-line resources, the text draws students into the content and reinforces learning through practice and solving problems which are relevant to them. The authors train students to think about issues in the way real economists do, and learn how to explore difficult policy problems and make more informed decisions by offering a clear introduction to theory and applying the concepts to today’s events, news, and research.