Blood Capital

Author : Robert Batten
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1942645783

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Blood Capital by Robert Batten Pdf

During the 21st century a new pandemic explodes out of the Siberian mountains. Unstoppable, the virus breaks every containment line, defies every treatment. The infected do not die. They change. The zombie apocalypse has arrived. The vampires of the world, shadow-brokers who had been amassing power and wealth for centuries, acted to preserve their food-supply; us. Millions flocked to the promised refuges, never stopping to ask what the price would be. Generations later, humans and vampires alike struggle under the weight of corporate rule. For the covert operative Ling, Sydney is a chance to recuperate after an operation in Europe goes terribly wrong. The perfect location to avoid unwanted attention. For Marie, it used to be the ideal place to pursue her research. After decades of watching her discoveries abused, sometimes with disastrous consequences, she hides her most important breakthrough: a cure to the virus. When the company discovers her secret, they’ll stop at nothing to control it. Together, the two may have a chance to change the world. All they need to do is the impossible.

Author : Jasmin Hristov
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896804661

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Blood and Capital by Jasmin Hristov Pdf

In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state’s coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions. Hristov demonstrates how various interrelated forms of violence by state forces, paramilitary groups, and organized crime are instrumental to the process of capital accumulation by the local elite as well as the exercise of political power by foreign enterprises. She addresses, as well, issues of forced displacement, proletarianization of peasants, concentration of landownership, growth in urban and rural poverty, and human rights violations in relation to the use of legal means and extralegal armed force by local dominant groups and foreign companies. Hristov documents the penetration of major state institutions by right-wing armed groups and the persistence of human rights violations against social movements and sectors of the low-income population. Blood and Capital raises crucial questions about the promised dismantling of paramilitarism in Colombia and the validity of the so-called demobilization of paramilitary groups, both of which have been widely considered by North American and some European governments as proof of Colombian president Álvaro Uribe’s advances in the wars on terror and drugs.

Author : Michael Bennett
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802160614

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Better the Blood by Michael Bennett Pdf

An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand’s indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Māori screenwriter and director A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription. Delving into the investigation after a second, apparently unrelated, death, she uncovers a chilling connection to an historic crime: 160 years before, during the brutal and bloody British colonization of New Zealand, a troop of colonial soldiers unjustly executed a Māori Chief. Hana realizes that the murders are utu—the Māori tradition of rebalancing for the crime committed eight generations ago. There were six soldiers in the British troop, and since descendants of two of the soldiers have been killed, four more potential murders remain. Hana is thus hunting New Zealand’s first serial killer. The pursuit soon becomes frighteningly personal, recalling the painful event, two decades before, when Hana, then a new cop, was part of a police team sent to end by force a land rights occupation by indigenous peoples on the same ancestral mountain where the Chief was killed, calling once more into question her loyalty to her roots. Worse still, a genealogical link to the British soldiers brings the case terrifyingly close to Hana’s own family. Twisty and thought-provoking, Better the Blood is the debut of a remarkable new talent in crime fiction.

Author : George Caffentzis
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781604862973

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In Letters of Blood and Fire by George Caffentzis Pdf

Karl Marx remarked that the only way to write about the origins of capitalism is in the letters of blood and fire used to drive workers from the common lands, forests, and waters in the sixteenth century. In this collection of essays, George Caffentzis argues that the same is true for the annals of twenty-first-century capitalism. Information technology, immaterial production, financialization, and globalization have been trumpeted as inaugurating a new phase of capitalism that puts it beyond its violent origins. Instead of being a period of major social and economic novelty, however, the course of recent decades has been a return to the fire and blood of struggles at the advent of capitalism. Emphasizing class struggles that have proliferated across the social body of global capitalism, Caffentzis shows how a wide range of conflicts and antagonisms in the labor-capital relation express themselves within and against the work process. These struggles are so central to the dynamic of the system that even the most sophisticated machines cannot liberate capitalism from class struggle and the need for labor. Themes of war and crisis permeate the text and are given singular emphasis, documenting the peculiar way in which capital perpetuates violence and proliferates misery on a world scale. This collection draws upon a careful rereading of Marx’s thought in order to elucidate political concerns of the day. Originally written to contribute to the debates of the anticapitalist movement over the last thirty years, this book makes Caffentzis’s writings readily available as tools for the struggle in this period of transition to a common future.

Author : Edward Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Hours of labor
ISBN : UOM:39015064376455

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The Margin of Profits by Edward Atkinson Pdf

Author : Thomas Lathrop Stedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OSU:32435054267950

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Twentieth Century Practice: Diseases of the uropoietic system by Thomas Lathrop Stedman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503401315

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Twentieth century practice v. 1, 1895 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : NYPL:33433007428745

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Industrial Remuneration Conference by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Feser,Joseph Bessette
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681497686

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By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed by Edward Feser,Joseph Bessette Pdf

The Catholic Church has in recent decades been associated with political efforts to eliminate the death penalty. It was not always so. This timely work reviews and explains the Catholic Tradition regarding the death penalty, demonstrating that it is not inherently evil and that it can be reserved as a just form of punishment in certain cases. Drawing upon a wealth of philosophical, scriptural, theological, and social scientific arguments, the authors explain the perennial teaching of the Church that capital punishment can in principle be legitimate—not only to protect society from immediate physical danger, but also to administer retributive justice and to deter capital crimes. The authors also show how some recent statements of Church leaders in opposition to the death penalty are prudential judgments rather than dogma. They reaffirm that Catholics may, in good conscience, disagree about the application of the death penalty. Some arguments against the death penalty falsely suggest that there has been a rupture in the Church's traditional teaching and thereby inadvertently cast doubt on the reliability of the Magisterium. Yet, as the authors demonstrate, the Church's traditional teaching is a safeguard to society, because the just use of the death penalty can be used to protect the lives of the innocent, inculcate a horror of murder, and affirm the dignity of human beings as free and rational creatures who must be held responsible for their actions. By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed challenges contemporary Catholics to engage with Scripture, Tradition, natural law, and the actual social scientific evidence in order to undertake a thoughtful analysis of the current debate about the death penalty.

Author : Vincent Hunt
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912866939

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Blood in the Forest by Vincent Hunt Pdf

With original research and interviews with survivors, a journalist reveals the brutal yet forgotten battles in Latvia during the final months of WWII. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler’s bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles in the fields and forests of Western Latvia known as the Courland Pocket. Just an hour from the capital Riga, German forces bolstered by Latvian Legionnaires were trapped with their backs to the Baltic. Forced into uniform by Nazi and Soviet occupiers, Latvian fought Latvian – sometimes brother against brother. Hundreds of thousands of men died for little territorial gain in unimaginable slaughter. When the Germans capitulated, thousands of Latvians continued a war against Soviet rule from the forests for years afterwards. An award-winning documentary journalist, Vincent Hunt travels through the modern landscape gathering eye-witness accounts, piecing together the stories of those who survived. He meets veterans who fought in the Latvian Legion, former partisans and a refugee who fled the Soviet advance to later become President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga. A survivor of the little-known concentration camp at Popervale details his escape from a death march and subsequent survival in the forests with a Soviet partisan group - and a German deserter. With detailed maps and expert contributions alongside rare newspaper archives, photographs from private collections and extracts from diaries translated from Latvian, German and Russian, Hunt assembles a ghastly picture of death and desperation in a nation both gripped by war and at war with itself.

Author : James Madison Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433081638946

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Independent Elementary Speller by James Madison Watson Pdf

Author : George Jackson
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0933121237

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Blood in My Eye by George Jackson Pdf

Originally published: New York: Random House, 1972.

Author : Mark Neocleous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015063349438

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The Monstrous and the Dead by Mark Neocleous Pdf

Examines the use of metaphors of monstrosity and the place of the dead in political theory, specifically in relation to conservatism, Marxism and fascism.

Author : Chawner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00095713

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The Influence of Christianity Upon the Legislation of Constantine the Great by Chawner Pdf

Author : Cushing Biggs Hassell,Sylvester Hassell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Baptists
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4U4H

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History of the Church of God by Cushing Biggs Hassell,Sylvester Hassell Pdf