Fantasy Island

Author : Ed Morales
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781568588988

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Fantasy Island by Ed Morales Pdf

A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane María, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests. Taking readers from San Juan to New York City and back to his family's home in the Luquillo Mountains, Morales shows us the machinations of financial and political interests in both the US and Puerto Rico, and the resistance efforts of Puerto Rican artists and activists. Through it all, he emphasizes that the only way to stop Puerto Rico from being bled is to let Puerto Ricans take control of their own destiny, going beyond the statehood-commonwealth-independence debate to complete decolonization.

Author : Robert Belfiore
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781662416835

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Fantasy Island by Robert Belfiore Pdf

Robert Belfiore retired from the New York City Department as a captain in July 2003. He was there as a correction officer from 1987 through 1997. In 1997, I was promoted to captain and assigned to the Rose M. Singer Center on Rikers Island and worked as the visiting captain for two years before returning to my parent command of the George R. Vierno center where he was a correction officer prior to getting promoted. He spent about two years in the Intelligence Division monitoring all data and voice special circuits. He is not a disgruntled employee and was very happy with his job and the way it worked. In the early 1990s and late 1980s, it was a totally different job. Everyone looked out for one another. Times changed with the new millennium. Things became all about statistics and numbers instead of staff safety and togetherness. In all, it was a good career, and he is certain that things will always be about helping one another.

Author : Conor Gearty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191091636

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On Fantasy Island by Conor Gearty Pdf

In the 2015 UK General Election, the Conservative party pledged to reset the UK's relations with Europe, holding an in-out referendum on membership of the European Union and repealing the Human Rights Act, to be replaced with a UK Bill of Rights. With the decision now taken to leave the EU, the future of the Human Rights Act and the UK's relations to the European Convention on Human Rights remains uncertain. Conor Gearty, one of the country's leading experts on human rights, here dissects the myths and fantasies that drive English exceptionalism over Europe, and shape the case for repealing the Human Rights Act. He presents a passionate case for keeping the existing legal framework for protecting human rights and our relationship with the European Convention. Analysing the reform agenda from the perspective of British law, history, politics, and culture, he lays bare the misunderstandings of the human rights system that have driven the debate so far. Structured in three parts, the book first exposes the myths that drive the anti-Human Rights Act argument. Second, Gearty outlines how the Act operates in practice and what its impact really is on the ground. Third, he looks to the future and the kind of Britain we want to live in, and how, for all its modesty, the survival or otherwise of the Human Rights Act will play a pivotal part in that future.

Author : Sarah D. Giese
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781425877996

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Land and Water Forms--Fantasy Island Hands-On Activity by Sarah D. Giese Pdf

Make geography fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of geography.

Author : Wade T. Wilson
Publisher : Roam Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0966536800

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Fantasy Islands by Wade T. Wilson Pdf

If you're an adventurer in search of romance or a wife from a distant land, Fantasy Islands: A Man's Guide to Exotic Women and International Travel, is for you.

Author : Julie Sze
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520262485

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Fantasy Islands by Julie Sze Pdf

"The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory--combined with an increasing worldwide desire for inexpensive toys, clothes, and food--are altering the way people live and consume. At the same time, the world appears wary of the real costs of this desire: toys drenched in lead paint, dangerous medicines, and tainted pet food. Examining sites in China, including the plan for a new eco-city called Dongtan on the island of Chongming, suburbanization projects, and the Shanghai World Expo, JulieSze interrogates Chinese, European, and American 'eco-desire' and the eco-technological fantasies that underlie contemporary development of global cities and mega-suburbs. In doing so, she challenges readers to rethink how cities must undergo alterationsto become true 'eco-cities.' Sze frames her analysis of these case studies in the context of the problems of global economic change and climate crisis, and she explores the flows, fears, and fantasies of Pacific Rim politics that shaped plans for Dongtan. She looks at the flow of pollution from Asia to the United States (ten billion pounds of airborne pollutants annually). Simultaneously, she considers the flow of financial and political capital for eco-city and ecological development between elite powerstructures in the UK and China, and charts how climate change discussions align with US fears of China's ascendancy and the related demise of the American Century. Ultimately, Fantasy Islands examines how fears and fantasies about China and historical and political power change the American imagination."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Mark Rice
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472052189

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Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands by Mark Rice Pdf

"Informed by contemporary theories of colonial photography and the history of U.S. imperialism, Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands--a product of intensive archival research at the University of Michigan and elsewhere--is narrative in its approach, tracing Worcester's emergence both as a colonial administrator and a photographer and analyzing the intersections between his personal desires and his political agenda as they shaped his photography in the Philippines. Author Mark Rice discusses the controversiesthat surrounded Worcester's use of evocative photography and demonstrates his lasting influence on dominant modes of ethnographic photography as seen in the pages of National Geographic and elsewhere"--

Author : Nick Harkaway
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385352420

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Tigerman by Nick Harkaway Pdf

From the award-winning author of The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker—a novel at once heartfelt and thrilling about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind. “An irresistible delight, something like Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand as played by James Bond.” —The Washington Post Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. After a long career of being shot at, he's about to retire. The mildly larcenous, backwater island of Mancreu, a former British colony in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste and facing imminent destruction by an international community afraid for their own safety, is the ideal place to serve out his time. There is an illicit Black Fleet lurking in the bay: spy stations, arms dealers, offshore hospitals, drug factories and torture centers. Lester's brief, however, is to sit tight and turn a blind eye, so he drinks tea and befriends a brilliant, Internet-addled street kid with a comic-book fixation. When Mancreu’s fragile society erupts in violence, Lester must be more than just an observer: he has no choice but to rediscover the man of action he once was, and find out what kind of hero the island—and the boy—will need.

Author : C. A. Gearty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198787631

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On Fantasy Island by C. A. Gearty Pdf

"In the 2015 UK General Election, one of the major pledges of the Conservative party was the repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998, to be replaced with a UK Bill of Rights. In this book, Professor Conor Gearty puts forth his case for keeping the Human Rights Act by dissecting the so called 'fantasies' that are driving the case for repeal. Analysing the debate through the perspective of British law, history, politics, and culture, he examines what arguments are in place for the repeal of the Act and how these can be dismissed as no more than 'English exceptionalism'. Structured in three parts, the book first exposes the myths that drive the anti-Human Rights Act argument. Second, in a counter-balance to these arguments, Gearty outlines how the Act operates in practice and what its impact really is 'on the ground'. Third, he looks to the future and the kind of Britain we want to live in, and how, for all its modesty, the survival or otherwise of the Human Rights Act will play a pivotal part in that future."--Publisher's website.

Author : Larry Elliott,Dan Atkinson
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556037841715

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Fantasy Island by Larry Elliott,Dan Atkinson Pdf

We live in a country fantasising about its ability to run up debts seemingly without end, to enjoy high-paid employment for which it is not qualified, to project military power that it does not possess and in general to assume, in defiance of the evidence, a superior economic and political position in relation to most of the rest of the world. Then there is the apparent conviction that limitless growth can co-exist with environmental protection, that the over-borrowed and abundantly staffed state machine is actually being courageously pruned even while its payroll rises and, finally, that the just-around-the-corner radiant future is one in which will work in the 'creative economy'. Welcome to Fantasy Island. He may be the most spectacular election winner in modern British political history but Blair leaves behind him a seedy dreamworld mired in debt and bankruptcy, drifting into a crisis of employment and employability, hallucinating into existence a diplomatic and military role that it cannot possibly afford. It's time to take stock of the future he and Brown have mapped out for us while there's still time to do something about it.

Author : Diane Phillips,Sarah Burwood,Helen Dunford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0194372219

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Projects with Young Learners by Diane Phillips,Sarah Burwood,Helen Dunford Pdf

This popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers the information they need about level, time, preparation, materials, classroom management, monitoring, and follow-up activities. Each book offers up to 100 ideas, as well as variations that encourage teachers to adapt the activities to suite their individual classrooms.

Author : Roger Bennett,Jules Shell
Publisher : Crown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131611662

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Camp Camp by Roger Bennett,Jules Shell Pdf

The authors of the cultural phenomenon Bar Mitzvah Disco pick up the story of their generation's coming of age where that tome left off, painstakingly retelling tall tales of golden summers from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Full-color photos throughout.

Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Television broadcasting
ISBN : 0918432618

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Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials by Vincent Terrace Pdf

Author : Jane Seskin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1978-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0345279409

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Fantasy Island #2 by Jane Seskin Pdf

Author : John Darnton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101209240

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The Experiment by John Darnton Pdf

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA