Machete

Author : Tomás Q. Morín
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593319659

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Machete by Tomás Q. Morín Pdf

This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts. "Morín's writing uses the mundane details of everyday life...as a jumping-off point for creating fascinating and philosophical worlds." —LitHub "Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca" ("God squeezes, but He doesn't strangle")--the epigraph of Machete--sets the stage for a powerful poet who summons a variety of ways to endure life when there's an invisible hand at your throat. Tomás Morín hails from the coastal plains of Texas, and explores a world where identity and place shift like that ever-changing shore. In these poems, culture crashes like waves and leaves behind Billie Holiday and the CIA, disco balls and Dante, the Bible and Jerry Maguire. They are long, lean, and dazzle in their telling: "Whiteface" is a list of instructions for people stopped by the police; "Duct Tape" lauds our domestic life from the point of view of the tape itself. One part Groucho Marx, one part Job, Morín considers our obsession with suffering--"the pain in which we trust"--and finds that the best answer to our predicament is sometimes anger, sometimes laughter, but always via the keen line between them that may be the sharpest weapon we have.

Author : Jean Hatzfeld
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1429923512

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Machete Season by Jean Hatzfeld Pdf

In April-May 1994, 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens--about 10,000 a day, mostly being hacked to death by machete. In Machete Season, the veteran foreign correspondent Jean Hatzfeld reports on the results of his interviews with nine of the Hutu killers. They were all friends who came from a single region where they helped to kill 50,000 out of their 59,000 Tutsi neighbors, and all of them are now in prison, some awaiting execution. It is usually presumed that killers will not tell the truth about their brutal actions, but Hatzfeld elicited extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they had perpetrated. He rightly sees that their account raises as many questions as it answers. Adabert, Alphonse, Ignace, and the others (most of them farmers) told Hatzfeld how the work was given to them, what they thought about it, how they did it, and what their responses were to the bloodbath. "Killing is easier than farming," one says. "I got into it, no problem," says another. Each describes what it was like the first time he killed someone, what he felt like when he killed a mother and child, how he reacted when he killed a cordial acquaintance, how 'cutting' a person with a machete differed from 'cutting' a calf or a sugarcane. And they had plenty of time to tell Hatzfeld, too, about whether and why they had reconsidered their motives, their moral responsibility, their guilt, remorse, or indifference to the crimes. Hatzfeld's meditation on the banal, horrific testimony of the genocidaires and what it means is lucid, humane, and wise: he relates the Rwanda horror to war crimes and to other genocidal episodes in human history. Especially since the Holocaust, it has been conventional to presume that only depraved and monstrous evil incarnate could perpetrate such crimes, but it may be, he suggests, that such actions are within the realm of ordinary human conduct. To read this disturbing, enlightening and very brave book is to consider in a new light the foundation of human morality and ethics.

Author : Tomás Q. Morín
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593319642

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Machete by Tomás Q. Morín Pdf

This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts. "Morín's writing uses the mundane details of everyday life...as a jumping-off point for creating fascinating and philosophical worlds." —LitHub "Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca" ("God squeezes, but He doesn't strangle")--the epigraph of Machete--sets the stage for a powerful poet who summons a variety of ways to endure life when there's an invisible hand at your throat. Tomás Morín hails from the coastal plains of Texas, and explores a world where identity and place shift like that ever-changing shore. In these poems, culture crashes like waves and leaves behind Billie Holiday and the CIA, disco balls and Dante, the Bible and Jerry Maguire. They are long, lean, and dazzle in their telling: "Whiteface" is a list of instructions for people stopped by the police; "Duct Tape" lauds our domestic life from the point of view of the tape itself. One part Groucho Marx, one part Job, Morín considers our obsession with suffering--"the pain in which we trust"--and finds that the best answer to our predicament is sometimes anger, sometimes laughter, but always via the keen line between them that may be the sharpest weapon we have.

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Vision
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759567573

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Season of the Machete by James Patterson Pdf

Cool and glamorous, they appear to be a successful couple on a holiday. Yet Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. On this picture-perfect vacation island, their target is Peter Macdonald, a dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure to confront cold-blooded terror. But when they clash in a shocking endgame, a hideous truth will emerge - one that can destroy them all.

Author : Fernan Vargas
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794829244

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Combat Machete Volume 1 by Fernan Vargas Pdf

Presented here is the Raven Machete Combatives System. This book will take the reader through the blade work methodologies of Master instructor Fernan Vargas. In this book the reader will be introduced to a unique system of combat which draws influences from various blade traditions from Europe, The Americas, and Asia. Also incorporated into the system are the unique insights, explorations and developments of the author, Fernan Vargas. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned practitioner this book will have something to offer

Author : Fernan Vargas,Joseph Truncale
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387330539

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Pro-Systems Combat Machete Volume One by Fernan Vargas,Joseph Truncale Pdf

This is the first volume in a series of manuals on the Pro-Systems combat machete system.

Author : Mark Plimsoll
Publisher : Mark Plimsoll LLC
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780976779544

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WMD Machete by Mark Plimsoll Pdf

The Pan-American "Huckleberry Finn" for the Twenty-first Century, a memoir of the young author's struggle with two realities, one Anglo-Saxon and the other Hispanic. In this picaresque "coming-of-age" memoir, we see a vision of North America's future in twenty-five years, when the Hispanic population becomes the majority and changes not only the demographics of the United States of America, but its culture. The author sweeps us along on a whirlwind of culture shock. He chronicles the adventures of a disgruntled industrial-age young man who feels a tribal and instinctual reluctance to accept the Third World's view of the United States, and America's foreign policy. But before he can assimilate the profound changes in language, culture, and reality, along comes a new relationship and an earthquake that stops a war only to kill twenty-two thousand people, and changes blind patriotism into something else.

Author : Don E. Dumond
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803217064

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The Machete and the Cross by Don E. Dumond Pdf

Violent class struggles and ethnic conflict mark much of the history of Latin America, continuing in some regions even today. Perhaps the worst and most prolonged of these conflicts was the guerra de las castas or ?Caste War,? an Indian rebellion that tore apart the Yucatan Peninsula for much of the nineteenth century (1847?1903). The struggle was not only ethnic, pitting indigenous peoples against a Hispanic or Hispanicized ruling class, but also economic, involving attacks by rural campesinos on plantation owners, merchants, overseers, and townspeople. The rebels met with sporadic and limited success but still managed at times to remove whole portions of the Yucatan Peninsula from state control. ø Don E. Dumond?s work is the anticipated complete history of the Caste War. Drawing on primary sources, he presents the first comprehensive description of this turbulent century of conflict in Yucatan and sets forth a carefully argued analysis of the reasons and broader social, political, and economic processes underlying the struggle.

Author : Mireya Mayor
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426207426

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Pink Boots and a Machete by Mireya Mayor Pdf

A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist and ultimately, quintessential adventurer. Now, with more than a decade's worth of thrilling exploits under her belt, Mayor recounts her life in a riveting, awe-inspiring new book. In a series of short chapters, she relives each exhilarating event with uncanny charm and self-deprecating humor. Readers have the rare opportunity to follow the renowned primatologist around the globe as she unlocks the mysteries of the natural world and endeavors to save some of the planet's rarest creatures. Says Mayor: "I love the adventure, the exploration, the scientific discovery and the documentation. But really what drives me is the thought that future generations—my own children and their children—can one day learn to appreciate them like I do." Throughout this unforgettable volume, she describes in stunning detail how she survived a plane crash...slept in jungles teeming with poisonous snakes...dove with hungry great white sharks...rappelled down a 14,000-foot sinkhole in search of frogs...draws blood from critically endangered lemurs...was charged by an angry silver-backed gorilla...was chased by elephants...and the list goes. Suffice it to say, Mireya Mayor has seen more in her 30-odd years than most of us will see in a lifetime. Her plucky spirit, brilliance in the face of calamity, and sheer will to succeed make this a classic mission book, and a thoroughly breathtaking read.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-23T22:59:00Z
Category : History
ISBN : 9781669387916

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Summary of Jean Hatzfeld's Machete Season by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In April, the nocturnal rains leave in their wake black clouds that mask the first rays of the sun. On April 6, 1994, the President of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, was assassinated upon his return from a visit to Burundi. The massacres of the genocide began that same night in Kigali, then spread to Rwanda’s provincial towns and cities, and a few days later reached the hills. #2 In Kibungo, the school playground was as packed on the first day of classes as it was in Nyamata, but with adults. Everyone was talking about the events of the previous day, shouting and cracking lots of jokes. #3 The group heads to a cabaret, where they eat and drink with gusto. Meanwhile, thirty kilometers away, Léopord and old Élie clamber into the back of a truck driving through Nyamata. #4 The men from the commune of Nyamata, Dans le nu de la vie: Récits des marais rwandais.

Author : Mireya Mayor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426207426

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Pink Boots and a Machete by Mireya Mayor Pdf

In a series of short chapters, Mireya Mayor relives each exhilarating event with uncanny charm and self-deprecating humour. Readers have the rare opportunity to follow the renowned primatologist around the globe as she unlocks the mysteries of the natural world and endeavours to save some of the planet's rarest creatures.

Author : Angelique Floors
Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Plantation Forestry in Guanacaste, Costa Rica by Angelique Floors Pdf

Author : Isabel Truesdell Kelly,Angel Palerm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Tajín (Mexico)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018563391

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The Tajin Totonac: History, subsistence, shelter and technology by Isabel Truesdell Kelly,Angel Palerm Pdf

Author : Brent Dulak,Kevin Knodell
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781682471012

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Machete Squad by Brent Dulak,Kevin Knodell Pdf

Brent Dulak doesn’t want to go to Afghanistan. Haunted by the memories of his two tours in Iraq and burnt out on soldiering, he wants nothing more than to engage in self-destructive behavior. He’s a U.S. Army medic who was recently promoted to sergeant, in charge of a team of soldiers whose job it will be to patch up the wounded at a remote outpost as the Americans prepare to turn Kandahar Province over to the Afghan forces. That won’t be easy: Kandahar is the birthplace of the Taliban. It’s filled with motivated insurgents, question-able local allies, and countless ways to die. Brutally honest and darkly funny, Machete Squad is the story of a soldier trying to keep people alive as America’s longest war rages all around him. He must look out for the welfare of his men and their patients even as he doubts his own abilities—and at times his sanity.

Author : Esteban Navarro Soriano
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667441054

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Executioners by Esteban Navarro Soriano Pdf

In 1952, the Encarnación and Matilde Silva Montero sisters were murdered inside the tobacconist's shop they ran in the city of Seville. The police soon arrested the three authors: Juan Vázquez, Antonio Pérez and Francisco Castro, being sentenced to death by garrote. The executioner, Bernardo Sánchez Bascuñana, coincides a few weeks after the execution with a friend of his, a retired civil guard, and tells him a terrible truth: the accused were innocent. The civil guard decides to start an investigation on his behalf to find the real culprits of the double crime.