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Author : Erin Bow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481442718
The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
Author : Erin Bow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781481442749
"Greta was her country's crown princess, and also its hostage, destined to be the first casualty in an inevitable war. But when the war came, it broke all the rules, and Greta forged a different past. She is no longer princess. No longer hostage. No longer human. Greta Stuart has become an AI."--Page 2 of cover.
Author : Barbara Hately-Broad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845207243
Millions of servicemen of the belligerent powers were taken prisoner during World War II. Until recently, the popular image of these men has been framed by tales of heroic escape or immense suffering at the hands of malevolent captors. For the vast majority, however, the reality was very different. Their history, both during and after the War, has largely been ignored in the grand narratives of the conflict. This collection brings together new scholarship, largely based on sources from previously unavailable Eastern European or Japanese archives. Authors highlight a number of important comparatives. Whereas for the British and Americans held by the Germans and Japanese, the end of the war meant a swift repatriation and demobilization, for the Germans, it heralded the beginning of an imprisonment that, for some, lasted until 1956. These and many more moving stories are revealed here for the first time.
Author : John Peel
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671882880
Jake and Nog must save a Cardassian stowaway from the fury of Jaker, a Bajoran boy whose parents were killed by Cardassians.
Author : Erin Bow
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545328760
A debut novel that's as sharp as a knife's point. Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can work deep magic. As the wood-carver's daughter, Kate held a carving knife before a spoon, and her wooden charms are so fine that some even call her "witch-blade" -- a dangerous nickname in a town where witches are hunted and burned in the square.
Author : Sam Settle
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784505288
This moving book provides an inside-view of life in prison, and people's remarkable ability to make sense of their lives there as they learn to meditate. Drawing on years of intimate correspondence between prisoners and charity workers of the Prison Phoenix Trust, it traces prisoners' struggles through the harshest of circumstances to find authenticity, friendship and hope. This is not only an empowering guide for those in prison, but a testament to the liberating power of peace, which, in spite of all obstacles, can be unlocked within us all.
Author : Sarah Kovner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780674737617
Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sarah Kovner shows poorly trained guards and rogue commanders inflicted the most horrific damage. Camps close to centers of imperial power tended to be less violent, and many POWs died from friendly fire.
Author : Meyrick Booth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Political prisoners
ISBN : OCLC:1425371830
Author : Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781468311617
The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post). Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, Khodorkovsky began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and fight corruption. Then he was arrested at gunpoint. Sentenced to ten years in a Siberian penal colony on fraud and tax evasion charges in 2003, Khodorkovsky was put on trial again in 2010 and sentenced to fourteen years on new charges that contradicted the previous ones. While imprisoned, Khodorkovsky fought for the rights of his fellow prisoners, going on hunger strike four times. After he was pardoned in 2013, he vowed to continue fighting for prisoners’ rights, and this book is dedicated to that work. A moving portrait of the prisoners Khodorkovsky met, My Fellow Prisoners is an eye-opening account of Russia’s brutal prison system. “Vivid, humane and poignant” —Financial Times
Author : Nam Nhat Phan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1682476146
American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlefields, these were brutal times for America's South Vietnamese allies combined with a period of intense diplomatic negotiations conducted under the increasing reality that America had abandoned them. In Peace and Prisoners of War, written in "real-time" as events occurred, Phan Nhat Nam provides a unique window into the harsh combat that followed America's withdrawal and the hopelessness of South Vietnam's attempt to stave off an eventual communist victory. Few others could have written this book. Phan Nhat Nam saw the war for years as a combat soldier in one of South Vietnam's most respected airborne divisions, then as the country's most respected war reporter, and for fourteen years after the war as a prisoner in Hanoi's infamous "re-education" camps, including eight years in solitary confinement. In the war's aftermath anonymity became his fate both inside Vietnam and here in America. But now one of his important works is available, enhanced by an introduction by Senator James Webb, one of the most decorated Marines in the Vietnam War. Webb describes this revealing work as "an unvarnished observation frozen in time, devoid of spin or false retrospective wisdom." Phan's reporting makes clear the sense of doom that foretold the tragic events to come, on the battlefields and in the frustration of negotiating with an implacable enemy while abandoned by its foremost ally. Readers will find this book both enlightening and disturbing, its observations until now overlooked in most histories of the Vietnam War.
Author : Erin Bow
Publisher : Lumen
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9782371021488
Au premier faux pas, vous êtes mort... Greta Stuart n'est plus otage. Elle n'est plus princesse héritière de la Confédération panpolaire. Elle n'est même plus humaine. Afin de sauver sa vie et celle de ses amis, elle a accepté de devenir une intelligence artificielle, la première depuis près d'un siècle. Mais ce choix a un prix... Le corps de la jeune fille ne supportera pas longtemps cette transformation. Bientôt, elle devra l'abandonner pour prendre possession de celui d'un Cygne, ces êtres moitié soldats, moitié messagers qui vénèrent Talis, l'intelligence artificielle qui règne sur la planète. Mais tandis qu'elle chevauche à travers des étendues glaciales et désertiques, aux côtés de Talis et de deux de ses serviteurs, Greta est rattrapée par son passé. Une révolte gronde : le peuple panpolaire semble bien décidé à arracher sa princesse des mains du maître du monde... quitte à la tuer. Et parmi les rebelles, Elián, le garçon qu'elle a sauvé, celui qui lui a ouvert les yeux et qui rêve de changer le monde. Greta saura-t-elle maîtriser sa nouvelle nature et empêcher un cataclysme de se produire ? Prisoners of Peace conclut de façon magistrale la série en deux tomes The Scorpion Rules, " fresque dystopique à en tomber à la renverse, qui se dévore le cœur dans la gorge ", pimentée " de moments d'émotion qui sont autant de coups de poing pour le lecteur ", saluée par une critique et une blogosphère unanimes aux États-Unis.
Author : Brian Dallas McKnight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1606352075
At midnight on January 24, 1954, the last step was taken in the armistice to end the war in Korea. That night, the neutral Indian guards who had overseen the prisoner of war repatriation process abandoned their posts, leaving their charges to make their own decisions. The vast majority of men allowed to choose a new nation were Chinese and North Koreans who elected the path of freedom. There were smaller groups hoping that the communist bloc would give them a better life; among these men were twenty-one American soldiers and prisoners of war. "We Fight for Peace" tells their story. During the four months prior to the armistice, news had spread throughout the United States and the world that a group of twenty-three Americans was refusing repatriation. In the interim, two of the twenty-three soldiers had escaped. Once back behind American lines, the first voluntary repatriate, Edward Dickenson, was given celebrity treatment with the hope that this positive experience would entice the others to return to the United States. Just one more American POW, Claude Batchelor, chose repatriation. In the United States, Dickenson, who was being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center, was placed under arrest and charged with a variety of collaboration related crimes. Weeks later, Batchelor was similarly arrested. Over the course of the coming months, Dickenson and Batchelor, against the backdrop of Joseph McCarthy's Army Hearings, were prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. In the ensuing years, Dickenson and Batchelor, both of whom had voluntarily returned to the United States, watched from their jail cells as most of the remaining twenty-one Americans trickled back home, protected by the dishonorable discharges they received. Exhaustively researched and meticulously documented, "We Fight for Peace" is the first comprehensive scholarly work on this controversial event in international history.
Author : Marsha Weissman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815652984
By the close of the twentieth century, the United States became known for its reliance on incarceration as the chief means of social control, particularly in poor communities of color. The carceral state has been extended into the public school system in these communities in what has become known as the “school-to-prison pipeline.” Through interviews with young people suspended from school, Weissman examines the impact of zero tolerance and other harsh disciplinary approaches that have transformed schools into penal-like institutions. In their own words, students describe their lives, the challenges they face, and their efforts to overcome those challenges. Unlike other studies, this book illuminates the students’ perspectives on what happens when the educational system excludes them from regular school. Weissman draws attention to research findings that suggest punitive disciplinary policies and practices resemble criminal justice strategies of arrest, trial, sentence, and imprisonment. She demonstrates how harsh school discipline prepares young people from poor communities of color for their place in the carceral state. An invaluable resource for policy makers, Prelude to Prison presents recommendations for policy, practice, and political change that have the potential to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.
Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0864929692
"Down Inside is both a personal memoir of author Robert Clark's three decades in Canada's federal prisons in Ontario, and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies. In his thirty years of service, Clark rose from student volunteer to assistant warden. He worked with some of Canada's most dangerous and notorious prisoners. He dealt with escapes and riots, prisoner murders and prisoner suicides. He also arranged ice-hockey tournaments in a maximum-security institution, sat in a darkened gym watching movies with three hundred inmates, took parolees sightseeing, and consoled victims of violent crimes. He's managed cellblocks, been a parole officer, and investigated staff corruption. Clark takes readers down inside a range of prisons, from maximum-security Kingston Penitentiary to the Regional Treatment Centre for mentally ill prisoners and minimum-security Pittsburgh Institution. Down Inside compellingly challenges the popular belief that a "tough on crime" approach makes our prisons and our communities safer, arguing instead for humane treatment and rehabilitation. Finally, Clark responds to the recently renewed controversy about long-term solitary confinement, drawing from his own experience managing solitary-confinement units to discuss headline-making cases like that of Ashley Smith, and calls for an end to its overuse in Canada's prisons."--
Author : Erin Bow
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545578004
Winner of the 2014 Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, from the author of Plain Kate. At the very edge of the world live the Shadowed People. And with them live the dead.There, in the village of Westmost, Otter is born to power. She is the proud daughter of Willow, the greatest binder of the dead in generations. It will be Otter's job someday to tie the knots of the ward, the only thing that keeps the living safe.Kestrel is training to be a ranger, one of the brave women who venture into the forest to gather whatever the Shadowed People can't live without and to fight off whatever dark threat might slip through the ward's defenses.And Cricket wants to be a storyteller -- already he shows the knack, the ear -- and already he knows dangerous secrets. But something is very wrong at the edge of the world. Willow's power seems to be turning inside out. The ward is in danger of falling. And lurking in the shadows, hungry, is a White Hand, the most dangerous of the dead, whose very touch means madness, and worse.Suspenseful, eerie, and beautifully imagined.