Tank Man

Author : Michael Bernard Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756549664

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Captured World History: Tank Man by Michael Bernard Burgan Pdf

No one knew his name. But soon millions would know about his bravery. For almost two months in spring 1989, Beijing's Tiananmen Square had been the site of growing protests against China's hardline communist government. In early June, China's leaders had had enough. In a matter of days soldiers cleared the square. They used sticks and cattle prods. They shot rubber bullets, then real ones. They used bayonets. Student protesters fought back with firebombs and rocks, but they were no match for the soldiers. Gunfire still rang out in parts of Beijing, but China's leaders felt in control. As tanks rumbled through the streets near Tiananmen Square, a man in a white shirt came suddenly into view. He held up his right hand, like a police officer trying to halt traffic. The first huge tank in a row of four stopped just a few feet in front of the man. The tanks behind it stopped as well. Photographer Jeff Widener took a picture of the brave protester halting the huge armored fighting vehicles. The image was soon sent around the world, becoming one of the most famous photographs ever.

Author : Mark Bouman,D. R. Jacobsen
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781414390277

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The Tank Man's Son by Mark Bouman,D. R. Jacobsen Pdf

Mark Bouman recounts the events of his childhood at the hands of his larger-than-life, Neo-Nazi father in brilliant, startling detail in this memoir. From adventure-filled days complete with real-life war games, artillery fire, and tank races to terror-filled nights marked by vicious tirades, brutal beatings, and psychological torture, Mark paints a chilling portrait of family life that is at once whimsical and horrific, all building to a shocking climax that challenges even the broadest boundaries of love and forgiveness.

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756547318

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Tank Man by Michael Burgan Pdf

"Discusses the iconic photo of a lone protester, Tank Man, stopping a row of tanks near Tiananmen Square during protests in 1989"--

Author : Mark Bouman
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781414396040

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The Tank Man's Son by Mark Bouman Pdf

In the tradition of The Glass Castle and Angela’s Ashes comes the most unforgettable memoir you’ll read this year! “What did it mean to be the Tank Man’s son? To grow up overwhelmed by my father’s presence and personality? It was as if I didn’t exist, as if I was just something else for my father to crush.” So begins the haunting memoir of Mark Bouman as he recounts the events of his childhood at the hands of his larger-than-life, Neo-Nazi father in brilliant, startling detail. From adventure-filled days complete with real-life war games, artillery fire, and tank races to terror-filled nights marked by vicious tirades, brutal beatings, and psychological torture, Mark paints a chilling portrait of family life that is at once whimsical and horrific—all building to a shocking climax that challenges even the broadest boundaries of love and forgiveness. An epic tale of redemption and reconciliation, The Tank Man’s Son is a literary tour de force that is sure to become an instant classic.

Author : Robert Kershaw
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848946484

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Tank Men by Robert Kershaw Pdf

'I thought Tank Men was a triumph ...it is a really fine piece of work' - Richard Holmes 'Some of the eye witness accounts Kershaw has collected for this comprehensive review of tank warfare have the power to chill the reader to the bone. This is warfare at the sharp end' --NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST The First World War saw the birth of an extraordinary fighting machine that has fascinated three generations: the tank. In Tank Men, ex-soldier and military historian Robert Kershaw brings to life the grime, the grease and the fury of a tank battle through the voices of ordinary men and women who lived and fought in those fearsome machines. Drawing on vivid, newly researched personal testimony from the crucial battles of the First and Second World Wars, this is military history at its very best.

Author : Louisa Lim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780199347704

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The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim Pdf

An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.

Author : Emil Sher
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545541336

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Young Man with Camera by Emil Sher Pdf

A picture is worth a thousand words -- and with a unique photographic format, a stunning original voice, and a provocative portrayal of bullying, YOUNG MAN WITH CAMERA is a book to get people talking. T-- is used to getting grief. He gets it from his mom, who blames herself for his accident years earlier. He gets it from Mr. Lam, who suspects every kid of stealing from his shop. Worst of all, he gets it from Joined at the Hip, a trio of bullies so vicious that they leave T-- terrified of even using his entire name. But T-- has his own strength too: his camera, which captures the unique way he sees the world. His pictures connect him to Ms. Karamath, the kind librarian at school; his friend Sean, whose passion for mysteries is matched only by his love for his dog; and especially Lucy, a homeless woman who shares his admiration for the photographer Diane Arbus. When Lucy is attacked by Joined at the Hip, T-- documents the assault on film. But the bullies know he has the photographs, and their anger could be deadly. What's the right thing for T-- to do? Do pictures ever tell the whole truth? And what if the truth isn't always the right answer?

Author : Margaret Hillenbrand
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478009047

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Negative Exposures by Margaret Hillenbrand Pdf

When nations decide to disown their troubled pasts, how does this strategic disavowal harden into social fact? In Negative Exposures, Margaret Hillenbrand investigates the erasure of key aspects of such momentous events as the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square protests from the Chinese historical consciousness, not due to amnesia or censorship but through the operations of public secrecy. Knowing what not to know, she argues, has many stakeholders, willing and otherwise, who keep quiet to protect themselves or their families out of shame, pragmatism, or the palliative effects of silence. Hillenbrand shows how secrecy works as a powerful structuring force in Chinese society, one hiding in plain sight, and identifies aesthetic artifacts that serve as modes of reckoning against this phenomenon. She analyses the proliferation of photo-forms—remediations of well-known photographs of troubling historical events rendered in such media as paint, celluloid, fabric, digital imagery, and tattoos—as imaginative spaces in which the shadows of secrecy are provocatively outlined.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Occupations
ISBN : UOM:39015024288857

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Dictionary of Occupational Titles by Anonim Pdf

Supplement to 3d ed. called Selected characteristics of occupations (physical demands, working conditions, training time) issued by Bureau of Employment Security.

Author : United States Employment Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Employment (Economic theory)
ISBN : WISC:89097434039

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Dictionary of Occupational Titles by United States Employment Service Pdf

Author : Joseph Cummins
Publisher : Fair Winds
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 9781616734633

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The World's Bloodiest History by Joseph Cummins Pdf

Handsomely illustrated with more than 100 striking, sometimes shocking, archival images gathered from around the world, The World's Bloodiest History combines compelling depictions of momentous events with fascinating character portraits and arresting eyewitness accounts to create an absorbing, multifaceted chronicle of a sobering, all-too-human legacy.

Author : Engin F. Isin,Greg M. Nielsen
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848135987

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Acts of Citizenship by Engin F. Isin,Greg M. Nielsen Pdf

This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen. Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens. They claim that such an act involves both responsibility and answerability, but is ultimately irreducible to either. This study of citizenship is truly interdisciplinary, drawing not only on new developments in politics, sociology, geography and anthropology, but also on psychoanalysis, philosophy and history. Ranging from Antigone and Socrates in the ancient world to checkpoints, euthanasia and flash mobs in the modern one, the 'acts' and chapters here build up a dynamic and wide-ranging picture. Acts of Citizenship provides important new insights for all those concerned with the relationship between individuals, groups and polities.

Author : David Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351665803

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Stories for Management Success by David Collins Pdf

We tend to assume that we may divide our activities into talk and action. In so doing we tend to suggest that talk is subordinate to action. Taking issue with these presumptions, Stories for Management Success: The Power of Talk in Organizations argues that talk is central to what managers do. Indeed it argues that, for managers, ‘walking the walk’ necessarily implies ‘talking the talk such that storytelling is now central to managerial work’. Noting that managerial talk is increasingly located within an account of storytelling the book offers a critical review of the academic debates associated with telling tales at work and uses this critical reflection to shape and guide those who would realise the power of talk. Thus, the book concludes with six key questions designed to prompt both introspection and action on storytelling in an organized context. With reflections on the relevant management research, the author provides a scholar's digest to aid management thinking and practice. This book offers an examination of the processes of organizational storytelling and has been designed to allow practitioners of management to recognise and in so doing to unleash the power of talk in organizations.

Author : Marc Lamont Hill,Todd Brewster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982180409

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Seen and Unseen by Marc Lamont Hill,Todd Brewster Pdf

A riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont Hill and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster. With his signature “clear and courageous” (Cornel West) voice Marc Lamont Hill and New York Times bestselling author Todd Brewster weave four recent pivotal moments in America’s racial divide into their disturbing historical context—starting with the killing of George Floyd. Seen and Unseen reveals the connections between our current news headlines and social media feeds and the country’s long struggle against racism. Drawing on the powerful role of technology as a driver of history, identity, and racial consciousness, Seen and Unseen asks why, after so much video confirmation of police violence on people of color, it took the footage of George Floyd to trigger an overwhelming response of sympathy and outrage. In the vein of The New Jim Crow and Caste, Seen and Unseen incisively explores what connects our moment to the history of race in America but also what makes today different from the civil rights movements of the past and what it will ultimately take to push social justice forward.

Author : Odu Kpwere Amari'di
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781665505147

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My Life as a Refugee by Odu Kpwere Amari'di Pdf

Sadly, refugees are some of the most traumatized people in the world. Although their backgrounds vary, all share a commonality of determination and perseverance to overcome their complex challenges, both in the past and in the future while attempting to move forward into a new chapter. Odu Kpwere Amari'di, a South Sudanese immigrant living in Canada, details his journey through life to date, beginning with his birth in Uganda to refugee parents who fled Sudan during war and eventually returned to their homeland with him to build a new life. As he reveals a compelling look into his humble African background through relatable anecdotes about his childhood memories, regrets, missed opportunities, and other experiences intertwined with historical narratives, Amari’di explains why he is a refugee, the continuing plight of refugees, and the struggles as their fight continues to shun the perceptions and judgments and bear a burden of shame for allegedly abandoning their home countries in pursuit of a better life. My Life as a Refugee is the memoir of a South Sudanese immigrant that chronicles his life from birth to date as he learned valuable lessons about life, love, and inclusion while persevering through his challenges.