The American Zone

Author : L. Neil Smith
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429980807

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The American Zone by L. Neil Smith Pdf

In the North American Confederacy . . . People are free--really free. Free to do as they please, whether it be starting a business, running for elected office, or taking target practice in the back forty. There's not a whole lot of government, nor is there a lot of crime, because everyone who wants to carries a gun, and isn't afraid to use it. But someone has bombed the Endicott Building, killing hundreds of people, and Win Bear, the only licensed detective in the confederacy, has to find out who did this dastardly deed, and why. Because whoever did it has already shown their willingness to commit more terrorist acts, no matter how many people are hurt. And that can't go on, or soon the confederacy will be just as the bad old United States--and that is something they want to avoid at all costs. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Jens Duffy
Publisher : Mundoverbi Limited
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1907227059

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Damage Fun - The American Zone by Jens Duffy Pdf

DAMAGE FUN! The American Military Zone, Germany. 1973. - The Oil Crisis is in full swing. The Cold War is ticking over merrily. English-born, nine-year-old, Irish-German Fergal's parents are trying to kill each other, his older sister tortures him inventively for points, school shelters deranged teachers, and, to top it all off, Fergal has just been diagnosed with SitMut by a mad German doctor who explains that SitMut is Situation Dependent Mutation or Shapeshifting Under Stress, which doesn't mean Fergal needs to be put down as he can be used for scientific experiments. - Such chaos is just not on! Fergal considers himself the epitome of an Englishman who is very definitely out of place in Germany. He wants to go back home to England where things are just brilliant, because they were brilliant before his family moved to West Germany for economic reasons, but now his dad's sports car business is in very bad shape. - Escaping is hard when you are nine. There are perks on Germany's old battlefields though! A lot of ammo left over from WWII is still abundant. You just need to know where to look. Fergal and his friends do know where to look! - DAMAGE FUN describes a community still hung over from WWII, where boys really can be boys in their very own utopia of explosions, superb blood-fests, glorious death, and make-believe, until one day reality strikes ...

Author : Donald L. Elliott
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610910552

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A Better Way to Zone by Donald L. Elliott Pdf

Nearly all large American cities rely on zoning to regulate land use. According to Donald L. Elliott, however, zoning often discourages the very development that bigger cities need and want. In fact, Elliott thinks that zoning has become so complex that it is often dysfunctional and in desperate need of an overhaul. A Better Way to Zone explains precisely what has gone wrong and how it can be fixed. A Better Way to Zone explores the constitutional and legal framework of zoning, its evolution over the course of the twentieth century, the reasons behind major reform efforts of the past, and the adverse impacts of most current city zoning systems. To unravel what has gone wrong, Elliott identifies several assumptions behind early zoning that no longer hold true, four new land use drivers that have emerged since zoning began, and basic elements of good urban governance that are violated by prevailing forms of zoning. With insight and clarity, Elliott then identifies ten sound principles for change that would avoid these mistakes, produce more livable cities, and make zoning simpler to understand and use. He also proposes five practical steps to get started on the road to zoning reform. While recent discussion of zoning has focused on how cities should look, A Better Way to Zone does not follow that trend. Although New Urbanist tools, form-based zoning, and the SmartCode are making headlines both within and outside the planning profession, Elliott believes that each has limitations as a general approach to big city zoning. While all three trends include innovations that the profession badly needs, they are sometimes misapplied to situations where they do not work well. In contrast, A Better Way to Zone provides a vision of the future of zoning that is not tied to a particular picture of how cities should look, but is instead based on how cities should operate.

Author : Michael Fobes Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0674108833

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The Channeling Zone by Michael Fobes Brown Pdf

Neither a debunker nor an advocate, Michael Brown examines why so many intelligent Americans have turned to channeling as a source of spiritual guidance and how this links with older and more esoteric native religions.

Author : Stephen G. Rabe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 0190216255

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The Killing Zone by Stephen G. Rabe Pdf

The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America, Second Edition, is a comprehensive yet concise analysis of U.S. policies in Latin America during the Cold War. Author Stephen G. Rabe, a leading authority in the field, argues that the sense of joy and accomplishment that accompanied the end of the Cold War, the liberation of Eastern Europe, and the collapse of the Soviet Union must be tempered by the realization that Latin Americans paid a ghastly price during the Cold War. Dictatorship, authoritarianism, the methodical abuse of human rights, and campaigns of state terrorism characterized life in Latin America between 1945 and 1989. Countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, and Guatemala endured appalling levels of political violence. The U.S. repeatedly intervened in the internal affairs of Latin American nations in the name of anticommunism, destabilizing constitutional governments and aiding and abetting those who murdered and tortured. Rabe supplements his strong, provocative historical narrative with stories about the fates of ordinary Latin Americans, an extensive chronology, a series of evocative photographs, and an annotated bibliography.

Author : Melinda Cooper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781942130048

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Family Values by Melinda Cooper Pdf

Why was the discourse of family values so pivotal to the conservative and free-market revolution of the 1980s and why has it continued to exert such a profound influence on American political life? Why have free-market neoliberals so often made common cause with social conservatives on the question of family, despite their differences on all other issues? In this book, Melinda Cooper challenges the idea that neoliberalism privileges atomized individualism over familial solidarities, and contractual freedom over inherited status. Delving into the history of the American poor laws, she shows how the liberal ethos of personal responsibility was always undergirded by a wider imperative of family responsibility and how this investment in kinship obligations recurrently facilitated the working relationship between free-market liberals and social conservatives. Neoliberalism, she argues, must be understood as an effort to revive and extend the poor law tradition in the contemporary idiom of household debt. As neoliberal policymakers imposed cuts to health, education, and welfare budgets, they simultaneously identified the family as a wholesale alternative to the twentieth-century welfare state. And as the responsibility for deficit spending shifted from the state to the household, the private debt obligations of family were defined as foundational to socio-economic order. Despite their differences, neoliberals and social conservatives were in agreement that the bonds of family needed to be encouraged — and at the limit enforced — as a necessary counterpart to market freedom. In a series of case studies ranging from Clinton’s welfare reform to the AIDS epidemic, and from same-sex marriage to the student loan crisis, Cooper explores the key policy contributions made by neoliberal economists and legal theorists. Only by restoring the question of family to its central place in the neoliberal project, she argues, can we make sense of the defining political alliance of our times, that between free-market economics and social conservatism.

Author : Frederick Downs Jr.
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393076066

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The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War by Frederick Downs Jr. Pdf

“The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”—Army Times Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zone tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant to face lethal danger, to follow orders, and to search for the conviction and then the hope that this war was worth the sacrifice. The book includes a new chapter on what happened to the platoon members when they came home.

Author : Carolyn Marsden
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467732253

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The White Zone by Carolyn Marsden Pdf

Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of their Baghdad neighborhood—when books, not bombs, ruled Mutanabbi Street. War has been the backdrop of their young lives. And now Iraq isn't just at war with Americans. It's at war with itself. Sunnis fight Shiites, and the strife is at the boys' doorsteps. Nouri is Shiite and Talib is half Sunni. To the boys, it seems like only a miracle can mend the rift that is tearing a country and a family apart. In early 2008, Iraq experienced a miracle. Snow fell in Baghdad for the first time in living memory. As snow covered the dusty streets, the guns in the city grew silent and there was an unofficial ceasefire. During these magical minutes, Sunni and Shiite differences were forgotten. There was no green zone, no red zone. There was only the white zone. Against this real-life backdrop, Nouri and Talib begin to imagine a world after the war.

Author : Jessica Reinisch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199660797

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The Perils of Peace by Jessica Reinisch Pdf

An archive-based study examining how the four Allies - Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union - prepared for and conducted their occupation of Germany after its defeat in 1945. Uses the case of public health to shed light on the complexities of the immediate post-war period.

Author : Gary David
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781935487159

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The Orion Zone by Gary David Pdf

Ancient star lore exploring the mysterious location of Pueblos in the American Southwest, circa 1100 AD, that appear to be a mirror image of the major stars of the Orion constellation. Many readers are familiar with the correlation between the pyramids of Egypt and the stars of Orion. Beginning in 1100 A.D. on the Arizona desert, the Hopi constructed a similar pattern of villages that mirrors all the major stars in the constellation. "As Above, so Below." The Orion Zone explores this ground-sky relationship and its astounding global significance. Packed with diagrams, maps, astronomical charts, and photos of ruins and rock art, this useful guidebook decodes the ancient mysteries of the Pueblo Indian world.

Author : Orr Kelly
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015022066115

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King of the Killing Zone by Orr Kelly Pdf

By examining the development of this tank the reader gains valuable insight into tanks, armored warfare, and military/procurement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385535014

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Zone One by Colson Whitehead Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. • "One of the best books of the year." —Esquire After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. Zone One unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world. And then things start to go terribly wrong… At once a chilling horror story and a literary novel by a contemporary master, Zone One is a dazzling portrait of modern civilization in all its wretched, shambling glory. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : SRLF:A0000166280

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Foreign Aid Appropriation Bill for 1949 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : OSU:32435029220209

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Professional Journal of the United States Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert P. Grathwol,Donita Moorhus
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814731338

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Berlin and the American Military by Robert P. Grathwol,Donita Moorhus Pdf

"Robert P. Grathwol and Donita M. Moorhus here tell the story in words and pictures of that city and the thousands of American soldiers and their families who served and lived there between 1945 and 1994. Oral histories depict the people, places, and events that comprise the history of this vital outpost of democracy in the middle of a Communist bloc."--BOOK JACKET.