The Least Worst Place

Author : Karen J. Greenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199754113

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The Least Worst Place by Karen J. Greenberg Pdf

In January 2002, the first detainees of the War on Terror disembarked in Guantánamo Bay, dazed, bewildered, and--more often than not--alarmingly thin. With little advance notice, the military's preparations for this group of predominantly unimportant ne'er-do-wells were hastily thrown together, but as Karen Greenberg shows, a number of capable and honorable Marine officers tried to create a humane and just detention center. Greenberg, a leading expert on the Bush Administration's policies on terrorism, tells the story of the first one hundred days of Guantánamo through a group of career officers who tried--and ultimately failed--to stymie the Pentagon's desire to implement harsh new policies and bypass the Geneva Conventions. The latter ultimately won out, replacing transparency with secrecy, military protocol with violations of basic operation procedures, and humane and legal detainee treatment with harsh interrogation methods and torture--patterns of power that would come to dominate the Bush administration's overall strategy.--From publisher description.

Author : Karen Greenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199832095

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The Least Worst Place by Karen Greenberg Pdf

Named one of the Washington Post Book World's Best Books of 2009, The Least Worst Place offers a gripping narrative account of the first one hundred days of Guantanamo. Greenberg, one of America's leading experts on the Bush Administration's policies on terrorism, tells the story through a group of career officers who tried--and ultimately failed--to stymie the Pentagon's desire to implement harsh new policies in Guantanamo and bypass the Geneva Conventions. Peopled with genuine heroes and villains, this narrative of the earliest days of the post-9/11 era centers on the conflicts between Gitmo-based Marine officers intent on upholding the Geneva Accords and an intelligence unit set up under the Pentagon's aegis. The latter ultimately won out, replacing transparency with secrecy, military protocol with violations of basic operation procedures, and humane and legal detainee treatment with harsh interrogation methods and torture. Greenberg's riveting account puts a human face on this little-known story, revealing how America first lost its moral bearings in the wake of 9/11.

Author : Dave Gilmartin
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781466893337

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The Absolutely Worst Places to Live in America by Dave Gilmartin Pdf

The Absolutely Worst Places to Live in America surveyed thousands of Americans to find the fifty dirtiest, smelliest, most miserable cesspools, armpits, and tourist traps that make up this great land of ours. The "winners" of this awful distinction include the likes of: · Atlantic City, New Jersey—Come for the slots. Stay for the gang warfare and fourth-rate prostitutes. · Gary, Indiana—Like a sewer populated by 100,000 people. · Carson City, Nevada—Perfect for folks burned out on the high culture of Reno. · Fairbanks, Alaska—Take the most horrible place you've ever been, then subtract the sun. · Jacksonville, Florida—Possibly the foulest-smelling city in the Western hemisphere. · Camden, New Jersey—Once the proud home of America's first mass murderer, it's been all downhill since then. Perfect for your friends unfortunate enough to live in Baltimore or Houston, The Absolutely Worst Places to Live in America is an uproarious look at the dregs of our otherwise wonderful country.

Author : Valarie Kaur
Publisher : One World
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525509103

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See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur Pdf

An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • “In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valarie Kaur—renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer—describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are part of me I do not yet know. Starting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change: It is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a nation. Kaur takes readers through her own riveting journey—as a brown girl growing up in California farmland finding her place in the world; as a young adult galvanized by the murders of Sikhs after 9/11; as a law student fighting injustices in American prisons and on Guantánamo Bay; as an activist working with communities recovering from xenophobic attacks; and as a woman trying to heal from her own experiences with police violence and sexual assault. Drawing from the wisdom of sages, scientists, and activists, Kaur reclaims love as an active, public, and revolutionary force that creates new possibilities for ourselves, our communities, and our world. See No Stranger helps us imagine new ways of being with each other—and with ourselves—so that together we can begin to build the world we want to see.

Author : Lisa J Shannon
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580052962

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A Thousand Sisters by Lisa J Shannon Pdf

The founder of the organization Run for Congo Women describes her visit to Congo and recounts the extreme hardships and tragic events in the lives of the women she meets there.

Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780446511070

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The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner Pdf

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

Author : Christopher Ingraham
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062861498

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If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now by Christopher Ingraham Pdf

An NPR Best Book of the Year The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post. Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife Briana were having a difficult time making ends meet as they tried to raise their twin boys in the East Coast suburbs. One day, Chris – in his role as a “data guy” reporter at the Washington Post – stumbled on a study that would change his life. It was a ranking of America’s 3,000+ counties from ugliest to most scenic. He quickly scrolled to the bottom of the list and gleefully wrote the words “The absolute worst place to live in America is (drumroll please) … Red Lake County, Minn.” The story went viral, to put it mildly. Among the reactions were many from residents of Red Lake County. While they were unflappably polite – it’s not called “Minnesota Nice” for nothing – they challenged him to look beyond the spreadsheet and actually visit their community. Ingraham, with slight trepidation, accepted. Impressed by the locals’ warmth, humor and hospitality – and ever more aware of his financial situation and torturous commute – Chris and Briana eventually decided to relocate to the town he’d just dragged through the dirt on the Internet. If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Now is the story of making a decision that turns all your preconceptions – good and bad -- on their heads. In Red Lake County, Ingraham experiences the intensity and power of small-town gossip, struggles to find a decent cup of coffee, suffers through winters with temperatures dropping to forty below zero, and unearths some truths about small-town life that the coastal media usually miss. It’s a wry and charming tale – with data! -- of what happened to one family brave enough to move waaaay beyond its comfort zone

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698151079

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Worst. Person. Ever. by Douglas Coupland Pdf

Raymond Gunt likes to think of himself as a pretty decent guy—he believes in karma, and helping his fellow man, and all that other good stuff. Sure, he can be foulmouthed, occasionally misogynistic, and can just generally rub people the wrong way—through no fault of his own! So with all the positive energy he’s creating, it’s a little perplexing to consider the recent downward spiral his life has taken…Could the universe be trying to tell him something? A B-unit cameraman with no immediate employment prospects, Gunt decides to accept his ex-wife Fiona’s offer to shoot a Survivor-style reality show on an obscure island in the Pacific. With his upwardly failing sidekick, Neal, in tow, Gunt somehow suffers multiple comas and unjust imprisonment, is forced to reenact the “Angry Dance” from the movie Billy Elliot, and finds himself at the center of a nuclear war—among other tribulations and humiliations. A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt, gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is a side-splittingly funny and gloriously filthy new novel from acclaimed author Douglas Coupland. A deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value, it’s guaranteed to brighten up your day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89118771583

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Transactions of the State Agricultural, Horticultural, Dairymen's Association and Department of Agriculture of the University, Wisconsin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wisconsin State Agricultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094220872

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Transactions by Wisconsin State Agricultural Society Pdf

Author : Louisiana State Medical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015075804008

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New Orleans Journal of Medicine by Louisiana State Medical Society Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433082281589

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Musical Standard by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UCAL:$B339609

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The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel P. Erikson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131759354

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The Cuba Wars by Daniel P. Erikson Pdf

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Erikson explores the twilight of the Castro era and what the future has in store for America's last Cold War enemy.

Author : Institution of Naval Architects
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Naval architecture
ISBN : IOWA:31858019833494

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Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects by Institution of Naval Architects Pdf

List of members in each volume.