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Author : Martin Diskin
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000690591
Essays analyze the policies of the United States government toward El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and the other countries of Central America.
Author : William M. LeoGrande
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807898802
In this remarkable and engaging book, William LeoGrande offers the first comprehensive history of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America in the waning years of the Cold War. From the overthrow of the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua and the outbreak of El Salvador's civil war in the late 1970s to the final regional peace settlements negotiated a decade later, he chronicles the dramatic struggles--in Washington and Central America--that shaped the region's destiny. For good or ill, LeoGrande argues, Central America's fate hinged on decisions that were subject to intense struggles among, and within, Congress, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the White House--decisions over which Central Americans themselves had little influence. Like the domestic turmoil unleashed by Vietnam, he says, the struggle over Central America was so divisive that it damaged the fabric of democratic politics at home. It inflamed the tug-of-war between Congress and the executive branch over control of foreign policy and ultimately led to the Iran-contra affair, the nation's most serious political crisis since Watergate.
Author : Robert Reynolds
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329882195
Author : Anna Lisa Peterson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791431819
Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion explores the ways that Salvadoran Catholics sought to make sense of political violence in their country in the 1970s and 1980s by constructing a theological ethics that could both explain repression in religious terms and propose specific responses to violence. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book highlights the ways that progressive Catholicism offered a justification and tools for political resistance in the face of extraordinary destruction. Using the case of Catholicism in El Salvador, the book explores the nature of religious responses to social crisis and the ways that ordinary believers construct and strive to live by ethical systems. By highlighting the importance of theological belief, of narrative, and of religious rationality in political mobilization, it touches questions of general interest to readers concerned with the social role of religion and ethics.
Author : Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0873327055
This series of essays on insurgency and revolution, focusing on Latin America since 1956, discusses revolutionary theory, the nature of social movements and models of social action. Topics include terror, guerilla regimes, mobilizing peasants, and the vulnerability of regimes to revolution.
Author : Joan Fry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781461749196
Experienced backyard horsekeeper Joan Fry leads the prospective horse owner through the process of assessing suitable land; choosing a veterinarian and farrier; constructing and furnishing a small barn, paddock, and arena; purchasing a horse; and feeding and care. Of special value to both novice and experienced owners are the sections on feed, which take into account the most up-to-date nutrition research, and training the horse for safe and enjoyable trail riding. Written with encouraging cheer and plenty of “horse sense,” Backyard Horsekeeping leads the way to maintaining and enjoying your own horse on your own property.
Author : William D. Gairdner
Publisher : BPS Books
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781926645711
Two decades ago The Trouble with Canada sparked a conservative renewal and inspired a generation. Now, in this completely revised update, William D. Gairdner rejoins the battle, showing that Canada suffered a disturbing regime change in the last quarter of the twentieth century and is now caught between two irreconcilable styles of government: top-down collectivism and bottom-up individualism. The result is a regime besotted with high taxation and big government, a welfare culture that rewards laziness, and a hug-a-thug mentality that betrays justice. In The Trouble with Canada ... Still! Gairdner puts familiar topics under a searing new light, and recent issues, such as immigration, diversity, and corruption of the law, are confronted head on, yielding many startling -- and sure to be controversial -- conclusions. This book is a clarion call to arms for Canada to examine and renew itself before it is too late.
Author : John George Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Beneficial insects
ISBN : OXFORD:591068589
Author : Gerlinde Pugliaresi
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781641910477
The one-minute messages were written in response to the pastor's one-minute messages written on the back of the church bulletin every week. After saving all of them, the Sunday school outlines were added to the collection of writings and then, in 2013, the Lord gave instructions to add more of His teachings and arrange them into a manuscript format. Since it was His work, it was filed away for four years, except for parts of it given to individuals. His recent instructions were to submit the writings to Christian Faith Publishing. Their approval came sooner than expected. Therefore, God will use it to His Glory in the way it was meant, revealing His heart toward mankind.
Author : Jeff Corey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813169859
Jeff Corey (1914--2002) made a name for himself in the 1940s as a character actor in films like Superman and the Mole Men (1951), Joan of Arc (1948), and The Killers (1946). Everything changed in 1951, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Corey refused to name names and was promptly blacklisted, which forced him to walk away from a vibrant livelihood as an actor and embark on a career as one of the industry's most revered acting instructors. In Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How to Act, Corey recounts his extraordinary story. Among the actors who would soon fill his classes were James Dean, Kirk Douglas, Jane Fonda, Rob Reiner, Jack Nicholson, and Leonard Nimoy. In 1962, when the blacklist ended, Corey was one of the industry's first trailblazers to seamlessly reboot his acting career and secure roles in some of the classic films of the era, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), True Grit (1969), and Little Big Man (1970), in which he starred as the infamous Wild Bill Hickok. Throughout his life, Corey sought to capture the human heart: in conflict, in terror, in love, and in all of its small triumphs. His memoir, which he wrote with his daughter Emily Corey, provides a unique and personal perspective on the man whose teaching inspired some of Hollywood's biggest names to star in the roles that made them famous.
Author : Donna J. Haraway
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373780
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.
Author : Essie Lang
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683319825
Essie Lang’s series debut is perfect for fans of Lorna Barrett, Vicki Delany, and book lovers everywhere. Rookie bookstore owner Shelby Cox must hit the books to learn the ropes before she loses a killer in the stacks. Shelby Cox never intended to become a bookseller, so when the former editor returns to her hometown of Alexandria Bay, nestled in upstate New York’s breathtaking Thousand Islands region, to take over her aunt’s bookstore, she has no idea what to expect. To her amazement, she discovers that she now owns a fifty-percent share in Bayside Books, and will also run the store’s second location in the majestic castle on nearby Blye Island. But just as Shelby is gearing up for the start of the tourist season, the Castle volunteer coordinator is found murdered in the nearby Grotto. Castle caretaker Matthew Kessler is suspect number one, but Shelby thinks the killing may be connected to an earlier era, when violence among Prohibition-era smugglers was rampant in the region. As Shelby launches her own investigation, handsome and unnerving Special Agent Zack Griffin of the Coast Guard Investigative Services tries to quell her smuggling theory and keep her safe. But Shelby is determined to summon all her savvy as a book editor to plot the murder—and find the killer before he strikes again—in Trouble on the Books, Essie Lang’s clever and captivating series debut.
Author : Lara Vapnyar
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947793514
A New York Times Editor’s Choice As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just found out that her mother is dying. Nothing is adding up. With humor, intelligence, and unfailing honesty, Katya traces back her life’s journey: her childhood in Soviet Russia, her parents’ great love, the death of her father, her mother’s career as a renowned mathematician, and their immigration to the United States. She is, by turns, an adrift newlywed, an ESL teacher in an office occupied by witches and mediums, a restless wife, an accomplished writer, a flailing mother of two, a grieving daughter, and, all the while, a woman caught up in the most common misfortune of all—falling in love. Award-winning author Lara Vapnyar delivers an unabashedly frank and darkly comic tale of coming of age in middle age. Divide Me by Zerois almost unclassifiable—a stylistically original, genre-defying mix of classic Russian novel, American self-help book, Soviet math textbook, sly writing manual, and, at its center, a universal story with unforgettable lessons for us all.
Author : Odus V. Elliott
Publisher : OUP Us
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195136654
The new tools of public action have come to rely heavily on third parties - private businesses, nonprofit organisations, and other levels of government - for their operation. The Tools of Government is a comprehensive guide to the operation of these tools and to the management, accountability, policy, and theoretical issues they pose.
Author : Cindy Robinson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682898451
Cindy was born into middle class family, a normal family, but behind the doors. . .Inside lies the truth fighting to get out, but the outside refuses, wanting, no desperately needing to look normal. You will laugh with Cindy, cry with her and hope for her even though you know that there is no hope. Catastrophe struck Cindy with such a force that it dislodged her from herself. When she starts to disappear no one notices, no one cares, after all she is just the oldest girl. Death beckons her, but Cindy desperately wants to live, so she finds a safe haven. Her family is systematically unhinged, one by one. Gone, and she is the blame. She loses her balance when the place of safety becomes her prison. The one's who have helped her to survive, now want her dead. Will Cindy be able to win this war and overcome death on the inside and out? Travel with her to a place where few people go and even fewer return. Inside Out will glue your eyes to its pages into the midnight hours and to your heart forever. The rollercoaster ride keeps you turning the pages and just when the truth is revealed, another journey begins.