Between the Lines of Drift
Title | Between the Lines of Drift PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Rudolph |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 480 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Centennial Olympic Park Bombing, Atlanta, Ga., 1996 |
ISBN |
Between the Lines of Drift
Title | Between the Lines of Drift PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Rudolf |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2018-02-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781984391681 |
A memoir
The Defence of Duffer's Drift
Title | The Defence of Duffer's Drift PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Dunlop Swinton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 74 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Guerrilla warfare |
ISBN |
Drift
Title | Drift PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Maddow |
Publisher | Crown |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2012-03-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0307461009 |
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse. Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, Drift reinvigorates a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.
Pakistan's Drift into Extremism
Title | Pakistan's Drift into Extremism PDF eBook |
Author | Hassan Abbas |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2015-03-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317463285 |
This book examines the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan, particularly since 1947, and analyzes its connections to the Pakistani army's corporate interests and U.S.-Pakistan relations. It includes profiles of leading Pakistani militant groups with details of their origins, development, and capabilities. The author begins with an historical overview of the introduction of Islam to the Indian sub-continent in 712 AD, and brings the story up to the present by describing President Musharraf's handling of the war on terror. He provides a detailed account of the political developments in Pakistan since 1947 with a focus on the influence of religious and military forces. He also discusses regional politics, Pakistan's attempt to gain nuclear power status, and U.S.-Pakistan relations, and offers predictions for Pakistan's domestic and regional prospects.
The Old Drift
Title | The Old Drift PDF eBook |
Author | Namwali Serpell |
Publisher | Hogarth Press |
Total Pages | 578 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101907142 |
"A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage."--Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - "Clear-eyed, energetic and richly entertaining."--The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Time - Tordotcom - Kirkus Reviews - BookPage 1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black, white, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass, their lives--their triumphs, errors, losses and hopes--emerge through a panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction. From a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts, microdrones and viral vaccines, this gripping, unforgettable novel is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders, and a meditation on the slow, grand passage of time. Praise for The Old Drift "An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic . . . This is a dazzling book, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "A founding epic in the vein of Virgil's Aeneid . . . though in its sprawling size, its flavor of picaresque comedy and its fusion of family lore with national politics it more resembles Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children."--The Wall Street Journal "A story that intertwines strangers into families, which we'll follow for a century, magic into everyday moments, and the story of a nation, Zambia."--NPR
Drift
Title | Drift PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Bergvall |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781937658205 |
A riveting new volume exploring the power and provocation of medieval English and the trope of the seafarer