Making a Real Killing
Title | Making a Real Killing PDF eBook |
Author | Len Ackland |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780826327987 |
A chilling, fast-moving study of the nuclear weapons plant in the Denver suburbs, told through the experiences of managers, workers, activists, and neighbors who were all so deeply affected by the hazardous plant.
Making a Killing
Title | Making a Killing PDF eBook |
Author | James Ashcroft |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 53 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0753512343 |
In 'Making a Killing', Ashcroft provides a first-hand view of the secret world of private security in Iraq where ex-soldiers employed to protect US and British interests can make up to $1000 a day. But he also reveals a new kind of warfare where the rules are still being written. Originally published: 2006.
The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000
Title | The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000 PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Findlay |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 517 |
Release | 2023-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1496235576 |
In the years between 1940 and 2000, the American Far West went from being a relative backwater of the United States to a considerably more developed, modern, and prosperous region—one capable of influencing not just the nation but the world. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, the population of the West had multiplied more than four times since 1940, and western states had transitioned from rural to urban, becoming the most urbanized section of the country. Massive investment, both private and public, in the western economy had produced regional prosperity, and the tourism industry had undergone massive expansion, altering the ways Americans identified with the West. In The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000, John M. Findlay presents a historical overview of the American West in its decades of modern development. During the years of U.S. mobilization for World War II and the Cold War, the West remained a significant, distinct region even as its development accelerated rapidly and, in many ways, it became better integrated into the rest of the country. By examining events and trends that occurred in the West, Findlay argues that a distinctive, region-wide political culture developed in the western states from a commitment to direct democracy, the role played by the federal government in owning and managing such a large amount of land, and the way different groups of westerners identified with and defined the region. While illustrating western distinctiveness, Findlay also aims to show how, in its sustaining mobilization for war, the region became tethered to the entire nation more than ever before, but on its own terms. Findlay presents an innovative approach to viewing the American West as a region distinctive of the United States, one that occasionally stood ahead of, at odds with, and even in defiance of the nation.
The Killing State
Title | The Killing State PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Sarat |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2001-05-24 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0195349180 |
Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting the same fate. Since the Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment in 1972, the death penalty has returned with a vengeance. Today there appears to be a widespread public consensus in favor of capital punishment and considerable political momentum to ensure that those sentenced to death are actually executed. Yet the death penalty remains troubling and controversial for many people. The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture explores what it means when the state kills and what it means for citizens to live in a killing state, helping us understand why America clings tenaciously to a punishment that has been abandoned by every other industrialized democracy. Edited by a leading figure in socio-legal studies, this book brings together the work of ten scholars, including recognized experts on the death penalty and noted scholars writing about it for the first time. Focused more on theory than on advocacy, these bracing essays open up new questions for scholars and citizens: What is the relationship of the death penalty to the maintenance of political sovereignty? In what ways does the death penalty resemble and enable other forms of law's violence? How is capital punishment portrayed in popular culture? How does capital punishment express the new politics of crime, organize positions in the "culture war," and affect the structure of American values? This book is a timely examination of a vitally important topic: the impact of state killing on our law, our politics, and our cultural life.
The Killing
Title | The Killing PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Kane |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | 25 |
Release | 2019-09-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1479444669 |
Johnny Liddell goes to the races -- and finds fast horses, crooked gamblers, and a very suspicious fire.
A Killing in the Real World
Title | A Killing in the Real World PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Bohjalian |
Publisher | St Martins Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312017811 |
Lisa Stone joins forces with young Manhattan homicide detective Richard Heckler after her former college roommate is brutally murdered with a pornographer/drug dealer and a second college friend is stabbed
The Killing Jar - Based on a True Story
Title | The Killing Jar - Based on a True Story PDF eBook |
Author | Gloria Nixon-John |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2012-06 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 9780982697146 |
A true crime/narrative nonfiction account of one the youngest Americans ever convicted of murder and sentenced to death. An important, powerful book.