"one Year of My Blood" Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in Beijing
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Publisher: Human Rights Watch
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Total Pages: 62
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Blood Year
Author: David Kilcullen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0190600543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2014, a resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine; post-Saddam Iraq lost a third of its territory to an army of hyper-violent millennialists; and the peace process in Israel seemed to completely collapse. In short, the post-Cold War security order that the US had constructed after 1991 seemed to be coming apart at the seams. David Kilcullen was one of the architects of America's strategy in the late phases of the second Gulf War, and he has also spent time in Afghanistan and other hotspots. In Blood Year, he provides a wide-angle view of the current situation in the Middle East and analyzes how America and the West ended up in such dire circumstances. Kilcullen lays much of the blame on Bush's initial decision to invade Iraq (which had negative secondary effects in Afghanistan), but also takes Obama to task for simply withdrawing and adopting a "leading from behind" strategy. As events have proven, Kilcullen contends, withdrawal was a fundamentally misguided plan. The U.S. had uncorked the genie, and it had a responsibility to at least attempt to keep it under control. Instead, the U.S. is at a point where administration officials state that the losses of Ramadi and Palmyra are manageable setbacks. Kilcullen argues that the U.S. needs to re-engage in the region, whether it wants to or not, because it is largely responsible for the situation that is now unfolding. Blood Year is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding not only why the region that the U.S. invaded a dozen years ago has collapsed into utter chaos, but also what the U.S. can do to alleviate the grim situation.
Blood Done Sign My Name
Author: Timothy B. Tyson
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0307419932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird *Chicago Tribune On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his life. Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets. While lawyers battled in the courthouse, the Klan raged in the shadows and black Vietnam veterans torched the town’s tobacco warehouses. Tyson’s father, the pastor of Oxford’s all-white Methodist church, urged the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away. Tim Tyson’s gripping narrative brings gritty blues truth and soaring gospel vision to a shocking episode of our history. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “If you want to read only one book to understand the uniquely American struggle for racial equality and the swirls of emotion around it, this is it.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Blood Done Sign My Name is a most important book and one of the most powerful meditations on race in America that I have ever read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Pulses with vital paradox . . . It’s a detached dissertation, a damning dark-night-of-the-white-soul, and a ripping yarn, all united by Tyson’s powerful voice, a brainy, booming Bubba profundo.”—Entertainment Weekly “Engaging and frequently stunning.”—San Diego Union-Tribune
Blood Letters
Author: Lian Xi
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1541644220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. The only Chinese citizen known to have openly and steadfastly opposed communism under Mao, she rooted her dissent in her Christian faith -- and expressed it in long, prophetic writings done in her own blood, and at times on her clothes and on cloth torn from her bedsheets. Miraculously, Lin Zhao's prison writings survived, though they have only recently come to light. Drawing on these works and others from the years before her arrest, as well as interviews with her friends, her classmates, and other former political prisoners, Lian Xi paints an indelible portrait of courage and faith in the face of unrelenting evil.
Blood in My Eye
Author: George Jackson
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780933121232
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Blood Haven Academy Year One
Author: Nicole Zoltack
Publisher: Nicole Zoltack
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Total Pages: 251
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnjoy this paranormal retelling of Romeo and Juliet by USA Today bestselling author Nicole Zoltack. A tale of star-crossed lovers… Everyone knows vampires and werewolves hate each other. It’s been that way for thousands and thousands of years. But I have a secret. I, a vampire, may be falling for one. The more tempers flare at Blood Haven Academy, the fever-pitch of hatred growing for our rivals at Moonstone Academy, the more I long to sneak away, to see my Julian. Do I dare to take that final step and love a werewolf? And if I do, what fate will befall our academies? KEYWORDS: mayhem of magic, Romeo and Juliet, fairytale fantasy, fantasy romance, romantic fantasy, slow burn romance, supernatural powers, magic, come into powers, dark fantasy romance, clean fantasy, vampire, werewolf, academy, young adult paranormal romance, young adult academy, paranormal romance, dark paranormal romance, war, Free Royal, Raven Kennedy, Kelly St. Clare, Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, C.N Crawford, Elise Kova, Robin D. Mahle, Elle Madison, D.K. Holmberg, Cordelia Castel, Kay L Moody, Alisha Klaphe
One Blood
Author: John Perkins
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0802495508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Perkins’ final manifesto on race, faith, and reconciliation We are living in historic times. Not since the civil rights movement of the 60s has our country been this vigorously engaged in the reconciliation conversation. There is a great opportunity right now for culture to change, to be a more perfect union. However, it cannot be done without the church, because the faith of the people is more powerful than any law government can enact. The church is the heart and moral compass of a nation. To turn a country away from God, you must sideline the church. To turn a nation to God, the church must turn first. Racism won't end in America until the church is reconciled first. Then—and only then—can it spiritually and morally lead the way. Dr. John M. Perkins is a leading civil rights activist today. He grew up in a Mississippi sharecropping family, was an early pioneer of the civil rights movement, and has dedicated his life to the cause of racial equality. In this, his crowning work, Dr. Perkins speaks honestly to the church about reconciliation, discipleship, and justice... and what it really takes to live out biblical reconciliation. He offers a call to repentance to both the white church and the black church. He explains how band-aid approaches of the past won't do. And while applauding these starter efforts, he holds that true reconciliation won't happen until we get more intentional and relational. True friendships must happen, and on every level. This will take the whole church, not just the pastors and staff. The racial reconciliation of our churches and nation won't be done with big campaigns or through mass media. It will come one loving, sacrificial relationship at a time. The gospel and all that it encompasses has always traveled best relationally. We have much to learn from each other and each have unique poverties that can only be filled by one another. The way forward is to become "wounded healers" who bandage each other up as we discover what the family of God really looks like. Real relationships, sacrificial love between actual people, is the way forward. Nothing less will do.
Young Blood Omnibus Volume One
Author: Jorge V. Aruta
Publisher: Inquirer Books
Published: 2020-10-23
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 971893538X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1994, the ground-breaking Young Blood column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Opinion section, giving voice to the love and loss, the highs and lows, the victories and disappointments of Filipino twentysomethings and younger. It has become required reading for the youth and a rite of passage for the aspiring young writer. Since then, the best of the Young Blood essays has been collected in anthologies; the Young Blood books are now in its 7th incarnation. Now, the out-of-print first three volumes of that series, 1998’s The Best of Youngblood, 2000’s Youngblood 2.0 and 2006’s Youngblood3 have been collected exclusively in a single electronic volume with more than 800 pages. The essays in Young Blood Omnibus Volume One gather the experiences of young people in the Philippines but are also universal for young people anywhere in just how authentic, personal and well-written they are.
One Blood
Author: Spencie Love
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0807863068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the well-known legend about his death. On April 1, 1950, Drew died after an auto accident in rural North Carolina. Within hours, rumors spread: the man who helped create the first American Red Cross blood bank had bled to death because a whites-only hospital refused to treat him. Drew was in fact treated in the emergency room of the small, segregated Alamance General Hospital. Two white surgeons worked hard to save him, but he died after about an hour. In her compelling chronicle of Drew's life and death, Spencie Love shows that in a generic sense, the Drew legend is true: throughout the segregated era, African Americans were turned away at hospital doors, either because the hospitals were whites-only or because the 'black beds' were full. Love describes the fate of a young black World War II veteran who died after being turned away from Duke Hospital following an auto accident that occurred in the same year and the same county as Drew's. African Americans are shown to have figuratively 'bled to death' at white hands from the time they were first brought to this country as slaves. By preserving their own stories, Love says, they have proven the enduring value of oral history. General Interest/Race Relations
Blood Ties & Unlikely Allies. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Sahriah Fenna Ingratubun
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 3710831172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the heart of Jakarta, Sheyna's excitement to reunite with her boyfriend Nicholas is undeniable. Yet, her mixed emotions reveal a story that transcends borders and embraces the complexities of life. As their journey unfolds, so does the possibility of an unexpected reunion with her estranged father, adding layers of anticipation to this tale of love, healing, and rediscovery.
