Weary Policeman
Weary Policeman

Author: Dana Allin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1351224247

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As another presidential election looms, the Americas role in global affairs and security has emerged as one of the campaigns great battle lines. The struggle not just to define but also to preserve American power is no modern phenomenon: questions of intervention and projection have dominated the nations politics from the days of the Founding Fathers. Then, as now, the old centres of power were shifting. Nor is economic stress an unfamiliar factor for policymakers. But in 2012 these problems are compounded by the on-going financial crisis in Europe, which, together with the overstretch and fatigue from two wars, has sapped the strength of Americas chief allies. While it may urge its NATO partners to shoulder more of the security burden, the US finds them less willing and occasionally unable to share the strain. This Adelphi examines the myriad challenges America must confront if it is to uphold and spread its values.

Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement
Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement

Author: Townsend Davis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1999-02-17

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 039324542X

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"Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a valuable and beautiful road map to a landscape we must not forget."—Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund Thirty years after the Civil Rights Movement transformed America, Weary Feet, Rested Souls brings the landscape of this compelling period of history back to life. Logging 30,000 miles of research and more than 100 hours of interviews with Civil Rights veterans, Townsend Davis has written both a history of the struggle and an indispensable traveler's guidebook to Civil Rights in the Deep South. Ranging from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s childhood neighborhood to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three Civil Rights workers were murdered, to Selma and Birmingham and scores of other sites, Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a uniquely inspiring and deeply commemorative guide to the Movement and its heroes.

The Collected Works
The Collected Works

Author: Malcolm Jameson

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-13

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13:

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This unique Sci-Fi collection includes: Novels Tarnished Utopia Wreckers of the Star Patrol The Giant Atom aka Atom Bomb Captain Bullard's Adventures Admiral's Inspection White Mutiny Blockade Runner Bullard Reflects Devil's Powder Slacker's Paradise Brimstone Bill The Bureaucrat Orders Other Amazing Stories Children of the Betsy B Train for Flushing The Sorcerer's Apprentice Vengeance in Her Bones Tricky Tonnage Malcolm Jameson (1891–1945) was an American Golden Age science fiction author whose writing career began when complications of throat cancer limited his activity as a naval officer. Drawing from his experiences of navy and warfare he gave a personal touch to all of his stories. He is now chiefly remembered for his Captain Bullard stories which chronicles the journey of a young officer into a fleet admiral of space ship and to most critics seem like a precursor of the modern day space exploration series like Star Trek.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm
The Escape of Mr. Trimm

Author: Irvin S. Cobb

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 3734028515

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Reproduction of the original: The Escape of Mr. Trimm by Irvin S. Cobb

Europe Today
Europe Today

Author: Erik Jones

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-03-27

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1538110946

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Now in its sixth edition, Europe Today presents unrivaled coverage of developments in major European countries and across the region. Thoroughly revised and updated—including new chapters on Turkey and the wider European neighborhood to address their growing influence—this is the only work that offers a sustained and unified set of both country case studies and thematic chapters on the European Union. Written by leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book shows a range of perspectives on the process of European integration, the evolution of economic performance, and the reaction to multiculturalism and immigration. Highlighting the impact of the global economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian war in Ukraine, and the struggle to assert Europe’s voice more widely, the contributors provide a pragmatic assessment of what Europeans have accomplished and what challenges they continue to face. Each chapter builds on a foundation of basic political information and explanation to develop distinctive and thought-provoking contributions to current debates. Informative and engaging, this comprehensive text leads readers toward a coherent and informed view of Europe today.

Welcome to Fear City
Welcome to Fear City

Author: Nathan Holmes

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2018-09-26

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 143847122X

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Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from urban streets. Welcome to Fear City argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and visual culture. Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public life—in stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and the optics of undercover police operations in such films as Klute, The French Connection, Detroit 9000, Death Wish, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities, but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting surfaces of public culture. Nathan Holmes is a New York–based scholar and teacher, with a PhD in film and media studies from the University of Chicago.