Download or read book Bush Tragedies written by Bill Poulos and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist Bill Poulos delves deep into Australia's turbulent and lawless past with this collection of stories recalling crimes, murders and tragedies that once made headlines around the nation. His detailed research takes the reader into townships, settlements and the wide-open spaces of the outback where there is no escape from the shocking and often brutal events he vividly recreates. Bush Tragedies throws a light on shocking events that occurred far from the big cities - tragedies that disrupted and divided tight knit communities in obscure towns and settlements. The author takes us well beyond the bare facts of crime and punishment. Postscripts add fascinating backgrounds and outcomes to those involved - the cause and effect of the brutal deeds he describes. Readers become observers at inquests and trials, even joining the witnesses at the gallows. We are introduced to rogues and villains, their unfortunate victims, and the lawyers and judges who decide their fate. This rollicking time capsule brings to life the truly appalling crimes and tragedies that horrified a nation all those years ago. They are retold in graphic detail from start to finish, complete with the cut and thrust of cross-examinations by police and lawyers. It can be a tragic world out there in the bush . . .

Download or read book Mississippi River Tragedies written by Christine A Klein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read a free excerpt here! American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called “natural disasters” continue to strike the Mississippi basin, as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals that it is seductively deceptive—but horribly misleading—to call such catastrophes “natural.” Authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer present a sympathetic account of the human dreams, pride, and foibles that got us to this point, weaving together engaging historical narratives and accessible law stories drawn from actual courtroom dramas. The authors deftly uncover the larger story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent attitude toward nature—simultaneously revering wild rivers and places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them into something else. Despite their sobering revelations, the authors’ final message is one of hope. Although the acknowledgement of human responsibility for unnatural disasters can lead to blame, guilt, and liability, it can also prod us to confront the consequences of our actions, leading to a liberating sense of possibility and to the knowledge necessary to avoid future disasters.

Download or read book A Bush Calendar written by Amy Eleanor Mack and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Bush Calendar written by Amy E. Mack Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comedies Histories Tragedies and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tragedy and International Relations written by T. Erskine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere are clashes between competing ethical perspectives more prevalent than in the realm of International Relations. Thus, understanding tragedy is directly relevant to understanding IR. This volume explores the various ways that tragedy can be used as a lens through which international relations might be brought into clearer focus.

Download or read book Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies written by Keith Sturgess and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery, punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and characterization often enhanced by a highly entertaining blend of realism and sensationalism. Only some half-dozen survive to offset the dramas of kings and nobles in the tragedies of Shakespeare and his peers. They combined journalism and entertainment with a didactic concern, and their plots were often derived from contemporary events. Arden of Faversham (1592) and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) are both based on chronicles or pamphlets describing authentic murders, while A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) by Thomas Heywood is a fictional creation, considered his masterpiece.

Download or read book Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency written by Maxmillian Angerholzer III and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying the lessons of presidential history, this anthology of case studies—written by leading political scientists, historians, and subject matter experts—delves into the many facets of the presidency and promotes a greater understanding of the presidency for policymakers, academics, students, and general readers alike. Abraham Lincoln once said, "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history." One hundred and fifty years later, this statement remains true: the lessons of history are increasingly important at a time of political deadlock and growing skepticism of leadership among the American public. An established classic in its field, Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency underscores the importance of looking back to set an intelligent course for the future and promotes a better understanding of the U.S. presidency. This updated and revised second edition offers rare insights on presidential leadership since 2001 and adds considerable new information related to inter-term transitions. The case studies in this single-volume work cover an unparalleled scope of "modern presidential history" and related topics, beginning with the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt and continuing to the presidency of Barack Obama. Examples of the events and subject matter of the case studies include the interstate transport system, the building of the social safety net, the civil rights movement, the space program, environmental protection, education reform, the IT revolution, energy policy, the budget, economic policy, foreign policy, national security, defense policy, and presidential scandals. Each case study highlights a historical lesson and is authored by a different political scientist, historian, or subject matter expert, offering readers a multidisciplinary examination of the presidency.

Download or read book Disasters that Changed Australia written by Richard Evans and published by Victory Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From natural phenomenon such as Cyclone Tracy, and the Ash Wednesday and Black Friday fires, to key moments in our military history such as Flanders in 1917, and the fall of Singapore, this is an essential guide to understanding the people, the ideas and the events that defined the course of Australia's history.

Download or read book Facing Tragedies written by Christopher Hamilton and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume grew out of the reflections and discussions conducted during the second international conference "Impulses from Salzburg" from May 6 to 9, 2008, on "Facing Tragedies". In accordance with the aims of this project, participants were asked to reflect not simply on the nature and meaning of tragedy but also on ways in which those who are the victims of tragedy make sense of, or cope with, their condition. It was recognised that abstract reflection is important in this regard, but also that such reflection must be rooted in ordinary, everyday. experience, and thus the conference had as one of its aims the attempt to ensure that philosophical reflection not lose the moorings it needs in the reality of ordinary life.

Download or read book Mr William Shakespeare s Comedies Histories Tragedies and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Hanoudi Tragedy written by Najeeb Hanoudi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Najeeb Hanoudi, is a retired Iraqi ophthalmologist, a graduate of Baghdad Universitys college of medicine in 1957, this was followed in 1963 after two years of post-graduate work in Britain by a diploma in ophthalmology from the University of London. After returning to Iraq he worked in different parts of his country as an eye specialist, teaching clinical ophthalmology to undergraduates, and lecturing to postgraduates on retinal diseases and their treatments. Dr. Hanoudi has been concentrating for the twenty years before his retirement from government service in 1989 on retinal diseases and their laser treatment , he participated in many clinical meetings and conferences about the problems of the eye in Iraq and outside Iraq , after retirement he had a private practice in Baghdad until 2004 when he had to stop doing anything related to his specialty and concentrate on the care of his son who was injured a year after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, a mistaken shooting by a young American soldier which left the boy in its aftermath in a vegetative state which required bringing him to the United States In 2007 for treatment which was not successful and the boy died in Michigan on the 21st of December 2011, he was laid to rest in a catholic cemetery in Southfield, a small town in the Detroit area. Dr. Hanoudi lives now in Michigan with his wife and his other son, he has one daughter who is married, she has one son and lives in Toronto Canada.

Download or read book Blood on Their Hands written by Forrest P. Redd and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blood on Their Hands, author Forrest Redd unravels the past eight years of the Bush Administration in an attempt to prove why George W. Bush should be convicted of inciting an illegal war. Fueled by the outcome of the 2004 election, Redd demonstrates how the right-leaning media pundits assisted Bush in misleading the public and why the American people share the responsibility of Bush's disappointing, dangerous presidency. In reevaluating the way the American people handled the Bush Administration, Redd transfers the blame for eight years of failures and atrocities from Bush squarely to the shoulders of the American voters. Redd also includes chapters on the Supreme Court's role in determining the 2000 election, a side-by-side comparison of Kerry and Bush in the 2004 election, and a reaction to the proposed change brought about by the 2008 election. Ultimately, Blood on Their Hands is a call to the nation to come together and practice common sense, strive for enlightenment, and exercise decency, tolerance, and compassion.

Download or read book Mr William Shakespear s Comedies Histories and Tragedies written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Commons Its Tragedies and Other Follies written by Tibor R. Machan and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: