Download or read book Shouting in a Cage written by Sofia Fenner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durable authoritarian rule often rests on the co-optation of challengers. The conventional story is straightforward: rulers entice opposition groups to “sell out,” offering them benefits if they set aside their antiauthoritarian aspirations and become part of the system. However, co-optation does not always neutralize former adversaries, and even seemingly domesticated opponents can turn on their rulers. Co-optation does weaken opposition—but it is not as simple, reliable, or transactional as existing theories claim. Shouting in a Cage offers new ways to understand co-optation’s power and its limits by examining two co-opted parties, the Wafd Party in Egypt and the Istiqlal Party in Morocco. Sofia Fenner argues that co-optation is less a corrupt bargain than a discursive contest—a clash of competing interpretations. Co-opted parties conjure up imagined futures in which their short-term choices will lead to the realization of their long-term democratic goals. Meanwhile, other actors point to the disconnect between these parties’ antiauthoritarian aspirations and their participation in authoritarian systems. Fenner demonstrates that co-opted parties come to look hypocritical precisely because they refuse to give up their oppositional commitments. Their credibility sapped, they become unappealing allies and, eventually, political afterthoughts. However, such parties retain a surprising capacity for opposition, rooted in the literal and metaphorical idea of “party as family.” Based on extensive archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in North Africa, Shouting in a Cage broadens our understanding of political behavior under authoritarianism.
Download or read book The Cage written by Rollie Peterkin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people spend their lives trying to escape some kind of cage. Rollie Peterkin left behind conventional success and stepped into one. When his college wrestling career ended in heartbreak, Rollie fell short of his dream of standing on the national podium. After graduating with an Ivy League degree, he tried to take solace in the lucrative Wall Street job offer that awaited him. He vigorously launched himself into his new career as a bond trader and grew accustomed to fancy dinners, expense accounts, late nights, and early mornings. Rollie was achieving all of his goals, but began to feel like something was missing. During a trip to Peru, a chance encounter with a legendary cage fighter would inspire him to question the well-worn path to success he had always known. Soon after, Rollie plotted his escape and ultimately left behind the life of luxury to pursue a savage dream. Along the way he faced life changing obstacles that he never could have foreseen in his wildest dreams. From yuppie Manhattanite to blood-soaked warrior in South America, The Cage traces Rollie's fight for meaning, substance, and true value.
Download or read book The Unseen written by Nanni Balestrini and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since the war. Nanni Balestrini, the poet of youth rebellion, himself a victim of that repression, has invented a remarkable fictional form to express the hopes and conflicts of the movement. In spare but vivid prose, The Unseen follows Autonomy’s trajectory through the eyes of a single working-class protagonist—from high-school rebellion, squatting and attempts to set up a free radio station to arrest and the brutalities of imprisonment. This is a powerful and gripping novel: a rare evocation of the intensity of commitment, the passion of politics.
Download or read book They Cage the Animals at Night written by Jennings Michael Burch and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1985-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. The true story of an abandoned child's struggle for emotional survival.
Download or read book The Lizard Cage written by Karen Connelly and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during Burma's military dictatorship of the mid—1990s, Karen Connelly’s exquisitely written and harshly realistic debut novel is a hymn to human resilience and love. In the sealed-off world of a vast Burmese prison known as the cage, Teza languishes in solitary confinement seven years into a twenty-year sentence. Arrested in 1988 for his involvement in mass protests, he is the nation’s most celebrated songwriter whose resonant words and powerful voice pose an ongoing threat to the state. Forced to catch lizards to supplement his meager rations, Teza finds emotional and spiritual sustenance through memories and Buddhist meditation. The tiniest creatures and things–a burrowing ant, a copper-coloured spider, a fragment of newspaper within a cheroot filter–help to connect him to life beyond the prison walls. Even in isolation, Teza has a profound influence on the people around him. His integrity and humour inspire Chit Naing, the senior jailer, to find the courage to follow his conscience despite the serious risks involved, while Teza’s very existence challenges the brutal authority of the junior jailer, perversely nicknamed Handsome. Sein Yun, a gem smuggler and prison fixer, is his most steady human contact, who finds delight in taking advantage of Teza by cleverly tempting him into Handsome's web with the most dangerous contraband of all: pen and paper. Lastly, there's Little Brother, an orphan raised in the jail, imprisoned by his own deprivation. Making his home in a tiny, corrugated-metal shack, Little Brother stays alive by killing rats and selling them to the inmates. As the political prisoner and the young boy forge a cautious friendship, we learn that both are prisoners of different orders; only one of them dreams of escape and only one of them achieves it. Barely able to speak, losing the battle of the flesh but winning the battle of the spirit, Teza knows he has the power to transfigure one small life, and to send a message of hope and resistance out of the cage. Shortlisted for both the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, The Lizard Cage has received rave reviews nationally and internationally.
Download or read book Damned written by Chuck Palahniuk and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As gleefully, vividly, hilariously obscene as you'd expect. . . . Irreverent and hugely entertaining." —NPR From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil. Madison is the thirteen-year-old daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire. Abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, she dies over the holiday, presumably of a marijuana overdose. The last thing she remembers is getting into a town car and falling asleep. Then she's waking up in Hell. Literally. Madison soon finds that she shares a cell with a motley crew of young sinners: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by their doomed fate, like an afterschool detention for the damned. Together they form an odd coalition and march across the unspeakable landscape of Hell--full of used diapers, dandruff, WiFi blackout spots, evil historical figures, and one horrific call center--to confront the Devil himself.
Download or read book The Idler written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Wildest Game written by Daniel P. Mannix and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Ryhiner — hero, adventurer, and romantic — was one of the world's most active wild animal collectors. Born in Basel, Switzerland, on January 1, 1920, Peter knew by the time he was eight years old that he wanted to be a naturalist and explorer — and thought about nothing else. His parents listened to him with good natured amusement, but were not so amused when his interests caused him to flunk out of two schools and precipitated his expulsion from a third for truancy. Eventually, throwing up their hands in frustration, his family cut off his funds, and Peter had to use all his ingenuity to figure out how to continue collecting and studying animals — including breeding and developing unusual strains of mice, taming adders, and holding tortoise races. By the age of twenty, after a brief stint in the calvary during WW II and some time spent working for Geigy, a Swiss chemical company, he and an associate from Geigy's began importing animals as a side venture and Peter was soon launched in the animal business. His journeys led him around the globe, straight through Europe, South America, Africa and Asia, where he captured and sold thousands of animals to zoos and wildlife parks. His adventures were astonishing — trampled, crushed, chased, bitten, and almost drowned — the animals he sought not only provided Peter with a lucrative, though unpredictable, career, but repeatedly inspired a greater and greater curiosity and love for the wild animals of the world. Peter Ryhiner rarely carried a gun, his intention was not to harm but to study and learn and to educate others, and, in fact, he was a man with a vision well ahead of his time. As his success grew he was sought as a lecturer and made many television appearances. Soon, however, currency restrictions, conservation laws, regulations against importing or exporting many species, and transportation costs took their toll. Although increased awareness and protection of wild animals was desperately needed, new laws and higher costs meant that Peter Ryhiner and other wild animal collectors of the time gradually faded into oblivion.
Download or read book The Idler written by Jerome Klapka Jerome and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Never Ever Shout in a Zoo written by Karma Wilson and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text depicts the chaos caused by shouting at the zoo.
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Louis Joseph Vance US Illustrated written by Louis Joseph Vance and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 5036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early twentieth-century American novelist Louis Joseph Vance created the popular character Michael Lanyard, a criminal-turned-detective known as ‘The Lone Wolf’. His sensation thrillers and whirlwind adventure stories were well-regarded for their imaginative, gruesome and engaging qualities. He published many bestselling books and established his own motion picture production company, whose films were distributed by Paramount Pictures. Many of his works were adapted for the silver screen, winning countless new admirers across the world. This eBook presents Vance’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time and informative introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Vance’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major novels * Five ‘Lone Wolf’ novels * Features 25 novels in total, with individual contents tables * Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, post-1925 works cannot appear in this edition (including three ‘Lone Wolf’ novels). When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Lone Wolf Series The Lone Wolf (1914) The False Faces (1918) Alias the Lone Wolf (1921) Red Masquerade (1921) The Lone Wolf Returns (1923) The Novels Terence O’Rourke, Gentleman Adventurer (1905) The Private War (1906) The Brass Bowl (1907) The Black Bag (1908) The Bronze Bell (1909) The Pool of Flame (1909) Fortune Hunter (1910) No Man’s Land (1910) Cynthia of the Minute (1911) The Bandbox (1912) The Destroying Angel (1912) The Day of Days (1913) Joan Thursday (1913) The Trey O’ Hearts (1914) Nobody (1915) Sheep’s Clothing (1915) The Dark Mirror (1920) Linda Lee Incorporated (1922) Baroque (1923) Road to En-Dor (1925) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Download or read book Gentle Ben written by Walt Morey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alaskan wilderness is a lonely place for Mark Andersen, especially after the death of his older brother, Jamie. But in time Mark finds someone else to love--Ben, an Alaskan brown bear so huge that no one else dares come near him. Gentle Ben has been a favorite of readers of all ages for 25 years, and is a timeless story of a rare friendship. An ALA Notable Book.
Download or read book Young Miss is a Dissolute Exorcist written by Yu CiDuYao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-25 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman that hated evil spirits to the bones, a poison that men coveted, she, a dignified top tier assassin, had actually lost her life in the Mourning Game! Once she was reborn, she was lying in the middle of a group of headless zombies! The heck! In the God And Devil, with all the demons surrounding them and a group of men fighting over them! So what if she obeyed the will of heaven and turned into a 'devil'? Exorcist: Controlling Divine Beast, baiting Handsome Man, seeing her as a modern female diaosi, such as He Sheng killing her, showing her strength, using her sword to conquer the world ... ...
Download or read book Glimpses in in the Dark written by Kieran Marsden and published by Kieran Marsden. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories, each a glimpse into the dark. I have decided to make this book free. Due to it's many mistakes. My next book will have a more professional finish. TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR GLIMPSES IN THE DARK: CLARKS DEMISE (a mans last day of sanity) TOTALITARIAN (Fascism has taken Britain) DELUSION DETECTIVE (A writer loses touch with reality) PRINCE PIERRE (A bullied women's fantasy almost comes true) LITTLE BROTHER (To join a gang, he must risk everything) PROJECT PURE ( A man must escape humanity to discover humanity) THE CAGE (Welcome to the worlds worst prison) EVIL SMILES (A murderous triangle of love) A CURIOUS CONFESSION (A teenager discovers love and he might be a psychopath) IT BEGINS WITH WATER (Two friends contend with nuclear apocalypse) FREEDOM? (A vlogger blurs the lines of liberty) WHERE THE WONDER LIES (A heartbroken man discovers a cult) HOLE 19 (Teenagers discover evil in the woods) LOVE AND HATE (A skinhead falls in love with an immigrant) CLASSES APART (A woman discovers real meaning)
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Download or read book Servant written by Katlyne Marie and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Cinder was unknowingly chosen by Zachariah, an arrogant fallen God who was simply seeking a new plaything. Augustus, a charming yet mysterious Human follower of the Fallen God, was ordered to oversee her progress towards becoming a Fiend, otherwise known as a God's obedient servant. Crushed and heartbroken from her latest losses, Cinder realizes her entire existence has been laid out in front of her, and she's doomed to live as a slave under an unruly God's thumb. Having Cinder as his Fiend, Zachariah believes it will undoubtedly secure his place back on his besieged throne. While Unnaturals and Humans continue to tear each other apart, Augustus realizes that Cinder isn't who they thought she was. Born with terrible genetics and broken by traumatic memories, Cinder can only take so much before she shatters completely. Can she handle the cruelty of love and Gods? And will she ever be free again?
