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Book In Praise of Savagery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warwick Cairns
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2010-10-28
  • ISBN : 0007411138
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book In Praise of Savagery written by Warwick Cairns and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man’s journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa.

Book Le Corbusier  the Noble Savage

Download or read book Le Corbusier the Noble Savage written by Adolf Max Vogt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vogt's investigation of LC's early life and education not only reveals important, previously unacknowledged influences on specific projects such as the League of Nations headquarters and the Villa Savoye, but also suggests why LC throughout his career preferred to lift buildings above the ground, to give them the appearance of "floating." This tendency had decisive consequences for buildings associated with the modern movement and continues to influence architecture today.

Book Savage Conversations

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  • Author : LeAnne Howe
  • Publisher : Coffee House Press
  • Release : 2019-02-05
  • ISBN : 1566895405
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Savage Conversations written by LeAnne Howe and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Savage Conversations takes place somewhere in between its sources, between sanity and madness, between then and now, between the living and the dead. It pushes past the limitations of textual sources for telling indigenous history and accounts of insanity.” —Barrelhouse Reviews May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln’s claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face and scalp. She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium. Her hauntings may be a reminder that in 1862, President Lincoln ordered the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas in the largest mass execution in United States history. No one has ever linked the two events—until now. Savage Conversations is a daring account of a former first lady and the ghosts that tormented her for the contradictions and crimes on which this nation is founded.

Book Savage Century

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  • Author : Therese Delpech
  • Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
  • Release : 2013-06-18
  • ISBN : 0870032763
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Savage Century written by Therese Delpech and published by Carnegie Endowment. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the twentieth century, observers heralded a new era of social progress, seemingly limitless technological advances, and world peace. But within only a few years, the world was perched on the brink of war, revolution, and human misery on an unprecedented scale. Is it possible that today, in the early twenty-first century, we are on the verge of similar, tumultuous times? Blending a detailed knowledge of international security affairs with history, philosophy, psychology, and literature, Thérèse Delpech vividly reminds us of the signs and warnings that were missed as the "civilized" world failed to prevent both world wars, the Holocaust, Soviet death camps, and Cambodian killing fields that made the twentieth century so deadly. Drawing a parallel between 1905 and 2005, Delpech warns that it could happen again in this current era of increasing international violence and global lawlessness. She looks ahead to imagine various scenarios and regions that could become flashpoints in the future. Winner of the 2005 Prix Femina de l'essai. Praise for the original French edition, L'Ensauvagement "One doesn't know what to admire most in this book: the precision of information, the scope of reference, the originality of the approach?" —Le Nouvel Observateur "From Iranian nuclear ambitions to the Taiwan question, Delpech reviews all the situations which might lead mankind to succumb to the perennial temptation of savagery—a passionate and lucid book." —L'argus de la presse "L'ensauvagement transcends its surface content, articulating great hope that our reason and will might take hold and overcome unreason." —Politique étrangère "Combining introspection and prediction, geopolitics and philosophy, Thérèse Delpech has issued a warning cry." —Politique Internationale

Book The Management of Savagery

Download or read book The Management of Savagery written by Max Blumenthal and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How America’s failed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria have resulted in increased threats at home—from jihadist terrorism to the rise of Western ultra-nationalism. In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America’s dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America’s imperial designs. Washington’s secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies. The Pentagon has trained and armed jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya; it has launched military interventions to change regimes in the Middle East. In doing so, it created fertile ground for the Islamic State and brought foreign conflicts home to American soil. These failed wars abroad have made the United States more vulnerable to both terrorism as well as native ultra-nationalism. The Trump presidency is the inevitable consequence of neoconservative imperialism in the post–Cold War age. Trump’s dealings in the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation.

Book The Savage Nation

Download or read book The Savage Nation written by Michael Savage and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2003-01-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Savage attacks big government and liberal media bias. The son of immigrants, Savage shows how traditional American freedoms are being destroyed from the outside and undermined from within-not just our own government, but also from alien forces within our own society. Savage argues that if the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, then only a more "savage nation" will enjoy these liberties. Savage's high ratings and the rapid growth of his program prove he is in touch with the concerns of the average American.

Book Savage Inequalities

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  • Author : Jonathan Kozol
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2012-07-24
  • ISBN : 0770436668
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Savage Inequalities written by Jonathan Kozol and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children.”—The New York Times Book Review In 1988, Jonathan Kozol set off to spend time with children in the American public education system. For two years, he visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington, D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening—and it has widened since. The urban schools he visited were overcrowded and understaffed, and lacked the basic elements of learning—including books and, all too often, classrooms for the students. In Savage Inequalities, Kozol delivers a searing examination of the extremes of wealth and poverty and calls into question the reality of equal opportunity in our nation’s schools. Praise for Savage Inequalities “I was unprepared for the horror and shame I felt. . . . Savage Inequalities is a savage indictment. . . . Everyone should read this important book.”—Robert Wilson, USA Today “Kozol has written a book that must be read by anyone interested in education.”—Elizabeth Duff, Philadelphia Inquirer “The forces of equity have now been joined by a powerful voice. . . . Kozol has written a searing exposé of the extremes of wealth and poverty in America’s school system and the blighting effect on poor children, especially those in cities.”—Emily Mitchell, Time “Easily the most passionate, and certain to be the most passionately debated, book about American education in several years . . . A classic American muckraker with an eloquent prose style, Kozol offers . . . an old-fashioned brand of moral outrage that will affect every reader whose heart has not yet turned to stone.”—Entertainment Weekly

Book A Savage Order

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  • Author : Rachel Kleinfeld
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2018-11-06
  • ISBN : 1524746878
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book A Savage Order written by Rachel Kleinfeld and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some places—from Colombia to the Republic of Georgia—have been able to recover. In this powerfully argued and urgent book, Rachel Kleinfeld examines why some democracies, including our own, are crippled by extreme violence and how they can regain security. Drawing on fifteen years of study and firsthand field research—interviewing generals, former guerrillas, activists, politicians, mobsters, and law enforcement in countries around the world—Kleinfeld tells the stories of societies that successfully fought seemingly ingrained violence and offers penetrating conclusions about what must be done to build governments that are able to protect the lives of their citizens. Taking on existing literature and popular theories about war, crime, and foreign intervention, A Savage Order is a blistering yet inspiring investigation into what makes some countries peaceful and others war zones, and a blueprint for what we can do to help.

Book Savage Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel O. Moore
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780822323884
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Savage Theory written by Rachel O. Moore and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious and original work which uses early film theory, anthropological insights, and avant--garde film to explore the relation of cinema to ritual healing.

Book The Savage Way

Download or read book The Savage Way written by Frank Savage and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prefaces to Savage  Somervile  Thomson  Hammond  and Collins

Download or read book Prefaces to Savage Somervile Thomson Hammond and Collins written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Savage Systems

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Chidester
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780813916644
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Savage Systems written by David Chidester and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the emergence of the concepts of religion and religions on 19th-century colonial frontiers. It analyzes the ways in which European settlers, and indigenous Africans, engaged in the comparison of alternative religious ways of life as one dimension of intercultural activity.

Book Lives of the English Poets  Addison  Savage  and  Swift

Download or read book Lives of the English Poets Addison Savage and Swift written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unforgiving Savage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dave Edlund
  • Publisher : Light Messages Publishing
  • Release : 2021-10-26
  • ISBN : 1611534119
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Unforgiving Savage written by Dave Edlund and published by Light Messages Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter wants nothing more than to settle into a normal life with his fiancée, Kate Simpson. But the Fates seems to have other plans as he finds himself in a deadly confrontation with North Korean agents intent on stealing his latest invention; a pulsed energy weapon that promises to revolutionize small arms technology and upend the international balance of power. After suffering a heartbreaking loss at the hands of the North Koreans, Peter is devastated. Vowing retribution, he has only one option. With his faithful companion Diesel by his side, Peter must retreat to a remote section of Idaho wilderness known as the Zone of Death—a large, uninhabited tract of Federal land where one can literally get away with murder.

Book Valiant Savage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dave Edlund
  • Publisher : Light Messages Publishing
  • Release : 2020-10-27
  • ISBN : 1611533635
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Valiant Savage written by Dave Edlund and published by Light Messages Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I would follow Peter Savage into any firefight."–James Rollins,New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force seriesThe Cascadia Independence Movement, a radical political group, aspires to succeed where others have failed and split off the Pacific Northwest as an independent nation. With a sympathetic politician occupying the seat of president pro tempore of the Senate, CIM hatches a daring plan. Eliminating the President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House in a coordinated attack would be difficult enough, but to do so and get away with the crimes would border on the impossible. They plot to frame the commander of The Strategic Global Intervention Team, James Nicolaou, for the murders and steal a revolutionary weapon under development by Peter Savage, which will assure success. With Commander Nicolaou missing and the subject of a nation-wide dragnet with orders to shoot to kill. With his faithful canine companion, Peter crisscrosses the northwest in a race against time to save his friend and avert a political coup the likes of which haven’t been witnessed since the Lincoln assassination plot. PRAISE FOR THE PETER SAVAGE NOVELS"Edlund is right at home with his bestselling brethren, Brad Thor and Brad Taylor." –Jon Land, USA Today bestselling author of the Caitlin Strong series"This compulsively readable thriller boasts a whiplash pace, a topical plot, and nonstop action. Edlund fans won’t be disappointed." –Publishers Weekly, praise for Lethal Savage"Edlund’s lean prose and whipsmart dialogue propel readers through this frighteningly realistic thriller at a breathtaking pace." –K.J. Howe, international bestselling author of Skyjack“Brimming with reality, intensity, and passion, Dave Edlund turns the ordinary into extraordinary." –Steve Berry, New York Times and #1 international bestselling author"a thundering action thriller with a charismatic lead.”–Foreword Reviews

Book A Genealogical History of the Savage Family in Ulster

Download or read book A Genealogical History of the Savage Family in Ulster written by George Francis Savage-Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: