Born On The Fourth Of July 40th Anniversary Edition
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Born On The Fourth Of July 40th Anniversary Edition
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Author : Ron Kovic
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2016-07-04
Born On The Fourth Of July 40th Anniversary Edition written by Ron Kovic and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This edition marks the 40th anniversary of the original publication of Kovic's American antiwar classic. “Classic and timeless!” —New York Times “As relevant as ever, this book is an education. Ron is a true American, and his great heart and hard-won wisdom shine through these pages.” —Oliver Stone, filmmaker This New York Times best seller (more than one million copies sold), presented here in a special fortieth-anniversary edition with a brand-new foreword by Bruce Springsteen, details the author’s life story (portrayed by Tom Cruise in the Oliver Stone film)—from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country’s most outspoken anti–Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.
Born On The Fourth Of July
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Author : Ron Kovic
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2019-07-04
Born On The Fourth Of July written by Ron Kovic and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born on the Fourth of July details the author's life story - from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the America's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.
Hurricane Street
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Author : Ron Kovic
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2016-06-13
Hurricane Street written by Ron Kovic and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author of Born on the Fourth of July delivers “a harrowing, poignant telling of the American Veteran’s Movement and its members’ struggles” (Manhattan Book Review). In the spring of 1974, as the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement. In a phenomenal feat of political organizing, Kovic corralled his fellow AVM members into staging a sit-in, and then a hunger strike, in the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston, demanding better treatment of injured and disabled veterans. This was a short-lived and chaotic but ultimately successful movement to improve the deplorable conditions in VA hospitals across the country. Hurricane Street is their story—one that resonates deeply today—told by Kovic in the passionate and brutally honest style that led to over one million sales of Born on the Fourth of July. “Another raw exposé on the cost of war . . . The book is an unflinching anti-war declaration, written in blood and the sweat of too many haunted nights by a Vietnam Marine Corps sergeant who later opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.” —Los Angeles Times “A deeply moving account of the struggle of Vietnam veterans to hold politicians accountable to the maimed warriors they sent into harm’s way and then abandoned.” —Robert Scheer, author of They Know Everything About You “An impassioned and timely memoir about the 1974 American Veterans Movement that will strike a chord with veterans and their families today.” —Publishers Weekly, Top 10 Pick for Spring 2016
Intellectually Impaired People
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Author : Klaus Rose
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2023-03-09
Intellectually Impaired People written by Klaus Rose and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-09 with Science categories.
Intellectually Impaired People: The Ongoing Battle addresses challenges against the background of history, changing societal environments, and current intellectual approaches and attitudes toward persons with disabilities. The book discusses national and international conventions, societal attitudes, sheltered workshops, the right of intellectually impaired persons for self-responsibility and its limitations, and the place of mentally impaired persons in the public image. Additionally, the book attempts to capture the forces that drive the changes of our conceptual frameworks. The US Tuskegee study which withheld antibiotics from black men with syphilis was not ended by scientific criticism but by a courageous man, press reports, and a changed social perception. The non-hiding of handicapped children is not the result of government orders, there are many non-resolvable dilemmas and tension between supporting, understanding, and patronizing a complex situation with many potential future avenues. Recognizes how contradictory feelings and attitudes toward impaired persons have a complex historical background Sheds light on society and our institutions that deal with disabled people and the limitations of an isolated medical approach Covers national and international conventions of mentally impaired persons
Happy Birth Happy Baby
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Author : Glen Thomas
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-26
Happy Birth Happy Baby written by Glen Thomas and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-26 with Family & Relationships categories.
Have a positive birth for you and your baby; and heal the world in the process! Birth is powerful. A happy birth is one that empowers you to make the choices that are best for you and your baby. Birth makes a difference; to mothers, to babies and to the world. Happy Birth, Happy Baby is a practical and inspiring guide to having a positive birth experience. Featuring cutting-edge research as well as exercises including self-hypnosis, journaling, birth art, mindfulness exercises and even dancing, Happy Birth Happy Baby is a sourcebook for all expectant mothers who want to reclaim their births.
God Is A Grunt
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Author : Logan M Isaac
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-04-19
God Is A Grunt written by Logan M Isaac and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with Religion categories.
This eye-opening book invites readers of all political and denominational stripes into a more meaningful conversation and community with soldiers and veterans. If Jesus is God, then God is a grunt—the humble, hardy folk placed at the bottom of the social hierarchy who are relied on to accomplish the dirtiest, most difficult (and most thankless) work. This is good news for millions of Christian soldiers and veterans in the U.S. because they have had to make an impossible choice, with no perceivable middle ground, between patriot and pacifist. In his new book, God Is a Grunt, Logan Isaac offers an opportunity for GIs, veterans, and those close to them to read Christian traditions as a soldier would—by and through the lived experiences of military service. This well-researched, meditative guide for Christians who have served their country delves deep into the Bible, while Isaac shares his own beliefs and thoughts on the life-altering experiences of battle. He attempts to fill the void most Christians in the military feel by providing theological resources to discern a better way of discipleship for GIs, affirming the nuance and complexity of armed service and the gifts GIs extend to Christians around the world.
Socialism As The Development Of Liberalism
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Author : Satoshi Matsui
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-15
Socialism As The Development Of Liberalism written by Satoshi Matsui and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-15 with Political Science categories.
This book addresses the question of what socialism is according to fundamental values rather than institutions. Arguing that Marxist socialism is not only more gradual but also more radical than how it is usually understood, this book shows that socialism extends liberalism by inheriting and furthering liberal justice, including fundamental human rights. Simultaneously, socialism ultimately rejects liberalism because it does not consider liberal values, such as liberty and equality, society’s primary principles. Satoshi Matsui offers a new theory: alienation has two dimensions. Marxists seek to rectify policies that violate justice in a capitalist society, and injustice in capitalism is alienation’s first dimension. From a communist society’s perspective, however, justice itself is an alienated idea and the second dimension of alienation. Marx’s theory of alienation does not deny the liberal theory of justice but is rather a universal system that encompasses it. By fundamentally reexamining Marxism, this volume provides a basic guideline for overcoming capitalist society and constructing a communist society.
Entwined With Vietnam
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Author : Theodore M. Hammett
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-07-26
Entwined With Vietnam written by Theodore M. Hammett and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-26 with History categories.
In 1968, Theodore Hammett entered a war he believed was wrong, pressured by his father's threat to disown him if he withdrew from a Marine Corps officer candidate program. He hated the Vietnam War and soon grew to hate Vietnam and its people. As a supply officer at a field hospital uncomfortably near the DMZ, he employed thievery, bargaining and lies to secure supplies for his unit and retained his sanity with the help of alcohol, music and the promise of going home. In 2008, he returned to Vietnam for a five-year "second tour" to assist in improving HIV/AIDS policies and prevention programs in Hanoi. His memoir recounts his service at the height of the war, and how the country he detested became his second home.
When Heaven And Earth Changed Places
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Author : Le Ly Hayslip
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2012-10-03
When Heaven And Earth Changed Places written by Le Ly Hayslip and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters langed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Le Ly was one of those children. Before the age of sixteen, Le Ly had suffered near-starvation, imprisonment, torture, rape, and the deaths of beloved family members—but miraculously held fast to her faith in humanity. And almost twenty years after her escape to Ameica, she was drawn inexorably back to the devastated country and family she left behind. Scenes of this joyous reunion are interwoven with the brutal war years, offering a poignant picture of vietnam, then and now, and of a courageous woman who experienced the true horror of the Vietnam War—and survived to tell her unforgettable story.
The Selfish Gene
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Author : Richard Dawkins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1989
The Selfish Gene written by Richard Dawkins and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Medical categories.
Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic and selfish behaviour; the genetical definition of selfish interest; the evolution of aggressive behaviour; kinshiptheory; sex ratio theory; reciprocal altruism; deceit; and the natural selection of sex differences. 'Should be read, can be read by almost anyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science