Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
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Author : Brent L. Sterling
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-30
Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors written by Brent L. Sterling and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-30 with Political Science categories.
A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. In Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?, defense analyst Brent Sterling examines the historical use of strategic defenses such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their effectiveness and consider their implications for modern security. Sterling studies six famous defenses spanning 2,500 years, representing both democratic and authoritarian regimes: the Long Walls of Athens, Hadrian’s Wall in Roman Britain, the Ming Great Wall of China, Louis XIV’s Pré Carré, France’s Maginot Line, and Israel’s Bar Lev Line. Although many of these barriers were effective in the short term, they also affected the states that created them in terms of cost, strategic outlook, military readiness, and relations with neighbors. Sterling assesses how modern barriers against ground and air threats could influence threat perceptions, alter the military balance, and influence the builder’s subsequent policy choices. Advocates and critics of strategic defenses often bolster their arguments by selectively distorting history. Sterling emphasizes the need for an impartial examination of what past experience can teach us. His study yields nuanced lessons about strategic barriers and international security and yields findings that are relevant for security scholars and compelling to general readers.
Ai Weiwei
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Author : Nicholas Baume
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01
Ai Weiwei written by Nicholas Baume and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Art categories.
This comprehensive presentation of Ai Weiwei's ambitious Public Art Fund exhibition Good Fences Make Good Neighbors--a reflection on the global refugee crisis--documents the work from conception to installation and reception.
Good Neighbors
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Author : Sarah Langan
language : en
Publisher: Atria Books
Release Date : 2021-02-02
Good Neighbors written by Sarah Langan and has been published by Atria Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-02 with Fiction categories.
Named by Goodreads as One of the Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2021 “A modern-day Crucible….Beneath the surface of a suburban utopia, madness lurks.” —Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish “A sinkhole opens on Maple Street, and gossip turns the suburban utopia toxic. A taut teachable moment about neighbors turning on neighbors.” —People “One of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia I've ever read. Langan cuts to the heart of upper middle class lives like a skilled surgeon.” —NPR Celeste Ng’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this propulsive literary noir, when a sudden tragedy exposes the depths of deception and damage in a Long Island suburb—pitting neighbor against neighbor and putting one family in terrible danger. Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of safety in a rapidly changing world. But menace skulks beneath the surface of this exclusive enclave, making its residents prone to outrage. When the Wilde family moves in, they trigger their neighbors’ worst fears. Dad Arlo’s a gruff has-been rock star with track marks. Mom Gertie’s got a thick Brooklyn accent, with high heels and tube tops to match. Their weird kids cuss like sailors. They don’t fit with the way Maple Street sees itself. Though Maple Street’s Queen Bee, Rhea Schroeder—a lonely college professor repressing a dark past—welcomed Gertie and her family at first, relations went south during one spritzer-fueled summer evening, when the new best friends shared too much, too soon. By the time the story opens, the Wildes are outcasts. As tensions mount, a sinkhole opens in a nearby park, and Rhea’s daughter Shelly falls inside. The search for Shelly brings a shocking accusation against the Wildes. Suddenly, it is one mom’s word against the other’s in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood. A riveting and ruthless portrayal of American suburbia, Good Neighbors excavates the perils and betrayals of motherhood and friendships and the dangerous clash between social hierarchy, childhood trauma, and fear.
Good Fences Bad Neighbors
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Author : Boaz Atzili
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-02
Good Fences Bad Neighbors written by Boaz Atzili and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02 with Political Science categories.
Border fixity—the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory—has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relations. Yet, in a world in which it is unacceptable to challenge international borders by force, sociopolitically weak states remain a significant source of widespread conflict, war, and instability. In this book, Boaz Atzili argues that the process of state building has long been influenced by external territorial pressures and competition, with the absence of border fixity contributing to the evolution of strong states—and its presence to the survival of weak ones. What results from this norm, he argues, are conditions that make internal conflict and the spillover of interstate war more likely. Using a comparison of historical and contemporary case studies, Atzili sheds light on the relationship between state weakness and conflict. His argument that under some circumstances an international norm that was established to preserve the peace may actually create conditions that are ripe for war is sure to generate debate and shed light on the dynamics of continuing conflict in the twenty-first century.
Good Fences
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Author : William Hubbell
language : en
Publisher: Down East Books
Release Date : 2006-09-17
Good Fences written by William Hubbell and has been published by Down East Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-17 with Photography categories.
For this stunning new volume, photographer William Hubbell has turned his lens toward New England's ubiquitous stone walls. Beginning with the basic geology of the region and why New England has so many darned rocks, he presents a chronological overview of the varying styles and methods of wall building, and includes conversations with six contemporary wall builders. The result is a surprising and refreshing look at stone walls and at the history of New England.
Foreigners And Their Food
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Author : David M. Freidenreich
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-12-19
Foreigners And Their Food written by David M. Freidenreich and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-19 with Religion categories.
Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize “us” and “them” through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation, elucidating the ways ancient and medieval scholars use food restrictions to think about the “other.” Freidenreich illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive themselves, and he demonstrates how these distinctive self-conceptions shape ideas about religious foreigners and communal boundaries. This work, the first to analyze change over time across the legal literatures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, makes pathbreaking contributions to the history of interreligious intolerance and to the comparative study of religion.
A Boy S Will And North Of Boston
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Author : Robert Frost
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-02
A Boy S Will And North Of Boston written by Robert Frost and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-02 with Poetry categories.
Two early volumes of poetry (1913–1914) contain many of the poet's finest, best-known works: "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," "The Death of the Hired Man," many more.
Good Neighbors
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Author : Nancy L. Rosenblum
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-22
Good Neighbors written by Nancy L. Rosenblum and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-22 with Philosophy categories.
The moral principles prescribed for friendship, civil society, and democratic public life apply imperfectly to life around home, where we interact day to day without the formal institutions, rules of conduct, and means of enforcement that guide us in other settings. This work explores how encounters among neighbours create a democracy of everyday life, which has been with us since the beginning of American history and is expressed in settler, immigrant, and suburban narratives and in novels, poetry, and popular culture.
The Englishman S Boy
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Author : Guy Vanderhaeghe
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2009
The Englishman S Boy written by Guy Vanderhaeghe and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
As a youth, Shorty McAdoo participated in a massacre of Indians. Fifty years later, still suffering from guilt, he is approached by a filmmaker to tell his story. A chance to make amends--or get exploited.
Modern Chivalry
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Author : Hugh Henry Brackenridge
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2009-09-01
Modern Chivalry written by Hugh Henry Brackenridge and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-01 with History categories.
It was only after serving as a chaplain in the American Revolution, playing an important role in the Whiskey Rebellion, and serving (often controversially) on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, that Hugh Henry Brackenridge composed his great comic epic. Published in installments over the twenty-eight–year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison, this irreverent and ribald novel, relating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O'Regan, leaves no major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issue of the period unscathed.