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Uneasy Peace The Great Crime Decline The Renewal Of City Life And The Next War On Violence
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Author : Patrick Sharkey
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2018-01-16
Uneasy Peace The Great Crime Decline The Renewal Of City Life And The Next War On Violence written by Patrick Sharkey and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-16 with Social Science categories.
“Remarkable.… The story of the crime decline is about the wisdom of single steps and small sanities.… It is possible to see this as a kind of humanist miracle, a lesson about the self-organizing and, sometimes, self-healing capacities of human communities that’s as humbling, in its way, as any mystery that faith can offer.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker Over the past two decades, American cities have experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, dramatically changing urban life. Patrick Sharkey reveals the striking consequences: improved school test scores, since children are better able to learn when not traumatized by nearby violence; better chances that poor children will rise into the middle class; and a striking increase in the life expectancy of African American men. Many places once characterized by decay and abandonment are now thriving, yet pervasive inequality threatens these gains. At a time when crime is rising again and powerful political forces seek to disinvest in cities, the insights in this book are indispensable.
Uneasy Peace
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Author : Patrick Sharkey
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2019-02-05
Uneasy Peace written by Patrick Sharkey and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with Social Science categories.
From the late ’90s to the mid-2010s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, dramatically changing urban life. In many cases, places once characterized by decay and abandonment are now thriving, the fear of death by gunshot wound replaced by concern about skyrocketing rents. In Uneasy Peace, Patrick Sharkey, “the leading young scholar of urban crime and concentrated poverty” (Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis) reveals the striking effects: improved school test scores, because children are better able to learn when not traumatized by nearby violence; better chances that poor children will rise into the middle class; and a marked increase in the life expectancy of African American men. Some of the forces that brought about safer streets—such as the intensive efforts made by local organizations to confront violence in their own communities—have been positive, Sharkey explains. But the drop in violent crime has also come at the high cost of aggressive policing and mass incarceration. From Harlem to South Los Angeles, Sharkey draws on original data and textured accounts of neighborhoods across the country to document the most successful proven strategies for combating violent crime and to lay out innovative and necessary approaches to the problem of violence. At a time when crime is rising again, the issue of police brutality has taken center stage, and powerful political forces seek to disinvest in cities, the insights in this book are indispensable.
Glasgow The Uneasy Peace
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Author : Tom Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1987
Glasgow The Uneasy Peace written by Tom Gallagher and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Glascow (Scotland categories.
An Uneasy Peace
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Author : Gloria Anne Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014
An Uneasy Peace written by Gloria Anne Barrett and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.
A board of trustees under the direction of King George offers debtors a choice, prison, or freedom. The selected group travels to Georgia to claim their promised land, and find a wilderness inhabited by native Indians. Strong passions, personality disorders and addictions drive the characters, Chief Justice Charles; Sheriff Hamilton; Katheryne, Mother, and Anna; Glomeister, the Director of Indian Affairs; and Bright Sun, the Medicine Man; as they actively work against each other while experiencing life in a small agricultural village. They share cultural and religious differences; love and death, a power struggle leads to conspiracy and murder. A killer turns serial and they temporarily set aside their differences to find the killer. Bonded by oppression and deception, they fight for their independence from the British Crown.
Irrelevants An Uneasy Peace Book 2
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Author : Geoffrey Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Geoffrey Robinson
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Irrelevants An Uneasy Peace Book 2 written by Geoffrey Robinson and has been published by Geoffrey Robinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
As the leadership of the three spheres, with the support of their populations, begin to subdue the insurgency, Celta and Tilt continue their search for bad actors across Earth Agency controlled space. The most dangerous of their targets, with his daunting skills at prosecuting war, is a misguided Ventian warrior who has been convinced his contribution to the insurgency is an honorably pursuit. His physical attack on her partner has made his termination an obsession for Celta; to the point she’s been relieved of her assignment by the Ventian Lord of War. Now the Ventian Warrior has gone to ground, and it will take all the detectives’ skills, and more, to track him down and end his imminent threat to the spheres.
The Captain Was A Doctor
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Author : Jonathon Reid
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2020-10-24
The Captain Was A Doctor written by Jonathon Reid and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Canadian medical officer and prisoner of war returns from the Second World War a hero — and a very different man. In August 1941, John Reid, a young Canadian doctor, volunteered to join the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps with four friends from medical school. After five weeks of officer training in Ottawa, Reid took an optional two-week course in tropical medicine, a choice which sealed his fate. Assigned to “C” Force, the two Canadian battalions sent to reinforce “semi-tropical” Hong Kong, he was among those captured when the calamitous Battle of Hong Kong ended on Christmas Day. After a year in Hong Kong prison camps, Reid was chosen as the only officer to accompany 663 Canadian POWs sent to Japan to work as slave labourers. His efforts over the next two and a half years to lead, treat, and protect his men were heroic. He survived the war, but finding a peace of his own took ten tumultuous years, with casualties of a different sort. He would never be the same.
An Uneasy Peace
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Author : Eric L. Eckelman
language : en
Publisher: Infinity Pub
Release Date : 2008-04
An Uneasy Peace written by Eric L. Eckelman and has been published by Infinity Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04 with Fiction categories.
When Abajon, a Negroe farmhand, falls for Ananya, the Indian woman, he will do anything to have her.Ultimately denied, he runs to Washington, where he meets Timothy Webster. Together, they discover a political landscape full of growing consequence.As Timothy joins with the Federalists to protect his identity, Abajon returns to Staunton and begins working with the Labor Council, a secret organization attempting to find a peaceful end to the fighting.As Reconstruction settles in after the war, Abajon returns to the farmhouse, where things are changing. Ex-soldiers are returning from the war. Negroes without means are packing the town.
Making Peace
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Author : George J. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-08-08
Making Peace written by George J. Mitchell and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-08 with Political Science categories.
Fifteen minutes before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998, Senator George Mitchell was informed that his long and difficult quest for an Irish peace accord had succeeded--the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland, and the governments of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, would sign the agreement. Now Mitchell, who served as independent chairman of the peace talks for the length of the process, tells us the inside story of the grueling road to this momentous accord. For more than two years, Mitchell, who was Senate majority leader under Presidents Bush and Clinton, labored to bring together parties whose mutual hostility--after decades of violence and mistrust--seemed insurmountable: Sinn Fein, represented by Gerry Adams; the Catholic moderates, led by John Hume; the majority Protestant party, headed by David Trimble; Ian Paisley's hard-line unionists; and, not least, the governments of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, headed by Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair. The world watched as the tense and dramatic process unfolded, sometimes teetering on the brink of failure. Here, for the first time, we are given a behind-the-scenes view of the principal players--the personalities who shaped the process--and of the contentious, at times vitriolic, proceedings. We learn how, as the deadline approached, extremist violence and factional intransigence almost drove the talks to collapse. And we witness the intensity of the final negotiating session, the interventions of Ahern and Blair, the late-night phone calls from President Clinton, a last-ditch attempt at disruption by Paisley, and ultimately an agreement that, despite subsequent inflammatory acts aimed at destroying it, has set Northern Ireland's future on track toward a more lasting peace.
The Wilmington Ten
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Author : Kenneth Robert Janken
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-10-22
The Wilmington Ten written by Kenneth Robert Janken and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with History categories.
In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in damage, and the firebombing of a white-owned store, before the National Guard restored uneasy peace. Despite glaring irregularities in the subsequent trial, ten young persons were convicted of arson and conspiracy and then sentenced to a total of 282 years in prison. They became known internationally as the Wilmington Ten. A powerful movement arose within North Carolina and beyond to demand their freedom, and after several witnesses admitted to perjury, a federal appeals court, also citing prosecutorial misconduct, overturned the convictions in 1980. Kenneth Janken narrates the dramatic story of the Ten, connecting their story to a larger arc of Black Power and the transformation of post-Civil Rights era political organizing. Grounded in extensive interviews, newly declassified government documents, and archival research, this book thoroughly examines the 1971 events and the subsequent movement for justice that strongly influenced the wider African American freedom struggle.
An Uneasy Hegemony
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Author : Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-31
An Uneasy Hegemony written by Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-31 with Political Science categories.
Sri Lanka has been regarded as a model democracy among former British colonies. It was lauded for its impressive achievement in terms of human development indicators. However, Sri Lanka's modern history can also be read as a tragic story of inter-ethnic inequalities and tensions, resulting in years of violent conflicts. Two long spells of anti-state youth uprisings were followed by nearly three decades of civil war, and most recently a renewed upsurge of events are examples of the on-going uneasy project of state-building. This book discusses that state-building in Sri Lanka is centred on the struggle for hegemony amidst a kind of politics that rejects individual and group equality, opposes the social integration of marginalised groups and appeals to narrow, fearful and xenophobic tendencies among the majority population and minorities alike. It answers the pressing questions of - How do the dynamics of intra-Sinhalese class relations and Sinhalese politics influence the trajectories of post-colonial state-building? What tensions emerge over time, between Sinhalese hegemony-building and wider state-building? How did these tensions manifest in majority and minority relationships?