Author: MarkAnthony Nze
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984592254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
From being a besotted governor, to be sent into an exile the story is weaved around Kulala Bodega, the governor of Endassa and his battle to bring the economy and people of his state out of the evil shadow of the gang of looters, who are feasting on the corpse of the once abundant treasury. Nonetheless, standing up against the bully had never been easy, as Chief Timbabu has his eyes and ears in every branch of the government making sure whoever stands in his way is ceased from the existence. The chief may be powerful but in the war between the good and evil, it is always the good that wins, so the sun shines on the state of Endassa once again after a long dark spell. The children of Africa return from their exile back to what they always called home.
Gang of Looters
Author: MarkAnthony Nze
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984592254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
From being a besotted governor, to be sent into an exile the story is weaved around Kulala Bodega, the governor of Endassa and his battle to bring the economy and people of his state out of the evil shadow of the gang of looters, who are feasting on the corpse of the once abundant treasury. Nonetheless, standing up against the bully had never been easy, as Chief Timbabu has his eyes and ears in every branch of the government making sure whoever stands in his way is ceased from the existence. The chief may be powerful but in the war between the good and evil, it is always the good that wins, so the sun shines on the state of Endassa once again after a long dark spell. The children of Africa return from their exile back to what they always called home.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984592254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
From being a besotted governor, to be sent into an exile the story is weaved around Kulala Bodega, the governor of Endassa and his battle to bring the economy and people of his state out of the evil shadow of the gang of looters, who are feasting on the corpse of the once abundant treasury. Nonetheless, standing up against the bully had never been easy, as Chief Timbabu has his eyes and ears in every branch of the government making sure whoever stands in his way is ceased from the existence. The chief may be powerful but in the war between the good and evil, it is always the good that wins, so the sun shines on the state of Endassa once again after a long dark spell. The children of Africa return from their exile back to what they always called home.
Gang Politics
Author: Kristian Williams
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 184935457X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
In three taut essays, Kristian Williams examines our society’s understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between “gangs” of all sorts—cops and criminals, Proud Boys and antifa, Panthers and skinheads—arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As society becomes more polarized and the conviction that things are only going to get worse, and more violent, grows, William’s analysis is a crucial corrective to our simple, unquestioned ideas about the role violence might or should play in our social struggles.
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 184935457X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
In three taut essays, Kristian Williams examines our society’s understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between “gangs” of all sorts—cops and criminals, Proud Boys and antifa, Panthers and skinheads—arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As society becomes more polarized and the conviction that things are only going to get worse, and more violent, grows, William’s analysis is a crucial corrective to our simple, unquestioned ideas about the role violence might or should play in our social struggles.
Space of Detention
Author: Elana Zilberg
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082234730X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An ethnographic analysis of the purported transnational gang crisis between the United States and El Salvador, based on extensive research in Los Angeles and San Salvador.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082234730X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An ethnographic analysis of the purported transnational gang crisis between the United States and El Salvador, based on extensive research in Los Angeles and San Salvador.
The Gang and Beyond
Author: S. Hallsworth
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137358106
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137358106
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.
In Defense of Looting
Author: Vicky Osterweil
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1645036677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy. Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even self-identified radicals distance themselves from looters, fearing that violent tactics reflect badly on the broader movement. But Vicky Osterweil argues that stealing goods and destroying property are direct, pragmatic strategies of wealth redistribution and improving life for the working class -- not to mention the brazen messages these methods send to the police and the state. All our beliefs about the innate righteousness of property and ownership, Osterweil explains, are built on the history of anti-Black, anti-Indigenous oppression. From slave revolts to labor strikes to the modern-day movements for climate change, Black lives, and police abolition, Osterweil makes a convincing case for rioting and looting as weapons that bludgeon the status quo while uplifting the poor and marginalized. In Defense of Looting is a history of violent protest sparking social change, a compelling reframing of revolutionary activism, and a practical vision for a dramatically restructured society.
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1645036677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy. Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even self-identified radicals distance themselves from looters, fearing that violent tactics reflect badly on the broader movement. But Vicky Osterweil argues that stealing goods and destroying property are direct, pragmatic strategies of wealth redistribution and improving life for the working class -- not to mention the brazen messages these methods send to the police and the state. All our beliefs about the innate righteousness of property and ownership, Osterweil explains, are built on the history of anti-Black, anti-Indigenous oppression. From slave revolts to labor strikes to the modern-day movements for climate change, Black lives, and police abolition, Osterweil makes a convincing case for rioting and looting as weapons that bludgeon the status quo while uplifting the poor and marginalized. In Defense of Looting is a history of violent protest sparking social change, a compelling reframing of revolutionary activism, and a practical vision for a dramatically restructured society.
Critical and Intersectional Gang Studies
Author: Jennifer M. Ortiz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000862038
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book offers a critical and empirical examination of gang life, using an intersectional framework considering race, class, gender, and other characteristics. The book reexamines mainstream definitions of gangs, identifies myths and misconceptions, and presents the complex subcultural or countercultural realities of gang members and their associates. Special attention is given to the importance of structural violence experienced by gang members and their communities. This book also interrogates how mainstream gang research is complicit in the oppression of marginalized individuals who join gangs. Assembling contributions from leading experts involved in gang research and the investigation of street gang culture, this book provides a perspective often missing in the conversation around gangs. Direct input from current and former gang members provides a window into the lived experiences of gang life—a picture more accurate and useful than that afforded by the privileged lens often used in gang research. Reliance on an intersectional approach fosters a non-pathological and critical look at gangs and their members. Critical and Intersectional Gang Studies is intended for students and scholars involved in the study of gangs, delinquency, and subcultural theory and will serve as a reference for researchers who wish to utilize a progressive, critical, and intersectional approach to study the impacts of gangs.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000862038
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book offers a critical and empirical examination of gang life, using an intersectional framework considering race, class, gender, and other characteristics. The book reexamines mainstream definitions of gangs, identifies myths and misconceptions, and presents the complex subcultural or countercultural realities of gang members and their associates. Special attention is given to the importance of structural violence experienced by gang members and their communities. This book also interrogates how mainstream gang research is complicit in the oppression of marginalized individuals who join gangs. Assembling contributions from leading experts involved in gang research and the investigation of street gang culture, this book provides a perspective often missing in the conversation around gangs. Direct input from current and former gang members provides a window into the lived experiences of gang life—a picture more accurate and useful than that afforded by the privileged lens often used in gang research. Reliance on an intersectional approach fosters a non-pathological and critical look at gangs and their members. Critical and Intersectional Gang Studies is intended for students and scholars involved in the study of gangs, delinquency, and subcultural theory and will serve as a reference for researchers who wish to utilize a progressive, critical, and intersectional approach to study the impacts of gangs.
A World in Crisis
Author: Tom Edwards
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1951530179
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A World in Crisis is set in the year 2060, when the entire world has been plunged into chaos due to one hundred and fifty years of environmental bastardisation. The testing of atomic bombs brought unsustainable pressures on the earth’s mantle. The disasters of global warming were caused by unparalleled pollution and uncontrolled population growth. One man rediscovers a long-lost cave deep in the Blue Mountains of Australia and endeavours to isolate himself from the terrors of rising oceans and the chaos of humanity in its death throes. He sets out to record for posterity the events that brought the world to its sorry state. He describes the inundation by the seas over one fifth the world’s land mass, as well as how earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanoes kill millions. Violence in the streets overwhelms security forces, leaving gangs to rape and kill at will. Survivors wait and pray for the world to return to normality. A World in Crisis follows up the author’s previous book Lethal Legacy.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1951530179
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A World in Crisis is set in the year 2060, when the entire world has been plunged into chaos due to one hundred and fifty years of environmental bastardisation. The testing of atomic bombs brought unsustainable pressures on the earth’s mantle. The disasters of global warming were caused by unparalleled pollution and uncontrolled population growth. One man rediscovers a long-lost cave deep in the Blue Mountains of Australia and endeavours to isolate himself from the terrors of rising oceans and the chaos of humanity in its death throes. He sets out to record for posterity the events that brought the world to its sorry state. He describes the inundation by the seas over one fifth the world’s land mass, as well as how earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanoes kill millions. Violence in the streets overwhelms security forces, leaving gangs to rape and kill at will. Survivors wait and pray for the world to return to normality. A World in Crisis follows up the author’s previous book Lethal Legacy.
Path of Destruction
Author: Mark Schleifstein
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316076597
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
At 5:02 A.M. on August 29, 2005, Power Went Out in the Superdome. Not long after, wind ripped giant white rubber sheets off the roof and sent huge shards of debris flying toward Uptown. Rivulets of rainwater began finding their way down through the ceiling, dripping and pouring into the stands, the mezzanine, and the football field. Without ventilation, the air began to get gamy with the smell of sweat and garbage. The bathrooms stopped working. Many people slept; others waited, mostly in silence.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316076597
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
At 5:02 A.M. on August 29, 2005, Power Went Out in the Superdome. Not long after, wind ripped giant white rubber sheets off the roof and sent huge shards of debris flying toward Uptown. Rivulets of rainwater began finding their way down through the ceiling, dripping and pouring into the stands, the mezzanine, and the football field. Without ventilation, the air began to get gamy with the smell of sweat and garbage. The bathrooms stopped working. Many people slept; others waited, mostly in silence.
The Boy and His Gang
Author: Joseph Adams Puffer
Publisher: Boston, Houghton
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Boston, Houghton
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Salvage - A Personal Odyssey
Author: Ian Tew
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1574093584
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
'No cure, no pay'- those are the terms under which a salvor operates, and in doing so he takes on an onerous responsibility. If he is defeated by the elements he is not paid. He receives nothing, however much money, effort, sweat and tears he has put in. Salvage is not a business for the faint-hearted. Ian Tew joined Selco Salvage of Singapore in 1974, and spent over a decade on the front line. Already an experienced master mariner, he learnt the salvage trade in the busy waters of the Far East before rising to command some of the world's largest supertugs, eventually becoming a roving salvage master. In his odyssey he roamed the world, from the coast of Cornwall to the Southern Ocean, from the Gulf of Suez to the dangerous reefs of the South China Sea. This is a vivid account of those ten tough years - successes, failures, tows and rescues - a barge adrift in a hurricane in the English Channel - a freighter aground on a reef hundreds of miles from land with a tropical storm approaching - a trawler battered by the surf on a coral reef, its bottom ripped out - a tanker hit by a missile in the Gulf during the 'Tanker War' of the 1980s. The tugs themselves play a big part in the story, as do the crews and captains the author worked with. This gripping account of drama at sea is a tribute to the seamanship, courage and resourcefulness of the salvor, and an insight into the technical, commercial and human issues behind the headlines.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1574093584
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
'No cure, no pay'- those are the terms under which a salvor operates, and in doing so he takes on an onerous responsibility. If he is defeated by the elements he is not paid. He receives nothing, however much money, effort, sweat and tears he has put in. Salvage is not a business for the faint-hearted. Ian Tew joined Selco Salvage of Singapore in 1974, and spent over a decade on the front line. Already an experienced master mariner, he learnt the salvage trade in the busy waters of the Far East before rising to command some of the world's largest supertugs, eventually becoming a roving salvage master. In his odyssey he roamed the world, from the coast of Cornwall to the Southern Ocean, from the Gulf of Suez to the dangerous reefs of the South China Sea. This is a vivid account of those ten tough years - successes, failures, tows and rescues - a barge adrift in a hurricane in the English Channel - a freighter aground on a reef hundreds of miles from land with a tropical storm approaching - a trawler battered by the surf on a coral reef, its bottom ripped out - a tanker hit by a missile in the Gulf during the 'Tanker War' of the 1980s. The tugs themselves play a big part in the story, as do the crews and captains the author worked with. This gripping account of drama at sea is a tribute to the seamanship, courage and resourcefulness of the salvor, and an insight into the technical, commercial and human issues behind the headlines.