In Harm's Way

In Harm's Way
Author: Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1997
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780674445789

This book contains the oral testimony of victims of pornography, spoken on the record for the first time in history. Speaking at hearings on a groundbreaking antipornography civil rights law, women offer eloquent witness to the devastation pornography has caused in their lives. Supported by social science experts and authorities on rape, battery, and prostitution, discounted and opposed by free speech advocates and absolutists, their riveting testimony articulates the centrality of pornography to sexual abuse and inequity today. At issue in these hearings is a law conceived and drafted by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon that defines harm done through pornography as a legal injury of sex discrimination warranting civil redress. From the first set of hearings in Minneapolis in 1983 through those before the Massachusetts state legislature in 1992, the witnesses heard here expose the commonplace reality of denigration and sexual subordination due to pornography and refute the widespread notion that pornography is harmless expression that must be protected by the state. Introduced with powerful essays by MacKinnon and Dworkin, these hearings--unabridged and with each word scrupulously verified--constitute a unique record of a conflict over the meaning of democracy itself--a major civil rights struggle for our time and a fundamental crisis in United States constitutional law: Can we sacrifice the lives of women and children to a pornographer's right to free "speech"? Can we allow the First Amendment to shield sexual exploitation and predatory sexual violence? These pages contain all the arguments for protecting pornography--and dramatically document its human cost.

The Climate Book

The Climate Book
Author: Greta Thunberg
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0593492323

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope—but only if we listen to the science before it's too late. In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts—geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and Indigenous leaders—to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Throughout, illuminating and often shocking grayscale charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and illustrations underscore their research and their arguments. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? And if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried? We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. Together, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.

ONE EIGHT ONE

ONE EIGHT ONE
Author: Fred Dowd
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1665753013

In 1947, the United Nations passed Resolution 181 which created a two state solution, creating the nation of Israel and Palestine. The Israelis accepted this two state solution at the time. The League of Arab Nations rejected it. Since then, the world has witnessed over seven decades of wars and strife in the Middle East. In this book, President Connor Grant implements Resolution 181 and the consequences of his actions ensue. If you like thrillers and ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, you will like this story.

Jade Cross Book 2

Jade Cross Book 2
Author: Harold Weist
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2022-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Master Gunnery Sergeant Travis Tolbane, USMC (Ret.) has been enjoying his retirement, not knowing he is about to embark on his most dangerous journey. He found a place to live in Mount Juliet and a desirable job as a mall security manager in Nashville, Tennessee, after leaving his beloved Corps. He finds what he believes will be the love of his life. He's not aware that her life is in serious danger due to his catching a thief while serving in Vietnam. The thief eventually becomes the leader of all snatch-and-grab gangs in Middle Tennessee. His obsession of hate for Tolbane drives his life to fulfill his obsession of cutting Tolbane to death, luring him through Tolbane's love for the lovely Kaila Al Noor. Will this be Tolbane's demise or something else?

The Juncture

The Juncture
Author: Bruce Fottler
Publisher: Bruce Fottler
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2013-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Gary Olstrom received a miracle he didn't want. His reward for a heroic deed transports him back to an obscure day in his high school past. Trapped in a typical, long-forgotten day in 1981, he soon learns it's actually a key juncture in time. Now he has only hours to rise above his awkward high school existence to stop something that will irreparably damage the future of everyone he knows and loves.

Good Night, Paul

Good Night, Paul
Author: Paul C. J. Campbell, BEd, DAUS
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2016-10-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1681811189

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Paul Campbell has lived on three continents, sailed several oceans, and had many unique life experiences, most of which included his family. Paul was an athlete from a young age and eventually became a professional. His lifelong dream of making the NHL came to a horrific halt after a terrible car accident almost ended Paul's life and took the life of his good friend. After coming out of a coma, Paul started a new journey, which began in a wheelchair. He went on to earn two degrees from the University of New Brunswick. Today Paul teaches, coaches, changes lives, is a ski instructor, and a guest lecturer. While Paul never played major league hockey, he received a higher calling: to his own NHL (National Helpers League). Paul told people he would make the NHL, and even though his NHL is very different, it is even more important in the global scheme of things.

RUDYARD KIPLING PREMIUM COLLECTION: His Greatest Works in One Volume (Illustrated): The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Just So Stories, Kim, The Light That Failed, Captain Courageous, Plain Tales from the Hills

RUDYARD KIPLING PREMIUM COLLECTION: His Greatest Works in One Volume (Illustrated): The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Just So Stories, Kim, The Light That Failed, Captain Courageous, Plain Tales from the Hills
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 4973
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 8026843886

This carefully crafted ebook: "RUDYARD KIPLING PREMIUM COLLECTION: His Greatest Works in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "The Jungle Book" is a collection of stories and fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned "man cub" Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other four stories are probably Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Toomai of the Elephants. "The Second Jungle Book" is a sequel which features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. "The Man Who Would Be King" is a novella about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo. "Kim" is and adventure novel about the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. "The Just So Stories" are a highly fantasized origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works. "The Light That Failed" "Captain Courageous" "Plain Tales from the Hills" Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature.

Desloge Chronicles - A Tale of Two Continents - An Amazing Family's Journey - Volume One

Desloge Chronicles - A Tale of Two Continents - An Amazing Family's Journey - Volume One
Author: Christopher Desloge
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 679
Release: 2012-12-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 130056976X

Desloge Chronicles, A Tale of Two Continents is a monograph of an amazing family's journey supported by genealogical summaries which provide solid provenance. Situated in France and America, this is an authentic historical narrative built around one family's 600 letters dating from 200 years, providing live-action reality present at France & the French Revolution and the American Frontier. Based upon one of the largest bodies of vibrant correspondence written from the turn of the 1800s, we are able to peer into the scene of teeming wildlife and Native American Indians in the young America expanding from this family's French nobility on the young American frontier and then blooming into titanic industrialists and caring naturalists and philanthropists. Within this monograph, historical fact, studied historical research, and expanded narrative craft a compelling legend of the prominent Desloge family. More than simply cold chronology of facts, these are "action figures".