Old Friends, New Enemies
Title | Old Friends, New Enemies PDF eBook |
Author | Marv Wolfman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | 9781401240448 |
"Originally published in single magazine form in Secret Origins 13, Action Comics Weekly 613-618, 627-634."
Secret Origins (1986-1990) #13
Title | Secret Origins (1986-1990) #13 PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Thomas |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1987-04-15 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN |
Enjoy this great comic from DC’s digital archive!
Booster Gold: Future Lost
Title | Booster Gold: Future Lost PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Jurgens |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2020-09-01 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1779509871 |
The original solo series for Booster Gold, self-serving hero from the future, concludes with this collection of Dan Jurgens’s formative mid-’80s stories! Booster finds himself a wanted man, and then lands in the polychromatic sights of the Rainbow Raider! Later, Superman gets in the middle of a battle between Booster Gold and…Booster Gold? Collects Booster Gold #13-25, pages from Millennium #3-6 and #7, Action Comics #594, Secret Origins #35, and more.
Texas Tough
Title | Texas Tough PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Perkinson |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2010-03-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1429952776 |
A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became the national template. Drawing on convict accounts, official records, and interviews with prisoners, guards, and lawmakers, historian Robert Perkinson reveals the Southern roots of our present-day prison colossus. While conventional histories emphasize the North's rehabilitative approach, he shows how the retributive and profit-driven regime of the South ultimately triumphed. Most provocatively, he argues that just as convict leasing and segregation emerged in response to Reconstruction, so today's mass incarceration, with its vast racial disparities, must be seen as a backlash against civil rights. Illuminating for the first time the origins of America's prison juggernaut, Texas Tough points toward a more just and humane future.
Ghost Wars
Title | Ghost Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Coll |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 736 |
Release | 2005-03-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0141935790 |
The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution. Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, explores how this sowed the seeds of bn Laden's rise, traces how he built his global network and brings to life the dramatic battles within the US government over national security. Above all, he lays bare American intelligence's continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrrorism in the years leading to 9/11 - and its devastating consequences.
Congressional Record
Title | Congressional Record PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1324 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Green Lantern: Secret Origin (New Edition)
Title | Green Lantern: Secret Origin (New Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Geoff Johns |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2011-04-12 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1401236413 |
Before he became the Green Lantern...before he unwittingly brought about the downfall of the Green Lantern Corps...before his rebirth as the universe's most powerful protector...Hal Jordan of Earth was just a washed-up test pilot with no way to fly...until the dying alien Abin Sur granted him his power ring, the most powerful weapon in the universe—and his entry into a reality he could never have imagined.