War Primer
Title | War Primer PDF eBook |
Author | Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2017-05-02 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1784782084 |
A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media. Pictures of catastrophic bombings, propaganda portraits of leading Nazis, scenes of unbearable tragedy on the battlefield — all these images contribute to an anthology of horror, from which Brecht’s perceptions are distilled in poems that are razor-sharp, angry and direct. The result is an outstanding literary memorial to World War Two and one of the most spontaneous, revealing and moving of Brecht’s works.
War Primer
Title | War Primer PDF eBook |
Author | Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2017-05-02 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1784782106 |
A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media. Pictures of catastrophic bombings, propaganda portraits of leading Nazis, scenes of unbearable tragedy on the battlefield — all these images contribute to an anthology of horror, from which Brecht’s perceptions are distilled in poems that are razor-sharp, angry and direct. The result is an outstanding literary memorial to World War Two and one of the most spontaneous, revealing and moving of Brecht’s works.
Primer of the Helicopter War
Title | Primer of the Helicopter War PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Holley |
Publisher | Nissi Publishing |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Military helicopters |
ISBN | 9780944372111 |
The Iran Primer
Title | The Iran Primer PDF eBook |
Author | Robin B. Wright |
Publisher | US Institute of Peace Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1601270844 |
A comprehensive but concise overview of Iran's politics, economy, military, foreign policy, and nuclear program. The volume chronicles U.S.-Iran relations under six American presidents and probes five options for dealing with Iran. Organized thematically, this book provides top-level briefings by 50 top experts on Iran (both Iranian and Western authors) and is a practical and accessible "go-to" resource for practitioners, policymakers, academics, and students, as well as a fascinating wealth of information for anyone interested in understanding Iran's pivotal role in world politics.
War
Title | War PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph L. Allen |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2014-08-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1623492432 |
War: A Primer for Christians provides a concise introduction to the main approaches that Christians have taken toward war and examines each approach critically. Some Christians have supported their country's wars as crusades of good against evil. Others, as pacifists, have rejected participation in or support for any war. Still others have followed the just-war tradition in holding that it can be justifiable under some conditions to resort to war, but that then Christian love must limit the conduct of war. In an updated preface and new afterword, Allen explores aspects of current international relations that have a special bearing on the context of war. “Joseph Allen’s War: A Primer for Christians is just that: a succinct, fair-minded, wonderfully reasoned, and accessible account of the major Christian traditions on war—Just War, Holy War, and the Pacifist renunciation of violence. His book is also a primer in the further sense, that it will prime the pump for further discussion and debate as to when wars are just and how a nation might keep the means employed under restraints.”—William F. May
Dark Territory
Title | Dark Territory PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Kaplan |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1476763267 |
Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Simon & Schuster.
What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars
Title | What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Stotsky |
Publisher | Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
The «standards wars» are another manifestation of the «culture wars.» Few educational policy makers understand the many disciplinary, pedagogical, and curricular issues occuring at the heart of the conflicts as states develop or revise their K-12 standards and standards-based assessments in the major subjects. The issues differ from subject to subject. This collection of essays addresses the issues that have arisen in the development and implementation of national and state standards in science, mathematics, history, economics, and the English language arts from the perspective of scholars in those disciplines. These scholars are writing not for other scholars in their field but for those who help shape K-12 educational policy legislators, members of boards of education, and those who teach courses in government or education policy making. The purpose of this collection is to clarify what is at stake in the standards wars and in standards-based systemic reform.