Spring After Spring
Title | Spring After Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Roth Sisson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2018-08-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1626728194 |
From the creator of Star Stuff comes a picture book biography of Rachel Carson, the iconic environmentalist who fought to keep the sounds of nature from going silent.
After the Arab Spring
Title | After the Arab Spring PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Bradley |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-01-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230393667 |
From the author of the book that uniquely predicted the Egyptian revolution, a new message about the Middle East: everything we're told about the Arab Spring is wrong. When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, the West assumed that democracy and pluralism would triumph. Greatly praised author and foreign correspondent John R. Bradley draws on his extensive firsthand knowledge of the region's cultures and societies to show how Islamists will fill the power vacuum in the wake of the revolutions. This vivid and timely book gives an original analysis of the new Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Bahrain by highlighting the dramatic spread of Saudi-funded Wahhabi ideology, inter-tribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions. Bradley gives a boots on the ground look at how the revolutions were first ignited and the major players behind them, and shows how the local population participated in and responded to the uprisings. In Tunisia he witnesses secularists under violent attack and in Egypt observes radical Islamists taking control of the streets. He illuminates the ancient sectarian strife shaking Bahrain, fierce civil war pitching tribe against tribe in Libya and Yemen, and ethnic divisions threatening to tear apart Syria and Iran. Taking it one step further, Bradley offers a comprehensive look at how across countries, liberal, progressive voices that first rallied the Arab masses were drowned out by the slogans of the better-organized and more popular radical Islamists. With the in-depth knowledge of a local and the keen perspective of a seasoned reporter, After the Arab Spring offers a piercing analysis of what the empowerment of Islamism bodes for the future of the Middle East and the impact on the West.
After the Spring
Title | After the Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Hélène Aldeguer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Arab Spring, 2010- |
ISBN | 9781684067909 |
In 2011 one of the biggest political events in the world, the Arab Spring, swept across North Africa. But what came next? As the world moves on, four young Tunisians must cope with the reality of an uncertain future in this original graphic novel.
After the 'Socialist Spring'
Title | After the 'Socialist Spring' PDF eBook |
Author | George Last |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2009-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1845459016 |
Historical analysis of the German Democratic Republic has tended to adopt a top-down model of the transmission of authority. However, developments were more complicated than the standard state/society dichotomy that has dominated the debate among GDR historians. Drawing on a broad range of archival material from state and SED party sources as well as Stasi files and individual farm records along with some oral history interviews, this book provides a thorough investigation of the transformation of the rural sector from a range of perspectives. Focusing on the region of Bezirk Erfurt, the author examines on the one hand how East Germans responded to the end of private farming by resisting, manipulating but also participating in the new system of rural organization. However, he also shows how the regime sought via its representatives to implement its aims with a combination of compromise and material incentive as well as administrative pressure and other more draconian measures. The reader thus gains valuable insight into the processes by which the SED regime attained stability in the 1970s and yet was increasingly vulnerable to growing popular dissatisfaction and economic stagnation and decline in the 1980s, leading to its eventual collapse.
Realism and Democracy
Title | Realism and Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Elliott Abrams |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2017-09-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108415628 |
This book makes a realpolitik argument for supporting democracy in the Arab world, drawing on four decades of policy experience.
The New Middle East
Title | The New Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Danahar |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2013-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1408840596 |
In 2011 the Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. The toppling of a generation of dictators left the region in turmoil. Has the promise of the Arab Spring been lost? What does the rise of religious extremism on Europe's doorstep mean for the West and its allies? Is America giving up on the region and, if so, who will lead the new Middle East? Drawing on compelling first-hand reporting, a deep knowledge of the region's history and access to many of the key players, BBC Bureau Chief Paul Danahar lays bare the forces that are shaping the region. Now completely revised and updated to include everything that has happened in the region since the book was first published.
Death in Spring
Title | Death in Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Mercè Rodoreda |
Publisher | Open Letter Books |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1934824119 |
Merce Rodoreda depicts the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town-burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the river that courses underneath the town to discover if they will be washed away by a flood-through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy who must come to terms with the rhyme and reason of this ritual violence, and with his wild, child-like, and teenaged stepmother, who becomes his playmate.