Slave Planet Didactic Press Paperbacks

Author : Laurence Janifer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781546418412
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Planet [Didactic Press Paperbacks] written by Laurence Janifer and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fruyling's World... rich in the metals that kept the Terran Confederation going-one vital link in a galaxy-wide civilization. But the men of Fruyling's World lived on borrowed time, knowing that slavery was outlawed throughout the Confederation-and that only the slave labor of the reptilian natives could produce the precious metals the Confederation needed!

Author : Wilbur Siebert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781546600596
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Underground Railroad [Didactic Press Paperbacks] written by Wilbur Siebert and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the questions which have interested and divided the people of the United States, none since the foundation of the Federal Union has been so important, so far-reaching, and so long contested as slavery. During the first half of the nineteenth century the other great national questions were nearly all economic-taxation, currency, banks, transportation, lands,-and they had a strong material basis, a flavor of self-interest; but though slavery had also an economic side, the reasons for the onslaught upon it were chiefly moral. The first objection brought by the slave-power against the anti-slavery propaganda was the cry of the sacredness of vested and property rights against attack by sentimentalists; but what dignified the whole contest was the very fact that the sentiment for human rights was at the bottom of it, and that the abolitionists felt a moral responsibility even though property owners suffered. The slavery question, which in origin was sectional, became national as the moral issues grew clearer; and finally loomed up as the dominant question through the determination of both sides to use the power and prestige of the national government. From the moral agitation came also the personal element in the struggle, the development of strong characters, like Calhoun, Toombs, Stephens and Jefferson Davis on one side; like Lundy, Lovejoy, Garrison, Giddings, Sumner, Chase, John Brown and Lincoln on the other.Among the many weak spots in the system of slavery none gave such opportunities to Northern abolitionists as the locomotive powers of the slaves; a "thing" which could hear its owner talking about freedom, a "thing" which could steer itself Northward and avoid the "patterollers," was a thing of impaired value as a machine, however intelligent as a human being. From earliest colonial times fugitive slaves helped to make slavery inconvenient and expensive. So long as slavery was general, every slaveholder in every colony was a member of an automatic association for stopping and returning fugitives; but, from the Revolution on, the fugitives performed the important function of keeping continually before the people of the states in which slavery had ceased, the fact that it continued in other parts of the Union. Nevertheless, though between 1777 and 1804 all the states north of Maryland threw off slavery, the free states covenanted in the Federal Constitution of 1787 to interpose no obstacle to the recapture of fugitives who might come across their borders; and thus continued to be partners in the system of slavery. From the first there was reluctance and positive opposition to this obligation; and every successful capture was an object lesson to communities out of hearing of the whipping-post and out of sight of the auction-block.In aiding fugitive slaves the abolitionist was making the most effective protest against the continuance of slavery; but he was also doing something more tangible; he was helping the oppressed, he was eluding the oppressor; and at the same time he was enjoying the most romantic and exciting amusement open to men who had high moral standards. He was taking risks, defying the laws, and making himself liable to punishment, and yet could glow with the healthful pleasure of duty done.

Author : Scott Nearing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781547055357
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Beyond [Didactic Press Paperbacks] written by Scott Nearing and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We may think and talk about civilization as one pattern or level of culture, one stage through which human life flows and ebbs. In that sense we may regard it abstractly and historically, as we regard the most recent ice age or the long and painful record of large-scale chattel slavery.From quite another viewpoint we may think of civilization as a technologically advanced way of life developed by various peoples through ages of unrecorded experiment and experience, and followed by millions during the period of written history. It is also the way of life that the West has been trying to impose upon the entire human family since European empires launched their crusade to westernize, modernize and civilize the planet Earth.A third approach would regard civilization as an evolving life style, conceived before the earliest days of recorded human history and matured through the series of experiments marking the development of civilization as we have known it during the five centuries from 1450 to 1975.Thinking in terms of this age-old experience, with six or more thousand years of social history as a background, it is possible to give a fairly exact meaning to the word "civilization" as it has been lived and is being lived by the present-day West. It is also possible to understand the history of previous civilizations in cycle after cycle of their rise, their development, decline and extinction. At the same time it will enable the reader to recognize the relationship (and difference) between the words "culture" and "civilization".Human culture is the sum total of ideas, relationships, artifacts, institutions, purposes and ideals currently functioning in any community. Three elements are present in each human society: man, nature and the social structure. Human culture at any point in its history is the social structure: the aggregate of existing culture traits, the products of man's ingenuity, inventiveness and experimentation, set in their natural environment.Civilization is a level of culture built upon foundations laid down through long periods of pre-civilized living. These foundations consist of artifacts, implements, customs, habit patterns and institutions produced and developed in numerous scattered localities by groups of food-gatherers, migrating herdsmen, cultivators, hand craftsmen and traders and eventually in urban communities built around centers of wealth and power: the cities which are the nuclei of every civilization...

Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781546451624
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Engineer [Didactic Press Paperbacks] written by Harry Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That mores is strictly a matter of local custom cannot be denied. But that ethics is pure opinion also...' Maybe there are times for murder, and theft and slavery....

Author : Grégoire Chamayou
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400842255
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manhunts written by Grégoire Chamayou and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of manhunting in the West, from ancient times to the present Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grégoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized search for individuals and small groups on the run because they have defied authority, committed crimes, seemed dangerous simply for existing, or been categorized as subhuman or dispensable. Chamayou begins in ancient Greece, where young Spartans hunted and killed Helots (Sparta's serfs) as an initiation rite, and where Aristotle and other philosophers helped to justify raids to capture and enslave foreigners by creating the concept of natural slaves. He discusses the hunt for heretics in the Middle Ages; New World natives in the early modern period; vagrants, Jews, criminals, and runaway slaves in other eras; and illegal immigrants today. Exploring evolving ideas about the human and the subhuman, what we owe to enemies and people on the margins of society, and the supposed legitimacy of domination, Chamayou shows that the hunting of humans should not be treated ahistorically, and that manhunting has varied as widely in its justifications and aims as in its practices. He investigates the psychology of manhunting, noting that many people, from bounty hunters to Balzac, have written about the thrill of hunting when the prey is equally intelligent and cunning. An unconventional history on an unconventional subject, Manhunts is an in-depth consideration of the dynamics of an age-old form of violence.

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781546749103
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Earth's Core [Didactic Press Paperbacks] written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by Burroughs, the 1st in his series about the hollow earth land of Pellucidar. It 1st appeared as a 4-part serial in All-Story Weekly from 4/4-25/14, 1st published as a hardcover by A.C. McClurg in 7/22.The author relates how, traveling the Sahara, he's encountered a remarkable vehicle & pilot, David Innes, a man with a remarkable story to tell. Innes is a mining heir who finances an experimental "iron mole," an excavating vehicle designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. In a test, they discover the vehicle cannot be turned. It burrows 500 miles into the Earth, emerging into the unknown interior world of Pellucidar. In Burroughs' concept, Earth is a hollow shell with Pellucidar as the internal surface of that shell. Pellucidar is inhabited by prehistoric creatures of all geological eras, & dominated by the Mahars, a species of flying reptile both intelligent & civilized, but which enslaves & preys on local stone-age humans. Innes & Perry are captured by the Mahars' ape-like Sagoth servants & taken with other human captives to the chief Mahar city of Phutra. Among their fellow captives are the brave Ghak, the Hairy One, from the country of Sari, the shifty Hooja the Sly One & Dian the Beautiful of Amoz. Innes, attracted to Dian the Beautiful, defends her against the unwanted attentions of Hooja, but due to his ignorance of local customs she assumes he wants her as a slave, not friend or lover, & subsequently snubs him. Only later, after Hooja slips their captors in a dark tunnel & forces Dian to leave with him, does David learn from Ghak the cause of the misunderstanding.

Author : M.K. Wren
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626811008
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gift Upon the Shore written by M.K. Wren and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A poignant expression of the durability, grace, and potential of the human spirit” set in a post-nuclear dystopia where words are worth killing for (Jean M. Auel, author of the Earth’s Children series). By the late twenty-first century, civilization has nearly been destroyed by overpopulation, economic chaos, horrific disease, and a global war that brought a devastating nuclear winter. On the Oregon coast, two women—writer Mary Hope and painter Rachel Morrow—embark on an audacious project to help save future generations: the preservation of books, both their own and any they can find at nearby abandoned houses. For years, they labor in solitude. Then they encounter a young man who comes from a group of survivors in the South. They call their community the Ark. Rachel and Mary see the possibility of civilization rising again. But they realize with trepidation that the Arkites believe in only one book—the Judeo-Christian bible—and regard all other books as blasphemous. And those who go against the word of God must be cleansed from the Earth . . . In this “thought-provoking” novel of humanity, hope, and horror, M.K. Wren displays “her passionate concern with what gives life meaning (Library Journal).

Author : Clive Staples Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330021722
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Silent Planet written by Clive Staples Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in C.S. Lewis's sci-fi trilogy, which tells the adventure of Dr Ransom who was kidnapped and transported to another planet.

Author : David Greene
Publisher : David Greene
ISBN 13 : 1453721355
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unmentionables written by David Greene and published by David Greene. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmentionables is the epic story of two couples in the Civil War south. One couple is straight, white and wealthy; the other is gay, black and enslaved. Field hand Jimmy meets Cato, a house servant from a nearby plantation. Over time, Jimmy's fascination with Cato grows into romantic love. Winner Book of the Year award for Gay fiction

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429900210
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hegemony or Survival written by Noam Chomsky and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the last unarmed spot in our neighborhood-the heavens-as a militarized sphere of influence. Our earth and its skies are, for the Bush administration, the final frontiers of imperial control. In Hegemony or Survival , Noam Chomsky investigates how we came to this moment, what kind of peril we find ourselves in, and why our rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of our species. With the striking logic that is his trademark, Chomsky dissects America's quest for global supremacy, tracking the U.S. government's aggressive pursuit of policies intended to achieve "full spectrum dominance" at any cost. He lays out vividly how the various strands of policy-the militarization of space, the ballistic-missile defense program, unilateralism, the dismantling of international agreements, and the response to the Iraqi crisis-cohere in a drive for hegemony that ultimately threatens our survival. In our era, he argues, empire is a recipe for an earthly wasteland. Lucid, rigorous, and thoroughly documented, Hegemony or Survival promises to be Chomsky's most urgent and sweeping work in years, certain to spark widespread debate.