Up Against It

Author : Laura J. Mixon
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780765354211
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Against It written by Laura J. Mixon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogue artificial intelligence and a lethal resource crisis threaten an asteroid colony--with an organized crime syndicate pulling the strings. Compulsively readable and packed with challenging ideas . . .--"Publishers Weekly," starred review.

Author : Jonathan Kaplan
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802142788
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contact Wounds written by Jonathan Kaplan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Dressing Station offers a powerful memoir of the author's experiences in a combat-zone hospital in Iraq, sharing stories of his father's experiences as a surgeon on the battlefield in World War II. Reprint.

Author : Laura J. Mixon
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0765382660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Against It written by Laura J. Mixon and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing utilities on a future asteroid colony, bureaucrat-engineer Jane discovers that a water crisis may have been orchestrated by the Martian mafia and that the colony is also being threatened by a rogue artificial intelligence and a transhumanist cult.

Author : Mike Royko
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226730751
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Royko written by Mike Royko and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution—in Jimmy Breslin’s words, "the best journalist of his time." Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago will restore to print the legendary columnist’s earliest writings, which chronicle 1960s Chicago with the moral vision, ironic sense, and razor-sharp voice that would remain Royko’s trademark. This collection of early columns from the Chicago Daily News ranges from witty social commentary to politically astute satire. Some of the pieces are falling-down funny and others are tenderly nostalgic, but all display Royko’s unrivaled skill at using humor to tell truth to power. From machine politicians and gangsters to professional athletes, from well-heeled Chicagoans to down-and-out hoodlums, no one escapes Royko’s penetrating gaze—and resounding judgment. Early Royko features a memorable collection of characters, including such well-known figures as Hugh Hefner, Mayor Richard J. Daley, and Dr. Martin Luther King. But these boldfaced names are juxtaposed with Royko’s beloved lesser knowns from the streets of Chicago: Mrs. Peak, Sylvester "Two-Gun Pete" Washington, and Fats Boylermaker, who gained fame for leaning against a corner light pole from 2 a.m. Saturday until noon Sunday, when his neighborhood tavern reopened for business. Accompanied by a foreword from Rick Kogan, this new edition will delight Royko’s most ardent fans and capture the hearts of a new generation of readers. As Kogan writes, Early Royko "will remind us how a remarkable relationship began—Chicago and Royko, Royko and Chicago—and how it endures."

Author : Andy Stapp
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Against the Brass written by Andy Stapp and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald D. Taylor
Publisher : Amacom Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814473009
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Against the Wal-Marts written by Donald D. Taylor and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A formidable strategic tool any business can use to become and remain competitive in the shadow of retail giants.

Author : Curtis J. Austin
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610754441
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Against the Wall written by Curtis J. Austin and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curtis J. Austin’s Up Against the Wall chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another—Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley—left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the party’s early emphasis in the 1960s on self-defense, though sorely needed in black communities at the time, left it open to mischaracterization, infiltration, and devastation by local, state, and federal police forces and government agencies. Austin carefully highlights the internal tension between advocates of a more radical position than the Panthers took, who insisted on military confrontation with the state, and those such as Newton and David Hilliard, who believed in community organizing and alliance building as first priorities. Austin interviewed a number of party members who had heretofore remained silent. With the help of these stories, Austin is able to put the violent history of the party in perspective and show that the “survival” programs, such as the Free Breakfast for Children program and Free Health Clinics, helped the black communities they served to recognize their own bases of power and ability to save themselves.

Author : Success
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1463444869
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Against It written by Success and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What, when, where, why and with who is a big question in this book. Totally up against it it Spicy in this book. Pride and respect is savored during the many ups and down of brother in various hoods. This page turner will allow you to indrirectly involved yourself.This wave of humor adventure is yours.

Author : Dean Vinka
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595281168
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Always Up Against It written by Dean Vinka and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always Up Against It will tell you who the author, Dean Vinka, is, who he was, and who he is becoming. Read closely, but you need not look far to know that he is you and me. Not only enjoying the simple things in life, he sucks the marrow out of them, and puts it on display for us all to see. His life is his art form, the people in it are his characters, his experiences the story. You can be a part of it. The walls of narrow-mindedness, complacency, and conformity are no longer. Unified are spirits afire, breaking through and shining magnificently, so that nothing save the light itself could possibly exist. The feeling is warm, the taste is like honey. Always Up Against It is a unique collection of poems. It is a chemical reaction of thoughts, emotions, and experiences from an individual who speaks on behalf of us all. In a world of struggles against society, conformity, and self, Always Up Against It delivers a refreshingly insightful perspective on the trials of life.

Author : Donald Albrecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939125781
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Against the Wall written by Donald Albrecht and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster offers nearly 200 examples of visually arresting and socially meaningful posters, taken from more than 8,000 held in the collection in the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries' Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation. The collection, one of the largest of its kind in the world, was donated to the University of Rochester by Dr. Edward Atwater. The book accompanies an exhibition of AIDS education posters displayed at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.The posters, spanning the years from 1982 to the present, show how social, religious, civic, and public health agencies have addressed the controversial, often contested terrain of the HIV/AIDS pandemic within the public realm. Organizations and creators tailored their messages to audiences, both broad and very specific, and used a wide array of strategies, employing humor, emotion, scare tactics, simple scientific explanations, sexual imagery, and many other methods to communicate powerfully and effectively.