Walking The Precipice

Author : Barbara Bick
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558619194
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking the Precipice written by Barbara Bick and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “enthralling” memoir of a woman who risked her life to help a people under siege and a country caught between freedom and oppression (Publishers Weekly—starred review). In 1990, sixty-five-year-old activist and grandmother Barbara Bick traveled with a women’s delegation to Afghanistan for what she thought would be her last great adventure. Instead, Bick forged deep friendships with her Afghan hosts—only to watch in horror as the Taliban took over most of the country and instituted fiercely anti-woman policies. Eleven years later, at age 76, Bick returned to Afghanistan, travelling to the region controlled by the Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban militia. In early September 2001, Bick walked out of a compound where militia leader Ahmad Shah Massoud was also staying. Minutes later, Taliban infiltrators assassinated Massoud—a prelude to the al Qaeda attacks on the United States. As the US government became deeply involved in Afghanistan, Bick decided to return once again to see how women were faring under the new government. In 2004, she was one of the few Western women able to bring years of experience to understanding the country’s trauma. Walking the Precipice gives new insight into the people, politics, and culture of a country that is on everyone’s radar—for its beauty, and for its tragic place history.

Author : Toby Ord
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 031648489X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Toby Ord and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher committed to putting ideas into action, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker

Author : Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252060939
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Elia Wilkinson Peattie and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Barrington, a Chicago social worker at the turn of the century, tries to balance her nontraditional role and professional success with the traditional values of the time.

Author : Elizabeth Swados
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558619224
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking the Dog written by Elizabeth Swados and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brilliant and layered” novel about a prodigy turned convict turned dog walker in her 40s from the celebrated author of My Depression: A Picture Book (Oprah.com). A former child prodigy and rich-girl, eighteen-year-old Ester is incarcerated after her kleptomania gets way out of hand. There, she is given the very gentile name Carleen (for her own protection) and for two decades, time is the enemy. When finally let loose onto the streets of New York, Carleen finds a job as a dog walker in Manhattan’s most elite neighborhoods. But despite her remarkable gift for canine communication, Carleen is determined to finally prove that she is a real person. To this end, she tries to reconnect with her estranged—and ferociously Orthodox—daughter. Amid the strained brunch dates, unsent letters, and the continuing trauma of prison, Carleen begins a slow and halting process of self-discovery. Strikingly funny and self-aware, this belated coming-of-age novel asks the question: How do you restart after crashing your first chance at life?

Author : Harold Peabody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walks on Mount Desert Island, Maine written by Harold Peabody and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. T. Blakeley
Publisher : Janus Publishing Company Lim
ISBN 13 : 9781857564846
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Precipice of Poverty written by D. T. Blakeley and published by Janus Publishing Company Lim. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of life in a street in Croydon in 1907. It is also the story of a young man's dream - to leave that street with all its violence, drunkenness and poverty behind, and to give his parents a better life.

Author : Philip Nanney Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995533707
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nannau written by Philip Nanney Williams and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Askew Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gossiping Guide to Wales written by Askew Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dolores Kong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 076278377X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiking Acadia National Park written by Dolores Kong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample more than 120 miles of hiking trails through the approximately 40,000 acres of America's first national park.

Author : Armin G. Stromberg
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1848166753
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A.G. Stromberg written by Armin G. Stromberg and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armin G Stromberg was arguably one of the founding fathers of the technique of stripping voltammetry frequently used in chemical analysis, yet he is virtually unheard of in Western Scientific circles. He was a brilliant scientist, but due to his German ancestry, he was interred in one of the NKVD GULAG camps at the outbreak of the second world war.This semi-biographical history presents the complete set of 74 surviving letters written by Stromberg to his wife during this period. The letters provide both historians and the interested public with a rare and unique glimpse into the every-day living conditions of inmates in one of the GULAG labour camps. The book also traces Stromberg's life following his release. More importantly, it relates how he founded the thriving Tomsk school to the wider historical context of electroanalysis in the USSR, drawing conclusions about the rate of scientific development as compared to the West and showing how 'wet analysis' remained of vital importance to industry long after equivalent measurements were made instrumentally elsewhere.Readers will also appreciate how Stromberg's invaluable contributions in the 'Tomsk school of electroanalysis' laid the foundations for the extensive metallurgical extraction and nuclear industries that dominated the entire Siberian region for many years. This book is must-read for anyone interested in the life and times of an important, yet often overlooked scientist of the second world war.