No Pity

Author : Joseph P. Shapiro
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307798321
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Pity written by Joseph P. Shapiro and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post “The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune “Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement—the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society’s myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult.”—from the Introduction

Author : Christopher Herbert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832764
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War of No Pity written by Christopher Herbert and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw "the Indian Mutiny" of 1857-59 as an epochal event. In this provocative book, Christopher Herbert seeks to discover why. He offers a view of this episode--and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally--sharply at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of largely overlooked and often mesmerizing nineteenth-century texts, including memoirs, histories, letters, works of journalism, and novels, War of No Pity shows that the startling ferocity of the conflict in India provoked a crisis of national conscience and a series of searing if often painfully ambivalent condemnations of British actions in India both prior to and during the war. Bringing to light the dissident, disillusioned, antipatriotic strain of Victorian "mutiny writing," Herbert locates in it key forerunners of modern-day antiwar literature and the modern critique of racism.

Author : Toni T-Shakir
Publisher : Shakir Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0998609242
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Of No Pity 2 written by Toni T-Shakir and published by Shakir Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 2003 and the streets of South Central Los Angeles are at war. Elijah “Lil 9-Lives” Hassahn has put his gangster life behind him and is thriving with his family in his newfound wealth; but the past keeps coming back to haunt him. After four years in hiding, Lil Teflon is back with a bloodlust for revenge. Enemies hide in plain sight and an uprising begins. The Tiny Toons, the next generation of gangsters, play hard and fast with the rules, aiming to take the reins of the Nine-Os for themselves. A new threat arises when a major player in the Set is murdered. The finger of blame points in Elijah’s direction, and now he must either swallow his pride and keep the peace or revert to the violent man he used to be. Big 9-Lives and Big Teflon are pulled into the fray to calm the tensions, but lines are blurred between friend and foe. Meanwhile, Elise struggles to find balance in her new life with Elijah, the illicit drug trade, and her tortured past. As loyalties to brothers and friends are tested, Elijah is spinning out of control toward the point of no return. Can he make peace with a childhood friend who wronged him, or will he immerse himself back into the bloodshed of the urban trenches? In this provocative sequel in the Land Of No Pity series, it’s do or die and only the strong will survive.

Author : Ann Rule
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743480287
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Without Pity written by Ann Rule and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times–bestselling true crime author profiles the criminals who kill without conscience—includes case updates and three new accounts! In eight stunning Case Files volumes, from A Rose for Her Grave to the #1 blockbuster Last Dance, Last Chance, Ann Rule reigns as “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews). Now, she updates the most astonishing cases from that acclaimed series—and presents shocking, all-new true-crime accounts—in one riveting anthology. In every explosive chapter of Without Pity, Ann Rule deepens her unrelenting exploration of the evil that lies behind the perfect facades of heartless killers . . . and the deadly compulsions of greed and power that shatter their outward trappings of material success. They are the admired, trusted neighbor; the affable family man; the sexy, charismatic lover; the high-achieving professional. Perhaps most frightening of all is that they are heroes in their own minds. But when someone gets in the way of their deluded dreams, they are capable of deadly acts of violence with no remorse. Analyzing the true nature of the sociopathic mind in chilling detail, Ann Rule traces the murderous crimes of seemingly ordinary men—killers who drew their unsuspecting victims into their twisted worlds with devastating consequences.

Author : Paula Leone Heulings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736008010
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Pity Party for Me written by Paula Leone Heulings and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen year old Paula rubbed the mosquito bite she'd gotten at a family picnic. She expected it would go away in a day or two.But by the end of the week she lay in a coma, paralyzed from the waist down with a doctor's dire prognosis mapping out a bedridden future of hopelessness.Plucky Paula refused to accept life on these terms. She had two weapons at her disposal to defeat the enemy seeking to rob her of all she'd dreamed of in life: A praying parent and an unwavering resolve to persevere until victory was won!"I'm no victim. I will walk again. My life will be full. Failure is not an option!"

Author : Tara Ariano
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 9781594741173
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television Without Pity written by Tara Ariano and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From weekend-long "Real World" marathons to the People's Choice Awards, from favorite characters (Brenda Walsh, Seth Cohen) to the most unfunny recurring skits on "Saturday Night Live," this is a celebration of television unlike any other. 100 illustrations.

Author : Tyler Feder
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525553037
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing at the Pity Party written by Tyler Feder and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed graphic memoir that Kirkus calls “cathartic and uplifting” is the tale of losing a parent and what it feels like to grieve and to move forward. “I can’t recommend this kind, funny, and poignant memoir enough. It’s an intimate, life-affirming story of resilience that feels like a good friend.” —Mari Andrew, author of Am I There Yet? Tyler Feder had just white-knuckled her way through her first year of college when her super cool mom was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Now, with a decade of grief and nervous laughter under her belt, Tyler shares the story of that gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, extremely awkward time in her life—from her mom’s first oncology appointment to her funeral through the beginning of facing reality as a motherless daughter. She shares the sting of loss that never goes away, the uncomfortable post-death firsts, and the deep-down, hard-to-talk-about feelings of the grieving process. Dancing at the Pity Party is a frank and refreshingly funny look at what it’s like to grieve—for anyone struggling with loss who just wants someone to get it.

Author : James I. Charlton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520925440
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing About Us Without Us written by James I. Charlton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-03-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to, and differences from, racism, sexism, and colonialism. Charlton's analysis is illuminated by interviews he conducted over a ten-year period with disability rights activists throughout the Third World, Europe, and the United States. Charlton finds an antidote for dependency and powerlessness in the resistance to disability oppression that is emerging worldwide. His interviews contain striking stories of self-reliance and empowerment evoking the new consciousness of disability rights activists. As a latecomer among the world's liberation movements, the disability rights movement will gain visibility and momentum from Charlton's elucidation of its history and its political philosophy of self-determination, which is captured in the title of his book. Nothing About Us Without Us expresses the conviction of people with disabilities that they know what is best for them. Charlton's combination of personal involvement and theoretical awareness assures greater understanding of the disability rights movement.

Author : Toni T-Shakir
Publisher : Shakir Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 099860920X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Of No Pity written by Toni T-Shakir and published by Shakir Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elijah “Li’l Nine” Hassahn born into the gritty environs of South Central Los Angeles in the late 1970s, is ripe to be molded by the first generation of the Crip movement. As a product of the first family of the Rollin 90s Neighborhood Crips, Elijah is forced to adapt to circumstances beyond his control. Shaped by poverty and pain, Elijah takes lessons of survival from his street-savvy uncles, Big 9-Lives and Cannon, and navigates the school of hard knocks to the upper echelon of the Los Angeles underworld, where murder is currency and trauma a constant companion. Elise Cortez, beautiful, fearless, and deadly, is making her own mark in the L.A. underworld. In her ongoing mission to take back everything she feels was taken from her and quench her burning rage, her world collides with Elijah’s to form an unholy alliance created by fate and vengeance. The City of Lost Angels wraps all in its wicked embrace. Will Elijah succumb to his fate in the streets, or will his choices crush the innocence he once knew and threaten his humanity?

Author : Nancy Herriman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698192273
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Pity For the Dead written by Nancy Herriman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of No Comfort for the Lost returns with a new mystery of Old San Francisco... British-born nurse Celia Davies runs a free medical clinic to assist the poor women of San Francisco. Aided in her endeavors by her half-Chinese cousin Barbara and feisty housekeeper Addie, Celia has earned the trust and friendship of many of the city’s downtrodden, including a young orphan named Owen—who’s just confided to her that he’s stumbled upon a corpse. Owen recently started working for the ruthless real estate and development group, Martin and Company, and discovered a dead body in the office’s basement. Celia turns to Detective Nick Greaves for help, only to learn that one of the main suspects—the husband of Celia’s dearest friend—is an old enemy of Nick’s. Now, Celia and Nick must put aside their personal feelings about the case—and each other—if they’re going to bring a killer to justice...