[PDF] Dead America eBook

Author : Derek Slaton
Publisher : VGA
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945294204

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The first terrifying chapter of the Dead Texas spinoff. It's Day Zero and the Texas zombie virus is quickly spreading throughout the nation. In a desperate race against the clock, two special forces teams are given an impossible mission. Turn the football stadium in Charlotte into a fortress, and rescue some of the brightest minds in the world to help with the coming war. Dead America: The First Week focuses on the national response to the Texas zombie outbreak. There will be multiple mini-series within The First Week focused on several regions of the nation and how they are dealing with the crisis.

Author : Oliver Trager
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 1997-12-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0684814021

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Contains over 750 alphabetically-arranged entries that provide information about the rock group Grateful Dead, featuring profiles of band members and associated musicians, filmmakers, photographers, composers, and others, and descriptions of the band's albums and solo releases.

Author : Regina M Marchi
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 1978821638

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Examines how Day of the Dead celebrations among America's Latino communities have changed throughout history, discussing how the traditional celebration has been influenced by mass media, consumer culture, and globalization.

Author : Danez Smith
Publisher :
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1555977855

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Digte. Addresses race, class, sexuality, faith, social justice, mortality, and the challenges of living HIV positive at the intersection of black and queer identity

Author : Colby Buzzell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0061841358

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Colby Buzzell has always been a loner. An autodidact who never went to college, he was dubbed “the voice of a generation” by Robert Kurson for his daring and critically acclaimed book, My War: Killing Time in Iraq. Half a decade later, overwhelmed by the birth of his son and the death of his mother, Buzzell finds himself rudderless. Desperate to escape the constraints of his postwar existence, he packs his things, gets in the car, and, for five months, drives across America—no map, no destination. In his 1965 Mercury Comet, Buzzell travels through the bowels of a country steeped in economic turmoil and political malaise. With a bottle of whisky in one hand and a pack of cigarettes in the other, he takes us on a tour of big-box stores, grimy gas stations, abandoned warehouses, strip clubs, and flophouses. He captures the distinct voices and vivid stories of a forgotten America—Cheyenne, Omaha, Salt Lake City, Des Moines, Detroit, and San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Buzzell unearths America’s bones in all their beauty and starkness. And like the veterans of Hemingway’s Lost Generation, he struggles to reconcile his wanderlust with his responsibilities as a man and a father. Lost in America is a stunning account of the ravages of war on one individual. It also reveals deep truths about a more universal journey: the struggle to find our place in the world—without a map.

Author : Frederick Drimmer
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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"Recounts in human terms the extraordinary true stories of the most noteworthy men and women we have executed--the crimes of misfortunes that brought them to that pass and, above all, how they faced death."--Jacket.

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1619024829

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From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil’s Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers a tour of Tijuana, spanning from Skid Row, to the suburbs of East Los Angeles, to the stunning yet deadly Mojave Desert, to Mexico and the border fence itself. Mixing lyricism and colloquial voices, mysticism and the daily grind, Urrea explores duality and the concept of blurring borders in a melting pot society.

Author : Michael R. Strain
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1599475588

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Populists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can’t get ahead, wages have been stagnant for decades, and the middle class is dying. Michael R. Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, disputes this rhetoric as wrong and dangerous. In this succinctly argued volume, he shows that, on measures of economic opportunity and quality of life, there has never been a better time to be alive in America. He backs his argument with overwhelming—and underreported—data to show how the facts favor realistic optimism. He warns, however, that the false prophets of populism pose a serious danger to our current and future prosperity. Their policies would leave workers worse off. And their erroneous claim that the American Dream is dead could discourage people from taking advantage of real opportunities to better their lives. If enough people start to believe the Dream is dead, they could, in effect, kill it. To prevent this self-fulfilling prophecy, Strain’s book is urgent reading for anyone feeling the pull of the populists. E. J. Dionne and Henry Olsen provide spirited responses to Strain’s argument.

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0375703837

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Author : MR Frank Weltner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478344858

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The murderous one-percent are playing their last deadly card. They are not sure if it will work or not. They are scared shitless and hiding like spineless cowards even though they have hired armed soldiers to protect them. Out there amid the developing conflagration, a few unprotected yet extremely talented and dedicated men and women have the guns, the survival skills, and the terrorist death squad training to exact horrible revenge against whoever their tormentors might be. You are about to travel into a mind zone where you have never been. Hold on tightly. You are now nothing more than a helpless page turner. You are unable to stop yourself from ravenously ingesting page after page of this indescribable trip into madness.