[PDF] Willful Neglect eBook

Author : Charles S. Faddis
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781599219066

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A veteran CIA operative scrutinizes Homeland Security--including the preparedness of military installations, rail systems, chemical plants, and dams--and finds that America is still vulnerable to its enemies.

Author : Mary Morgan
Publisher : Worldwide Library
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373262977

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Weary of writing wills and grieving for his dead wife, lawyer Noah Richards takes on a medical malpractice case that is anything but dull. A black child's death in the local hospital isn't just a tragedy, it's a crime. Callous indifference born of intolerance would be bad enough but the horrible secret that silences witnesses is clearly something much less passive--and even more dangerous. Martin's Press.

Author : Charles S. Faddis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 076276225X

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The Central Intelligence Agency's most respected former Middle East counterterrorism officer applies a critical lens to the state of America's Homeland Security system and asks, "Are we really any safer than we were on 9/11?" Have the vast new bureaucracies that have arisen and the billions spent translated into real protection? Or has complacency set in? His answer is terrifying.

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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Law
ISBN :

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Vols. 65-96 include "Central law journal's international law list."

Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674241207

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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.