Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen, Valentino Serena

Автор: Eggers, Dave
Название: Lost Boy: Valentino and the Lost Boys of the Sudan
ISBN: 024114258X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241142585
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The story of Dominic Atachek and the other 'Lost Boys of the Sudan' who trekked over a thousand miles through Africa in search of refuge and were eventually resettled in the US. 'Dave Eggers has become J. D. Salinger, Ken Kesey and Jack Kerouac rolled into one' The Times

Автор: Rossi, Valentino
Название: What if i had never tried it
ISBN: 0099486962 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099486961
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Valentino Rossi is one of the greatest motorcyclist. He has fought through the 125 and 250 class groups to win the World Championships five times and has been ranked in the top three places at the World Championships for nine years. He has won on a Honda bike - considered the best - and on a Yamaha - considered the worst.

Автор: Valentino, Benjamin A. (assistant Professor Of Government, Dartmouth College, Usa)
Название: Final solutions
ISBN: 0801439655 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801439650
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание:

Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass killing usually originates from a relatively small group of powerful leaders and is often carried out without the active support of broader society. Mass killing, in his view, is a brutal political or military strategy designed to accomplish leaders' most important objectives, counter threats to their power, and solve their most difficult problems.

In order to capture the full scope of mass killing during the twentieth century, Valentino does not limit his analysis to violence directed against ethnic groups, or to the attempt to destroy victim groups as such, as do most previous studies of genocide. Rather, he defines mass killing broadly as the intentional killing of a massive number of noncombatants, using the criteria of 50,000 or more deaths within five years as a quantitative standard.

Final Solutions focuses on three types of mass killing: communist mass killings like the ones carried out in the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia; ethnic genocides as in Armenia, Nazi Germany, and Rwanda; and "counter-guerrilla" campaigns including the brutal civil war in Guatemala and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Valentino closes the book by arguing that attempts to prevent mass killing should focus on disarming and removing from power the leaders and small groups responsible for instigating and organizing the killing.