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The 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed American morale. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, risking it all, decided to bomb Japan, bolstering the hopes of the U.S. public for a quick end to the war. However, the pilots, having completed their missions and facing a fuel shortage, had to abandon their aircrafts near Zhejiang, China. A young pilot, Jack Turner (Emile Hirsch), is saved by a young widow named Ying (Crystal Liu), who risks her...
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In September 1941, young Jack Kennedy was appointed an Ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve. After completing training and eager to serve, he volunteered for combat duty in the Pacific and was appointed commander of PT 109.
On August 2, 1943, Kennedy's PT 109 and two others were on a night mission to ambush an enemy supply convoy when they were surprised by a massive Japanese destroyer. The unsuspecting Americans had only seconds to react as the Japanese...
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"Winners of the 2016 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" Javier Auyero is professor of Latin American sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. María Fernanda Berti is an elementary school teacher in Buenos Aires.
A harrowing look at violence among Argentina's urban poor
Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are...
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*Doing Harm *recounts a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field's enmeshment in the "war on terror," and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat. Eidelson exposes the challenges that the American Psychological Association faced when government agencies called upon health professionals to assist with their abusive and sometimes torturous detention and interrogation operations.
Doing Harm pries open...
5) Safe
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Hadley never thought she'd be living out one of the stories she wrote. Not until one trip to the park changed her whole life. She finds herself in the middle of a horror story. One that will change the way she looks at everything and everyone around her. If she lived through this, it would be a miracle. She had one chance at safety, but he was making her break out of her comfort zone.Drew left everything to find solace on his Wyoming ranch. His world...
6) Broken
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Abusive husband… Old love… Tested Faith…Harper…Harper was trapped in a nightmare. Every morning she woke expecting it to be her last. How could she have married a monster? The only light in her dark world is the faith that she holds close to her heart.Reid…Reid has struggled for years to forget the one woman that was everything to him. While doing rounds at the hospital, he comes face to face with her. He sees the truth to her injuries,...
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