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Author: Mark Bowden File Type: mobi The acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Black Hawk Down* is a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying (*San Francisco Chronicle*) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, *Black Hawk Down* is Mark Bowdens brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowdens minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle.*Black Hawk Down* ranks among the best books ever written about infantry combat. . . . A descendent of books like *The Killer Angels* and *We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young*.-- Bob Shacochis, *The New York Observer*If *Black Hawk Down* were fiction wed rank it up there with the best war novels *The Naked* and *the Dead* by Norman Mailer, or *The Things They Carried*, by Tim OBrien.-- Tom Walker, *The Denver Post*Stands in a league with Shelby Footes stirring Civil War Diary, *Shiloh*.-- Jim Haner, *The Baltimore Sun*One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written.-- Kirk Spitzer, *USA Today*Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable.-- *The Philadelphia Inquirer* A *New York Times* bestseller for 14 weeks Bowdens *Black Hawk Down* series, which appeared in the *Philadelphia Inquirer* was awarded the Overseas Press Clubs Hal Boyle Award for best foreign reporting

Author: Raffaele Milani File Type: pdf In The Art of the City Raffaele Milani reflects on the ways in which inhabitants of the cityscape have interacted on a spiritual, psychological, and philosophical level with the architecture that surrounds them. Working with the premise that the city has a soul, which is externalized in the physical structures of its urban space, Milani expresses alarm in the face of sprawling megacities that typify the postmodern age and endanger the survival of cities distinctiveness. While he laments that the nature surrounding cities is disappearing under concrete, his concern is counterbalanced by the realization that there are ongoing projects of urban reclamation, renewal, and reutilization aimed at preserving an ancient, almost mystical rapport between the citizen and the lived space. Milani illustrates his argument by citing the works of modern architects including Emilio Ambasz, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Kisho Kurokawa, Daniel Libeskind, and Renzo Piano. Rather than a history of architecture, The Art of the City is a compelling and timely reflection on the important challenge of insuring the continued liveability and aesthetic valorization of public spaces. **

Author: Tony Woodman File Type: pdf The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature of much ancient literature and of its publication meant that audiences in ancient times were more immediate to their authors than in the modern world. This book contains essays by distinguished scholars on the various means by which Latin authors communicated effectively with their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero, Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Horaces Odes, Virgils Aeneid, Ovids Metamorphoses, Senecan tragedy, Persius, Plinys letters, Tacitus Annals and medieval love lyric. Contributors have provided detailed analyses of particular passages in order to throw light on the many different ways in which authors catered for their audiences by fulfilling, manipulating and thwarting their expectations and in an epilogue the editors have drawn together the issues raised by these contributions and have attempted to place them in an appropriate critical context.Book DescriptionThis is a book of essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero (as both orator and letter-writer), Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Horaces Odes, Virgils Aeneid, Ovids Metamorphoses, Senecan tragedy, Persius, Plinys letters, Tacitus Annals and medieval love lyric.