Author: Steve Sheinkin File Type: epub A 2015 National Book Award Finalist, reviewed in The Washington Post, as well as featured on the Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2015 list.From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Newbery Honor Book Bomb comes a tense, narrative nonfiction account of what the Times deemed the greatest story of the century how whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg transformed from obscure government analyst into the most dangerous man in America, and risked everything to expose a government conspiracy.On June 13, 1971, the front page of the New York Times announced the existence of a 7,000-page collection of documents containing a secret history of the Vietnam War. Known as The Pentagon Papers, these files had been commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Chronicling every action the government had taken in the Vietnam War, including an attempt by Nixon to foil peace talks, these papers revealed a pattern of deception spanning over twenty years and four presidencies, and forever changed the relationship between American citizens and the politicians claiming to represent their interests. The investigation--and attempted government coverups--that followed will sound familiar to those who followed the scandal surrounding Edward Snowden.A provocative and political book that interrogates the meanings of patriotism, freedom, and integrity, Most Dangerous further establishes Steve Sheinkin as a leader in childrens nonfiction.

Author: Leo van Bergen File Type: pdf The Dutch East Indies Red Cross (NIRK) took action in 1873 when the Aceh War broke out, which lasted several decades. In this war the organizations neutrality was tested, but it turned out not to be an issue. Neutrality was a concept for European wars between civilized countries, not applicable in colonial wars. As a consequence, aid was tailored to the needs of the Dutch East Indian Army. This also showed itself in a statutory change making aid not only possible during war but also in case of uprising. After the war ended several decades of peaceif peace is a proper term in colonial circumstancesfollowed. They were used to be prepared in case of an attack by a foreign enemy. For this peace-work, societal work of the Red Cross, was deemed important. This means that it was not an aim in itself, but seen as practice for the war task. It also had to avoid the Red Cross becoming invisible and lose popularity, for only with enough (wo)men active the war task could be fulfilled. When war came, preparation turned out to have been in vain. Japan quickly conquered the archipelago. It forbade the organization only making use of some local branches when this came in handy. However, it proved not to be the end of the NIRK. When after the war independence was declared by Indonesian nationalists, the Netherlands send an army to restore law and order. In the war that followed, Red Cross-work became part of military carrot-and-stick strategy, trying to get the population back on Dutch side, and hoping that patients would inform the doctor with military information. The Red Cross not only had a humanitarian but a national task to fulfill. **Review Adroitly using a great number of published and archival sources, Leo van Bergen convincingly argues that the Dutch East Indies Red Cross never attempted to provide medical assistance to the wounded in war irrespective of nationality, allegiance, or creed. For all intents and purposes, it was fully subservient to the colonial armed forces. It supported the colonial army in the subjugation (and slaughter) of Aceh and aimed to win the hearts and the minds of Indonesians during the war of Indonesian independence. Van Bergens book is the first one to analyze the way Red Cross functioned in a colonial context and persuasively adds to critiques of the Red Cross internationally. (Hans Pols, University of Sydney) It is vitally important for the Red Cross Movement to have studies of national Red Cross Societies like this one translated into English. Deeply researched and with a sweeping narrative, it tells the story of the Dutch East Indies Red Cross and the role it played in supporting Dutch colonialism through to 1950. We need more books like this one. (Melanie Oppenheimer, Flinders University) About the Author Leo van Bergen has worked as a medical historian at the VU University Medical Center.

Author: Jan Camenisch File Type: pdf This book documents the R&D outcome of the PRIME Project, an R&D project partially funded by the European Unions Sixth Framework Programme and the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science. PRIME has focused on privacy-enhancing identity management techniques and systems to support users sovereignty over their personal privacy and enterprises privacy-compliant data processing. During the course of four years, the project has involved over a hundred researchers and professionals from 22 major European academic and industrial organizations conducting R&D work in areas relevant to digital privacy. The book presents 28 detailed chapters organized in five parts Introductory summary, legal, social, and economic aspects, realization of privacy-enhancing user-centric identity management, exploitation of PRIME results for applications, conclusions drawn and an outlook on future work.As the first coherent presentation of the topic, this book will serve as a valuable source of reference and inspiration for anybody working on digital privacy.**

Author: Heloisa File Type: pdf