Book Description
DOMESTIC ENEMIES: THE RECONQUISTA is a novel set in the near future in the American Southwest, during a period of low-intensity civil war. The action takes place between Texas and California, but the story is mainly centered around New Mexico. Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista is a sequel to Enemies Foreign And Domestic, but it may be enjoyed on its own.
Customer Reviews:
A must Read for any World-Wise American.......2007-09-24
Bracken writes a novel explaining a possible future "History" if American Society doesn't tend to business.
I found some of the graphic writing gratuitous, and unfortunately exposed enough to limit readership in some circles, but the underlying story is powerful, well told and profound.
A must read.
Great book with a premise that's starting to come true in real life........2007-08-20
Well written story about how radical Hispanics take over the Southwestern United States and create their own Republic Del Norte/Aztlan that's inter-woven with the story of an escape from a Federal Detention Center by the female main character (Ranya Bardiwell) of Bracken's book "Enemies Foriegn and Domestic".
This is the sequel to that book and it continues to follow the main character of that book (Rayna) as she manages to escape after her imprisonment as a "terrorist" by the Federal Government and as she makes her way to New Mexico in search of her son. Along the way she meets an interesting cast of characters among them Mexican Nationalists who are fighting to make their dream of carving up part of the US a reality, Federal Agents and corrupt Federal Officials and a Resistance Movement made up of American Farmers, Ranchers and Gun Owners trying to survive in a country where to US Government does NOT defend her own borders or territory from invaders and revolutionaries.
The money that you pay to buy this book is well spent if you liked Patriots, Molon Labe, Lucifers Hammer, Unintended Consequences or other books that feature fictional people struggling to survive in a Dystopia.
As good as the first!.......2007-08-06
A frightening look into a possible future. Ranya is an awesome character! She gets the job done, no matter what it takes.
A joy to read........2007-08-06
I've read both E.F.A.D. and Domestic Enemies. Usually, I hestitate to read a sequel to a book I've enjoyed, but this is an exception. I believe that Mr. Bracken has outdone E.F.A.D. with this new installment. Fortunately for me, Mr. Bracken signed this book when I pre-ordered it. Buy this book now and enjoy. Now, how can I wait another year for his next installment?!?!
It makes you consider the future of our great country........2007-07-27
I received my copy of Domestic Enemys 4 days ago and couldn't put it down. This is a gripping, original, second novel. There is just the right amount of the first novel in it to make you comfortable with the story line and its charactors. "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" and "Domestic Enemies" would make great movies! Matt Bracken is a writer just waiting to be discovered. I can't wait for the third in the series.
Book Description
The Cybermen are back to terrorize time and space - but luckily the new Doctor, played by David Tennant, and Rose are back to stop them. Picking up where Monsters and Villains left off, this fully illustrated guide documents the return of these metal menaces, as well as the Sycorax and other foes from the new series, plus first series terrors like the Gelth and the Reapers. More classic baddies such as the Celestial Toymaker, Sutekh and the Robots of Death also make a welcome appearance.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful Monsters.......2006-11-04
I'll be honest -- this book is fluff for the most part. Simple summaries of some of the characters significant (Cybermen) and insignificant (Zarbi) that have graced our TV screens as part of the Whoverse.
However it is beautifully put together with clear pictures from the show and the addition of production art and design sketches is very welcome.
Pure candy and quite excellent.
An easy and pleasant read.......2006-07-05
This book picks up where Monsters and Villains leaves off, placing even more Doctor Who monsters at your fingertips. There are plenty of photos to aid the text. In fact, you can almost reverse that to state that the text aids the bright, colorful photos. The book reads like an encyclopedia, containing monsters and aliens in alphabetical order from the new series, such as the Gelth, the Empty Child, and the new fiercer looking Cybermen, as well as classic villains, like Sutekh, the Axons, the Daemons, and the Seaweed Monster from Fury From The Deep. The text contains a plot synopsis from each story the monsters appear in, plus sidebars of various aspects and characters from each story. There are even descriptions of how the production team created certain monsters.
Did I mention the photos? While the text is very informative, the photos are the gem of this book. Color stills from each story and background shot of the production team hard at work feature heavily in this volume. This is a definite must-have for die-hard Doctor Who fans, as well as new fans who are just learning about the classic series. However, make sure you purchase Monsters and Villains as well. These two books go hand-in-hand. If you just have one, you'll be missing out.
More of the "Who's Who of who hates WHO" the 2006 CYBERMEN are HERE!!!!.......2006-04-06
A message from the CYBER-LEADER of the CYBER FLEET
ATTENTION: HUMANS
The "Time War" left the DALEKS and the TIMELORDS de-stroyed. Only the TIMELORD known as THE DOCTOR is still at large in time and space. His foes are so numerous and varied, that their existence is known even to the backwards inhabitants of the Earth. In fact, after so many foiled invasion attempts by that interfering "Defender of Mankind" that they are now aware of even OUR great Cyber-race. This knowledge is revealed in the second fully illustrated "ALIENS and ENEMIES" what the Humans refer to as "a book" is a guide to past, present and future menaces. Continuing where the previous text left off (DR.WHO: MONSTERS & VILLAINS,see the message from the MASTER in my reviews) included this time are races like the SYCORAX, who were thwarted on "Christmas" by the newly regenerated 10th incarnation of THE DOCTOR, also THE REAPERS, scavengers of time itself, the GELTH, the ZARBI, and more. Also including ancient (and classic) beings such as the Celestrial Toymaker, and SUTEKH, so powerful that the foolish Humans believed him the god of darkness itself.
More galactic secrets are revealed, facts, figures and images of each creature feature alongside a synopsis of their sightings (episodes they appeared in, plus, behind-the-scenes information). Revealing insights into how each were created and brought to life, including each our glorious origins, OUR new designs ('06) and our weakness to a certain element which shall not be repeated here!
This admittedly within these "pages" are contained much information that will prove to be very useful and give these EARTHLINGS an unfortunate weapon in defending against future (and past) insurgences, but the great Cyber-race...SHALL NOT BE STOPPED.
RESISTANCE is USELESS HUMANS.
end of transmission...CYBER-LEADER out.
Customer Reviews:
California Anti-Chinese Movement Traced to Jacksonian Times.......2001-10-01
In "The Indispensable Enemy," Alexander Saxton presents a broad study of American ideological history and an intricate examination of the California political system to further a better understanding of the anti-Chinese movement in California from the 1860s to 1902. According to Saxton, Chinese workers were "indispensable" to California for two reasons. First, the Chinese provided an important source of cheap labor for California industries. Second, the Chinese aided the labor movement in California (albeit unintentionally) by being the subject of the issue on which the majority of white workers could agree: the anti-Chinese issue. Saxton examines American ideology in the early nineteenth century to determine the roots of the anti-Chinese movement.
Alexander Saxton offers a comprehensive study on the ideological origins of the anti-Chinese movement, the political importance of the issue, and the issues's future expansion to include the Japanese. The Jacksonian ideas of nationalism and racial superiority provide a clear foundation for understanding American attitudes towards African Americans and, later, Californian attitutudes towards the Chinese. Moreover, Saxton emphasizes the psychological and ideological reasons for the reactions against the Chinese instead of economic reasons more commonly used by historians. By not relying on the economic motivation for anti-Chinese demonstrations, Saxton is able to distinguish the persecution endured by the Chinese from the persecutions endured by other ethnic groups, like the Irish and Germans. Unfortunately, Saxton's main points often get lost in the maze of comments about social, intellectual, and political history as well as a detailed chronological description of California political affairs. A more focused study on the anti-Chinese movement would help to underline his main points for the reader.
Saxton relies primarily on primary sources for his work such as newspapers, labor publications, and memoirs. Saxton, however, does deomonstrate an awareness of the limitations of such materials. Saxton also uses his sources appropriately. For example, Saxton does not include a chart on the number of Chinese workers in various occupations (as calculated by the Trades Assembly) as accurate statistical data. Saxton states that the chart is meant to show "how trade unionists viewed the [labor] situation in 1881-1882" (170).
One main problem with Saxton's study is that he does not explain the actions of the labor unions from the point of view of the Chinese, He does not mention any Chinese leaders in California or the reactions of leaders in their homeland. In a couple of cases, Saxton does hint at a Chinese backlash. For exapmple, Saxton describes Chinatown in San Francisco as a fortress protecting the residents from outside threats. In other cases, however, the Chinese are vaguely described as passive recipients of persecution (for example, the Chinese did not offer any protest against their forced removal from Eureka and Seattle). A closer examination of the Chinese side would make "The Indispensable enemy" a more complete work.
Book Description
A revised edition of the award-winning civil liberties scholar's condemnation of the USA PATRIOT Act.
When David Cole was first writing Enemy Aliens, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the anti-immigrant brand of American patriotism was at fever pitch. Now, as the pendulum swings back, and court after court finds the Bush administration's tactics of secrecy and assumption of guilt unconstitutional, Cole's book stands as a prescient and critical indictment of the double standards we have applied in the war on terror.
Called "brilliantly argued" by Edward Said, and "the essential book in the field" by former CIA Director James Woolsey, Enemy Aliens shows why it is a moral, constitutional, and practical imperative to afford every person in the United States the protections from government excesses that we expect for ourselves.
Customer Reviews:
Some good points, but flawed.......2006-03-03
Professor Cole, whom I read frequently in the Nation, makes a strong case that our government is violating people's civil liberties in the name of national security. He goes through American history and mentions such incidents as the Palmer Raids and the Japanese internment to show how the U.S. government has been abusing its power for many years.
Cole savages the Bush administration for its policy of mass arrests of Arabs on flimsy grounds. Page 30 is the most damning, I'll briefly quote:
In June 2003, the inspector general of the Justice Department issued a scathing report. It revealed that over 700 foreign nationals were arrested on immigration charges from Sept 2001 to August 2002. Of these, not one was charged with any terrorist crime, and FBI officials cleared virtually all of connection to terrorism.
Cole makes the salient point tha detaining people based solely on ethnicity is not only unfair and unconstitutional, it is counterproductive. Muslim communities often regard the government as an enemy when it arrests scores of people on mere suspicion. The book makes a strong case and I would recommend it highly to any citizen concerned with maintaining freedom in America post 9-11.
I have two major problems with the book, however. One, the author is too quick to dismiss racial profiling as an effective anti-terror tool. The fact remains that the vast majority of terrorists are Arab males. To ignore that fact seems absurd and dangerous. While Cole is right that we should not overrely on racial profiling, he goes too far in completely opposing it.
My other objection is that Cole takes a politically correct view on terrorism. He does what so many liberals do- excusing terrorism as a symptom of poverty and Western repression. This is the weakest argument of the book. Cole doesn't see that Islamic fundamentalism is the real cause of terrorism, not poverty. Most of the 9-11 hijackers and other Al-Qaeda members- not to mention bin Laden himself- are in fact financially well off. As Samuel Huntington and other scholars have shown, religious fundamentalism in the developing world is not primarily a movement of the poor and uneducated. For more on the causes of terrorism, see Sam Harris' excellent book The End of Faith.
Notwithstanding these flaws, I still recommend reading this book.
A must read.......2005-08-10
A previous reviewer stridently denounces Cole's supposed reliance on "fabricated instances of government abuses." I wonder if he or she has even read the book, which is based on a law review article with several hundred footnotes. Perhaps he thinks all of the citations are to the liberal mainstream media and so cannot be trusted? The "Constitution is very clear about citizen/non-citizens," the previous reviewer also writes. I agree. The Fifth Amendment says, in relevant part, "no person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Person, not citizen.
The Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected the position that a state of war is a blank check for the President. The rule of law and the due process requires, at a minimum, that unlawful combatants be given a fair opportunity to rebut the basis for their classification as such before a neutral and independent decisionmaker, not a sham status review tribunal.
As citizens in a representative democracy, it is our obligation to be informed of what is being committed in our names. Cole's book offers a terrifying and timely glimpse into how the Administration is pursuing the global war on terrorism.
Hidden Agenda at work.......2005-01-12
Cole, a known anti-American radical, has outlined a dangerous proposal based on fabricated instances of government abuses. The Constitution is very clear about citizen/non-citizens. If he wants non-citizens to share the same rights as citizens, then he should support initiatives to topple dictatorships, or at least, trade up in them.
A thought-provoking study of civil rights challenged.......2004-06-06
David Cole's Enemy Aliens is a powerful testimony to the challenged freedoms which have taken place since 9/11. The rapid emergence of double standards in the war on terrorism is explored in a hard-hitting title which documents statistics about those being held prison without civil liberties rights, and the prevalence of ethnicity-based detentions justified as security measures. A thought-provoking study of civil rights challenged.
An Excellent Book.......2004-02-16
Professor Cole writes an excellent book, hitting many points that are usually left out. He examines the way Arabs and Muslims are being treated today post-9/11 and parallels it with our nation's past abuses of foreigners, bringing in examples of the Japanese internment during WWII and many others. Professor Cole is dead on when he writes about the loss of legitimacy faced by law enforcement in the Muslim community, stepping into a mosque shows it to be quite evident. Cole's analysis of what the United States should be doing to make our country safer rather than an indiscriminate dragnet of immigrants shows the professor's wisdom. This book was recommended to me by Wayne Cornelius, Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego, an expert in his field...a recommendation that I would like to pass on.
Book Description
Enemies of Civilization is a work of comparative history and cultural consciousness that discusses how "others" were perceived in three ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China. Each civilization was the dominant culture in its part of the world, and each developed a mind-set that regarded itself as culturally superior to its neighbors. Mu-chou Poo compares these societies' attitudes toward other cultures and finds differences and similarities that reveal the self-perceptions of each society.
Notably, this work shows that in contrast to modern racism based on biophysical features, such prejudice did not exist in these ancient societies. It was culture rather than biophysical nature that was the most important criterion for distinguishing us from them. By examining how societies conceive their prejudices, this book breaks new ground in the study of ancient history and opens new ways to look at human society, both ancient and modern.
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They were called aliens and enemies. But the World War II internees John Christgau writes about are shown to be ordinary people victimized by the politics of a global war. The Enemy Alien Internment Program in America was born with the United States’s declaration of war on Japan, Germany, and Italy, and lasted until 1946. In all, 31,275 enemy aliens were imprisoned in camps like the one described in this book—Ft. Lincoln, just south of Bismarck, North Dakota.
In animated and suspenseful prose, Christgau tells the stories of several individual who were representative of the internee experience at Ft. Lincoln. The subjects’ lives before and after capture—presented in case studies—tell of encroaching bitterness and sorrow.
Christgau bases his reporting of events on voluminous and previously untouched National Archives and FBI documents in addition to letters, diaries, and interviews with his subjects. His captivating approach to unveiling the inside story of a unique episode in American history will rivet your attention from beginning to end.
Average customer rating:
- Great sourcebook, but not totally necessary for WEG gamers
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Aliens: Enemies and Allies (Star Wars RPG: Galaxy Guide 12)
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Great sourcebook, but not totally necessary for WEG gamers.......2004-02-26
I am not a fan of the d20 Star Wars rules. I am a diehard follower of West End Games' rules sets, and the old WEG Star Wars rulebooks and supplements will always be the rules I use to play in a galaxy far far away.
With that caveat out of the way, on to the review! This is actually the second aliens sourcebook for WEG Star Wars. This sourcebook does not cover any of the major races of George Lucas' galaxy, instead focusing on aliens that may have been on-screen for three or four minutes, or have never been seen in the movies at all. The alien descriptions are clean, concise, and have good accompanying artwork. The game mechanics that represent each species are, for the most part, balanced and well thought-out. I particularly enjoyed the Revwiens, as sentient plant-aliens have long been a favorite of mine.
While this sourcebook is nifty and can enhance a WEG Star Wars campaign immeasureably, it is not necessary to have a fun, fulfilling game session. Still, for diehard fans like myself, this sourecbook is a must.
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