Showing results for "Lethal" in Politics & Social Sciences

In 2015, The Washington Post launched an unprecedented effort to account for every fatal shooting by an officer of the law. Their study has motivated the FBI to action, and changed the way we think of those who serve and protect. After a police officer shot and killed a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, the media began to pay greater attention to deadly interactions between black men and the law. But when reporters tried to get to the bottom of some basic questions. they came up blank.

This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture - its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists - but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, 16-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another.

World-renowned sociologist Patricia Hill Collins explores how violence differentially affects people according to their class, sexuality, nationality, and ethnicity. These invisible workings of overlapping power relations give rise to what she terms "lethal intersections," where multiple forms of oppression converge to catalyze a set of violent practices that fall more heavily on particular groups. Collins challenges listeners to reflect on what counts as violence today and what can be done about it.

lethal venom focuses on various topics but speaks nothing but the truth. This show mixes comedy, tough topics, and fun conversations into a meaningful experience. If you are looking for a fun podcast with honest opinions, chaotic recordings and captivating interviews all mixed together with a little southern twang, you have found the right one!

Lethal Autonomous Weapons: 10 things we want to know is a podcast series produced as part of the LAWS and War Crimes research project, based at the International Law department of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The podcast is hosted by the members of the research team: Paola Gaeta (the project lead), Marta Bo, Abhimanyu George Jain, and Alessandra Spadaro. Over the course of ten episodes, they will interview experts in various disciplines (science, law, ethics, etc.) who have studied and written about lethal ...

Skriven av Mikael Askergren för Art-land International, Köpenhamn, Danmark, Nummer 2: 1997. Har även publicerats i "Magasin för Modern Arkitektur", Stockholm, Sverige, Nummer 19: 1998.

Housing (low cost social housing as well as luxury dwellings) has been the major raison d'être of generations of European architects. American architects must be congratulated for making entirely different career choices: Housing is not architecture.

Tig Torres is back! The Lit Killer saga continues in Season 2 as friends new and old return to Hollow Falls for the grand reopening of the Montague Hotel. But the town is in for a rude awakening when bodies begin to drop, with an antique music box found next to each new victim. Can Tig, Wyn and Max stop the killer in time, or are they too close to the suspects to see the real truth? And head to https://bit.ly/33dbrPy to check out Lethal Lit: Murder of Crows, a novel from Scholastic. Dive into this murder mystery podcast from the team that brought you See You in Your Nightmares and Daughters of...

"Lethal Buzzers: America's Most Dangerous Mosquitoes" is from the June 28, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Emily S. Rueb and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Al-Qaida's African Offshoot Makes a Lethal Comeback" is from March 15, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Dionne Searcey, Eric Schmitt and Rukmini Callimachi and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Lethal Dissent is a 9-part series about the price and peril that Iranian dissidents face for speaking out against their government, and the secret operatives who seek to silence them. It all begins when two friends flee Iran to escape the regime’s crackdown on dissent. But when they arrive in Turkey, one of them dies under unusual circumstances. Fariba Nawa, a reporter in Istanbul, works to unravel the mystery of what happened. In the process, she enters Turkey’s underworld of kidnappers-for-hire and shady government officials, and takes the listener inside an Iranian operation to snatch ...