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The Loop (Paperback)
Jeremy Robert Johnson
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Winner of the 2020 Wonderland Best Novel of the Year award
"Unputdownable...Fans of The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, and
Stranger Things will be especially thrilled.", Publishers Weekly,
starred review Stranger Things meets The X-Files in this
heart-racing conspiracy thriller as a lonely young woman teams up
with a group of fellow outcasts to survive the night in a town
overcome by a science experiment gone wrong. Something sinister
lurks beneath the sleepy tourist town of Turner Falls nestled in
the hills of central Oregon. A growing spate of mysterious
disappearances and frenzied outbursts threaten the town's idyllic
reputation until an inexplicable epidemic of violence spills out
over the unsuspecting city. When the teenage children of several
executives from the local biotech firm become ill and
hyper-aggressive, the strange signal they can hear starts to spread
from person to person, sending anyone who hears it into a murderous
rage. Lucy and her outcast friends must fight to survive the night
and get the hell out of town, before the loop gets them too.
This book outlines the threats from information warfare faced by
the West and analyses the ways it can defend itself. Existing on a
spectrum from communication to indoctrination, information can be
used to undermine trust, amplify emotional resonance, and
reformulate identities. The West is currently experiencing an
information war, and major setbacks have included: 'fake news';
disinformation campaigns; the manipulation of users of social
media; the dissonance of hybrid warfare; and even accusations of
'state capture'. Nevertheless, the West has begun to comprehend the
reality of what is happening, and it is now in a position defend
itself. In this volume, scholars, information practitioners, and
military professionals define this new war and analyse its shape,
scope, and direction. Collectively, they indicate how media
policies, including social media, represent a form of information
strategy, how information has become the 'centre of gravity' of
operations, and why the further exploitation of data (by scale and
content) by adversaries can be anticipated. For the West, being
first with the truth, being skilled in cyber defence, and
demonstrating virtuosity in information management are central to
resilience and success. This book will be of much interest to
students of strategic studies, information warfare, propaganda
studies, cyber-security, and International Relations.
This book outlines the threats from information warfare faced by
the West and analyses the ways it can defend itself. Existing on a
spectrum from communication to indoctrination, information can be
used to undermine trust, amplify emotional resonance, and
reformulate identities. The West is currently experiencing an
information war, and major setbacks have included: 'fake news';
disinformation campaigns; the manipulation of users of social
media; the dissonance of hybrid warfare; and even accusations of
'state capture'. Nevertheless, the West has begun to comprehend the
reality of what is happening, and it is now in a position defend
itself. In this volume, scholars, information practitioners, and
military professionals define this new war and analyse its shape,
scope, and direction. Collectively, they indicate how media
policies, including social media, represent a form of information
strategy, how information has become the 'centre of gravity' of
operations, and why the further exploitation of data (by scale and
content) by adversaries can be anticipated. For the West, being
first with the truth, being skilled in cyber defence, and
demonstrating virtuosity in information management are central to
resilience and success. This book will be of much interest to
students of strategic studies, information warfare, propaganda
studies, cyber-security, and International Relations.
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Pompeii (DVD)
Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, …
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Sword-and-sandal disaster epic directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and
starring Kit Harington. Set before and during the Mount Vesuvius
eruption of 79 AD, the film follows the plight of
slave-turned-gladiator Milo (Harington) who falls in love with
Cassia (Emily Browning), the daughter of a wealthy merchant who has
recently become engaged to Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland), an
influential Roman Senator. As the mountain erupts and quickly
destroys the city of Pompeii as well as its surrounding
communities, Milo must track down his one true love before all hope
of survival is annihilated.
Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in
public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective. Built in
the 1940s, Toronto's Regent Park has experienced common large-scale
public housing problems. Instead of simply tearing down old
buildings and scattering inhabitants, the city's housing authority
came up with a plan for radical transformation. In partnership with
a private developer, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation
organized a twenty-year, billion-dollar makeover. The reconstituted
neighbourhood, one of the most diverse in the world, will offer a
new mix of amenities and social services intended to "reknit the
urban fabric." Regent Park Redux, based on a ten-year study of 52
households as they moved through stages of displacement and
resettlement, examines the dreams and hopes residents have for
their community and their future. Urban planners and designers
across the world, in cities facing some of the same challenges as
Toronto, will want to pay attention to this story.
Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in
American prisons. The great majority of condemned prisoners are
confined on death rows before they are executed. Death rows
typically feature solitary confinement, a harsh regimen that is
closely examined in this book. Death rows that feature solitary
confinement are most common in states that execute prisoners with
regularity, which is to say, where there is a realistic threat that
condemned prisoners will be put to death. Less restrictive
confinement conditions for condemned prisoners can be found in
states where executions are rare. Confinement conditions matter,
especially to prisoners, but a central contention of this book is
that no regimen of confinement under sentence of death offers its
inmates a round of activity that might in any way prepare them for
the ordeal they must face in the execution chamber, when they are
put to death. In a basic and profound sense, all condemned
prisoners are warehoused for death in the shadow of the
executioner. Human warehousing, seen most clearly on solitary
confinement death rows, violates every tenet of just punishment; no
legal or philosophical justification for capital punishment demands
or even permits warehousing of prisoners under sentence of death.
The punishment is death. There is neither a mandate nor a
justification for harsh and dehumanizing confinement before the
prisoner is put to death. Yet warehousing for death, of an empty
and sometimes brutal nature, is the universal fate of condemned
prisoners. The enormous suffering and injustice caused by this
human warehousing, rendered in the words of the prisoners
themselves, is the subject of this book.
Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in
American prisons. The great majority of condemned prisoners are
confined on death rows before they are executed. Death rows
typically feature solitary confinement, a harsh regimen that is
closely examined in this book. Death rows that feature solitary
confinement are most common in states that execute prisoners with
regularity, which is to say, where there is a realistic threat that
condemned prisoners will be put to death. Less restrictive
confinement conditions for condemned prisoners can be found in
states where executions are rare. Confinement conditions matter,
especially to prisoners, but a central contention of this book is
that no regimen of confinement under sentence of death offers its
inmates a round of activity that might in any way prepare them for
the ordeal they must face in the execution chamber, when they are
put to death. In a basic and profound sense, all condemned
prisoners are warehoused for death in the shadow of the
executioner. Human warehousing, seen most clearly on solitary
confinement death rows, violates every tenet of just punishment; no
legal or philosophical justification for capital punishment demands
or even permits warehousing of prisoners under sentence of death.
The punishment is death. There is neither a mandate nor a
justification for harsh and dehumanizing confinement before the
prisoner is put to death. Yet warehousing for death, of an empty
and sometimes brutal nature, is the universal fate of condemned
prisoners. The enormous suffering and injustice caused by this
human warehousing, rendered in the words of the prisoners
themselves, is the subject of this book.
The war against the Ottomans, on Gallipoli, in Palestine and in
Mesopotamia was a major enterprise for the Allies with important
long-term geo-political consequences. The absence of a Turkish
perspective, written in English, represents a huge gap in the
historiography of the First World War. This timely collection of
wide-ranging essays on the campaign, drawing on Turkish sources and
written by experts in the field, addresses this gap. Scholars
employ archival documents from the Turkish General Staff, diaries
and letters of Turkish soldiers, Ottoman journals and newspapers
published during the campaign, and recent academic literature by
Turkish scholars to reveal a different perspective on the campaign,
which should breathe new life into English-language historiography
on this crucial series of events.
The war against the Ottomans, on Gallipoli, in Palestine and in
Mesopotamia was a major enterprise for the Allies with important
long-term geo-political consequences. The absence of a Turkish
perspective, written in English, represents a huge gap in the
historiography of the First World War. This timely collection of
wide-ranging essays on the campaign, drawing on Turkish sources and
written by experts in the field, addresses this gap. Scholars
employ archival documents from the Turkish General Staff, diaries
and letters of Turkish soldiers, Ottoman journals and newspapers
published during the campaign, and recent academic literature by
Turkish scholars to reveal a different perspective on the campaign,
which should breathe new life into English-language historiography
on this crucial series of events.
Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in
public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective. Built in
the 1940s, Toronto's Regent Park has experienced common large-scale
public housing problems. Instead of simply tearing down old
buildings and scattering inhabitants, the city's housing authority
came up with a plan for radical transformation. In partnership with
a private developer, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation
organized a twenty-year, billion-dollar makeover. The reconstituted
neighbourhood, one of the most diverse in the world, will offer a
new mix of amenities and social services intended to "reknit the
urban fabric." Regent Park Redux, based on a ten-year study of 52
households as they moved through stages of displacement and
resettlement, examines the dreams and hopes residents have for
their community and their future. Urban planners and designers
across the world, in cities facing some of the same challenges as
Toronto, will want to pay attention to this story.
Traditionally, in general studies of the First World War, the
Middle East is an arena of combat that has been portrayed in
romanticised terms, in stark contrast to the mud, blood, and
presumed futility of the Western Front. Battles fought in Egypt,
Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Arabia offered a different narrative on
the Great War, one in which the agency of individual figures was
less neutered by heavy artillery. As with the historiography of the
Western Front, which has been the focus of sustained inquiry since
the mid-1960s, such assumptions about the Middle East have come
under revision in the last two decades - a reflection of an
emerging 'global turn' in the history of the First World War. The
'sideshow' theatres of the Great War - Africa, the Middle East,
Eastern Europe, and the Pacific - have come under much greater
scrutiny from historians. The fifteen chapters in this volume cover
a broad range of perspectives on the First World War in the Middle
East, from strategic planning issues wrestled with by statesmen
through to the experience of religious communities trying to
survive in war zones. The chapter authors look at their specific
topics through a global lens, relating their areas of research to
wider arguments on the history of the First World War.
Succeed in statistics with ELEMENTARY STATISTICS! With its
down-to-earth writing style and relevant examples, exercises, and
applications, this book gives you the tools you need to make the
grade in your statistics course. Learning to use MINITAB, Excel,
and the TI-83/84 graphing calculator is made easy with output and
instructions included throughout the text. Need extra help? A
wealth of online supplements offers you guided tutorial support,
step-by-step video solutions, and immediate feedback.
Outreach Magazine's 2012 Resource of the Year Award Winner 2012
Book of the Year Award, Foreword Magazine The entire material world
can be divided between the Natural Environment and the Built
Environment. Over the past forty years, the Natural Environment has
received more attention of the two, but that is beginning to
change. With a renewed interest in "place" within various academic
disciplines and the practical issues of rising fuel costs and
scarcity of land, the Built Environment has emerged as a coherent
and engaging subject for academic and popular consideration. While
there is a growing body of work on the Built Environment, very
little approaches it from a distinctly Christian perspective. This
major new work represents a comprehensive and grounded approach.
Employing tools from the field of theology and culture, it
demonstrates how looking at the Built Environment through a
theological lens provides a unique perspective on questions of
beauty, justice, and human flourishing.
Traditionally, in general studies of the First World War, the
Middle East is an arena of combat that has been portrayed in
romanticised terms, in stark contrast to the mud, blood, and
presumed futility of the Western Front. Battles fought in Egypt,
Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Arabia offered a different narrative on
the Great War, one in which the agency of individual figures was
less neutered by heavy artillery. As with the historiography of the
Western Front, which has been the focus of sustained inquiry since
the mid-1960s, such assumptions about the Middle East have come
under revision in the last two decades - a reflection of an
emerging 'global turn' in the history of the First World War. The
'sideshow' theatres of the Great War - Africa, the Middle East,
Eastern Europe, and the Pacific - have come under much greater
scrutiny from historians. The fifteen chapters in this volume cover
a broad range of perspectives on the First World War in the Middle
East, from strategic planning issues wrestled with by statesmen
through to the experience of religious communities trying to
survive in war zones. The chapter authors look at their specific
topics through a global lens, relating their areas of research to
wider arguments on the history of the First World War.
The definitive guide for Berkeley wanderers, now fully updated.
This local bestseller, now updated for the first time since 2018,
offers revealing rambles through one of America’s most
fascinating cities. Visitors and locals will be surprised and
charmed by the treasures that dot the paths of these 21 walks
showcasing Berkeley’s neighborhoods, shopping districts, and
academic areas. Berkeley Walks celebrates the qualities that make
Berkeley such a wonderful walking city: diverse architecture,
panoramic views, tree-lined neighborhoods, unusual gardens, secret
pathways, hidden parks, and vibrant street life. Historical
surprises and architectural delights include the building from
which Patty Hearst was kidnapped; Ted Kaczynski’s home before he
became the Unabomber; and the residences of Nobel laureates and
literary Berkeleyans such as Thornton Wilder, Anne Rice, and Philip
K. Dick. With more than one hundred photographs, and detailed maps
with hundreds of points of interest on the easy-to-follow,
self-guided walking tours, Berkeley Walks is an indispensable guide
to the wonderments and personalities associated with the city.
Lawrence of Arabia is one of the most iconic figures of the First
World War, seen by many as a heroic and romantic guerrilla leader
in a period of savage and deeply impersonal industrial warfare.
While Lawrence himself has been the subject of many biographies,
and an award-winning film, the context of his war in the desert,
and his ideas on war itself, are less well known. Lawrence of
Arabia on War is a study of those ideas, and of his campaign of
irregular warfare which has informed tactical theory and
decision-making down to the present day. It explores the challenges
he faced in a complex environment against a more numerous and
better armed adversary, and the manner in which he assessed what
was changing, what was distinctive, and what was unique to
guerrilla warfare in the desert. Setting Lawrence in his historical
context, it examines the peace settlement he participated in,
analyses how other military writers made use of his ideas, and
describes the ways in which his legacy has informed and inspired
those partnering and mentoring local forces today.
In 1981, Victor Hassine went to prison. In 2008, he died there.
This edition of Hassine's Life Without Parole is no longer just an
account of life in confinement; it is the story of life and death
behind bars.
Revised and updated throughout, the fifth edition includes:
A new title. In honor of Hassine's legacy, editors Robert Johnson
and Sonia Tabriz have given the fifth edition a new
subtitle--Living and Dying in Prison Today.
A new format. To create a more fluid narrative, the editors have
restructured Hassine's writings to offer a seamless chronicle of
his life and death in prison.
New stories. To better convey Hassine's journey, the editors have
added three of Hassine's original works of fiction.
A new beginning and ending. The editors have replaced chapter
introductions with two new essays bookending Hassine's text,
offering insights that complement Hassine's own perceptions.
A new appendix. Editors Robert Johnson and Sonia Tabriz examine the
latest developments in the field of penology.
James A. Paluch, Jr., is serving a life sentence without
possibility of parole. In this remarkably perceptive book, he
offers the reader a detailed account of the daily realities of
prison life in its mundane essentials, from the culture of the
cellblock to the etiquette of the yard and the mess hall. The book
also highlights concepts of prisonization, institutionalization,
and the community, as well as the nature of modern punishment.
Here, Paluch walks us through a complicated, sometimes treacherous
culture behind bars, a place where manipulation and deception often
rule. He introduces us to the world of the lifer, a community of
men who know they will live and die behind bars. By the end of his
book, Paluch leads the reader to question and reevaluate whether
our prisons, in their present condition, should continue
institutionalizing substantial numbers of offenders for the rest of
their natural lives.
Lenin, Stalin & Communist Russia Lenin and Stalin stand as two
giants in the history of Russia. In this Studymate Rob Johnson
(Oxford University) takes the reader through the key events that
shaped the major Communist State and explains how ideologues
propagated an exclusive and determinist worldview. The result was
World War and decades of oppression. Only now as the Soviet Union
slips into history can this perspective be truly appreciated. This
Studymate will explain the key ideas and events that shaped
Communism in Russia, the myths that were created by the communists
to conceal the truth and how historians have responded. This book
covers: Russia under the Tsars. The Crucible of Russia's problems.
The October 'Revolution'. The Great Terror. Marxism, Leninism and
the early Bolshevik party. The February 'Revolution'. The Rise of
Stalin. The Cold War.
(Easy Guitar). 20 of Johnson's legendary blues classics arranged
for easy guitar in standard notation and tablature: Come on in My
Kitchen * Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) * From Four Until Late * I
Believe I'll Dust My Broom * I'm a Steady Rollin' Man * Kind
Hearted Woman Blues * Ramblin' on My Mind * Sweet Home Chicago *
Traveling Riverside Blues * Walkin' Blues * When You Got a Good
Friend * and more.
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