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A great American crank, in the best sense of the word, Charles Hoy
Fort (1874-1932) spent his life hunting down reports of "anomalous
phenomena"-"damned" events such rains of frogs, cattle mutilations,
and UFO sightings-and studying them from a true outsider's
perspective, one that characterized even objective science as
wearing blinders in its approach to them. In this modern classic of
analytical biography, Colin Bennett examines not only the life of
this one-man investigator of real-life X-Files but his work as
well, likening him to such diverse figures that loom in the
cultural imagination as Lee Harvey Oswald and Shakespeare's Hamlet.
A must-read for fans of the strange, this riveting book explores
why the 20th century, which gave rise to conspiracy-theory
philosophies and widespread distrust of social authority, embraced
Fort so wholly that his name has been immortalized in the adjective
"Fortean." In the course of a delightfully misspent youth, COLIN
BENNETT was employed as both a musician and as a mercenary soldier.
He was far better at the second than at the first. Educated at
Balliol College, Oxford, he is the author of the novels Infantryman
and The Entertainment Bomb, and paranormal nonfiction including
Looking for Orthon, a biography of George Adamski; Politics of the
Imagination, a biography of Charles Fort; and An American
Demonology, about the head of the 1950s UFO-hunting agency Project
Blue Book.
This book presents interpolation theory from its classical roots
beginning with Banach function spaces and equimeasurable
rearrangements of functions, providing a thorough introduction to
the theory of rearrangement-invariant Banach function spaces. At
the same time, however, it clearly shows how the theory should be
generalized in order to accommodate the more recent and powerful
applications. Lebesgue, Lorentz, Zygmund, and Orlicz spaces receive
detailed treatment, as do the classical interpolation theorems and
their applications in harmonic analysis.
The text includes a wide range of techniques and applications, and
will serve as an amenable introduction and useful reference to the
modern theory of interpolation of operators.
Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses
the impact of mega-events - such as the Olympic Games and the World
Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance.
"Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The
overwhelming imperative is that "nothing should go wrong." There
are, however, an almost infinite number of things that can "go
wrong"; producing the perceived need for pre-emptive risk
assessments, and an expanding range of security measures, including
extensive forms and levels of surveillance. These measures are
delivered by a "security/industrial complex" consisting of powerful
transnational corporate, governmental and military actors, eager to
showcase the latest technologies and prove that they can deliver
"spectacular levels of security". Mega-events have thus become
occasions for experiments in monitoring people and places. And, as
such, they have become important moments in the development and
dispersal of surveillance, as the infrastructure established for
mega-events are often marketed as security solutions for the more
routine monitoring of people and place. Mega-events, then, now
serve as focal points for the proliferation of security and
surveillance. They are microcosms of larger trends and processes,
through which - as the contributors to this volume demonstrate - we
can observe the complex ways that security and surveillance are now
implicated in unique confluences of technology, institutional
motivations, and public-private security arrangements. As the
exceptional conditions of the mega-event become the norm, Security
Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events therefore provides
the glimpse of a possible future that is more intensively and
extensively monitored.
Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses
the impact of mega-events -- such as the Olympic Games and the
World Cup -- on wider practices of security and surveillance.
"Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The
overwhelming imperative is that "nothing should go wrong." There
are, however, an almost infinite number of things that can "go
wrong"; producing the perceived need for pre-emptive risk
assessments, and an expanding range of security measures, including
extensive forms and levels of surveillance. These measures are
delivered by a "security/industrial complex" consisting of powerful
transnational corporate, governmental and military actors, eager to
showcase the latest technologies and prove that they can deliver
"spectacular levels of security." Mega-events have thus become
occasions for experiments in monitoring people and places. And, as
such, they have become important moments in the development and
dispersal of surveillance, as the infrastructure established for
mega-events are often marketed as security solutions for the more
routine monitoring of people and place. Mega-events, then, now
serve as focal points for the proliferation of security and
surveillance. They are microcosms of larger trends and processes,
through which -- as the contributors to this volume demonstrate --
we can observe the complex ways that security and surveillance are
now implicated in unique confluences of technology, institutional
motivations, and public-private security arrangements. As the
exceptional conditions of the mega-event become the norm, Security
Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events therefore provides
the glimpse of a possible future that is more intensively and
extensively monitored.
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, written by Captain
Edward Ruppelt in 1956, was the first serious, unbiased account
written about UFOs by anyone connected with the official government
investigations of UFO phenomena. Ruppelt, who coined the term
"unidentified flying objects" and headed Project Blue Book from
1951 to 1953, includes his personal investigations and findings in
his extensive research on UFOs. He discusses both well-publicized
UFO sightings and lesser-known accounts, as well as the inner
workings of Air Force UFO research. This edition is the original
1956 edition; in 1960 Ruppelt released a second edition which
seemed to weaken his original views that some UFO reports could not
be explained, and reinforce the Air Force's position that there was
nothing mysterious about UFOs. EDWARD J. RUPPELT (1923-1960) was
the head of Project Blue Book during the Korean War, from
1951-1953. He served at the Air Technical Intelligence Center,
where he took over Project Grudge, a formal investigation by the
U.S. military with the goal of debunking extraterrestrial and UFO
activity. Under Ruppelt's supervision, the project, later named
Blue Book, experienced its most fruitful years, when investigations
were properly conducted without judgment or disdain. Many UFO
researchers hail him as a pioneer of UFO research and hero in the
fight to earn respectability for the field.
On November 20, 1952, George Adamski first made contact with
extraterrestrials-including a long-haired youth from Venus named
Orthon-in the California desert.or so he claimed. He offered
photographic proof. He wrote books about his encounters, including
the sensational bestseller Flying Saucers Have Landed. He never
stopped advocating the truth of his claims even as he came under
extraordinary ridicule. And in the process, however inadvertently,
Adamski invented the modern mass counterculture. This new edition
of Colin Bennett's modern classic posits, in the author's uniquely
engaging style, Adamski as a kind of unwitting performance artist
who "structured one of the most blatant acts of visionary cheek of
the twentieth century," introducing the jittery postwar Western
world to the image of the UFO, which confounded and tweaked
authority while also fully embodying Cold War neuroses. Whether
Adamski was telling the truth or not is almost irrelevant-though
Bennett has his own ideas about Adamski's veracity. What remains
compelling about Adamski's bizarre and compelling tale of alien
visitations is the transformative power of stories, even if they're
false, to warp our culture on a grand scale. In the course of a
delightfully misspent youth, COLIN BENNETT was employed as both a
musician and as a mercenary soldier. He was far better at the
second than at the first. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he
is the author of the novels Infantryman and The Entertainment Bomb,
and paranormal nonfiction including Politics of the Imagination, a
biography of Charles Fort; and An American Demonology, about the
head of the 1950s UFO-hunting agency Project Blue Book.
Flying Saucers Over the White House is the story of Captain Edward
J. Ruppelt, a US Air Force officer who researched UFO sightings in
the 1950s and made a concentrated effort to convince the United
States Air Force that UFOs exist. Ruppelt, who coined the term
'UFO', headed "Project Blue Book," an assignment designed by the
United States government to investigate and report on the existence
of unidentified flying objects and their link to extraterrestrial
beings. Ruppelt dissected the evidence, separating chance sightings
of ordinary objects from true UFO sightings. He eventually wrote
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, summarizing his
findings. In Flying Saucers Over the White House, Bennett examines
the life of this "founding father" of ufology, analyzing the
evidence and the U.S. government's reporting of this phenomenon for
a new generation of readers. COLIN BENNETT has written several
books, including The Entertainment Bomb, *Looking for Orthon*, and
Politics of the Imagination, which won the Anomalist Award for Best
Biography in 2002. After leaving school to become a professional
musician, Bennett returned to college to study English at Balliol
College at the University of Oxford. He wrote several plays that
were performed in London before reinventing himself as an
electronics engineer and founding a consulting agency. Bennett
currently resides in London where he continues to write and
discover new interests.
A great American crank, in the best sense of the word, Charles Hoy
Fort (1874-1932) spent his life hunting down reports of "anomalous
phenomena"-"damned" events such rains of frogs, cattle mutilations,
and UFO sightings-and studying them from a true outsider's
perspective, one that characterized even objective science as
wearing blinders in its approach to them. In this modern classic of
analytical biography, Colin Bennett examines not only the life of
this one-man investigator of real-life X-Files but his work as
well, likening him to such diverse figures that loom in the
cultural imagination as Lee Harvey Oswald and Shakespeare's Hamlet.
A must-read for fans of the strange, this riveting book explores
why the 20th century, which gave rise to conspiracy-theory
philosophies and widespread distrust of social authority, embraced
Fort so wholly that his name has been immortalized in the adjective
"Fortean." In the course of a delightfully misspent youth, COLIN
BENNETT was employed as both a musician and as a mercenary soldier.
He was far better at the second than at the first. Educated at
Balliol College, Oxford, he is the author of the novels Infantryman
and The Entertainment Bomb, and paranormal nonfiction including
Looking for Orthon, a biography of George Adamski; Politics of the
Imagination, a biography of Charles Fort; and An American
Demonology, about the head of the 1950s UFO-hunting agency Project
Blue Book.
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