Secrecy: Silence, Power, and Religion by Hugh B. Urban
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Overview: The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and marketed in order to manipulate consumer preferences and voting outcomes. We have become accustomed to thinking about secrecy in political terms and personal privacy terms. In this bracing, new work, Hugh Urban wants us to focus these same powers of observation on the role of secrecy in religion.
With Secrecy, Urban investigates several revealing instances of the power of secrecy in religion, including nineteenth-century Scottish Rite Freemasonry, the sexual magic of a Russian-born Parisian mystic; the white supremacist BrüderSchweigen or “Silent Brotherhood” movement of the 1980s, the Five Percenters, and the Church of Scientology. An electrifying read, Secrecy is the culmination of decades of Urban’s reflections on a vexed, ever-present subject.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
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Overview: Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower-a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly-appointed CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that although Western powers had “slain a large dragon” by defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, they now faced a “bewildering variety of poisonous snakes.”
In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Applying a combination of evolutionary theory and detailed field observation, he explains what happened to the “snakes”-non-state threats including terrorists and guerrillas-and the “dragons”-state-based competitors such as Russia and China. He explores how enemies learn under conditions of conflict, and examines how Western dominance over a very particular, narrowly-defined form of warfare since the Cold War has created a fitness landscape that forces adversaries to adapt in ways that present serious new challenges to America and its allies. Within the world’s contemporary conflict zones, Kilcullen argues, state and non-state threats have increasingly come to resemble each other, with states adopting non-state techniques and non-state actors now able to access levels of precision and lethal weapon systems once only available to governments.
A counterintuitive look at this new, vastly more complex environment, The Dragons and the Snakes will not only reshape our understanding of the West’s enemies’ capabilities, but will also show how we can respond given the increasing limits on US power.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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Overview: Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower-a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly-appointed CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that although Western powers had “slain a large dragon” by defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, they now faced a “bewildering variety of poisonous snakes.”
In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Applying a combination of evolutionary theory and detailed field observation, he explains what happened to the “snakes”-non-state threats including terrorists and guerrillas-and the “dragons”-state-based competitors such as Russia and China. He explores how enemies learn under conditions of conflict, and examines how Western dominance over a very particular, narrowly-defined form of warfare since the Cold War has created a fitness landscape that forces adversaries to adapt in ways that present serious new challenges to America and its allies. Within the world’s contemporary conflict zones, Kilcullen argues, state and non-state threats have increasingly come to resemble each other, with states adopting non-state techniques and non-state actors now able to access levels of precision and lethal weapon systems once only available to governments.
A counterintuitive look at this new, vastly more complex environment, The Dragons and the Snakes will not only reshape our understanding of the West’s enemies’ capabilities, but will also show how we can respond given the increasing limits on US power.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States by Daniel Lachance
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Overview: In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn’t trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death?
That question is at the heart of Executing Freedom, a powerful, wide-ranging examination of the place of the death penalty in American culture and how it has changed over the years. Drawing on an array of sources, including congressional hearings and campaign speeches, true crime classics like In Cold Blood, and films like Dead Man Walking, Daniel LaChance shows how attitudes toward the death penalty have reflected broader shifts in Americans’ thinking about the relationship between the individual and the state. Emerging from the height of 1970s disillusion, the simplicity and moral power of the death penalty became a potent symbol for many Americans of what government could do—and LaChance argues, fascinatingly, that it’s the very failure of capital punishment to live up to that mythology that could prove its eventual undoing in the United States.
“Fiercely provocative . . . A must-read for socio-legal studies and punishment scholars who want to know more about how the phenomenon of capital punishment took on a life of its own in the modern US cultural imagination.”—Theoretical Criminology
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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Overview: In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn’t trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death?
That question is at the heart of Executing Freedom, a powerful, wide-ranging examination of the place of the death penalty in American culture and how it has changed over the years. Drawing on an array of sources, including congressional hearings and campaign speeches, true crime classics like In Cold Blood, and films like Dead Man Walking, Daniel LaChance shows how attitudes toward the death penalty have reflected broader shifts in Americans’ thinking about the relationship between the individual and the state. Emerging from the height of 1970s disillusion, the simplicity and moral power of the death penalty became a potent symbol for many Americans of what government could do—and LaChance argues, fascinatingly, that it’s the very failure of capital punishment to live up to that mythology that could prove its eventual undoing in the United States.
“Fiercely provocative . . . A must-read for socio-legal studies and punishment scholars who want to know more about how the phenomenon of capital punishment took on a life of its own in the modern US cultural imagination.”—Theoretical Criminology
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism by Martin Arboleda
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Overview: A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries
Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. Through an exploration of the ways in which mines in the Atacama Desert of Chile—the driest in the world—have become intermingled with an expanding constellation of megacities, ports, banks, and factories across East Asia, the book rethinks uneven geographical development in the era of supply chain capitalism. Arguing that extraction entails much more than the mere spatiality of mine shafts and pits, Planetary Mine points towards the expanding webs of infrastructure, of labor, of finance, and of struggle, that drive resource-based industries in the twenty-first century.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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Overview: A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries
Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. Through an exploration of the ways in which mines in the Atacama Desert of Chile—the driest in the world—have become intermingled with an expanding constellation of megacities, ports, banks, and factories across East Asia, the book rethinks uneven geographical development in the era of supply chain capitalism. Arguing that extraction entails much more than the mere spatiality of mine shafts and pits, Planetary Mine points towards the expanding webs of infrastructure, of labor, of finance, and of struggle, that drive resource-based industries in the twenty-first century.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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Download Chat AI – AI Chatbot Assistant v162.0 [Premium]
Chat AI – AI Chatbot Assistant v162.0 [Premium]
Requirements: 6.0+
Overview: Chatbot AI is an intelligent artificial intelligence interactive application that brings a unique and convenient experience to users. With Chatbot AI, you can communicate and ask questions directly with a powerful AI system that helps you find information, answer questions, and even provide solutions to complex problems.
Chatbot AI is an intelligent artificial intelligence interactive application that brings a unique and convenient experience to users. With Chatbot AI, you can communicate and ask questions directly with a powerful AI system that helps you find information, answer questions, and even provide solutions to complex problems.
Main features of Chatbot AI include:
– Natural Chat: Chatbot AI uses advanced natural language technology to understand and respond to your questions and requests in a natural and intuitive way.
– Ask anything about Chatbot AI – Get Instant Answers: With Chatbot AI, you can get quick answers to any question. Whether it’s a matter of historical significance, scientific facts, riddles, or pop culture nuances, Chatbot AI will deliver the information you require in no time.
– Multilingual support (140+ languages): Taking advantage of Chatbot AI’s multilingual functions, powered by ChatGPT and GPT-4 APIs, you can join chats in any language what you want. Translate text, acquire and practice a new language. Let Chatbot AI be your language advisor!
– Multi-function: From searching for information, looking up data, to answering questions in many different fields such as science, history, art, etc. Chatbot AI has the ability to meet all the needs of users.
– Custom User Experience: Chatbot AI learns from each user interaction, thereby improving responsiveness and delivering a more personalized interaction experience over time.
– Reliability and security: Chatbot AI adheres to the highest security standards to ensure your personal information and data are protected. You can safely use Chatbot AI without worrying about your privacy being invaded.
Download Chatbot AI today and experience the power of artificial intelligence in the palm of your hand. You will discover a whole world of knowledge with just a few simple taps. Start conversations and open new doors of understanding and discovery.
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➡ Languages: Full Multi Languages
➡ CPU architectures: arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
➡ Screen DPIs: 120dpi, 160dpi, 240dpi, 320dpi, 480dpi, 640dpi
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Overview: Chatbot AI is an intelligent artificial intelligence interactive application that brings a unique and convenient experience to users. With Chatbot AI, you can communicate and ask questions directly with a powerful AI system that helps you find information, answer questions, and even provide solutions to complex problems.
Chatbot AI is an intelligent artificial intelligence interactive application that brings a unique and convenient experience to users. With Chatbot AI, you can communicate and ask questions directly with a powerful AI system that helps you find information, answer questions, and even provide solutions to complex problems.
Main features of Chatbot AI include:
– Natural Chat: Chatbot AI uses advanced natural language technology to understand and respond to your questions and requests in a natural and intuitive way.
– Ask anything about Chatbot AI – Get Instant Answers: With Chatbot AI, you can get quick answers to any question. Whether it’s a matter of historical significance, scientific facts, riddles, or pop culture nuances, Chatbot AI will deliver the information you require in no time.
– Multilingual support (140+ languages): Taking advantage of Chatbot AI’s multilingual functions, powered by ChatGPT and GPT-4 APIs, you can join chats in any language what you want. Translate text, acquire and practice a new language. Let Chatbot AI be your language advisor!
– Multi-function: From searching for information, looking up data, to answering questions in many different fields such as science, history, art, etc. Chatbot AI has the ability to meet all the needs of users.
– Custom User Experience: Chatbot AI learns from each user interaction, thereby improving responsiveness and delivering a more personalized interaction experience over time.
– Reliability and security: Chatbot AI adheres to the highest security standards to ensure your personal information and data are protected. You can safely use Chatbot AI without worrying about your privacy being invaded.
Download Chatbot AI today and experience the power of artificial intelligence in the palm of your hand. You will discover a whole world of knowledge with just a few simple taps. Start conversations and open new doors of understanding and discovery.
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➡ Languages: Full Multi Languages
➡ CPU architectures: arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
➡ Screen DPIs: 120dpi, 160dpi, 240dpi, 320dpi, 480dpi, 640dpi
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