Download or read book iMuslims written by Gary R. Bunt and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the increasing impact of the Internet on Muslims around the world, this book sheds new light on the nature of contemporary Islamic discourse, identity, and community. The Internet has profoundly shaped how both Muslims and non-Muslims perceive Islam and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting in the twenty-first century, says Gary Bunt. While Islamic society has deep historical patterns of global exchange, the Internet has transformed how many Muslims practice the duties and rituals of Islam. A place of religious instruction may exist solely in the virtual world, for example, or a community may gather only online. Drawing on more than a decade of online research, Bunt shows how social-networking sites, blogs, and other "cyber-Islamic environments" have exposed Muslims to new influences outside the traditional spheres of Islamic knowledge and authority. Furthermore, the Internet has dramatically influenced forms of Islamic activism and radicalization, including jihad-oriented campaigns by networks such as al-Qaeda. By surveying the broad spectrum of approaches used to present dimensions of Islamic social, spiritual, and political life on the Internet, iMuslims encourages diverse understandings of online Islam and of Islam generally.
Download or read book Trackers written by Deon Meyer and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhino smugglers, international espionage, and a missing person investigation collide in this “powerhouse read” from the acclaimed South African author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Lemmer’s first rule is “Don’t get involved.” A highly skilled bodyguard with a violent, criminal past, he has settled into a quiet life in Loxton, South Africa. But when a wealthy farmer asks him to help save a pair of rare black rhinos by smuggling them out of Zimbabwe, Lemmer can’t say no. Now he’s on a small airplane, zipping across the border with a military-grade shotgun at his feet—sensing that he’s about to regret breaking his own rule. Weaving together Lemmer’s story with a missing person investigation and the machinations of a top intelligence agency, Trackers is “a sprawling, invigorating and socially committed crime novel” (The Independent). “Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters.” —Michael Connelly, New York Times–bestselling author of the Harry Bosch novels “Meyer’s ambition matches his execution in this brilliantly complex stand-alone thriller set in his native South Africa.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “[Meyer is] the king of South African crime fiction.” —Booklist, starred review
Download or read book The Terror Beneath written by Scott Malthouse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigative roleplaying game of horrors both ancient and modern, inspired by the works of Arthur Machen and powered by the GUMSHOE system. Britain at the dawn of the 20th century. In the depths of the countryside, cults celebrate ancient rites in hidden clearings and caverns, beasts of legend emerge from their lairs to prey upon the unwary, and powerful beings of folklore and myth stir once more. In the urban sprawl of London and other cities, secret societies struggle for power and dominance, rogue alchemists pursue occult ambitions, and scientists fuse modern technology with ancient mysticism to create new horrors. This is the world of The Terror Beneath, an investigative roleplaying game inspired by the works of the master of horror, Arthur Machen. It is into this world that players will step as unwitting investigators, plucked from amongst an oblivious populace by fate, malice, or blind fortune and set against the machinations of hidden cults, the creations of mad scientists, or the unknowable motives of ancient terrors. The Terror Beneath is powered by the GUMSHOE roleplaying system, designed specifically to tell stories of mystery and investigation. With less emphasis on finding clues and more on interpreting them correctly, an investigation never stalls due to a critical clue being missed, but gives the heroes all the information they need to keep moving inexorably towards the horrors at the heart of the plot...
Download or read book Blackwatch Tactical Force Five written by Daniel G. O'Leary and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 2009 With acts of terror on the rise worldwide devastating families, towns, cities, and destabilizing nations, the U.N. Security Council had to act swiftly. A resolution passed for a "request to be made, and authorization to be given to the American President to provide a VERY SPECIAL FORM OF ASSISTANCE to end the spiraling crisis in Lebanon". From the dust, ashes, twisted and bent steel of the World Trade Center in NYC September 11, 2001 emerged a new spirit, a new unified energy, an awakening that grabbed and shook every American, and made them realize the World was indeed a very dangerous place. Armed with information, technology, and communication provided at lightning speed through the internet, terror organizations had formed alliances and were now attacking "us". It was clear America needed a change, a new breed of leader, a new breed of warrior, a new champion of the faithful. As history has proven time and time again, Americans are at their best when "times seem to be at their worst". When we're sucker-punched or blind-sided, we respond collectively as one. It is in those moments that we are born again. It starts individually, then collectively. It is at those precise moments that "We the people" have made our greatest leaps and evolved to become the Nation we are. 9-11-2001 was such a moment. When the U.N. Security Council passed the resolution requesting and authorizing the American President to provide a "VERY SPECIAL FORM OF ASSISTANCE", America's new breed of leader and warriors had emerged. America's First Woman President Caroline E. Smith gave the order for the Men and Women of BLACKWATCH TACTICAL FORCE FIVE to do what they had been trained to do. The World would never be the same again. "Justice would be served!"
Download or read book CSO written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The business to business trade publication for information and physical Security professionals.
Download or read book Social Networking written by Mrutyunjaya Panda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the proliferation of social media and on-line communities in networked world a large gamut of data has been collected and stored in databases. The rate at which such data is stored is growing at a phenomenal rate and pushing the classical methods of data analysis to their limits. This book presents an integrated framework of recent empirical and theoretical research on social network analysis based on a wide range of techniques from various disciplines like data mining, social sciences, mathematics, statistics, physics, network science, machine learning with visualization techniques and security. The book illustrates the potential of multi-disciplinary techniques in various real life problems and intends to motivate researchers in social network analysis to design more effective tools by integrating swarm intelligence and data mining.
Download or read book CSO written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The business to business trade publication for information and physical Security professionals.
Download or read book Intelligence and Security Informatics written by Sharad Mehrotra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2006. Gathers 39 revised full papers, 30 revised short papers, and 56 extended poster abstracts, organized in topical sections including intelligence analysis and knowledge discovery; access control, privacy, and cyber trust; surveillance and emergency response; infrastructure protection and cyber security; terrorism informatics and countermeasures; surveillance, bioterrorism, and emergency response.
Download or read book The Middle East written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Research Without Leaving Your Desk written by Jane Macoustra and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a broad scope for research to take the frustration out of not being able to locate what you want, not just by country or region, but how to pinpoint and access reliable information on a global scale. Other issues addressed are Know-Your-Customer issues, corruption and terrorism and new Web 2.0 technologies. - Information provided draws upon the authors' real-life scenarios during her varied career - The author has been a long term user of many of the authoritative sites that are shown as examples - Practical pointers are provided for ways to recognise new resources
Download or read book Tracker s Sin written by Sarah McCarty and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his trade became his name, "Tracker" Ochoa was a scrawny mestizo runaway. Now as fearsome as he once was frightened, he's joined the notorious Hell's Eight…and they have a job for him. He must rescue kidnapped heiress Ari Blake and deliver her safely to the Hell's Eight compound—by any means necessary. Turns out that includes marrying her, if he means to escort her and her infant daughter across the Texas territory. Tracker hadn't bargained on a wife—especially such a fair, blue-eyed beauty. But the pleasures of the marriage bed more than make up for the surprise. Tracker's well-muscled body and dark, dangerous eyes are far more exciting than any of Ari's former debutante dreams. In the light of day, though, his deep scars and brooding intensity terrify her. But with the frontier against them and mercenary bandits at their heels, her fearsome husband may be the only protection she's got.
Download or read book Terror Down Under written by Daniel Best and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, the Australian government banned the production, importation and exhibition of horror films in a move to appease religious communities and entertainment watchdogs. Drawing upon previously unseen government documents, private letters and contemporary newspaper accounts, this book is the first to extensively cover the history of censorship and the early production of horror movies in Australia. Beginning its examination in the late 19th century, the book documents the earliest horror films like Georges Melies' The Haunted Castle (1896), and how Australians enjoyed such films before the ban. The book then explains how certain imports, like 1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon, were able to circumvent the ban while others were not. It also reveals how Australian television, though similarly impacted by government censorship, was occasionally able to broadcast films technically banned from cinematic release. The work concludes with a look at the first Australian horror films produced after the ban was formally lifted in 1969, like Terry Bourke's Night of Fear (1973).
Download or read book Crime Justice and the Media written by Ian Marsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime, Justice and the Media examines and analyses the relationship between the media and crime, criminals and the criminal justice system. This expanded and fully updated second edition considers how crime and criminals have been portrayed by the media through history, applying different theoretical perspectives to the way crime, criminals and justice are reported. The second edition of Crime, Justice and the Media focuses on the media representation of a range of different areas of crime and criminal justice, including: new media technology e.g. social network sites moral panics over specific crimes and criminals e.g. youth crime, cybercrime, paedophilia media portrayal of victims of crime and criminals how the media represent criminal justice agencies e.g. the police and prison service. This book offers a clear, accessible and comprehensive analysis of theoretical thinking on the relationship between the media, crime and criminal justice and a detailed examination of how crime, criminals and others involved in the criminal justice process are portrayed by the media. With exercises, questions and further reading in every chapter, this book encourages students to engage with and respond to the material presented, thereby developing a deeper understanding of the links between the media and criminality.
Download or read book Intelligence Oversight in the Twenty First Century written by Ian Leigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight. Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing security environment. This book addresses the impact of three factors on intelligence oversight: the growth of more complex terror threats, such as those caused by the rise of Islamic State; the colder East-West climate following Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea; and new challenges relating to the large-scale intelligence collection and intrusive surveillance practices revealed by Edward Snowden. This volume evaluates the impact these factors have had on security and intelligence services in a range of countries, together with the challenges that they present for intelligence oversight bodies to adapt in response. With chapters surveying developments in Norway, Romania, the UK, Belgium, France, the USA, Canada and Germany, the coverage is varied, wide and up-to-date. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, security studies and International Relations.
Download or read book Sky Streak of Terror written by Daniel Griffin and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2014-03-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sky Streak of Terror, a novel about heroism, love, and betrayal, when a young man from the small community of Spruce Hills, Alaska, has his peaceful farming life turned upside down, when he learns that he is responsible for freeing an immortal and murderous, extra-terrestrial prisoner from a fallen meteorite. The gifted young man with newly aquired enhanced abilities, is soon forced into action. He entered the conflict between the devastating alien shape-shifter and nearby military's doomed and decimated troops, in order to save mankind from imminent destruction, while also battling his personal feelings of guilt and demons of tragedy. Sky Streak of Terror is a sci-fi, alien superthriller, that will keep readers guessing with suspense through each and every page. The story is loaded with explosive action and powerful suspense and drama. And its romance, along with the many twist, turns, and unexpected plots, will leave the readers craving for a mini-series.
Download or read book The Headless Horseman Horror Classic written by Mayne Reid and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mayne Reid's 'The Headless Horseman' is a captivating horror classic that delves into the realm of the supernatural and the eerie. Set in a small town in New York, the story follows the chilling legend of the headless horseman who terrorizes the locals. Reid's vivid descriptions and atmospheric writing style create a sense of dread and suspense that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. The book's gothic influences and haunting imagery make it a standout piece in the horror genre, appealing to fans of both classic literature and supernatural tales. The Headless Horseman is a timeless masterpiece that continues to enthrall readers with its eerie charm and suspenseful narrative. Mayne Reid's skillful storytelling and mastery of the horror genre make this book a must-read for those who appreciate a good scare and enjoy delving into the darker side of literature.
Download or read book Crime and Criminal Justice written by Ian Marsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides students with a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the study of criminology by taking an interdisciplinary approach to explaining criminal behaviour and criminal justice. It is divided into two parts, which address the two essential bases that form the discipline of criminology. Part One describes, discusses and evaluates a range of theoretical approaches that have offered explanations for crime. Part Two offers an accessible but detailed review of the major philosophical aims and sociological theories of punishment, and examines the main areas of the contemporary criminal justice system.
