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Book Animal Wise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virginia Morell
  • Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0307461440
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Animal Wise written by Virginia Morell and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising examination into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.

Book The Great War of Our Time

Download or read book The Great War of Our Time written by Michael Morell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades. Morell was by President Bush's side on 9/11/01 when terrorists struck America and in the White House Situation Room advising President Obama on 5/1/11 when America struck back-killing Usama bin Ladin. From the subway bombings in London to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Morell always seemed to find himself on the cusp of history. A superb intelligence analyst and briefer, Morell now presents The Great War of Our Time, where he uses his talents to offer an unblinking and insightful assessment of CIA's counterterrorism successes and failures of the past twenty years and, perhaps most important, shows readers that the threat of terrorism did not die with Bin Ladin in Abbottabad. Morell illuminates new, growing threats from terrorist groups that, if unaddressed, could leave the country vulnerable to attacks that would dwarf 9/11 in magnitude. He writes of secret, back-channel negotiations he conducted with foreign spymasters and regime leaders in a desperate attempt to secure a peaceful outcome to unrest launched during the "Arab Spring." Morell describes how efforts to throw off the shackles of oppression have too often resulted in broken nation states unable or unwilling to join the fight against terrorism. Along the way Morell provides intimate portraits of the leadership styles of figures ranging from Presidents Bush and Obama, CIA directors Tenet, Goss, Hayden, Petraeus, Panetta, and Brennan, and a host of others.

Book The Fifth Profession

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Morrell
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2008-12-14
  • ISBN : 0446553298
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book The Fifth Profession written by David Morrell and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of First Blood comes a spectacular thriller, in which a former Navy SEAL and a Japanese samurai master are bound together in a terrifying past that never happened.

Book Art in the Age of Anxiety

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  • Author : Omar Kholeif
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2021-01-26
  • ISBN : 1907071806
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Art in the Age of Anxiety written by Omar Kholeif and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists and writers examine the bombardment of information, misinformation, emotion, deception, and secrecy in online and offline life in the post-digital age. Every day we are bombarded by information, misinformation, emotion, deception, and secrecy in our online and offline lives. How does the never-ending flow of data affect our powers of perception and decision making? This richly illustrated and boldly designed collection of essays and artworks investigates visual culture in the post-digital age. The essays, by such leading cultural thinkers as Douglas Coupland and W. J. T. Mitchell, consider topics that range from the future of money to the role of art in a post-COVID-19 world; from mental health in the digital age to online grieving; and from the mediation of visual culture to the thickening of the digital sphere. Accompanying an ambitious exhibition conceived by the Sharjah Art Foundation and volume editor and curator Omar Kholeif, the book is a work of art and a labor of love, emulating the labyrinthine corridors of the exhibition itself. Created by a group of writers, artists, designers, photographers, and publishers, Art in the Age of Anxiety calls upon us to consider what our collective future will be and how humanity will adapt to it.

Book Abelardo Morell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brett Abbott
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Abelardo Morell written by Brett Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title offers a look at the work of photographer Abelardo Morell.

Book The New England History

Download or read book The New England History written by Charles Wyllys Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Murder as a Fine Art

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  • Author : David Morrell
  • Publisher : Mulholland Books
  • Release : 2013-05-07
  • ISBN : 0316216771
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Murder as a Fine Art written by David Morrell and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name. Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts. Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives. In Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell plucks De Quincey, Victorian London, and the Ratcliffe Highway murders from history. Fogbound streets become a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer, whose lives are linked by secrets long buried but never forgotten.

Book Horse Doggin

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  • Author : Dave Morrell
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-05-20
  • ISBN : 9781497594104
  • Pages : 101 pages

Download or read book Horse Doggin written by Dave Morrell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Chronicles The Music, The Madness, The Mayhem And The Fun Of NYC Circa 1971, As Teen Journeys From Superfan To Music Biz Insider. Horse-Doggin', the first volume in the memoirs of longtime record company promo man and Beatles collector Dave Morrell, is now available HERE on Amazon.com in ebook and paperback formats. The 20-chapter book features vignettes about his madcap, music-fueled adventures in the Big Apple in the early 1970s.

Book Misconception

Download or read book Misconception written by Paul and Shannon Morell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-told story of the "other couple"-the biological parents of the baby-in the famous embryo mix-up case that astounded the public in September 2009. Now breaking their silence, Paul and Shannon Morell reveal for the first time the shocking truth of what happened to all their embryos and their long ordeal after discovering that their last-chance embryo had been mistakenly transferred into the womb of another woman. Theirs is a story of medical mix-ups, medical miracles, of bonding with their son after another woman gave birth to him, and of the faith that sustains them as they reflect on the huge questions arising from their IVF experience.

Book Ancestral Passions

Download or read book Ancestral Passions written by Virginia Morell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the "First Family" of anthropology reveals how their discoveries, collaborations, and rivalries contributed to our own knowledge of the origins of humankind. In this fascinating and authoritative work, acclaimed science writer Virginia Morell brings to vivid life the famous and infamous Leakey family, pioneers in the field of paleoanthropology: Louis Leakey, the patriarch, who persisted through initial scientific failures and scandal-ridden divorce to achieve spectacular success in digs throughout East Africa; Mary, his second wife, who worked alongside Louis as they made their outstanding discoveries at Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere; and Richard, their son, who ascended to the top of the field in his parents’ wake, only to be threatened with both near-fatal illness and fierce professional rivalry. Morell transports us into the world of these compelling personalities, demonstrating how a small clan of highly talented and fiercely competitive people came to dominate an entire field of science and to contribute immeasurably to our understanding of the origins of humanity.

Book Creepers

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  • Author : David Morrell
  • Publisher : David Morrell
  • Release : 2011-06-22
  • ISBN : 0615504426
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Creepers written by David Morrell and published by David Morrell . This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CREEPERS, David Morrell's gripping joyride of a thriller, depicts every harrowing second in eight hours of relentless terror. A New York Times bestseller, it received the prestigious Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association. On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the New Jersey shore and begin preparations to break in to the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure—which foreshadowed the beauties of art-deco architecture—is now boarded up and marked for demolition. The five people are "creepers," the slang term for urban explorers: city archeologists with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets. On this evening, they are joined by a reporter who wants to profile them—anonymously, as this is a highly illegal activity—for a New York Times article. Frank Balenger isn't looking for just a story, however. And after the group enters the rat-infested tunnel leading to the hotel, it becomes clear that he will get much more than he bargained for. Danger, terror, and death await the creepers in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil. The darkest secrets live in places you’re not supposed to be. “Chilling.” —Stephen King, New York Times bestselling author of Doctor Sleep “Crack this novel, and it’s like an alien abduction of your brain—forget resuming your normal life until it’s finished. This will be a classic.”—Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling co-author (with Lincoln Child) of White Fire “With its nonstop cascade of ingeniously contrived dangers and assaults, culminating in an apocalyptic finale, Creepers provides the essence of all thrillers, an intense emotional effect that will leave readers drained.”—Washington Post

Book Fundamentalism and American Culture

Download or read book Fundamentalism and American Culture written by George M. Marsden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the government are met with hundreds of lobbyists, millions of dollars of advertising spending, and a powerful grassroots response. How has the fundamentalist movement managed to resist the pressures of the scientific community and the draw of modern popular culture to hold on to their ultra-conservative Christian views? Understanding the movement's history is key to answering this question. Fundamentalism and American Culture has long been considered a classic in religious history, and to this day remains unsurpassed. Now available in a new edition, this highly regarded analysis takes us through the full history of the origin and direction of one of America's most influential religious movements. For Marsden, fundamentalists are not just religious conservatives; they are conservatives who are willing to take a stand and to fight. In Marsden's words (borrowed by Jerry Falwell), "a fundamentalist is an evangelical who is angry about something." In the late nineteenth century American Protestantism was gradually dividing between liberals who were accepting new scientific and higher critical views that contradicted the Bible and defenders of the more traditional evangelicalism. By the 1920s a full-fledged "fundamentalist" movement had developed in protest against theological changes in the churches and changing mores in the culture. Building on networks of evangelists, Bible conferences, Bible institutes, and missions agencies, fundamentalists coalesced into a major protest movement that proved to have remarkable staying power. For this new edition, a major new chapter compares fundamentalism since the 1970s to the fundamentalism of the 1920s, looking particularly at the extraordinary growth in political emphasis and power of the more recent movement. Never has it been more important to understand the history of fundamentalism in our rapidly polarizing nation. Marsen's carefully researched and engrossing work remains the best way to do just that.

Book New Realism

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Forrest
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-18
  • ISBN : 1474413048
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book New Realism written by David Forrest and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tradition of British realism has changed dramatically over the last 20 years, where films by directors such as Duane Hopkins, Joanna Hogg, Andrea Arnold, Shane Meadows and Clio Barnard have suggested a markedly poetic turn. This new realism rejects the instrumentalism and didacticism of filmmakers like Ken Loach in favour of lyrical and often ambiguous encounters with place, where the physical processes of lived experience interacts with the rhythms of everyday life. Taking these 5 filmmakers as case studies, this book seeks to explore in depth this new tradition of British cinema - and in the process, it reignites debates over realism that have concerned scholars for decades.

Book Unwomanly Conduct

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn Mackelcan Morell
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780415906784
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Unwomanly Conduct written by Carolyn Mackelcan Morell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book CAMERA IN A ROOM PB

    Book Details:
  • Author : MORELL ABELARDO
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
  • Release : 1995-08-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book CAMERA IN A ROOM PB written by MORELL ABELARDO and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1995-08-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abelardo Morell's first monograph, from the Smithsonian's Photographers at Work series, includes selections from his camera obscura series, as well as samples of book photographs, objects, and night shots.

Book The Morrell Magazine

Download or read book The Morrell Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: