Download or read book THE DOOMSDAY SHROUD Book 2 of the DOOMSDAY Series written by R. L. Gemmill and published by R L Gemmill Author LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEMONS DON’T DIE! Trouble continues for Kelly and Travis Bishop when their older brother Jon runs away to New York City, the nation embraces Majik Juice, and the American Security Administration makes house calls at two in the morning. The good news? An assassin thinks he can save humanity from injustice. The bad news? Demons have discovered the perfect lure to get Kelly back into Pandora’s Cave. READ WITH CAUTION

Download or read book The Doomsday Shroud written by R L Gemmill and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEMONS DON'T DIE!Trouble continues for Kelly and Travis Bishop when their older brother Jon runs away to New York City, the nation embraces Majik Juice, and the American Security Administration makes house calls at two in the morning. The good news? An assassin thinks he can save humanity from injustice.The bad news? Demons have discovered the perfect lure to get Kelly back into Pandora's Cave.READ WITH CAUTION

Download or read book THE STREET WIZARD Book 4 of the DOOMSDAY Series written by R. L. Gemmill and published by R L Gemmill Author LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BATTLE AT R.F.K. STADIUM Jon meets the Street Wizard face to face; Kelly sees a shrink about her terrible nightmares; the Demon Boss goes high tech. The best news? Travis picks up a new skill. The worst news? The Assassin launches a plan to kill the world’s top scientists in a single night. READ WITH CAUTION

Download or read book DEVIL S BITE Book 3 of the DOOMSDAY Series written by R. L. Gemmill and published by R L Gemmill Author LLC. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JON BISHOP IS ABOUT TO BECOME THE SOUP-OF-THE-DAY! Shackled, caged, and guarded, Jon must find a way out of the caves very soon, or die. The bad news? No human has ever escaped from the demon world. The good news? There is no good news. READ WITH CAUTION

Download or read book Calling Dr Strangelove written by George Case and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of the most celebrated and significant films ever made. This book traces the movie's origins as a thriller novel through its evolution into a devastating black comedy, to its ultimate reception as an undisputed cinema classic. A wealth of fresh detail is provided on Dr. Strangelove's production, its initial reception and its lasting influence. The book also examines the film within the context of the real-life superpower standoff it satirized and evaluates its place alongside director Kubrick's entire catalog of famous works. Drawn from interviews, biographical research and extensive cultural analysis, this work is an indispensable resource for Kubrick fans, movie buffs and students of Cold War history.

Download or read book DOCTOR NIGHTMARE written by R. L. Gemmill and published by R L Gemmill Author LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hey Matilda! Mad Dog sends his regards!” Kelly languishes in a mental hospital enduring unspeakable nightmares. Demons attack Dr. Parrish’s house in broad daylight with modern weapons. Jon fights the Assassin to an explosive death. Travis tries to stop Mr. Deel from killing a friend. The good news? Jon and Maria are speaking again. The bad news? Majik Juice just made its one-billionth sale. READ WITH CAUTION

Download or read book Dr Strangelove s America written by Margot A. Henriksen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did America really learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb," as the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, would have us believe? Does that darkly satirical comedy have anything in common with Martin Luther King Jr.'s impassioned "I Have a Dream" speech or with Elvis Presley's throbbing "I'm All Shook Up"? In Margot Henriksen's vivid depiction of the decades after World War II, all three are expressions of a cultural revolution directly related to the atomic bomb. Although many scientists and other Americans protested the pursuit of nuclear superiority after World War II ended, they were drowned out by Cold War rhetoric that encouraged a "culture of consensus." Nonetheless, Henriksen says, a "culture of dissent" arose, and she traces this rebellion through all forms of popular culture. At first, artists expressed their anger, anxiety, and despair in familiar terms that addressed nuclear reality only indirectly. But Henriksen focuses primarily on new modes of expression that emerged, discussing the disturbing themes of film noir (with extended attention to Alfred Hitchcock) and science fiction films, Beat poetry, rock 'n' roll, and Pop Art. Black humor became a primary weapon in the cultural revolution while literature, movies, and music gave free rein to every possible expression of the generation gap. Cultural upheavals from "flower power" to the civil rights movement accentuated the failure of old values. Filled with fascinating examples of cultural responses to the Atomic Age, Henriksen's book is a must-read for anyone interested in the United States at mid-twentieth century.

Download or read book Apocalypse Cinema written by Peter Szendy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner, and Twelve Monkeys, this book suggests that in the apocalyptic genre, film gnaws at its own limit. Apocalypse-cinema is, at the same time and with the same double blow, the end of the world and the end of the film. It is the consummation and the (self-)consumption of cinema, in the form of an acinema that Lyotard evoked as the nihilistic horizon of filmic economy. The innumerable countdowns, dazzling radiations, freeze-overs, and seismic cracks and crevices are but other names and pretexts for staging film itself, with its economy of time and its rewinds, its overexposed images and fades to white, its freeze-frames and digital touch-ups. The apocalyptic genre is not just one genre among others: It plays with the very conditions of possibility of cinema. And it bears witness to the fact that, every time, in each and every film, what Jean-Luc Nancy called the cine-world is exposed on the verge of disappearing. In a Postface specially written for the English edition, Szendy extends his argument into a debate with speculative materialism. Apocalypse-cinema, he argues, announces itself as cinders that question the “ultratestimonial” structure of the filmic gaze. The cine-eye, he argues, eludes the correlationism and anthropomorphic structure that speculative materialists have placed under critique, allowing only the ashes it bears to be heard.

Download or read book Radiological Warfare written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Radiological Warfare Radiological warfare is any form of warfare involving deliberate radiation poisoning or contamination of an area with radiological sources. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Radiological warfare Chapter 2: Little Boy Chapter 3: Nuclear weapon Chapter 4: Nuclear fission Chapter 5: Neutron bomb Chapter 6: Nuclear fallout Chapter 7: Dirty bomb Chapter 8: Cobalt bomb Chapter 9: Nuclear technology Chapter 10: Nuclear weapon design (II) Answering the public top questions about radiological warfare. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Radiological Warfare.

Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis written by Len Scott and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is sixty years since the events of October 1962 brought the world close to nuclear catastrophe. The Cuban missile crisis has long been recognized as the moment of greatest danger in the life (and near death) of humanity. In those sixty years, our knowledge and understanding of events have undergone significant change. There are some reasons to be encouraged, inasmuch as we have learned how both President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev sought to avoid nuclear war. More ominously, we have learned of incidents and events that suggest nuclear weapons might have been used by subordinate military commanders, in circumstances frequently unknown to their political leaders. Decisions whether to use nuclear weapons lay in the hands of often junior military commanders, some of whom were perilously close to crossing the nuclear threshold. This does not mean – as often assumed – that if some nuclear weapons were used, escalation to all-out war was inevitable. Yet the undoubted risk of thermonuclear war in these circumstances threatened the very survival of civilization. Hundreds, if not thousands, of millions of people would have died from immediate and short-term effects, while the longer-term prospect of a ‘Nuclear Winter’ portended the virtual extinction of humanity. Drawing lessons from sixty years ago faces significant challenges. If we draw lessons only to discover our understanding was mistaken, we might well have drawn the wrong lessons. Many received wisdoms about the crisis have been shown to be misleading. What is striking is how after forty or fifty or even sixty years, new evidence has emerged to challenge previously accepted explanations. It is for the reader to reach their own verdicts on the history of the crisis, and how much we owe to political leaders who averted catastrophe (as well as how their words and deeds helped create the crisis in the first place). It is for the reader to conclude how close we came to nuclear war. Whatever conclusions are reached, one overriding lesson looms large. However we judge the actions of political and military leaders, one factor was crucial in why we avoided nuclear war in 1962. It was luck. In October 1962, humanity was very lucky. Will we be so lucky next time?

Download or read book The Body Pit written by R. L. Gemmill and published by R L Gemmill Author LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN EXPERIMENT GONE HORRIBLY WRONG! The people of Southport, Virginia (pop. 12,350) are exposed to an aerosol agent that infects everyone but teenagers. Attempting to save their loved ones, teens come up with a plan to lure their families into the school and trap them there hoping the government can find a cure. The good news? Not everybody in Southport died. The bad news? There is no cure. READ WITH CAUTION

Download or read book The Bone Room written by R. L. Gemmill and published by R L Gemmill Author LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DECEIVED. AMBUSHED. LOST IN TIME. In 1938, teachers in Malta took a class on a field trip to see the ancient bones of thousands of people in a cave known as the bone room. The children and their teachers never returned from the cave. For days, screams could be heard all over the island country, but search efforts turned up nothing. The good news? This is the official beginning of the Doomsday series. The bad news? It’s based on a true story. READ WITH CAUTION

Download or read book Doomsday Men written by P. D. Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction. This is the untold story of the Cold War’s most insane plan, the men behind it and how it nearly happened. It is also the history of humanity’s nightmare vision of a superweapon, showing how popular culture, from the stories of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne to films such as Planet of the Apes, Mad Max and Dr Strangelove itself have both shaped and reflected our darkest dreams.

Download or read book A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema written by Charles P. Mitchell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination and comprehensive assessment of apocalyptic film studies fifty films that illustrate the variety, range and different categories of the genre. Apocalyptic films are those that depict, on screen as part of the story, an event threatening the extinction of mankind. A brief overview identifies seven major categories of apocalyptic films: the religious or supernatural, celestial collision, solar or orbital disruption, nuclear war and radioactive fallout, germ warfare or pestilence, alien device or invasion, and scientific miscalculation. Alphabetically arranged entries rate the films and provide production information, an annotated cast listing, a synopsis of the film, a critique, and representative quotes. Film scholars and those with a special interest in apocalyptic cinema will appreciate the overview and detailed analysis of the films. Appendices provide additional examples of apocalyptic movies excluded from the main text, a sampling of post-apocalyptic cinema which is distinct from the apocalyptic genre and examples of apocalyptic television. Illustrations are included.

Download or read book Kubrick New and Expanded Edition written by Thomas Allen Nelson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Kubrick ranks among the most important American film makers of his generation, but his work is often misunderstood because it is widely diverse in subject matter and seems to lack thematic and tonal consistency. Thomas Nelson's perceptive and comprehensive study of Kubrick rescues him from the hostility of auteurist critics and discovers the roots of a Kubrickian aesthetic, which Nelson defines as the "aesthetics of contingency." After analyzing how this aesthetic develops and manifests itself in the early works, Nelson devotes individual chapters to Lolita, Dr. Stangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining. For this expanded edition, Nelson has added chapters on Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut, and, in the wake of the director's death, reconsidered his body of work as a whole. By placing Kubrick in a historical and theoretical context, this study is a reliable guide into—and out of—Stanley Kubrick's cinematic maze.

Download or read book The Leader on the Couch written by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, organizational life has typically been hostile to the inner world of feeling. Rationality is deemed superior to feeling, which can contaminate judgment. But without feeling there is no passion, and no action. This book sets out to change people and organizations for the better, by revealing the 'dark side' of leadership behaviour and its impact on performance. Tapping into the startling parallels between the journey to emotional intelligence, the process of psychoanalysis, the practice of leadership coaching and the Zen journey to enlightenment, renowned thinker Manfred Kets de Vries helps executives, consultants, and coaches to peel back the layers of self-deception and reveal how inner personality – largely hard-wired since early childhood – affects the way they lead and manage others.

Download or read book A Cinema of Loneliness written by Robert Phillip Kolker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 20th anniversary edition, Kolker continues and expands his inquiry into the phenomenon of cinematic representation of culture by updating and revising the chapters on Kubrick, Scorsese, Altman and Spielberg.