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Turncoats & True Believers

Author : Ted George Goertzel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Turncoats & True Believers written by Ted George Goertzel and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doves, Authoritarians or Protestors, Skeptics or Pragmatists are examined in biographical vignettes of such fascinating people as Bertrand Russell, Adolph Hitler, Linus Pauling, and Ayn Rand. The lives of Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman illustrate how people with similar values can follow different scripts, one ending in tragedy, the other transformation. The lives of Betty Friedan, Kate Millet, and Phyllis Schlafly show how different life scripts lead to varying.

Turncoats

Author : Harris I. Baseman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595474284
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Turncoats written by Harris I. Baseman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the wife and brother of Saudi-born, Wall Street whiz Hal Hamaly are murdered by radical Islamists in a Riyadh shopping center, he reverts to his Bedouin heritage and code of honor to exact his revenge. While in Riyadh, he's seized by radical Wahhabi cleric, Sheik Alomari who threatens to murder all of Hal's other relatives unless he joins Alomari in Jihad against the West. While not trusted by the clerics, Hal agrees to Alomari's terms, knowing that Alomari has many ways to insure against Hal's possible betrayal. Hal's initial assignments-kill all his Jewish partners, and negotiate and finance the purchase of an arsenal of Soviet made suitcase nuclear bombs for simultaneous strikes on New York and other U.S., European and Asian cities. The colossal attack is designed by Alomari to demonstrate the power of the Islamic Jihad against the western Democracies and crush all infidel resistance to the restoration and spread of a world-wide, Wahhabi controlled Islamic theocracy.

Chaotic Logic

Author : Ben Goertzel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475721978
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Chaotic Logic written by Ben Goertzel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes a network of interrelated ideas which I have developed, off and on, over the past eight or ten years. The underlying theme is the psychological interplay of order and chaos. Or, to put it another way, the interplay of deduction and induction. I will try to explain the relationship between logical, orderly, conscious, rule-following reason and fluid, self organizing, habit-governed, unconscious, chaos-infused intuition. My previous two books, The Structure of Intelligence and The Evolving Mind, briefly touched on this relationship. But these books were primarily concerned with other matters: SI with constructing a formal language for discussing mentality and its mechanization, and EM with exploring the role of evolution in thought. They danced around the edges of the order/chaos problem, without ever fully entering into it. My goal in writing this book was to go directly to the core of mental process, "where angels fear to tread" -- to tackle all the sticky issues which it is considered prudent to avoid: the nature of consciousness, the relation between mind and reality, the justification of belief systems, the connection between creativity and mental illness,.... All of these issues are dealt with here in a straightforward and unified way, using a combination of concepts from my previous work with ideas from chaos theory and complex systems science.

Turncoat

Author : Don Gutteridge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439172668
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Turncoat written by Don Gutteridge and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To investigate the mysterious death of Crown secret agent Joshua Smallman, Marc Edwards goes undercover in the small town of Crawford’s Corners, wading into rumours of sedition and secret societies. It’s 1836 and Ensign Marc Edwards, of His Majesty’s 24th Regiment of Foot, is eager for some adventure and intrigue. Unfortunately he’s been posted to the colonial backwater of Toronto, Upper Canada, and at first glance there doesn’t seem to be much chance for that sort of action. But Marc soon learns that the local population is openly chafing under British Rule, and the surrounding countryside turns out to be a seething hotbed of radicals, Reformers, Yankees, and smugglers. Ensign Edwards is given his very first assignment, to investigate the mysterious death of Crown secret agent Joshua Smallman. Marc goes undercover in the small town of Crawford’s Corners, wading into rumours of sedition and secret societies. He quickly finds another kind of action, seduced by one farmer’s wife, and entranced by another who is just a little too close to the murder for comfort, Edwards’ investigative skills and his loyalty to the Crown are put to the test. Fast-paced and addictive, Turncoat is the first novel of the Marc Edwards mystery series.

Chaos and Society

Author : A. Albert
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051992144
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Chaos and Society written by A. Albert and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication reflects on the discussion on using chaos theory for the study of society. It explores the interface between chaos theory and the social sciences. A broad variety of fields (including Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Management, Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences) is represented in the book. The leading themes are: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Social Connectionism and the Connectionist Mind, Social Institutions and Public Policy, and Social Simulations. The book includes the following topics: the relevance of the complexity-chaos paradigm for analyzing social systems, the usefulness of nonlinear dynamics for studying the formation and sustainability of social groups, the comparison between spontaneous social orders and spontaneous biological/natural orders, the building of Artificial Societies, and the contribution of the chaos paradigm to a better understanding and formulation of public policies.

Mobilizing Poor Voters

Author : Mariela Szwarcberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110711408X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Mobilizing Poor Voters written by Mariela Szwarcberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using network analysis and quantitative and qualitative data, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters.

Votes for Survival

Author : Simeon Nichter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428363
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Votes for Survival written by Simeon Nichter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the critical role citizens play in sustaining clientelism, despite threats of structural changes, institutional reforms, legal enforcement and partisan strategies.

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism

Author : Susan C. Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107042208
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism written by Susan C. Stokes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism studies distributive politics: how parties and governments use material resources to win elections. The authors develop a theory that explains why loyal supporters, rather than swing voters, tend to benefit from pork-barrel politics; why poverty encourages clientelism and vote buying; and why redistribution and voter participation do not justify non-programmatic distribution.

Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections

Author : Alberto Simpser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107311322
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections written by Alberto Simpser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do parties and governments cheat in elections they cannot lose? This book documents the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what drives this practice. Alberto Simpser shows that, in many instances, elections are about more than winning. Electoral manipulation is not only a tool used to gain votes, but also a means of transmitting or distorting information. This manipulation conveys an image of strength, shaping the behavior of citizens, bureaucrats, politicians, parties, unions and businesspeople to the benefit of the manipulators, increasing the scope for the manipulators to pursue their goals while in government and mitigating future challenges to their hold on power. Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections provides a general theory about what drives electoral manipulation and empirically documents global patterns of manipulation.

Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America

Author : Daniel W. Gingerich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107658217
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America written by Daniel W. Gingerich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important question for the health and longevity of democratic governance is how institutions may be fashioned to prevent electoral victors from drawing on the resources of the state to perpetuate themselves in power. This book addresses the issue by examining how the structure of electoral institutions - the rules of democratic contestation that determine the manner in which citizens choose their representatives - affects political corruption, defined as the abuse of state power or resources for campaign finance or party-building purposes. To this end, the book develops a novel theoretical framework that examines electoral institutions as a potential vehicle for political parties to exploit the state as a source of political finance. Hypotheses derived from this framework are assessed using an unprecedented public employees' survey conducted by the author in Bolivia, Brazil and Chile.

Encounters With the Paranormal

Author : Kendrick Frazier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1633889718
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Encounters With the Paranormal written by Kendrick Frazier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do polygraph tests really detect lies? Can memories be implanted? Is subliminal perception a reality? What is the relationship between science and belief?Experts in the fields of physical/biological science, psychology, philosophy, social science, and forensic science bring their perspectives to controversies that affect the way we think and how we perceive reality and the natural world. From science's influence on beauty to antiscience in our universities and from UFO mythologies to near-death experiences, this volume spans the gamut of pseudoscience today.Contributors include James Alcock, Susan Blackmore, Alan Cromer, Mandy Fowler, Christopher C. French, Martin Gardner, Thomas Gilovich, Theodore Goertzel, Paul R. Gross, Peter Huston, Ray Hyman, Noretta Koertge, Paul Kurtz, Dan Larhammar, Leon M. Lederman, James Lett, Norman Levitt, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Elizabeth Loftus, Lee Loevinger, Katy McCarthy, Joe Nickell, Bernard Oritz de Montellano, Debbie Peers, Anthony Pratkanis, Carl Sagan, Kenneth Savitsky, Glenn Seaborg, Elie Shneour, Matthew Smith, Victor Stenger, Jeffrey F. Victor, Jeff Wiseman, and Richard Wiseman.

Denying History

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520944097
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Denying History written by Michael Shermer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the minds and culture of these Holocaust "revisionists." In the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened and, for that matter, how we can confirm any historical event. This edition is expanded with a new chapter and epilogue examining current, shockingly mainstream revisionism.

The Psychology of Extremism

Author : Katherine V. Aumer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030596982
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Extremism written by Katherine V. Aumer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the psychological factors, environments, and social factors contributing to identification with extremist identities and ideologies. Incorporating recent findings on interpersonal relationships, emotions, and social identity, the book aims to improve understanding of what makes individuals vulnerable to extremism. It concludes with a discussion of the intricacies of identification with extremist groups, a proposal for de-radicalization, and a call for awareness as a means to resist polarization. Chapters highlight interdisciplinary research into specific concepts and behaviors that can lead to extremism, addressing topics such as: ● Homogamy, tribalism and the desire to belong ● Shared hatred in strong group identities ● The impact of emotional contagion on personal relationships ● Dehumanization across political party lines An in-depth exploration of an increasingly divisive modern issue, The Psychology of Extremism is an essential resource for researchers and students across social psychology, sociology, political psychology, and political science.

Nato and Germany: a Study in the Sociology of Supernational Relations (c)

Author : Stanford M. Lyman
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610752749
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Nato and Germany: a Study in the Sociology of Supernational Relations (c) written by Stanford M. Lyman and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Cold War years, this monograph examines the processes, problems, and policies through which the Federal Republic of Germany was formed and admitted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The author compares the situation of Weimar Germany during its short-lived postwar decade with that of the Federal Republic by applying geopolitical concepts and theory, illustrating Germany's territorial uniqueness and how that special aspect of its place on the European continent influenced the nation's diplomacy in both eras.

Trust and Betrayal in Educational Administration and Leadership

Author : Eugenie A. Samier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136976329
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Trust and Betrayal in Educational Administration and Leadership written by Eugenie A. Samier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores critical and foundational theory for trust in educational administration and leadership as it influences a broad range of topics, such as ethics, governance, diversity, policy, management, and power. It demonstrates the relevance of this foundation to practical issues and problems internationally, both within the organizational context and extra-organizationally. Contributors from throughout the world focus on the application of trust factors as they affect our understanding of, and practice in, educational organizations. This volume will be of interest to students and faculty of educational administration theory, the policy and politics of education, and educational leadership as well as practitioners and policy makers.

Plato's Dreams Realized

Author : Aleksandr Vladimirovich Avakov
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875864961
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Dreams Realized written by Aleksandr Vladimirovich Avakov and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the philosophical and political nature of law, morality, rights and security, a Russian dissident shares his experience with the KGB and then with the US national security state and details the history of political surveillance in the US.

Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence

Author : Guy Burton
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498526578
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence written by Guy Burton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is presidential leadership and why have some presidents been considered “great” – or rather “transformational” – while others are not? What are the drivers which distinguish these presidents from the rest? Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence answers these questions through a systematic study of leadership across the Americas over 200 years, from independence to the present day. Having surveyed who the most cited presidents are in the Americas, Guy Burton and Ted Goertzel examine the experience of presidents from across the western hemisphere: the US, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. They study the relationship between these men and women’s actions within the constraints they faced during four political periods: independence, national consolidation during the nineteenth century, state-building from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries and neoliberalism since the 1970s-80s. The most “transformational” presidents are found to be those who are not only able to innovate and build new political consensuses at a time of crisis, but also consolidate them so that the reforms becoming lasting – and extending beyond an individual president’s own political (even biological) lifetime.