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Imaginary Weapons
Author | : Sharon Weinberger |
Publsiher | : Nation Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-05-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 156858329X |
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The story of how a lunatic fringe science project became favored by Rumsfeld's Pentagon.
Dangerous Games
Author | : Joseph Laycock |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520284913 |
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The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religionÑas a socially constructed world of shared meaningÑcan also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. LaycockÕs clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.
Chinese Views of Future Warfare
Author | : Michael Pillsbury |
Publsiher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1997-12 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0788146688 |
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An introduction to the works of authoritative and innovative Chinese authors whose writings focus on the future of the Chinese military. These carefully selected, representative essays make Chinese military thinking more accessible to western readers. It reveals, for example, China's keen interest in the Revolution in military affairs. This volume is an important starting point for understanding China's future military modernization. "Must reading for every executive of every Western firm doing business in China." "Readers will be impressed by China's ambitions in space, information warfare, stealth, and robots, in future warfare." Photos.
Newsletter
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112106655886 |
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Military Construction Appropriations for 1966
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Appropriations |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1422 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105119522956 |
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Cloning Terror
Author | : W. J. T. Mitchell |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780226532615 |
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The phrase “War on Terror” has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, and that spawned it. Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, Mitchell finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality. At the same time, Mitchell locates in the concept of clones and cloning an anxiety about new forms of image-making that has amplified the political effects of the War on Terror. Cloning and terror, he argues, share an uncanny structural resemblance, shuttling back and forth between imaginary and real, metaphoric and literal manifestations. In Mitchell’s startling analysis, cloning terror emerges as the inevitable metaphor for the way in which the War on Terror has not only helped recruit more fighters to the jihadist cause but undermined the American constitution with “faith-based” foreign and domestic policies. Bringing together the hooded prisoners of Abu Ghraib with the cloned stormtroopers of the Star Wars saga, Mitchell draws attention to the figures of faceless anonymity that stalk the ever-shifting and unlocatable “fronts” of the War on Terror. A striking new investigation of the role of images from our foremost scholar of iconology, Cloning Terror will expand our understanding of the visual legacy of a new kind of war and reframe our understanding of contemporary biopower and biopolitics.
Securing Outer Space
Author | : Natalie Bormann,Michael Sheehan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2009-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134044849 |
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This edited volume analyses a number of controversial policies and strategies relating to Space activities, and to place these in a broader theoretical perspective. The book reveals the relationship between activities in Outer Space and terrestrial international relations.
Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
Author | : Helen Caldicott |
Publsiher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2007-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781595585813 |
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The renowned antinuclear activist delivers a “frighteningly convincing argument” against nuclear energy as a solution to climate change (Publishers Weekly). In a world torn apart by wars over oil, politicians have stepped up their search for alternative energy sources—and their leading choice is nuclear energy. But nuclear energy’s popularity as a green alternative is based on misinformation. People claim that nuclear-powered electricity does not cause global warming or pollution, that it is inexpensive, and that it is safe. These claims, as Helen Caldicott demonstrates, are untrue. In Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer, Caldicott digs beneath the nuclear industry’s propaganda to examine the actual costs and environmental consequences of nuclear energy. In fact, nuclear power does contribute to global warming; the cost is prohibitive, with taxpayers picking up most of the tab; there’s not enough uranium in the world to sustain it over the long term; and the potential for a catastrophic accident or a terrorist attack far outweighs any benefits. In concluding chapters, Caldicott details alternative sustainable energy sources that are the key to a clean, green future.