Endless Enemies

Author : Raymond W. Holcomb
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781597973618

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Endless Enemies by Raymond W. Holcomb Pdf

FBI operative Raymond W. Holcomb's assignments took him across America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, and involved espionage, counter narcotics, Mafia takedowns, national security, Special Weapons and Tactics, and much more. He and his men captured the terrorists behind the 1993 assault on the World Trade Center, investigated the bombings of U.S. embassies, and pursued the killers of the seventeen American sailors who died in the 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole. After 9/11, he assisted in interrogating Yemeni prisoners who had information about the attack, which led to identifying al Qaeda and some of the hijackers. After the capture of one of 9/11's most lethal masterminds, he went on a secret followup mission to Afghanistan. Holcomb's memoir provides detailed information about the FBI that only a longtime bureau insider can reveal, such as prison conditions and interrogation techniques in Guantánamo and Afghanistan. He describes hunting down and grilling criminals of every ilk around the world, and then creating and leading the FBI's elite cadre of counterterrorism agents who were at the helm of every major post-9/11 investigation, including the infiltration of homegrown conspiracies. Holcomb's absorbing account gives anyone interested in the training and activities of the FBI's elite tactical units a window into these highly effective organizations within the bureau.

Author : Jonathan Kwitny
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015021559540

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Endless Enemies by Jonathan Kwitny Pdf

One of America's premier journalists investigates why U.S. foreign policy defeats our own best interests.

Author : Sharon Salzberg,Robert A.F. Thurman
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401928155

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Love Your Enemies by Sharon Salzberg,Robert A.F. Thurman Pdf

When people and circumstances upset us, how do we deal with them? Often, we feel victimized. We become hurt, angry, and defensive. We end up seeing others as enemies, and when things don't go our way, we become enemies to ourselves. But what if we could move past this pain, anger, and defensiveness? Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, this book introduces us to the four kinds of enemies we encounter in life: the outer enemy, people, institutions, and situations that mean to harm us; the inner enemy, anger, hatred, fear, and other destructive emotions; the secret enemy, self-obsession that isolates us from others; and the super-secret enemy, deep-seated self-loathing that prevents us from finding inner freedom and true happiness. In this practical guide, we learn not only how to identify our enemies, but more important, how to transform our relationship to them. Love Your Enemies teaches us how to: - Break free from the mode of "us" versus "them" thinking - develop compassion, patience, and love - Accept what is beyond our control - Embrace lovingkindness, right speech, and other core concepts Throughout, authors Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman share stories and exercises for achieving finding peace within yourself and with the world. Drawing from ancient spiritual wisdom and modern psychology, Love Your Enemies presents tools that are useful for all readers.

Author : Robert J. Beck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000302004

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The Grenada Invasion by Robert J. Beck Pdf

Robert Beck's study focuses principally on two related questions. First, how did the Reagan administration decide to launch the invasion of Grenada? And second, what role did international law play in that decision? The Grenada Invasion draws on extensive interviews and correspondence with key participants—and on the recently published memoirs of those who participated in or witnessed the administration's deliberations—in order to render a new and more complete picture of Operation "Urgent Fury" decisionmaking. Beck concludes that international law did not determine policy, but that it acted briefly as a restraint and then as a justification for action.

Author : Thomas LYNN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019182099

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An improved system of telegraphic communications. (Continuation of the general vocabulary. Supplementary vocabulary.). by Thomas LYNN Pdf

Author : R. Barker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230287532

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Making Enemies by R. Barker Pdf

Whom a prime minister or president will not shake hands with is still more noticed than with whom they will. Public identity can afford to be ambiguous about friends, but not about enemies. Barker examines the accounts of how enmity functions in the cultivation of identity, how essential or avoidable it is, and what the global consequences are.

Author : Madelon Hoedt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476672182

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Narrative Design and Authorship in Bloodborne by Madelon Hoedt Pdf

In the vein of their cult-classic dark fantasy titles Demon's Souls (2009) and the Dark Souls franchise (2011, 2014, 2016), game developers FromSoftware released the bleak Gothic horror Bloodborne in 2015. Players are cast in the role of hunters in a hostile land, probing the shadowy city of Yharnam in search of "paleblood." The game achieved iconic status as both a horror and an action title for its rich lore and for the continuity of story elements through all aspects of game design. This first full-length study examines Bloodborne's themes of dangerous knowledge and fatal pride and its aesthetics in the context of other works on game studies, horror and the Gothic. The book's three parts focus on lore and narrative, the game's nightmarish world, and its mechanics.

Author : Yue RiTianXiang
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649354891

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Magic Purple Lightening by Yue RiTianXiang Pdf

On the day of the moon, Tianxiang had always been silent and indifferent. However, he had inadvertently obtained the divine tool, Violet Lightning. However, Violet Lightning did not approve of YueRi Tianxiang's ability. Only by working hard to become a Saint Swordsman could he become the owner of the purple lightning. That was why he had striven hard to walk the path of a Saint Swordsman from now on. This path was also gradually changing Tian Xiang's cold and detached heart ...

Author : Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
Publisher : Risale Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780994455499

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Risale on the Fruit by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi Pdf

The capital of life is very little and the work to be done is much. There are spheres like concentric circles for every person, from the sphere of their heart and stomach; the sphere of their body and home; the sphere of their suburb and town; the sphere of their country and nation; the sphere of the globe and humanity; up to the sphere of animate beings and the world, there are spheres one within the other. Each person may have duties in each of those spheres. But the greatest and the most important and permanent duty lies in the smallest sphere; while the least important and temporary duties may occasionally be found in the largest sphere. Using this analogy, the largest and smallest spheres are in inverse proportion to the pertaining duties.

Author : Joseph Courtney Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Concordances, English
ISBN : UOM:39015067903230

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A Concordance to the Book of Common Prayer by Joseph Courtney Jones Pdf

Author : J. Courtney Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101065101766

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A Concordance to the Book of Common Prayer, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States of America by J. Courtney Jones Pdf

Author : Democratic China
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640122949

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The Journey of Liu Xiaobo by Democratic China Pdf

As a fearless poet and prolific essayist and critic, Liu Xiaobo became one of the most important dissident thinkers in the People’s Republic of China. His nonviolent activism steered the nation’s prodemocracy currents from Tiananmen Square to support for Tibet and beyond. Liu undertook perhaps his bravest act when he helped draft and gather support for Charter 08, a democratic vision for China that included free elections and the end of the Communist Party’s monopoly on power. While imprisoned for “inciting subversion of state power,” Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. He was granted medical parole just weeks before dying of cancer in 2017. The Journey of Liu Xiaobo draws together essays and reflections on the “Nelson Mandela of China.” The Dalai Lama, artist and activist Ai Weiwei, and a distinguished list of leading Chinese writers and intellectuals, including Zhang Zuhua, the main drafter of Charter 08, and Liu Xia, the wife of Liu Xiaobo, and noted China scholars, journalists, and political leaders from around the globe, including Yu Ying-shih, Perry Link, Andrew J. Nathan, Marco Rubio, and Chris Smith illuminate Liu’s journey from his youth and student years, through his indispensable activism, and to his defiant last days. Many of the pieces were written immediately after Liu’s death, adding to the emotions stirred by his loss. Original and powerful, The Journey of Liu Xiaobo combines memory with insightful analysis to evaluate Liu’s impact on his era, nation, and the cause of human freedom.

Author : Edward Pessen
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000024937092

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Losing Our Souls by Edward Pessen Pdf

The United States has won the cold war--but at what cost? While political observers ponder the collapse of Soviet communism, and historians continue to debate the origins of the cold war, scarcely anyone has considered the profound changes it wrought in American society. Edward Pessen's Losing Our Souls is the first book to sum up the consequences of the cold war for Americans--the shifting ideals of our approach to international affairs; the building of our nuclear arsenal; the tactics used to combat "communist subversion" throughout the world and within the United States; the transformation of the American economy in response to security demands. Carefully reviewing the evidence, Mr. Pessen charges that American cold war policy was disastrous for many of our cherished values and institutions. In a powerful indictment of American leadership, he accuses our cold war policymakers of deplorable activities and of misrepresenting them to the American people--all in the name of the cause of anticommunism. Losing Our Souls is an important book that challenges smug official appraisals of our cold war experience.

Author : Lacey Baldwin Smith
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081011724X

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Fools, Martyrs, Traitors by Lacey Baldwin Smith Pdf

Lacey Baldwin Smith takes us on a riveting journey through history as he examines one of the most baffling characteristics of the human experience: the willingness to die to sanctify a deity, defend a cause, or simply to prove a point. By delving into the psyches, politics, and personalities of martyrs like Thomas Becket, John Brown, and Gandhi, he illuminates the complex and elusive subject of martyrdom as it has evolved over 2,500 years.

Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400845057

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Women in the Middle East by Nikki R. Keddie Pdf

Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of their past and rapidly changing present. The book also includes a brief autobiography that recounts Keddie's political activism as one of the first women in Middle East Studies. Positioning women within their individual economic situations, identities, families, and geographies, Women in the Middle East examines the experiences of women in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, in Iran, and in all the Arab countries. Keddie discusses the interaction of a changing Islam with political, cultural, and socioeconomic developments. In doing so, she shows that, like other major religions, Islam incorporated ideas and practices of male superiority but also provoked challenges to them. Keddie breaks with notions of Middle Eastern women as faceless victims, and assesses their involvement in the rise of modern nationalist, socialist, and Islamist movements. While acknowledging that conservative trends are strong, she notes that there have been significant improvements in Middle Eastern women's suffrage, education, marital choice, and health.