Scripts Of Terror

Author : Benedict Wilkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197530986

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Scripts of Terror by Benedict Wilkinson Pdf

This book explores terrorism as a strategic choice-- one made carefully and deliberately by rational actors. Through an analysis of the terrorist groups of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, this book charts a series of different strategic 'scripts' at play in terrorist behavior, from survival, to efforts in mobilizing a supporter base, through to the grinding attrition of a long terrorist campaign. The theme that runs through all the organizations is the unbridgeable gap between their strategic vision, and what actually unfolds. Regardless of which script terrorists follow, they often fall short of achieving their political ambitions. And yet, despite its frequent failure, the terrorist strategy is returned to time and again-- people continue to join such groups, and to commit mindless acts of violence. Scripts of Terror explores the reasons behind this. It asks why, if terrorism is so rarely successful and so hard to pull off, its approach remains an appealing one. And it examines how terrorists formulate their strategies, and how they envisage achieving their ambitions through violence. Most importantly, it explores why they so often fail.

Author : Gilbert Washaya
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524633493

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The Terrorist Script by Gilbert Washaya Pdf

The terrorist script is a plea to humanity that he is not a terrorist but society is pushing him into that dark world. You bombed my house killed my family I ran away. Sought asylum in your country you treated me bad. You would not allow me to work. I sought free medication you refused me I sought help from lawyers I had no money.... You deported me to the world full of terrorists? Are you surprised Im radicalised? The characters depicted are refugees from various countries savaged by British French USA and German bombs. After rigorous journeys through dangerous seas and borders they are accosted by a host whose agenda is cryptically benevolent.

Author : Max Taylor,P.M. Currie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441173423

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Terrorism and Affordance by Max Taylor,P.M. Currie Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, leading scholars and experts set out to explore the utility of the concept of affordance in the study and understanding of terrorism and political violence. Affordance is a concept used in a variety of fields, from psychology to artificial intelligence, which refers to how the quality of an environment or object allows an individual to perform a specific action. This concept can represent an important element in the process of choice involved in behavior, and is closely related to situational analyses of criminal behavior. In this book, the contributors set out to explore how this concept can be used to study terrorism and, as a result, develop management strategies. Essays discuss such topics as affordance in relation to counterterrorism, technology, cyber-jihad, ideology, and political ecologies. By importing the concept of affordance and a new set of research to the study of terrorism, the authors offer an innovative and original work that challenges and adds to various aspects of situational crime prevention and counterterrorism.

Author : Joan D. Atwood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1560324112

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Family Scripts by Joan D. Atwood Pdf

This book is appropriate as a text for postgraduate marriage and family counselor/therapist training, and also as a professional development resource for practicing marriage and family counselors. The first three chapters of this book introduce the notions of social construction assumptions and social scripting theory. The remaining chapters then apply the theory of "scripting" to common clinical family situations seen in therapy, such as death and grief in the family, premarital child-bearing, adolescence, couples therapy, and chemical dependence in the family.

Author : Silvan S. Tomkins, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826144098

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Affect Imagery Consciousness by Silvan S. Tomkins, PhD Pdf

"...brilliant..."--Malcolm Gladwell, Author of Blink "The writings for which this essay is offered as a Prologue consumed him from the mid-1950s throughthe end of his life in 1991. Knowing it was his ìlifework,î Tomkins conflated ìlifeî and ìwork,î reifyingthe superstition that its completion would equal death and refusing to release for publication long-completedmaterial. He knew the risks associated with this obsessive, neurotic behavior, and the results were as bad aspredicted. The first two volumes of Affect Imagery Consciousness (AIC) were released in 1962 and 1963,Volume III in 1991 shortly before he succumbed to a particularly virulent strain of small cell lymphoma, andVolume IV a year after his death. This last book contains Tomkinsís understanding of neocortical cognition,ideas that are even now exciting, but until this current publication of his work as a single supervolume, almostnobody has read it. The bulk of his audience had died along with the enthusiasm generated by his ideas. Bigscience is now more a matter of big machines and unifocal discoveries as the basis for pars pro toto reasoningthan big ideas based on the assembly and analysis of all that is known. Tomkins ignored nothing from anyscience past or present that might lead him toward a more certain understanding of the mind. Every idea,every theory deserved attention if only because significant observations can loiter in blind alleys."--From the Prologue by Donald L. Nathanson, MD Volume 1 of Springer's magisterial new two-volume edition of Tomkins's magnum opus comprises The Positive Affects and The Negative Affects.

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781880448816

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Speaking of Horror by Darrell Schweitzer Pdf

Interviews with Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Chalres L. Grant, Tanith Lee, Thomas Ligotti, Brian Lumley, William F. Nolan, F. Paul Wilson, and more.

Author : Monica Greco,Paul Stenner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134719341

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Emotions by Monica Greco,Paul Stenner Pdf

Are emotions becoming more conspicuous in contemporary life? Are the social sciences undergoing an an 'affective turn'? This Reader gathers influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion and affective life from across the range of the social sciences. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, the collection offers a sense of the diversity of perspectives that have emerged over the last thirty years from a variety of intellectual traditions. Its wide span and trans-disciplinary character is designed to capture the increasing significance of the study of affect and emotion for the social sciences, and to give a sense of how this is played out in the context of specific areas of interest. The volume is divided into four main parts: universals and particulars of affect embodying affect political economies of affect affect, power and justice. Each main part comprises three sections dedicated to substantive themes, including emotions, history and civilization; emotions and culture; emotions selfhood and identity; emotions and the media; emotions and politics; emotions, space and place, with a final section dedicated to themes of compassion, hate and terror. Each of the twelve sections begins with an editorial introduction that contextualizes the readings and highlights points of comparison across the volume. Cross-national in content, the collection provides an introduction to the key debates, concepts and modes of approach that have been developed by social scientist for the study of emotion and affective life.

Author : Michael McCarty,Dean R. Koontz,Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781592241002

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Giants of the Genre by Michael McCarty,Dean R. Koontz,Neil Gaiman Pdf

Michael McCarty interviews masters of the fantastic, including: Forrest J Ackerman, Ray Bradbury, Poppy Z. Brite, P.D. Cacek, Douglas Clegg, Dan Curtis, Alan Dean Foster, Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Barry Hoffman, Charlee Jacob, Dean Koontz, Bentley Little, Graham Masterton, Frederik Pohl, Dan Simmons, Peter Straub, William F. Nolan, J.N. Williamson, Connie Willis, and The Amazing Kreskin.

Author : Jon Towlson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476626390

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The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931äóñ1936 by Jon Towlson Pdf

Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet the graphic nature of early 1930s films only came to light in the home video/DVD era. Along with gangster movies and “sex pictures,” horror films drew audiences during the Great Depression with sensational content. Exploiting a loophole in the Hays Code, which made no provision for on-screen “gruesomeness,” studios produced remarkably explicit films that were recut when the Code was more rigidly enforced from 1934. This led to a modern misperception that classic horror was intended to be safe and reassuring to audiences. The author examines the 1931 to 1936 “happy ending” horror in relation to industry practices and censorship. Early works like Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) and The Raven (1935) may be more akin to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Hostel (2005) than many critics believe.

Author : Erica R. Edwards
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479808427

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The Other Side of Terror by Erica R. Edwards Pdf

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power The year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American power, which was built on the counterinsurgency honed on Black and other oppressed populations at home. The next five decades saw the consolidation of the culture of the American empire through what Erica R. Edwards calls the “imperial grammars of blackness.” This is a story of state power at its most devious and most absurd, and, at the same time, a literary history of Black feminist radicalism at its most trenchant. Edwards reveals how the long war on terror, beginning with the late–Cold War campaign against organizations like the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Black Liberation Army, has relied on the labor and the fantasies of Black women to justify the imperial spread of capitalism. Black feminist writers not only understood that this would demand a shift in racial gendered power, but crafted ways of surviving it. The Other Side of Terror offers an interdisciplinary Black feminist analysis of militarism, security, policing, diversity, representation, intersectionality, and resistance, while discussing a wide array of literary and cultural texts, from the unpublished work of Black radical feminist June Jordan to the memoirs of Condoleezza Rice to the television series Scandal. With clear, moving prose, Edwards chronicles Black feminist organizing and writing on “the other side of terror”, which tracked changes in racial power, transformed African American literature and Black studies, and predicted the crises of our current era with unsettling accuracy.

Author : William C. Martell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Motion picture authorship
ISBN : 0970067704

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The Secrets of Action Screenwriting by William C. Martell Pdf

Author : Deborah Staines
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123261187

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Interrogating the War on Terror by Deborah Staines Pdf

Interrogating the War on Terror presents a critique of contemporary war culture and politics, introducing a range of political, philosophical, legal, artistic and social perspectives on a devastating war. Bringing together contributors from the United States, UK and Australiaâ "implicitly dissenting from within the Coalition of the Willingâ "this volume explores the discourses and cultural effects of the current â oewar on terrorâ . Is the so-called war on terror justified? Seeking an ethical engagement with the problems and paradoxes of this global conflict, the authors situate the historical and legal meanings of terror and terrorism alongside the exploitation of such terms by the Bush Administration and other governments in recent years. Contributions by philosophers, sociologists, and law and literature scholars raise questions about neo-conservatism, freedom, security and the new legitimation of torture, and demonstrate how this war brings political and discursive power to bear on democracy, human rights and individuals in places as far-flung as Iraq, Bali, and the U.S. Artworks by internationally renowned war artist George Gittoes, and several essays by cultural theorists return a critical emphasis to the role of visual media, affect, gender and popular culture in understanding and rethinking war. Interrogating the War on Terrorâ (TM)s multi-disciplinary and international perspectives will be useful to scholars and students alike in addressing this highly topical issue. The essays reference mainstream sources and widely-documented events in the war on terror, making it accessible also to the general reader.

Author : Jeanine Harvey
Publisher : Baker's Plays
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874402042

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Twisted Tales of Terror by Jeanine Harvey Pdf

Flexible cast of 16 m and 21 f, or 8 m and 12 f with doubling Comedy, Jr. High/High School / Simple set In a spooky graveyard, the darkly lovely Claudia, a Guardian of Dark Tales, retells famous horror stories much to the delight of her lumpy husband, Igor. As she tells classics such as "Dracula", "Frankenstein", "The Three Werewolves", "Jekyll and Hyde", "The Tragic Tale of the Mummy", and "The Three Witches", the characters come to life. However, the stories are all a bit different than we ex

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Television
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121652692

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Emmy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Wesley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822239017

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Black Terror by Richard Wesley Pdf

In America’s very near future, a guerilla revolution is in progress. A group of youths who call themselves the Black Terrorists has taken up arms against its oppressors. But Keusi, a Vietnam veteran and the group’s most prized assassin, harbors counterrevolutionary thoughts. He doesn’t believe that all the killing is necessary—he finds it hard to hate, and thinks the Black Terrorists are bravely but poorly led. When the terrorists decide to assassinate a black politician who has pledged to destroy the insurgency, Keusi has grave doubts. Should black men kill black men? When and how will the slaughter end?