Lone Wolf and Autonomous Cell Terrorism
President Obama has declared that the greatest terrorist threat which America faces is attacks by lone wolf terrorists. This volume expands the lone wolf rubric to include autonomous cells: small groups of terrorists who cooperate, but operate ind...
Cultic Milieu
In 1999, a seemingly incongruous collection of protestors converged in Seattle to shut down the meetings of the World Trade Organization. Union leaders, environmentalists dressed as endangered turtles, mainstream Christian clergy, violence-advocat...
Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism
The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important group of movements that constitute a distinct 'fifth wave' of modern terrorism, here called the "New Tribalism". Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism examines a collection...
Millennial Violence
This volume encompasses an array of material exploring the millennium phenomenon and the violent excitement it provokes. Consisting of three core parts, the book combines pertinent documents with insightful commentary and discussion.
Strategic IT Portfolio Management: Managing Enterprise Transformation
Strategic IT Portfolio Management delivers a solution to the IT dilemma that has evolved over the past 50 years; namely, how do we get the most value from our IT investment? Author Jeff Kaplan puts over three decades of experience to work exploring and identifying the knowledge, techniques, and strategies needed to maximize technology investments and achieve long-term business transformation for all types of organizations. Written for executives from all disciplines, the book highlights many of the root causes of the IT value dilemma and explains how executives can prevent and counter these issues. Readers will learn the portfolio management methods essential to achieving value.
Nazismen i Sverige 2000-2014
När den ekonomiska krisen fördjupats och på sina håll permanentats börjar militanta nationalistiska rörelser runt om i Europa att åter mobilisera i större skala. Heléne Lööw har under senare år närstuderat dessa grupperingar, som vuxit fram i en b...
Nazismen I Sverige 1924-1979 - Pionjärerna, Partierna, Propagandan
Rasideologer, fascister, extremnationalister, nationalsocialister, antisemiter beteckningarna är många och grupperingarna åtskilligt fler i den yttersta högerns svenska 1900-talslandskap. Anslutningen har varit störst i Västsverige och Skåne; en del anhängare har kommit från överklassen men de flesta var från lägre medelklass, arbetare eller bönder. Nazi-Tyskland var ofta förebilden men rörelserna fick också gå en taktisk balansgång beroende på Tysklands rykte i olika skeden. Några partier kom in i kommunalfullmäktige, men inget uppnådde någon parlamentarisk bas. Ursprunget till rörelserna fanns i de antisemitiska organisationer som bildades i Sverige i slutet av 1800-talet. De låg till grund för det första nationalsocialistiska partiet, Svenska Nationalsocialistiska Frihetsförbundet, som bildades 1924 av Birger Furugård. Snart splittrades emellertid rörelsen och utbrytarna, under ledning av Sven-Olov Lindholm överlevde ända till 1950. Det mest kända namnet var länge Per Engdahl, ledare för Nysvenska rörelsen, som var aktiv ända in på 90-talet, och Assar och Vera Oredsson i ledningen för Nordiska Rikspartiet, som grundades 1956 och har utgjort länken till dagens rasideologiska grupper. Denna bok är den första stora vetenskapliga kartläggningen av den tidiga svenska nazismen, ett verk som kommer att bli en klassiker för lång tid framöver, skriven av den obestridda auktoriteten på svensk nazism. FÖRFATTAREN: Heléne Lööw är fil. dr i historia och efter flera år på universitetet i Göteborg, BRÅ och Centrum för invandrarforskning nu överintendent för Forum för levande historia och docent vid Södertörns högskola. Hennes doktorsavhandling hette Hakkorset och Wasakärven. En studie av nationalsocialismen i Sverige 19241950 och på Ordfront utkom 1998 Nazismen i Sverige 19801997, aktualiserad året därpå. »Heléne Lööws bok är en forskningsprestation av stor betydelse.« HÅKAN ARVIDSSON, SVENSKA DAGBLADET
Nazismen I Sverige 2000-2014
När den ekonomiska krisen fördjupats och på sina håll permanentats börjar militanta nationalistiska rörelser runt om i Europa att åter mobilisera i större skala. Heléne Lööw har under senare år närstuderat dessa grupperingar, som vuxit fram i en bred vit makt-miljö som väldigt få har inblick i. Det är en komplex värld av ställningskrig, tillfälliga allianser och direkta konfrontationer såväl med andra militanta grupper som med poliser, anti-fascister och det omgivande samhället. Under de senaste åren har till exempel Svenska motståndsrörelsen byggt upp baser på mindre orter i Sverige där de driver ett intensivt propagandaarbete, utför våldsamma gatuaktioner och sprider skräck genom sin blotta närvaro. Dessa rörelser ingår i ett internationellt nätverk och i 2014 års val lyckades de också på många håll kuppa sig in i olika kommunfullmäktige. I takt med att samhället dragit sig tillbaka eller inte ansett sig ha råd att upprätthålla vissa verksamheter har vit makt-rörelserna kunnat stärka sig genom att reparera lekplatser, starta medborgargarden och liknande. Svenska motståndsrörelsen, Svenskarnas Parti och andra vit makt-organisationers närvaro är allt mer påtaglig och de blir allt starkare. Med Heléne Lööws bok Nazismen i Sverige 20002014 tas de första stegen för att vi ska kunna förstå hur denna utveckling gått till och hur vi ska gå tillväga för att bemöta och bekämpa dessa grupper. "En briljant historieskrivning över de senaste årtiondenas nazistiska aktivitet i Sverige." Svenska Dagbladet "En publicistisk produktion, vars värde knappast kan överskattas." Henrik Arnstad, GP
Nazismen I Sverige 1980-1999 - Den Rasistiska Undergroundrörelsen- Musiken, Myterna, Riterna
Det här är det svartaste jag någonsin skrivit Detta är den första stora vetenskapliga kartläggningen av den moderna rasideologiska rörelsen i Sverige dess historiska rötter, aktionsformer, ideologi och mytologi. En larmsignal ljuder kring 1980, när några incidenter med rasistiska förtecken äger rum. Nya antidemokratiska rörelser har spirat i det tysta. De bärs upp av 40-talisternas barn. Somliga uppträder som svartklädda skinheads, de gör hitlerhälsning och sprider skräck på gatorna. Den rasideologiska rörelsen slår rot och förgrenar sig genom lösa grupperingar som knyts samman i nätverk lokala och internationella. De har musiken som förenade länk och ny teknik och nya medier till hjälp för att sprida sitt budskap. Var är vi på väg? Heléne Lööv, som samlat ett unikt material i text och bild om dessa nya grupper, hjälper oss att tyda tecken. »Lööws bok är ett viktigt dokument, inte bara över den samtida nazismen, den ger också en möjlighet för läsaren att titta in under täcket på den samtidskultur som producerar destruktiva, underjordiska grupperingar som dessa.« OVE SERNHEDE, GÖTEBORGS-POSTEN
Democracy
At a moment when the term "Democracy " is evoked to express inchoate aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that may or may not benefit more than a select minority of the population, this book examines...
Women Talk More Than Men
Do women talk more than men? Does text messaging make you stupid? Can chimpanzees really talk to us? This fascinating textbook addresses a wide range of language myths, focusing on important big-picture issues such as the rule-governed nature of l...
Oneness and Seperateness
Provides insight into the process by which an infant is separated from oneness with its mother, revealing the impact of this separation on human behavior throughout life.
Resisting War
In civil conflicts around the world, unarmed civilians take enormous risks to protect themselves and confront heavily armed combatants. This is not just counterintuitive - it is extraordinary. In this book, Oliver Kaplan explores cases from Colomb...
Humanscape
In dealing with environmental issues we are repeatedly confronted by the paradox that the biggest obstacle to a more humane world for people is -- people. Again and again designers, planners, citizen groups, policy makers, and managers set out to ...
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Civilization
Artificial intelligence is shaking up economies around the world as well as society at large and is predicted to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity. This book looks at what exactly artificial intelligence is, how it can be cla...
Resisting War
In civil conflicts around the world, unarmed civilians take enormous risks to protect themselves and confront heavily armed combatants. This is not just counterintuitive - it is extraordinary. In this book, Oliver Kaplan explores cases from Colomb...
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Civilization
Artificial intelligence is shaking up economies around the world as well as society at large and is predicted to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity. This book looks at what exactly artificial intelligence is, how it can be cla...
Generative Artificial Intelligence
"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative A...
Generative Artificial Intelligence
"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative A...
Decision Theory as Philosophy
Is Bayesian decision theory a panacea for many of the problems in epistemology and the philosophy of science, or is it philosophical snake-oil? For years a debate had been waged amongst specialists regarding the import and legitimacy of this body ...
Intermolecular Interactions
The subject of this book - intermolecular interactions - is as important in physics as in chemistry and molecular biology. Intermolecular interactions are responsible for the existence of liquids and solids in nature. They determine the physical a...
Microsoft Surface Application Sketch Book
Think you have the next great Windows 8 or RT app idea? The Surface App Sketch Book is an essential tool for any aspiring Windows 8 or RT-based Surface Pro or Surface tablet app developer. This sketch book makes it easy to centralize and organize ...
Bahir
The Bahir is one of the oldest and most influential of all classical Kabbalah texts.¿ Until the publication of the Zohar, the Bahir was the most widely quoted primary source of Kabbalistic teachings. The Bahir is quoted in every major book on Kabb...
Interfaith Families
As the number of Jewish-Christian marriages in America continue to rise, couples find themselves searching for ways to reconcile love and religion. Even when each partner has no particular religious life, they are confronted with related conflicts...
Why Dissent Matters
Frances Kelsey was a quiet Canadian doctor and scientist who stood up to a huge pharmaceutical company wanting to market a new drug - thalidomide - and prevented an American tragedy. The nature writer Rachel Carson identified an emerging environme...
Sefer Yetzirah- The Book Of Creation
The Sefer Yetzirah is perhaps the oldest and most mysterious of all kabbalistic texts. In this landmark work of mystical studies, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan brings the text’s theoretical, meditative, and magical implications to light. The book explores the dynamics of the spiritual domain, the worlds of the sefirot, souls and angels. Rabbi Kaplan explains that when properly understood the Sefer Yetzirah becomes an instruction manual for a very special type of meditation meant to strengthen concentration and to aid in the development of telekinetic and telepathic powers. Through the use of various signs, incantations, and divine names, initiates could also influence or alter natural events. This translation includes the meditation in five dimensions, the transition from binah to chakhmah consciousness, the point of infinity, kabbalistic astrology, Ezekiel’s vision according to the Sefer Yetzirah, and the mystery of the 231 gates. Also included is a digest of all major commentaries on the text of the Sefer Yetzirah and a bibliography of many of the major kabbalistic works that discus it, as well as extensive notes regarding the various aspects of the translation. Rabbi Kaplan’s translation is based on the Gra version of the text, which is thought to eb the most authentic. Also included is the short version, the long version, and the Saadia version, making this volume the most complete work on the Sefer Yetzirah available in English.
Saul's Game
Leading a mission to capture master terrorist, Abu Nazir, CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison discovers a dangerous threat inside the Agency in this thrilling second official prequel novel to Showtime's Emmy Award-winning hit series Homeland. Damascus, Syria, 2009. Carrie Mathison is leading an operation to capture or kill al Qaeda terrorist, Abu Nazir. But arriving at the compound where he was supposed to be in hiding, they find it empty. Carrie is sure that someone is leaking CIA information to the enemy and has betrayed their operation, seriously threatening American interests in the Middle East. To expose the double agent, her boss, Saul Berenson, devises an elaborate ruse that will send her on the most dangerous mission of her life. This twisting tale of international intrigue takes fans deeper into the intense world of high-stakes espionage, and explores never-before-seen details of Carrie's life as an operative in the Middle East, Saul's past as an agent in Iran, Brody's
The Nothing That is
A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vastly impoverished. But where did this nothing, this hollow circle, come from? Who created it? And what, exactly, does it mean? Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero begins as a mystery story, taking us back to Sumerian times, and then to Greece and India, piecing together the way the idea of a symbol for nothing evolved. Kaplan shows us just how handicapped our ancestors were in trying to figure large sums without the aid of the zero. (Try multiplying CLXIV by XXIV). Remarkably, even the Greeks, mathematically brilliant as they were, didn't have a zero--or did they? We
Democracy
At a moment when the term "Democracy " is evoked to express inchoate aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that may or may not benefit more than a select minority of the population, this book examines...
Nora Ephron at the Movies
The first illustrated monograph on writer, journalist, and director Nora Ephron, the visionary behind When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You've Got Mail. "A visual celebration of the writer-director's distinctive approach to worl...
96 Fakta Om Taylor Swift - Quiz, Citat, Snabbfakta Och Extra Allt!
En älsklingsbok för Swifties!Den här boken är lättläst, fullpackad med fakta från Taylor Swifts barndom på en julgransodling, teatergruppen, karaoketävlingar, första resan till Nashville ända fram till idag. Dessutom sidor med snabba fakta, citat, kluriga quiz och sidor för att skriva ner egna tankar!"Vi lever i Taylor Swift-eran" konstaterade The Time Magazine när de utsåg henne till Årets personlighet 2023. Hon är en artist och singer-songwriter som sedan tidiga tonåren skrivit låtar till sig själv och andra och ständigt blivit "den första kvinnan som ..." eller "den första artisten som ..." när man räknar upp hennes otroliga framgångar. Taylor Swift är också känd för sina strider för att artister ska få bättre villkor, hur hon själv har tagit kontroll över sitt material och hur hon tar hand om sina otroligt trogna och engagerade fans!
500 Advanced Words: GRE Vocabulary Flashcards
Manhattan Prep and its top-notch GRE instructors release the most comprehensive set of advanced GRE flashcards on the market. Manhattan Prep's 500 Advanced Words: GRE Vocabulary Flashcards go above and beyond other GRE flashcards on the market. Designed to help students develop a lasting understanding of words in a GRE-relevant context, the backs of all cards contain easy-to-understand definitions plus additional tools to facilitate learning, like usage notes, related words, etymology, and more. 500 Advanced Words is the second in a 2-volume set of GRE flashcards—start with fundamentals in 500 Essential Words and graduate to advanced vocabulary. Together, the sets comprise the most comprehensive vocabulary study tool on the market.
To Kill Nations
"Edward Kaplan's To Kill Nations is a fascinating work that packs a thermonuclear punch of ideas and arguments... The work is suitable for anyone from advanced undergraduates to experts in the field." â* Strategy Bridge In¿To Kill Nation...