Turncoats True Believers

Author : Ted George Goertzel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( 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.

Author : Harris I. Baseman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595474284
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( 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.

Author : Ben Goertzel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475721978
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( 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.

Author : A. Albert
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051992144
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( 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.

Author : Don Gutteridge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439172668
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( 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.

Author : Mariela Szwarcberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110711408X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( 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.

Author : Simeon Nichter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428363
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( 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.

Author : Susan C. Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107042208
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( 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.

Author : Alberto Simpser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030544
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( 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 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, governments and parties manipulate elections not only to gain votes, but also to transmit or distort information. This manipulation conveys an image of strength, shaping others' behavior 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.

Author : Daniel W. Gingerich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107658217
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( 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 305 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.