Blending concepts from 'dramatism' such as 'victimage ritual' with Foucault's approach to modern power and knowledge regimes, this book presents a novel and illuminating perspective on political power and domination resulting from the global war on terrorism. With attention to media sources and political discourse within the context of the global war on terror, the author draws attention to the manner in which power elites construct scapegoats by way of a victimage ritual, thus providing t...

This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theorizing violence and warfare as a result of the discipline’s tendency to idealize society in an attempt to legitimize the idea of progressive social change. Using the global War on Terror as a focal point, the authors develop this argument through the related issues of power, knowledge, and ethics, explaining the War on Terror in terms of the Anglo-...

Max Greengrass is a stringer for the New York Herald in 1893. He's paid by the column inch. With no regular salary, Max must hustle for his stories, and late one night he nearly trips over one. He finds four cats lined up neatly on a Greenwich Village sidewalk. They have no visible wounds but are quite dead. They've been killed and ritually arranged.The story makes the paper and Max pursues it, from low dives to posh mansions, from a proper if eccentric society of refined ...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

NACH MEHR ALS EINEM JAHRHUNDERT DER VORBEREITUNG … Seitdem die Invasion der Clans 3050 mit einem Fehlschlag endete, hat es immer solche gegeben, die das ultimative Ziel von Nicholas Kerensky nicht vergessen haben: die Eroberung von Terra und die Erhebung eines Clans über all die anderen … um zum ilClan zu werden, der dann sowohl über die restlichen Clans als auch die Innere Sphäre herrscht … egal, was die Großen Häuser dazu sagen würden … DIE SCHLACHT, DIE DER INNEREN SPHÄRE EINSCHNEIDENDE...

EIN UNGLEICHGEWICHT DER MACHT … Auf den fernen Heimatwelten der Clans ist Nicholas Kerenskys Vision im Goldenen Jahrhundert zu einer blühenden, vielfältigen Kultur gediehen, in der Krieger im höchsten Maße verehrt werden … und MechKrieger mit ihren gepanzerten Kampfmaschinen an der Spitze der Clan-Hierarchie stehen. Dabei herrschte unter den achtzehn Clans relativer Gleichstand, was ihre Technologie anbetraf … bis Clan Coyote einen radikal neuen Mech zum Einsatz bringt, der das Schlachtfel...

"How To Win at Life" is an all-encompassing guide that consolidates six insightful books, each contributing uniquely to the journey from ordinary to extraordinary. The journey begins with Omar Johnson's "Winning Habits," which focuses on breaking negative subconscious patterns and fostering success-oriented behaviors. Following this, "The Winner's Mindset" by Blaine Williams dives deeper into personal development, underscoring the importance of mindset in achieving consistent success....

ALL OR NOTHING...On 1 May 3052, twenty-five Galaxies from seven Clans clashed with twelve armies of ComStar’s Com Guards on the pastoral planet of Tukayyid. For twenty-one days, one of the largest campaigns in BattleMech warfare unfolded to decide the fate of the Inner Sphere.The Battle of Tukayyid is one of BattleTech’s most pivotal conflicts. Now, explore this crucial campaign through eight different points of view—from the enigmatic ComStar, whose relati...

IT IS THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE…At the beginning of the 20th century, the world was forever changed by the discovery of electroid, a strange liquid that allowed for lighter-than-air travel. Militaries around the world rushed to develop new vessels based on this amazing invention, resulting in a class of flying ships unlike anything ever seen before…the leviathan.Now, the skies are filled with massive armored warships that soar through the air, armed with devast...

JUMP BACK INTO THE COCKPIT!Picking up the battle standard for BattleTech fiction, Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine continues the tradition of hard-hitting stories set in the war-torn interstellar future of the 31st century and beyond. Fire up your ’Mech’s fusion reactor, secure your neurohelmet, and wade into battle with stories from the merciless front lines of the Clan Invasion and other eras, conspiracy theory articles, game scenarios, and more from ve...

Welcome to the wonderful, practical world of fluid analysis utilization.There are plenty of labs around the world processing millions of oil, coolant, and fuel samples every year. Most of them do very professional work, however, the data received from them usually fall into two main categories: 1). The information is incomplete for a true machine health assessment, or; 2). At the user’s end, nobody is acting on the information at a level that would allow good, proactive ma...

In late September 1948, LA private detective Michael Garrett is hired to find another detective who has apparently gone missing. Garrett soon finds the missing man alone in his office, sitting behind his desk with a bullet hole in his chest. The search for the killer takes Garrett into the wealthy suburbs north of LA. There he meets a rich and powerful attorney, who is often called "a friend of the underworld" and who is written about on the society pages as much as on the crime beat. Comp...