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Readers of “The American Terrorist” will be able to discuss terrorism like an expert. The book explains why some criminals are labeled as terrorists, but others are not, and compiles the attributes of 500+ American citizens charged with acts related to terrorism into an 8-marker profile of an American terrorist. Acts of terrorism may only impact a few, but the fear they invoke permeates the entire country and divides us. This book gives power back to the community to identify a developing terrorist and offers tools to re-engage them back into society and steer them down a better path. The reader will also find a complete list and summaries of domestic and international terrorist organiza...
OPERATION STORMFRONT: FROM WEATHERMAN TO WALL STREET is a blending of fact and fiction. Evelyn "Eve" Black is an undercover FBI Special Agent, but she’s not a very good one. She often breaks cover, loses her temper, and kills a few too many people. She has an opportunity to go undercover as a terrorism researcher/author to infiltrate American terrorist cells, weapons dealers, and to use her position in the FBI to take revenge on a few people, but her inability to stay undercover causes more roadblocks than she can handle alone. It’s not really her fault, in order to succeed she must become friendly, flirty and fun, all while wanting to pull out her gun and shoot them. An ex-lover called ...
Evelyn "Eve" Black is an undercover FBI Special Agent, but she’s not a very good one. She often breaks cover, loses her temper, and kills a few too many people. Fortunately for the FBI her old partner, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, ASAC Sean Peck was very by-the-book, and now it’s his turn to go undercover. Colton Smith, U.S. Army veteran, country music star, and Occupy Wall Street anti-one-percenter terrorist. While inside prison his singing made him a YouTube phenomenon, catching the eye of North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un. Three young Americans visiting North Korea on holiday are jailed and tortured, and it’s up to Mr. Smith to pave the way for their escape. On this rare occasion, the CIA and the FBI work together to penetrate the hermit kingdom and bring the Americans home, all under the leader’s nose. Just when he thinks it’s all pizza and karaoke.
Synthesizing the latest research and theory with compelling narratives and case vignettes, this book explores the development of emotional competence in school-age children and young adolescents. Saarni examines the formation of eight key emotional skills in relation to processes of self-understanding, socialization, and cognitive growth. The cultural and gender context of emotional experience is emphasized, and the role of moral disposition and other individual differences is considered. Tracing the connections between emotional competence, interpersonal relationships, and resilience in the face of stress, the book also explores why and what happens when development is delayed.
Porn Panic! charts the rise of a new social conservatism for the new millennium, coinciding with the collapse of liberalism as a political force. Unlike the old morality movements, this one is focused on the left of politics. Using the language of the old, liberal left - especially the feminist movement - the new conservatives have set out to rein in pornography, other sexual expression, and free speech in general.
A must-read for every concerned citizen, this absorbing book goes inside the mind of the psychological terrorist to look at what motivates him to act and to choose the weapon he does. Created by a team of experts in military science and psychology, this timely study is the first comprehensive treatment of the tactical and psychological use of weapons of mass destruction. The book introduces the term "weapons of mass psychological destruction" (WMPD) and draws from examples and case histories to examine the minds of the terrorists who choose these weapons, not for maximum killing, but for maximum psychological harm to the greatest number of people. This groundbreaking work identifies the recr...
For advanced courses in Management Information Systems. Organizational Transformation Through Business Process Reengineering deals with both successes and failures of business process reengineering, maintaining that no one management approach is a cure-all for organizational change. This book contains 36 readings and 8 cases, and builds on the evidence gained in actual firms with various business processes, using many different business process reengineering approaches. The information and knowledge currently available is much richer, more comprehensive, and detailed than has been previously available.
OPERATION Deep Dive: A Step into the Past is a blending of fact and fiction. Evelyn "Eve" Black is an undercover FBI Special Agent, but she's not a very good one. She often breaks cover, loses her temper, and kills a few too many people. An envelope arrives at her home and sets Eve on a path to find out who sent it. She must meet up with not only the terrorists from the International Defense Exhibition Conference but old relationships from her Columbia University and Quantico days as well. All while navigating parenthood and politics. Join Eve as she goes back into her past and reconnects with old friends and old enemies. She doesn't do this alone, her Weatherman Underground father, her friends, and the town of Tres Piedras, New Mexico all work together to take down the bad guys; however, their definition of bad guys may not be yours. Eve is not a hero or villain, she is an ordinary human, dealing with everyday problems. To her, no problem is black and white. She is very comfortable working in the gray zone.
This comprehensive study highlights the intersection of sports with the historical, political, and social climate of 1968. Mexican leaders eagerly anticipated the attention that hosting the world's most visible sporting event would bring, yet they could not have predicted the array of conflicts that would play out before their eyes.