Tag: DARK

Tor From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 0262548186 | 243 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital age, is best known as the infrastructure underpinning the so-called Dark Web. But the real "dark web," when it comes to Tor, is the hidden history brought to light in this book: where this complex and contested infrastructure came from, why it exists, and how it connects with global power in intricate and intimate ways. In Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy,Ben Collier has written, in essence, a biography of Tor-a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, politics, and empire in the deepest reaches of the internet.

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The Dark Horse The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield


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English | June 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0786711515, 1619450003 | EPUB | 416 pages | 3.3 MB
In post–Civil War America, politics was a brutal sport played with blunt rules. Yet James Garfield’s 1881 "dark horse" campaign after the longest-ever Republican nominating process (36 convention ballots), his victory in the closest-ever popular vote for president (by only 7,018 votes out of over 9 million cast), his struggle against feuding factions once elected, and the public’s response to its culmination in violence, sets a revealing comparison with America approaching a new campaign year in 2004.

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Mistress of Life and Death The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women’s Camp at Auschwitz- Birkenau


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English | December 26, 2023 | ISBN: 0806542853 | 464 pages | PDF | 3.30 Mb
The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing machine and one of the few female perpetrators of the Holocaust.

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Dark trophies hunting and the enemy body in modern war


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2012 | 233 Pages | ISBN: 0857454986 | EPUB | 3 MB
Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies. But almost nothing is known of the prevalence of trophy-taking of this sort in the armed forces of contemporary nation-states. This book is a history of this type of misconduct among military personnel over the past two centuries, exploring its close connections with colonialism, scientific collecting and concepts of race, and how it is a model for violent power relationships between groups

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