Tag: Evil

Shadows of Evil Long-haul Trucker Wayne Adam Ford and His Grisly Trail of Rape, Dismemberment, and Murder


Free Download Carlton Smith, "Shadows of Evil: Long-haul Trucker Wayne Adam Ford and His Grisly Trail of Rape, Dismemberment, and Murder"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0312978871 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 1.8 mb
Claiming he’d been sent by God to confess, truck driver Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humbolt County Sheriff’s Office and admitted to them that he was a serial killer. After police found a gruesome piece of evidence in Ford’s pocket, he told them that he had to be stopped before he killed again, before he murderer his ex-wife, and made his beloved three-year-old son an orphan. Authorities arrested the long-haul trucker and listened in horror to his startling confession…

(more…)

Power, love and evil contribution to a philosophy of the damaged


Free Download Power, love and evil : contribution to a philosophy of the damaged By Cristaudo, Wayne
2008 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 9042023384 | PDF | 2 MB
Love and evil are real – they are substances or force fields which contain us as constituent parts. Of all the powers of life they are the two most pregnant with meaning, hence the most generative of what is specifically human. Love and evil stand in the closest relationship to each other: evil is both what destroys love and what forces more love out of us; it is, as Augustine astutely grasped, privative (requiring something to negate) but it is also born out of misdirected love. Breaking with naive realist and post-modern dogmas about the nature of the real, this book provides the basis for a philosophy of generative action as it draws upon examples from philosophy, literature, religion and popular culture. While this book has a sympathetic ear for ancient and traditional narratives about the meaning of life, it offers a philosophy appropriate for our times and our crises. It is particularly directed at readers who are seeking for new ways to think about our world and self-making, and who are as dissatisfied with post-Nietzschean and post- Marxian 20th century social theory as they are by more traditional philosophical and naturalistic accounts of human being. Wayne Cristaudo is Associate Professor of European Studies at the University of Hong Kong. His publications include The Metaphysics of Science and Freedom: from Descartes to Kant to Hegel (Ashgate), This Great Beast: Progress and the Modern State (with Bob Catley) (Ashgate), Great Ideas in the Western Literary Canon (with Peter Poiana) (University of America Press) and Messianism, Apocalypse and Redemption in 20th Century German Thought (Introduction by Wayne Cristaudo and edited with Wendy Baker) (ATF). He has also published articles in international journals and chapters in books on Marx, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Eric Voegelin, Ernst Cassirer, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig

(more…)

Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media


Free Download Nizar Zouidi, "Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media"
English | ISBN: 3030760545 | 2021 | 557 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different institutional standings, cultural backgrounds and (inter)disciplinary interests with the aim of energizing the ongoing discussion of the generic and thematic issues related to the representation of villainy and evil in literature and media. The volume covers medieval literature to contemporary literature and also examines important aspects of evil in literature such as social and political identity, the gothic and systemic evil practices. In addition to literature, the book considers examples of villainy in film, TV and media, revealing that performance, performative control and maneuverability are the common characteristics of villains across the different literary and filmic genres and eras studied in the volume.

(more…)

Evil Doesn’t Live Here Posters of the Bosnian War


Free Download Alina Boboc, David Rohde, "Evil Doesn’t Live Here: Posters of the Bosnian War"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 1568982682 | PDF | pages: 200 | 10.7 mb
For most Americans and Europeans, the Bosnian War was played out in the brief, flickering images of television news. But another set of images, more permanent and more profound, played an active role in this war, molding public sentiment and calling attention to the plight of the Bosnian people. For three hellish years, Bosnians plastered the walls of their towns with messages of anger, frustration, desperation, resistance, and hope. These extraordinary images, the focus of this book, are juxtaposed with the hateful, divisive works of propaganda that served the most vicious practitioners of "ethnic cleansing." Evil Doesn’t Live Here presents this visual battle to the rest of the world for the first time. Former Bosnian aid workers Daoud Sarhandi and Alina Boboc have gathered over 180 of the most dramatic wartime posters, largely created by Bosnian artists and graphic designers at the height of the war. Fascinating on both political and artistic levels, they provide a harrowing account of the war and put a human face on this seemingly incomprehensible conflict. David Rohde, author of the acclaimed Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica and winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Bosnian War, introduces this vivid and unforgettable collection, which will appeal as much to those interested in current affairs as designers and artists. A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to victims of the Bosnian War.

(more…)

Evil Men


Free Download Evil Men By James Dawes
2014 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0674416791 | PDF | 2 MB
Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, Evil Men confronts atrocity head-on–how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped.Drawing on firsthand interviews with convicted war criminals from the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), James Dawes leads us into the frightening territory where soldiers perpetrated some of the worst crimes imaginable: murder, torture, rape, medical experimentation on living subjects. Transcending conventional reporting and commentary, Dawes’s narrative weaves together unforgettable segments from the interviews with consideration of the troubling issues they raise. Telling the personal story of his journey to Japan, Dawes also lays bare the cultural misunderstandings and ethical compromises that at times called the legitimacy of his entire project into question. For this book is not just about the things war criminals do. It is about what it is like, and what it means, to befriend them.Do our stories of evil deeds make a difference? Can we depict atrocity without sensational curiosity? Anguished and unflinchingly honest, as eloquent as it is raw and painful, Evil Men asks hard questions about the most disturbing capabilities human beings possess, and acknowledges that these questions may have no comforting answers.

(more…)

Knowing Good from Evil


Free Download Josh McDowell, "Knowing Good from Evil"
English | 2003 | pages: 173 | ISBN: 084237566X | PDF | 1,3 mb
This book is by best-selling author, Josh McDowell. This is an incisive look at popular culture and American values in the light of 9-11. The tragedy of September 11 directly challenges post-modernism and commonly held popular views of relativism. In a culture that eschews moralism, 9-11 forces people to take sides and confronts them face to face with unspeakable evil. Some things really are immoral. A well-known apologist for the Christian faith, McDowell calls people to acknowledge and step up to the moral war that is being waged. Knowing Good from Evil is a thought-provoking book designed to challenge the very foundations of how you live.

(more…)