Tag: Terror

Free Download Marisa Linton, "Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution"
English | 2015 | pages: 334 | ISBN: 0198733097, 0199576300 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution examines the leaders of the French Revolution – Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins – and particularly the gradual process whereby many of them came to ‘choose terror’. These men led the Jacobin Club between 1789 and 1794, and were attempting to establish new democratic politics in France. Exploring revolutionary politics through the eyes of these leaders, and against a political backdrop of a series of traumatic events, wars, and betrayals, Marisa Linton portrays the Jacobins as complex human beings who were influenced by emotions and personal loyalties, as well as by their revolutionary ideology.

Free Download Holy Terror: Armageddon in Tokyo By D.W. Brackett
1996 | 206 Pages | ISBN: 0834803534 | PDF | 37 MB
On March 20, 1995, a sarin gas attack in the subways of rush-hour Tokyo killed 12 people and seriously injured 5000 others. The Japanese police identified the perpetrator as a small religious group called Aum Shinri Kyo, or the Aum Divine Truth Sect. Searches of Aum compounds around Japan, arrests and confessions of members, and a rising pile of evidence of the manufacture of chemical weapons by the group led to the arrest of Asanhana, the sect’s guru leader, who was put on trial for murder. This study provides an account of the first terrorist attack in Japan directed at civilians and also offers analysis and interpretation based on the author’s knowledge of Japan and new Japanese religions.

Free Download Jeremiah W. Cataldo, "Biblical Terror: Why Law and Restoration in the Bible Depend Upon Fear"
English | ISBN: 0567670813 | 2016 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
For biblical authors and readers, law and restoration are central concepts in the Bible, but they were not always so. To trace out the formation of those biblical concepts as elements in defensive strategies, Cataldo uses as conversational starting points theories from Zizek, Foucault and Deleuze, all of whom emphasize relation and difference. This work argues that the more modern assumption that biblical authors wrote their texts presupposing a central importance for those concepts is backwards. On the contrary, law and restoration were made central only through and after the writing of the biblical texts – in particular, those that were concerned with protecting the community from threats to its identity as the "remnant". Modern Bible readers, Cataldo argues, must renegotiate how they understand law and restoration and come to terms with them as concepts that emerged out of more selfish concerns of a community on the margins of imperial political power.

Free Download J.R.C. Cousland, "Holy Terror: Jesus in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas "
English | ISBN: 0567668169 | 2017 | 160 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas (or Paidika) is one of the most unusual gospels in the Christian tradition. Instead of revealing the compassionate Jesus so familiar to us from the biblical Gospels, it confronts its readers with a very different Jesus – a child who sometimes acts like a holy terror, killing and harming others for trifling faults. So why is Jesus portrayed as acting in such an ‘unchristian’ fashion? To address this question, Cousland focuses on three interconnected representations of Jesus in the Paidika: Jesus as holy terror, as child, and as miracle-working saviour. Cousland endeavours to show that, despite the differing character of these three roles, they present a unified picture of Jesus. His unusual behaviour arises from his ‘growing pains’ as a developing child, who is at the same time both human and divine. Cousland’s volume is the first detailed examination of the Christology of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas and provides a fresh and engaging approach to a topic not often discussed in representations of Jesus.

Free Download The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B8L6JH45 | 2023 | 10 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Jeffrey E. Stern
Narrator: Ray Corasani
A thrilling and emotional story about the bonds forged in war and good intentions gone wrong. In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He was accompanied by a driver, Aimal, who had ambitions of his own: to get rich off the sudden infusion of foreign attention and cash. In this gripping adventure story, Stern writes of how he and Aimal navigated an environment full of guns and danger and opportunity, and how they forged a deep bond. Then Stern got a call that changed everything. He discovered that Aimal had become an arms dealer, and was ultimately forced to flee the country to protect his family from his increasingly dangerous business partners. Tragic, powerful, and layered, The Mercenary is more than a wartime drama. It is a Rashomon-like story about how politics and violence warp our humanity, and keep the most important truths hidden.

Free Download The Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror by Frank Dimatteo, Michael Benson
English | March 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 0806542373 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 1.42 MB
From real-life "Mafia Survivor" Frank Dimatteo, the gripping account of the life and crimes of the most feared mafia boss of all time: Carmine "Lilo" Galante, the prime mover behind the legendary French Connection.

Free Download The Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYTBW392 | 2023 | 9 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Frank Dimatteo, Michael Benson
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan’s Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York’s Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the "errands" he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders. When he turned twenty, Galante was already one of the mob’s top enforcers-a sadistic thrill killer and clinically diagnosed psychopath with big dreams: whack his way into controlling organized crime the world over, vowing to kill Mafia chieftans Tommy Lucchese and Carlo Gambino and take control of their mob families.

Free Download Brad Evans, "Liberal Terror"
English | 2013 | pages: 270 | ISBN: 0745665322, 0745665314 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Security is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the most secure of times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the threat of another devastating terrorist attacks, a natural disaster or unexpected catastrophe, anxieties and fears define the global political age. While liberal governments and security agencies have responded by advocating a new catastrophic topography of interconnected planetary endangerment, our desire to securitize everything has rendered all things potentially terrifying. This is the fateful paradox of contemporary liberal rule. The more we seek to secure, the more our imaginaries of threat proliferate. Nothing can therefore be left to chance. For everything has the potential to be truly catastrophic. Such is the emerging state of terror normality we find ourselves in today.

Free Download Lynne Viola – editor, Marc-Stephan Junge, Christina Delaine (Narrator), "Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin’s Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine"
English | ASIN: B0BYB16XBV | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:13:00 | 234 MB
Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin’s Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine.
When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large numbers of mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete were released. At the same time, hundreds of NKVD operatives who had carried out the Great Terror were scapegoated and arrested.
Drawing on materials from the largely closed archives of the Soviet security police, this collection of essays by an international team of researchers illuminates the previously opaque world of the NKVD perpetrator. It uncovers the mechanics and logistics of the terror at the local level by examining the criminal files of a series of mid-level NKVD operatives from across Ukraine. The result offers new perspectives on both Stalin’s central role in the architecture of the terror and NKVD perpetrators’ agency in implementing one of the most horrific episodes of twentieth-century mass violence.