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(0)David Price
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"A provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, [David Price] maps out the intricate connections between academia and the intelligence community and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the American military complex. The rise of area studies programs,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Geniuses at War is the dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley Park, during a critical time in World War II. Decoding the communication of the Nazi high command was imperative for the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Nazi missives were encrypted by the "Tunny" cipher, a code that was orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma code. But...
Author
Publisher
Seven Locks Press
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
This book is about one anthropologist's attempt to defend a small traditional society from the onslaught of development in the form of a 1,000-mile highway in western Brazil, financed in part by the World Bank. Before the bulldozer shows how bureaucratic processes that occur in Washington can destroy vast tracts of fragile land and bring misery to thousands.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Children of the corn II: Adults from Hemingford, Nebraska adopt the abandoned children from the nearby town of Gatlin, only to discover that they are sadistic murderers.
Children of the corn III: Two orphaned Gatlin boys are brought to a foster home in the city, and one of them plants corn to bring forth He Who Walks Behind the Rows.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Darkness: Not long after Regina begins living in her family's remote country estate, she learns that there's something horribly disturbing about the old place. Children of the corn II: When a tabloid reporter and his son travel to a quiet Midwestern town to investigate a gruesome massacre, they fall victim to a possessed orphan named Micah. Based upon the short story by Stephen King. Secrets of the clown: After the brutal murder of his best friend,...
