Author: Andrew Fox
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 164012537X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Promethean technology is one that allows someone of average resources, skills, and intelligence to carry out actions that were once only doable by governments, militaries, or institutions with considerable resources. Essentially, Promethean technologies allow users to create their own weapons of mass destruction. These emerging technologies are increasingly affordable and accessible—and are no more complicated to operate than a satellite TV control box or a smart phone. Although these technologies are a terrifying prospect, the more we know about these dangers, the better we can prepare to head them off. In The Devil’s Toy Box, Andrew Fox lays out seven decades of preemptive analysis and shows that while homeland security has explored, in depth, the possible Promethean threats the world faces, it has failed to forecast the most likely attacks. Using fictional scenarios Fox teaches how to predict future threats and how to forecast which ones are likely to be used by bad actors within the next five to ten years. Combining the skills of homeland security experts and the imaginations of speculative fiction writers, he then offers an analytical method to deter, counter, or abate these threats, rather than adopting an attitude of resigned fatalism.
The Devil's Toy Box
Author: Andrew Fox
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 164012537X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Promethean technology is one that allows someone of average resources, skills, and intelligence to carry out actions that were once only doable by governments, militaries, or institutions with considerable resources. Essentially, Promethean technologies allow users to create their own weapons of mass destruction. These emerging technologies are increasingly affordable and accessible—and are no more complicated to operate than a satellite TV control box or a smart phone. Although these technologies are a terrifying prospect, the more we know about these dangers, the better we can prepare to head them off. In The Devil’s Toy Box, Andrew Fox lays out seven decades of preemptive analysis and shows that while homeland security has explored, in depth, the possible Promethean threats the world faces, it has failed to forecast the most likely attacks. Using fictional scenarios Fox teaches how to predict future threats and how to forecast which ones are likely to be used by bad actors within the next five to ten years. Combining the skills of homeland security experts and the imaginations of speculative fiction writers, he then offers an analytical method to deter, counter, or abate these threats, rather than adopting an attitude of resigned fatalism.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 164012537X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Promethean technology is one that allows someone of average resources, skills, and intelligence to carry out actions that were once only doable by governments, militaries, or institutions with considerable resources. Essentially, Promethean technologies allow users to create their own weapons of mass destruction. These emerging technologies are increasingly affordable and accessible—and are no more complicated to operate than a satellite TV control box or a smart phone. Although these technologies are a terrifying prospect, the more we know about these dangers, the better we can prepare to head them off. In The Devil’s Toy Box, Andrew Fox lays out seven decades of preemptive analysis and shows that while homeland security has explored, in depth, the possible Promethean threats the world faces, it has failed to forecast the most likely attacks. Using fictional scenarios Fox teaches how to predict future threats and how to forecast which ones are likely to be used by bad actors within the next five to ten years. Combining the skills of homeland security experts and the imaginations of speculative fiction writers, he then offers an analytical method to deter, counter, or abate these threats, rather than adopting an attitude of resigned fatalism.
The Devils
Author: John Robert Whiting
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780573011016
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The nuns of St Ursula's Convent, led by the Prioress, Sister Jeanne, accused Urbain Grandier, Vicar of Loudon, of sorcery. He was tried, tortured and burned. On this baldly terrible foundation, Whiting has built a powerful, complex play, interweaving the personal dilemmas of Jeanne and Grandier with the political necessities of the time. Although it is set between 1623-34, essentially it is no more a period play than Miller's The Crucible.6 women, 13 men
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780573011016
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The nuns of St Ursula's Convent, led by the Prioress, Sister Jeanne, accused Urbain Grandier, Vicar of Loudon, of sorcery. He was tried, tortured and burned. On this baldly terrible foundation, Whiting has built a powerful, complex play, interweaving the personal dilemmas of Jeanne and Grandier with the political necessities of the time. Although it is set between 1623-34, essentially it is no more a period play than Miller's The Crucible.6 women, 13 men
Devil's Toy Box
Author: Joni Mayhan
Publisher: Joni Mayhan
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
There wasn't anything unusual about the house. At first glance, it was as normal as any other house in the suburban central Massachusetts neighborhood. Small and blue, it was shaped like a box with windows and doors. It was the type of house you might expect to find window boxes overflowing with brightly colored geraniums and a festive garden flag that said welcome! Nothing about it suggested it was haunted. Events would transpire over the next eleven years, tearing our family apart and nearly stealing our souls. True paranormal story by the author of Bones in the Basement and The Soul Collector.
Publisher: Joni Mayhan
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
There wasn't anything unusual about the house. At first glance, it was as normal as any other house in the suburban central Massachusetts neighborhood. Small and blue, it was shaped like a box with windows and doors. It was the type of house you might expect to find window boxes overflowing with brightly colored geraniums and a festive garden flag that said welcome! Nothing about it suggested it was haunted. Events would transpire over the next eleven years, tearing our family apart and nearly stealing our souls. True paranormal story by the author of Bones in the Basement and The Soul Collector.
Turmoil in the Toy Box
Author: Phil Phillips
Publisher: Starburst Publishers
ISBN: 9780914984047
Category : Barbie dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This invaluable tool will help parents choose the best kind of play for their children and lead them into a happy and healthy future.
Publisher: Starburst Publishers
ISBN: 9780914984047
Category : Barbie dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This invaluable tool will help parents choose the best kind of play for their children and lead them into a happy and healthy future.
Water-resources Investigations Report
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Devil's End
Author: D. A. Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781690120407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
FOR SEVENTY YEARS, HE HAS WAITED...In Sharon Vallery, at teen slumber parties and around campfires, the story is told. Seventy years ago, on Halloween night, Nathaniel and Myrantha Ober made a pact sealed by bloody human sacrifice...a pact with the devil himself.THIS HALLOWEEN, EVIL WILL RETURN...Nancy Snell is the most popular girl in high school. She is beautiful and wealthy, and she has discovered the key to unlimited power. The occult force that was summoned to this sleepy town decades ago. She has already chosen the perfect victim needed to perform the ritual: the new girl in town, Lana Bremmers.THE DEVIL'S ENDOnce again the town of Sharon Valley will be the doorway to the legions of darkness. And the devil will have his payment in blood, on an even more terrifying Halloween night.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781690120407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
FOR SEVENTY YEARS, HE HAS WAITED...In Sharon Vallery, at teen slumber parties and around campfires, the story is told. Seventy years ago, on Halloween night, Nathaniel and Myrantha Ober made a pact sealed by bloody human sacrifice...a pact with the devil himself.THIS HALLOWEEN, EVIL WILL RETURN...Nancy Snell is the most popular girl in high school. She is beautiful and wealthy, and she has discovered the key to unlimited power. The occult force that was summoned to this sleepy town decades ago. She has already chosen the perfect victim needed to perform the ritual: the new girl in town, Lana Bremmers.THE DEVIL'S ENDOnce again the town of Sharon Valley will be the doorway to the legions of darkness. And the devil will have his payment in blood, on an even more terrifying Halloween night.
Paranormal Hauntings Magazine | Halloween Edition
Author:
Publisher: Paranormal Hauntings
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The spookiest Issue to date with every article featured being based on Halloween, with real life ghost pictures and ghost stories to send shivers down your spine - Features on witches, traditions, sleep paralysis and even ZOZO. It is certainly not a issue to be missed!
Publisher: Paranormal Hauntings
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The spookiest Issue to date with every article featured being based on Halloween, with real life ghost pictures and ghost stories to send shivers down your spine - Features on witches, traditions, sleep paralysis and even ZOZO. It is certainly not a issue to be missed!
God’S Whip
Author: Reverend Dennis R. Grubbs
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1456741101
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
From these pages, you will be imbued with ardent verity of the many parities within life. God allowed me to be burdened with many physical defects from birth, but He also gave me the strength, courage, and the desire, to never quit, in my attempts to overcome. I am in hope that you will glean, through the information herein spent, some being of my many birth defects, plus, a few of life's, natural and normal calamities, and, those magnificent things brought about as a result of my unwillingness to allow those birth defects, and like anomalies; to stop me, and keep me from beating the odds, thereby, allowing myself to become a: World Renowned, Organist. Yes, you read it correctly, World Renowned. Read on. Through the writing of this missive, I wish to convey to all hereto imbibing, HOPE, and, ENCOURAGEMENT; especially to any of those who may be in despair, who perchance, may read this brochure, and thereby, glean the understanding, that, even though they may have weakness of spirit, they still have the ability, by which, to, go forward, and SUCCEED, if they truly make an honest effort.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1456741101
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
From these pages, you will be imbued with ardent verity of the many parities within life. God allowed me to be burdened with many physical defects from birth, but He also gave me the strength, courage, and the desire, to never quit, in my attempts to overcome. I am in hope that you will glean, through the information herein spent, some being of my many birth defects, plus, a few of life's, natural and normal calamities, and, those magnificent things brought about as a result of my unwillingness to allow those birth defects, and like anomalies; to stop me, and keep me from beating the odds, thereby, allowing myself to become a: World Renowned, Organist. Yes, you read it correctly, World Renowned. Read on. Through the writing of this missive, I wish to convey to all hereto imbibing, HOPE, and, ENCOURAGEMENT; especially to any of those who may be in despair, who perchance, may read this brochure, and thereby, glean the understanding, that, even though they may have weakness of spirit, they still have the ability, by which, to, go forward, and SUCCEED, if they truly make an honest effort.
Signs, Cures, & Witchery
Author: Gerald Milnes
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The persecution of Old World German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century--following debilitating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-- brought about significant immigration to America. Many of the immigrants, and their progeny, settled in the Appalachian frontier. Here they established a particularly old set of religious beliefs and traditions based on a strong sense of folk spirituality. They practiced astrology, numerology, and other aspects of esoteric thinking and left a legacy that may still be found in Appalachian folklore today. Based in part on the author's extensive collection of oral histories from the remote highlands of West Virginia, Signs, Cures, and Witchery; German Appalachian Folklore describes these various occult practices, symbols, and beliefs; how they evolved within New World religious contexts; how they arrived on the Appalachian frontier; and the prospects of those beliefs continuing in the contemporary world. By concentrating on these inheritances, Gerald C. Milnes draws a larger picture of the German influence on Appalachia. Much has been written about the Anglo-Celtic, Scots-Irish, and English folkways of the Appalachian people, but few studies have addressed their German cultural attributes and sensibilities. Signs, Cures, and Witchery sheds startling light on folk influences from Germany, making it a volume of tremendous value to Appalachian scholars, folklorists, and readers with an interest in Appalachian folklife and German American studies.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The persecution of Old World German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century--following debilitating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-- brought about significant immigration to America. Many of the immigrants, and their progeny, settled in the Appalachian frontier. Here they established a particularly old set of religious beliefs and traditions based on a strong sense of folk spirituality. They practiced astrology, numerology, and other aspects of esoteric thinking and left a legacy that may still be found in Appalachian folklore today. Based in part on the author's extensive collection of oral histories from the remote highlands of West Virginia, Signs, Cures, and Witchery; German Appalachian Folklore describes these various occult practices, symbols, and beliefs; how they evolved within New World religious contexts; how they arrived on the Appalachian frontier; and the prospects of those beliefs continuing in the contemporary world. By concentrating on these inheritances, Gerald C. Milnes draws a larger picture of the German influence on Appalachia. Much has been written about the Anglo-Celtic, Scots-Irish, and English folkways of the Appalachian people, but few studies have addressed their German cultural attributes and sensibilities. Signs, Cures, and Witchery sheds startling light on folk influences from Germany, making it a volume of tremendous value to Appalachian scholars, folklorists, and readers with an interest in Appalachian folklife and German American studies.
The Devils You Know
Author: M.C. Atwood
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616957891
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In this riveting debut, equal parts Cabin in the Woods and The Breakfast Club, five teens will discover what lies within a local, infamous house is darker, and more personal, than any urban legend. Plenty of legends surround the infamous Boulder House in Whispering Bluffs, Wisconsin, but nobody takes them seriously. Certainly nobody believes that the original owner, Maxwell Cartwright Jr., cursed its construction—or that a murder of crows died upon its completion, turning the land black with their carcasses. If there were truth to any of the local folklore, River Red High wouldn’t offer a field trip there for the graduating class. Five very different seniors—Violet, Paul, Ashley, Dylan, and Gretchen—volunteer, each for private reasons, none of which have to do with trip itself. When they’re separated from the group, they discover that what lies within Boulder House is far more horrifying than any rumor they’ve heard. To survive, they’ll have to band together and ultimately confront the truths of their darkest selves.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616957891
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In this riveting debut, equal parts Cabin in the Woods and The Breakfast Club, five teens will discover what lies within a local, infamous house is darker, and more personal, than any urban legend. Plenty of legends surround the infamous Boulder House in Whispering Bluffs, Wisconsin, but nobody takes them seriously. Certainly nobody believes that the original owner, Maxwell Cartwright Jr., cursed its construction—or that a murder of crows died upon its completion, turning the land black with their carcasses. If there were truth to any of the local folklore, River Red High wouldn’t offer a field trip there for the graduating class. Five very different seniors—Violet, Paul, Ashley, Dylan, and Gretchen—volunteer, each for private reasons, none of which have to do with trip itself. When they’re separated from the group, they discover that what lies within Boulder House is far more horrifying than any rumor they’ve heard. To survive, they’ll have to band together and ultimately confront the truths of their darkest selves.