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 Stalin's Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov By Boris Volodarsky 2015 | 784 Pages | ISBN: 0199656584 | PDF | 7 MB This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. General Alexander Orlov, Stalin's most loyal and trusted henchman during the Spanish Civil War, was also the Soviet handler controlling Kim Philby, the British spy, defector, and member of the notorious 'Cambridge Five'. Escaping Stalin's purges, Orlov fled to America in the late 1930s and lived underground. He only dared reveal his identity to the world after Stalin's death, in his 1953 best-seller The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes, after which he became perhaps the best known of all Soviet defectors, much written about, highly praised, and commemorated by the US Congress on his death in 1973.But there is a twist in the Orlov story beyond the dreams of even the most ingenious spy novelist: General Alexander Orlov never actually existed. The man known as Orlov was in fact born Leiba Feldbin. And while he was a loyal servant of Stalin and the controller of Philby, he was never a General in the KGB, never truly defected to the West after his flight from the USSR, and remained a loyal Soviet agent until his death. The Orlov story as it has been accepted until now was largely the invention of the KGB - and one perpetuated long after the end of the Cold War. In this meticulous new biography, Boris Volodarsky, himself a former Soviet intelligence officer, now tells the true story behind Orlov for the first time. An intriguing tale of Russian espionage and deception, stretching from the time of Lenin to the Putin era, this is a story that will send shockwaves through the world's intelligence agencies.  Special Type of Topological Spaces Using by W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy English | 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B014EIYI2O | 170 pages | EPUB | 0.26 Mb Study of algebraic structures using [0, n) has been carried out extensively. Here we study algebraic structures on subsets of [0, n). When we speak of subsets of [0, n) and also of subsets which include also intervals. Two types of subsets can be built. We give algebraic structures on them.  Montgomery McFate, "Social Science Goes to War: The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan" English | ISBN: 0190216727 | 2015 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human Terrain Teams  Social Metacognition By Pablo Briñol (ed.), Kenneth DeMarree (ed.) 2011 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1848728840 | PDF | 6 MB Metacognition refers to thinking about our own thinking. It has assumed a prominent role in social judgment because our thoughts about our thoughts can magnify, attenuate, or even reverse the impact of primary cognition. Metacognitive thoughts can also produce changes in thought, feeling, and behavior, and thus are critical for a complete understanding of human social behavior. The present volume presents the most important and advanced research areas in social psychology where the role of metacognition has been studied. Specifically, the chapters of this book are organized into four substantive content areas: Attitudes and Decision Making, Self and Identity, Experiential, and Interpersonal. Each section consists in several chapters summarizing much of the work done in recent decades on critical topics, such as attitude strength, persuasion, bias correction, self-regulation, subjective feelings, embodiment, and prejudice, among others. This book also emphasizes interpersonal aspects of metacognition as they play an essential role in close relationships, groups, consumer and clinical interactions. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and presents a state-of-the-art view of the many ways metacognition has been examined by social psychologists.  Social Media Marketing for Business: Scaling an Integrated Social Media Strategy Across Your Organization by Andrew Jenkins English | March 29th, 2022 | ISBN: 1398603694, 1398603716 | 249 pages | True PDF | 2.14 MB Social media has become an imperative for almost every business. Discover how to successfully implement an effective social media strategy that is supported and integrated throughout every part of your organization, with this essential handbook to enhancing your online presence.  Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism By Ian Parker (ed.) 1998 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0761953760 | PDF | 12 MB This book charts a clear and accessible path through some of the key debates in contemporary psychology. Drawing upon the wider critical and discursive turn in the human sciences, "Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism" explores comprehensively the many claims about what we can know of "reality" in social constructionist and discursive research in psychology.Relativist versus realist tensions go to the heart of current theoretical and methodological issues, not only within psychology but across the social and human sciences. By mapping the connections between theory, method and politics in social research and placing these within the context of the broader social constructionist and discursive debates, the internationally renowned contributors offer the reader an invaluable survey of the debates.  So Close to the State/s: The Emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy, 1952-1976 By Michael Dorland 1998 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 080208043X | PDF | 11 MB This book examines in detail the formation of Canadian feature film policy from the 1950s to the present. It pays special attention to the role played by producers, filmmakers, and government agencies, in relation to the changing production practices brought about by Canadian television. For Canadian policy-makers, the feature film was considered to be a signifier of cultural modernity. Filmmakers' desire to experiment with a new format was subverted by a political-economic agenda intent on using the format to create cultural authenticity for a nation lagging behind its neighbour to the South. Dorland crafts a careful historical analysis based on primary sources, including government records and in-depth personal interviews with key participants. Employing Foucault's concept of governmentality, Dorland analyses the state's interest in influencing and shaping feature film production. A major contribution to scholarship on Canadian cinema, So Close to the State/s provides a revealing look at the relationship between culture and the state.  Simple Sewing Ideas For Children To Sew Alone by Belloli Publishing English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08ZKZDH98 | 120 pages | EPUB | 9.53 Mb Simple Sewing Ideas For Children To Sew Alone  Emer O'Dwyer, "Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan's Urban Empire in Manchuria " English | ISBN: 067450433X | 2015 | 528 pages | PDF | 143 MB Like all empires, Japan's prewar empire encompassed diverse territories as well as a variety of political forms for governing such spaces. This book focuses on Japan's Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone in China's three northeastern provinces. The hybrid nature of the leasehold's political status vis-à-vis the metropole, the presence of the semipublic and enormously powerful South Manchuria Railway Company, and the region's vulnerability to inter-imperial rivalries, intra-imperial competition, and Chinese nationalism throughout the first decades of the twentieth century combined to give rise to a distinctive type of settler politics. Settlers sought inclusion within a broad Japanese imperial sphere while successfully utilizing the continental space as a site for political and social innovation.  Sex,The Self and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini By Colleen Ryan-Scheutz 2007 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0802092853 | PDF | 3 MB Born in Bologna in 1922, filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most controversial European intellectuals of his time. Pasolini believed the 'authentic' Italy - with its many languages and subcultures, its ancient roots and idiosyncrasies - to be disappearing before his eyes, and he used his films to denounce the social and ideological forces he felt were responsible for this detrimental change. Rather than campaign with overtly political films, however, Pasolini vested ideological impetus in key film characters, many of whom were women.Drawing upon Italy's distinct socio-cultural history as well as feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to film, Colleen Ryan-Scheutz explores the ways in which Pasolini's representations of women reveal his concerns about purity in modern Italian society. Ryan-Scheutz demonstrates how Pasolini used his female figures onscreen to critique the ruling class from a decisively different perspective and propose a range of alternatives to the increasingly sterile and capitalistic world of Italy and the West. Providing a new critical approach to Pasolini studies, Sex, the Self, and the Sacred brings psychoanalytic and feminist theories to bear on the auteur's lifelong poetics and theoretical writings on cinema. |
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