![]() We have a responsibility to grasp how disinformation targeting the populace can challenge defense. ![]() Western nations have again become concerned about propaganda and disinformation due to the actions of the Chinese and Russian governments. His views now seem prescient in light of computational propaganda.Įllul describes what we now call the information element of national power in stark terms. Author of over 50 books and more than 1,000 articles, he was a renowned expert on propaganda and the effects of technology on society. ![]() Jacques Ellul was a French sociologist and philosopher who served as professor at the University of Bordeaux. Western nations have again become concerned about propaganda and disinformation due to the actions of the Chinese and Russian governments.Īn overlooked classic of information warfare/operations, disinformation, and fake news is Jacques Ellul’s Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1965). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Together, the two of them must try to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the Mists: what happened to Amandine's oldest daughter, August, who disappeared in 1906. But who could possibly help her find a pureblood she's never met, one who's been missing for over a hundred years? Enter Simon Torquill, elf-shot enemy turned awakened, uneasy ally. Not with Jazz and Tybalt's lives hanging in the balance. Now Toby doesn't have a choice about whether or not she does as her mother asks. ![]() When Toby's mother, Amandine, appears on her doorstep with a demand for help, refusing her seems like the right thing to do.until Amandine starts taking hostages, and everything changes. Maybe she should have realized that it was too good to last. The elf-shot cure has been approved, Arden Windermere is settling into her position as Queen in the Mists, and Toby doesn't have anything demanding her attention except for wedding planning and spending time with her family. Things are slow, and October "Toby" Daye couldn't be happier about that. ![]() ![]() Alice eventually realises that, like Alais, her destiny is inseparable from that of the Grail. After Alice happens upon a cave containing skeletons and an altar, whilst on an archeological dig in the French Pyrenees, she starts in motion a series of events that pose a threat to the security and secrecy of the Grail. Alice finds herself dreaming of Alais’s existence in Carcassonne as she attempts to protect the labyrinth’s secrets, against the backdrop of French Crusaders coming to Carcassonne to rid the land of ‘heretics’. The narratives are tied together by the unravelling of the mysteries of the ‘true’ Grail, which is written and bound in three volumes, and the symbol of the labyrinth. Labyrinth tells two stories simultaneously: that of 17 year old Alais in 13th century southern France, and that of the academic Alice Tanner in 2005. Promising a Da Vinci Code-like plot, premised on historical mystery, it did not take a huge amount of effort on the part of Waterstones to secure my purchase (although the multi-buy sale certainly helped). ![]() ![]() Having steered clear of the recent TV serialisation, I will admit that the ads had me intrigued. After already tackling The President’s Hat (see my review here), I decided it was time to wade into the 694 page epic, Labyrinth. You may remember my excitement a couple of weeks ago at having rooted out some new purchases from Waterstones. ![]() ![]() With some of these spellbinding and wickedly witchy books, witches are upfront and center, Hocus Pocus-style. Equally, we fear witches but we also fall madly in love with them.īelow, discover some of the best fiction and nonfiction books about witches to get you into the paranormal spirit. We find witches fascinating yet, society loves to hate and scapegoat them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Are you looking for wickedly witchy books? Discover the best books about witches for adults and teens.įrom witches grounded in a deep Wiccan past to whimsical beasties with powers and coming-of-age stories, witches take on many roles in modern-day literature.īooks about witches tend to focus on women versus men who are usually associated with warlocks and wizards. ![]() ![]() Maybe the old fella had recently read about fault lines in Italy? But not Steve Neal. Most people would chalk that up to coincidence. The doctors say it’s presenile psychosis, but Steve’s supernatural suspicions are confirmed when he learns that an earthquake in Roserio, Italy killed two hundred people, just like old Charlie predicted. falling! Oh, God, the people, the humanity!” As grandpa Charlie falls to the ground next to his wife’s grave, he calls out a prediction of sorts. The Tulpa is a story about the supernatural events that occur after Steve Neal’s father-in-law, Charlie, suffers a stroke at Charlie’s wife’s funeral. So strap on your thinking caps because, well, you’ll see. While most Thrift Store Finds specimens can be talked about in a way that bounces around between the different elements that makes it a book, the bits that make up The Tulpa are so vastly different in quality that the old tried and true methods just aren’t going to work on this one. There’s the plot (fine), the characters (fine?), the subtext (*emoji grimace*), and the execution (uh oh). Williamson’s The Tulpa is to break it down into parts. Except the kids are an army of sentences and the student is just me in sweatpants reading paperbacks with only one eye open. It’s time again for Thrift Store Finds, which is kind of like a scene from a 90s movie where all the kids in the classroom are goofing off or sleeping while the one “good” student pays attention. ![]() ![]() The tone of the book and the fun of the art style really gave this book the extra 'umph' to top my graphic novels list! ![]() I totally dug every part of the illustrations in this book. To top it off, the art is colourful and cartoon-y. Oh the giggles I had reading what some of these kids had to ask and say. Oh man, do I love her! I relate way too hard! On top of that, the kids are talking about sex and asking awfully hilarious questions (which totally is what camps do, I've worked at them - kids are crazy) and that makes this book more PG-13 and R rated. She could say mean things, but instead she'll pat those losers on the head and let them do their thing. ![]() It's like this book was MADE for me! Elodie is super sassy and sarcastic, and has a wicked inner voice. Star Wars and Nirvana references were stellar! LGBT characters gets this book bonus points! The magical fantasy element? WILD! There's just so many good parts in this book, including the little sassy red heads. The kids swear and taunt Elodie, and it's hysterical. popular and NERDY school mates.) and munchkins.Īrrows are shot at everyone, and the fallout is hilarious. This gothic delight loves Nirvana and rock bands, but instead is being forced to deal with people she didn't want to see (yuck, schoolmates. ![]() ![]() Graphic Novel.Įlodie gets forced by her Mother to work as a camp counselor over the summer and it is NOT what she wanted to do. ![]() ![]() “When you begin to see God’s good plan for you in your thinking, you will begin to walk in it.“ Now I have a headache as a souvenir! Negative thinking won’t get me anywhere. The thought ruined my whole day which in turn made me very negative. Just today I couldn’t stop thinking about Hope’s education and how I have zero fees. I find myself wondering about the future and what I usually envision isn’t so great. If we have a negative mind, we will have a negative life.” “Our actions are a direct result of our thoughts. ![]() Here are a few key lessons I got from Battlefield of the Mind I have been on that boat a dozen times and if Joyce Meyer wrote a complete book about it, then I’m not alone with this conflict in the mind. ![]() ![]() We do things after thinking but just not thinking thoroughly. We say we have done something without “thinking” but that’s the mistake. You think of something then you act it out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Laura Hewitt, a single woman of twenty-four, is accompanying her newly married cousin Emily and her husband Charles Flood on a trip to India as Emily, at eighteen, is considered too young to travel without another female in the party. ![]() Zemindar is set in India before and during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. I could see the influence of other books that I love – The Far Pavilions, Gone with the Wind and Jane Eyre – so it’s maybe not surprising that I loved this one too! What a great book! A wonderful setting, a beautiful romance, characters I really cared about, an exciting story and lots of fascinating historical detail…definitely one of my favourite books of the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the day of his mother’s funeral his grandmother informed him of their family history and told him that he is the son of a Roman god. In school, he learned some Canadian French and won a spelling bee. During the night of his birth, Juno appeared to his family and pointed out a piece of timber in the hearth, warning that if it was burned entirely, he would die. As such, he was considered to be dangerously powerful, and it was decreed that he would have a short life. In the absence of his immortal father, Frank's grandmother helped to raise him after his mother died in a military accident in Afghanistan a while before her son turned 16 and went to Camp Jupiter.įrank combined his ancestral gift with the powers that he inherited from his divine parent. His whole family was blessed by the god with the power to shift into any kind of animal, mythical or living from human form. From his mother, he is a descendant of Periclymenus, who was a grandson of Poseidon and a member of the Argonauts, hence making him a legacy of Poseidon. ![]() On June 5, 1994, Frank was born to Mars, the Roman god of war, and mortal military soldier Emily Zhang. 3.1 Camp Jupiter Classified: A Probatio's Journal. ![]() ![]() His musical sidekicks the Hong Kong Cavaliers: Rawhide, Reno, the Swede, Perfect Tommy, Flyboy, Big Norse, Pecosóare, one of the toughest, most popular hard-rocking bar bands in east Texas. A happy man whose life has been marked by great tragedy, who speaks a dozen languages and writes songs in all of them. In his spare time designer and driver of the electrifying Jet Car, a speed machine faster than sound! Buckaroo Banzai. First and foremost an extraordinary brain surgeon. A strange, elusive figure, his name whispered in barrooms and boardrooms, his advice sought by pashas and presidents, his exploits recounted in movies, novels, and comic books that seem somehow more real than life itself.īuckaroo Banzai. "I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."-Buckaroo Banzai.īuckaroo Banzai. ![]() |