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';Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.'Noam Chomsky';The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.'Edward Bernays, PropagandaA seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (18911995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed ';engineering of consent.' During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would ';Make the World Safe for Democracy.' The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses.This is the first reprint of Propaganda in over 30 years and features an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder.

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common types of doublespeakeuphemism, jargon, gobbledygook or "e;bureaucratese,"e; and inflated languageshowing how each is used in business, advertising, medicine, government, and the military. In this seminal book, Lutz articulates that the goal of doublespeak is "e;to distort reality and corrupt thought."e;

A former Brooklyn wise guy is exiled via Witness Protection to small town Montana, where he spends the next decade paying penance for his earlier life-only to see it all potentially shot to hell when his past catches up to him.

A young couple's painful, buried past is brought to the surface when they become the caretakers of an abandoned lighthouse.

In post-Katrina New Orleans, dying wishes can come true--with often unexpected results.

When her friend asks, Why did we never have children?, Nell struggles to answer.¿¿She has a career, she married late...there are any number of reasons but fate seems set on making her face up to the realities of her past. A casual observer would say that Nell has it sorted-loving wife, stepmother, Emergency nurse, best friend-yet in her honest moments she knows she is drowning.This stepmother gig is harder than it looks. Work is no longer the vocation of her youth. Long suppressed voices threaten to reassert themselves as ungrieved loss demands to be recognized. A meeting with a woman who alleges she was raped by the man who was Nell's former lover, brings the truths of her own past into stark relief. The more palatable romantic wrapping she has tied her memories in begins to unravel and she understands that denial must give way to forgiveness of her young self.With the support of the women in her family Nell confronts her ex-lover and begins a journey that will require both courage and compassion. The birth of her granddaughter helps Nell realise that the maternal line, no matter how branched, blurred or broken, is more important than biology. Nell stands ready to pass on the tightly held knowledge of past generations to her niece and grandchildren, knowing that being out of her comfort zone is a gift and a second chance.

"After being named Assistant Director of Intelligence for the Capitol Police just days before the 2020 election, Julie Farnam warned its leadership of the upcoming insurrection, sharing that "Congress itself is the target on the 6th." Tragically, her warnings were ignored. DOMESTIC DARKNESS takes us inside the explosive events of January 6, 2021, exposing how the Capitol Police disregarded intelligence about the right-wing extremists who would seize the capitol on the fateful day. In addition to offering a harrowing view of what it was like on the ground, watching the violence unfold and knowing it could have been prevented, DOMESTIC DARNESS also examines the specific groups and ideologies, such as the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, QAnon and white supremacists, who were central to the events of January 6 and who, emboldened by Donald Trump and other right-wing leaders, continue to be a threat to our democracy. The book also explores the changes within Capitol Police in the wake of the insurrection---many introduced by Farnam after she was named Acting Director---and, critically for our country, how to address future dangers from domestic terrorism. With the 2024 presidential election just around the corner, we need to seriously examine the lessons January 6 taught us to ensure something like that never happens again."--Jacket flap.

"A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism into the FBI's questionable counterterroism tactics, The Terror Factory exposes how the Bureau built a network of more than 15,000 informants after 9/11 whose primary purpose was to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau could then claim it was winning the war on terror."--Provided by publisher.