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Cold War Captives
This provocative history of early cold war America recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. Headlines were dominated by stories of Soviet slave laborers, brainwashed prisoners in Korea, and courageous escapees like Oksana Kasenkina who made a \"leap for freedom\" from the Soviet Consulate in New York. Full of fascinating and forgotten stories,Cold War Captivesexplores a central dimension of American culture and politics-the postwar preoccupation with captivity. \"Menticide,\" the calculated destruction of individual autonomy, struck many Americans as a more immediate danger than nuclear annihilation. Drawing upon a rich array of declassified documents, movies, and reportage-from national security directives to films likeThe Manchurian Candidate-his book explores the ways in which east-west disputes over prisoners, repatriation, and defection shaped popular culture. Captivity became a way to understand everything from the anomie of suburban housewives to the \"slave world\" of drug addiction. Sixty years later, this era may seem distant. Yet, with interrogation techniques derived from America's communist enemies now being used in the \"war on terror,\" the past remains powerfully present.
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Losing reality : on cults, cultism, and the mindset of political and religious zealotry
\"A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dark Persuasion
A harrowing account of brainwashing's pervasive role in the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries This gripping book
traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture
and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social
media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research
was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the
stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and
religious control. Tracing these developments through many of the
past century's major conflagrations, Dimsdale narrates how when
World War II erupted, governments secretly raced to develop drugs
for interrogation. Brainwashing returned to the spotlight during
the Cold War in the hands of the North Koreans and Chinese. In
response, a huge Manhattan Project of the Mind was established to
study memory obliteration, indoctrination during sleep, and
hallucinogens. Cults used the techniques as well. Nobel laureates,
university academics, intelligence operatives, criminals, and
clerics all populate this shattering and dark story-one that hasn't
yet ended.
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Operation Inferno
\"Ethan and his team must infiltrate a heavily guarded Ch'zar industrial complex to stop the aliens from attacking the Resister's new base\"--Provided by publisher.
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Sterling squadron
When twelve-year-old Ethan, still a trainee, learns that the alien Ch'zar invaders are rapidly increasing in number, he initiates a radical plan to increase the ranks of Resistor pilots and soon finds himself leading battle forces.
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Family Control and Family Firm Valuation by Family CEOs: The Importance of Intentions for Transgenerational Control
Family firms are thought to pursue nonfinancial goals that provide socioemotional wealth, but socioemotional wealth is feasible only with family control of the firm. Using prospect theory, we hypothesize that socioemotional wealth increases with the extent of current control, duration of control, and intentions for transgenerational control, thus adding to the price at which owners would be willing to sell their firms to nonfamily buyers. Findings from two countries show that current control has no impact, and duration of control has a mixed impact. However, intention for transgenerational control has a consistently positive impact on the perceived acceptable selling price.
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