Showing results for "Propaganda" in Literature & Fiction

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, 'behavioural change' salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops and much more.

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?

Against the backdrop of worldwide, unexplainable natural disasters, Dr. Virginia Marilyn Edwards (Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington) seeks out Agent Scott Thomas (Emmy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne) at a secretive government headquarters. Virginia claims these events are signs, and unless Agent Thomas helps her, she believes things will only get worse. Her desperation is dialed up higher with a shocking proclamation as she stands before him pregnant, weak, and weary: “Agent Thomas,” she says, “I believe I am Mary.”

Proyecto Hail Mary, una aventura interestelar irresistible como solo Andy Weir podía imaginar, es una historia de descubrimiento, especulación y supervivencia a la altura de El marciano, que nos lleva a lugares que nunca soñamos alcanzar.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

13 plays and dramatisations of the works of the influential playwright, novelist and essayist J. B. Priestley - plus bonus programmes J. B. Priestley was one of Britain's most significant writers. His output was prodigious: in his lifetime, he penned 26 novels, 39 plays and hundreds of essays...

Of the billions of greenskins who swarm the galaxy, the name of one strikes fear into the hearts of human and xenos alike—Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. The Warlord of Warlords. The Beast of Armageddon. The Prophet of the Waaagh! With his tusks, fists and power claw, he does the holy work of Gork and Mork—and soon all worlds will burn in his bootprints. Mystery shrouds the origins of such a beast. Rumours abound that the mighty warlord was once just like any other ork—but if that is the case, how did he rise from a lowly lad to the biggest of bosses?

An anarchist book club for people who want to know what it means to live without government.

Mit viel Biss, Humor und dem nötigen Augenzwinkern nimmt Georg Vetten das Medienbusiness kräftig auf die Schippe...

Ein Mann im Inneren des Krieges 1944: John Glueck ist im Krieg. Vor kurzem noch war er Student in New York, voller Liebe zur deutschen Kultur seiner Vorfahren. Dann, als Offizier der Propaganda-Abteilung der U. S. Army, traf er in Frankreich sein Idol Ernest Hemingway. Für ihn zieht Glueck in den scheinbar unbedeutenden, doch von der Wehrmacht eisern verteidigten Hürtgenwald in der Eifel. Er entdeckt das Geheimnis des Waldes, als eine der größten Katastrophen des Zweiten Weltkrieges beginnt: die "Allerseelenschlacht" mit über 15 000 Toten.

Anni [redacted-phone-number]. Il nipote del Negus, il principe Grhane Sollassié Mbassa, si trova a frequentare la Regia Scuola Mineraria di Vigàta. Da questo fatto vero Andrea Camilleri trae spunto per immaginare un «gustoso dossier, cose dette e cose scritte»: le lettere, i documenti, gli articoli di cronaca, in un clima di autentica stupidità generale.

The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he...

George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm are urgent examinations of how power is seized and abused. This collection explores the depths of totalitarianism and the creeping corruption that turns liberators into oppressors.

A stolen child. A terrible wartime secret. Norway, 1940. Seduced by Nazi propaganda, Liv offers herself to the German High Command as war reaches rural Norway. She has something very special that they want in Berlin - but the personal cost will be terrible. Can she survive what she did as a...

Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale. In 1985, 1,300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA. The FBI only had 350 counter-intelligence officers. Since the early days of the Cold War, the KGB seduced parliamentarians and diplomats, infiltrated the highest echelons of the Civil Service, and planted fake news in papers across the world.

Lucía Etxebarría integra su experiencia de cancelación pública, y la de otras figuras conocidas, como síntoma de un clima político y cultural más amplio. Un ambiente en el que el disenso se castiga y el miedo se convierte en una herramienta de control. Provocador, subjetivo y deliberadamente incómodo, este libro combina crítica política, psicología social y análisis del lenguaje. Explora el papel del neuromarketing y de la manipulación emocional para mostrar cómo la razón cede terreno frente al impacto afectivo y el pensamiento binario.

Ein Mann im Inneren des Krieges. 1944: John Glueck ist im Krieg. Vor kurzem noch war er Student in New York, voller Liebe zur deutschen Kultur seiner Vorfahren. Dann, als Offizier der Propaganda- Abteilung der U. S. Army, traf er in Frankreich sein Idol Ernest Hemingway. Für ihn zieht Glueck in den scheinbar unbedeutenden, doch von der Wehrmacht eisern verteidigten Hürtgenwald in der Eifel. Er entdeckt das Geheimnis des Waldes, als eine der größten Katastrophen des Zweiten Weltkrieges beginnt: die "Allerseelenschlacht" mit über 15 000 Toten.

‘A woman can get more information about German supply lines and replacements than a man with a knife to a soldier’s throat…’ Germany, 1944 Best friends Viv Allen and Junie Knight are drawn into the covert world of America’s Morale Operations Branch, a dark propaganda campaign designed...

2020 WEBBY AWARD WINNER Rookie doesn't know much about his family business--but then again neither does the American Public. Nevertheless, he is tasked with suddenly leading the secret government agency in charge of covering up all political scandals, and his first assignment is the biggest scandal since watergate! With a clever idea, Rookie must come into his own and fight off the evil Agent X in order to save the bureau and protect the country from ruin! With a score teeming with energetic pop and jazzy elements, brought to life by a Tony Award winning - star studded cast, Propaganda the ...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West’s retreat from reason. ‘The Death of Truth is destined to become the defining treatise of our age’ David Grann ‘The first great book of the Trump administration … essential reading’ Rolling Stone We live...