Killing Machine

Killing Machine

Author: Lloyd Gardner

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1595589430

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With Obama's election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States' leadership role in the world. In this shattering new assessment, historian Lloyd C. Gardner argues that, despite cosmetic changes, Obama has simply built on the expanding power base of presidential power that reaches back across decades and through multiple administrations. The new president ended the “enhanced interrogation” policy of the Bush administration but did not abandon the concept of preemption. Obama withdrew from Iraq but has institutionalized drone warfare—including the White House's central role in selecting targets. What has come into view, Gardner argues, is the new face of American presidential power: high–tech, secretive, global, and lethal. Killing Machine skillfully narrates the drawdown in Iraq, the counterinsurgency warfare in Afghanistan, the rise of the use of drones, and targeted assassinations from al-Awlaki to Bin Laden—drawing from the words of key players in these actions as well as their major public critics. With unparalleled historical perspective, Gardner's book is the new touchstone for understanding not only the Obama administration but the American presidency itself.


Murder Machine

Murder Machine

Author: Gene Mustain

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1993-07-01

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1101665882

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"The inside story of a single Brooklyn gang that killed more Americans than the Iraqi army."—Mike McAlary, columnist, New York Post They were the DeMeo gang—the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS


The Killing Machine

The Killing Machine

Author: Jack Vance

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-11-14

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0575109661

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Kirth Gersen, having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes. The name Kokor Hekkus, which means "killing machine" in the language of the planet Thamber, does not refer to Hekkus's own predilection for homicide, but to his fondness for horrific and murderous devices, including the giant robotic executioner that first gained him his nickname. As a boy, Kirth Gersen survived a raid on his home planet masterminded by five interstellar crime lords known as the Demon Princes. This five-novel sequence recounts his carefully-planned and implacable revenge. In this, the second volume, his target is Kokor Hekkus, better known as the Killing Machine. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.


Killing Machine

Killing Machine

Author: Lloyd Gardner

Publisher: New Press, The

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 159558918X

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With Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States’ leadership role in the world. In this shattering new assessment, historian Lloyd C. Gardner argues that, despite cosmetic changes, Obama has simply built on the expanding power base of presidential power that reaches back across decades and through multiple administrations. The new president ended the “enhanced interrogation” policy of the Bush administration but did not abandon the concept of preemption. Obama withdrew from Iraq but has institutionalized drone warfare—including the White House’s central role in selecting targets. What has come into view, Gardner argues, is the new face of American presidential power: high–tech, secretive, global, and lethal. Killing Machine skillfully narrates the drawdown in Iraq, the counterinsurgency warfare in Afghanistan, the rise of the use of drones, and targeted assassinations from al-Awlaki to Bin Laden—drawing from the words of key players in these actions as well as their major public critics. With unparalleled historical perspective, Gardner’s book is the new touchstone for understanding not only the Obama administration but the American presidency itself.


The Killing Machine

The Killing Machine

Author: Fung Zhuowen

Publisher: Experiences & Experiments Books Pte Ltd

Published:

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 9814580910

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Max has been treated unfairly and vows to get his revenge on the adults. But a god has gotten wind of his plans and wants to stop him. Will they be able to stop him and his assistants before he destroys the world?


Killing Machine: The Complete Collection

Killing Machine: The Complete Collection

Author: Shaun Tennant

Publisher: Shaun Tennant

Published: 2013-03-21

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 0991879937

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Theo Daniels has spent his life learning the art of death. Military. CIA. Black Ops. For the last five years, he used his skills to help people, to do good in the world. Then his world was shattered. Now Daniels travels the world seeking revenge. He has become the Killing Machine. This is a collection of five short stories following Daniels' entire quest for revenge. Keywords: Spies, espionage, CIA, assassin, ninja, sword fight, swordfight, chase scene, spy thriller, action adventure, suspense, gun fight, escape, action scenes.


The Killing Machine

The Killing Machine

Author: Jack Vance

Publisher: Spatterlight Press

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1619470403

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Kirth Gersen is hunting down the five Demon Princes who had led the historic Mount Pleasant Massacre, destroying Gersen's parents and his entire world.


Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller

Author: Janet Cardiff

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Pub

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9783775720021

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A concise retrospective, this publication contains previously unpublished written and visual material, as well as pertinent literature on the oeuvre of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. SPECIALIST


Nero's Killing Machine

Nero's Killing Machine

Author: Stephen Dando-Collins

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2011-01-25

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 111804021X

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The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire–a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman killing machine defeated 230,000 rampaging rebels, slaughtering 80,000 with only 400 Roman losses–an accomplishment that led the emperor Nero to honor the legion with the title "Conqueror of Britain." In this gripping book, second in the author’s definitive histories of the legions of ancient Rome, Stephen Dando-Collins brings the 14th Legion to life, offering military history aficionados a unique soldier’s-eye view of their tactics, campaigns, and battles.


Gulag

Gulag

Author: Anne Applebaum

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 0307426122

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. “A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” –The New York Times The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.