Covert Decisions

Covert Decisions

Author: Donald Peters

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2024-09-13

Total Pages: 775

ISBN-13: 1035855364

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Mark Taylor, a retired United States Special Forces operative, seeks a fresh start in the computer software industry, specializing in security systems. When one of his major clients abruptly terminates their contract and pays a substantial sum to do so, Mark can’t shake the feeling that something is amiss. As Mark delves deeper, he finds himself drawn back into a shadowy world, questioning the authenticity of the security and intelligence services he once trusted. He uncovers a terrorist plot targeting New York City, still haunted by the memories of 9/11. Despite his efforts, no one believes his warnings. Desperately racing against time, Mark must navigate through the bureaucratic maze of the CIA and FBI to get them to listen. In this globe-trotting thriller, Donald Peters offers a gripping insight into the complexities of international terrorism, revealing that things are not always what they seem.


Robert Ludlum's The Ares Decision

Robert Ludlum's The Ares Decision

Author: Kyle Mills

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 140911189X

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The brand new Covert-One thriller from a master storyteller and global bestseller. When a US Special Forces team is wiped out by a group of normally peaceful farmers in Uganda, Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to investigate. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear and all but the most devastating injuries. Smith finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different. And as Smith and his team are cut off from all outside support, they begin to suspect that forces much closer to home are in play...


Intelligent Decision Making Systems

Intelligent Decision Making Systems

Author: Koen Vanhoof

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 727

ISBN-13: 9814295051

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ISKE2009 is the fourth in a series of conferences on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering. The ISKE2009 proceedings covers state-of-the-art research and development in various areas of Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, particularly of Intelligent Decision Making Systems.


Deathright

Deathright

Author: James M. Hoefler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0429719906

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Right-to-die issues are no longer confined to the back corridors of hospitals or the front pages of newspapers that trumpet news of Dr. Kevorkian's latest assisted suicide. A perverse combination of high-tech medicine, consumerism, demographic trends, and economic realities is forcing increasing numbers of Americans and their families to deal with


Psychological Foundations of Attitudes

Psychological Foundations of Attitudes

Author: Anthony G. Greenwald

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1483258513

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Psychological Foundations of Attitudes presents various approaches and theories about attitudes. The book opens with a chapter on the development of attitude theory from 1930 to 1950. This is followed by separate chapters on the principles of the attitude-reinforcer-discriminative system; a systematic test of a learning theory analysis of interpersonal attraction; a "spread of effect" in attitude formation; Hullian learning theory; and possible origins of learned attitudinal cognitions. Subsequent chapters deal with mechanisms through which attitudes can function as both independent and dependent variables in the attitude-behavior link; and the problem of how people go about applying a summary label to their attitudes and the reciprocal effects that rating has on the content of attitude. The final chapters discuss a commodity theory that relates selective social communication to value formation; the freedoms there are in regard to attitudes; attitude change occasioned by actions which are discrepant from one's previously existing attitudes or values; and the conflict-theory approach to attitude change.