Robert Mandel
4) Global data shock: strategic ambiguity, deception, and surprise in an age of information overload
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Intelligence and security communities have access to an overwhelming amount of information. In this book, Robert Mandel explores how information overload facilitates ambiguity, deception, and surprise, eroding international trust and cooperation in the Internet Age. A sweeping array of case studies illustrates the role of data shock in shaping global events from the 1990 Iraqi attack on Kuwait to Brexit. Too much information can lead to foreign intelligence...
6) School ties
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1950s: David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is offered a football scholarship to a prestigious New England prep. school. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship...
7) F/X
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rollie Tyler is one of the movies' best special effects artists, known as "F/X" in the industry. He faces his most challenging assignment--turning special effects into reality. He is asked by the Justice Department to stage the fake assassination of an underworld witness. Now his F/X ingenuity becomes the key to his own survival.
9) F/X: F/X2
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
F/X2: Retired special-effects (FX) expert Rollie Tyler now devotes his time to designing high-tech toys. When the police ask for Rollie's help to catch a homicidal maniac, he reluctantly agrees. But it's Rollie who gets caught in the deadly trap, an elaborate set-up designed to hide a massive conspiracy. He needs help from detective Leo McCarthy to expose this conspiracy.
F/X: Rollie Tyler is one of the movies' best special effects artists, known...