Tag: Deadly

Free Download Deborah Puccio-Den, "Mafiacraft: An Ethnography of Deadly Silence"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1912808250 | PDF | pages: 295 | 2.9 mb
"The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don’t know the Mafia. I’ve never seen it." Mafiosi have often reacted this way to questions from journalists and law enforcement. Social scientists who study the Mafia usually try to pin down what it "really is," thus fusing their work with their object. In Mafiacraft, Deborah Puccio-Den undertakes a new form of ethnographic inquiry that focuses not on answering "What is the Mafia?" but on the ontological, moral, and political effects of posing the question itself. Her starting point is that Mafia is not a readily nameable social fact but a problem of thought produced by the absence of words. Puccio-Den approaches covert activities using a model of "Mafiacraft," which inverts the logic of witchcraft. If witchcraft revolves on the lethal power of speech, Mafiacraft depends on the deadly strength of silence. How do we write an ethnography of phenomena that cannot be named? Puccio-Den approaches this task with a fascinating anthropology of silence, breaking new ground for the study of the world’s most famous criminal organization.

Free Download Anna Claybourne, "Deadly Animals (Animals Are Wild!)"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 148245016X, 1482450143 | EPUB | pages: 40 | 65.7 mb
The deadliest animal on Earth is also one of the smallest. The mosquito is a vector, or carrier, of diseases that kill millions of people every year. Readers learn about how and why this is, among other facts about animals with other deadly defenses. Full-color photographs highlight the powerful jaws of the grizzly bear, the huge horn of the rhino, and much more. Readers can see some of the world’s predators closer than would be possible, even in a zoo! In addition, fact boxes describe each animal’s behavior, size, and even endangered status.

Free Download Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland’s Drug Lords (Irish Cartel Book,The Narco War in Ireland) by Nicola Tallant
English | July 23, 2024 | ISBN: 168481653X | 232 pages | EPUB | 0.54 Mb
The History of Cocaine in Ireland

Free Download Kim Finer, David Heymann, "Smallpox (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)"
English | 2004 | pages: 111 | ISBN: 079107594X | PDF | 3,2 mb
Although we thought we had eliminated this scourge, recent events have brought Smallpox back into the limelight. This book discusses the history of the disease as well as treatment and prevention.

Free Download Day Lawrence – Dance of Death: Kata Dan-te, the Dance of the Deadly Hands
Dojo Press | 2010 | ISBN: 143576918X | English | 132 pages | PDF | 16.48 MB
Kata Dan-te, the Dance of the Deadly Hands, is without doubt, the most savage and terrifying self-defense form known to man. It is composed of forty-five of the deadliest poison hand techniques ever devised, each one of which is guaranteed to kill, cripple or maim any attacker.

Free Download Clint Emerson, "100 Deadly Skills: COMBAT EDITION: A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Crushing Your Enemy, Fighting for Your Life, and Embracing You"
English | ISBN: 1544518862 | 2021 | 326 pages | AZW3 | 64 MB
"The first volume in the 100 Deadly Skills series delivered clandestine hacks designed to allow readers to escape and evade threats at home and abroad. The second book, my Survival Edition, provided a blueprint to surviving chaos, misadventures, and fatal disasters. Now, with the Combat Edition, I’ve created the most comprehensive on-the-ground combatives manual ever assembled-traveling the country to learn the most effective combat techniques from some of the deadliest characters on Earth. The goal remains the same: allowing good people to defeat evil, fight for their lives, and survive another day."

Free Download Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRTT6T7 | 2024 | 14 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 405 MB
Author: Caroline Alexander
Narrator: Fred Sanders
From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II. In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air-meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on "the Hump," the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route. They flew fickle, untested aircraft through monsoons and enemy fire, with inaccurate maps and only primitive navigation technology. The result was a litany of both deadly crashes and astonishing feats of survival. The most chaotic of all the war’s arenas, the China-Burma-India theater was further confused by the conflicting political interests of Roosevelt, Churchill and their demanding, nominal ally, Chiang Kai-shek. A masterpiece of modern war history.

Free Download This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! by Corey Tutt
English | ISBN: 1741178150 | MOBI | 86 Mb
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! is an inspirational, illustrated compendium that celebrates the diversity and success of First Nations People. Written by Corey Tutt, author of The First Scientists, this book features the profiles of more than 70 Blakfellas who are doing deadly things across sport, art, activism and science, through to politics, education and literature. It showcases the careers and Corey’s personal stories of First Nations People who have done great things in their respective fields, including Professor Marcia Langton, Miranda Tapsell, Tony Armstrong, Dr Anita Heiss, Danzal Baker (Baker Boy), Adam Goodes and Blak Douglas. Molly Hunt’s deadly illustrations make this book the perfect gift for all ages. A celebration of Blak excellence, it will inspire future generations to create change and leave readers to ponder, ‘What makes ME deadly?’

Free Download John McManus, "The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soldier in World War II"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0891417214, 0891416552, 0891418237 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 1.8 mb
In his book Men Against Fire, [historian S. L. A.] Marshall asserted that only 15 to 25 percent of American soldiers ever fired their weapons in combat in World War II. . . .

Free Download Every Living Thing
by Jason Roberts
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1529400465 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 24.24 MB