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Through his 2023 book The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover, Lerone Martin argues that an understated but long-lasting influence of Hoover has been to normalize "white Christian nationalism" in the country, Hoover framing his work with the FBI as a crusade modelled after Catholic orders such as the Jesuits, despite himself being Protestant, favoring ...
Glen Weldon from NPR Books said: "Rigorously researched and thoroughly engaging, The Poisoner's Handbook is a compelling, comprehensive portrait of the time and place that transformed criminal investigation, and made it much more difficult for that most insidious of murderers to escape the law." [10]
Philosophical Investigations (German: Philosophische Untersuchungen) is a work by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, published posthumously in 1953.. Philosophical Investigations is divided into two parts, consisting of what Wittgenstein calls, in the preface, Bemerkungen, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe as "remarks".
O'Neill missed his deadline but continued to investigate the murders. [6] [7] CHAOS is the product of twenty years of meticulous research, hundreds of interviews, and falling-outs with publishers that led to financial and legal repercussions for O'Neill. [8] [9] [10]
Answers was a British weekly [1] paper founded in 1888 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe). Originally titled Answers to Correspondents , before being shortened soon after, it initially consisted largely of answers to reader-submitted questions, [ 1 ] along with articles on miscellaneous topics, jokes, and serialized literature.
The book presents the case of Clairvius Narcisse, a man who claims to have been a zombie for two years.While Narcisse claims the zombie state is from the supernatural influence of a bokor, Davis argues that the zombification process was more likely the result of a complex interaction of tetrodotoxin, a powerful hallucinogenic plant called Datura, and cultural forces and beliefs.
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect is a 2018 nonfiction book by computer scientist Judea Pearl and writer Dana Mackenzie. The book explores the subject of causality and causal inference from statistical and philosophical points of view for a general audience.
Samuel Sidney McClure (February 17, 1857 – March 21, 1949) was an American publisher who became known as a key figure in investigative, or muckraking, journalism.He co-founded and ran McClure's Magazine from 1893 to 1911, which ran numerous exposées of wrongdoing in business and politics, such as those written by Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens.