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Hidden Persuaders: Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, funded by the Wellcome Trust and based at Birkbeck

8 books
Book Cover for: Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People, Joanna Bourke

Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People

Joanna Bourke
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Joanna Bourke @bourke_joanna on Cold War intelligence, Uri Geller and Birkbeck College @Birkbeck1 in the 1970s. @theparamuseum #parapsychology https://t.co/bT0LeVFCRq

Hardcover, 2022

$51.00$26.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, Stephen Kinzer

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Stephen Kinzer
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@MikeJayNet reviews @Stephenkinzer's recent book "Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control https://t.co/ig3xiPoGkU

Paperback, 2020

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Politics: Ideas in Profile, David Runciman

Politics: Ideas in Profile

David Runciman
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Jill Lapore talks to David Runciman @TPpodcast about her new book on the Simulmatics Corporation, 1960s politics and the destructive power of tech. Do the machines really decide who is going to win presidential elections? https://t.co/VSydzcKEiZ

Paperback, 2015

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, Jill Lepore

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

Jill Lepore
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On BBC Radio 4 this week, a radio serialisation of Jill Lepore's "If Then". https://t.co/pHAPsj1KqC

Paperback, 2021

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference, M. Fakhry Davids

Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference

M. Fakhry Davids
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Fakhry Davids - psychoanalyst and author of "Internal Racism" and @sallyweintrobe - psychoanalyst and author of "Engaging with Climate Change" will be in dialogue on "Fragility in the time of Covid-19" 17th November 8:15pm. Chaired by Daniel Pick. @theIoPA https://t.co/a7vdGV6IeA

Paperback, 2011

$47.95$23.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory, Karl Figlio

Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory

Karl Figlio
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Now available to read in ‘Psychoanalysis and History’, @NaomiRichman reviews Gavin Miller’s new book about the influence of Christian theology & New Age spirituality on leading C20th Scottish psychotherapists like R.D. Laing @EdinburghUP https://t.co/ewgIuAcmFr https://t.co/eeh42l4MjU

Paperback, 2018

$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Empire of Depression: A New History, Jonathan Sadowsky

The Empire of Depression: A New History

Jonathan Sadowsky
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Book : The Empire of Depression: A New History, by Jonathan Sadowsky https://t.co/0A7a91D2ib via @_Hmadness

Hardcover, 2020

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War, Scott Anderson

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War

Scott Anderson
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Interesting review of Scott Anderson's new book on the CIA: 'The Quiet Americans' - The Making of the “Good CIA” https://t.co/LyWGiXTSQy @CulturesColdWar @ColdWarPod @coldwarhist #CIA

Paperback, 2021

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book