Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

Author: Ira Katznelson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871404508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 720

Book Description
An exploration of the New Deal era highlights the politicians and pundits of the time, many of whom advocated for questionable positions, including separation of the races and an American dictatorship.

Fear Itself

Author: Christopher D. Bader
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479852058
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
An antidote to the culture of fear that dominates modern life From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic terms—as the opposite of courage, or as an obstacle to be overcome—it nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life. Persistent fear negatively effects individuals’ decision-making abilities and causes anxiety, depression, and poor physical health. Further, fear harms communities and society by corroding social trust and civic engagement. Yet politicians often effectively leverage fears to garner votes and companies routinely market unnecessary products that promise protection from imagined or exaggerated harms. Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears—which canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fears—Fear Itself offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives. The authors also draw on participant observation with Doomsday preppers and conspiracy theorists to provide fascinating narratives about subcultures of fear. Fear Itself is a novel, wide-ranging study of the social consequences of fear, ultimately suggesting that there is good reason to be afraid of fear itself.

Fear Itself

Author: Jonathan Nasaw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847396968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513

Book Description
The most terrifying novel you will read this year... Just as he's celebrating his last day on the job, FBI agent E L Pender receives a letter from Dorie Bell. Dorie is afraid. Last year she attended a convention for Persons with Specific Phobia Disorder. Since then, a couple of the delegates have died in suspicious circumstances. Carl Polander had acrophobia. Fear of heights. So what would he be doing on the 12th floor of the building the police say he jumped from? Mara Agajanian had haemophobia. Fear of blood. So how could she have cut her own wrists in the bathtub? Dorie, who suffers from an irrational fear of masks, wants Pender to look into these cases. She suspects there may be a twisted serial killer on the loose. Someone, who quite literally, enjoys scaring his victims to death. Dorie's right. But she has no idea just how close to her the killer is...

Fear Itself

Author: Stan Rice
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Stan Rice's new book of poems is faithful to the strong, expressionist thrust of his most recent collection, Singing Yet: New and Selected Poems, published in 1992. Fear Itself is equally arresting in the ominous visions it invokes - as though the book's title is to be taken literally, and the reader to be both engaged and disquieted.

Fear Itself

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416939083
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.

Fear Itself

Author:
Publisher: Marvel
ISBN: 9780785158042
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Manhattan is gripped in violent panic. Peter Parker has not slept in days. Abandoning his friends and family, Spider-Man cannot...WILL not...stop if there are people to be saved. But as the opening salvos of Fear Itself take their violent toll, will Spidey have what it takes to fight his own doubts? Then: Ben Grimm, one of the most beloved heroes in the Marvel Universe, is now the willing avatar of the Srepent's malice--an engine of discord cutting an unstoppable path of destruction through the heart of New York City! How did the Serpent's Hammer seduce him so easily? And can he be stopped before he levels the entire city in the name of his dark master? Plus: the secrets of Fear Itself's Hammer-wielders revealed! Get up to speed on the origins of the foes who are shattering the Marvel Universe's very core! Some of Marvel's finest writers and artists team up to bring you the living history of the Worthy! COLLECTING: FEAR ITSELF SPIDER-MAN 1-3; FEAR ITSELF: FF, FEAR ITSELF: THE WORTHY

Fear Itself

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042028076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
What are fear, horror, and terror? This question, central to our endeavour, cannot be answered by one unified voice. It always cracks, falters, and fades before it can fully enunciate its proclamation. We, the authors, know this and have planned accordingly. This volume presents meditations on this issue springing from the four corners of intellectual inquiry. Each author provides a distinctive approach with which to address the issue at hand. Literary theory, psychoanalysis, media studies, political science, and many more disciplines occupy the same space between the covers of this book. We hope that through the cacophony of our diversity we will fill in the inevitable gaps when our voices fall short.

Fear Itself

Author: Brian Michael Bendis
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 0785187405
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
The God of Fear has come to Earth and the only thing standing between it and world domination are Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Can the Avengers stand against an evil older than time itself? Or will even the strongest heroes on the planet fall? It won't take some of the Avengers to fight the madness of Fear Itself--it will take ALL OF THEM! The New Avengers and Avengers join forces in the face of true fear! And who will join the New Avengers for the first time EVER? Stay tuned, True Believer! Plus: amidst the ashes of what is left of the Marvel Universe, and during the battles throughout New York, an all-new Avengers romance blossoms. COLLECTING: AVENGERS (2010) 13-17; NEW AVENGERS (2010) 14-16

Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself

Author: James Swallow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501166603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series! Lieutenant Saru is a Kelpien, a member of a prey species born on a world overrun by monstrous predators…and a being who very intimately understands the nature of fear. Challenged on all sides, he is determined to surpass his origins and succeed as a Starfleet officer aboard the USS Shenzhou. But when Saru breaks protocol in order to prove himself to his crewmates, what begins as a vital rescue mission to save a vessel in distress soon escalates out of control. Forced into a command role he may not be ready for, Saru is caught between his duty and the conflicting agendas of two antagonistic alien races. To survive, he will need to seek a path of peace against all odds, and risk compromising the very ideals he has sworn to uphold…

Fear Itself

Author: Walter Mosley
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 075952811X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Written with the voice and vision that have made Mosley one of the most entertaining writers in America, "Fear Itself" marks the return of a master at the top of his form.