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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Book 1

A gothic tale becomes all too shockingly real in this mesmerizing magnum opus by the acclaimed author of FEED. It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother — a princess in exile from a faraway land — are the only persons in their household assigned... (more)

Mind Control, World Control

by Jim Keith

Is mind control technology linked to UFO activity and UFO abductions? A little-known and controversial subject, mind control is thoroughly examined by veteran author and investigator Jim Keith. Exploring a startling amount of information, Mind Control, World Control analyses the technology used to control human minds. It reveals the methodology of implants and exposes mind control assassins and couriers, as well... (more)

In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation

In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation

by Andrew Goliszek

Science, as Andrew Goliszek proves in this compendious, chilling, and eye-opening book, has always had its dark side. Behind the bright promise of life-saving vaccines and life-enhancing technologies lies the true cost of the efforts to develop them. Knowledge has a price; often that price has been human suffering. The ethical limits governing use of the human body in experimentation have been breached, redefined,... (more)

The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists

The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists

by Colin A. Ross

The C.I.A. Doctors, (Manitou Communications, 2006), uncovers the truth about violations of human rights by American Psychiatrists in the twentieth century. Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and cross-referenced research published in leading medical journals expose the existence of mind altering experiments on unwitting human subjects, paid for by the U.S. government, the U.S. Military and... (more)

MKULTRA : The CIA's Top Secret Program in Human Experimentation and Behavior Modification

MKULTRA : The CIA's Top Secret Program in Human Experimentation and Behavior Modification

by George Andrews

One of the darkest chapters in America's history, MKULTRA was a top secret program in human experimentation and behavior modification. Based on actual classified government documents, this book exposes the lengths to which U.S. Government agencies had gone to develop and implement mind control, covert drug administration, and other human experiments in the name of national security. A shocking look into what... (more)

They Never Knew: The Victims of Nuclear Testing (Impact Books)

They Never Knew: The Victims of Nuclear Testing (Impact Books)

by Glenn Alan Cheney

Examines the American government's role in developing nuclear weapons and conducting atomic testing, focusing on the effects of radiation on humans and the victims' attempts to sue the government for compensation.

The Future Happens Twice: The Perennial Project (Future Happens Twice)

The Future Happens Twice: The Perennial Project (Future Happens Twice)

by Matt Browne

Debrya Handsen, a 33-year-old professor in computational linguistics at the University of Minnesota, is ready for a career change. She decides to leave her academic post and move to Nevada, where she joins a top secret project that is being sponsored by the American government. Using powerful telescopes on the far side of the Moon, the project's astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet that is... (more)

The Project MKULTRA Compendium: The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification

The Project MKULTRA Compendium: The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification

by Stephen Foster

In the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA undertook a series of research and operational programs aimed at gaining control of human behavior, commonly known as mind control. The most famous and notable of these was MKULTRA, which from 1953 to 1964 spawned 149 subprojects that developed and studied "a number of procedures for influencing and predicting human behavior by chemical and psychological means." The intention for... (more)

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The Pox Party

by M. T. Anderson