Spying on the World. The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013, Paperback - Michael S. Goodman

For more than 50 years, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has been central to the secret machinery of the British Government, acting as a brok...

Description"The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." --Los Angeles TimesThis is the Executive Summary of t...

Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey's study of Canada's security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caug...

Reducere. America and baseball are rediscovering the game played by African Americans before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. We now know a g...

Reducere. This revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents before and after 9/11 provides...

The knotty question of secret intelligence - and how far it should be allowed to go in a democratic society.

Reducere. From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires' systematic plunder ...

Intelligence is often the critical factor in a successful military campaign. This was certainly the case for Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellingt...

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Cecile Fabre draws back the curtain on the ethics of espionage and counterintelligence. In a book rich with historical examples she argues that spy...

Reducere. For decades, the CIA's top secret postmortem on the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion has been the holy grail of historians, students, and survivors ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Jeffrey A. EngelEditor: Mark Atwood LawrenceEditor: Andrew PrestonHow should America wield its enormous power beyond its bo...

A deftly crafted insider account of how congressional committees really work, updated for 2021Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s):...

From one of the country's foremost experts on military history, an insider view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history.

Reducere. For nineteenth-century adventures, Tibet was the prize destination, and Lhasa, its capital situated nearly three miles above sea level, was the gra...

DescriptionFor more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in t...

Spying for the People: Mao's Secret Agents, 1949–1967 - Michael Schoenhals

'A rich harvest of harrowing adventures recounted in fascinating detail' Daily TelegraphPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Peter HopkirkIllustr...

CONTENTS The Struggle for the Creation of a Social-Democratic Labour Party in Russia (1883 - 1901) Formation of the Russian Social-Democratic Labou...

Description"A palaeontological howdunnit... Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of...seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science." ...

Presents 213 documents on the theory, planning, and execution of, and reaction and resistance to, the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews, from ...

Publisher: BiblioLifeAuthor(s): New York Chamber of CommerceIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 12Publication date: 2009Dimension...

A riveting account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Reducere. DescriptionPrefaceI first came across Percy Coriat's neglected writings on the Nuer in 1972 when beginning research on the history of the Nuer prop...

Reducere. The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off...

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In Functional Anatomy of the Pelvis and the Sacroiliac Joint author and respected bodywork specialist John Gibbons looks at one of the most importa...

Reducere. DescriptionAdventurer, merchant and mapper of the New World, Amerigo Vespucci's life is fascinating and vivid - his letters, published here in full...

The JRCALC Pocket Book is the easy-to-use guide to emergency care for busy healthcare professionals on the road and in the community. An extensive ...

Publisher: National Academies PressAuthor(s): Committee on the Certification of Personal Protective TechnologiesNumber of pages: 166Publication dat...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Noortje JacobsIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

Richly illustrated, Samuel Kloda's chronicle of the dawn of the atomic age sets the record straight on one of the greatest scientific advancements ...