Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors. Religion and the History of the CIA, Hardback - Michael Graziano

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Michael GrazianoIllustration(s): 2 line drawingsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dime...

The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been ...

A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of d...

Reducere. 1. Without a Trace2. History of the Future3. Empires Falling4. El Jardin5. La Pared (Govt. Wall Blues)6. Firefly7. Make It Known8. The River9. Wild...

Reducere. Beginning with a confrontation in 1929 in Switzerland, Michael Friedman examines how the work of three pivotal philosophers evolved and intertwined...

Reducere. Having been diagnosed with 3rd stage lung cancer that had gone into the lymph nodes, Pamela Harding, being a Christian, had a choice to make, belie...

Reducere. What is an authentic purpose of a man's life today? What does manhood have to do with purpose? How does a man discern the call of purpose? This is ...

An artful, emotionally incisive and beautifully written debut memoir about the unique place of almost-motherhoodPublisher: Orion Publishing CoAutho...

New trade paperback - The Ghosts of Langley is the story of spymasters, their minions, and the ways in which the Central Intelligence Agency change...

Nadia Bou Ali explores the formation of a modern Arab identity through the conceptions of politics, morality and language in Arab thought.

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Susan WilliamsIllustration(s): 48 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 400Publication da...

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Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the heart of German Idealism: p...

Ten years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the contr...

All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong. Th...

Reducere. Do you sometimes feel that you are wandering in a wilderness of grief, confusion, and faltering faith? If so, you are not alone. Like the lost chil...

Reducere. Naturalist, hunter, and explorer Charles Shedon's descriptive account of traversing the remote, untamed wilderness of Alaska in 1904. Includes phot...

The incredible story of Britain's female gangsters from the seventeenth century to the present day.Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Caitl...

Reducere. Von Halle shows how the Earths interior is a mirror of the past, present, and future human soul states, explaining the causes of the three earthqua...

Arctic Mirrors is a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind.

Reducere. A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in ...

Literary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic novels to illustrate that in form and function they inform readers on how they ought to be read...

During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. ...

The Great Cold War is arguably the most fascinating account yet written about the Cold War--and a timely enunciation of the lessons we need to lear...

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. Kane has always been a dark, complex, and haunted man, and fans have always been drawn to him. They have wondered what caused his pain and sufferin...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue organization prone to covert operations a...

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 ...

Sheds new light on Qatar, a country that has previously defied explanation.

Analyses the polysemy of recognition operative in the thought of two contemporary French thinkers, Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) and Paul Ricoeur (1...

This work examines the notion of Europe as expressed in Romanian and British fiction. It surveys symbolic notions of the common cultural links whic...

Reducere. DescriptionThis manual, the infamous "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation, " dated July 1963, is the source of much of the material in the sec...

Reducere. Wilderness of the Upper Yukon by B&C member Charles Sheldon is part of Boone and Crockett Club's series of digitally remastered hunting and adventu...

Reducere. The phrase "As above, so below" is attributed to the Egyptian god of wisdom named Thoth. This echoes the biblical expression "on earth as it is in ...

Reducere. Explore the connections between God, wilderness and Judaism. This comprehensive how-to guide to the theory and practice of Jewish wilderness spirit...