Author: Susannah Leigh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780746067529
Category : Dragons
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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'Puzzle Palace' features a lively story linked with lots of fun picture puzzles. The detailed illustrations are packed with things to spot and will ensure that the story can be read again and again.
Author: James Bamford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1328566897
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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The first book ever written on the National Security Agency from the New York Times bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory. In this groundbreaking, award-winning book, James Bamford traces the NSA’s origins, details its inner workings, and explores its far-flung operations. He describes the city of fifty thousand people and nearly twenty buildings that is the Fort Meade headquarters of the NSA—where there are close to a dozen underground acres of computers, where a significant part of the world’s communications are monitored, and where reports from a number of super-sophisticated satellite eavesdropping systems are analyzed. He also gives a detailed account of NSA’s complex network of listening posts—both in the United States and throughout much of the rest of the world. When a Soviet general picks up his car telephone to call headquarters, when a New York businessman wires his branch in London, when a Chinese trade official makes an overseas call, when the British Admiralty urgently wants to know the plans and movements of Argentina’s fleet in the South Atlantic—all of these messages become NSA targets. James Bamford’s illuminating book reveals how NSA’s mission of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) has made the human espionage agent almost a romantic figure of the past. Winner Best Investigative Book of the Year Award from Investigative Reporters & Editors “The Puzzle Palace has the feel of an artifact, the darkly revealing kind. Though published during the Reagan years, the book is coolly subversive and powerfully prescient.”—The New Yorker “Mr. Bamford has emerged with everything except the combination to the director’s safe.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author: Edward Hollis
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619025620
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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A brilliant, ambitious follow–up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to the now–vanished chambers they once contained. The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. one day, the structures will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will persist. In this dazzling work of imaginative reconstruction, edward Hollis takes us to the sites of great abodes now lost to history and piecing together the fragments that remain, re–creates their vanished chambers. From Rome's palatine to the old palace of Westminster and the petit Trianon at Versailles, from the sets of MGM studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of the Crystal palace and the author's own grandmother's sitting room, The Memory Palace is a glittering treasure trove of luminous forgotten places and the alluring people who lived in them.
Author: Gareth Moore
Publisher: Buster Books
ISBN: 9781789293722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Author: Toh Xue Qi
Publisher: Experiences & Experiments Books Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814727067
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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After receiving an invitation to a magic school during our sleepover, me and my friends Dyla and Ginny found a mysterious stone. On it was carved: Save me!
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military intelligence
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Author: Thomas Reed Willemain
Publisher: Mill City Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781629528724
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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To most Americans, the NSA is an organization shrouded in secrecy, where the most clandestine of operations are carried out in the name of national security. Dr. Thomas Willemain, successful software entrepreneur and statistics professor, spent the equivalent of three years alternating between his life "outside" and working "inside" at the NSA and an affiliated, shadowy think tank. Once inside, Dr. Willemain would be challenged to adjust to life in an intense, complex and sometimes alien organization, while also encountering brilliant and quirky colleagues, the moral challenges of wielding math and statistics as weapons, a charming (if kitschy) gift shop, and ultimately, some of the most rewarding time of his career. A deeply personal account of the years spent within the most secretive organization in the world, Working on the Dark Side of the Moon explores the range of emotions an outsider experiences while crossing over to the "inside." It also shows the positive side of an Agency whose secrecy hides dedicated men and women devoted to protecting the country while honoring the Constitution. Thomas Reed Willemain received the BSE (summa cum laude) from Princeton University and the PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His academic career has included faculty positions at M.I.T., Harvard's Kennedy School, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He is also a founder and Senior Vice President at Smart Software, Inc. in Boston. He served in the Intelligence Community as an Expert Statistical Consultant at the National Security Agency and as a member of the research staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses/Center for Computing Sciences.
Author: Christine Mangan
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250788447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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From the bestselling author of Tangerine, a "taut and mesmerizing follow up...voluptuously atmospheric and surefooted at every turn” (Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark). It’s 1966 and Frankie Croy retreats to her friend’s vacant palazzo in Venice. Years have passed since the initial success of Frankie’s debut novel and she has spent her career trying to live up to the expectations. Now, after a particularly scathing review of her most recent work, alongside a very public breakdown, she needs to recharge and get re-inspired. Then Gilly appears. A precocious young admirer eager to make friends, Gilly seems determined to insinuate herself into Frankie’s solitary life. But there’s something about the young woman that gives Frankie pause. How much of what Gilly tells her is the truth? As a series of lies and revelations emerge, the lives of these two women will be tragically altered as the catastrophic 1966 flooding of Venice ravages the city. Suspenseful and transporting, Christine Mangan's Palace of the Drowned brings the mystery of Venice to life while delivering a twisted tale of ambition and human nature.
Author: Joel Jessup
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1398840432
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Use your sleuthing skills to unveil the secrets of the labyrinth or your mathematical prowess to help the Greeks win the Trojan War in this engaging Mythology Puzzles book! With more than 100 puzzles to complete, you'll use your wit and reasoning just like legendary heroes such as Perseus or Theseus. This collection will strengthen your logic and intelligence through challenging puzzles to engage your deductive, mathematical, and critical reasoning abilities. With fantastic images alongside the puzzles, you'll be transported to ancient times, solving complex enigmas to help protect your heroes against mythical beasts, and more! Once finished, even defeating the minotaur will seem like a breeze for a puzzle superstar like you!? This collection is the perfect gift for lovers of puzzle books or mythology!
Author: Oludotun Coker
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3755435683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Once upon a time, in a magical world far, far away, there lived a Brainy Banana. This was not just any ordinary banana, for this banana had an insatiable curiosity and a thirst for adventure that could not be quenched. And so, the Brainy Banana set out on a fantastical journey through a world filled with whimsy, enchantment, and mystery. This children's adventure book follows the Brainy Banana's incredible journey through the bizarre and wacky world, filled with talking trees, singing flowers, floating mountains, and even a space garden. This children's fantasy novel takes readers on a fun adventure story for kids, filled with excitement and wonder at every turn. With the Brainy Banana as their guide, children can explore a magical world, discovering new and exciting things along the way. Join the Brainy Banana on this fantasy adventure for kids, as we journey through an enchanted world full of surprises, mystery, and excitement.
