Author: Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028644189
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spies & Espionage is a a fascinating look at spies and espionage of the 20th century. Covers the Zimmerman note in World War I, Pearl Harbor's impact on U.S. intelligence planning, the role of the OSS in World War II, atomic spies and American moles in Washington, McCarthy and the professional anti-Communists, intelligence in the Gulf War, Robert Hanssen and Wen Ho Lee, and intelligence in the War on Terror. Offers a comprehensive look as well as fascinating details, from surveillance techniques and espionage equipment to the myths and realities.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spies and Espionage
Author: Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028644189
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spies & Espionage is a a fascinating look at spies and espionage of the 20th century. Covers the Zimmerman note in World War I, Pearl Harbor's impact on U.S. intelligence planning, the role of the OSS in World War II, atomic spies and American moles in Washington, McCarthy and the professional anti-Communists, intelligence in the Gulf War, Robert Hanssen and Wen Ho Lee, and intelligence in the War on Terror. Offers a comprehensive look as well as fascinating details, from surveillance techniques and espionage equipment to the myths and realities.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028644189
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spies & Espionage is a a fascinating look at spies and espionage of the 20th century. Covers the Zimmerman note in World War I, Pearl Harbor's impact on U.S. intelligence planning, the role of the OSS in World War II, atomic spies and American moles in Washington, McCarthy and the professional anti-Communists, intelligence in the Gulf War, Robert Hanssen and Wen Ho Lee, and intelligence in the War on Terror. Offers a comprehensive look as well as fascinating details, from surveillance techniques and espionage equipment to the myths and realities.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy
Author: Christopher Gordon De Pree
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592572199
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Astronomy is an ancient science on the cutting edge. Although it's been around for more than 5,500 years, astronomers say that we've learned more than 90 percent of what we know about the universe in just the last 50 years. Of this body of knowledge, a disproportionate amount has been acquired in the past decade, with each new year yielding more information than the last. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy, Third Edition, covers these new advances and discoveries and is repositioned to focus more on exciting, cutting-edge cosmology topics and less on backyard astronomy.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592572199
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Astronomy is an ancient science on the cutting edge. Although it's been around for more than 5,500 years, astronomers say that we've learned more than 90 percent of what we know about the universe in just the last 50 years. Of this body of knowledge, a disproportionate amount has been acquired in the past decade, with each new year yielding more information than the last. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy, Third Edition, covers these new advances and discoveries and is repositioned to focus more on exciting, cutting-edge cosmology topics and less on backyard astronomy.
Tales From Langley
Author: Peter Kross
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1939149347
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
In Tales from Langely: The CIA from Truman to Obama author Kross gives us the nitty-gritty on the CIA: its hits and misses; information on the early operations and leaders; their fights with J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI; Operation Paperclip; assassination plots; mole hunts; strange insider murders; and the hunt for bin Laden—all the details are here. As in his recent book The Secret History of the United States, Kross gives us fascinating, short chapters on the people and events that made up the CIA from its inception in 1947 to today’s scandals involving Seal Team 6, Obama and bin Laden. Also included: the latest CIA scandal of how the Benghazi, Libya Consulate contained over 35 CIA operatives on the night that the US Ambassador was killed: they were allegedly involved with running guns to Syria. Chapters include: William Donovan and the OSS; Operation Ajax—the plot to overthrow Iran; J. Edgar Hoover’s vendetta against the OSS; Civil Air Transport: The CIA’s Secret Airline; Operation Paperclip; The CIA and the Corsican Mafia; Operation Mongoose; “John Scelso” and the Secret JFK Assassination Probe; The Murder of William Buckley; The CIA and the Pakistani ISI; The CIA, bin Laden and 9-11; tons more!
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1939149347
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
In Tales from Langely: The CIA from Truman to Obama author Kross gives us the nitty-gritty on the CIA: its hits and misses; information on the early operations and leaders; their fights with J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI; Operation Paperclip; assassination plots; mole hunts; strange insider murders; and the hunt for bin Laden—all the details are here. As in his recent book The Secret History of the United States, Kross gives us fascinating, short chapters on the people and events that made up the CIA from its inception in 1947 to today’s scandals involving Seal Team 6, Obama and bin Laden. Also included: the latest CIA scandal of how the Benghazi, Libya Consulate contained over 35 CIA operatives on the night that the US Ambassador was killed: they were allegedly involved with running guns to Syria. Chapters include: William Donovan and the OSS; Operation Ajax—the plot to overthrow Iran; J. Edgar Hoover’s vendetta against the OSS; Civil Air Transport: The CIA’s Secret Airline; Operation Paperclip; The CIA and the Corsican Mafia; Operation Mongoose; “John Scelso” and the Secret JFK Assassination Probe; The Murder of William Buckley; The CIA and the Pakistani ISI; The CIA, bin Laden and 9-11; tons more!
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries
Author: Michael Kurland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028638430
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Offers clues to deciphering popular mysteries, puzzles, and myths, including UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, Lizzie Borden, and the Sam Sheppard trial.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028638430
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Offers clues to deciphering popular mysteries, puzzles, and myths, including UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, Lizzie Borden, and the Sam Sheppard trial.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the CIA
Author: Allan A. Swenson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028643960
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its role in world events since its creation in 1947.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028643960
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its role in world events since its creation in 1947.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to European History, 2nd Edition
Author: Nathan Barber
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101558563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
• Fascinating, fact-filled writing that delivers hundreds of years in the life of the European continent • Terrific supplementary reading for AP History students
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101558563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
• Fascinating, fact-filled writing that delivers hundreds of years in the life of the European continent • Terrific supplementary reading for AP History students
The Dead Spy's Guide to Espionage
Author: Dave Sinclair
Publisher: Dave Sinclair
ISBN: 0648221466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Eva Destruction Returns! Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. When the world’s on the brink of a second Cold War, the only person to call is Eva Destruction. After a bombing in a Russian embassy, the murder of a CIA agent in Budapest, and an attack on MI6 itself, Eva assembles a team of Cold War veterans and puts the pedal to the metal in a race to prevent chaos on a global scale. With twists at every turn, she’ll do almost anything to bring down those responsible, except drink instant coffee. The Dead Spy’s Guide to Espionage is a globetrotting, fast-paced thriller that will keep you turning pages well into the night.
Publisher: Dave Sinclair
ISBN: 0648221466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Eva Destruction Returns! Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. When the world’s on the brink of a second Cold War, the only person to call is Eva Destruction. After a bombing in a Russian embassy, the murder of a CIA agent in Budapest, and an attack on MI6 itself, Eva assembles a team of Cold War veterans and puts the pedal to the metal in a race to prevent chaos on a global scale. With twists at every turn, she’ll do almost anything to bring down those responsible, except drink instant coffee. The Dead Spy’s Guide to Espionage is a globetrotting, fast-paced thriller that will keep you turning pages well into the night.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Manga Fantasy Creatures Illustrated
Author: Matt Forbeck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592576364
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
As interest in reading manga has grown over the past few years, so too has the desire by many to learn how to create their own manga characters. In fact, in its first year in print, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing Manga, Illustrated(ISBN- 1592573355) has sold more than 20,000 copies. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Manga Fantasy Creatures Illustratedis positioned to ride the coattails of the original title by offering readers how-to instruction specific to creating fantasy creatures in the manga style. With more than 300 illustrations, readers will learn stroke-by-stroke how to create everything from chibis and furry creatures to dragons and monsters. Each step-by-step illustration builds on the last, using a second color to highlight the new strokes, and ends with a full-color rendering of the final creature.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592576364
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
As interest in reading manga has grown over the past few years, so too has the desire by many to learn how to create their own manga characters. In fact, in its first year in print, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing Manga, Illustrated(ISBN- 1592573355) has sold more than 20,000 copies. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Manga Fantasy Creatures Illustratedis positioned to ride the coattails of the original title by offering readers how-to instruction specific to creating fantasy creatures in the manga style. With more than 300 illustrations, readers will learn stroke-by-stroke how to create everything from chibis and furry creatures to dragons and monsters. Each step-by-step illustration builds on the last, using a second color to highlight the new strokes, and ends with a full-color rendering of the final creature.
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose Arny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
An Officer and a Spy
Author: Robert Harris
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385349599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A whistle-blower. A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption. Welcome to 1890s Paris. Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly stripped of his rank. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, an ambitious military officer who believes in Dreyfus's guilt as staunchly as any member of the public. But when he is promoted to head of the French counter-espionage agency, Picquart finds evidence that a spy still remains at large in the military—indicating that Dreyfus is innocent. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself. Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385349599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A whistle-blower. A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption. Welcome to 1890s Paris. Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly stripped of his rank. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, an ambitious military officer who believes in Dreyfus's guilt as staunchly as any member of the public. But when he is promoted to head of the French counter-espionage agency, Picquart finds evidence that a spy still remains at large in the military—indicating that Dreyfus is innocent. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself. Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award