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Before Intelligence Failed: British Secret Intelligence on Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Soviet Union, South Africa and Libya
ISBN: 9781849043007 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, the term 'intelligence failure' became synonymous with the Blair Government and how it had used intelligence to construct a case for war. This book examines British secret intelligence over the thirty years preceding its very public failings. From the Soviet Union to South Africa and Libya, Mark Wilkinson provides a detailed analysis and vivid account of the development and functioning of Britain's intelligence agencies in the struggle against the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons. Based on archival research and interviews with key players in...
In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, the term 'intelligence failure' became synonymous with the Blair Government and how it had used intelligence to cons...
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Constructing Cassandra: Reframing Intelligence Failure at the Cia, 1947-2001
ISBN: 9780804793360 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Constructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks--surprises still play out today in U.S. policy. Although there has been no shortage of studies exploring how intelligence failures can happen, none of them have been able to provide a unified understanding of the phenomenon. To correct that omission, this book brings culture and identity to the foreground to present a...
Constructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the C...
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Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens G1352
ISBN: 9781499212969 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PERSEREC developed an unclassified database of Americans involved in espionage against the United States since 1945, and in 1992 published a report on it entitled Americans Who Spied Against Their Country Since World War II. The goal of the original project was to analyze the cases in terms of themes and trends that would further our understanding of the phenomenon of espionage. Since 1992, further instances of espionage by American citizens have come to light, and we have continued to enter them into an espionage database. An updated analysis incorporating recent cases seemed useful. In this...
PERSEREC developed an unclassified database of Americans involved in espionage against the United States since 1945, and in 1992 published a report on...
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02: 00 The Cobbler
ISBN: 9781499191158 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "They say to take a walk, out to the wild side. Let everything you know and think of, scatter, into places where it has never been and be free of where it will roam. As it is when we do leave the home we once knew. A place there, a place here, and how far we will walk is up to how far the soles of our feet can make from a distance. Fears and hopes are what will hold you hand-in-hand to guide you with each step not looking back as they are your guardians. Oh what a unique sense of giving yourself up in the direction you are unaware of. Now, walk home, dare I say, walk home as it is very...
"They say to take a walk, out to the wild side. Let everything you know and think of, scatter, into places where it has never been and be free of wher...
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79,82 |
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My Adventures As a Spy
ISBN: 9781499158144 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic tale of spies and spymasters is lavishly illustrated with period images to enhance the readers experience. Read, look, enjoy You think he was the ultimate Boy Scout, but before Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scouting Movement he was a spy. Not only did he spy for the British government, he wrote a book about those adventures -- explaining all. From the passing secret messages to using disguises, from hoodwinking the enemy to knowing whom to trust (no one). Baden-Powell tells all, and it reads like ... well, like a spy novel. But it's all true."
This classic tale of spies and spymasters is lavishly illustrated with period images to enhance the readers experience. Read, look, enjoy You think h...
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Dirty Secrets: Our ASIO files
ISBN: 9781742231402 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well-known Australians - mavericks, activists, movers and shakers - reflect on their own ASIO files. In this moving, funny and sometimes chilling book, leading Australians open their ASIO files and read what the state's security apparatus said about them. Writers from across the political spectrum including David Stratton, Phillip Adams, Peter Cundall, Michael Kirby, Gary Foley and Anne Summers confront - and in some cases reclaim - their pasts. Reflecting on the interpretations, observations and proclamations that anonymous officials make about your personal life is not easy - at least for...
Well-known Australians - mavericks, activists, movers and shakers - reflect on their own ASIO files. In this moving, funny and sometimes chilling boo...
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77,20 |
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Taxi Driver
ISBN: 9781500151812 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An average taxi driver in Washington DC, finds himself tangle in a military plot because he was too curious. He is the one solving the enigma along with the local cops and the FBI.
An average taxi driver in Washington DC, finds himself tangle in a military plot because he was too curious. He is the one solving the enigma along wi...
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51,88 |
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In Pursuit: from the streets of San Francisco to Watergate
ISBN: 9780615941486 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Pursuit is a gripping tale of a defining moment in American history-the Watergate scandal-told for the first time by the FBI agent who was coincidentally on weekend duty when the burglary occurred. Former FBI Special Agent John Mindermann collaborates with best-selling author Brian Solon to deliver an action-packed, ride-along narrative, dramatically unfolding with vivid imagery, high-speed chases, and simmering political intrigue revealing new details and insights-including a previously undisclosed FBI shutdown of the White House. Mindermann's formative years... In Pursuit is a gripping tale of a defining moment in American history-the Watergate scandal-told for the first time by the FBI agent who wa... |
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Three Rules: to kill with style
ISBN: 9781499193633 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nick Harper receives a delicate and secret mission to undertake. Unfortunately, though, he is not the only one informed and mysterious organizations, secret services and other powers will engage a battle with him. Thanks to the help of his Russian friends he'll successfully complete the first mission which will then lead to a more dangerous one. This will take him across the globe with Alba Vaarden by his side, a killer who is supposed to murder him. Sooner or later...
Nick Harper receives a delicate and secret mission to undertake. Unfortunately, though, he is not the only one informed and mysterious organizations, ...
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If Shoes Could Kill: The second book of the Carly and Sam Davenport espionage murder mystery trilogy.
ISBN: 9781500685966 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carly and Sam Davenport return to Summerview Island to care for Walter after he has had a small stroke. Carly accidentally steps into the middle of a smuggling ring. Espionage, murder, and mayhem have a stronghold on Carly in this second book in the trilogy.
Carly and Sam Davenport return to Summerview Island to care for Walter after he has had a small stroke. Carly accidentally steps into the middle of a ...
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33,93 |
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When Should State Secrets Stay Secret?: Accountability, Democratic Governance, and Intelligence
ISBN: 9781107042476 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contrary to popular assumption, the development of stronger oversight mechanisms actually leads to greater secrecy rather than the reverse. When Should State Secrets Stay Secret? examines modern trends in intelligence oversight development by focusing on how American oversight mechanisms combine to bolster an internal security system and thus increase the secrecy of the intelligence enterprise. Genevieve Lester uniquely examines how these oversight mechanisms have developed within all three branches of government, how they interact, and what types of historical pivot points have driven change...
Contrary to popular assumption, the development of stronger oversight mechanisms actually leads to greater secrecy rather than the reverse. When Shoul...
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When Should State Secrets Stay Secret?: Accountability, Democratic Governance, and Intelligence
ISBN: 9781107616530 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contrary to popular assumption, the development of stronger oversight mechanisms actually leads to greater secrecy rather than the reverse. When Should State Secrets Stay Secret? examines modern trends in intelligence oversight development by focusing on how American oversight mechanisms combine to bolster an internal security system and thus increase the secrecy of the intelligence enterprise. Genevieve Lester uniquely examines how these oversight mechanisms have developed within all three branches of government, how they interact, and what types of historical pivot points have driven change...
Contrary to popular assumption, the development of stronger oversight mechanisms actually leads to greater secrecy rather than the reverse. When Shoul...
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Race Traitor: The True Story of Canadian Intelligence's Greatest Cover-Up
ISBN: 9781502779717 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. RACE TRAITOR is the visceral true story of a teenage girl who becomes entangled in Canada's most powerful white supremacist group, the Heritage Front - a domestic terrorist group later revealed to have been created and funded with the assistance of Canada's spy agency, CSIS. To sixteen-year old runaway Elisse, the new friends she encounters in the secretive Heritage Front are the family she's never had. They feed her when she's hungry, watch her back, and Wolfgang Droege, one of the group's charismatic leaders, introduces her to a trusted friend, notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, who...
RACE TRAITOR is the visceral true story of a teenage girl who becomes entangled in Canada's most powerful white supremacist group, the Heritage Front ...
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Coward Punch Corruption
ISBN: 9781502795182 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2004, I moved to Hobart to be with my Tasmanian wife as we wanted to start a family and she preferred to live in her homeland. At the time, I was a pro-boxer, known as The Hobo, so I was thrilled there was a seasoned amateur gym nearby. Plus the Boxing Promoter happened to be a colleague of my manager in Sydney. Little did I know these unsavoury vultures would use me just to make money, and they treated and abused me in the most criminal and corrupt way possible. One night when I went to watch my sparring partners at a boxing promotion in Hobart, I was informed I wasn't welcome and told to...
In 2004, I moved to Hobart to be with my Tasmanian wife as we wanted to start a family and she preferred to live in her homeland. At the time, I was a...
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Georgetown Journal of International Affairs: International Engagement on Cyber IV
ISBN: 9781626162167 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each spring, the Cyber Project at Georgetown University's Institute for Law, Science, and Global Security convenes a conference of leading international experts from academia, the private sector, and government to address cutting-edge issues in cybersecurity. This issue begins with a group of articles under the theme A Post-Snowden Cyberspace, describing how Edward Snowden's revelations directly or indirectly changed the way the global community understands cybersecurity and cyber law. Other topics covered include cyber weapons, cyber deterrence, Japan's cybersecurity... Each spring, the Cyber Project at Georgetown University's Institute for Law, Science, and Global Security convenes a conference of leading internat... |
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The Spy Who Changed The World
ISBN: 9780755365661 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years disinformation and lies surrounded the story of Klaus Fuchs as the Governments of Britain, the United States and Russia all tried to cover up the truth about his treachery.
Piecing together the story from archives in Britain, the United States, Russia and Germany, The Spy Who Changed the World unravels the truth about Fuchs and reveals for the... The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appear...
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Bail Bonds Babylon
ISBN: 9780982679319 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I've done it all. From taking low life criminals out of jail, to getting a gun shoved in my face; from chasing drug lords down in the steamy Caribbean, to trudging in the hot thick jungles of Colombia to save my partner from a fate worse than death. I've rescued a terrified exotic dancer from a terrorist kidnapper and have been attacked by a toe sucking criminal pervert. Oh, yeah, I've done it all. My career began as a female bail bondsman... One of the first in the Business in Miami back then, way back when. One of the only females in a bail bonds world full of chauvinists. Yeah a bail...
I've done it all. From taking low life criminals out of jail, to getting a gun shoved in my face; from chasing drug lords down in the steamy Caribbean...
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Framing Peace: Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum as «Radical Hope»
ISBN: 9781433122422 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The language of frames suggests the need to rethink self and other in fostering ethical relationships as a foundation for peaceful existence. Educational writers and practitioners from many parts of the world, including New York, Denver, Minneapolis, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel, and Canada offer their perspectives on peace as an aim of curriculum.
Possibilities for learning about peace conceived in terms of Jonathan Lear s (2006) notion of -radical hope- are illustrated in the contexts of diverse settings and challenges: the aftermath of apartheid in South Africa, re-imagining... The language of frames suggests the need to rethink self and other in fostering ethical relationships as a foundation for peaceful existence. Educatio...
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Closure
ISBN: 9781503249042 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the third book in the "Evening Shift" Trilogy and it once again brings Christopher Howard and his friends back into the world of terrorism and espionage. Along with the other interpersonal drama this is sure to be a fitting end to the "Evening Shift" story
This is the third book in the "Evening Shift" Trilogy and it once again brings Christopher Howard and his friends back into the world of terrorism and...
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04: 00 The Lawmaker
ISBN: 9781505852219 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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