Hugger Mugger, Cloak and Dagger


Book Description

Yashera Vinthe, the author, attempts to answer some of the haunting questions that plague us human beings – especially at a time when we arrive at a crossroads in our lives – questions that bother us sometimes to the point of despair, depression or even suicide. Questions like “Is this all there is to life?”, “Why do I feel so empty inside?”, “What am I missing in life?”, Why does life seem so unfair?”, “Why am I not happy?”, “How do I get to live a fulfilled and abundant life?”, and variations of these. A very few of us escape these questions, while the vast majority of us continue to suffer in silence or ignorance. Yashera paints a picture of the dilemmas she faced and the path she finally chose to pursue when faced with her own crossroads. Her answers to some of these questions are forthrightly hard hitting and even brutal at times, but her bold and different perspective on life are surprisingly comforting and believable and even do-able. She hopes her book will aid suffering people find relief in her straightforward discourse and guide them in their pursuit of joy.




Shadow Warrior


Book Description

Explores the life and career of William Egan Colby, one of the most controversial figures of the postwar period: World War II commando, Cold War spy, Saigon CIA station chief, and eventual CIA director under Nixon and Ford, he played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events in 20th-century history.




Challenging the Secret Government


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Just four months after Richard Nixon's resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War. The country's best investigative journalists and members of Congress quickly mobilized to probe a scandal that seemed certain to rock the foundations of this secret government. Subsequent investigations disclosed that the CIA had plotted to kill foreign leaders and that the FBI had harassed civil rights and student groups. Some called the scandal 'son of Watergate.' Many observers predicted that the investigations would lead to far-reaching changes in the intelligence agencies. Yet, as Kathryn Olmsted shows, neither the media nor Congress pressed for reforms. For all of its post-Watergate zeal, the press hesitated to break its long tradition of deference in national security coverage. Congress, too, was unwilling to challenge the executive branch in national security matters. Reports of the demise of the executive branch were greatly exaggerated, and the result of the 'year of intelligence' was a return to the status quo. American History/Journalism




Wedge


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Prophetic when first published, even more relevant now, Wedge is the classic, definitive story of the secret war America has waged against itself. Based on scores of interviews with former spies and thousands of declassified documents, Wedge reveals and re-creates -- battle by battle, bungle by bungle -- the epic clash that has made America uniquely vulnerable to its enemies. For more than six decades, the opposed and overlapping missions of the FBI and CIA -- and the rival personalities of cops and spies -- have caused fistfights and turf tangles, breakdowns and cover-ups, public scandals and tragic deaths. A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, Wedge is both a journey and a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, and the plots to kill Castro through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery, and the hunt for Al Qaeda -- Wedge shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement and intelligence. Gripping and authoritative -- and updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action through to September 11, 2001 -- Wedge is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage.




Twin Tracks


Book Description

Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work's twenty-five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future. Each chapter starts with an event -- such as the U.S. attack on Tripoli in 1804 -- that generates two divergent series of consequences. After tracking each pathway as it ranges far and wide through time and space, Burke shows how the paths finally and unexpectedly converge in the modern world. Twin Tracks pinpoints the myriad ways the future is shaped, whether by love, war, accident, genius, or discovery. For instance, in "The Marriage of Figaro to Stealth Fighter," Burke's twin tracks start with the composer of the opera and the French spy from whose play he stole the plot. The tracks then encompass, among other things, freemasonry, the War of Independence, Captain Cook, jellyfish, Jane Austen, and audio tape. Ultimately, the convergence of the two Figaro tracks sets the stage for the development of Gulf War Stealth aircraft. Wonderfully accessible and lucidly written, Twin Tracks offers an amusing and instructive new view of the past and the future.




Oxford Thesaurus of English


Book Description

"The leading single-volume English thesaurus explores the richness of the English language with hundreds of thousands of synonyms and antonyms, and thousands of example sentences drawn from the Oxford English Corpus; finds the word you need quickly with carefully chosen and arranged synonyms; broadens your vocabulary and finds solutions to word puzzles and crosswords with hundreds of thematic word lists; and helps express yourself more accurately with hundreds of 'Choose the Right Word' boxes exploring the difference between similar words." --Book Jacket.




Language Learning with Technology


Book Description

" ... Contains over 130 practical classroom activities suitable for beginners to more advanced learners, incorporating a wide range of up-to-date tools, such as mobile technologies and social networking"--Page 4 of cover.




Roget's II


Book Description

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition, is the essential writing tool for every classroom, home, and office, providing all the features that have made Roget's a trusted name for 100 years. The most accessible and easy-to-use thesaurus available, Roget's II includes: Clear, accurate definitions for every synonym group, so you can find just the word you're looking for. Complete alphabetical listing of all synonyms, fully cross-referenced to the main entries. Unique category index of related words and words of opposite meaning to expand and enrich your word choices. With 35,000 synonyms listed and defined, Roget's II is an effective tool for students, writers, professionals, or anyone searching for just the right word!




Roget's II


Book Description

This thesaurus just contains synonyms.




Roget's II Desk Thesaurus


Book Description

Roget's II Desk Thesaurus combines the features of Roget's II: The New Thesaurus with a convenient trim size, making it indispensable for use in the home, at school, or in the office. Over 35,000 entries are arranged alphabetically for ease of use. This volume includes examples of words in context at all definitions and thousands of helpful cross-references. The unique format of the Desk Thesaurus makes it the most user-friendly thesaurus available.