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"A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and their secret missions"For a crucial period, Henry Crumpton led the CIA's global covert operations agai...

Forced to resort to a life of crime in order to support his siblings, Asher Cordell is now ready to walk the straight and narrow path. But when an old rival, the Marquis of Ormsby, infuriates him with his insipid arrogance, Asher cannot resist stealing his famous diamond. However, he's shocked to di...

"Pleasure Is On Her Dance Card" - Determined to find a husband, Miss Eleanor "Nell" Bowman attends a ball put on by the Duchess of Greycliffe, fondly referred to as the Duchess of Love. But she roundly dismisses the suitors the matchmaking hostess has invited on her behalf. For it's the duchess' das...

"This new edition also brings quite a few new authors and their fresh perspectives, sadly necessitated in several instances by the deaths of former world-class senior contributors. Those no longer with us include, Drs. Margaret Billingham, John McNeal, and Sunitha Wickramasinghe. Shortly after submi...

In "Land and Blood, " his second novel, the Algerian-Kabyle writer Mouloud Feraoun offers a detailed portrait of life for Algerian Kabyles in the 1920s and 1930s through the story of a Kabyle-Berber man, Amer. Like many Kabyle men of the 1930s, Amer leaves his village to work in the coal mines of Fr...

The storytelling tradition has long been an important piece of Kentucky history and culture. Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a special place in the imaginations of inventive storytellers and captive listeners. In Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies...

Above the politics and ideological battles of Washington, D.C., is a committee that meets behind locked doors and leaves its paper trail in classified files. The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is one of the most secretive and potentially influential segments of the U.S. intelligence ...

Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relationship. Yet, as immigrants who have settled in communities at a distance from metropolitan areas, both must negotiate complex identities. Growing up in ...

Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. These agreements foster economic integration among member states by enhancing their access to one a...

A cynic by nature, Sloan Skye wasn't thrilled when she was assigned to the FBI's Paranormal Behavioral Analysis Unit. But her doubts are slowly easing, especially when she sees that working on the fringe allows her to use some of her more unconventional tactics. Most of all, Sloan's grateful her car...

As Dana readjusts to life back home with her recently widowed mother, her latest career move isn't exactly a piece of cake. In fact, it's all tofu fish sticks, stuffed squash blossoms, and enough wheat grass shots to scream bloody murder - especially when Dana discovers the body of Maxwell Mendelsoh...

The killer's depravity is insatiable. What he does to his victims is unthinkable. Homicide detective turned P.I. Frank Quinn has seen this M.O. before. A demented ritual, it's the work of Daniel Danielle - a notorious serial killer who blurs the line between male and female, human and monster. Danie...

Handsome Frenchman Sylvain Marquis knows what women desire - chocolate. And so he has learned to master a woman's desire...American Cade Corey has inherited a fortune. Yet she can't buy what she wants: the secrets that melt and stir in the heart of Sylvain's Paris lair. The Parisian sorcerer of arti...

Morgan "Black Heart" Farrell can't believe that the honey-haired siren is telling him the truth: that he's sailed right into the twentieth century. He desperately needs to get back to his ship and his own time. But for now, the widowed Kate seems to need a man -- a "real" man -- who can protect and ...

This book illustrates the ways that cognitive linguistics, a relatively new paradigm in language studies, can illuminate and facilitate language research and teaching. The first part of the book introduces the basics of cognitive linguistic theory in a way that is geared toward second language teach...

TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps. Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door. A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian; an air...

The year is 1690, and the place is Nagasaki - a city where superstition, politics, and greed reign supreme. It is here that the mutilated body of Jan Spaen, a prominent Dutch trader and one of the few Westerners in Japan, washes ashore. With few leads and too many enemies, Sano Ichiro finds himself ...

A riveting, historical tale set in first-century Rome, The Divining chronicles one young woman's spiritual quest to discover her destiny through the powerful gift of second sight--and save entire future generations. "Ancient Rome: 54 C.E." Nineteen-year-old Ulrika is plagued with strange visions and...

Chevy's W-series 348 and later the 409 became legends on the street. Recently, the 348s and 409s have enjoyed a high-performance renaissance and many speed manufacturers are making heads, blocks, and virtually every part for these engines.

The huge progress which has been achieved in the field is covered here, in the first comprehensive monograph on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) since eight years. Apart from chapters reviewing the research field and the laser fundamentals, there are comprehensive updates on red and ...

Thoroughly updated for its Fifth Edition, this handbook is an essential guide to perioperative management of neurosurgical patients. In a quick-reference outline format, the book provides detailed information about the anesthetic management of neurosurgical and neuroradiologic procedures and the int...

Philippe Starck is one of the world's most prolific and famous designers. Well known for his luxurious hotels and restaurants, he is equally celebrated for his inspirational reworkings of everyday household items. Whether it be his iconic lemon squeezer, dubbed the 'Juicy Salif', or his colourful st...

The Shell Guides to the counties of England were first published in the 1930s under the illustrious editorship of John Betjeman and later, the artist John Piper. Today, the various editions are collectors' items with rarer volumes selling for hundreds of pounds. But the series was never completed an...

Who were the brave men who marched northward with Colonel Benedict Arnold on a doomed mission to capture Quebec in 1775? An award-winning writer on the American Revolution, Arthur Lefkowitz spent years searching through archival materials to paint splendid and compelling portraits of Arnold's amazi...

A single comprehensive volume telling the history of early Naval Aviation; Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard This unified history of all naval aviators describes the interrelationship and mutual support of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Before 1920, the Marine Corps and Coast Guard did no...

Proof that any resemblance to persons living or dead in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is, in fact, actual After the publication of his best-selling novel Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with Hell...

Unapologetic, unassuming and forthright, the combat exploits of Executive Outcomes in Angola and Sierra Leone are recounted for the first time by a battlefield commander who was physically on the ground during all their major combat operations From fighting the National Union for the Total Independ...

A very important new study that throws much-needed light on armoured warfare on the Eastern Front during the final months of the war Days of Battle describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. In three separate studies, Dr Norbert Szamveber, drawing fr...

The extraordinary story of how a relatively small number of dedicated men developed the methods and techniques for crossing the vast unmapped Western Desert Made up of members of the Coldstream and Scots Guards, British yeomanry cavalry regiments, New Zealanders, South Africans, and Indian Army men...

A visual guide to exactly how many tanks and other armoured vehicles were advancing on that fateful day on 13th June 1944 In the days following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, the Germans rapidly established strong defences in front of the city of Caen. On 9 June a two-pronged British attempt to...

Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the central figure in the emancipation of European Jewry. His intellect, judgment, and tact won the admiration and friendship of illustrious contemporaries. Last Works includes, for the first time complete and in a single volume, the English translation of two works...

The primary focus of this volume is on justice and morality, the author supplying intellectual tools for distinguishing between morally acceptable and morally unacceptable forms of money lending and reserving the term 'usury' for its unacceptable variants. On this account, some forms of lending shou...

The primary focus of this volume is on justice and morality, the author supplying intellectual tools for distinguishing between morally acceptable and morally unacceptable forms of money lending and reserving the term 'usury' for its unacceptable variants. On this account, some forms of lending shou...

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* Great fun with hilarious monsters and a message about working together * Vibrantly illustrated with masses to look out for on every page by the illustrator of Jasper Fforde's The Last Dragonslayer * Wonderful text to read aloud When a boy and his Dad build an amazing monster-making machine, all so...

"Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream" is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States. During the summer of 2011, five interdisciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, ecologists, e...

The aim of this book is to provide a practical manual that is helpful to pathologists and residents in the daily practice of surgical pathology. The text encompasses all anatomic sites in the human body. Each chapter covers tissue handling, gross examination, gross dissection and diagnosis, processi...

Each volume in this new series offers an in-depth exploration of one major work in MoMA's collection. Through a lively illustrated essay by a MoMA curator that examines the work in detail, the publication delves into aspects of the artist's oeuvre and places the work in a broader social and art-hist...

Each volume in this new series offers an in-depth exploration of one major work in MoMA's collection. Through a lively illustrated essay by a MoMA curator that examines the work in detail, the publication delves into aspects of the artist's oeuvre and places the work in a broader social and arthisto...