Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy What really happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963? Was the assassination of John F. Kennedy simply the work of a warped, solitary young man, or was something more nefarious afoot?
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda
Who's spying on you? And how are they doing it? Spycraft offers an unprecedented look at the CIA's most secretive operations and the devices that made them possible
In this international bestseller, experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish provide effective step by step techniques to help you improve and enrich your relationships with your children. Learn how to: - Break a pattern of arguments - Cope with negative feelings - Engage your child's cooperation - Set clear limits and maintain goodwill - Express your emotions without being hurtful - Resolve conflicts peacefully
Britain 's Special Intelligence Service, commonly called MI6, is not only the oldest and most storied foreign intelligence unit in the world-it is also the only one to open its archives to an outside researcher. The result, in this authorized history, is an unprecedented and revelatory look at an organization that essentially created, over the course of two world wars, the modern craft of spying. Examining innovations from invisible ink and industrial-scale cryptography to dramatic setbacks like the Nazi sting operations to bag British operatives, this groundbreaking history is as engrossing as any thriller-and much more revealing
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Ostler's ambitious and accessible book is not a technical linguistic study—i.e., it's not concerned with language structure—but about the "growth, development and collapse of language communities" and their cultures. Chairman of the Foundation of Endangered Languages, Ostler's as fascinated by extinction as he is by survival. He thus traces the fortunes of Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic in the flux of ancient Middle Eastern military empires.
