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This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life - and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running "denied area" operations in Eastern Europe, hunting Bosnian War criminals, or providing actionable intelligence to US government and coalition forces in Iraq, Roy usually found himself at the right place at the right time.

The Osama bin Laden I Know is the definitive history of the world's most wanted man. Author Peter Bergen is CNN's terrorism analyst and an acclaimed journalist who actually spent time with bin Laden prior to the events of September 11, 2001. The book features interviews with people from each stage of bin Laden's life, from childhood to the present day, and reveals both formative moments and intimate details that reveal his character and personality.

Soldier Magazine's Book of the Month Fascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The Times Gripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the makings of a military thriller. The action unfolds like a Le Carre novel. Soldier Magazine Jihad isn't a war. It's an objective. An aberration. If...

First published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man became one of James Weldon Johnson’s most famous works, and remains a testament to the lives and experiences of both Johnson and his peers. Although primarily a work of fiction, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man offers many parallels with the life of Johnson himself. Set shortly after the Civil War, this powerful fictional memoir recounts the life of a biracial man, grappling with questions around identity, race and justice.

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Riveting and darkly funny and in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.” – The New York Times A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy...

Have you ever searched the roots of a government directive and found the seeds of a lie?When a global pandemic hits the UK, Capital Post Journalist, Stig Fisher finds himself being silenced by his editor for questioning the British prime minister about the validity of sweeping new powers that...

Il Programma Gateway esplora la vera storia che si cela dietro uno dei documenti declassificati più affascinanti legati alla CIA e ai servizi segreti statunitensi. Attingendo a fonti verificabili, il libro ricostruisce le origini del metodo Gateway, il lavoro di Robert Monroe, la tecnologia Hemi-Sync e l'interesse del governo per gli stati alterati di coscienza.

Questo libro è l'esatta traduzione del processo Gateway, originariamente un progetto segreto della CIA e reso pubblico il 10 settembre 2003. Il programma GATEWAY riguarda l'esperienza di alterazione della coscienza che permette di raggiungere, dopo pratica ed esercizi specifici, stati di coscienza alterata, fare esperienze fuori dal corpo (OBE), viaggiare su altri piani astrali, trascendere le dimensioni e andare avanti e indietro nel tempo.

Our society is breaking down. Fascists are winning elections, economic inequality is rampant, and the climate crisis is at its tipping point. It feels like the amount of work needed to overcome these injustices is too much to handle. But what if there is a way to lower the threshold to action? Who will free us if not ourselves?

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The world built an entire architecture to keep itself safe from the bomb. Inspectors, treaties, satellites, hotlines. Against the other weapon of mass destruction, it built a treaty with no inspectors at all. That is not an oversight. It is a decision...

كتاب «مذكرات معتقل في غوانتانامو (كوبا)» للمؤلف حسين عبدالقادر هو سيرة ذاتية مؤثرة يروي فيها تجربته الشخصية خلال فترة اعتقاله في سجن غوانتانامو. ومن خلال سرد صادق وتأملات عميقة، يكشف الكتاب واقع الاعتقال، والصمود في مواجهة أقسى الظروف، وقوة الإيمان والأمل في تجاوز المحن.

Dieses Buch öffnet den Blick für eine Führungskultur, die im Ernstfall über Erfolg oder Scheitern entscheidet. Im Mittelpunkt steht das Führen im Nebel der Ungewissheit: Daraus leitet der Autor ab, warum Auftragstaktik, Fehlerkultur und kritisches Denken untrennbar zusammengehören.

La ETA, una organización terrorista sin parangón en Europa, dejó un reguero de viudas, huérfanos, hermanos y amigas no solo desconsolados por unas muertes dramáticas, sino vilipendiados por una sociedad cruel, aterrorizada y, en muchos casos, cómplice que no supo o quiso mostrar el más elemental rasgo de piedad o empatía con unas víctimas cuyo único delito era su parentesco con quienes la organización terrorista había puesto en una diana antes de dispararles con un arma.

Brought to you by Penguin. This is history through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud funny history from the multi-million copy bestselling author of A History of Britain in Ten Enemies and Horrible Histories. Remember...

Das Softwareunternehmen Palantir vertreibt eine der weltweit leistungsstärksten Technologien zum Sammeln von großen Datenmengen. Damit handelt Palantir mit Informationen, die westliche Demokratien schützen sollen, aber auch ihren Zusammenbruch herbeiführen könnten. An der Spitze des Unternehmens steht der unkonventionelle CEO und Mitbegründer Alex Karp, der in Sozialtheorie promovierte und überraschende politische und philosophische Ansichten vertritt.

California was once the crown jewel of the American dream: prosperous, innovative, egalitarian, and aspirational. Today, it stands as a dystopian warning of what happens when nihilistic, radical ideology consumes the foundations of governance. In Failed State, Christopher Moritz dissects the unraveling of the Golden State with the precision of a lawyer, the depth of a historian, and the heartbreak of a California native son who has witnessed its collapse firsthand.

Parceria inédita entre Bookwire, Supersônica Livros e Editora Ubu prepara edição comemorativa ao centenário de Malcolm X em audiolivro. Na voz de Roberta Estrela D'Alva, com direção de Daniela Thomas, o audiolivro " Malcolm X – "A revolução negra" e outros textos " – reúne discursos importantes de Malcolm, além de cartas escritas durante sua viagem à Arábia Saudita e alguns países africanos.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FOLLOW-UP TO THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER 22 MURDERS The truth about the deadliest criminal incident in Canadian history has remained untold—until now. Investigative journalist Paul Palango’s 22 Murders examined the April 2020 shooting spree committed by Gabriel Wortman...

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China 'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 'The book we have all been waiting for' BRENDAN SIMMS...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it’s taken us 250 years to build—and they’ll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture. Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can’t agree on what makes America special. We...