Risk Taker, Spy Maker: Tales of a CIA Case Officer (Broman Barry Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Risk Taker, Spy Maker: Tales of a CIA Case Officer (Broman Barry Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The vivid and engaging memoir of a CIA case officer.Joining the CIA after fighting in Vietnam as a Marine, Broman's first posting was war-torn Cambodia. He was present at the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975, escaping just before the Khmer Rouge took power. During his career, he was twice chief of

Ghost Rendition: A CIA Thriller (Weitzman Larry)(Pevná vazba)

Action-packed CIA spy thriller, part family dramedy, and full of action, quirky comedy, and all too human characters. Gib Alexander is a divorced suburban dad who also happens to be a deadly efficient, off the books, CIA contractor. Balancing the demands of his perilous profession and his

The Palace (Reich Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

In his greatest challenge yet, international spy Simon Riske must face a ring of ruthless masterminds and foil a plot with global implications as he becomes the world's most wanted man. Life is good for Rafael de Bourbon. The forty-year-old Spaniard recently married to a wealthy English beauty, and

A Cheetah's Tale (Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of K)(Pevná vazba)

A Cheetah's Tale - wildlife autobiography of HRH Princess Michael set in Mozambique, holiday reads and travel literature, the cheetah version of 'Born Free', including the story of how a young Princess Michael of Kent raised a cheetah cub called Tess, plus her recollections of the African

Orchard Aesop's Fables (Morpurgo Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Celebrating 10 years of this timeless collection of Aesop's favourite tales, retold by Michael Morpurgo - author of War Horse - and illustrated by renowned artist, Emma Chichester

Tales of Amazing Animal Heroes - With an introduction from Michael Morpurgo (Unwin Mike)(Pevná vazba)

Arthur, High King of Britain (Morpurgo Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Michael Morpurgo's imaginative retelling of the King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table tales, accompanied by Michael Foreman's stunning illustrations A boy sets out to hike across the sea bed at low tide to an island not too far offshore, determined to prove that he could make it there and

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy (Hale Nathan)(Pevná vazba)

Meet America's first spy, Nathan Hale, in this installment of the New York Times bestselling Hazardous Tale graphic novel series! 'These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.' --New York Times 'I regret that I have but one life to

A Question of Time: A Cold War Spy Thriller (Stejskal James)(Pevná vazba)

'Stejskal, who served 35 years with the U.S. Army Special Forces and the CIA, convincingly describes the mission's progress, and does a good job building suspense even if the outcome is never in doubt. Fans of realistic espionage fiction will look forward to the sequel.' -- Publishers

Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (Graziano Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA. Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts

Lovely View of Sea (Carson Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A touching and comic tale of the last week before Stanley Dowd turns

Risk, Language, and Power: The Nanotechnology Environmental Policy Case (Morris Jeffery T.)(Pevná vazba)

Risk, Language, and Power explores discourse around the environmental risks of nanotechnology, making the case that the dominance in risk discourse of regulatory science is a limiting policy debate on environmental risks, and that specific initiatives should be undertaken to broaden debate not just

Mountains: Epic Cycling Climbs (Barry Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The mountains of Europe represent different things for different people. For the locals they are a way of life; for visitors they represent breathtaking beauty, active holidays, and moments of contemplation. For cyclists, however, these dramatic landscapes represent suffering, agony--and glory. For

Magic and Myth: Ireland's Fairy Tales (Scott Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Myths, legends, and magic are woven together in a collection of enthralling Irish fairy tales from the New York Times bestselling author of the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. A haunting midnight dance that steals children away... An eerie fairy island that appears once every seven

Collateral Management - A Guide to Mitigating Counterparty Risk (Simmons Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Insight into collateral management and its increasing relevance in modern banking In the wake of recent financial crises, firms of all sizes have adjusted their policies to incorporate more frequent instances of collateral

Portfolio Decisions for Faith-Based Investors: The Case of Shariah-Compliant and Ethical Equities (Anwer Zaheer)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the idiosyncratic risk, risk-return trade off and payout decisions for faith-based investors including Islamic Shariah compliant and ethical investors, who may be paying a cost for their belief system in the form of under-diversification of portfolios and additional monitoring

The Complete Options Trader: A Strategic Reference for Derivatives Profits (Thomsett Michael C.)(Pevná vazba)

Options traders rely on a vast array of information concerning probability, risk, strategy components, calculations, and trading

The Ghosting of Anne Armstrong (Green Michael Cawood)(Pevná vazba)

A novel that tells a four-hundred-year-old tale of witchcraft and intrigue, reimagining the life of a servant girl who accuses her neighbors of being witches.Michael Cawood Green's novel The Ghosting of Anne Armstrong calls up the lost voice of a fourteen-year-old girl who, between January and May

High Risk: A True Story of the Sas, Drugs, and Other Bad Behaviour (Timberlake Ben)(Pevná vazba)

This is a dark, raw and uncompromising tale of the human condition in extremis, drawing on the many lives of Ben Timberlake: as an archaeologist, Special Forces soldier, combat medic and drug addict. Starting with Ben's first near-death experience--in a Nazi-themed bar in wartime Yugoslavia--High

Community Risk and Protective Factors for Probation and Parole Risk Assessment Tools: Emerging Research and Opportunities (Dorch Edwina Louise)(Pevná vazba)

The staff in probation agencies rely heavily on a long list of case plan agreements to get their clients to obey the laws. Yet, the list of rules create overwhelming challenges for those on probation and parole, especially those who suffer from drug addiction, mental illness, and physical and

Legends and Lore: Ireland's Folk Tales (Scott Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Myths, legends, and magic are woven together in a collection of enthralling Irish folktales from the New York Times bestselling author of the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. A competition to become King of the Leprechauns... A trick designed to fool the Queen of the Fairies... A

Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology (O'Brien Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.Hominins began using stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, perhaps even 3.4 million years ago. Given the

Knowledge Risk and Its Mitigation: Practices and Cases (Lee Rongbin W. B.)(Pevná vazba)

The life cycle of companies and enterprises, at present, is short-lived due to rapid social and technological changes. Despite the growing awareness on the importance of knowledge management (KM) among academic researchers, it is still not widely practiced in industry. Why is this? Most KM programs

Black Hammock (Wiley Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Homicide detective Daniel Turner revisits an 18-year-old unsolved case in the third of this intriguing and atmospheric crime noir series. We had set out from Atlanta to kill my mother and her husband. A slow kill. Oren has returned to the family home he last saw when he was eight years old