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| Author | : Colin B. Burke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Bibliographers |
| ISBN | : 9780262323352 |
In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how science itself became enmeshed with ideology and the institutions of modern liberalism. In the 1890s, the idealistic American Herbert Haviland Field established the Concilium Bibliographicum, a Switzerland-based science information service that sent millions of index cards to American and European scientists. Field's radical new idea was to index major ideas rather than books or documents. In his struggle to create and maintain his system, Field became entangled with nationalistic struggles over the control of science information, the new system of American philanthropy (powered by millionaires), the politics of an emerging American professional science, and in the efforts of another information visionary, Paul Otlet, to create a pre-digital worldwide database for all subjects. World War I shuttered the Concilium, and postwar efforts to revive it failed. Field himself died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Burke carries the story into the next generation, however, describing the astonishingly varied career of Field's son, Noel, who became a diplomat, an information source for Soviet intelligence (as was his friend Alger Hiss), a secret World War II informant for Allen Dulles, and a prisoner of Stalin. Along the way, Burke touches on a range of topics, including the new entrepreneurial university, Soviet espionage in America, and further efforts to classify knowledge.
| Author | : C. G. McKay |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1993-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780714680354 |
This volume offers an account of some key activities of the Allied secret services and their German counterparts in Sweden during World War II. It also describes in some detail Swedish wartime legislation and Swedish organizations concerned with internal security and intelligence.
| Author | : C. G. McKay |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
| ISBN | : 9780714634708 |
This volume offers an account of some key activities of the Allied secret services and their German counterparts in Sweden during World War II. It also describes in some detail Swedish wartime legislation and Swedish organizations concerned with internal security and intelligence.
| Author | : Allan Hepburn |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2008-10-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0300148488 |
'Intrigue' examines the tradition of the spy narrative in the 20th century, setting the historical contexts for the main themes of the genre, such as the Cambridge spy ring & the Profumo Affair. Hepburn offers a systematic theory of the conventions & attractions of espionage fiction.
| Author | : Ian Mortimer |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2010-09-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1441160493 |
In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne in 1399 and the origins of the idea of the royal pretender. Central to this book is his ground-breaking approach to medieval evidence. He explains how an information-based method allows a more certain reading of a series of texts. He criticises existing modes of arriving at consensus and outlines a process of historical analysis that ultimately leads to questioning historical doubts as well as historical facts, with profound implications for what we can say about the past with certainty. This is an important work from one of the most original and popular medieval historians writing today.
| Author | : Sam Horn |
| Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2015-04-06 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1626562520 |
A communication strategist shares her eight-stage process for connecting with any number of people with two-way interactions. Did you know: • Goldfish, yes, goldfish, have longer attention spans than we humans do? • One in four people abandons a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load? Imagine if there were ways, in a world of impatience and INFObesity, to quickly intrigue busy, distracted people and earn their interest, trust and buy-in. Imagine if there was a process for pleasantly surprising decision-makers and convincing them you're the right person for the job, position, project or contract. You don’t have to imagine it, Sam Horn has created it. Sam’s innovative techniques have helped her clients close deals and raise millions of dollars, and will be your “secret sauce” to getting funded, hired, elected, promoted or referred. “These accessible techniques transcend generations and read like a modern-day version of How to Win Friends and Influence People.” —Miki Agrawal, one of Forbes’s “Top 20 Millennials on a Mission” and founder of THINX “Sam Horn’s smart and snappy book will teach you how to get people’s attention—and keep it.” —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of To Sell Is Human “If you can’t get people’s attention, you’ll never get their business. Sam Horn’s new book shows how to quickly earn respect so people are motivated to listen.” —Terry Jones, founder of Travelocity and WayBlazer and chair of Kayak “A must-read for those in the workplace who want to contribute at their highest level and create more strategic networks.” —Betsy Myers, former executive director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School “Horn offers innovative ways to initiate genuine conversations and meaningful connections that turn strangers into friends.” —Keith Ferrazzi, author of the #1 bestseller Never Eat Alone
| Author | : Robert A. Mayer |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2007-07 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1434308294 |
Non-fiction with more Intrigue than the DaVinci code? If you still have a few questions left on some common subjects like: - Why am I here? - What happens when I die? - How are things, Really ? you likely will find parts of this book to be extremely intriguing. The author is in a search to find reasonable answers (as in "No B.S." and "No baloney") to these questions, and provides information about 13 extremely unusual but credible contemporary individuals, all alive within the last 70 years. These individuals, through their mind-stretching talents, abilities, work, and life experiences, provide stunning examples of the possibilities for each of us. Can you name: - The "Sleeping Prophet"? - The sculptor/ice-skater whose inner visions are directly responsible for the beginning of the Atomic Age? - The individual who worked with the CIA to produce "out-of-body" espionage? - The woman who died three times in 1977 and now is a well-known expert on Near-Death experiences and the wisdom they can produce? - The physicist who now explores mind-stretching events at the outer edges between Science and beyond-science? - The multiple-life-continuous-memory individual who the Taos Indians in the U.S. knew as a Kachina or "spirit being", who now offers fascinating seminars around the world on 'how are things, really?' Their common thread is their connection, evidenced through their personal life experiences, to the greater unseen universe beyond our every-day senses. These individuals vary greatly in the gifts, talents, information, and insights they exhibit and offer. Since "proofs" of the information offered by these individuals are frequently not available, the author can only offer the Intrigue of the Possible which he believes they represent. If you are ready to start a personal inquiry, this book offers many options. I wish you success in your search.
| Author | : C. G. McKay |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780714652115 |
A history of Swedish interception of radio and telegraph messages during World Wars I and II providing a valuable background to Swedish military operations at this time. This should prove a valuable work for anyone interested in the intelligence systems at work during wartime.
| Author | : Jim Carlton |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 1998-10-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0887309658 |
Apple Computer was once a shining example of the American success story. Having launched the personal computer revolution in 1977 with the first all-purpose desktop PC, Apple became the darling of the national business press and Wall Street. Yet by 1995, the company's change-the-world idealism had all but disappeared in a bitter internal struggle between warring camps. Raging internal mistakes, petty infighting, and gross mismanagement became Apple's hallmark, and today the company clings to a mere 3.7 percent share of the market it helped to create. Apple is the spellbinding account of what really went on behind closed doors, revealing the forces that dismantled this once great icon of American business.
| Author | : L. E. Modesitt, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 2010-07-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429992417 |
The Imager Porfolio is a bestselling and innovative epic fantasy series from L. E. Modesitt, Jr. that RT Book Reviews says “shines with engrossing characters, terrific plotting, and realistic world-building.” Continue the journey with Imager's Intrigue. Rhenn has a wife and a young child, and a solid career as an imager. But he has made more than one enemy during his journey from apprentice painter to master imager, and even his great powers won't allow him to escape his past. The Imager Portfolio #1 Imager / #2 Imager’s Challenge / #3 Imager’s Intrigue / #4 Scholar / #5 Princeps / #6 Imager’s Battalion / #7 Antiagon Fire / #8 Rex Regis / #9 Madness in Solidar / #10 Treachery’s Tools / #11 Assassin’s Price/#12 Endgames Other series by this author: The Saga of Recluce The Corean Chronicles The Spellsong Cycle The Ghost Books The Ecolitan Matter At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
