Church of Spies

Church of Spies
Author: Mark Riebling
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465061559

The heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII -- often labeled "Hitler's Pope" -- was in fact an anti-Nazi spymaster, plotting against the Third Reich during World War II. The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pope Pius in fact ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he sent birthday cards to Hitler -- while secretly plotting to kill him. He skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recorded his meetings with top Nazis. Under his leadership the Vatican spy ring actively plotted against the Third Reich. Told with heart-pounding suspense and drawing on secret transcripts and unsealed files by an acclaimed author, Church of Spies throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal some of the most astonishing events in the history of the papacy. Riebling reveals here how the world's greatest moral institution met the greatest moral crisis in history.

Computer-Related Risks

Computer-Related Risks
Author: Peter G. Neumann
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 576
Release: 1994-10-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0321703162

"This sobering description of many computer-related failures throughout our world deflates the hype and hubris of the industry. Peter Neumann analyzes the failure modes, recommends sequences for prevention and ends his unique book with some broadening reflections on the future." —Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate This book is much more than a collection of computer mishaps; it is a serious, technically oriented book written by one of the world's leading experts on computer risks. The book summarizes many real events involving computer technologies and the people who depend on those technologies, with widely ranging causes and effects. It considers problems attributable to hardware, software, people, and natural causes. Examples include disasters (such as the Black Hawk helicopter and Iranian Airbus shootdowns, the Exxon Valdez, and various transportation accidents); malicious hacker attacks; outages of telephone systems and computer networks; financial losses; and many other strange happenstances (squirrels downing power grids, and April Fool's Day pranks). Computer-Related Risks addresses problems involving reliability, safety, security, privacy, and human well-being. It includes analyses of why these cases happened and discussions of what might be done to avoid recurrences of similar events. It is readable by technologists as well as by people merely interested in the uses and limits of technology. It is must reading for anyone with even a remote involvement with computers and communications—which today means almost everyone. Computer-Related Risks: Presents comprehensive coverage of many different types of risks Provides an essential system-oriented perspective Shows how technology can affect your life—whether you like it or not!

Oudry's Painted Menagerie

Oudry's Painted Menagerie
Author: Mary Morton
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2007-06-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892368896

In the 1720s and 1730s, Jean-Baptiste Oudry established himself as the preeminent painter in France of hunts, animals, still lifes, and landscapes. Oudry’s Painted Menagerie focuses on a suite of eleven life-size portraits of exotic animals from the royal menagerie at Versailles, painted by Oudry between 1739 and 1752. These paintings eventually found their way into the ducal collection in Schwerin, Germany. Among them is the magnificent portrait of Clara, an Indian rhinoceros who became a celebrity in mid-eighteenth-century Europe. Her portrait has been out of public view for more than a century, and it is presented here in its newly conserved state.

The Jesuits and the Third Reich

The Jesuits and the Third Reich
Author: Vincent A. Lapomarda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

Describes Nazi persecutions of the Jesuit order during the Third Reich and the fates of many Jesuits in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic States, Russia, Rumania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, the Low Countries, and France.

The Arabian Horse

The Arabian Horse
Author: Doreen Haggard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2012-04-11
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9781467975131

This is the second book in my series of Arabian horse books. Arabian horse is slightly different then my first book the Arabian Desert Horse book, I have opened up some different chapters looking into this beautiful breed. This book is designed to show the many different types of Arabian horses and how the Arabian horse is displayed today. Explore breeding programs and Pedigrees or just enjoy the many wonderful photographs in this book. From the Arabian owners and breeders from all around the world, you can visit their websites and see other information on their stud.

A Billion Years

A Billion Years
Author: Mike Rinder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1982185767

A Gallery Book. Gallery Books has a great book for every reader.

Payola!

Payola!
Author: Gerry Cagle
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1989
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780828319256

The author, who is an award winning programme director in the radio industry has used this medium as a backdrop for this gripping novel. The story centres around Bobby Holiday, Vice president in charge of programming for a large radio company, whose body is found in s Los Angeles hotel room. Local police call the death a suicide. The FBI become involved and it transpires that he had been receiving cash payments in return for playing certain records, was deep in debt, a gambler and a habitual user of drugs.