The Grey Cloak [electronic Resource]
Author | : Harold MacGrath |
Publisher | : eBooksLib |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781412147873 |
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Author | : Harold MacGrath |
Publisher | : eBooksLib |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781412147873 |
Author | : Harold MacGrath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2008-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781437873245 |
The author has taken a few liberties with the lives of various historical personages who pass through these pages; but only for the story s sake.
Author | : Harold MacGrath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2021-11-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300101591 |
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a leading expert on the history of American espionage, here offers a lively and sweeping history of American secret intelligence from the founding of the nation through the present day. Jeffreys-Jones chronicles the extraordinary expansion of American secret intelligence from the 1790s, when George Washington set aside a discretionary fund for covert operations, to the beginning of the twenty-first century, when United States intelligence expenditure exceeds Russia's total defense budget. How did the American intelligence system evolve into such an enormous and costly bureaucracy? Jeffreys-Jones argues that hyperbolic claims and the impulse toward self-promotion have beset American intelligence organizations almost from the outset. Allan Pinkerton, whose nineteenth-century detective agency was the forerunner of modern intelligence bureaus, invented assassination plots and fomented anti-radical fears in order to demonstrate his own usefulness. Subsequent spymasters likewise invented or exaggerated a succession of menaces ranging from white slavery to Soviet espionage to digital encryption in order to build their intelligence agencies and, later, to defend their ever-expanding budgets. While American intelligence agencies have achieved some notable successes, Jeffreys-Jones argues, the intelligence community as a whole has suffered from a dangerous distortion of mission. By exaggerating threats such as Communist infiltration and Chinese espionage at the expense of other, more intractable problems--such as the narcotics trade and the danger of terrorist attack--intelligence agencies have misdirected resources and undermined their own objectivity. Since the end of the Cold War, the aims of American secret intelligence have been unclear. Recent events have raised serious questions about effectiveness of foreign intelligence, and yet the CIA and other intelligence agencies are poised for even greater expansion under the current administration. Offering a lucid assessment of the origins and evolution of American secret intelligence, Jeffreys-Jones asks us to think also about the future direction of our intelligence agencies.
Author | : Bryce Milligan |
Publisher | : Eerdmans Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2002-08-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780802852243 |
Relates a legend about the Irish slave girl who became Saint Brigid, beginning with a celestial song, a mysterious gift, and a prophecy on the night of her birth.
Author | : Adam Mudman Bezecny |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2017-07-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0692926194 |
Deus Mega Therion is the story of an '80s metal band who has to work their way out of a contract with a Satanic cult. The Divine Mrs. E is the tale of an actress whose investigations into a murder lead her somewhere unexpected.
Author | : Robert Beatty |
Publisher | : Disney Electronic Content |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 148471511X |
"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul." Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of the Biltmore estate.There's plenty to explore in her grand home, although she must take care to never be seen. None of the rich folk upstairs know that Serafina exists; she and her pa, the estate's maintenance man, have secretly lived in the basement for as long as Serafina can remember. But when children at the estate start disappearing, only Serafina knows who the culprit is:a terrifying man in a black cloak who stalks Biltmore's corridors at night. Following her own harrowing escape, Serafina risks everything by joining forces with Braeden Vanderbilt, the young nephew of the Biltmore's owners. Braeden and Serafina must uncover the Man in the Black Cloak's true identity...before all of the children vanish one by one. Serafina's hunt leads her into the very forest that she has been taught to fear. There she discovers a forgotten legacy of magic, one that is bound to her own identity. In order to save the children of Biltmore, Serafina must seek the answers that will unlock the puzzle of her past.
Author | : W Thomas Beckner |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2021-10-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Dr. Beckner briefly reviews the history of correctional chaplaincy and its development within the American criminal justice system and summarizes several significant studies of the profession. He examines the critical premises on which chaplaincy rests and presents a unique structural model of chaplaincy consisting of four critical dimensions: personal, pastoral, administrative, and community. Beckner then shows how this paradigm serves as a template for the development of a chaplaincy plan that will meet the needs of a specific institutional setting and can be monitored for effective results.