Top Secret America (Enhanced Edition)

Top Secret America (Enhanced Edition)
Author: William M. Arkin
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0316198781
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The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe may be putting us in greater danger. In Top Secret America, award-winning reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin uncover the enormous size, shape, mission, and consequences of this invisible universe of over 1,300 government facilities in every state in America; nearly 2,000 outside companies used as contractors; and more than 850,000 people granted "Top Secret" security clearance. A landmark exposé of a new, secret "Fourth Branch" of American government, Top Secret America is a tour de force of investigative reporting-and a book sure to spark national and international alarm.

Top Secret America

Top Secret America
Author: Dana Priest
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0316194042
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The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe may be putting us in greater danger. In Top Secret America, award-winning reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin uncover the enormous size, shape, mission, and consequences of this invisible universe of over 1,300 government facilities in every state in America; nearly 2,000 outside companies used as contractors; and more than 850,000 people granted "Top Secret" security clearance. A landmark exposé of a new, secret "Fourth Branch" of American government, Top Secret America is a tour de force of investigative reporting-and a book sure to spark national and international alarm.

Area 51

Area 51
Author: Annie Jacobsen
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0316193852
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This "compellingly hard-hitting" bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time (New York Times). It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government — but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades. Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now. Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for extended periods. In Area 51, Jacobsen shows us what has really gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building super-secret, supersonic jets to pursuing the War on Terror. This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public, Area 51 weaves the mysterious activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative, showing that facts are often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.

Top Secret Restaurant Recipes

Top Secret Restaurant Recipes
Author: Todd Wilbur
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1997-06-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 144067440X
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#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars gobbling up meals at full-service restaurant chains, inspiring Todd Wilbur to change his focus from cracking the recipes for convenience store foods to cloning the popular dishes served at these sit-down stand-bys. Wilbur's knock-offs, absolutely indiscernible from the originals, are selected from national and regional chains, many drawn from a list of the top ten full-service restaurant chains, including Houlihan's, Red Lobster, and Pizza Hut. Also included in this savory cookbook is a special section devoted to dishes from hot theme restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, and Dive! Recipes include: Applebee's Quesadillas; Denny's Moons Over My Hammy; Bennigan's Cookie Mountain Sundae; The Olive Garden Toscana Soup; The Cheesecake Factory Bruschetta; T.G.I.Friday's Nine-Layer Dip; Pizza Hut Original Stuffed Crust Pizza; Chi-Chi's Nachos Grande, and many more!

Top Secret - Photocopiable Worksheets for Enhancing the Stewie Scraps Stories

Top Secret - Photocopiable Worksheets for Enhancing the Stewie Scraps Stories
Author: Sheila M. Blackburn
Publisher: Brilliant Publications
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1905780753
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Top Secret is a teacher's resource designed to accompany the Stewie Scraps series of reading books. It consists of six sets of photocopiable worksheets exploring the children's understanding of each book in turn. There are teacher's notes that explain the tasks and give suggestions about use to help develop reading, writing and comprehension skills. The beginning of each section gives a brief synopsis about the book before going on to the tasks involved. Ending each section is a set of comprehension questions that allows you to determine whether the children have fully understood the books. All the Stewie Scraps series of books, as well as this resource, have been illustrated by Leighton Noyes, a noted children's book illustrator. Stewie also has his own website: www.stewie-scraps.co.uk. It contains excerpts from his stories, information about his family, the author and illustrator and a special 'Top Secret' area to be accessed only by those creative genius' possessing the password!

Top Secret Recipes Unlocked

Top Secret Recipes Unlocked
Author: Todd Wilbur
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2009-11-24
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1101152427
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#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! The kitchen clone recipe king is back with a new Top bestselling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes collection—the first book since his bestselling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2. Wilbur takes readers behind the scenes, revealing the key ingredients in some of our favorite foods such as Starbucks’ Peppermint Brownie, Krispy Kreme’s original glazed donuts, Panera Bread’s cranberry walnut bagel and Wendy’s Garden Sensations Manadarin Chicken Salad. The book will feature 115 new recipes, including 40 previously unpublished recipes such as: •Panera Bread French Onion Soup •Burger King Onion Rings •Chick-Fil-A Honey Roasted BBQ Sauce •McDonald’s Cinnamon Melts •Stouffer’s Macaroni & Cheese •Chipotle Mexican Grill Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette •Popeye’s Buttermilk Biscuits. Forget takeout—with these fun recipes and blueprints, all using ingredients you can buy at your local supermarket, you can re-create your favorite restaurant signature dishes right in your own kitchen for a lot less!

Top Secret

Top Secret
Author: Elle Kennedy
Publisher: Elle Kennedy Inc.
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1942444796
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Bestselling authors Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy return with their first Male / Male romance in 3 years. LobsterShorts, 21 Jock. Secretly a science geek. Hot AF. LobsterShorts: So. Here goes. For her birthday, my girlfriend wants…a threesome. SinnerThree: Then you’ve come to the right hookup app. LobsterShorts: Have you done this sort of thing before? With another guy? SinnerThree: All the time. I’m an equal opportunity player. You? LobsterShorts: [crickets!] SinnerThree, 21 Finance major. Secretly a male dancer. Hot AF. SinnerThree: Well, I’m down if you are. My life is kind of a mess right now. School, work, family stress. Oh, and I live next door to the most annoying dude in the world. I need the distraction. Are you sure you want this? LobsterShorts: I might want it a little more than I’m willing to admit. SinnerThree: Hey, nothing wrong with pushing your boundaries... LobsterShorts: Tell that to my control-freak father. Anyway. What if this threesome is awkward? SinnerThree: Then it’s awkward. It’s not like we’ll ever have to see each other again. Right? Just promise you won’t fall in love with me. LobsterShorts: Now wouldn’t that be life-changing... Q&A about Top Secret: Q: Have we met these characters before in another book? A: No! These guys are brand new, and we can’t wait for you to meet them. Q: Is this story MM? Or is it a MMF / MFM / menage? A: This book is MM. Q: Is this a love triangle story? A: Not really. You’ll see. “Bowen and Kennedy serve up a dish of dirty, delicious frat boy goodness, with so much depth and talent that there’s no putting this book down.” USA Today Bestselling Author Sierra Simone "Addictive. Wildly sexy. Completely heartfelt. In short, Top Secret is everything you could want from a Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy romance." #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely "Sarina and Elle do not disappoint with this page turner! The enemies to lovers romance sizzles with just the right amount of sweet thrown in." Jeff Adams, Big Gay Fiction Podcast “No matter how bad a book funk I’m in, I can count on Elle Kennedy and Sarina Bowen to pull me out with a fun, witty, sexy read. I devoured this one in one night!” USA Today bestselling author K.A. Tucker When Elle and Sarina write together, they create nothing short of magic! 5 lobster shorts stars! USA Today bestselling author Tillie Cole For fans of: Annabeth Albert, Casey McQuiston, Ella Frank, Kiera Andrews, Karen Stivali, Amy Jo Cousins, Kindle Alexander, Layla Reyne, Damon Suede, Amy Lane, Vi Keeland, Lauren Blakely, Sierra Simone, Jana Aston, Kendall Ryan, Alexa Riley, Jay Bell, Trina Solet, Reya Karl, Dawn Wilder, Eden Cole, SE Loveless, Van Barrett, JM Synder, Max Rose, Quinn Michaels, Elle Keaton, H G Ellis, Jane Asherwood, Keywords: gay romance, mm romance, m/m romance, bisexual romance, college romance, football romance, hate to love, enemies to lovers, fraternity brothers, male male, sports romance, billionaire, gay, secret lovers, forbidden romance.

Indomitable Will (Enhanced Edition)

Indomitable Will (Enhanced Edition)
Author: Mark Updegrove
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307953661
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With more than a hundred photos, videos, recorded phone conversations, letters, and speeches, this enhanced eBook edition of Indomitable Will brings to life the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson like never before. Nearly fifty years after being sworn in as president of the United States in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson remains a largely misunderstood figure. His force of personal­ity, mastery of power and the political process, and boundless appetite for social reform made him one of the towering figures of his time. But he was one of the most protean and paradoxical of presidents as well. Because of his flawed nature and inherent contradic­tions, some claimed there were as many LBJs as there were people who knew him. Intent on fulfilling the promise of America, Johnson launched a revolution in civil rights, federal aid to education, and health care for the elderly and indigent, and expanded immigration and environ­mental protection. A flurry of landmark laws—he would sign an unparalleled 207 during his five years in office, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Elementary and Second­ary Education Act, Head Start, and Medicare—are testaments to the triumph of his will. His War on Poverty alone brought the U.S. poverty rate down from 20 percent to 12 percent, the biggest one-time drop in American history. As president, he was known for getting things done. At the same time, Johnson’s presidency—and the fulfillment of its own promise—was blighted by his escalation of an ill-fated war in Vietnam that tore at the fabric of America and saw the loss of 36,000 U.S. troops by the end of his term. Presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove offers an intimate portrait of the endlessly fas­cinating LBJ, his extraordinarily eventful presi­dency, and the turbulent times in which he served. We see Johnson in his many guises and dimen­sions: the virtuoso deal-maker using every inch of his six-foot-three-inch frame to intimidate his subjects, the relentless reformer willing to lose southern Democrats from his party for a generation in his pursuit of civil rights for all Americans, and the embattled commander in chief agonizing over the fate of his “boys” in Vietnam—including his two sons-in-law—yet steadfast in his determination to thwart Communist aggression through war, or an honorable peace. Through original interviews and personal accounts from White House aides and Cabinet members, political allies and foes, and friends and family—from Robert McNamara to Barry Goldwa­ter, Lady Bird Johnson to Jacqueline Kennedy—as well as through Johnson’s own candid reflections and historic White House telephone conversa­tions, Indomitable Will reveals LBJ as never before. “ For it is through firsthand narrative more than anything,” writes Updegrove, “that Lyndon John­son—who teemed with vitality in his sixty-four years and remains enigmatic nearly four decades after his passing—comes to life.”

The Jasons

The Jasons
Author: Ann Finkbeiner
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2006-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101201282
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The Jasons are a well-guarded group of world-class scientists, briefly outed in the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, who have been meeting every summer since 1960 to tackle classified problems that the Defense Department cannot solve. Among many stunning innovations, they helped invent our electronic battlefield and Star Wars missile defense technology, and are now looking into ways to improve our intelligence gathering. Recounting the unknown story of these brilliant, stubbornly independent thinkers, Ann Finkbeiner takes advantage of her unprecedented access to this elite group to explore the uncertain bargains between science and politics. It is a story older than Faust and as timely as tomorrow’s headlines.

Dirty Wars

Dirty Wars
Author: Jeremy Scahill
Publisher: Nation Books
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1568584849
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This enhanced edition for Nook features over thirty images, including film stills from the Oscar-nominated documentary Dirty Wars, as well as exclusive photographs of Scahill's reporting in Yemen and Somalia. This edition also features interactive color maps, as well as seven short videos that include the film trailer, clips from the film, and interviews with Scahill. In the video interviews, Scahill shares his insights on the history of drones, President Obama's hawkish foreign policies, and the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies. Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA's Special Activities Division and the Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through “black budgets,” Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals and direct drone, AC-130 and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy. Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that “the world is a battlefield,” as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America's global killing machine. He goes beneath the surface of these covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate. And, based on unprecedented access, Scahill tells the chilling story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government. As US leaders draw the country deeper into conflicts across the globe, setting the world stage for enormous destabilization and blowback, Americans are not only at greater risk—we are changing as a nation. Scahill unmasks the shadow warriors who prosecute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of unaccountable violence that is now official policy: victims of night raids, secret prisons, cruise missile attacks and drone strikes, and whole classes of people branded as “suspected militants.” Through his brave reporting, Scahill exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the United States government struggles to keep hidden.