In Search of Enemies

In Search of Enemies
Author: John Stockwell
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 285
Release: 1984-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393009262

Focusing on the Angola paramilitary program of 1975-76 in which he played a leading role, a former CIA officer glimpses of the agency's clandestine operations and argues for their elimination

John Stockwell

John Stockwell
Author: John Burr Stockwell
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781555952365

This beautifully illustrated monograph is the first of Stockwell's landscapes and includes a wide range of his oil and pastel paintings. 70 colour illustrations

The Praetorian Guard

The Praetorian Guard
Author: John Stockwell
Publisher: South End Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780896083950

Since its publication in 1991 this book has stayed in print, although some parts may now be dated. Stockwell examines often unjustified involvement of the CIA in many parts of the world, through thousands of covert operations, which have ended the lives of millions of people. He describes secret and obscure operations, some of which entailed the killing of people by the thousands at Angola, and others such as the one which overthrew the first democratic government in Guatemala, and the creation of the infamous "death squads" in that country and El Salvador, to murder civilians and seed terror among the people.

Red Sunset

Red Sunset
Author: John Stockwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1982
Genre:
ISBN: 9780722182031

Mathematics of Multidimensional Seismic Imaging, Migration, and Inversion

Mathematics of Multidimensional Seismic Imaging, Migration, and Inversion
Author: N. Bleistein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2000-12-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780387950617

For more than 80 years, the oil and gas industry has used seismic methods to construct images and determine physical characteristics of rocks that can yield information about oil and gas bearing structures in the earth. This book presents the different seismic data processing methods, also known as seismic "migration," in a unified mathematical way. The book serves as a bridge between the applied math and geophysics communities by presenting geophysicists with a practical introduction to advanced engineering mathematics, while presenting mathematicians with a window into the world of the mathematically sophisticated geophysicist.

The Grammatical Structures of English and Spanish

The Grammatical Structures of English and Spanish
Author: Robert P. Stockwell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1965-06-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0226775046

This series is designed to provide a detailed account of one of the major problems in the teaching of a second language—the interference caused by structural differences between the native language of the learner and the foreign language he is studying. The similarities and differences between English and the language being taught are described in two volumes, one on the sound systems and one on the grammatical systems, for some of the foreign languages most in demand in the United States today.

Deadly Deceits

Deadly Deceits
Author: Ralph W. McGehee
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1497689392

A veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency unmasks its culture of lethal lies in this devastating exposé, now with a new foreword by David MacMichael. Ralph W. McGehee was a patriot, dedicated to the American way of life and the international fight against Communism. Following his graduation with honors from Notre Dame, McGehee was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 and quickly became an able and enthusiastic cold warrior. Stationed in Southeast Asia in the mid-1960s, he worked to stem the Communist tide that was sweeping through the region, first in Thailand and later in Vietnam. But despite his notable successes in reversing enemy influence among the local peasants and villagers, McGehee found himself increasingly alienated from a company culture built on deceit and wholesale manipulation of the truth. While his country was being pulled deeper and deeper into the Vietnam quagmire, McGehee awoke to a chilling reality: The CIA was not a gatherer of actual intelligence to be employed in a legitimate war against dangerous enemies, but a tool of the president’s foreign-policy staff designed solely to stifle the truth and fabricate “facts” that supported the agency’s often immoral agenda. With courage and candor, Ralph McGehee illuminates the CIA’s dark catalog of misdeeds in his stunning, no-holds-barred memoir of a life in the service of deception. Startling, eye-opening, and infuriating, Deadly Deceits is an honest and unflinching insider’s look at a toxic government agency that the author cogently argues has no useful purpose and no moral right to exist.

Nature Boy

Nature Boy
Author: M. L. Zambrana
Publisher: Writers Club Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780595218295

In 1944, a little boy named Dean Stockwell began his acting career quite by accident when he accompanied his older brother, Guy, to a Broadway audition. No one could have suspected that the precocious youngster who had trouble remembering his single line of "I won't be damned!" and had little interest in the production would grow up to become one of the most prolific and talented performers in Hollywood. From his film debut in the 1945 musical "Anchors Aweigh" to his Oscar-nominated role of Tony "The Tiger" Russo in "Married to the Mob," Dean Stockwell has made a name for himself through offbeat and unique roles in movies, theatre and television. His most successful role and greatest fame came with the part of Al Calavicci in NBC's science-fiction series "Quantum Leap," and as a former child star with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer he qualifies as one of the legendary actors of the studio system. However, his name doesn't ring a bell with the general public. Who is Dean Stockwell? And just what has he done in his life? Well, he's done more than you might think...

The Andy Warhol Diaries

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Author: Andy Warhol
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 902
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780446391382

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the bestselling classic is introduced to a new generation-with an added preface by Warhol's diarist and long-time friend, Pat Hackett, contemplating Warhol's lasting cultural impact. This international literary sensation turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures in American culture. Filled with shocking observations about the lives, loves, and careers of the rich, famous, and fabulous, Warhol's journal is endlessly fun and fascinating. Spanning the mid-1970s until just a few days before his death in 1987, THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES is a compendium of the more than twenty thousand pages of the artist's diary that he dictated daily to Pat Hackett. In it, Warhol gives us the ultimate backstage pass to practically everything that went on in the world-both high and low. He hangs out with "everybody": Jackie O ("thinks she's so grand she doesn't even owe it to the public to have another great marriage to somebody big"), Yoko Ono ("We dialed F-U-C-K-Y-O-U and L-O-V-E-Y-O-U to see what happened, we had so much fun"), and "Princess Marina of, I guess, Greece," along with art-world rock stars Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, and Keith Haring. Warhol had something to say about everyone who crossed his path, whether it was Lou Reed or Liberace, Patti Smith or Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra or Michael Jackson. A true cultural artifact, THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES amounts to a portrait of an artist-and an era-unlike any other.

Captive Histories

Captive Histories
Author: Evan Haefeli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

This volume draws together an unusually rich body of original sources that tell the story of the 1704 French and Indian attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts, from different vantage points. Texts range from one of the most famous early American captivity narratives, John Williams' The Redeemed Captive, to the records of French soldiers and clerics, to little-known Abenaki and Mohawk stories of the raid that emerged out of their communities' oral traditions. Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney provide a general introduction, extensive annotations, and headnotes to each text. Although the oft-reprinted Redeemed Captive stands at the core of this collection, it is juxtaposed to less familiar accounts of captivity composed by other Deerfield residents: Quentin Stockwell, Daniel Belding, Joseph Petty, Joseph Kellogg, and the teen aged Stephen Williams. Presented in their original form, before clerical editors revised and embellished their content to highlight religious themes, these stories challenge long-standing assumptions about classic Puritan captivity narratives. equally noteworthy, offering a rare opportunity not only to compare captors' and captives' accounts of the same experiences, but to do so with reference to different Native oral traditions. Similarly, the memoirs of French military officers and an excerpt from the Jesuit Relations illuminate the motivations behind the attack and offer fresh insights into the complexities of French-Indian alliances. Taken together, the stories collected in this volume, framed by the editors' introduction and the assessments of two Native scholars, Taiaiake Alfred and Marge Bruchac, allow readers to reconstruct the history of the Deerfield raid from multiple points of view and, in so doing, to explore the interplay of culture and memory that shapes our understanding of the past.