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Ancient Assyria: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Par Karen Radner. 2015
Professor of Ancient Near East history illuminates the multicultural kingdom whose heritage shaped life in the Mediterranean region and Middle…
East. Nineteenth-century excavations in cities of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Israel, and other sites provide detailed insights into Assyrians' government, religion, trade networks, living conditions, travel, warfare, and libraries. 2015Hieroglyphs: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Par Penelope Wilson. 2004
Explores the cultural significance of hieroglyphs, the pictorial writing system used in ancient Egypt for more than three thousand years.…
Explains the purpose of hieroglyphs, the clues used to interpret them, and what they have taught us about life in the Nile Valley kingdom. 2003Biblical archaeology: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Par Eric H. Cline. 2009
Biblical archaeology seeks to illuminate the ancient world over a two thousand-year period in the Middle East and North Africa,…
not necessarily to prove or disprove Bible stories. Cline traces its evolution from pioneers to the present, from pick and shovel to DNA analysis, petrography, magnetometers, and satellite photography. 2009Druids: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Par Barry W. Cunliffe. 2010
Oxford University archaeologist weighs literary accounts of the Druids against the remaining evidence of their culture. Discusses Druid religious and…
burial practices, the reports of ancient Greek and Roman writers, and the post-medieval revival of interest in--and fanciful reinvention of--the Druids. 2010A chronicle of the fourteen-year manhunt and capture of Balkan war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, as well as…
the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for war crimes. Some violence. 2016Missing man: the American spy who vanished in Iran
Par Barry Meier. 2016
In 2013, it was revealed that former FBI agent turned private investigator Robert Levinson, who had disappeared in Iran six…
years prior, had been there on a mission for the CIA and was captured. Interviews and CIA files weave together the story of Levinson's time in Iran and the efforts to rescue him. 2016Near and distant neighbors: a new history of Soviet intelligence
Par Jonathan Haslam. 2015
An account of Soviet intelligence services from the October Revolution to the end of the Cold War. The author examines…
Nikita Khrushchev and his successors' use of codes and ciphers, as well as the reasons they discarded ideological recruitment in favor of blackmail and bribery. 2015Ivory Vikings: the mystery of the most famous chessmen in the world and the woman who made them
Par Nancy Marie Brown. 2015
The Lewis chessmen were discovered in Scotland in the early 1800s. A historian traces these carved ivory game pieces from…
their probable creation in Iceland, and chronicles the North Atlantic world that the Vikings ruled for four hundred years. 2015Cyberphobia: identity, trust, security and the Internet
Par Edward Lucas. 2015
Senior editor at the Economist examines the culture surrounding cybercrimes--crimes involving computers--in the early twenty-first century. Topics include hackers, identity…
theft, corporate and political warfare using computers, the darknet where illegal and morally questionable transactions occur, and how to understand and protect oneself against these risks in everyday life. 2015The devil's chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government
Par David Talbot. 2015
Portrait of Allen Welsh Dulles and his reign as the longest-serving director of the CIA. Utilizes government documents, intelligence sources,…
personal correspondence, journals, and exclusive interviews to characterize Dulles, his work, and his questionable behavior and tactics. Bestseller. 2015Surprise attack: from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Par Larry Hancock, Larry J Hancock. 2015
An examination of over sixty years of military and terror threats against America, as well as of the intelligence tools…
and practices that provided warnings of those attacks. Traces the evolution and application of these intelligence practices and discusses why these warnings have often failed to interdict or intercept actual attacks. 2015A life of lies and spies: tales of a CIA covert ops polygraph interrogator
Par Alan B. Trabue. 2015
Memoirs from a former CIA officer, describing his work polygraphing foreign spies and his many other adventures, beginning with his…
induction to the CIA in 1971. He details many of his high-adrenaline experiences as well as humorous stories. He also discusses the CIA's use of polygraph and interrogation in validating information. 2015How to catch a Russian spy: the true story of an American civilian turned double agent
Par Ellis Henican, Naveed Jamali. 2015
In 2008 the author, an average American, aided an initially reluctant FBI duo in taking down a top Russian spy…
based at the United Nations, using only what he'd learned about spying from books, films, games, and TV. In the process, he spent four years as a civilian double agent. Some strong language. 2015The new spymasters: inside the modern world of espionage from the Cold War to global terror
Par Stephen Grey. 2015
In the ever-changing world of espionage, the world's spymasters have begun to shun human intelligence gathering, replacing it with technical…
methods such as satellite photography and global communications interception. Journalist Stephen Grey examines how this has failed at times, however, and provides a history of favored techniques and technologies. 2015Off the radar: a father's secret, a mother's heroism, and a son's quest
Par Cyrus Copeland. 2015
An American civilian, Max Copeland, was seized by the Revolutionary Guards in Iran in 1979 and charged with espionage. The…
author, Max's son, relates how his mother, Shahin, attempted to free Max, and he searches to uncover just who his father really was. Strong language. 2015A very dangerous woman: the lives, loves and lies of Russia's most seductive spy
Par Jeremy Dronfield, Deborah McDonald. 2015
Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg began a passionate affair with British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart in the…
early twentieth century, even while spying on him for the Bolsheviks. The authors recount Moura's attempts to save Lockhart and her continued espionage after later fleeing to England. Some descriptions of sex. 2015Our man in Charleston: Britain's secret agent in the Civil War South
Par Christopher Dickey. 2015
Journalist Christopher Dickey recounts the work of Robert Bunch, who served as British consul in Charleston in 1853. His work…
also encompassed sending intelligence to the British government and working against his neighbors' plans for a new Confederacy, even on the brink of the American Civil War. Some strong language. 2015Vesuvius: a biography
Par Alwyn Scarth. 2009
One of the world's most dangerous volcanoes and capable of destroying entire cities, Vesuvius has fascinated many for over two…
millennia. Scarth draws on research, eyewitness accounts, and other sources to depict the story of this violent volcano from ancient times until the early twenty-first century. 2009Editor-in-chief of Truthdig Robert Scheer discusses the widespread surveillance of the general public conducted by corporations and government agencies and…
condemns the erosion of privacy rights. He argues that the information revolution, despite its positive elements, contains the seeds of freedom's destruction in the form of a surveillance state. 2015At home in her tomb: Lady Dai and the ancient Chinese treasures of Mawangdui
Par Sarah S. Brannen, Christine Liu-Perkins. 2014
Explores the mysteries of the Mawangdui (mah-wahng-dway) tombs, one of China's top archaeological finds, and sheds light on what life…
was like during the Han dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.D.). Details the burial and condition of Lady Dai's body and cause of death. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2014