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CIA Spymaster

By: Ashley, III, Clarence A.

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AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE HISTORY BOOK CLUB AND THE MILITARY BOOK CLUB "One of the best behind-the-scenes perspectives on Cold War espionage that I have read." -Francis Gary Powers, founder, The Cold War Museum "When I think of George Kisevalter, I think about one of the finest public servants I have ever known. I think about honor, decency, and integrity. He served in some very important and difficult posts, always with distinction, always making his country and the Agency proud." -George Herbert Walker Bush, president and former CIA director George Kisevalter ran the first key Soviet agent in CIA history, Pyotr Popov, gained the U.S. its first view behind the Iron Curtain, and helped gain information from Soviet colonel Oleg Penkovsky, regarded as the most successful spy in CIA history. This top-secret information proved decisive for Kennedy during the showdown of the Cuban missile crisis. More than a biography, CIA SpyMaster is a glimpse into the mind of an espionage genius, a rare view of what it takes to "live in the black" for years at a time under a fictitious identity, torn from friends and family. It's a behind-the-scenes look at spycraft in action, from dead drops and cutoffs to multilayered ciphers, the KGB's secret "spydust," and everything in between. It is a book of ever-increasing tension and suspense, as the rising stakes of the Cold War endow every act of espionage with utmost importance. During his lifetime, George Kisevalter was awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the highest award attainable in the CIA without giving one's life. For his work with Penkovsky, he received a Certificate of Merit with Distinction. Less than two months before his death in 1997, he was selected as one of fifty "unique contributors" in the fifty-year history of the CIA and was presented with the newly established Trailblazers Award, the only case officer ever to be so honored.

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145560223X

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A Brief History of British Kings & Queens

By: Mike Ashley

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A Brief History of British Kings & Queens

By: Mike Ashley

Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a history of division and eventual union of the British Isles - even royals we think most familiar are revealed in a new and sometimes surprising light. This revised and shortened edition of The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens includes biographies of the royals of recorded British history, plus an overview of the semi-legendary figures of pre-history and the Dark Ages - an accessible source for students and general readers.

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Robinson

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147211731X

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Wilsonian Approaches to American Conflicts

From the War of 1812 to the First Gulf War

By: Ashley Cox

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Wilsonian Approaches to American Conflicts

From the War of 1812 to the First Gulf War

By: Ashley Cox

This book explores US foreign policy, specifically the history of America’s entry into the War of 1812, the First World War, the Korean War and the First Gulf War. Using a historical case study approach, it demonstrates how the Wilsonian Framework can give us a unique understanding of why the United States chose to go to war in those four conflicts. Cox argues that the Wilsonian Framework is an important concern for decision makers in the US and that democracy promotion and the concept of international law are driving factors in each of these decisions to go to war. The realist and economic explanations of these conflicts are not sufficient and we must draw on Wilsonianism to gain a clear understanding of these conflicts. Drawing on the history of American liberalism and the work of Walter Russel Mead and Tony Smith, the book presents a definition of Wilsonianism that represents a broad span of the history of The Republic, in order to show consistency across time. It also establishes why the realist and economic explanations fail to provide sufficient explanatory power and how the Wilsonian Framework can give important insights into these conflicts. This book will be of interest to international historians and international relations scholars at both postgraduate and scholar level. It will also be of use to those wishing to conduct future research into the motivations that drive the foreign and security policies of the United States.

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Routledge

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1315397005

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Uncrowned

Royal Heirs Who Didn't Take the Throne

By: Ashley Mantle

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Uncrowned

Royal Heirs Who Didn't Take the Throne

By: Ashley Mantle

The fascinating hidden history of the British royal family's nearly men - those who had been destined for the throne, but never made it. Mantle explores the story behind these would-be-kings, showing how the question of succession has not always been a straightforward one.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445696487

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The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens

By: Mike Ashley

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The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens

By: Mike Ashley

This book includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of Scotland and Wales. The book gives full details of the lives of the rulers as well as their wives, consorts, pretenders, usurpers and regents and is a geographical guide to where all Britain's monarchs lived, ruled and died including their palaces, estates and resting places.

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805

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Robinson

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1472101138

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Manet/Degas

By: Stephan Wolohojian,Ashley E. Dunn

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Manet/Degas

By: Stephan Wolohojian,Ashley E. Dunn

Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout their lives as they both worked to define the painting of modern urban life. Manet/Degas, the first book to consider their careers in parallel, investigates how their objectives overlapped, diverged, and shaped each other’s artistic choices. Enlivened by archival correspondence and records of firsthand accounts, essays by American and French scholars take a fresh look at the artists’ family relationships, literary friendships, and interconnected social and intellectual circles in Paris; explore their complex depictions of race and class; discuss their political views in the context of wars in France and the United States; compare their artistic practices; and examine how Degas built his personal collection of works by Manet after his friend’s premature death. An illustrated biographical chronology charts their intersecting lives and careers. This lavishly illustrated, in-depth study offers an opportunity to reevaluate some of the most canonical French artworks of the nineteenth century, including Manet’s Olympia, Degas’s The Absinthe Drinker, and other masterworks.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588397637

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The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy

By: Mike Ashley

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The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy

By: Mike Ashley

Mike Ashley is back with an all-new edition of one of the bestselling Mammoth Books ever, from the funniest writers in the field, including Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, and Terry Jones. The thirty- five off-the-wall comic fantasies featured in Ashley's new collection are a mix of specially written stories and hard-to-find gems: a computer salesman in fairyland, a vampire football match, a psychotic Father Christmas, and a wizard allergic to magic. Ashley expertly turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and magic into mayhem. This is huge fun for all comic fantasy fans.

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147211213X

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Karl Barth on Prayer

By: Ashley Cocksworth

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Karl Barth on Prayer

By: Ashley Cocksworth

Ashley Cocksworth presents Karl Barth as a theologian who not only produces a strong and vibrant theology of prayer, but also grounds theology itself in the practice of prayer. Prayer and theology are revealed to be integrally related in Barth's understanding of the dogmatic task. Cocksworth provides careful analysis of a range of key texts in Barth's thought in which the theme of prayer emerges with particular interest. He analyzes: Barth's writings on the Sabbath and uncovers an unexpected theology of contemplative prayer; the doctrine of creation of the Church Dogmatics and explores its prioritization of petitionary prayer; and the ethics of the doctrine of reconciliation in which a 'turn to invocation' is charted and the final 'resting place' of Barth's theology of prayer is found. Through the theme of prayer fundamental questions are asked about the relation of human agency to divine agency as conceived by Barth, and new insights are offered into his understandings of the nature and task of theology, pneumatology, sin, baptism, religion, and sanctification. The result is a rich engagement with Barth's theology of prayer, an advancements of scholarship on Karl Barth, and a constructive contribution to the theology of prayer.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567655598

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9780567655592

English Tragedy

By: Ashley H. Thorndike

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English Tragedy

By: Ashley H. Thorndike

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0815402376

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Foreign Relations Law

Cases and Materials

By: Curtis A. Bradley,Ashley Deeks,Jack L. Goldsmith

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Foreign Relations Law

Cases and Materials

By: Curtis A. Bradley,Ashley Deeks,Jack L. Goldsmith

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. A leading casebook on foreign relations law, authored by widely cited scholars who also have pertinent government experience, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials, Seventh Edition, examines the law that regulates how the United States interacts with other nations and with international institutions, and how it applies international law within its legal system. The book offers a compelling mix of cases, statutes, and executive branch materials, as well as extensive notes and questions and discussion of relevant historical background. New to the Seventh Edition: Addition of a third author, Ashley Deeks, a scholar with government experience as well as significant expertise in national security law, the laws of war, and intelligence gathering New excerpt of and extensive notes on the Supreme Court’s 2018 “travel ban” decision, Trump v. Hawaii Coverage of the Supreme Court’s 2018 Alien Tort Statute decision, Jesner v. Arab Bank Extensive discussion of recent treaty terminations by the Trump administration Discussion of the ongoing litigation concerning “sanctuary jurisdictions” in some states and localities Notes and questions on recent war powers developments, including on the use of force against the Islamic State and in Syria Updated notes and questions throughout the book to take account of recent cases, statutes, executive branch actions, and scholarship Professors and students will benefit from: Clear and logical progression of the materials, starting with the powers of government institutions and then proceeding to specific substantive topics Coverage of both cutting-edge legal developments and relevant historical background Integration of leading scholarship into the notes and questions rather than in long excerpts of secondary materials Balanced presentation of controversial topics, with probing questions to consider in class discussions Combination of theoretical analysis with practical insights from real-world examples

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1543817513

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The Raw Files: 1996

By: James Dixon,Arnold Furious,Lee Maughan,Bob Dahlstrom,Rick Ashley,Stevie Aaron

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The Raw Files: 1996

By: James Dixon,Arnold Furious,Lee Maughan,Bob Dahlstrom,Rick Ashley,Stevie Aaron

The team at www.historyofwrestling.info are back with the fourth in their series documenting every episode of WWF Monday Night Raw, year by year. We cover every angle, segment and match in detail, and offer plenty of thoughts and facts along the way. The book is written and presented in the usual HOW style, with various awards, match lists and a host of star ratings for fans to debate at will. This time, we have even more graphs too and a super special bonus review from Stevie Aaron. Learn about Brian Pillman pulling a gun on Steve Austin; Jim Ross turning heel on Vince McMahon and the WWF; the departures and "returns" of Razor Ramon and Diesel; Stars from the 80s stinking up the ring; Shawn Michaels achieving his "boyhood dream"; Goldust trying to get it on with everyone in the locker room; the Raw debuts of Mankind, The Rock, Vader, Faarooq, Marc Mero and The Goon! Plus much, much more in an action packed, fun-filled 120 page, 90,000 word + tome. They get bigger every year and this is biggest yet.

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129150950X

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Southern Tufts

The Regional Origins and National Craze for Chenille Fashion

By: Ashley Callahan

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Southern Tufts

The Regional Origins and National Craze for Chenille Fashion

By: Ashley Callahan

Southern Tufts is the first book to highlight the garments produced by northwestern Georgia’s tufted textile industry. Though best known now for its production of carpet, in the early twentieth century the region was revered for its handtufted candlewick bedspreads, products that grew out of the Southern Appalachian Craft Revival and appealed to the vogue for Colonial Revival–style household goods. Soon after the bedspreads became popular, enterprising women began creating hand-tufted garments, including candlewick kimonos in the 1920s and candlewick dresses in the early 1930s. By the late 1930s, large companies offered machine-produced chenille beach capes, jackets, and robes. In the 1940s and 1950s, chenille robes became an American fashion staple. At the end of the century, interest in chenille fashion revived, fueled by nostalgia and an interest in recycling vintage materials. Chenille bedspreads, bathrobes, and accessories hung for sale both in roadside souvenir shops, especially along the Dixie Highway, and in department stores all over the nation. Callahan tells the story of chenille fashion and its connections to stylistic trends, automobile tourism, industrial developments, and U.S. history. The well-researched and heavily illustrated text presents a broad history of tufted textiles, as well as sections highlighting individual craftspeople and manufacturers involved with the production of chenille fashion.

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0820345164

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Wilsonian Approaches to American Conflicts

Wilsonian Approaches to American Conflicts

Uncrowned

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The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens

The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens

Manet/Degas

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The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy

The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy

Karl Barth on Prayer

Karl Barth on Prayer

English Tragedy

English Tragedy

Foreign Relations Law

Foreign Relations Law

The Raw Files: 1996

The Raw Files: 1996

Southern Tufts

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