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The History of CIA's Office of Strategic Research, 1967-81

By: Robert Vickers,Cia Central Intelligence Agency,Center For The Study Of Intelligence

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The History of CIA's Office of Strategic Research, 1967-81

By: Robert Vickers,Cia Central Intelligence Agency,Center For The Study Of Intelligence

Insightful study from the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. Provides a detailed history of the Office of Strategic Research from establishment in 1967 to abolition in 1981.

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1782669434

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The World Factbook, 1999

By: Förenta staterna. Central Intelligence Agency,CIA,Staff Cia

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The World Factbook, 1999

By: Förenta staterna. Central Intelligence Agency,CIA,Staff Cia

Produced annually by the CIA, this highly acclaimed reference contains important CIA data on every country from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, including recent international disputes, natural resources, environment, population, inflation rates, agriculture, industries, defense, literacy rates, religions, and more. Key data is grouped under geography, people, government, economy, communications, and defense forces. Maps. Appendices.

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Potomac Books

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1574881639

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9781574881639

Bandwidth Recovery For Schools

Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Trauma, Racism, and Social Marginalization

By: Cia Verschelden

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Bandwidth Recovery For Schools

Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Trauma, Racism, and Social Marginalization

By: Cia Verschelden

Are students coming to your class lacking focus, having difficulty connecting with you and their peers, falling behind, or acting out when you instinctively feel they could do better? Do you sometimes feel like you don’t have the capacity as a teacher or school leader to give students the support they need to learn and thrive? This book makes the case that societal realities--such as poverty, racism, and social marginalization--result in depleted cognitive resources for students and for those who are trying to help them succeed. Each of us has a finite amount of mental bandwidth, the cognitive resources that are available for learning, development, work, taking care of ourselves and our families, and everything else we have to do. These “attentional resources” are not about how smart we are but about how much of our brain power is available to us for the task at hand. When bandwidth is taken up by the stress of persistent economic insecurity or the negative experiences of racism, classism, homophobia, religious intolerance, sexism, ableism, etc., there is less available for learning and growth. This is as true for young children and youth as for their parents and teachers. The first half of the book makes the case that poverty and these “differentisms” deplete the bandwidth of students, parents, and teachers. The second sets out concepts and strategies that help people recover the bandwidth they need to learn and thrive. Cia Verschelden describes strategies that can help students recover bandwidth, including acknowledging the “funds of knowledge” of students and their families, promoting growth mindsets, using reflective practices to build a sense of belonging for all students, fostering peer collaboration, and implementing restorative practices in lieu of punitive measures to deal with problematic behavior, as well as a rich selection of Ideas in Practice contributed by experienced teachers and school leaders. Cia recognizes that many teachers are working in schools with inadequate support systems and facilities and with scarce materials, and may be spending their often inadequate pay on school supplies for their classrooms and food for their hungry students. She offers practical ideas for creating moreteacher-supportive systems and addresses how principals and administrators can harness teachers’ ideas and energies to create inclusive and successful learning environments for all students. The book includes a case study of Rochester, New York – where the economy has been decimated with the closure of major employers – and how its financially strapped school system worked with colleagues at the University of Rochester to use the distributed leadership of its teachers, with the active support of principals and superintendents, to revitalize its schools to better serve its diverse and low-income student population.This book is for teachers, parents, school leaders, and members of communities who are interested in the well-being of children and youth and the education of all our children. All of us have a stake in a public school system from which students emerge as fully-formed learners and thinkers and who believe in their ability to affect what happens to them and their communities.

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211

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Taylor & Francis

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1000976807

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9781000976809

The Performance of Religion

Seeing the sacred in the theatre

By: Cia Sautter

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The Performance of Religion

Seeing the sacred in the theatre

By: Cia Sautter

The performing arts are uniquely capable of translating a vision of an ideal or sacred reality into lived practice, allowing an audience to confront deeply held values and beliefs as they observe a performance. However, there is often a reluctance to approach distinctly religious topics from a performance studies perspective. This book addresses this issue by exploring how religious values are acted out and reflected on in classic Western theatre, with a particular emphasis on the plays put on during the Globe Theatre‘s yearlong season of 'Shakespeare and the Bible'. Looking at plays such as Much Ado About Nothing, Dr. Faustus and Macbeth, each chapter includes ethnographic overviews of the performance of these plays as well as historical and theological perspectives on the issues they address. The author also utilizes scholarship from other academics, such as Paul Tillich and Martin Buber, in examining the relationship between art and culture. This helps readers of this book to look at religion in culture, and raise questions and explore ideas about how people appraise their religious values through an encounter with a performance. The Performance of Religion: Seeing the sacred in the theatre treads new ground in bringing performance and religious studies scholarship into direct conversation with one another. As such, it is essential reading for any academic with an interest in theology, religion and ethics and their expression in culture through the performing arts.

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261

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Routledge

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1351999567

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9781351999564

The World Factbook

2005 Edition

By: CIA

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The World Factbook

2005 Edition

By: CIA

This highly acclaimed source of important unclassified CIA data includes all the nations of the world.

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740

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1574889427

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9781574889420

Official CIA Manual: Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual

By: Central Intelligence Agency CIA

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Official CIA Manual: Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual

By: Central Intelligence Agency CIA

This manual, the HUMAN RESOURCE EXPLOITATION TRAINING MANUAL, dated 1982, is the source of much of the INTERROGATION TRAINING GIVEN OUT TO VARIOUS CIA TEAMS AROUND THE WORLD. It describes interrogation techniques, including, among other things, coercive counterintelligence interrogation of resistant sources. This is the oldest manual, and describes the use of abusive techniques, as exemplified by two references to the use of electric shock, in addition to use of threats and fear, sensory deprivation, and isolation.

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126

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Lulu.com

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1794752773

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9781794752771

Ecdl/Icdl Advanced Module AM6 Presentations Using PowerPoint 2000

By: Cia Training Ltd Staff

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Ecdl/Icdl Advanced Module AM6 Presentations Using PowerPoint 2000

By: Cia Training Ltd Staff

Complex presentation will be possible once this guide is studied. Not only does it cover all aspects required by the ECDL/ICDL Advanced AM6 syllabus, but could also be used by those familiar with PowerPoint but wishing to further their knowledge. Topics include inserting and editing various types of image, as well as adding sounds and movies. Data files are supplied which allow you to practise the different features.Approved by the ECDL Foundation.

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104

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CIA Training Ltd.

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1860051391

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9781860051395

E-Citizen

By: Cia Training Ltd Staff

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E-Citizen

By: Cia Training Ltd Staff

Do you want to shop online, make use of online banking or book that much-needed holiday? 'Essential e-Citizen' guides readers around the necessary techniques that enable them to make the most of the world wide web.

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226

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CIA Training Ltd.

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186005238X

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9781860052385

Ecdl/Icdl Syllabus 4 Module 6 Presentations Using Powerpoint 2003

By: Cia Training Ltd Staff

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Ecdl/Icdl Syllabus 4 Module 6 Presentations Using Powerpoint 2003

By: Cia Training Ltd Staff

This comprehensive manual covers all aspects required by Module 6 ECDL/ICDL Syllabus 4.0. Designed to gradually build up knowledge, it takes a step-by-step, exercise based approach. Data files are supplied with the manual which allows practice of the different software features. It is approved by the ECDL Foundation.

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116

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CIA Training Ltd.

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1860051936

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9781860051937

Bandwidth Recovery

Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization

By: Cia Verschelden

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Bandwidth Recovery

Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization

By: Cia Verschelden

Bandwidth Recovery explores how students’ cognitive resources are diminished by persistent economic insecurity, childhood trauma, and marginalization, while offering strategies and interventions to help learners regain the bandwidth they need to succeed in college. When college students feel like they don’t belong – or are fearful, uncertain, or otherwise prevented from being their authentic selves – much of the mental bandwidth needed for learning is not available. When they are food insecure, financially unstable, or coping with the effects of childhood trauma, cognitive capacity is likewise diminished. Beginning with analysis of the most up-to-date research on the mental and physical impact of poverty, racism, and other forms of social marginalization, Cia Verschelden presents vetted approaches for promoting a growth mindset and self-efficacy in students. Readers will learn to develop supports that build upon students’ values and prior knowledge with the goal of creating a sense of belonging and community both in and out of the classroom. New to this edition are updated terminology and discussions of neurodiversity, childhood trauma, economic inequality, and the ongoing effects of the COVID pandemic. This book is intended for all higher education faculty, student affairs professionals, administrators, and scholars interested in creating learning environments where every student has the chance to succeed.

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179

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Taylor & Francis

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1040171796

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9781040171790

BCS Level 2 Certificate for It Users Unit E Using It Windows 2000 (Ecdl)

Level 2

By: CIA Training Ltd

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BCS Level 2 Certificate for It Users Unit E Using It Windows 2000 (Ecdl)

Level 2

By: CIA Training Ltd

Self teach manual designed to steer the user around the different features need to pass the assessment for BCS Unit E.

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CIA Training Ltd.

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1860051707

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9781860051708

The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance

The U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974

By: Gregory W. Pedlow,Donald E. Welzenbach,CIA History Office

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The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance

The U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974

By: Gregory W. Pedlow,Donald E. Welzenbach,CIA History Office

Please include this as the description: "On May 1, 1960, the news that the Soviet Union had downed a CIA high-altitude spy plane added the names U-2 and Francis Gary Powers to the convoluted narrative of Cold War espionage. Yet this celebrated episode was only one aspect of an extraordinary history of covert, high-tech intrusion of secret U.S. aircraft into other nations air space worldwide. Now, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and Oxcart Programs offers an official, comprehensive, and authoritative history of this manned overhead reconnaissance program. Long classified, it describes not only the program's technological and bureaucratic aspects, but also its political and international context. The book begins by carefully documenting the origins of the U-2, the top-secret testing of the plane, its specially designed high-altitude cameras and complex life-support systems, and even the suggested use of potassium cyanide capsules by the pilots if captured (it was up to each pilot to decide if he wanted to take one with him?some did, most did not). Once operational, its flight over the USSR in July 1956 immediately made the U-2 the most important source of intelligence on the Soviet Union, but its use against the Soviet target for which it was designed produced a persistent tension between its program managers and President Eisenhower, with the former much more eager to expand its use and the latter going along only reluctantly. After the 1960 U-2 incident and the capture of pilot Gary Francis Powers, the President forbade any further U-2 flights over the USSR. This was hardly the end of the U-2 s participation in the Cold War. From the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis to the skies of Laos and North Vietnam, the U-2 provided the same top-secret intelligence data as it had in the 1950s on revolts in Indonesia and Tibet. Even after the end of the U-2 era, the CIA attempted to continue its work via the Oxcart project?the A-12 surveillance aircraft?until fiscal pressures and CIA-Air Force rivalry caused its demise. Based upon both full access to CIA records and extensive classified interviews of its participants, along with maps, drawings, and low-resolution photographs, this important study provides an engrossing and timely look into the development and implementation of a top-secret U.S. intelligence effort, its technological wizardry, notable accomplishments?and the worldwide negative repercussions when it was revealed. Both fascinating history and cautionary tale, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance will be of immense interest to students of military aviation, intelligence operations, international relations, history of the Cold War.

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Military Bookshop

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1782664580

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The History of CIA's Office of Strategic Research, 1967-81

The History of CIA's Office of Strategic Research, 1967-81

The World Factbook, 1999

The World Factbook, 1999

Bandwidth Recovery For Schools

Bandwidth Recovery For Schools

The Performance of Religion

The Performance of Religion

The World Factbook

The World Factbook

Official CIA Manual: Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual

Official CIA Manual: Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual

Ecdl/Icdl Advanced Module AM6 Presentations Using PowerPoint 2000

Ecdl/Icdl Advanced Module AM6 Presentations Using PowerPoint 2000

E-Citizen

E-Citizen

Ecdl/Icdl Syllabus 4 Module 6 Presentations Using Powerpoint 2003

Ecdl/Icdl Syllabus 4 Module 6 Presentations Using Powerpoint 2003

Bandwidth Recovery

Bandwidth Recovery

BCS Level 2 Certificate for It Users Unit E Using It Windows 2000 (Ecdl)

BCS Level 2 Certificate for It Users Unit E Using It Windows 2000 (Ecdl)

The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance

The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance

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