"The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration's other political debacles. David Iglesias was one of those federal prosecutors, and now he tells his story. " - Wiley
In justice : inside the scandal that rocked the Bush administration by David Iglesias - KF373.I355 A3 2008
"The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration's other political debacles. David Iglesias was one of those federal prosecutors, and now he tells his story. " - Wiley
The one percent doctrine : deep inside America's pursuit of its enemies since 9/11by by Ron Suskind
"This is an important book, filled with the surest sign of great reporting: the unexpected. It enriches our understanding of even familiar episodes from the Bush administration's war on terror and tells us some jaw-dropping stories we haven't heard before." -- Barton Gellman, The Washington Post
Shadow command by Dale Brown
"General Patrick McLanahan's new Aerospace Battle Force has grown into a full-fledged task force based on the Armstrong Space Station. Providing almost instant access to space and every corner of the globe using the Black Stallion spaceplanes, the ABF's powerful network of satellites and unmanned aircraft controlled from space can not only attack any target anywhere on the planet within hours but can even invade any computer network as easily as making a phone call....." - Editorial ReviewsThe exhaustion cure by Laura Stack
"The Exhaustion Cure presents manageable ways to: Cut down on “energy bandits” and fill up on “energy boosters.” Stop relying on caffeine, cigarettes and other substances to keep you going. Avoid letting negative situations or people control your thoughts and actions. Sneak in time for fitness during the busiest days. Accomplish your goals and find more time to devote to your family." - Editorial Reviews
Escape from Andersonville a novel of the Civil War by Gene Hackman
“Interesting plot twists, well-drawn characters . . . and a rich, detailed evocation of rural America in the late 1920s.”---Library Journal
America's hidden history : untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women and forgotten founders who shaped a nation by Kenneth C Davis
"The story of the first real Pilgrims in America, who were wine-making French Huguenots, not dour English Separatists ..." - Editorial Reviews
Improving the Law-Enforcement-Intelligence Community Relationship Ed. by Timothy Christenson
"Provides a compendium of essays that explore law enforcement intelligence techniques and their utility. " - GPOThe Evolution of U.S. Turkish Relations in a Transatlantic Context by Frances G. Burwell
"Since World War II, the relationship between Turkey and the United States has been characterized by periods of remarkable cooperation, even when significant disagreements existed. " - Strategic Studies Institute
Baloch Nationalism and the Geopolitics of Energy Resources: The Changing Context of Separatism in Pakistan by Robert J. Wirsing.
"The author argues that Pakistan’s rapidly mounting energy insecurity magnifies the economic and strategic importance of Pakistan’s sprawling and energy-critical southwestern province of Balochistan, while it simultaneously complicates Pakistan’s efforts for coping with the province’s simmering Baloch tribal separatist insurgency. He concludes that Pakistan’s government needs to overhaul its counterinsurgent policies to avoid protracted conflict and to enlist the Baloch as partners in energy development, not antagonists of it. " - Strategic Studies Institute
Precision in the Global War on Terror: Inciting Muslims through the War of Ideas by Sherifa D. Zuhur
"This monograph identifies a set of approaches to Muslim beliefs and institutions that pathologize these important issues. The author contends that this pathologizing impulse may be beneficial in rallying Americans to the defense of their nation, but it might impede the international cooperation necessary to that endeavor. She also aims to educate the reader about the value inherent in particular concepts that could be controversial but are part of Muslims' historical legacy. " - Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College
Field Artillery in Military Operations Other Than War: An Overview of the US Experience by Combat Studies Institute Press
"One of the principal developments in European military technology during the 13th and 14th centuries was the advent of artillery tubes that used gunpowder to launch their projectiles at enemy targets. Initially, these artillery pieces were extremely large, heavy, cumbersome, inaccurate, and unreliable. Over the ensuing centuries, however, continuous technological breakthrough resulted in smaller, lighter, more accurate field guns that could, using many refines techniques, fire a variety of munitions ..." - ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS COMBAT STUDIES INST
Ending Terrorism: A Strategy for Defeating Al-Qaeda by Audrey Kurth Cronin
"Terrorism, like war, never ends; but individual terrorist campaigns and the groups that perpetuate them always do. Why? This Adelphi Paper comparatively examines the waning days of terrorist groups, to understand crucial points where a critical mass of factors developed and led toward their demise. The goal is to identify typical watersheds and mistakes and search for parallels with the current threat. " - Editorial Reviews
The birth of NASA : the diary of T. Keith Glennan by Thomas Keith Glennan - TL521.312 .G58
"Part diary and part recollection, T. Keith Glennan--the first administrator of NASA--relates the story of how he and others worked within the circumstances created by the Russian Sputnik--the first vehicle into space--to plan and organize a viable space program that ultimately put Americans on the moon. " - Alibris
X-15 : extending the frontiers of flight by Dennis R Jenkins - TL789.8.U6 X60 2007
"X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight is the result of 15 years of research into the cooperative NASA-Air Force-Navy X-15 research airplane program. This history covers the program form its inception, through t he preliminary conceptual studies, the airframe and engine competitions, the flight program, and the follow-on research program. Particular attention is paid to the program highlights, such as the development of a workable full pressure suit and early biomedical testing in the human centrifuge at the Naval Air development center Jonesville." - NASA
Shared voyage : learning and unlearning from remarkable projects by Alexander Laufer
"This volume in the NASA History Series is about four remarkable projects: the Advanced Composition Explorer (NASA), the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (U.S. Air Force), the Pathfinder Solar-Powered Airplane (NCASA), & the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (U.S. Air Force). Each project is presented as a case study comprised of stories collected from key members of the project teams. The stories are included with the purpose of providing an effective ... " - Alibris
William H. Pickering America's Deep Space Pioneer by Douglas J Mudgway
"In William H. Pickering: America’s Deep Space Pioneer, Douglas Mudgway provides a relatively straightforward biography of Pickering. Mudgway, a fellow New Zealander who himself worked at JPL for nearly 30 years, is at times a bit hagiographic, putting the best possible gloss on Pickering’s life and work." - Jeff Foust
2008 Legal Times - KF 193. W37.D57 2008
Information about some 2000 law offices doing business in metro D.C.
The Last Juror by John Grisham - PS3557.R5355 L37 2004b
"The novel will satisfy those with an appetite for legal thrillers and those who believe Grisham possesses more talent than those breathless page-turners sometimes reveal. It ranks among his best-written and most atmospheric novels." - USA Today
Angels & demons by Dan Brown - PS3552.R685434 A82 2005
"A breathless, real-time adventure....Exciting, fast-paced, with an unusually high IQ." - San Francisco ChronicleState of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward - E903.2 .W66 2006
"State of Denial examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. Two days after the May report, the Pentagon told Congress, in a report required by law, that the 'appeal and motivation for continued violent action will begin to wane in early 2007.'" - Editorial ReviewsThe summons / the brethren by John Grisham - PS3557.R5355 S86 2002b
"The Summons: The summons is typed by the judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for his sons Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. But the judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret. The Brethren: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong." - Editorial Reviews
Civil War journal : History TV Network presentation - E467 .C58 2001
"It truly is an excellent product and it is highly recommended for all interested in the Civil War." - History. comHistory of the Peloponnesian war by Thucydides - DF229.T5 J6 1972
"Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire. " - Editorial Reviews
Final salute : a story of unfinished lives by Jim Sheeler
“A Pulitzer-winning journalist looks at the impact of war deaths on the home front…. Sobering, touching stories told with deep respect.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewLeaderless jihad : terror networks in the twenty-first century by Marc Sageman - HV6431.S227 2008
"The most sophisticated analysis of global jihadis yet published. . . . His conclusions have demolished much of the conventional wisdom about who joins jihadi groups."--William Dalrymple, New York Review of Books
America At A Crossroads: Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
"America At A Crossroads, hosted by journalist Robert MacNeil, explores the challenges confronting the world post 9/11 including the war on terrorism; the experience of American troops; the struggle for balance within the Islamic world and Muslim life in America; and America's role in the world. Oscar nominated Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience gives firsthand accounts of American troops through their own writing." - PBS
America At A Crossroads PBS Home Video Series
Subtitles:Europe's 9/11, Gangs of Iraq, The Case For War – In Defense Of Freedom, Struggle For The Soul of Islam – Inside Indonesia, The Anti-Americans, The Muslim Americans, The Brotherhood, Faith Without Fear, Warriors, Kansas to Kandahar, Security Versus Liberty: the Other War, Inside America's Empire, JIHAD: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda, Campus Battleground, Homegrown:Islam in Prison
Fidel Castro : my life : a spoken autobiography by Ignacio Ramonet - F1788.22.C3 A513 2008
"This remarkable book is called a 'spoken autobiography'--- it is presented entirely in the form of interviews between Ignacio Ramonet, a distinguished journalist (editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique), and the Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Since Castro is not only a highly controversial political figure but a rigidly demanding person, the interview format probably held out the only real possibility of creating a complete picture of his long life and career. " - Bookreporter.com
The Bin Ladens : an Arabian family in the American century by Steve Coll - CS1129 .B55 2008
"This is an important book, one that provide the curious with information, background, and a glimmer of understanding as to how Osama became who he was, and how his family life, Muslim marital and divorce practices, and the strange, complex, and bizarre entity we know as the Bin Laden family came to be. " - Agnostic
The game-changer : how you can drive revenue and profit growth with innovation by A G Lafley - HD57.7 .L34 2008
“Lafley brought a whole lot of creativity and rigor to P&G’s innovation process.” —Fortune magazine
American heroes in the fight against radical Islam edited by Chuck Holton - UA23 .N69 2008
"Ambitious in scope, American Heroes details the earliest terrorism faced by the United States in the 1800s at the hands of the Barbary Pirates, the major terrorist group developments of the 1970s and 80s, and, most vividly, the post-9/11 Iraq War era. Most inspiringly, North’s up-close field notes highlight the core values of today’s American soldier in relation to the fight at hand: courage, commitment, compassion, and faith. " - Editorial ReviewsThe empire of lies : the truth about China in the twenty-first century by Guy Sorman - DS779.46 .S68 2008
"Guy Sorman gives a human face to brutal oppression in today's China. He introduces us to the daily suffering of many individual human lives: students thrown into exile for signing their names to political leaflets, pregnant women beaten for being pregnant without the authorization of the state, peasant families enduring the long, slow sufferings of AIDS brought to them by unsanitary blood transfusions in public clinics. Sorman has long been a promoter of a realistic form of democracy in China and of a "barefoot capitalism" that would begin to diminish the huge number of those who suffer. " - Michael NovakMadam speaker : Nancy Pelosi's life, times, and rise to power by Marc Sandalow - E840.8.P37 S26 2008
"All Americans should know Nancy Pelosi's remarkable story. This is a fascinating account of one of the nation's most fascinating political figures. No journalist has followed her more closely, and can tell her story better, than Marc Sandalow."—Willie Brown, former California Assembly Speaker and mayor of San Francisco
The rules of victory : how to transform chaos and conflict--strategies from The art of war by James Gimian - BF637.S8 G53 2008
"The Art of War by Sun Tzu is one of the world’s most profound treatises on strategy and leadership, and it has been a best seller in numerous editions around the world. Perhaps best known for the dictum “win without fighting,” it has attracted millions of readers seeking to understand the underlying dynamics of conflict and victory. " - Editorial Reviews
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