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Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11

Princeton Press, 2007

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable.

Zegart argues that after the Cold War...

Frommer's Europe (Frommer's Complete)

Frommers, 2008

America’s #1 bestselling travel series

Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer’s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do.

More annually updated guides than any other series

16-page color section and foldout map in all...

Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City 2009 (Frommer's Complete Guides)

Frommers, 2008

America’s #1 bestselling travel series

Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer’s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do.

• More annually updated guides than any other series

• 16-page color section and foldout map in all...

Powerhouse Partners : A Blueprint for Building Organizational Culture for Breakaway Results

Davies-Black Publishing, 2004

For any manager or executive committed to achieving business goals through effective strategic partnership, this book gathers successes of some of the world's leading companies to deliver a tool kit for shaping a partnering culture.

From the author who introduced the groundbreaking concept of Partnering Intelligence come the...

The Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People (2 Volume Set)

Grey House Publishing, 2008

The Encyclopedia of Rural America is dedicated to the land and its people. Rural America is characterized by its vast expansiveness and its diversity. Of the nation's 1.9 billion acres, 1.8 billion acres are in rural areas or federal lands. It is a land of crop and pasture land, forests and wetlands, mountains and deserts, sea coasts and inland...

Sufis in Western Society: Global Networking and Locality (Routledge Sufi)

Routledge, 2009

In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a number of issues relating to the dynamic tensions between religious globalization processes...

The Rise and Decline of the State

Cambridge University Press, 1999

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all moderninstitutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, either voluntarily or involuntarily, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Regardless of whether they fall apart or...

Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed

J. Ross Publishing, Inc, 2003

This comprehensive book covers the strategy, tactics, and processes needed for successful project portfolio management. It outlines a road map to unprecedented project management improvement and includes a detailed implementation plan for both strategic planning and a PMO that gives you measurable results in weeks. The author delineates four...

What's Science Ever Done For Us: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

A playful and entertaining look at science on The Simpsons

This amusing book explores science as presented on the longest-running and most popular animated TV series ever made: The Simpsons. Over the years, the show has examined such issues as genetic mutation, time travel, artificial intelligence, and even aliens....

Movies Made for Television: 1964-2004 (5 Volume Set)

Scarecrow Press, 2005

Movies Made for Television in 2004 celebrates 40 full television seasons. As I wrote in the introduction in 1980 to the original (single) volume that chronicled the genre, the range was as esthetically and technically wide at the time as it would remain through the years since as any theatrical offerings – within its restricted...

The Traveler's Web: An Extreme Searcher Guide to Travel Resources on the Internet

CyberAge Books, 2007

According to a recent survey by the Travel Industry Association of America, nearly 80 million Americans turned to the Internet for help with travel planning in 2005. The same survey reports that the Internet is now used for some aspect of travel planning in more than 75 percent of all trips. You can count on these numbers rising in the years ahead....

Practical Ruby Gems

Apress, 2007

Practical Ruby Gems is a comprehensive guide to utilizing and creating Ruby Gems--ready-made Ruby code modules that can be easily added to Ruby and Rails projects. This book is ideal for Ruby programmers as well as web developers who use Rails and wish to extend the functionality of their projects.

You'll get a prime selection of 34 of...

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