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Pocket Star. Good. 4.19 x 0.9 x 6.75 inches. Mass Market Paperback. 2001. 432 pages. <br>Booked to Die, the first book in John Dunning's be stselling, award-winning Cliff Janeway series, is a joy to read f or its wealth of inside knowledge about the antiquarian book busi ness and its eccentric traders (The New York Times Book Review). Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by t he book, but he's an avid collector of rare and first editions. B obby Westfall is a local bookscout, a gentle and quiet man who ha s sold enough valuable books to keep himself and his cats fed and housed. When Bobby is murdered, Janeway would like nothing bette r than to rearrange the suspect's spine. But the suspect, local l owlife Jackie Newton, is a master at eluding the law, and Janeway 's wrathful brand of off-duty justice costs him his badge. Turni ng to his lifelong passion, Janeway opens a small bookshop-all th e while searching for evidence to put Newton away. When prized vo lumes in a highly sought-after collection begin to appear, so do dead bodies. Now Janeway's life is about to change in profound an d shocking ways as he attempts to find out who's dealing death al ong with vintage Chandlers and Twains. One of the most enjoyable books I've read (The Denver Post), Booked to Die is the first in the Cliff Janeway series. It is a standout piece of crime fictio n...Compelling page-turning stuff (The Philadelphia Inquirer). E ditorial Reviews Review New York Times Book Review A joy to read ...[A] whodunit in the classic mode. The Denver Post A knockout. ...One of the most enjoyable books I've read in a long time. The Philadephia Inquirer A standout piece of crime fiction...Compell ing page-turning stuff. The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) Irresistibl e....An outstanding novel. Boston Sunday Globe I am...an unabash ed admirer of John Dunning's Booked to Die. No one...can fail to be delighted by the sort of folkloric advice Janeway carries with him. San Francisco Chronicle Fascinating...Assured and muscular prose...Very cannily and creepily, Dunning shows how quiet men w ith civilized tastes can turn into killers...The payoff, in pleas ure, is for the reader. United Press International Very credible ...An involved tale that satisfies the mystery reader's wants. M ystery Scene Memorable...Compellng...Vivdly realistic...Fascinati ng and utterly convincing...A suspenseful, well-crafted mystery t hat should keep readers guessing right up to the closing paragrap h. This novel, friends, is a keeper. St. Petersburg Times (FL) A perfect mystery. It's intelligently written; the action is baffl ingly logical; the reader learns something, and it's got a sucker punch of a finale. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Crisp, di rect prose and nearly pitch-perfect dialogue enhance this meticul ously detailed page-turner. From the Back Cover Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he's an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local book scout is killed on his turf, Janeway would like nothing better th an to rearrange the suspect's spine. But the suspect, sleazeball Jackie Newton, is a master at eluding murder convictions. Unfortu nately for Janeway, his swift form of off-duty justice costs him his badge. Turning to his lifelong passion, Janeway opens a smal l bookshop -- all the while searching for evidence to put Newton away. But when prized volumes in a highly sought-after collection begin to appear, so do dead bodies. Now Janeway's life is about to change in profound and shocking ways as he attempts to find ou t who's dealing death along with vintage Chandlers and Twains. About the Author John Dunning has revealed some of book collectin g's most shocking secrets in his bestselling series of crime nove ls featuring Cliff Janeway: Booked to Die, which won the prestigi ous Nero Wolfe award; The Bookman's Wake, a New York Times Notabl e Book; and the New York Times bestsellers The Bookman's Promise, The Sign of the Book, and The Bookwoman's Last Fling. He is also the author of the Edgar Award-nominated Deadline, The Holland Su ggestions, and Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime. An expert on rare an d collectible books, he owned the Old Algonquin Bookstore in Denv er for many years. He lives in Denver, Colorado. Visit OldAlgonqu in.com. About the Author John Dunning has revealed some of book collecting's most shocking secrets in his bestselling series of c rime novels featuring Cliff Janeway: Booked to Die, which won the prestigious Nero Wolfe award; The Bookman's Wake, a New York Tim es Notable Book; and the New York Times bestsellers The Bookman's Promise, The Sign of the Book, and The Bookwoman's Last Fling. H e is also the author of the Edgar Award-nominated Deadline, The H olland Suggestions, and Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime. An expert o n rare and collectible books, he owned the Old Algonquin Bookstor e in Denver for many years. He lives in Denver, Colorado. Visit O ldAlgonquin.com. Excerpt. ? Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One The phone rang. It was 2:30 A.M. Normally I am a light sleeper, but that night I was down among the dead. I had just finished a thirteen-hour shift, my fourth day running of heavy overtime, and I hadn't been sleeping well until tonight. A guy named Jackie Newton was haunting my dreams. He was my enem y and I thought that someday I would probably have to kill him. W hen the bell went off, I was dreaming about Jackie Newton and our final showdown. For some reason -- logic is never the strong poi nt of a dream like that -- Jackie and I were in the hallway at Ea st High School. The bell brought the kids out for the change of c lasses; Jackie started shooting and the kids began to drop, and t hat bell kept ringing as if it couldn't stop. In the bed beside me, Carol stirred. Oh, Cliff, she groaned. Would somebody please get that goddamn telephone? I groped for the night table, felt the phone, and knocked the damn thing to the floor. From some dis tant galaxy I could hear the midget voice of Neal Hennessey, sayi ng, Cliff?...Cliff?...Hey, Clifford! I reached along the black fl oor and found the phone, but it was still many seconds later befo re Hennessey took on his bearlike image in my mind. Looks like w e got another one, Hennessey said without preamble. I struggled to sit up, trying to get used to the idea that Jackie Newton hadn 't shot me after all. Hey, Cliffie...you alive yet? Yeah, Neal, sure. First time I been sound asleep in a week. He didn't apolo gize; he just waited. Where you at? I said. Alley off Fifteenth , just up from the Denver Post. This one looks an awful lot like the others. Give me about half an hour. We'll be here. I sat f or another minute, then I got up and went into the bathroom. I tu rned on the light and looked in the mirror and got the first terr ifying look at myself in the cold hard light of the new day. You' re getting old, Janeway, I thought. Old Andrew Wyeth could make a masterpiece out of a face like that. Call it Clifford Liberty Ja neway at thirty-six, with no blemish eliminated and no character line unexplored. I splashed cold water on my face: it had a grea t deal less character after that. To finally answer Hennessey, ye s, I was almost alive again. The vision of Jackie Newton rose up before me and my hand went automatically to the white splash of s car tissue just under my right shoulder. A bank robber had shot m e there five years ago. I knew Jackie Newton would give a lot to put in another one, about three inches to the left and an inch or so down. Man with an old bullet wound, by Wyeth: an atypical wo rk, definitely not your garden-variety Helga picture. When I cam e out of the bathroom Carol was up. She had boiled water and had a cup of instant coffee steaming on my nightstand. What now? she said. As I struggled into my clothes, I told her it looked like another derelict murder. She sighed loudly and sat on the bed. She was lovely even in a semistupor. She had long auburn hair and could probably double for Helga in a pinch. No one but Wyeth wou ld know. Would you like me to come with you? I gave a little la ugh, blowing the steam from my coffee. Call it moral support, sh e said. Just for the ride down and back. Nobody needs to see me. I could stay in the car. Somebody would see you, all right, and then the tongues would start. It'd be all over the department by tomorrow. You know something? I don't even care. I care. What w e do in our own time is nobody's business. I went to the closet and opened it. Our clothes hung there side by side -- the blue un iform Carol had worn on yesterday's shift; my dark sport coat; ou r guns, which had become as much a part of the wardrobe as pants, shirts, ties, badges. I never went anywhere without mine, not ev en to the corner store. I had had a long career for a guy thirty- six: I'd made my share of enemies, and Jackie Newton was only the latest. I put the gun on under my coat. I didn't wear a tie, wa sn't about to at that time of night. I was off duty and I'd just been roused from a sound sleep; I wasn't running for city council , and I hated neckties. I know you've been saying that for a lon g time now, that stuff about privacy, Carol said dreamily. But I think the real reason is, if people know about me, I make you vul nerable. I didn't want to get into it. It was just too early for a philosophical discourse. There was something in what Carol sai d, but something in what I said too. I've never liked office goss ip, and I didn't want people talking about her and me. But Carol had been looking at it from another angle lately. We had been se eing each other, in the polite vernacular, for a year now, and sh e was starting to want something more permanent. Maybe bringing o ur arrangement into the public eye would show me how little there was to worry about. People did it all the time. For most of them the world didn't come to an end. Occasionally something good cam e out of it. So she thought. I'm going back to bed, she said. W ake me when you come in. Maybe I'll have a nice surprise for you. She lay back and closed her eyes. Her hair made a spectacular s unburst on the pillow. I sat for a while longer, sipping my coffe e. There wasn't any hurry: a crime lab can take three hours at th e scene. I'd leave in five minutes and still be well within the h alf hour I'd promised Hennessey. The trouble is, when I have dead time -- even five minutes unfilled in the middle of the night -- I begin to think. I think about Carol and me and all the days to come. I think about the job and all the burned-out gone-forever days behind us. I think about quitting and I wonder what I'd do. I think about being tied to someone and anchoring those ties with children. Carol would not be a bad one to do that with. She's p retty and bright, and maybe this is what love is. She's good comp any: her interests broaden almost every day. She reads three book s to my one, and I read a lot. We talk far into the night. She st ill doesn't understand the first edition game: Hemingway, she say s, reads just as well in a two-bit paperback as he does in a $500 first printing. I can still hear myself lecturing her the first time she said that. Only a fool would read a first edition. Simpl y having such a book makes life in general and Hemingway in parti cular go better when you do break out the reading copies. I liste ned to myself and thought, This woman must think I'm a government -inspected horse's ass. Then I showed her my Faulkners, one with a signature, and I saw her shiver with an almost sexual pleasure as she touched the paper where he'd signed it. Faulkner was her m ost recent god, and I had managed to put together a small but res pectable collection of his first editions. You've got to read thi s stuff, she said to me when she was a month deep in his work. Ho w can you collect the man without ever reading what he's written? In fact, I had read him, years ago: I never could get the viewpo ints straight in The Sound and the Fury, but I had sense enough a t sixteen to know that the problem wasn't with Faulkner but with me. I was trying to work up the courage to tackle him again: if I began to collect him, I reasoned, I'd have to read him sooner or later. Carol shook her head. Look at it this way, I said, the Fa ulkners have appreciated about twenty percent in the three years I've owned them. That she understood. My apartment looked like a n adjunct of the Denver Public Library. There were wall-to-wall b ooks in every room. Carol had never asked the Big Dumb Question t hat people always ask when they come into a place like this: Jeez , d'ya read all these? She browsed, fascinated. The books have a loose logic to their shelving: mysteries in the bedroom; novels o ut here; art books, notably by the Wyeths, on the far wall. There 's no discrimination -- they are all first editions -- and when p eople try to go highbrow on me, I love reminding them that my as- new copy of Raymond Chandler's Lady in the Lake is worth a cool $ 1,000 today, more than a bale of books by most of the critically acclaimed and already forgotten so-called masters of the art-and- beauty school. There's nothing wrong with writing detective stori es if you do it well enough. I've been collecting books for a lo ng time. Once I killed two men in the same day, and this room had an almost immediate healing effect. I've missed my calling, I t hought. But now was probably years too late to be thinking about it. Time to go. Cliff? Her eyes were still closed, but she was not quite asleep. I'm leaving now, I said. You going out to se e Jackie Newton? If this is what it looks like, you better belie ve it. Have Neal watch your flank. And both of you be careful. I went over and kissed her on the temple. Two minutes later I was in my car, gliding through the cool Denver night. Copyright ? 1 992 by John Dunning ., Pocket Star, 2001, 2.5, UsedAcceptable. Item in acceptable condition including possible liquid damage. As well answers may be filled in. May be missing DVDs, CDs, Access code, etc. 100%Money-Back Guarantee! Ship within 24 hours!!, 0, Great Britain: Icon Books, 1995. Did Picasso invent modern art? so compelling is the myth of Picasso one can be forgiven for thinking that he did His mesmeric gaze of both matador and bull seems to hold the answers to the enigma of 20th century Art .Andrew brighton distinguished art historian and critic, explores the significance of Picasso's deeply catalan roots and focuses on twenty key works that spanned the artists lifetime.illustrated..........(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 1st Uk Paperback Printing. Softcover. Very Good. Illus. by Andrzej Klimowski. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover., Icon Books, 1995, 3, O'Reilly Media. Very Good. 7 x 0.98 x 9.19 inches. Paperback. 2005. 544 pages. <br>Many programmers code by instinct, relying on conv enient habits or a style they picked up early on. They aren't con scious of all the choices they make, like how they format their s ource, the names they use for variables, or the kinds of loops th ey use. They're focused entirely on problems they're solving, sol utions they're creating, and algorithms they're implementing. So they write code in the way that seems natural, that happens intui tively, and that feels good. But if you're serious about your pr ofession, intuition isn't enough. Perl Best Practices author Dami an Conway explains that rules, conventions, standards, and practi ces not only help programmers communicate and coordinate with one another, they also provide a reliable framework for thinking abo ut problems, and a common language for expressing solutions. This is especially critical in Perl, because the language is designed to offer many ways to accomplish the same task, and consequently it supports many incompatible dialects. With a good dose of Aus sie humor, Dr. Conway (familiar to many in the Perl community) of fers 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you write better Perl code--in fact, the best Perl code you possibly can. The gui delines cover code layout, naming conventions, choice of data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design and implementation, modularity, object orientation, error handling, t esting, and debugging. They're designed to work together to prod uce code that is clear, robust, efficient, maintainable, and conc ise, but Dr. Conway doesn't pretend that this is the one true uni versal and unequivocal set of best practices. Instead, Perl Best Practices offers coherent and widely applicable suggestions based on real-world experience of how code is actually written, rather than on someone's ivory-tower theories on howsoftware ought to b e created. Most of all, Perl Best Practices offers guidelines th at actually work, and that many developers around the world are a lready using. Much like Perl itself, these guidelines are about h elping you to get your job done, without getting in the way. Pra ise for Perl Best Practices from Perl community members: As a ma nager of a large Perl project, I'd ensure that every member of my team has a copy of Perl Best Practices on their desk, and use it as the basis for an in-house style guide.-- Randal Schwartz The re are no more excuses for writing bad Perl programs. All levels of Perl programmer will be more productive after reading this boo k.-- Peter Scott Perl Best Practices will be the next big import ant book in the evolution of Perl. The ideas and practices Damian lays down will help bring Perl out from under the embarrassing h eading of scripting languages. Many of us have known Perl is a re al programming language, worthy of all the tasks normally delegat ed to Java and C++. With Perl Best Practices, Damian shows specif ically how and why, so everyone else can see, too.-- Andy Lester Damian's done what many thought impossible: show how to build la rge, maintainable Perl applications, while still letting Perl be the powerful, expressive language that programmers have loved for years.-- Bill Odom Finally, a means to bring lasting order to t he process and product of real Perl development teams.-- Andrew S undstrom Perl Best Practices provides a valuable education in ho w to write robust, maintainable Perl, and is a definitive citatio n source when coaching other programmers.-- Bennett ToddI've been teaching Perl for years, and find the same question keeps being asked: Where can I find a reference for writing reusable, maintai nable Perl code? Finally I have a decent answer.-- Paul FenwickAt last a well researched, well thought-out, comprehensive guide to Perl style. Instead of each of us developing our own, we can lea rn good practices from one of Perl's most prolific and experience d authors. I recommend this book to anyone who prefers getting on with the job rather than going back and fixing errors caused by syntax and poor style issues.-- Jacinta RichardsonIf you care abo ut programming in any language read this book. Even if you don't intend to follow all of the practices, thinking through your styl e will improve it.-- Steven LembarkThe Perl community's best auth or is back with another outstanding book. There has never been a comprehensive reference on high quality Perl coding and style unt il Perl Best Practices. This book fills a large gap in every Perl bookshelf.-- Uri Guttman Editorial Reviews About the Author D amian Conway holds a PhD in Computer Science and is an honorary A ssociate Professor with the School of Computer Science and Softwa re Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.Current ly he runs an international IT training company--Thoughtstream--w hich provides programmer development from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia.Damian w as the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for P ractical Utility. The best technical paper at the annual Perl Con ference was subsequently named in his honour. He is a member of t he technical committee for The Perl Conference, a keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences, a former columnist for The Perl Journal, and author of the book Object Oriented Perl. In 2001 Da mian received the first Perl Foundation Development Grant and spe nt 20 months working on projects for the betterment of Perl.A pop ular speaker and trainer, he is also the author of numerous well- known Perl modules, including Parse::RecDescent (a sophisticated parsing tool), Class::Contract (design-by-contract programming in Perl), Lingua::EN::Inflect (rule-based English transformations f or text generation), Class::Multimethods (multiple dispatch polym orphism), Text::Autoformat (intelligent automatic reformatting of plaintext), Switch (Perl's missing case statement), NEXT (resump tive method dispatch), Filter::Simple (Perl-based source code man ipulation), Quantum::Superpositions (auto-parallelization of seri al code using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and Lingua::Romana: :Perligata (programming in Latin).Most of his time is now spent w orking with Larry Wall on the design of the new Perl 6 programmin g language. </div ., O'Reilly Media, 2005, 3, Simon & Schuster. Very Good. 6.6 x 9.5 x 1.7 inches. Hardcover. 2006. 576 pages. <br>Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of viole nce through the next year.'' This was the secret Pentagon assessm ent sent to the White House in May 2006. The forecast of a more v iolent 2007 in Iraq contradicted the repeated optimistic statemen ts of President Bush, including one, two days earlier, when he sa id we were at a ''turning point that history would mark as the ti me the forces of terror began their long retreat. State of Denial examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth a bout Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. Tw o days after the May report, the Pentagon told Congress, in a rep ort required by law, that the appeal and motivation for continued violent action will begin to wane in early 2007. In this detaile d inside story of a war-torn White House, Bob Woodward reveals ho w White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, with the indirect suppo rt of other high officials, tried for 18 months to get Defense Se cretary Donald Rumsfeld replaced. The president and Vice Presiden t Cheney refused. At the beginning of Bush's second term, Stephen Hadley, who replaced Condoleezza Rice as national security advis er, gave the administration a 'D minus' on implementing its polic ies. A secret report to the new Secretary of State Rice from her counselor stated that, nearly two years after the invasion, Iraq was a failed state. The book reveals that at the urging of Cheney and Rumsfeld, the most frequent outside visitor and Iraq adviser to President Bush is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who, haunted still by the loss in Vietnam, emerges as a hidden an d potent voice. Woodward reveals that the secretary of defense hi mself believes that the system of coordination among departments and agencies is broken, and in a secret May 1, 2006 memo Rumsfeld stated, that the current system of government makes competence n ext to impossible. State of Denial answers the core questions: Wh at happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make d ecisions and manage a war that he chose to define his presidency? And is there an achievable plan for victory? n nEditorial Review s n nFrom Publishers Weekly nStarred Review. If there ever was a crystalline indictment of a president's wartime decisions, this i s it. In the third volume exploring the political carnage and bur eaucratic infighting prompted by the September 11 attacks, legend ary investigative journalist Woodward (Bush at War, Plan of Attac k) dissects the Bush administration's conduct of the war in Iraq. The picture isn't a pretty one, and Woodward's disarming, matter -of-fact prose makes his page-turning account more powerful still . The incompetence and arrogance on display in the highest levels of the executive branch is as stunning-and as unsettling-as the dismay voiced by civilians and soldiers who endeavor and fail to open the administration's eyes to the failures in Iraq, from the complex security challenges to simple logistical matters like sec uring sufficient translators. Unable to manage the war they unlea shed, the principals-President George W. Bush, Vice President Dic k Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and national secur ity advisor, later Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice-fare poor ly here. Many of the charges are familiar-the president lacks inq uisitiveness, the vice president is obsessed with WMD, Rice is th e worst security advisor in modern times-but gel anew in the ligh t of Woodward's explication. The breakout star of this disturbing spectacle is Rumsfeld, who presides over the conflict with a sup reme self confidence that literally leaves Woodward at a loss for words. If journalism is the first page of history, then Woodward 's opus will be required reading for any would-be historians of t he time. nCopyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of R eed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. n nReview nState of Denial feels all the more outraged for its measured, nonpartisan tones and relentless reporting. It is nothing less than a watershed.... The full story of the Iraq War will be told by historians....Thi s book...will be at the top of their shelves as they proceed to t he altar of judgment. n n-- Ted Widmer, The Washington Post Book World n nSerious, densely, even exhaustively reported, and a rea l contribution to history in that it gives history what it most r equires, first-person testimony....This is a primer on how the ex ecutive branch of the United States works, or rather doesn't work , in the early years of the 21st century. n n-- Peggy Noonan, Th e Wall Street Journal n nNever-before-reported nuggets in every c hapter....It offers the most revealing in-the-room glimpse of the Bush administration that we have so far. n n-- Walter Shapiro, Salon.com n nState of Denial is brimming with vivid details about White House meetings, critical phone calls, intelligence reports , and military affairs....Impressively detailed and eye-opening r evelations about the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq w ar and its aftermath. n n-- Chuck Leddy, The Boston Globe n nWoo dward's book is packed with details about the gulf between the in formation the administration had and the picture it presented. n n-- USA Today n nWoodward's trilogy on the Bush administration a t war is essential, and compelling, reading. n n--Foreign Affair s n nAbout the Author nBob Woodward, a reporter and editor at Th e Washington Post since 1971, has authored or coauthored ten New York Times #1 bestsellers, including Plan of Attack, Bush at War, Shadow, The Agenda, The Commanders, Veil, Wired, The Brethren, T he Final Days, and All the President's Men. n nAbout the Author n Bob Woodward, a reporter and editor at The Washington Post since 1971, has authored or coauthored ten New York Times #1 bestseller s, including Plan of Attack, Bush at War, Shadow, The Agenda, The Commanders, Veil, Wired, The Brethren, The Final Days, and All t he President's Men. ., Simon & Schuster, 2006, 3, London: Atlantic Books, 2015. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, front hinge slightly split (pages firm), corner tips covers little creased, minor edgewear. 288 pp. In this controversial book, Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives. By tracing the history of the internet, from its founding in the 1960s and the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, to the rise of big data companies and the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity. The British-American internet critic reveals how the Web has had a toxic effect on our culture, economy and society. For example, it undermines the authority of learned experts and the work of professionals. ., Atlantic Books, 2015, 0, ISBN: 9780521132657Cambridge University Press, 30 August 2010Paperback, 310 pagesIn Challenges in Intelligence Analysis, Timothy Walton offers concrete, reality-based ways to improve intelligence analysis. After a brief introduction to the main concepts of analysis, he provides more than forty historical and contemporary examples that demonstrate what has, and what has not, been effective when grappling with difficult problems. The examples cover a wide span of time, going back 3,000 years. They are also global in scope and deal with a variety of political, military, economic, and social issues. Walton emphasizes the importance of critical and creative thinking and how such thinking can be enhanced. His book provides a detailed and balanced idea of intelligence work and will be of particular interest to students who are contemplating a career in intelligence analysis. *Offers a brief introduction to the concepts, vocabulary, and tools of intelligence analysis. *Features more than forty examples, each with questions for further discussion and recommended reading. *Includes an instructor's guide with model answers to the questions for further discussion, as well as suggested exercises and additional background information.Editorial ReviewsReview "Serious students of intelligence learn far more from examining the successes and failures of actual cases than they do from abstract theorizing. They want to hear it from someone who has been there and who can speak from firsthand experience. In my opinion, it would be hard to find anyone with better credentials to write a book on intelligence analysis from a practitioner's standpoint than Tim Walton." - James M. Olson, The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, and former Chief of CIA Counterintelligence"Timothy Walton has written the best beginner's guide to the complex world of intelligence analysis with a historical perspective that also deserves to be pondered by experienced analysts." - Christopher Andrew, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 and The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West"Timothy Walton offers in these pages a readable and reliable survey of secret intelligence operations, from Biblical times through the contemporary efforts of the Western nations to thwart global terrorist activities perpetrated by Al Qaeda and its allies. The work is a rich mosaic of espionage down through the years, filled with images of shadowy figures and dazzling spy machines." - Loch K. Johnson, University of GeorgiaBook Description In Challenges in Intelligence Analysis, first published in 2010, Timothy Walton offers concrete, reality-based ways to improve intelligence analysis.Book Description In Challenges in Intelligence Analysis, Timothy Walton offers concrete, reality-based ways to improve intelligence analysis. After a brief introduction to the main concepts of analysis, he provides more than forty historical and contemporary examples that demonstrate what has, and what has not, been effective when grappling with difficult problems.About the Author Timothy Walton is an adjunct professor of intelligence studies at Mercyhurst College and on the roster of subject matter experts at Omnis Inc., an intelligence training consulting firm. The author of The Spanish Treasure Fleets, he served in the U.S. Navy and spent twenty-four years as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency., 0, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1963.. First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 159; endpaper maps, 8 plates, 5 figures, 2 maps, sources, index, bound in original blue cloth boards, title in gilt on spine, lightly chipped dustjacket., good copy. The author has rewritten his book titled `Ancient Voyages in the Pacific' now out of print under this an amended title, answering the arguments of his critics and incorporating interesting new material and deductions., Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1963., 0, NY: Riverhead Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 3rd Printing Third Printing. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight, no writing, no markings noted. Light age toning at to the papers.* From the book, ""In this secular society, what draws - and binds - thoughtful, educated people to a Church so often criticized by outsiders (and even members) as authoritarian"" or ""out of step with the times""? This collection of personal accounts answers that question in diverse, fascinating, and deeply moving ways."" *Includes essays by Andre Dubus, Andrew M. Greeley, William X. Kienzle, Bowie Kuhn, Michael Novak, Walker Percy, Maria Shriver and others . . ., Riverhead Books, 1998, 3, Andrews McMeel Publishing. Very Good+. 1997. Paperback. 0836228944 . Trade Paperback. Very Good+, a solid binding, the text is clean & unmarked. Moderate cover wear. "What was in the briefcase in "Pulp Fiction"? Why don't movie actors wear seat belts? Was "Fargo" really based on a true story? Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert answers these and hundreds more. Using wit, insight, and dozens of other experts, he resolves some of the most common questions about the moviesand some of the most bizarre. "; 8.20 X 5.50 X 1 inches; 287 pages ., Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1997, 3<

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Andrews McMeel Publishing. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2.5<

ISBN: 9780836228946

Andrews McMeel Publishing. paperback. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all… Mehr…

Andrews McMeel Publishing. paperback. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included., Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1<

ISBN: 9780836228946

Andrews McMeel Publishing. Used - Very Good. A bright, square, and overall a nice copy, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 3