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A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use
nuclear weapons against Japan-a crucial turning point in World War
II and geopolitical history-with you-are-there immediacy by the New
York Times bestselling author of Ike's Bluff and Sea of Thunder.
The Very Best Men tells the story of the four men who ran covert
operations for the CIA from World War II to Vietnam. Frank Wisner
was a wealthy southern gentleman who arrived in Washington via Wall
Street and whose wife ran the most active salon in Georgetown. He
was the creator of the Office of Policy Coordination, the CIA's
covert action wing. Wisner helped foment the failed revolution in
Hungary in 1956. Wisner had a breakdown, and committed suicide in
1965. Richard Bissell took over the OPC after Wisner's breakdown,
and presided over the Agency's wildest days. He ordered the
assassination of several foreign leaders and organised a series of
attempted coups. When John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960, Bissell
introduced himself to the new president as 'your basic man-eating
shark'. Five months later Bissell was forced to resign over the Bay
of Pigs. Tracy Barnes served under Wisner and Bissell, and oversaw
the Bay of Pigs operation. With Bissell he hired the mafia to kill
Castro. He was never at a loss for ideas. Unfortunately, he had
trouble telling the good ones from the bad. He was quietly
dismissed from the Agency in 1966. Desmond Fitzgerald ran the
secret wars in Laos and Tibet. Later, he organised assassination
plots against Castro. He was also responsible for covering them up,
fearing that the CIA would be linked to Kennedy's assassination.
Drawing on extensive interviews with former operatives, Thomas has
written a highly readable narrative that brings to life a crucial
period of American history. About the Author Evan Thomas is
assistant managing editor of Newsweek. He has written more than a
hundred cover stories on national and international news. He has
won two National Magazine Awards and he has taught writing at
Harvard and Princeton. He has written seven books, one of which,
John Paul Jones, was a New York Times bestseller. He is a fellow of
the Society of American Historians. He lives in Washington DC.
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the
great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what
Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio
Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed
to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." Evan Thomas's
minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones's
"Bonhomme Richard" and the British man-of-war "Serapis" off the
coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea
battle as can be found in any novel.
Drawing on Jones's correspondence with some of the most
significant figures of the American Revolution -- John Adams,
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson -- Thomas's biography teaches
us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams
of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free
of the past and start a new world. Jones's spirit was classically
American.
He was "Good Bobby," who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it . . . saw suffering and tried to heal it." And "Bad Bobby," the ruthless and manipulative bully of countless conspiracy theories. Thomas's unvarnished but sympathetic and fair-minded portrayal is packed with new details about Kennedy's early life and his behind-the-scenes machinations, including new revelations about the 1960 and 1968 presidential campaigns, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his long struggles with J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson.
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The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together,
is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to
global prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global
Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with
the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services,
such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and
shelter. As engineers, we should place an emphasis on identifying
the drivers, determinants, and solutions to increasing equitable
access to reliable services. Global Engineering envisions a world
where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter,
and infrastructure, and can live in health, dignity, and
prosperity. This book seeks to examine the role and ultimately the
impact of engineers in global development. Engineers are
solutions-oriented people. We enjoy the opportunity to identify a
product or need, and design appropriate technical solutions.
However, the structural and historical barriers to global
prosperity requires that Engineers focus more broadly on improving
the tools and practice of poverty reduction and that we include
health, economics, policy, and governance as relevant expertise
with which we are conversant. Engineers must become activists and
advocates, rejecting ahistorical technocratic approaches that
suggest poverty can be solved without justice or equity. Engineers
must leverage our professional skills and capacity to generate
evidence and positive impact toward rectifying inequalities and
improving lives. Half of this book is dedicated to profiles of
engineers and other technical professionals who have dedicated
their careers to searching for solutions to global development
challenges. These stories introduce the reader to the diverse
opportunities and challenges in Global Engineering.
The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together,
is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to
global prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global
Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with
the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services,
such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and
shelter. As engineers, we should place an emphasis on identifying
the drivers, determinants, and solutions to increasing equitable
access to reliable services. Global Engineering envisions a world
where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter,
and infrastructure, and can live in health, dignity, and
prosperity. This book seeks to examine the role and ultimately the
impact of engineers in global development. Engineers are
solutions-oriented people. We enjoy the opportunity to identify a
product or need, and design appropriate technical solutions.
However, the structural and historical barriers to global
prosperity requires that Engineers focus more broadly on improving
the tools and practice of poverty reduction and that we include
health, economics, policy, and governance as relevant expertise
with which we are conversant. Engineers must become activists and
advocates, rejecting ahistorical technocratic approaches that
suggest poverty can be solved without justice or equity. Engineers
must leverage our professional skills and capacity to generate
evidence and positive impact toward rectifying inequalities and
improving lives. Half of this book is dedicated to profiles of
engineers and other technical professionals who have dedicated
their careers to searching for solutions to global development
challenges. These stories introduce the reader to the diverse
opportunities and challenges in Global Engineering.
The study of Quantitative EEGs and Neurofeedback offer a window
into brain physiology and function via computer and statistical
analyses, suggesting innovative approaches to the improvement of
attention, anxiety, mood and behavior. Resources for understanding
what QEEG and Neurofeedback is, how they are used, and to what
disorders and patients they can be applied are scarce, and this
volume serves as an ideal tool for clinical researchers and
practicing clinicians, providing a broad overview of the most
interesting topics relating to the techniques. The revised coverage
of advancements, new applications (e.g. Aspberger's, music therapy,
LORETA, etc.), and combinations of prior approaches make the second
edition a necessary companion to the first. The top scholars in the
field have been enlisted and contributions will offer both the
breadth needed for an introductory scholar and the depth desired by
a clinical professional.
*Detailed new protocols for treatment of anxiety, depression, ADHD,
and PTSD
*Newest protocol in Z-score training enables clinicians to extend
their practices
*LORETA diagnostic tool lets the clinician watch for changes deep
in the brain through working with surface EEG patterns
With a new introduction by the authors, this is the classic account
of the American statesmen who rebuilt the world after the
catastrophe of World War II. A captivating blend of personal
biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces six close
friends who shaped the role their country would play in the
dangerous years following World War II. They were the original best
and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities,
and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos and
leave a legacy that dominates American policy to this day. The Wise
Men shares the stories of Averell Harriman, the freewheeling
diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin;
Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for
the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than
General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and
intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett,
assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary
of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John
McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and
Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
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