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Using information and techniques gathered by the InternationalSpy Museum and an ex-CIA agent, this book shows how the tricks andmethods used by spies can be incorporated into everyday life, suchas how to hide valuables in your home or how to avoid carjacking orpickpockets.
Start your workout today with the US Navy SEALs! The Official United States Navy SEAL Workout presents an accuratedocumentation of the demanding physical training (or P.T., as it'sknown in military circles) that students encounter at BUD/S. Thephysical expectations of BUD/S graduates are awesome...but they areachievable, as this book demonstrates. You'll learn what it's like to be a SEAL in this incredible bookthat brings together the fitness requirements, history, andtraditions of the US Navy SEALs. Whether you're seriously intoexercising or just want to start a personal fitness program, youcan follow this All-American workout to strengthen and tone yourentire body! You'll find: * Workouts you can perform at home, the gym or on the road * Tips on stretching, lower and upper body workouts, andabdominal workouts * Intense photos of SEALs as they prepare for missions around theworld * What it takes to become a Navy SEAL ...and more!
In Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, PaulLettow explores the depth and sophistication of President RonaldReagan’s commitment to ridding humankind permanently of the threatof nuclear war. Lettow’s narrative spans the start of Reagan’s presidency and the1986 Reykjavík summit between Reagan and Soviet leader MikhailGorbachev, during which America’s Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI) was a defining issue. Lettow reveals SDI for what it was: afull-on assault against nuclear weapons waged as much throughpolicy as through ideology. While cabinet members and advisersplayed significant roles in guiding American defense policy, it wasReagan himself who presided over every element, large and small, ofthis paradigm shift in U.S. diplomacy. Lettow conducted interviews with several former Reaganadministration officials, and he draws upon the vast body ofdeclassified security documents from the Reagan presidency; much ofwhat he quotes from these documents appears publicly here for
If the Watergate scandal was a previous generation'sNational Nightmare, then maybe the Clinton scandal was our NationalWet Dream, and who better to narrate it than the screenwriter JoeEszterhas? In American Rhapsody , Eszterhas, whosecredits include Basic Instinct and Showgirls, and Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse, for which he was nominated fora National Book Award, takes us through the events that threatenedto topple a president and left most of the nation's citizens with,at the very least, a bad taste in their mouths. Taking full advantage of his considerablejournalistic and storytelling talents, Eszterhas gives us everyfact, rumor, or innuendo surrounding the president's foibles in thecontext of late century American politics and entertainment. Here Washington and Hollywood do more than just flirt with eachother; they share the same bed. From scandalmongers MattDrudge (who began as a Hollywood gossip) and Ken Starr, to would-bepresident paramours Sharon Stone and Barbra Streisand, to hisfinal,
