Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive secrets from almost every major intelligence agency in the United States. In just eighteen months he sold more than one million pages of classified material to Israel. No other spy in U.S. history has stolen so many secrets, so highly classified, in such a short period of time. Author Ronald...

As you start reading this book, you will see very quickly that the sun rose and sat in my daddy's love for me and why he always referred to me as "Daddy's Girl." I was one of five children-four girls and one boy. Daddy and I always had a special connection and unconditional love for each other. He was the one I ran to when something was wrong, or I had a problem. I can honestly say that I never brought any pain or embarrassment to either my daddy...

January 27th, 1973: the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Viet Cong sign the Paris Peace Accords, guaranteeing the right of self-determination to the South Vietnamese people. April 30th, 1975: President Duong Van Minh of South Vietnam announces the nation's unconditional surrender to the North, ending the decade-long conflict and enabling the merger of both countries into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. What happened in two short...

From 1919 to 1986, Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel provided a summer retreat from the city heat for New York's Jews, and entertained the great, the near-great, and the not so great, Jews and Gentiles alike. A melting pot of the Borscht Belt, sports, and show-biz worlds, loyal visitors included Red Buttons, Rocky Marciano, Eddie Fisher, and Jackie Robinson. Tania Grossinger grew up there. In her fascinating insider's account of life in the hospitality...

Beatriz Sarlo nos ofrece un recorrido por distintos paisajes reales e imaginarios de la cultura contemporánea. Escritos en "tiempo presente", estos artículos también abren una reflexión sobre las formas en las que el presente se hace cargo de la historia. Sarlo captura escenas cotidianas y las mira en detalle, como si fueran textos que deben ser interrogados en su densidad. En los pliegues de pequeñas narraciones, de descripciones y prácticas,...

Timeline Analog 3 (1981-1989) traces the amazing story of editing's evolution. Read how filmmakers like Spielberg and Hitchcock used editing to craft masterpieces while inventors like Beeson, Rady and Warner built wondrous editing machines for editors. Free updates included.

The Eyes of Orion is a highly personal account of the day-to-day experiences of five platoon leaders who served in the same tank battalion in the 24th Infantry Division during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. While professional soldiers and historians will undoubtedly glean much from this narrative, the heart of the account concerns the experiences of the five young lieutenants as they prepared for and served in combat-from their deployment...

La Primera Guerra Mundial certificó la llegada de una nueva era y marcó el principio de un periodo de militancia ideológica y política sin precedentes en Europa desde 1848. A pesar de que se mantuvo neutral durante todo el conflicto, España no fue ajena a este proceso. La decadencia del régimen restauracionista y la emergencia de la política de masas fueron dos elementos de un desarrollo convergente que se había iniciado con la crisis de fin...

La Institución Libre de Enseñanza ha sido estudiada por numerosos pedagogos e historiadores con diferente fortuna, sobre todo a partir de la instauración de la democracia, pero hay un aspecto fundamental que no se ha tratado de forma exhaustiva, en parte por falta de interés y en parte por dificultad de acceso a las fuentes: el papel esencial de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza en la promoción de la educación de la mujer española desde finales...

The compelling story of a trek across an exotic land—and the sinister consequences It was an SS mission led by two complex individuals—one who was using the Nazis to pursue his own ends, and one so committed to Nazism that afterward he conducted racial experiments using the skulls of prisoners at Auschwitz. Himmler's Crusade relates the 1938 Nazi expedition through British India to the sacred mountains of Tibet in search of the remnants of the...