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商品説明：You can't control many things in life, but there’s one thing you are always in control of. Even if you can't choose the situation, you always choose your perspective - even at the darkest times. And your mindset can be trained to make things a little easier. The 3 rules for facing cancer diagnosis, and the days that follow. One cancer survivor's lessons learnt through training her mindset to overc...

商品説明：PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service. The authors look in detail at MI5s role in the post-Cold War world; in particular, they consider its changing role as it took on the main responsibility in countering terrorist threats to ...

商品説明：In 1942, Hitler's Nazi regime trained eight operatives for a mission to infiltrate America and do devastating damage to its infrastructure. It was a plot that proved historically remarkable for two reasons: the surprising extent of its success and the astounding nature of its failure. Soon after two U-Boats packed with explosives arrived on America's shores–one on Long Island, one in Florida–it be...

商品説明：The International Bestseller "A true story that surpasses any novel by John le Carré."ーEl Pa**ís (Spain) For five centuries, the Vaticanーthe oldest organization in the world, maker of kings and shaper of historyーhas used a secret spy service, called the Holy Alliance, or later, the Entity, to carry out its will. Forty popes have relied on it to carry out their policies. They have played a hitherto...

商品説明：For decades, movies and television shows have portrayed FBI agents as fearless heroes leading glamorous lives, but this refreshingly original memoir strips away the fantasy and glamour and describes the day-to-day job of an FBI special agent. The book gives a firsthand account of a career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation from the academy to retirement, with exciting and engaging anecdotes ab...

商品説明：It's the gunshot that echoed around the world - but who pulled the trigger? McLaren unravels the cold case of the 20th century.' Andrew Rule, bestselling author of Underbelly Assassination? Conspiracy? Evidence of the shocking truth is finally revealed. On 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his wife Jackie were taking part in a presidential mo...

商品説明："Nada Prouty served her country loyally, with distinction, and, as universally acknowledged by her colleagues, with great personal courage as a CIA covert officer. This tale of rampant trampling of citizen's rights is a vivid reminder of the responsibility of citizens to be vigilant against unaccountable government overreach if we hope to keep a strong democracy, where the rule of law prevails and...

商品説明： It was the biggest manhunt in police history. What caused the angelic looking child to grow up into the monster that was Raoul Moat. His early life at the hands of a unstable mother who used to beat him and once burned his toys in front of him. The rec-airing dreams as an adult of being a seven year old boy chased by monsters. This book covers Raoul Moats life, his childhood, his relationships an...

商品説明： The Russians have now taken over the mantle as the most ruthless and organised criminal gang in the world. Gone are the days when the Italian Mafia or Cosa Nostra controlled the American and European underworld. The Russians have taken Crime to a new level with power and money other organised outfits can only dream of. This book lifts the lid on the bosses of the Russian mob. Their tentacles spre...

商品説明：On the day Pedro Sanjuan moved into his new office at the UN Secretariat in 1984, he had the foresight to unscrew his telephone receiver. Out fell a little packet of high-grade cocaine. When he confronted the undersecretary to the chief Soviet diplomatーreally a KGB colonel and the top Russian spyーthe agent laughed good-naturedly and congratulated him on passing the test. That was the beginning of ...

商品説明：In 1898, Spanish spies based in Montreal, Halifax, and Victoria monitored the United States war effort against their homeland, while U.S. counter-intelligence officials watched the Spaniards. Neither the Americans nor the Spaniards sought Canadian permission for these activities. Britain’s enemies (and often America’s enemies) have also been Canada’s enemies. Without the heroic counter-intelligenc...

商品説明：Condenados de la memoria, de forma confidencial exponer por un ex agente de narcóticos sigue los enlaces de las zonas de tránsito de drogas hacia la costa este, con líneas rectas a la Casa Blanca, el Departamento de Estado y la CIA, a raíz de la verdad, sin embargo incómodo que era para un Washington peso pesado. La revelación, la acción-atado libro muestra cómo los beneficios de medicamentos de c...

商品説明：Peer into the minds of teen killers like Pearl, Mississippi school shooter Luke Woodham with researcher Phil Chalmers as your guide to understand the motives behind, and possibly prevent, their horrifying violence. Luke Woodham, a pudgy 16-year-old, woke up one day, slit his mother's throat, and then drove to school, where he shot 9 people, including his girlfriend. Why? In Inside the Mind of a Te...

商品説明：On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, an unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot and family man. Alon's sixteen-year-old neighbor, Fred Burton, was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilotーhe was a high-ranking militar...

商品説明：Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective sto...

商品説明：   THE VOICE ON THE PHONE WAS CHILLINGLY matter-of-fact. "I've killed another man," the caller told police. "Haven't you found him yet?" After giving an address in a rundown neighborhoodーwhere detectives would discover a nude corpse, strangled like the four victims before himーthe man continued, "I will go on killing. You can't catch me. I'll kill one a week." ...

商品説明：Is the man who blows up an airplane and kills dozens of civilians a murderous terrorist... or a valiant freedom fighter? Is the man who tries to stop the bomber a threat to national security... or a hero of the people? It depends. What Lies Across the Water is a narrative nonfiction thriller. About terrorists who blow up airplanes and try to overthrow governments. About intelligence agents who try...

商品説明：The Cold War for Information Technology is a captivating new book that uncovers a little-known but vital battle to gain control over IT development that took place in the final two decades of the 20th century. As you might expect, intelligence agencies from the United States, the Soviet Union, India, and China all played major roles.-----However, remarkably, an IT company from Titos unaligned Yugo...

商品説明：“Tragic, operatic, touching, and hilarious . . . Liaison is about romantic love in its purest, craziest formーproof anew that the greatest erogenous zone is the mind.”ーShana Alexander The true story that inspired David Hwang's play “M Butterfly”, about a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, posted to Peking, who fell in love with a seductive opera singer, named Shi Pei Pu, apparently unaware that Pe...