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Teaching as a subversive activity Teaching as a subversive activity Neil Postman A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.From the Trade Paperback edition. OL137915W
The secret war against Hanoi The secret war against Hanoi Richard H. Shultz "Based on thousands of pages of recently declassified top-secret SOG [Special Operations Group] documents, as well as interviews with sixty officers who ran SOG's covert programs and the senior offic… OL15828151W
The Degaev Affair The Degaev Affair Richard Pipes "Sergei Degaev (1857-1921), a leading political terrorist in tsarist Russia, disappeared after participating in the assassination of the chief of Russia's security organization in 1883. Those who lat… OL1746632W
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden Jonas Jonasson In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her tha… OL17562979W
Whiskey tango foxtrot Whiskey tango foxtrot Shafer, David (Novelist) The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeo… OL17893932W
Traitors & turncoats Traitors & turncoats Ian Crofton 'If I had to choose between betraying my friend and betraying my country, I hope I should have the courage to betray my country.' So wrote the English novelist E.M. Forster in 1951. People have betra… OL17926103W
Loyalty and security in a democratic state Loyalty and security in a democratic state Gene Brown,Richard Halworth Rovere A collection of newspaper articles discussing emphasis placed on national loyalty and security in the United States. OL18237147W
The lacuna The lacuna Barbara Kingsolver In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. T… OL1846840W
The lacuna The lacuna Barbara Kingsolver "The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of th… OL18545102W
The gone world The gone world Tom Sweterlitsch Time-travel secret agent Shannon Moss visits future time periods for clues about a Navy SEAL astronaut's murdered family and the disappearance of his teenage daughter, a case that is complicated by t… OL19732028W
Swords in the hands of children Swords in the hands of children Jonathan Lerner 213 pages : 22 cm OL19733649W
Operation Lena and Hitler's Plots to Blow Up Britain Operation Lena and Hitler's Plots to Blow Up Britain Bernard O'Connor 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm OL20582686W
Desterrados Desterrados Alfredo Molano Written in the form of short stories, but including true accounts of prevalent conditions in Colombia. OL2179245W
British clandestine activities in Romania during the Second World War British clandestine activities in Romania during the Second World War Dennis Deletant "British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War is the first monograph to examine the activity throughout the entire war of SOE and MI6. It was generally believed in Britain's … OL22318917W
The illegal alien invasion! The illegal alien invasion! David J. Smith The United States is being infiltrated and undermined by illegal aliens & the introduction of drug cartels, crime, and international communism. The Council on Foreign Relations, the ACLU and certain … OL24748503W
Crónica de un país embozado Crónica de un país embozado Laura Castellanos Independent investigative reporter chronicles most visible expressions of violent subversion in Mexico over past 25 years: guerrilla warfare, Zapatista uprising, anarchist sabotage, vigilantism and o… OL32347102W
Tigers of Lanka, from boys to guerrillas Tigers of Lanka, from boys to guerrillas M. R. Narayan Swamy Study of the genesis and spread of Tamil militancy in Sri Lanka. OL3726707W
Secret agent 666 Secret agent 666 Richard B. Spence Aleister Crowley is best today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us on the cover of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influence c… OL4136655W
Tom Clancy's Net Force Tom Clancy's Net Force Tom Clancy,Steve R. Pieczenik Here comes a Clancy first: a new series of novels for young adults starring a team of troubleshooting teens--the Net Force Explorers--who know more about cutting edge technology than their teachers! OL448894W
Subversion Subversion Duncan Reekie Over the last decade there has been a phenomenal international resurgence of interest and activity in the field of Underground film and video. In Britain and North America there has been a new wave o… OL8940067W
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