This real-life Hunt for Red October is a story Naval Intelligence doesnt want you to know: the dramatic history of Americas highly clandestine, dangerous, and sometimes deadly submarine espionage missions, from the Cold War thorough the Clinton administration. Over the course of five years, investigative reporters Sherry Sontag and Chris Drew ...
Being a professional athlete isn't easy. Sure, they have money, ice-sculpture busts of themselves and free use of team whirlpool facilities for their extramarital liaisons. But they also have obnoxious fans, conniving groupies desperate to get pregnant and hardass coaches. Luckily, Drew Magary has written MEN WITH BALLS, the first handbook ...
Stretching from the years immediately after World War II to the spy operations of the Clinton administration, the authors present extraordinary revelations about undersea conflict between the US and British submarines and the Soviet fleet in an unseen intelligence war. The authors reveal stories of adventure, ingenuity, courage and disaster ...
The "Collins College Outline" for "College Chemistry" is a comprehensive guide to the fundamental concepts behind chemical reactions, bonding, equilibria, and thermodynamics, with topics ranging from simple chemical measurements and the basics of atoms and molecules to entropy, electrochemistry, and nuclear chemistry. Fully revised and updated by ...
With dramatic die-cuts, stunning embossed covers and engaging texts, this unique early science series puts the spotlight on animals -- how they look; where they live; what they're like as babies and how they change as they grow up. Awesome lifelike illustrations and informative stat boxes make learning about animals, mummies and volcanos fun and ...
This guide to creating Linux Web applications with the available open source tools demonstrates what to do at each step, from configuring the Web server to running complies CGIs. The programming techniques featured are not platform specific.
Artificial intelligence research has thrived in the years since this best-selling AI classic was first published. The revision encompasses these advances by adapting its coding to Common Lisp, the well-documented language standard, and by bringing together even more useful programming tools. Today's programmers in AI will find this volume's ...
The magic of storytelling unfolds in page after beautiful page of these early-reader paperbacks that are perfect for reading aloud and simple enough for children who are ready to spread their reading wings. Priced so affordably, parents will collect them all!
The functional properties of any molecule are directly related to and affected by its structure. This is no less true for DNA, the molecule that carries the code for our very being. Yet, so often DNA is thought of as just a string of bases. "Understanding DNA" explains in a step by step fashion why DNA forms specific structures, the nature of ...
Die Front ist unsichtbar. Eine gefaehrliche Schlacht unter Wasser haelt Spionageeinheiten der Supermaechte nach 1945 bis in die 90er Jahre gebannt in Atem. Nach jahrelanger Recherche gelingt es zwei Reportern der "New York Times," erstmals die geheimsten militaerischen Operationen der USA waehrend des Kalten Krieges ans Licht zu bringen. ...
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