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Christopher Moran

Classified is a fascinating account of the British state's long obsession with secrecy and the ways it sought to prevent information about its secret activities from entering the public domain. Drawing on recently declassified documents, unpublished correspondence and exclusive interviews with key officials and journalists, Christopher Moran pays particular attention to the ways that the press and memoirs have been managed by politicians and spies. He argues that, by the 1960s, governments...

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Paul Maddrell, Ioanna Iordanou, Emrah Safa Gürkan, Iain Lauchlan, Kristie Macrakis, Bodo V. Hechelhammer, Paul M. McGarr, Dina Rezk

Throughout history and across cultures, the spy chief has been a leader of the state security apparatus and an essential adviser to heads of state. In democracies, the spy chief has become a public figure, and intelligence activities have been brought under the rule of law. In authoritarian regimes, however, the spy chief was and remains a frightening and opaque figure who exercises secret influence abroad and engages in repression at home.This second volume of Spy Chiefs ...

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Christopher Moran, Ioanna Iordanou, Mark Stout, Michael Graziano, Matthew H. Fay, James Lockhart, Andrew Hammond, Betsy Rohaly Smoot, David Hatch, Richard J. Aldrich, Michael S. Goodman, Rory Cormac, Danny Steed, Michael L. VanBlaricum, Joseph Oldham

In literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing, all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like pieces on a chessboard. How close to reality is that depiction, and what does it really take to be an effective leader in the world of intelligence?This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our understanding of the role of intelligence leaders in foreign affairs and national security in the United States and United Kingdom from the early 1940s...

Second edition of an established text on common procedures for the identification and processing of evidence at scenes of crimeIncludes chapters on quality assurance and credibility of practices and processesissues surrounding major and complex crimeForensic handling of mass fatalitiesCrime scene reconstruction and impact on evidence recovery processes

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Richard E. Buckley, Christopher G. Moran, Theerachai Apivatthakakul

The AO Principles of Fracture Management has served many generations of surgeons around the world as the source of knowledge and essential reference in the field of orthopedic trauma surgery. The fundamental principles of fracture surgery have not changed in 60 years, but the biological and clinical knowledge, as well as technological advancements have extended new possibilities in surgical treatment and offered surgeons the opportunity to explore new ways of applying the AO princ...

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Wyn Q. Bowen, Hassan Elbahtimy, Christopher Hobbs, Matthew Moran

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Political Science and International Studies (R0)

This book explores how human factors, in particular the contested notion of trust, influence the conduct and practice of arms control verification.In the nuclear arena, disarmament verification is often viewed purely in terms of a dispassionate, scientific process. Yet this view is fundamentally flawed since the technical impossibility of 100 per cent verification opens the door to a host of complex issues and questions regarding the process and its outcomes. Central among these is...

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Scott Romine, Robert Azzarello, Delia Byrnes, Lisa Hinrichsen, Sam Horrocks, Evangelia Kindinger, Christopher Lloyd, Sarah McFarland, John Moran, Joshua Myers, Scott Obernesser, Lucas Sheaffer, Jimmy Dean Smith, Daniel Spoth, Joseph Thompson, Ila Tyagi, Jonathan Villalobos, Jay Watson

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Southern Literary Studies

As the planet faces ever-worsening disruptions to global ecosystems—carbon and chemical emissions, depletions of the ozone layer, the loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, air toxification, and worsening floods and droughts—scholars across academia must examine the cultural effects of this increasingly postnatural world. That task proves especially vital for southern studies, given how often the U.S. South serves as a site for large-scale damming initiatives like the TVA, disasters on t...

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Jo Spain

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Christopher Bonwell, Michele Moran

THE INCREDIBLE DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIE"Spain's blackly comic touch pulls us through a brilliantly dark tale" - Daily Mail**********SOMETIMES THE TRUTH IS NOT ALL IT SEEMS...SOMETIMES A CONFESSION IS JUST THE BEGINNING...Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry McNamara an...

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Jo Spain

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Aoife McMahon

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An Inspector Tom Reynolds Mystery

Kids can be so cruel.They'll call you names.Hurt your feelings.Push you to your death.In the garden of an abandoned house, Luke Connolly lies broken, dead. The night before, he and his friends partied inside. Nobody fought, everybody else went home safely. And yet, Luke was raped and pushed to his death. His alleged attacker is now in custody.DCI Tom ...

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Jo Spain

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Aoife McMahon

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An Inspector Tom Reynolds Mystery

'A deeply satisfying read' Sunday TimesChristmas Day, and DCI Tom Reynolds receives an alarming call. A mass grave has been discovered on Oileán na Caillte, the island which housed the controversial psychiatric institution St. Christina's. The hospital has been closed for decades and onsite graves were tragically common. Reynolds thinks his adversarial boss is handing him a cold case to sideline him.But then it transpires another b...

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Jo Spain

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Aoife McMahon

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An Inspector Tom Reynolds Mystery

THE THIRD TOM REYNOLDS MYSTERY FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIEAs he scanned the glade, his stomach lurched. One, two, three, four. Five, counting the mound of earth disturbed under the tent. Somebody had cleared the earth of its natural layer and sown their own flowers. In five places. Five graves.A young woman, Fiona Holland, has gone missing from a small Irish village. A search is mounted,...

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Jo Spain

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Aoife McMahon

'Clever, pacey, compulsive' Sunday Mirror********One family. One night. Ten years of lies.It's June 2008 and twenty-one-year-old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead. The strain of his disappearance breaks his already fragile family.Ten years later, with his mother deceased and siblings scattered across the globe, Adam turns up unannounced at the family home. His siblings return reluctantly to Spanish Cove, but Ada...