On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. He’s waiting for Dorothy, his fiancée, and tonight is the last night they’ll be meeting here, for it’s May 31st, and June 1st marks their wedding day. But she’s late, and Johnny soon learns of a horrible accident—an accident involving a group of drunken men, a low-flying charter plane, an...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals—including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams—traveled and lived in China. There, they used a variety of media to express their solidarity with Chinese communism and to redefine the relatio...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals—including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams—traveled and lived in China. There, they used a variety of media to express their solidarity with Chinese communism and to redefine the relatio...(展开全部)

Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics. In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on "The...(展开全部)

Herbert O. Yardley is one of the legendary figures in the history of espionage. He founded and directed the famous 'American Black Chamber' in World War I and thereafter. When Secretary of State Stimson in 1929 issued the infamous directive 'Gentlemen do not read each other's mail,' he destroyed the Black Chamber and with it much of America's intelligence capability. Yardley, t...(展开全部)

A beautiful hardback edition of the famously terrifying ghost story, The Woman in Black, together with four other spine-chilling tales in one beautiful volume. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not unti...(展开全部)

Joseph P. Byrne, The Black Death (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World) Greenwood Press | ISBN 0313324921 | 2004 | PDF | 1 MB | 263 pages The Black Death, by Joseph Byrne, isolates the event of the epidemic of bubonic plague in 1347–52 as having had a signal impact on medieval Europe. It was, however, only the first of many related such episodes involving v...(展开全部)

理查德•阿尔德里奇 华威大学国际安全教授，战争和情报领域的定期评论员，《标准晚报》《卫报》《泰晤士报》《每日电讯》撰稿人。2007年9月加入公共事务情报服务部（PAIS），其研究专注于情报与安全机构。在数个英国政府部门担任档案管理、档案解密、公司记忆库等方面的顾问；2015—2016年，协助德国联邦议院调查了美国国家安全局的斯诺登事件。 在过去的数年中，阿尔德里奇主导了名为“秘密景观：1947—2001中央情报局及美国外交政策中的争议性记录”的研究项目，并获得资金支持。出版过数本图书，包括“唐纳图书奖”获奖作品《看不见的手：英国、美国和冷战时的秘密情报组织》。 罗里•科马克 新一代情报史专家中的佼佼者，专业领域为英国秘密行动和秘密外交政策——这或许是英国情报史上最激动人心，目前还未得到充分研究的领域。科马克出版了大量关于安全问题的作品，并且经常出现在...(展开全部)