The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about the longest war in American history by Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At fi...(展开全部)

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There, they would quietly forge a series of agreements that divided up Asia. At the time, Roosevelt was bully-confident about America's future on the continent. But these secret pacts lit ...(展开全部)

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators and congressmen. On this trip, Taft concluded secret agreements in Roosevelt's n...(展开全部)

沙伊斯塔·瓦哈卜（Shaista Wahab）出生于阿富汗首都喀布尔。曾就读于喀布尔大学、新德里大学和内布拉斯加大学，拥有历史和信息科学学位。她目前是内布拉斯加大学的亚瑟·保罗阿富汗博物馆的编目员和馆长。 巴里·扬格曼（Barry Youngerman）是小说家、翻译家和编辑，具有超过25年的写作经验，著作较多，目前他居住在美国纽约市。

沙伊斯塔·瓦哈卜（Shaista Wahab）出生于阿富汗首都喀布尔。曾就读于喀布尔大学、新德里大学和内布拉斯加大学，拥有历史和信息科学学位。她目前是内布拉斯加大学的亚瑟·保罗阿富汗博物馆的编目员和馆长。 巴里·扬格曼（Barry Youngerman）是小说家、翻译家和编辑，具有超过25年的写作经验，著作较多，目前他居住在美国纽约市。

沙伊斯塔·瓦哈卜（Shaista Wahab）出生于阿富汗首都喀布尔。曾就读于喀布尔大学、新德里大学和内布拉斯加大学，拥有历史和信息科学学位。她目前是内布拉斯加大学的亚瑟·保罗阿富汗博物馆的编目员和馆长。 巴里·扬格曼（Barry Youngerman）是小说家、翻译家和编辑，具有超过25年的写作经验，著作较多，目前他居住在美国纽约市。

Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it is—and what it might become.

The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Nap...(展开全部)

Andrew is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, former Chair of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5), Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 (VR) Intelligence Squadron in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Chairman of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, and former Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and Canberra. Andrew is...(展开全部)

Christopher Andrew is emeritus professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Cambridge. His many books include The Sword and the Shield; The World Was Going Our Way; and Defend the Realm, an authorized history of MI5.