Describes and assesses the activities of the National Security Agency, the nation's most secret government agency--established in secrecy, many times larger than the CIA, and in control of a huge budget and a vast technology.

艾哈迈德·巴纳菲是沙特中央银⾏（SAMA）首席投资顾问。他早前即就职于沙特货币局（现中央银⾏）投资部，实务和研究经历超过四⼗年，深谙沙特经济、金融体系和中央银⾏，是中东产油国经济、金融和其他资源型经济体研究的资深专家。著有《沙特阿拉伯金融市场》（1993 年），且在国际清算银⾏多次发表专业文章。 罗⾥·麦克劳德于1985年至1989年担任沙特阿拉伯货币局投资部门的顾问，后担任 Objective Analysis Ltd 的董事总经理，经常与SAMA合作。

William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term “cyberspace” and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is “spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer.” Now Gibson is back with Agency—a...(展开全部)

Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example, becoming parents, embarking on careers, or acquiring a passion for music or politics. How can such activity be rational, if the reason for engaging in the relevant pursuit is only availa...(展开全部)

亨利•克伦普顿（Henry A. Crumpton） 1981年就加入中情局，曾任中情局秘密行动处行动官长达24年，然后出任美国反恐协调官，享受无任所大使级别待遇。曾获得中情局最高荣誉——杰出情报勋章。他现在是全球商业咨询公司克伦普顿集团有限责任公司董事长兼首席执行官。

This comprehensive record of Krishnamurti's teachings is an excellent, wide-ranging introduction to the great philosopher's thought. With among others, Jacob Needleman, Alain Naude, and Swami Venkatasananda, Krishnamurti examines such issues as the role of the teacher and tradition; the need for awareness of `cosmic consciousness; the problem of good and evil; and traditional V...(展开全部)

This comprehensive record of Krishnamurti's teachings is an excellent, wide-ranging introduction to the great philosopher's thought. With among others, Jacob Needleman, Alain Naude, and Swami Venkatasananda, Krishnamurti examines such issues as the role of the teacher and tradition; the need for awareness of `cosmic consciousness; the problem of good and evil; and traditional V...(展开全部)

亨利•克伦普顿（Henry A. Crumpton） 1981年就加入中情局，曾任中情局秘密行动处行动官长达24年，然后出任美国反恐协调官，享受无任所大使级别待遇。曾获得中情局最高荣誉——杰出情报勋章。他现在是全球商业咨询公司克伦普顿集团有限责任公司董事长兼首席执行官。

杰弗瑞 理查尔森（Jeffrey T.Richelson） 1975 年获得罗切斯特大学政治学博士学位，曾分别在得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校和华盛顿的美利坚大学执教。他是“国国家安全档案馆”（National Security Archive）深研究员。