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Book Mobile Microspies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Köhler
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2018-12-07
  • ISBN : 0429828071
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book Mobile Microspies written by Michael Köhler and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the one hand, particle-based sensing techniques are driven by new technologies for preparing and measuring micro- and nanoparticles and by a fascination of the possibilities for design and functionalization of all specificities in structure shapes and behavior of these tiny objects. On the other hand, there evolves a fast-growing need for new sensing and communication paths for medicine, biotechnology, and analytical science, as well as for new and efficient information transfer and storage systems. No longer are particles regarded only as special types of materials. However, we have a better understanding of how they are bridging the gap between material and system, between structure and function. Although there are numerous books on micro- and nanoparticles and on sensors, there is, to the best of my knowledge, no book focusing on the general concept of particles as mobile microtransducers. This book clarifies that signal-transducing particles should be regarded as functional elements, as part of a system, not simply as special materials. It introduces concepts of bead-base sensing and "mobile spies" at the micro- and nanoscale and gives a representative overview of the variety of particle-based sensing. The state of the art in the development of particles as mobile spies for communication and information management allows us to speculate about future particle-based components and systems in a completely sustainable world economy. In addition, the book reports on a fast-evolving technical field, which is a typical example of the required convergence of technical strategies and mechanisms in living nature, and would make a great reference for professionals and students of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, mechatronics, informatics, materials science, and systems engineering.

Book Micro Spies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Jo Rudy
  • Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780531175354
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book Micro Spies written by Lisa Jo Rudy and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2007 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), describing different kinds and presenting statistics, dates, and true stories of UAVs in action.

Book Spy Gear

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Martin
  • Publisher : Capstone
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 1429613041
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Spy Gear written by Michael Martin and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the machines, weapons, and other equipment used by spies as they gather intelligence.

Book Prisoners  Lovers    Spies

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  • Author : Kristie Macrakis
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-28
  • ISBN : 0300188250
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book Prisoners Lovers Spies written by Kristie Macrakis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “engrossing study” of invisible ink reveals 2,000 years of scoundrels, heroes and their ingenious methods for concealing messages (Kirkus). In Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies, Kristie Macrakis uncovers the secret history of invisible ink and the ingenious way everything from lemon juice to Gall-nut extract and even certain bodily fluids have been used to conceal and reveal covert communications. From Ancient Rome to the Cold War, spies have been imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked, and battles lost because of faulty or intercepted secret messages. Yet, successfully hidden writing has helped save lives, win battles, and ensure privacy—at times changing the course of history. Macrakis combines a storyteller’s sense of drama with a historian’s respect for evidence in this page-turning history of intrigue and espionage, love and war, magic and secrecy. From Ovid’s advice to use milk for illicit love notes, to John Gerard's dramatic escape from the Tower of London aided by orange juice ink messages, to al-Qaeda’s hidden instructions in pornographic movies, this book charts the evolution of secret messages and their impact on history. An appendix includes kitchen chemistry recipes for readers to try out at home.

Book Strategy  Security  and Spies

Download or read book Strategy Security and Spies written by María Emilia Paz Salinas and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the possibility of being drawn into a war on several fronts, the United States sought to win Mexican support for a new strategy of Hemispheric Security, based on defense collaboration by governments throughout the Americas. U.S. leaders were concerned that Mexico might become a base for enemy operations, a scenario that, given the presence of pro-Axis lobbies in Mexico and the rumored fraternization between Mexico and Germany in World War I, seemed far from implausible in 1939&–41. Strategy, Security, and Spies tells the fascinating story of U.S. relations with Mexico during the war years, involving everything from spies and internal bureaucratic struggles in both countries to all sorts of diplomatic maneuverings. Although its focus is on the interactions of the two countries, relative to the threat posed by the Axis powers, a valuable feature of the study is to show how Mexico itself evolved politically in crucial ways during this period, always trying to maintain the delicate balance between the divisive force of Mexican nationalism and the countervailing force of economic dependency and security self-interest.

Book Spies on Trial

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  • Author : Cecil C. Kuhne
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2019-10-23
  • ISBN : 1538131358
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Spies on Trial written by Cecil C. Kuhne and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spy business often results in a sudden exchange of the dark shadows of the clandestine back room for the bright lights of the open courtroom. The situations that judges and juries face in espionage cases are typically more unusual, complex, and diverse than one might possibly imagine. Cecil C. Kuhne III describes a number of historical, law changing judicial cases, well-publicized criminal trials of those accused of treason against the United States, as well as lawsuits concerning other unusual matters, such as the governmental restrictions on bugging and other surveillance devices that cannot be sold to the general public. The author successfullyexplores well known espionage cases, such as the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell trial of 1951, as well as more recent cases where the courts have dealt with the activities of the National Security Administration (NSA) as they monitor telephone communications in their efforts to apprehend terrorist organizations. Spies on Trial brings the reader fast-paced stories of foreign spies engaged in daring deeds of sleuthing that undoubtedly have more than their fair share of intriguing moments. But nowhere is this suspense more intense than inside the courtroom, where the drama of intense covert activities is fully unfurled, offering fascinating glimpses into this vast and nefarious underground world of international espionage.

Book The Super Spies

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  • Author : Andrew Tully
  • Publisher : eNet Press
  • Release : 2015-05-29
  • ISBN : 1618866990
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book The Super Spies written by Andrew Tully and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average spy during the post WW II era never saw the enemy. An informant could be a physicist, a chemist, an engineer, a professor of languages, a counterfeiter, an electronics expert, a communications technician, an airplane pilot, a soldier, a sailor, a cryptologist, a translator of Sanskrit. There were jobs in the intelligence community for farmers and chefs, fingerprint experts and cloth weavers, photographers and television directors, makeup artists and female impersonators. In the United States of the late sixties, there were more spies than there were diplomats in the State Department or employees of the Department of Labor. Was the employment of some sixty thousand individuals of various espionage agencies an extravagance? Or was the information gathered about enemies and friends a necessity in a dangerous and still volatile world? At the time of publication of Andrew Tully's The Super Spies, America's super spy agencies had been known only to the highest government officials, and Tully was the first investigative journalist to penetrate the inner sanctum of American espionage and reveal the inside story of spy organizations more powerful and more secret than the CIA. Certainly the most formidable of all was the National Security Agency (NSA), whose specialty was electronic spying and cryptography. Though its deadly serious operations girdled the globe, NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, resembled, at first glance, a retirement village: eight snack bars, a hospital complete with an operating room, a bank and a dry-cleaning shop. However, beyond this facade an army of anonymous government employees received, sifted and analyzed secret information gathered by electronically equipped spy planes, ships, and satellites. Using their signals and messages NSA experts were able to pinpoint the locations of missile bases, hear conversations between top officials in Moscow and other Communist capitals, and determine the morale of Soviet fighter pilots. Andrew Tully revealed, too, the hidden operations of other highly secret American spy organizations: DIA, a super-secret branch of the Defense Department; INR, an arm of the State Department; and the intelligence branches of the Army, Navy and Air Force. The intelligence community had never been one happy family. The average intelligence expert was an individual of strong conviction, high talent and temperament and believed that his agency could complete an assignment better than a competing agency, and never mind a lot of folderol about rules and regulations. Some imprudent things were done and more imprudent things were said, but the gigantic spying machine did work. Although information was often duplicated and toes trod, together intelligence agencies provided information that influenced presidents, cemented decisions, and molded history. The question the tax-paying American public had a right to ask was whether intelligence gathering agencies might not work just as well if cut down to a more manageable and less duplicative size. In The Super Spies, Andrew Tully shrewdly examined the balance sheets and, in conclusion, urged the Congress to do the same. Although the names and dates have changed, Tully's disclosures are as applicable today as they were 60 years ago. Fascinating and readable, The Super Spies was, and is, a ground-breaking book.

Book Espionage s Most Wanted

Download or read book Espionage s Most Wanted written by Tom E. Mahl and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Espionage's Most Wanted™, readers will learn that America’s first spymasters included Benjamin Franklin and John Jay. Otto von Bismarck’s chief spy, Wilhelm Stieber, posed as an itinerant peddler and sold religious artifacts and pornography to enemy troops as a cover for collecting intelligence. During the cultural competition of the Cold War, the CIA helped popularize abstract expressionism by spending millions to promote the careers of artists such as Jackson Pollock. The East Germans once traded two captured West German agents for one dead East German agent. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt cleverly disrupted an intimate dinner meeting between Mexican Communists and a Soviet delegation by distributing party invitations to the general public. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the CIA employed psychics to “remotely view” places of interest in the Soviet Union. Espionage's Most Wanted™, chronicles 500 of the most daring spies, ingenious plots, bungled operations, and surprising facts about the history of espionage and intelligence from around the world. Its fifty lists include the top-ten intelligence agencies, master spies, traitors, spy gadgets, code-breaking coups, covert operations blunders, and colorful dirty tricks. History buffs and espionage enthusiasts will enjoy this irreverent but illuminating look at the world of spies and intelligence.

Book Secrets   Spies

Download or read book Secrets Spies written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unknown stories revealing wartime events of the covert operations of German and Japanese spies in the United States before Pearl Harbor to the dropping the atomic bomb.

Book Spy Technology

Download or read book Spy Technology written by Ron Fridell and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about new tools for spies.

Book Hidden Hand

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clive Hamilton
  • Publisher : Optimum Publishing International
  • Release : 2021-07-03
  • ISBN : 0888903081
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Hidden Hand written by Clive Hamilton and published by Optimum Publishing International. This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Headline: The Globe and Mail: Legal challenge halts Canadian, U.S. and U.K. release of book critical of Chinese Communist Party by Robert Fife That said it all. The hands of the Chinese Communist Party were going on the offence. The 48 Group Club a China friendly group of former UK ambassadors and Prime Ministers were embarrassed by their connections to a Club founded by key members of the Chinese Communist Party of Britain who's chair Stephen Perry suggested that China's approach to world order and rule was superior to democracy and the UK should embrace them. Asked if he believed the lawsuit was an effort by the Chinese government to stop the publication of his book, Mr. Hamilton said: “I have no evidence of that, although it should be noted that the Chinese government has used lawfare in the past.” Lawfare is the use of legal action as part of a campaign against a target. Governments around the world are in the early stages of a repositioning of power, as China rises and the United States is drawn into direct competition. However, some are beginning to wonder whether, for all of the economic benefits, engaging with China carries unseen dangers. The Chinese Communist Party is now determined to reshape the world in its image. The party is not interested in democracy. It divides the world into those who can be won over and enemies. They have already lured many leaders to their corner; others are weighing up a devil's bargain. Through its exercise of ‘sharp power,’ the party is weakening global institutions, aggressively targeting individual corporations, and threatening freedom of expression from the arts to academia. At the same time, security services are increasingly worried about incursions into our communications infrastructure. Indeed, the vaunted Great Firewall is a temporary measure, only necessary until the party has transformed the global conversation. In December 2019, the CCP's obsession with social control led it to suppress expert warnings about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. Most alarming for the West was the active collaboration of the WHO in spreading the CCP's version of events. It was a shocking example of the widespread co-optation of global institutions by the CCP, as described in Hidden Hand. As soon as Beijing thought it had the virus under control, it began a global propaganda blitz, presenting China's authoritarian system as a model for the rest of the world. Western media and pundits soon began echoing the Party line. Hidden Hand is a detailed and devastating expose of Chinese Communist Party influence in the West, including Canada. It could not arrive at a better time in Canada, with relations between Ottawa and Beijing reaching breaking point after two years of mounting tension. China's bullying behaviour, and the mobilising of people loyal to the Chinese Communist Party on the streets of Canada's cities, has caused deep disquiet among Canadians. But the government seems paralyzed. Hidden Hand shows how Canada's political, business, academic and cultural elites have over many years been co-opted by the Chinese Communist Party and its agencies. They are confused about what is in Canada's national interests and frequently do Beijing's bidding. Hidden Hand shows how the Chinese Communist Party represents a profound threat to Western democracy. It's vital reading for Canadians who want to understand what is really happening, and points to a way of carving out a new diplomatic course with China. But the question remains: Does the government have the will to stand up to Beijing and its proxies in Canada or is it too late?

Book The Book Spy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Hlad
  • Publisher : A John Scognamiglio Book
  • Release : 2023-01-24
  • ISBN : 1496738543
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Book Spy written by Alan Hlad and published by A John Scognamiglio Book. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American librarian Maria Alves, a microfilm specialist trained in espionage, is dispatched to Lisbon to gather vital information from Axis publications, and works in tandem with Tiago Soares, a bookstore owner secretly providing forged passports and visas to Jewish refugees.

Book Harper s Magazine

Download or read book Harper s Magazine written by Lee Foster Hartman and published by . This book was released on 1946-07 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.

Book Last of the Cold War Spies

Download or read book Last of the Cold War Spies written by Roland Perry and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-07-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating material from exclusive interviews with Michael Straight, the only American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring, as well as archival research from the CIA, FBI, and Soviet intelligence, Perry presents a full and complete portrait of the last of the Cold War spies.

Book Spies in the Sky

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pat Norris
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2007-11-26
  • ISBN : 0387716734
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Spies in the Sky written by Pat Norris and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Patrick Norris responds to the 50th Anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age – the launch of Sputnik 1 – with a review of the most important historical applications of space science for the benefit of the human race during that half century, focusing on the prevention of nuclear war. In developing this story Norris illuminates a little-known aspect of the Space Age, namely the military dimension.

Book The Concert

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ismail Kadare
  • Publisher : Arcade Publishing
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781559704151
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The Concert written by Ismail Kadare and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of Albanian friends are torn apart by the political turmoil of the mid 1970s, as the nation's diplomatic ties with China begin to unravel, and their personal entanglements follow suit in the face of government insecurity.

Book Godfathers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roberto Olla
  • Publisher : Alma Books
  • Release : 2012-10-18
  • ISBN : 1846882869
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Godfathers written by Roberto Olla and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################