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About Books:
These are books I read, am reading, or want to read, & other book related info.
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The Hunt For Zero Point
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Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology
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Nick Cook
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Venerable Janes Defense Weekly journalist Nick Cook risks his professional reputation as a serious aerospace reporter to delve into the strange world of Anti-Gravity research. In the course of his explorations, he teams up with a British Aerospace engineer who serves as a cryptic mentor, dispatching him to visit various people and places in the U.S. Then Nick Cook draws his own conclusions that whatever technology the U.S. may have developed in its Black programs seems to have been transfered from Nazi Germany after WWII. He proceeds to travel to many secret Nazi underground factories in the Harz mountains, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. While he never turns up any definitive information to prove AntiGravity technology exists, he nevertheless describes a multitude of scientific concepts, and meets with many interesting characters along the way. Given the revelations by Russian researcher Yvgeny Podkletnov, who claims to have induced anti gravitation effects, and the public statements by NASA, and Boeing that they are interested in this field, it looks like Mr. Cook may be on the trail of more than just pseudo science and conspiracy theories.
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0767906276
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Atlantic Online Interview
Fresh Aire (npr.org) interview
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Body Of Secrets
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Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
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James Bamford
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There have been many books published about the CIA, but there is only one other definitive book about the highly secretive National Security Agency : The Puzzle Palace, published in 1983 was also written by James Bamford. In Body of Secrets, James Bamford updates and expands the story of the NSA from past to present. The NSA, which grew out of the World War 2 efforts to break Nazi crypto communication systems (such as "Enigma"). In the modern era, the NSA struggles to monitor virtually all communications on the planet, including Osama bin Laden talking over the telephone to his mother. Bamford has been granted unprecedented access to NSA secrets, primarily due to NSA Leaders' desire to communicate the important contribution of the NSA to the security of the United States.
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0-385-49908-6
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Random House Site
NPR feature
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We Were Burning
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Japanese Entrepeneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age
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Bob Johnstone
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Presenting a wealth of new material, including interviews with key players past and present, Bob Johnstone introduces us to a new and very different kind of Japanese worker -- a dynamic, iconoclastic, risk-taking entrepreneur. Incorporating American inventions such as microchip cameras, liquid crystal displays, and sound chips, Japanese companies created products that are now ubiquitous facets of the modern world: digital calculators and watches, synthesizers, camcorders, and compact disc players. Without these creative men and women, Seiko, Canon, Casio, Sharp, and Yamaha could not have turned obscure American inventions into profitable, useful gadgets for the consumer.
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0465091180
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Salon.com review
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Before The Storm
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Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Concensus
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Rick Perlstein
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Tells the story of the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960's. The figure at the heard of the story is Barry Goldwater, the handsome renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed the federal government, despised liberals on sight, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR.
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0-8090-2858-1
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Hegemon
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China's Plan To Dominate Asia And The World
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Steven W. Mosher
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Analyzes the importance of power in Chinese history and statecraft, where its exercise has always been something like an artform. Argues that the belief that forces for democracy have been unleased in China is based on wishful thinking...that American attempts over the past decade to fashion a policy of "strategic cooperation" ignore the reality of China's view of itself as the Hegemon, the eternally expanding power.
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1-893554-40-6
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Rogue Warrior
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Richard Marcinko with John Weisman
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The explosive biography of the controversial death-defying founder of the U.S. Navy's top secret counterterrorist unit Seal Team Six.
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0-671-79593-7
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Rogue Warrior Book Series
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Rogue Warrior - Red Cell
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Richard Marcinko with John Weisman
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The continuing adventures of "Rogue Warrior" Richard Marcinko as a fictional work, with Marcinko as the main character. After being released from prison for the "crimes" he committed (as detailed in the non-fiction autobiography "Rogue Warrior"), Marcinko is recalled to service after he uncovers a plot to steal U.S. cruise missile technology by North Korean operatives. The book purports to be written as fiction due to the sensitivity of the subject, and legal agreements made by the author, but this book launches a continuing series of Rogue Warrior adventures.
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0-671-019775
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Rogue Warrior Book Series
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Rogue Warrior - Green Team
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Richard Marcinko with John Weisman
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The second "fictional" adventure of "Rogue Warrior" Richard Marcinko. This time Marcinko assembles a "Green Team" of top secret operatives, working entirely outside of U.S. Military control after the Chief of Naval Operations is assassinated. Marcinko and company attempt to uncover the plot of Islamic terrorists. Many parts of the book presage the current war on terror, with commentary that is still applicable.
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0-671-79959-2
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Rogue Warrior Book Series
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My Jihad
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One American's journey through the world of Usama Bin Laden - as a covert operative for the American Government
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Aukai Collins
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Aukai Collins grew up hard. While serving time in the California Youth Authority, he converted to Islam, and eventually went to fight with Muslims who were targeted for genocide in Chechnya and Bosnia. Disillusioned by those who used Islam for their own ends or to attack innocents, Aukai offered his services to the FBI and CIA. Yet his valuable contacts and insights into the problems surrounding the U.S. governments fight against Terrorism were bungled and ignored by inept members of the American intelligence community.
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0-7434-7059-1
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none
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One Perfect Op
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Navy Seal Special Warfare Teams
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Command Master Chief Dennis Chalker, USN (Ret.) with Kevin Dockery
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Dennis "Snake" Chalker joined the SEALS in the mid 1970s. Later he was personally selected by "Rogue Warrior" Richard Marcinko for a leadership role in the elite counter-terrorist unit Red Cell. Chalker recounts his experiences in the Army, in the Navy SEALS, and in Red Cell.
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0-380-80920-6
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snake-chalker.com - link is apparently down / domain name is parked
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Them
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Adventures With Extremists
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Jon Ronson
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Is there really, as the extremists claim, a secret room from which a tiny elite secretly rule the world? And if so, can it be found? While Jon Ronson attempts to locate the secret room, he is chased by men in dark glasses, unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp, and witnesses CEOs and leading politicians undertake a bizarre pagan owl ritual in the forests of northern California. He learns some alarming things about the looking-glass world of them and us. Are the extremists onto something? Or has he become one of Them?
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0-7432-2707-7
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jonronson.com
audio interview at npr.org
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Born In Blood
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The Lost Secrets Of Freemasonry
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John J. Robinson
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Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. ...It attracted great revolutionaries such as George Washington, and Sam Houston in America, Juárez in Mexico, Garibaldi in Italy, and Bolivár in South America. It was outlawed over the centuries by Hitler, Mussolini, and the Ayatollah Khomeni. But where had this powerful organization come from? ...This amazing detective story answers those questions and proves that the Knights Templar in Britain, fleeing arrest and torture by pope and king, formed a secret society of mutual protection that came to be called Freemasonry. Based on years of meticulous research, this book solves the last remaining mysteries of the Masons.
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0-87131-602-1
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Fast Food Nation
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The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Eric Schlosser
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Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths - from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate.
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0-06-093845-5
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Eric Schlosser interview on booksense.com
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Blind Man's Bluff
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The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
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Sherry Sontag, Annette Lawrence Drew, Christopher Drew
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For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those missions are told in "Blind Man's Bluff, a magnificent achievement in investigative reporting. It reads like a spy thriller -- except everything in it is true. This is an epic of adventure, ingenuity, courage, and disaster beneath the sea, a story filled with unforgettable characters who engineered daring missions to tap the enemy's underwater communications cables and to shadow Soviet submarines. It is a story of heroes and spies, of bravery and tragedy.
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0-06-097771-X
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Endgame
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Solving the Iraq problem - once and for all
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Scott Ritter
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Scott Ritter, Maj. USMC, Ret. resigned as the chief weapons inspector for UNSCOM in August 1998. In Endgame, written before the second Gulf Wa (published in 1999) Scott Ritter draws on his seven years experience hunting Saddam's weapons of mass destruction to take readers inside Iraq and show that country as it has never been seen by outsiders before. He describes what it was like to conduct inspections, including the dramatic face-offs by unarmed inspectors with hostile Iraqi guards and officials. He describes the breach of trust by U.S. intelligence agencies who used the legitimacy of the inspections to conduct covert espionage, and therefore compromised his credibility as an impartial international inspector. He dissects the failure of U.S. policy in Iraq and reveals a bold new approach to ending the ongoing Iraq crisis (basically, he proposed diplomatic initiatives to Iraq, no matter how distasteful, as the only solution, which would be backed up by U.S. intent to use military force if Iraq violated any agreements.)
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0-684-86485-1
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What turned the hawkish Iraq weapons inspector into a dove?
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How The Irish Saved Civilization
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The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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Thomas Cahill
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From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of Western civilizations - from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works - would have been utterly lost were it not for the holy men and women of the unconquered Ireland. Here, far from the barbarian despoilation of the continent, monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the West's written treasury. With the return of stability in Europe, these scholars were instrumental in spreading learning. Thus the Irish not only were conservators of civilization, but became shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western culture.
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0-385-41849-3
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More book stuff:
Favorite fiction authors:
| Author name | genre | book titles |
| H. Beam Piper |
S.F. |
- Space Vikings
- Cosmic Computer (Junkyard Planet)
- Little Fuzzy
- Fuzzy Sapiens
- Federation
- Empire
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© Copyright 2004 John W. Williams II.
Last update: 11/5/04; 1:27:16 PM.
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