Introduction to Accounting, Business Processes and ERP
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    Introduction to Accounting, Business Processes and ERP
    Philip M. Reckers , Julie Smith David , and Hariette MacCracken
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    ASIN: 0324191618

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    This CD is intended as a supplement in an introductory accounting principles course, financial accounting course, or information systems (AIS) course offered at two and four-year colleges and universities. The product provides students with a sense of the integrated nature of accounting and the concept of business processes and the agents involved.

    101 Investment Tools for Buying Low & Selling High
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    101 Investment Tools for Buying Low & Selling High
    Jae K. Shim , and Jonathan Lansner
    Manufacturer: CRC
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    ASIN: 091094413X

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    More than just an investment dictionary, 101 Investment Tools for Buying Low and Selling High analyzes in a concise style various investment vanes-from stock indexes to measures of affordable housing to leading economic reports. Learn what these measures are, who's compiling them, where they are easily found, and how they can, or cannot, be used to guide your investment decisions. At your fingertips are fast and reliable explanations of all the everyday terms and tools investors need, each discussed in an easy-to-follow, structured format: · What is it? · How is it computed? · Can you give a example? · Where is it found? · How is it applied? · How is it used for investment decision? · Are there any words of caution? In today's complex climate, understanding and using such investment tools are the keys to success. New investment vehicles are introduced almost everyday. 101 Investment Tools for Buying Low and Selling High is your guide to the best financial barometers.

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    5 out of 5 stars A Great Investment.......2000-12-27

    If you're looking for a clear voice in the endless chatter about investing, this is the book for you. It makes sense -- something almost unheard of in financial publishing. A great investment.

    Slonim: Jerusalem Inamerica's Foreign
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    Slonim
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    A comprehensive and innovative examination of US policy on the Jerusalem issue over the past half-century, this study analyzes the complex political and legal factors, both domestic and international, which have shaped executive decisions. The book provides a unique entry into the variations in policy from administration to administration, and the increasingly assertive role of Congress. Based on insights garnered from the past, the author offers useful suggestions for a reality-bound future approach to a problem which is central to resolution of the protracted Arab--Israeli dispute, and thus to security throughout the Middle East.

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    5 out of 5 stars Question as to the availability of the papaprback.......1999-08-02

    Dear Sirs, I am using this as a mechanism to ascertain when the paperback edition of this book will be available. Thank you for your cooperation. I.Gendelman

    Soil and Freshwater Fish Culture: Simple Methods for Aquaculture/F2801 (Fao Training Series 6)
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      Andre G. Coche
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      Acidophilus And Colon Health: The Natural Way to Prevent Disease
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      Manufacturer: Kensington
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      5 out of 5 stars If you are suffering with ulcerative colitis..........1999-12-27

      After 13 years of pain, doctors, drugs, and two operations, I have cured my husband in one month by following this book. I picked up this book at the local health food market. Please note: I did NOT have to take the step of actually using the acidophilus implant. However, I did apply almost everything else David Webster writes about...juicing, whey, cutting back on red meat and alcohol, Kyo-Dophilus, Kyo-Greens, etc.

      As a side note to all of this, the juicing every day had other dramatic results as well. My two older boys both suffered from acne. After ONE WEEK, their skin had cleared up. (recipe: 5 carrots, 2 celery, 1/2 apple, 1/4 of a beet, a little parsley. Organic vegetables only)

      If David Webster is reading this, please contact me as I am in the media and I want to shout it from the rooftops that your book cured my husband.
      Acidophilus and Colon Health: The Natural Way to Prevent Disease
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        David Webster
        Manufacturer: Kensington Publishing Corporation
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        Earth Science, Reinforcement and Study Guide, Student Edition
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          Earth Science, Reinforcement and Study Guide, Student Edition
          McGraw-Hill
          Manufacturer: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
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          Study Guide and Reinforcement Worksheets allow for differentiated instruction through a wide range of question formats. There are worksheets and study tools for each section of the text that help teachers track students' progress toward understanding concepts. Guided Reading Activities help students identify and comprehend the important information in each chapter.

          Analytic Aspects of Quantum Fields
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            Analytic Aspects of Quantum Fields
            Andrei A. Bytsenko , G. Cognola , E. Elizalde , V. Moretti , and S. Zerbini
            Manufacturer: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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            One of the aims of this book is to explain in a basic manner the seemingly difficult issues of mathematical structure using some specific examples as a guide. In each of the cases considered, a comprehensible physical problem is approached, to which the corresponding mathematical scheme is applied, its usefulness being duly demonstrated. The authors try to fill the gap that always exists between the physics of quantum field theories and the mathematical methods best suited for its formulation, which are increasingly demanding on the mathematical ability of the physicist.
            Quantum Field Theory (Pt IV) (Classics of Soviet Mathematics, Vol 2)
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              Quantum Field Theory (Pt IV) (Classics of Soviet Mathematics, Vol 2)
              N. Bogolubov
              Manufacturer: Routledge
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              This volume contains some of Bogolubov's papers on quantum field theory and the theory of elementary particles. The work undertaken by the author in the 1950s gave rise to some entirely new concepts, which include his suggestion that an appropriate mathematical method for quantum field theory should involve distributions, and his dismissal of his contemporaries' view of divergences as a problem. Also included in this collection are Bogolubov's proof of the theorem that the scattering matrix is determined in each order of peturbation theory up to quasi-local operators, together with his formulation of the method of the renormalization group in quantum field theory

              The Elements of Continuum Mechanics
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                Clifford A. Truesdell
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                The Gospel According to the Son: A Novel
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                • I respect the boldness Mailer exhibits here...
                • Jesus, Still Comtemporary After All These Years
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                The Gospel According to the Son: A Novel
                Norman Mailer
                Manufacturer: Random House Publishing Group
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                ASIN: 0345434080
                Release Date: 1999-09-07

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                In the two millennia since Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote their separate biographies of Jesus, only a handful of other authors have attempted renditions--Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, and D. H. Lawrence have tried their hands at it; scholars E. P. Sanders and Raymond Brown have produced academic treatises on the historical Jesus. Perhaps the best-known fictional account of the life of Jesus is Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ, which explores the Son of Man's all-too-human side. Norman Mailer joins these ranks with The Gospel According to the Son.

                Not content to chronicle Jesus' life in the form of an apocryphal gospel, Mailer has the chutzpah to crawl inside his title character's head and tell the story from the first-person point of view. Here we get the Prince of Peace's personal account of his temptation by Satan, his three-year ministry, and his agony on the cross. Mailer presents an entirely new kind of passion play, one that remains faithful to the shape of Jesus' life as outlined in the gospels, while daring to imagine the inner life of this most elusive historical figure.

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                For two thousand years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western civilization's triumphs and disasters. Now, Norman Mailer has written a novel about Jesus's life. Is God speaking to me? Jesus asks. Or am I hearing voices? If the voices are from God, why has He chosen me as His son? And if they are not from God, then who gave me the power to perform these miracles?

                It soon becomes evident that we are being told the story of a skilled and most devout carpenter who is living with prodigious questions. The result is an intimately readable account of a man thrust forward by the visions he receives, the sermons he offers, and the miracles he enacts until he comes to the apocalyptic end of his powers.

                The Gospel According to the Son vividly recreates the world of Galilee and Jerusalem two thousand years ago. In a time of uneasy stability, the Holy Land is governed by a complacent but fearful establishment who rule over a despairing underclass -- it is a time of great change, open to comparison with our own. Mailer's signal accomplishment is to create for us a man wholly unlike others who is nonetheless filled with passion and doubt, strength and weakness; a protagonist divine and human, a son of God who shares our condition.

                In The Gospel According to the Son, one of America's greatest living writers has brought us a remarkable book -- by turns bold, thoughtful, poetic, tragic, passionate, and, to our surprise and pleasure, suspenseful.

                Customer Reviews:

                5 out of 5 stars Profound!.......2007-08-06

                The Gospel According to the Son is a deeply moving account of Jesus' life and ministry. Christ points out deviations in the four gospels we are so familiar with today. Mainly, though, this narrative is an inner dialogue; a peek at the thoughts of Christ. His struggles in faith and his many temptations reflect his humanity, while his miracles and the strength of his words echo his Father. Mailer's poignant and honest book is a must-read for everyone, regardless of faith.

                3 out of 5 stars I respect the boldness Mailer exhibits here..........2006-11-05

                This is the first Mailer I have read. What I gather from his style is that of a particular psychological understanding, here of Christ presented as a man intent of fulfilling his monumental destiny. Within that sense of destiny lies a detached observance of the gathering storm that surrounds him, and the dichotomy of this position produces a Christ that is interesting, believable, empathetic, critical, stoic and loving.
                While all of this is beneficial, the rhythm of the book is something stilted, and left me wondering why such a compelling premise for a piece of fiction written by one of post-WW2 America's biggest and highest regarded writers didn't energize or stimulate me. Bold yes, but less informative than accepted as an experiment in style and challenge.

                5 out of 5 stars Jesus, Still Comtemporary After All These Years.......2005-11-13

                This book is a remarkable feat of scholarship, especially in its ablility to remain highly readable despite its scholarship. We find here a very human portrayal of a man struggling to literally embody God, and, despite the scope of such circumstances, we are oddly able to empathize with Jesus. He confronts his extraordinary situation, paradoxically, as an ordinary man.

                The spareness of the biblical style helps us forget the author and the complex theological and historical weight that the story carries. We are able to focus on the personal, day-to-day, hour-by-hour inner life of Jesus, the man.

                If you expect quirks and controversy, forget it. If you expect either a born-again, hysterical excitement or a ponderous intellectual examination, take a pass. But, if you are looking for an intimate look at the plausible humanity beneath the religeous and emotional furvor, then read this book.

                Mailer's account is particularly comprehensible to the 90's mind in that he allows us to see Jesus coping consciously with the dangers his "celebrity" as a miracle worker begin to pose. In our celebrity conscious, media saturated time, we are perhaps more ready to appreciate the "crowd-control" aspects of the story of Christ, and the practical and psychological impact that those factors must have had on Jesus' day-to-day decisions.

                So how can a jewish author in the 1990's create a plain spoken text in biblical dialects that becomes an exciting "page turner" even though we all know from page one exactly how it is going to turn out in the end? No matter how unlikely, Mr. Mailer has accomplished that feat. Read it with an open mind and your mind will open still further.


                1 out of 5 stars Mailer Sucks.......2005-10-12

                I've never liked anything this unpleasant man has written but this one takes the cake. It's worse than his previous worst novel, Ancient Evenings, which single-handedly turned me off for years on all things Egyptian.

                No, I'm not some outraged evangelical railing at someone making use of "My Lord `n Savior," I think Jesus is fair game and a fine topic for literature and speculation. But I'm not going to do as so many others seem willing to and automatically bestow praise on a book merely because it takes the sacred Jesus and casts him into the harsh light of modern judgment. In The Gospel According To The Son, Norman Mailer, proponent of the "non-fiction novel" (figure that one out) manages to make a good story dull and argumentative, drains all color and life from the plot, and delivers something that is SO dead on arrival it's unrecognizable as the tale of Jesus: a biography already filled with drama, betrayal, false arrest, torture, execution, and all the raw material of a gripping story. I've got to hand it to Mailer, not everyone could take a story ready-made for adaptation, all-but handed to him on a silver platter like the head of Saint John the Baptist, and then smash it down to third-rate nonsense. Here even the Devil was boring and it takes A LOT to ruin the best villain ever created. Mailer seemed to want to absent all vestiges of Christ from this little re-telling of the life of the historical man, Jesus of Nazareth, and I can actually respect that, but in rendering this material so skeptically humanistic as to be bland beyond tolerance puzzles me. I can't say I laughed out loud at the truly bad jokes slipped in here and there amid the equally execrable prose, but the line about "Peter was like a rock...he could be broken by a bigger rock..." elicited a genuine chuckle that something so lame made it past an editor.

                Right after he released this work back in the late `90's, I heard the author on NPR saying, in essence, "The Gospels are badly composed. There are many writers who could have written them better, and I am foremost among that number." Mailer's ego knows no bounds and his trash talking was a little endearing. I just wish he was able to back it all up with a better book than this.

                The bottom line is this book blows. Skip it in favor of The Last Temptation of Christ, or read a good translation of the four Gospels.

                5 out of 5 stars Lovely, easy-reading story.......2005-07-17

                A book I re-read every few years, and always enjoy. A lovely interpretation of what Jesus may have been thinking moment-to-moment, day-to-day.
                The Son of Man: A Verse By Verse Commentary on the Gospel According to Luke
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                  The Son of Man: A Verse By Verse Commentary on the Gospel According to Luke

                  Manufacturer: Sword of the Lord Publishers
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                  A verse-by verse Commentary on the Gospel According to Luke.
                  Gospel According to the Son
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                    Mailer Norman
                    Manufacturer: Random House
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                    The Gospel According to a Mountain Momma
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                      The Gospel According to a Mountain Momma
                      Paul Dodd
                      Manufacturer: Mcclain Printing Co
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                      Gospel According To the Son
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                        Gospel According To the Son
                        Norman Mailer
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                        Gospel According to the Son
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                          Gospel According to the Son
                          Norman Mailer
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                          The Gospel According to the Son
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                            Norman Mailer
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                            The gospel of love: Jesus the Christ the Son of God, Love incarnate, according to John the beloved disciple : meditations
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                              Hester Alway
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                              The Son Of God (Readings from the Gospel According to St. Mark)
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                                The Son of God among the sons of men;: Studies in the Gospel according to John
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                                  Everett Falconer Harrison
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                                  The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World
                                  Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                                  • WAS ALLEN DULLES OUR BEST SPYMASTER?
                                  • How information is gathered, processed, and used in the formation of national policy
                                  • Core reading requirement for students of intelligence
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                                  The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World
                                  Allen W. Dulles
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                                  If the experts could point to any single book as a starting point for understanding the subject of intelligence from the late twentieth century to today, that single book would be Allen W. Dulles's The Craft of Intelligence. This classic of spycraft is based on Allen Dulles's incomparable experience as a diplomat, international lawyer, and America's premier intelligence officer. Dulles was a high-ranking officer of the CIA's predecessor-the Office of Strategic Services-and was present at the inception of the CIA, where he served eight of his ten years there as director. Here he sums up what he learned about intelligence from nearly a half-century of experience in foreign affairs.
                                  In World War II his OSS agents penetrated the German Foreign Office, worked with the anti-Nazi underground resistance, and established contacts that brought about the Nazi military surrender in North Italy. Under his direction the CIA developed both a dedicated corps of specialists and a whole range of new intelligence devices, from the U-2 high-altitude photographic plane to minute electronic listening and transmitting equipment.
                                  Dulles reveals much about how intelligence is collected and processed, and how the resulting estimates contribute to the formation of national policy. He discusses methods of surveillance, and the usefulness of defectors from hostile nations. His knowledge of Soviet espionage techniques is unrivaled, and he explains how the Soviet State Security Service recruited operatives and planted "illegals" in foreign countries. He spells out not only the techniques of modern espionage but also the philosophy and role of intelligence in a free society threatened by global conspiracies.
                                  Dulles also addresses the Bay of Pigs incident, denying that the 1961 invasion was based on a CIA estimate that a popular Cuban uprising would ensue. This account is enlivened with a wealth of personal anecdotes. It is a book for readers who seek wider understanding of the contribution of intelligence to our national security.

                                  Customer Reviews:

                                  4 out of 5 stars WAS ALLEN DULLES OUR BEST SPYMASTER? .......2006-11-06

                                  Allen Dulles was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1953 to 1961 during the eight-year term of Dwight Eisenhower and first ten months of John Kennedy's administration. His historical memoir `The Craft of Intelligence' has been re-published by The Lyons Press.
                                  This re-issue of Dulles' book makes one take a new examination of the function of the DCI when the CIA started all of the things it's known for today and presumed to still be doing. Even though four DCI's served under Harry Truman the tenure of Dulles for Eisenhower best typifies what the CIA has now become known for.
                                  Dulles was the ultimate `remain in the shadows, behind the scenes, backroom negotiator' that was so prevalent in the first half of the 20th Century political world. He must have been inspired to be that way by the antics of Colonel Thomas House who was the inside advisor to President Woodrow Wilson when Dulles' own uncle Robert Lansing was the nation's Secretary of State. And Dulles was in government work when politicians were still trusted by the public yet doing the nation's dirty work that was generally not revealed to the masses at that time.
                                  The first four DCI's to President Truman in the years 1946-1953 came directly from military service when the agency was getting started and was only seen as an intelligence gathering entity. It was when Eisenhower took over and appointed Dulles as DCI that the CIA began covert operations and inserting itself into the matters of foreign governments for America's benefit.
                                  Dulles had his followers as he attempted to implement Ike's plan of containing the spread of communism. But he also had his detractors as he put forth America's intelligence presence throughout the world during his tenure. He was obviously well thought of by Eisenhower since he served as DCI for the entire eight years of the 34th president's term. But his career ended in forced retirement when newcomer chief executive Kennedy blamed the CIA for the April, 1961 `Bay of Pigs' fiasco after Cuban freedom fighters launched from Florida were defeated on the beaches of Cuba by Fidel Castro's Army.
                                  Dulles never made derogatory comments about JFK after his removal even though he must have had an opinion about it. So isn't it ironic that three years later he served on a commission to investigate the assassination of the very man who fired him!
                                  Anyway, to get a read on the real Dulles as the holder of the nation's secrets you must look at every photo of him. You will observe that he always has a smug look on his face as if he knew he wasn't telling the whole truth to the American people but recognized he was still getting away with it.
                                  Everyone in the spy business read the book when it came out in 1963. Even 007 himself, James Bond, studied the work while on an assignment in Japan in Ian Fleming's classic novel `You Only Live Twice' so he could pick up tips on how to be a better spy!
                                  But it's apparent from forty years of hindsight and the declassification of many CIA files from that era that Dulles wrote this book in a matter that presumed us naive citizens still believed and trusted their leaders in what was being told to them was actually true. So his tome now comes off in a somewhat condescending manner with the revelations that most of what the CIA presumed about the threat from the Soviet Union and the state of the world for the last sixty years have been proven wrong or were grossly inaccurate to justify excessive and unneeded military expenditures for our side.
                                  It's still arguable whether Allen Dulles was the best DCI we will ever have. But he knew how to brag when necessary and stay in the shadows when needed to keep his president happy.

                                  5 out of 5 stars How information is gathered, processed, and used in the formation of national policy.......2006-06-22

                                  If you seek a single source reference to the history of modern espionage, it should be THE CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: AMERICA'S LEGENDARY SPY MASTER ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF INTELLIGENCE GATHERING FOR A FREE WORLD. Details on how intelligence is collected and processed, and how it contributes to the formation of national policy, makes for a thorough and fine review of the craft and policies of military intelligence efforts, surveying how information is gathered, processed, and used in the formation of national policy. While others could've presented the facts, it's his insider position peppered with personal anecdotes from his intelligence career - he was a high-ranking officer of the CIA's predecessor and served eight years when the CIA was created - which makes CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE unique.

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                                  5 out of 5 stars Core reading requirement for students of intelligence.......2001-10-10

                                  As I began researching the modern intelligence community, several books (e.g. "The Night Watch" by David Atlee Philips) pointed back to "The Craft of Intelligence" as a fundamental starting point. Because this book deals with the basic intelligence methods and objectives, it maintains its relevance well into the present. In some sections Dulles also addresses the ethical implications of deceptive or clandestine intelligence collection, providing valuable thought or discussion material for individuals scrutinizing this unique, and arguably disdainful, function of government. Dulles' writing style is thoughtful, refined, yet straightforward, revealing some of those traits which earned him the moniker "The Gentleman Spy".

                                  5 out of 5 stars One of two required readings on intelligence for anyone.......2000-04-08

                                  This is the other required reading. This gem sits on my desk with my dictionary of difficult words and my synonym dictionary. We still do not have an equal to this book. Since Dulles testified to Congress that 80% of the raw material for finished intelligence came from public sources including diplomatic reporting, this book provides an interesting benchmark for understanding the rather pathological impact of technical collection on the larger process of all-source collection and analysis.

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