Gordon Thomas has established himself as a leading expert on the intelligence community. He returns here on the one hundredth anniversaries of Britain's Security and Secret Intelligence Services to provide the definitive history of the famed MI5 and MI6.These agencies rank as two of the oldest and most powerful in the world, and Thomas's wide-sweeping history chronicles a century of both triumphs and failures. He recounts the roles that British intelligence played in the Allied vict...

They were told that the only crime they must never commit was to be caught. Women of enormous cunning and strength of will, the Shadow Warriors’ stories have remained largely untold—until now. In a dramatic tale of espionage and conspiracy in World War II, Shadow Warriors of World War II unveils the history of the courageous women who volunteered to work behind enemy lines.Sent into Nazi-occupied Europe by the United States’ Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Britain’s...

This revelatory account of how the Vatican saved thousands of Jews during WWII shows why history must exonerate "Hitler's Pope"."Many may find fault with the pope's decision to "keep silent" and not single out by name the Nazis or their crimes; however, Thomas is convincing in his revelations about the pope's secret work and relays how complex and sensitive these issues were for everyone involved at the time. Any World War II history buff or Holocaust resea...

In these selected poems, Thomas Gordon Hake speaks with a solemn, dreamlike intensity that Alice Meynell praises for its meditative power and distinctive voice. Grief, memory, and spiritual endurance thread through the collection, where loss never simply ends love but transforms it into a haunting, inward presence. Hake turns village life, myth, and sacred history into visions of compassion, judgment, and renewal. "Old Souls" offers a visionary allegory of a humble tinker crying, "Old soul...

The novel begins in the year 2199. Libby Britton receives a faint visual on her wall screen from a colleague stationed on Charon, Pluto's moon. After the transmission ends, she reflects on the past and all that has transpired before arriving at this day.Around the year 2035, before Libby was born, scientists discovered cures for most of the diseases of the world. With these cures came the rapid exponential growth of the world's population. The use of fossil fuels exploded. The ulti...

Every government, which we know at this day in the world, was established by the wisdom and force of mere men - John Trenchard. Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard published a series of essays to in The Independent Whig from 1720-1721. They would soon go on to write Catos Letters from 1720 to 1723, a series of letters arguing against British tyranny and advancing further freedom and free speech.

Persia Revisited by Sir Thomas Edward Gordon is a reflective travel memoir recounting the author's return to Persia (modern-day Iran) in the 1890s after several decades away. Having previously served in the region as a British officer and diplomat, Gordon revisits familiar cities such as Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz with a critical eye, comparing Persia’s past and present. He observes political developments under the Qajar dynasty, particularly during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah, and com...

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. Some of Tacitus' works remain, most notably The Annals and The Histories which provide detail of the reigns of some of Rome's earlier emperors. The Collected Works of Tacitus includes the following:The AnnalsThe HistoriesGermaniaAgricolaA Dialogue Concer...

AUTHOR'S NOTE:Sweet Farm is the stage on which our players play. It is a Carmel Valley, California Lavender Farm of some local reknown. It is also the home of a revolving cast of characters all somehow related to the Wyman clan: farmers, artists, writers, musicians. They bond and clash in unusual ways as they create their lives one breath at a time.The women are restless. The men are nervous. The girls are growing up in the 60s and they and their peers will become known as ...

Hazardous Air Pollutant Handbook: Measurements, Properties, and Fate in Ambient Air provides a comprehensive review of the 188 compounds and compound classes designated as Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, with a specific focus on their potential presence in ambient air. The relevant chemical and physical prop

Since the publication of the first edition (1994) there have been rapid developments in the application of hydrology, geomorphology and ecology to stream management. In particular, growth has occurred in the areas of stream rehabilitation and the evaluation of environmental flow needs. The concept of stream health has been adopted as a way of assessing stream resources and setting management goals.Stream Hydrology: An Introduction for Ecologists Second Edition documents recent rese...

Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons: Second Edition is a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to essential concepts of cellular neuroscience. Emphasizing experimental approaches and recent discoveries, it provides an in-depth look at the structure and function of nerve cells, from protein receptors and synapses to the biochemical processes that drive the mammalian nervous system.Starting with the basics of electrical current flow across cell membranes, Gordon Fa...