The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Concise Edition
Amazon.com For 13 days in October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of a nuclear exchange after the Soviets placed intermediate-range missiles on the island of Cuba. U.S. forces were poised at red alert while the Soviets pledged to launch nuclear weapons if the...
The Cuban Missile Crisis refers to the tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The period of greatest danger started on October 16, 1962, when U.S. reconnaissance was shown to U.S. President John F. Kennedy which...
History has been rewritten. It's up to you to determine the future. Cuba 1962...A world on the brink of disaster holds its breath as two super powers vie for supremacy. The silence is shattered by a tiny Caribbean island nation barely 90 miles from the continental United States. The world...
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Seasons 1-7
After Star Wars and the successful big-screen Star Trek adventures, it's perhaps not so surprising that Gene Roddenberry managed to convince purse string-wielding studio heads in the 1980s that a Next Generation would be both possible and profitable. But the political climate had changed...
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis [Paperback]
The unique, gripping account of the perilous showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told...
History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History
The widely contrasting approaches to U.S. history that can be found in the textbooks of other nations."The American invaders .accompanied by their puppets, finally waged the war .The bastards who crossed the 38th parallel at dawn were stoking the flames of war, jumping around like mad men,...
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - DVD
In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and played the situation for laughs....
Amazon.com Brendan DuBois is an award-winning U.S. author of mystery stories: this alternate-world thriller is very much in the tradition of Robert Harris's Fatherland. Consider this striking blurb line: "Everyone remembered exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to...
The Cold War Unicorns Play Set allows you to play out the intense struggle between two global superpowers in the majestic fantasy world of the Unicorn! Can the Commie Unicornâs horn of classless social structure hold up against the Freedom Unicornâs hooves of capitalist opportunity? Each...
Rating: NR Genre: Comedy Release Date: 11/02/2004 SubTitles: English/French/KO/TH Dubbed: English/French Sound: DTS/DD5.1/DD1 Run Time: 95 Minutes Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen...
In the context of non-fiction literature, I consider this book to be the co-equal of Graham Allison's classic, "Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis." It joins Bob Woodward's "Bush at War" and the more detailed James Risen's "State of...
* Winston Churchill’s “The Sinews of Peace” speech, March 5, 1946. * Photos: House Un-American Activities Committee vs. Hollywood, 1947. * Communist Party membership card, 1947. * “100 Things You Should Know About Communism ...” questions and answers from HUAC booklet....
A Gentle Introduction to Game Theory (Mathematical World, Vol. 13) [Paperback]
Review This book is an excellent introduction to the mathematical aspects of game theory for beginners without a background in calculus. --Journal of Mathematical Psychology "Game theory, in the sense of von Neumann and Morgenstern, studies models of competition in situations of uncertainty. It...
Washington DC, 1963: the Cuban Missile Crisis is last year’s news, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s young administration is starting to hit its stride. Behind the scenes, however, winds of discontent are swirling. Thirteen-year-old Adam Stafford has his own problems to deal with. At that...
Mi Moto Fidel, Christopher Baker's intriguing account of his three-month romp through Cuba on a fire-engine red motorcycle is perhaps the most thorough portrait of this faded Communist country to date. Baker leaves no stone unturned as he revisits Ernest Hemingway's haunts in Havana, checks...
Events in Fidel Castro’s island nation often command international attention and just as often inspire controversy. Impassioned debate over situations as diverse as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Elián Gonzáles affair is characteristic not only of modern times but of centuries...
Dr. Strangelove [40th Anniversary Special Edition]
In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and played the situation for laughs....
Who is the real Fidel Castro? Some would characterize the longtime Cuban ruler as a ruthless dictator, crushing all opposition and starving his own people to feed his own hunger for power. Others point to a revolutionary leader who has adhered to Marxist-Leninist principles while being popular...
When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences (Hardcover)
I'm reminded about the old joke - How do you tell when a salesman is lying, his lips move and he makes noise. ==With politicians it has become almost accepted behavior up to the time that they got caught. We are all familiar with Clinton's lies, made under oath, about Monica, which got him...
I am told that the university which has its' name associated with this document would prefer not to. Fine. I will now no longer refer to it as The MIT Guide To Lockpicking or The MIT Lockpicking Guide. Truth be told, I am a member of the Bavarian Illuminati and I wrote it myself shortly after I...
Blast from the Past, Brendan Fraser, DVD - Barnes & Noble
In 1962, Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) was a brilliant but somewhat paranoid scientist living with his Donna Reed-esque wife, Helen (Sissy Spacek), in Los Angeles. In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a plane crashed into the Webber's yard. Mistaking the blast for "the big...
March is Women’s History Month, and Total Woman is celebrating by posting interesting stories and tweets throughout the month about women you may or may not know about. Follow us on Twitter for interesting, quick “Did You Know” factoids, and stop by the blog often or subscribe to...
Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution
Today they stand as enemies, but in the 1950s, few countries were as closely intertwined as Cuba and the United States. Thousands of Americans (including Ernest Hemingway and Errol Flynn) lived on the island, and, in the United States, dancehalls swayed to the mambo beat. The strong-arm Batista...
Guardian of Lies: A Paul Madriani Novel (Paul Madriani Novels) (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly Paul Madriani's chance encounter with 26-year-old Katia Solaz, a Costa Rican beauty, leads to a desperate race to avoid not only personal disaster but also a national one in Martini's sprawling 10th thriller to feature the Southern California defense attorney (after...
On March 27, 1958, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nicolay Bulganin as Soviet premier, becoming the first leader since Joseph Stalin to simultaneously hold the USSR's two top offices.Khrushchev, born into a Ukrainian peasant family in 1894, worked as a mine mechanic before...
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On March 27, 1958, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nicolay Bulganin as Soviet premier, becoming the first leader since Joseph Stalin to simultaneously hold the USSR's two top offices.Khrushchev, born into a Ukrainian peasant family in 1894, worked as a mine mechanic before...
The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
The Fog of War, the movie that finally won Errol Morris the best documentary Oscar, is a spellbinder. Morris interviews Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and finds a uniquely unsettling viewpoint on much of 20th-century American history. Employing a...
The impending opening of the Iranian International Oil Bourse (IOB), set to commence trading next week on the island nation of Kish, strongly increases the chances of an imminent nuclear American-Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear and financial facilities. The electronic oil bourse, much discussed by...
* Wolfsonian Museum -- A must see if you're visiting Miami Beach, this museum exhibits a collection of propaganda art that includes furniture, paintings, books, prints, industrial and decorative art objects. The Museum explores the role of design at the height of the industrial age (1885-1945)...
What drew me to check out X-Men: First Class was not any particular love of comic books nor any particular fondness of the previous films. What drew me to this film was the presence of actor Michael Fassbender, whose increasingly eclectic work has continued to impress me more and more with each new...
Amazon.com Penzler Pick, March 2002: Robert Littell, long known as one of the best writers of fiction about the Cold War, is not as well known as John le Carré or the great Charles McCarry, but nevertheless has a devoted following among serious aficionados of the literary spy novel. His...
Stories tell of a legendary solider who once waged war against the world. His name was Naked Snake, a.k.a. Big Boss, and the truth behind this legend will finally be told. The era is the 1970’s . Big Boss had stationed his “Soldiers Without Borders” in Colombia, South America,...
USB MISSILE / ROCKET LAUNCHER - AIR DARTS - OFFICE TOY
The USB Missile Launcher is locked and loaded. It’s the latest thing in office cubicle warfare – the ultimate in geek chic! Just connect your missile launcher to your PC or laptop via USB - we truly believe this is WHY the USB was invented in the first place! Load the software (Windows...
Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys: A Novel by Eric Garcia
"The last fifteen years of failed dates, the boys with wandering hands, the boys whose hands didn't wander enough, the ones who left and the ones who wouldn't let me leave. They didn't deserve to walk into a room with Cassandra French on their arm." Thus, with that...
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