The Targeter

Author : Nada Bakos
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316260452
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Targeter written by Nada Bakos and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CIA analyst's "revealing and utterly engrossing account" of the world of high-stakes foreign intelligence and her role within the campaign to stop top-tier targets inside Al-Qaida (Joby Warrick). In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, D.C., to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for intelligence work, Nada was determined to rise through the ranks of the agency first as an analyst and then as a Targeting Officer, eventually finding herself on the frontline of America's war against Islamic extremists. In this role, Nada was charged with determining if Iraq had a relationship with 9/11 and Al-Qaida, and finding the mastermind behind this terrorist activity: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Her team's analysis stood the test of time, but it was not satisfactory for some members of the Administration. In a tight, tension-packed narrative that takes the reader from Langley deep into Iraq, Bakos reveals the inner workings of the Agency and the largely hidden world of intelligence gathering post 9/11. Entrenched in the world of the CIA, Bakos, along with her colleagues, focused on leading U.S. Special Operations Forces to the doorstep of one of the world's most wanted terrorists. Filled with on-the-ground insights and poignant personal anecdotes, The Targeter shows us the great personal sacrifice that comes with intelligence work. This is Nada's story, but it is also an intimate chronicle of how a group of determined, ambitious men and women worked tirelessly in the heart of the CIA to ensure our nation's safety at home and abroad.

Author : DAVID. BALDACCI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781509859696
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Target written by DAVID. BALDACCI and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Target is David Baldacci's blockbuster follow up to The Hit, the smash-hit bestseller featuring U.S. government assassin, Will Robie.Will Robie is a highly trained CIA assassin who is only matched in his ability to kill by his fellow agent, Jessica Reel. They are trusted by the US government to succeed when failure isn't an option.So when the President identifies an opportunity to take down a global menace there's only two people he has in mind for the clandestine mission. Their target is the dangerous and unpredictable leader of North Korea, but when things don't go to plan a fierce retaliation is set in motion.While Robie and Reel are stalked by a new adversary - sent to destroy the enemy at all costs - a deadly game of cat and mouse is triggered between the East and West. But who will be hunter and who will be hunted when the true target is revealed?

Author : Catherine Coulter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780515125627
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Target written by Catherine Coulter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are faced with the case of an abducted child in this “absorbing”(Publishers Weekly) FBI Thriller. Escaping unwanted media attention after a notorious incident, Ramsey Hunt retreats into the solitude of a cabin high in the Colorado Rockies. But his isolation is shattered when he rescues a small girl in the forest and strangers invade his private meadow with intent to kill. Molly Santera, the little girl’s mother, catches up with Ramsey and her daughter, mistaking him for the kidnapper. When she discovers that he instead saved Emma, there’s little time for thanks. With the strangers in pursuit, the trio flee to Chicago for sanctuary. With an unexpected assist from FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, Molly and Ramsey begin to unravel the clues, and in the process they make an astonishing discovery as to the true nature of the target.

Author : Mark J. Roe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197625622
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missing the Target written by Mark J. Roe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A data-driven argument for why stock-market short-termism is not causing severe damage to the American economyAccording to most media outlets and corporate lawmakers, stock-market-driven short-termism - when corporations appear to prioritize immediate results in the next quarter over long-term interests - is crippling the American economy. This popular view claims that short-termism is causing widespreaddeclines in research and development (RandD) spending, harmful environmental policies, and degradation of the workplace. But the data does not support this black-and-white representation of short-termism.Mark J. Roe uses economy-wide data on RandD spending trends and corporate financial analysis to show that stock-market short-termism is not the root of all of America's economic problems. The book shows that blaming short-termism overlooks the real causes of declining investment, RandD cutbacks,environmental deterioration, and workplace conflict. By pointing to other sources of tension like accelerating technology change, policy uncertainty, and an increasing sense of workplace insecurity, Missing the Target argues for a more nuanced understanding of the challenges to the American economy.Roe also disproves many of the core claims against short-termism by demonstrating that RandD spending is not in a complete decline. In fact, while government research spending may be down, corporate RandD expenditure is actually rising faster than the economy is growing.Missing the Target complicates the discussion of the American economy by explaining the many factors that contribute to current trends and by making a bold but straightforward claim: short-termism is not the problem.

Author : Frederick W. Kagan
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458771911
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the Target written by Frederick W. Kagan and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Finding the Target, Frederick W. Kagan describes the three basic transformations within the U.S. military since Vietnam. First was the move to an all-volunteer force and a new generation of weapons systems in the 1970s. Second was the emergence of stealth technology and precision-guided munitions in the 1980s. Third was the information technology that followed the fall of the Soviet Union and the first Gulf War. This last could have insured the U.S. continuing military preeminence, but this goal was compromised by Clinton's drawing down of our armed forces in the 1990s and Bush's response to 9/11 and the global war on terror. The issue of transformation leads Kagan to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's vision of a ''new ''military; the conduct of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; and the disconnect between grand strategic visions such as the Bush Doctrine's idea of ''preemption ''and the underfunding of military force structures that are supposed to achieve such goals.

Author : Leonard Talmy
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262551799
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Targeting System of Language written by Leonard Talmy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, “targeting,” underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and deixis (speech-external). In this book, Leonard Talmy proposes that a single linguistic/cognitive system, targeting, underlies two domains of linguistic reference, those termed anaphora (for a referent that is an element of the current discourse) and deixis (for a referent outside the discourse and in the spatiotemporal surroundings). Talmy argues that language engages the same cognitive system to single out referents whether they are speech-internal or speech-external. Talmy explains the targeting system in this way: as a speaker communicates with a hearer, her attention is on an object to which she wishes to refer; this is her target. To get the hearer's attention on it as well, she uses a trigger—a word such as this, that, here, there, or now. The trigger initiates a three-stage process in the hearer: he seeks cues of ten distinct categories; uses these cues to determine the target; and then maps the concept of the target gleaned from the cues back onto the trigger to integrate it into the speaker's sentence, achieving comprehension. The whole interaction, Talmy explains, rests on a coordination of the speaker's and hearer's cognitive processing. The process is the same whether the referent is anaphoric or deictic. Talmy presents and analyzes the ten categories of cues, and examines sequences in targeting, including the steps by which interaction leads to joint attention. A glossary defines the new terms in the argument.

Author : Suzi Mirgani
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839433525
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Target Markets - International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall written by Suzi Mirgani and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with an emphasis on the shopping mall in general and Nairobi's Westgate Mall in particular, Suzi Mirgani offers a fascinating and disturbing perspective on the spaces where the most powerful forces of contemporary culture - the most mainstream and the most extreme - meet on common ground.

Author : Zuhair Kashmeri
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550289046
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soft Target written by Zuhair Kashmeri and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative look at one of Canada's biggest tragedies On March 16, 2005, almost twenty years after one of the biggest mass murders in Canadian Aviation history, the Air-India Case concluded with a verdict that authors Zuhair Kashmeri and Brian McAndrew predicted sixteen years ago when Soft Target was first published: not guilty. In this second edition, the two offer a detailed foreword that brings readers up-to-date with some startling new information surrounding the twin bombings on June 23, 1985 in the air over the Atlantic, and on the ground in Japan, which left 331 people dead. They offer key details from the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri that took place in a specially-built Vancouver courtroom, leads that were not followed up, and more details of India's intelligence service's clandestine interference in Canada. They explain how their own prediction that justice would not be found because of a botched investigation came true, and that only a public inquiry will offer closure to the families of the victims.

Author : Ester Wier
Publisher : Apple
ISBN 13 : 9780590443524
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loner written by Ester Wier and published by Apple. This book was released on 1991 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wandering westward, picking fruit for wages, a lonely boy cannot remember his name or his family and takes care of himself until he meets a woman sheep farmer who provides him with a loving home.

Author : Laura A. Huxley
Publisher : Metamorphous Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555520090
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Are Not the Target written by Laura A. Huxley and published by Metamorphous Press. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life partner of the famed Aldous Huxley offers practical wisdom on how to cope with stress, anxiety, competition, and the uncertainty of the times without going to pieces mentally or physically. You Are Not The Target offers over 30 "recipes" for living which show you how to change, how to influence the elements around you, and how to cope successfully with the problems of the inner and outer world.