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The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War—and the international manhunt that seized global attention as it revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB operatives. The dramatic arrest in London on January 7, 1961 of five Soviet spies made headlines worldwide and had repercussions around the globe. Alerted by the CIA, Britain's security service, MI5, had discovered two British spies stealing inval...

A major new book on the sensational Portland Spy Ring and its famous trial in 1961

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The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War—and the international manhunt that seized global attention as it revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB operatives. The dramatic arrest in London on January 7, 1961 of five Soviet spies made headlines worldwide and had repercussions around the globe. Alerted by the CIA, Britain's security service, MI5, had discovered two British spies stealing invalua...

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Trevor Barnes is an award-winning presenter of many BBC Television documentaries on the subject of religion, as well as BBC World Service news broadcasts, radio shows, and live chat shows. He is also the author of several books including Archaeology in the Kingfisher Knowledge series, The Wounded City, a book about the people of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a biography of Terry Waite, Man With A Mission.

Spatial Histories of Radical Geography offers a systematic and comprehensive approach to the history of radical geography in North America, and its relationship with the rest of the world. With contributions from an international group of scholars, the book takes a geographical approach to the emergence and development of radical geography, focussing on the roles of place, spatial circulation and geographical scale. This collection reviews No...

How do you change the intellectual landscape of an entire discipline? This book answers the question, tracing the many shoots, leaves and branches of radical geography from the late 1960s onwards. It should inspire a new generation of faculty and students to believe that the smallest beginnings can, in time, build to transformative movements." Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester, UK and Honorary Professorial Research...

THE PORTLAND SPY RING was one of the most infamous espionage cases from the Cold War. People the world over were shocked when its exposure revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB 'illegals' - spies operating under false identities stolen from the dead.The CIA's revelation to MI5 in 1960 that a KGB agent was stealing crucial secrets from the world-leading submarine research base at Portland in Dorset looked initially like a dangerous but c...

This volume in the celebrated Critical Introductions to Geography series introduces readers to the vibrant discipline of economic geography. The authors provide an original definition of the discipline, and they make a strong case for its vital importance in understanding the dynamic interconnections, movements, and emerging trends shaping our globalized world. Economic Geography addresses the key theories and methods that form the basis of t...

The New Industrial Geography focuses on the most important industrial-geographical changes that have taken place in Europe and North America over the last twenty years. It brings together some of the leading scholars in the field.

The purpose of this book is to explore issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors organize their discussion of geographical writings around the three themes of discourse, text and metaphor.

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-> Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte (USA 1999, 92 Min., FSK 6): Bob Cratchit hat es nicht leicht. Er ist Angestellter des misanthropen und geizigen Ebenezer Scrooge, der für Menschlichkeit nichts übrig hat. Auch in der Vorweihnachtszeit schikaniert er seine Mitmenschen, wo es nur geht. Auch Scrooges pfiffigem Neffen Fred Bowley gelingt es nicht, weihnachtliche Stimmung zu verbreiten. In der Weihnachtsnacht bekommt Scrooge in seinem Haus unerwartete...

Die Geister der vergangenen, gegenwärtigen und zukünftigen Weihnacht, sie werden lebendig in dieser aufwändigen Verfilmung des Klassikers von Charles Dickens, in der Sir Patrick Stewart als geiziger Ebeneezer Scrooge vom Saulus zum Paulus werden darf. Er, der es selbst nie leicht gehabt hat, hält im London der 1840er Jahre wenig von Weihnachten und seinen Gebräuchen. Bis ihm während einer einzigen Nacht drei Geister aufzeigen, wie er wurde, wa...

This comprehensive overview of the field is the successor to the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic Geography published by Blackwell more than a decade ago. In a clear and accessible format, leading authors provide a guide to research across the relevant topics of economic geography since the original companion was published, focusing on developments of the past ten years and drawing on the expertise of a new generation of s...

A unique and amusing 'consumer guide' to the benefits that the different world faiths offer their adherents. Essential reading for anyone who wants to secure a place in the next life while still being true to themselves in this one!

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