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For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army-and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, New York...
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Domination of the air during WWII was a critical element to ultimate victory. From the deadly dogfights during the Battle of Britain to the harrowing daylight raids over fortress Europe to the daring high altitude bombing runs over Japan, this is the story of the men and machines that faced off every day in a deadly struggle for freedom.
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A humorous and cautionary account of the U.S. military's use of psychic tactics in the War on Terror and other political agendas discusses the methods employed by the First Earth Battalion, questioning its soldiers' abilities to perform such feats as invisibility, walking through walls, and killing goats with their minds.
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A novel set in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1942 shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the town was a center of Allied war production and the Vought F4u Corsair fighter aircraft. The narrative contains nearly 1,500 words most commonly used in the Critical Reading section of the Scholastic Aptitude tests.
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"In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of withstanding extreme trauma. Bickford traces the deep history of efforts to biologically fortify and extend the health and lethal power of soldiers from the Cold War era into the twenty-first century, from early adaptations of mandatory immunizations, to bio-protective gear, to...
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"Rings of Fire is the story of how Edwin Land, founder of Polaroid, and a unique cast of characters created the calcite-based optical ring sights that helped U.S. naval antiaircraft guns and army bazookas zero in on targets and claim victory in World WarII. It is a story of American ingenuity, determination, and grit in the face of enemy attacks"--
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