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The American Police State: The Government Against the People

Details the ways in which the CIA, FBI, IRS and other government agencies have engaged in law-breaking to spy on private citizens during the last seven administrations

By David Wise

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9780394724980 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1978, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Details the ways in which the CIA, FBI, IRS and other government agencies have engaged in law-breaking to spy on private citizens during the last seven administrations

The Children's Game

From Washington, D.C., through the Swiss Alps, to the Kremlin, William Danner, a former agent dragooned back into the CIA, searches for the cunning saboteur who threatens to destroy the CIA itself

By David Wise

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Hardcover:

9780312132422 | St Martins Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: From Washington, D.

Paperback:

9780523423104 | Pinnacle Books, December 1, 1984, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: From Washington, D.

Spectrum

CIA director Towny Black, knowing that public exposure of the 1965 operation involving a large-scale theft of uranium would threaten his agency's very existence, battles with three inquisitors to cover up the truth

By David Wise

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9780671442668 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, September 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: CIA director Towny Black, knowing that public exposure of the 1965 operation involving a large-scale theft of uranium would threaten his agency's very existence, battles with three inquisitors to cover up the truth

Total Recall

Remo and Chiun investigate a far-out church whose leader may run a drug scam that uses juveniles as agents and eliminates them when their usefulness has ended

By David Wise

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9780523415680 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1984, cover price $2.50 | also contains 25 Easy-to-cook Vegan Tacos for Beginners: Delicious Vegan Tacos Recipes for Vegetarian Diet | About this edition: Remo and Chiun investigate a far-out church whose leader may run a drug scam that uses juveniles as agents and eliminates them when their usefulness has ended

Social Experimentation

Product Description: Since 1970 the United States government has spent over half a billion dollars on social experiments intended to assess the effect of potential tax policies, health insurance plans, housing subsidies, and other programs. Was it worth it? Was anything learned from these experiments that could not have been learned by other, and cheaper, means? Could the experiments have been better designed or analyzed? These are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to this volume, the result of a conference on social experimentation sponsored in 1981 by the National Bureau of Economic Research...read more

By Jerry Hausman and David Wise

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9780226319407 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Since 1970 the United States government has spent over half a billion dollars on social experiments intended to assess the effect of potential tax policies, health insurance plans, housing subsidies, and other programs.

The Samarkand Dimension

James Markham, a CIA agent, is ordered to infiltrate the Soviet parapsychology facility in Samarkand

By David Wise

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Hardcover:

9780385197557 | Doubleday, April 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: James Markham, a CIA agent, is ordered to infiltrate the Soviet parapsychology facility in Samarkand

The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of Edward Lee Howard, the CIA Agent Who Betrayed His Country's Secrets and Escaped to Moscow

Offers an account of CIA defector Edward Lee Howard, from his recruitment by the CIA, to his dimissal and detection, to his escape to the Soviet Union

By David Wise

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9780394562810 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Offers an account of CIA defector Edward Lee Howard, from his recruitment by the CIA, to his dimissal and detection, to his escape to the Soviet Union

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9780024300300, titled "Tristram Shandy: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy" | Macmillan Pub Co, January 1, 1940, cover price $34.00 | also contains Tristram Shandy: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Spy Who Got Away

By David Wise

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9780380707720 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, September 1, 1989), cover price $4.95

Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors That Shattered the CIA

Details the obsessive internal spy hunt reminiscent of the McCarthy era lead by CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton after he was lead astray by former KGB officer Anatoly Golitsin. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

By David Wise

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Hardcover:

9780394585147 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, March 1, 1992), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A military historian details the search for Soviet moles in Western intelligence agencies that began in the 1960s and led to some startling revelations

Thoughts of Darkness

Product Description: The High Master Illithid has been hatching black plots by hatching vampiric mind flayers in his laboratories! His prodigies are horribly insane, but if he can complete his plans, he will achieve a new level of dark immortality. A pair of heroes has stolen the key to his success, but they have paid a heavy price for their bravery and are in desperate need of aid unlooked for...read more

By David Wise

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9781560763536 | Wizards of the Coast, September 1, 1992, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The High Master Illithid has been hatching black plots by hatching vampiric mind flayers in his laboratories!

Roots of Evil

Product Description: This is the second of two adventures that feature Azalin and Strahd von Zarovich in their endless conflict. As a sequel to From the Shadows, this module gives the player characters an opportunity to atone for the evil they unwittingly caused as pawns of Azalin...read more

By Erik Haddock and David Wise

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9781560765974 | Wizards of the Coast, May 1, 1993, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: This is the second of two adventures that feature Azalin and Strahd von Zarovich in their endless conflict.

Mole-Hunt: How the Search for a Phantom Traitor Shattered the CIA

Explains how, by launching a twenty-year investigation for a spy within the agency, chief of CIA counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton sparked an operation of paranoia and vendettas that destroyed several careers. Reprint. NYT.

By David Wise

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9780380721276 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Explains how, by launching a twenty-year investigation for a spy within the agency, chief of CIA counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton sparked an operation of paranoia and vendettas that destroyed several careers.

Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million

Draws on CIA sources to trace the career of convicted spy Aldrich Ames and the agency's record of incompetence, which allowed Ames to keep his position for nine years

By David Wise

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Hardcover:

9780060171988 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Draws on CIA sources to trace the career of convicted spy Aldrich Ames and the agency's record of incompetence, which allowed Ames to keep his position for nine years

Paperback:

9780060927318 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1996, cover price $15.00

Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani

Product Description: Vistani legends, their everyday life, abilities common to all of them, and some of the fell powers possessed - fortunately - by only a few. Van Richten also identifies each of the Vistani tribes, their strange and special powers, and their habits and beliefs.

By Scott Burdick (illustrator) and David Wise

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9780786901555 | Wizards of the Coast, July 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Vistani legends, their everyday life, abilities common to all of them, and some of the fell powers possessed - fortunately - by only a few.

Democracy Under Pressure: An Introduction to the American Political System : Brief Edition

Product Description: DEMOCRACY UNDER PRESSURE has provided over a million students with a comprehensive look at the fundamentals of American government. Cummings and Wise pair lively narrative with exemplary scholarship to convey a balanced, realistic sense of political history and to describe the institutions of American government...read more

By Milton C. Cummings, Jr and David Wise

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9780534173630 | 9 pck edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, December 1, 2002), cover price $108.95 | About this edition: DEMOCRACY UNDER PRESSURE has provided over a million students with a comprehensive look at the fundamentals of American government.

9780155080171 | 8 edition (Harcourt College Pub, September 1, 1997), cover price $93.95

Marvel Super Dice 6920P/Prepack

By James M. Ward and David Wise

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Paperback:

9780786908394 | Not Applicable, October 1, 1997, cover price $179.40

The Paladins

By Peter Archer (editor), James M. Ward and David Wise

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Paperback:

9780786908653 | Wizards of the Coast, January 1, 1998, cover price $2.99

Marvel Super Dice Game: The X-Men Battle for New York City!

By James M. Ward and David Wise

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Hardcover:

9780786906734 | Wizards of the Coast, January 1, 1998, cover price $14.95

Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War over Nerve Gas

Recounts the espionage war fought over nerve gas during the Cold War following one FBI agent as he tries to prevent the Soviets from stealing deadly secrets.

By David Wise

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Hardcover:

9780783891446, titled "Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War over Nerve Gas" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, September 1, 2000), cover price $29.95

9780375501531, titled "Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War over Nerve Gas" | Random House Inc, March 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Recounts the espionage war fought over nerve gas during the Cold War following one FBI agent as he tries to prevent the Soviets from stealing deadly secrets.

Paperback:

9780812992632, titled "Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War over Nerve Gas" | Random House Inc, March 7, 2000, cover price $15.00

Miscellaneous:

9780375505362 | Random House Inc, December 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | also contains 7 Simple Skills for Every Woman

Democracy Under Pressure: An Introduction to the American Political System : Brief Edition : 2002 Election Update