Suchergebnisse

Reinforce understanding throughout the course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help students target higher grades. Written by experienced teacher and subject experts David Redfern and Catherine Owen, this Student Guide is divided into two key sections - content guidance, and sample questions and answers. Content guidance will: - Develop understanding of key concepts and terminology in key human geography topics: global systems and global governance, changing places, contemporary urban environments, population and the environment, resource security. - Consolidate knowledge with 'knowledge check questions' at the end of each topic and answers in the back of the book. Sample questions and answers will: - Build understanding of the different question types, so that students can approach each question with confidence. - Enable students to target top grades in their exam paper with sample answers and commentary explaining exactly why marks have been awarded.

"Ruthless killers and murderers for hire: they are here, there, and everywhere. They lurk in the shadows, ready to pounce. They terminate on command. And, in the process, they change the course of the world. They are among the world's most cold-hearted, deadly, and emotionless figures. They are assassins, and they have a long history of grievous deeds. From the cunning, calculating, government-trained warriors to the psychopathic, homegrown freelancers, you can find them all in Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers behind History-changing Murders. Exposed are the hidden agendas as well as the open warfare. The cynical preparations and devastating aftermaths are laid bare. You will quickly find yourself immersed in a world that is filled with killings made to seem like suicides, murders that were designed to look like heart attacks or overdoses, and accidents that, in reality, were carefully orchestrated deaths"--

"Area 51 peers behind the highly fortified, heavily guarded CIA testing ground to understand fully the nature, history, and scope of the most secret and controversial base in the United States. It investigates the Cold War years, U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird, and chemical and nuclear weapon research as well as the base's link to an extraterrestrial presence on Earth, reports of alien autopsies, recovery of non-terrestrial spacecraft, and attempts to duplicate the fantastic, alien technology"-

"In Social-Imperialism in Britain Neil Redfern examines the relationship between British labour and British capital in the two world wars of the Twentieth Century. He argues that the Second World War, the so-called 'People's War', no less than the First World War, was an imperialist war. He further argues that in both wars labour and capital entered into a social-imperialist contract in which labour would be rewarded for its support for war with such social and political reforms as votes for women and a health service, culminating in the 'welfare state' constructed after the Second World War. Concentrating on Lancashire, he examines the complex interaction between military successes and reverses, elite war aims, labour unrest and popular demands for reform"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: What Secrecy Means -- 1: Welcome to the World of Top Secrets -- 2: Freedom of Information and Need to Know -- Part 2: UFOs, Aliens, and Cosmic Conspiracies -- 3: The Roswell Files: Abducted! -- 4: You Can't See the Files for the Trees -- 5: UFO Dossiers: Denied and Disappeared -- 6: Inventing an Alien Invasion -- Part 3: Files on Famous Faces -- 7: Marilyn, Moon Dust, and a Missing Diary -- 8: Squidgygate and Secret Tapes -- 9: A Celebrity Sorcerer Goes Spying -- Part 4: Secret Government Projects -- 10: Missing More Often Than Not -- 11: An Ultra-Controversial Project -- 12: Fanning the Flames of Conspiracy -- 13: Experiments on Humans -- 14: A Secret Space Program -- Part 5: Presidents, Politicians, and Powerful People -- 15: Death in Dallas -- 16: Hoover's Secret Files Get Hoovered -- 17: Wiping the Slate Clean -- 18: Seventy Years in the Making -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover