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Plokhy Serhii <1957-> |
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The man with the poison gun : a Cold War spy story / / Serhii Plokhy |
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New York, New York : , : Basic Books, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (388 pages) |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- PART I: KGB MAN -- 1. Stalin's Call -- 2. Master Killer -- 3. Secret Agent -- 4. Parachutist -- 5. Streets of Munich -- 6. Wonder Weapon -- 7. Greetings from Moscow -- PART II: PERFECT MURDER -- 8. Red Square -- 9. Herr Popel -- 10. Dead on Arrival -- 11. Funeral -- 12. CIA Telegram -- 13. Upswing -- 14. Prime Suspect -- 15. Active Measures -- PART III: MOSCOW NIGHTS -- 16. High Hopes -- 17. Man at the Top -- 18. Private Matter -- 19. Award -- 20. Proposal -- 21. Introducing the Bride -- 22. Month of the Spy -- 23. Going in Circles -- PART IV: ESCAPE FROM PARADISE -- 24. Moscow Bugs -- 25. Family -- 26. Change of Plans -- 27. New Year -- 28. Back to School -- 29. Telephone Call -- 30. Berlin -- 31. Down to the Wire -- PART V: PUBLICITY BOMB -- 32. Shock Wave -- 33. Defector -- 34. Investigation -- 35. Press Conference -- 36. High Politics -- 37. Congressman -- PART VI: TRIAL -- 38. Karlsruhe -- 39. Loyalty and Betrayal -- 40. First Murder -- 41. Big Day -- 42. Doubt -- 43. Prosecution -- 44. Devil's Advocates -- 45. Verdict -- PART VII: DEPARTED -- 46. Unanswered Letter -- 47. Guest from Washington -- 48. Judex -- 49. Vanished -- 50. Kremlin Ghost -- 51. On the Run -- 52. Homecoming -- Epilogue: The Cold War Redux -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author. |
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"In the fall of 1961, a KGB agent defected to West Germany. The slim 30-year-old man in police custody had papers in the name of an East |
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German, Josef Lehmann, but claimed that his real name was Bogdan Stashinsky, and he was a citizen of the Soviet Union. On the orders of his KGB bosses, he had traveled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he singlehandedly tracked down and killed two enemies of the communist regime. He used a new, specially designed secret weapon--a spray pistol delivering liquid poison that, if fired into the victim's face, killed him without leaving any trace. Wracked by a guilty conscience, Stashinsky escaped with his wife under the tragic cover of their infant son's funeral, and crossed into West Berlin just hours before the Berlin Wall was erected. In 1962, after spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case in Cold War history. Stashinsky's testimony, implicating the Kremlin rulers in political assassinations carried out abroad, shook the world of international politics. The publicity stirred up by the Stashinsky case forced the KGB to change its modus operandi abroad and helped end the career of one of the most ambitious and dangerous Soviet leaders, the former head of the KGB and Leonid Brezhnev's rival, Aleksandr Shelepin. In West Germany, the Stashinsky trial changed the way in which Nazi criminals were prosecuted. Using the Stashinsky case as a precedent, many defendants in such cases claimed, as had the Soviet spy, that they were simply accessories to murder, while their superiors, who ordered the killings, were the main perpetrators."--Provided by publisher. |
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UNINA9910809490003321 |
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Boas Ralph P (Ralph Philip), <1912-1992> |
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A primer of real functions / / Ralph P. Boas [[electronic resource]] |
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Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 1996 |
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[Fourth edition.] |
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1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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The Carus mathematical monographs ; ; no. 13 |
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Functions of real variables |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface to the fourth edition -- Preface to the third edition -- [ch.] 1. Sets -- 1. Sets -- 2. Sets of real numbers -- 3. Countable and uncountable sets -- 4. Metric spaces -- 5. Open and closed sets -- 6. Dense and nowhere dense sets -- 7. Compactness -- 8. Convergence and completeness -- 9. Nested sets and Baire's theorem -- 10. Some applications of Baire's theorem -- 11. Sets of measure zero -- [c.h.] 2. Functions -- 12. Functions -- 13. Continuous functions -- 14. Properties of continuous functions -- 15. Upper and lower limits -- 16. Sequences of functions -- 17. Uniform convergence -- 18. Point wise limits on continuous functions -- 19. Approximations to continuous functions -- 20. Linear functions -- 21. Derivaties -- 22. Monotonic functions -- 23. Convex functions -- 24. Infinitely differentiable functions -- [ch.] 3. Integration -- 25. Lebesgue measure -- 26. Measurable functions -- 27. Definition of the Lebesgue integral -- 28. Properties of Lebesgue integrals -- 29. Applications of the Lebesgue integral -- 30. Stieltjes integrals -- 31. Applications of the Stieltjes integral -- 32. Partial sums of infinite series -- Answers to exercises -- Index. |
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This is a revised, updated and significantly augmented edition of a classic Carus Monograph (a bestseller for over 25 years) on the theory of functions of a real variable. Earlier editions of this classic Carus Monograph covered sets, metric spaces, continuous functions, and differentiable functions. The fourth edition adds sections on measurable sets and functions, the Lebesgue and Stieltjes integrals, and applications. The book retains the informal chatty style of the |
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previous editions, remaining accessible to readers with some mathematical sophistication and a background in calculus. The book is thus suitable either for self-study or for supplemental reading in a course on advanced calculus or real analysis. Not intended as a systematic treatise, this book has more the character of a sequence of lectures on a variety of interesting topics connected with real functions. Many of these topics are not commonly encountered in undergraduate textbooks: for example, the existence of continuous everywhere-oscillating functions (via the Baire category theorem); the universal chord theorem; two functions having equal derivatives, yet not differing by a constant; and application of Stieltjes integration to the speed of convergence of infinite series. |
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