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Evil spy school
After getting expelled from spy school for accidentally shooting a live mortar into the principal's office, thirteen-year-old Ben finds himself recruited by evil crime organization SPYDER.
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Rerouting Wartime Paranoia in Agatha Christie's N or M?
As alarms about \"internal treachery\" and a possible Fifth Column were raised in Britain near the beginning of World War II, fear of refugees and migrants became nearly ubiquitous. N or M? (1940), Agatha Christie's most accomplished spy novel, reroutes the rising paranoia and fear of foreign spies to channel it against the xenophobic and misogynist tendencies of wartime. In so doing, Christie turns derisive paranoid attention away from some of those groups who were most vulnerable to it in the nerve-wracking spring of 1940: refugees, Irish migrants, and women.
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A legacy of spies
\"The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book--his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carre has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back:The Spy Who Came in from the ColdandTinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carre and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Succeeding As an English Teacher
'Clever, comprehensive and current...a book I'll be returning to again and again.' Stuart Pryke 'Every English teacher will get huge value from this timely book.' Alex Quigley The ultimate guide to teaching English in a secondary school, this book supports you on your journey from trainee to head of department - and everything in-between.
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Spy school
Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.
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Sleeper
DJ McLean wants to know the truth about his grandfather, so he travels to London and Cambridge to follow clues and symbols somehow connected with British spies, and a vintage E-type Jag.
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‘You're quite a gourmet, aren't you, Palmer?’ Masculinity and Food in the Spy Fiction of Len Deighton
In this paper, the novel and film ofLen Deighton's1962spy novelThe IPCRESS File
, along with
Len Deighton's Action Cookbook
(reprints of newspaper strips that were purposely designed for a young, male audience) will be analysed as diagnostic texts, revealing a peculiarlyBritish(or even English) variant on a new affluent and aspirationalmasculinityformed in the late 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, where the explicit disaffection of the previous decade (the ‘Angry Young Man’ or the bohemian) is mediated intoconsumption, the pleasures ofdegustation, and a laconic ‘cool’.
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Two Types of Secret Agency: Conrad, Causation, and Popular Spy Fiction
From the point of view of Mach's easygoing monism, matter itself \"must be regarded merely as a highly natural, unconsciously constructed mental symbol for a relatively stable complex of sensational elements,\" while \"the artificial hypothetical atoms and molecules of physics and chemistry\" are nothing more than \"eco- nomical ways of symbolizing experience\" (Analysis of Sensations 311).6 Karl Pearson's popular \"neo-Machian\" text The Grammar of Science was first published in 1892, and revised editions were issued in 1900 and 1911 (Porter 143).
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