Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Progress in Developmental Endocrinology (Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates)

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Preface to the Progress Series; Preface to Volume X B; Contributors; Evolution of Steroid Hormones and Steroid-Hormone Receptors Gerd Käuser; Evolution of Developmental Peptide Hormones and Their Receptors Jozef Vanden Broack, Liliane Schoofs, and Arnold De Loof; Arthropoda-Insecta: Embryology August Dorn; Arthropoda-Insecta: Larval Development and Metamorphosis-Molecular Aspects Margarethe Spindler-Barth and Klaus-Deiter Spindler; Arthropoda-Insecta: Diapause David S. Saunders; Arthropoda-Insecta: Caste Differentiation Klaus Hartfelder; Arthropoda-Insecta: Endocrine Control of Phase Polymorphism August Dorn, Christof Ress, Silivia Sickold, and Silke Wedekind-Hirschberger; Arthropoda-Insecta: Migration Jack Kent Jr. and Mary Ann Rankin; Non-Veterbrate Chordata Mario Pestarino; Subject Index; Species Index.

Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 11, Progress in Asexual Reproduction

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About 950f all known animal species are invertebrates. Knowledge of their sexual, reproductive and developmental biology is essential for the effective management of species that are economically useful to man, or are harmful to him, his crops or livestock.

Chapters by leading experts in the field
Covers much of the up to date research in an informative and highly useful fashion
Covers all parts of recent progress in vitellogenisis

Accessory Sex Glands, Volume 3, Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates

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Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates Volume III Accessory Sex Glands Edited by K. G. Adiyodi Accessory Sex Glands is the third volume in the encyclopaedic series and provides very valuable information, some hitherto unpublished, on the distribution, structure, origin physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology and evolution of the accessory sex glands in different groups of invertebrates. Volumes I and II of this series (published by Wiley) have given detailed accounts of the structure, origin, composition and physiology of female and male gametes and also provided some information on the mechanisms controlling their production. The secretions of accessory sex glands are indispensable for several key aspects of gamete physiology and for successful fertilization and development in many internally fertilizing invertebrates. Interestingly enough, accessory sex gland secretions are produced, in some species at least, under the influence of gonadotrophic hormones as are the gametes themselves. The data on invertebrate accessory sex glands are scattered in various journals and have not been so far collected, critically evaluated and published in book form. This volume thus fills a void and serves as an indispensable corollary and companion to the two volumes that have already appeared on gametology in the series. Contents: Series Preface Preface to Volume III Systematic Resume of the Invertebrates Platyhelminthes—Turbellaria, S.S. Guraya and V.R. Parshad; Nemertina, M. Gontcharoff; Gnathostomulida, Marlene Mainitz; Rotifera, John J. Gilbert; Gastrotricha, W.D. Hummon and M.R. Hummon; Nematoda, L.A. Fitzgerald and W. Eugene Foor; Acanthocephala, David W.T. Crompton; Mollusca, N.W. Runham; Annelida, K.G. Adiyodi; Onychophora, Hilke Ruhberg and Volker Storch; Arthropoda—Crustacea, K.G. Adiyodi and G. Anilkumar; Arthropoda—Insecta, Cedric Gillott; Arthropoda—Myriapoda, J.M. Demange; Pentastomida, John Riley. Species Index. Subject Index.

Atlas of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 2nd Edition

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David Bruce Conn
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Comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the major reproductive and developmental strategies in the animal kingdom

Understanding where and how invertebrates live, reproduce, and develop continues to be a growing fascination to those in scientific, economic, environmental, and health-related fields. The Second Edition of Atlas of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development fills the need for an updated reference that outlines essential information concerning all of the generally recognized phyla. It provides readers with an overview of the major reproductive and developmental strategies employed throughout the animal kingdom.

This new edition presents a broad range of coverage in textual descriptions of reproduction and development in animal phyla, including a series of labeled micrographs that demonstrate the details of reproductive systems as well as the embryonic, larval, and juvenile stages for representatives of each phylum. In addition, the Second Edition provides vital updates, including:
* Fourteen additional phyla, including all generally recognized phyla
* Discussion of newly discovered animal phylumÑCycliophora
* Additional coverage of chordate development, including embryogeny of tunicates
* Expanded coverage of several phyla based on recent research

Atlas of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, Second Edition covers the reproductive and developmental biology of invertebrates in a manner that is straightforward and comprehensible. Researchers and instructors in the fields of morphology, developmental biology, and invertebrate biology will all be reminded of how the study of invertebrates has led the way in attempting to understand the mechanisms by which life is defined and propagated.

Fertilization, Development and Parental Care, Volume 4, Part A, Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates

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Fertilization, Development and Parental Care, Volume 4, Part A, Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates
K. G. Adiyodi , and Rita G. Adiyodi
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Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates Volume IV Fertilization, Development, and Parental Care Edited by K.G. Adiyodi and R.G. Adiyodi About 95 per cent of all known animal species are invertebrates. A knowledge of their sexual, reproductive, and developmental biology is essential for the effective management of species that are economically useful to man or are harmful to him, his crops, and livestock. This treatise is the first to cover all aspects of reproduction and development of the entire spectrum of invertebrates—terrestrial, marine, freshwater, brackish-water, free-living, and parasitic. The chapters, by leading world experts in their fields, are up-to-date and informative, and suggest a number of problems for future research. Fertilization, Development, and Parental Care is the fourth volume in the series. Part A: Porifera through Annelida—Polychaeta Contents Series Preface; Preface to Volume IV; Systematic Résumé of the Invertebrates; Porifera, P.E. Fell; Cnidaria, D.G. Fautin, F.-S. Chia, and J.G. Spaulding; Platyhelminthes—Turbellaria, L. Galleni and V. Gremigni; Platyhelminthes—Eucestoda, R.E. Davis and L.S. Roberts; Mesozoa, B.H. McConnaughey; Nemertina, C.-E. Cantell; Gnathostomulida, M. Mainitz; Rotifera, J.J. Gilbert; Gastrotricha, W.D. Hummon and M.R. Hummon; Kinorhyncha, A.E. Needham; Nematoda and Nematomorpha, A.F. Bird and R.I. Sommerville; Acanthocephala, D.W.T. Crompton; Priapulida, A. Nørrevang and Jacob van der Land; Sipuncula, M.E. Rice; Mollusca, R.L. Brahmachary; Echiura, F.C. Davis; Annelida—Polychaeta, P.C. Schroeder; Species Index; Subject Index. Part B: Annelida-Clitellata through Urochordata—Larvacea Tentative Contents Series Preface; Preface to Volume IV; Systematic Resume of the Invertebrates; Annelida—Clitellata, A.E. Needham; Pogonophora, T. Bakke; Tardigrada, R. Bertoiani; Onychophora, H. Ruhberg; Arthropoda—Chelicerata, Sperm Transfer in, P. Weygoldt; Arthropoda—Crustacea, G.W. Hinsch; Arthropoda—Myriapoda, J.-M. Demange; Pentastomida, J.T. Self; Phoronida, C.C. Emig; Bryozoa Ectoprocta, C. Nielsen; Bryozoa Entoprocta, C. Nielsen; Brachiopoda, S.H. Chuang; Chaetognatha, A. Alvariño; Echinodermata: Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Sea Urchin Embryo, G. Spinelli and I. Albanese; Urochordata—Ascidiacea, R.A. Cloney; Urochordata—Thaliacea, J.E.A. Godeaux; Urochordata—Larvacea, C. Galt; Species Index; Subject Index.

Fertilization, Development, and Parental Care, Volume 4, Part B, Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates

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Fertilization, Development, and Parental Care, Volume 4, Part B, Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates
K. G. Adiyodi , and Rita G. Adiyodi
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Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates Volume IV Fertilization, Development, and Parental Care Edited by K.G. Adiyodi and R.G. Adiyodi About 95 per cent of all known animal species are invertebrates. A knowledge of their sexual, reproductive, and developmental biology is essential for the effective management of species that are economically useful to man or are harmful to him, his crops, and livestock. This treatise is the first to cover all aspects of reproduction and development of the entire spectrum of invertebrates—terrestrial, marine, freshwater, brackish-water, free-living, and parasitic. The chapters, by leading world experts in their fields, are up-to-date and informative, and suggest a number of problems for future research. Fertilization, Development, and Parental Care is the fourth volume in the series. Part A : Porifera through Annelida-Polychaeta Contents Series Preface; Preface to Volume IV; Systematic Resume of the Invertebrates; Porifera, P.E. Fell; Cnidaria, D.G. Fautin, F.-S. Chia, and J.G. Spaulding; Platyhelminthes-Turbellaria, L. Galleni and V. Gremigni; Platyhelminthes—Eucestoda, R.E. Davis and L.S. Roberts; Mesozoa, B.H. McConnaughey; Nemertina, C.-E. Cantell; Gnathostomulida, M. Mainitz; Rotifera, J.J. Gilbert; Gastrotricha, W.D. Hummon and M.R. Hummon; Kinorhyncha, A.E. Needham; Nematoda and Nematomorpha, A.F. Bird and R.I. Sommerville; Acanthocephala, D.W.T. Crompton; Priapulida, A. Nørrevang and Jacob van der Land; Sipuncula, M.E. Rice; Mollusca, R.L Brahmachary; Echiura, F.C. Davis; Annelida-Polychaeta, P.C. Schroeder; Species Index; Subject Index. Part B: Annelida—Clitellata through Urochordata—Larvacea Contents Series Preface; Preface to Volume IV; Systematic Resume of the Invertebrates; Annelida—Clitellata, A.E. Needham; Pogonophora, T. Bakke; Tardigrada, R. Bertolani; Onychophora, H. Ruhberg; Arthropoda—Chelicerata, Sperm Transfer, P. Weygoldt; Arthropoda—Crustacea, G.W. Hinsch; Pentastomida, J.T. Self; Phoronida, C.C. Emig; Bryozoa Ectoprocta, C. Nielsen; Bryozoa Entoprocta, C. Nielsen; Brachiopoda, S.H. Chuang; Chaetognatha, A. Alvarino; Echinodermata: Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Sea Urchin Embryo, G. Spinelli and I. Albanese; Urochordata—Ascidiacea, R.A. Cloney; Urochordata—Thaliacea, J.E.A. Godeaux; Urochordala—Larvacea, C. P. Galt and R. Fenaux; Species Index; Subject Index.

Progress in Vitellogenesis (Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates)

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Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Annelida (Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny)

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Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates : A Sexual Propagation and Reproductive Strategies - Vol. 6

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Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates : A Sexual Propagation and Reproductive Strategies - Vol. 6
K.G. Adiyodi
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Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Progress in Reproductive Endocrinology (Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates)

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About 95 per cent of all known animal species are invertebrates. A knowledge of their sexual, reproductive, and developmental biology is essential for the effective management of species that are economically useful to man or are harmful to him, his crops, and livestock. This treatise is the first to cover all aspects of reproduction and development of the entire spectrum of invertebratesterrestrial, marine, freshwater, brackish-water, free-living, and parasitic. The chapters, by leading world experts in their fields, are up-to-date and informative, and suggest a number of problems for future research.

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ISIAME 2000 was organized by the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Research Group at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. It brought together an international group of research scientists and engineers from academia and industry to present details of the most recent investigations on industrially related topics and projects using Mössbauer Spectroscopy as a primary analytical technique. These proceedings inciude the papers presented under the broad topics of Chemistry, Surfaces, Materials Processing, Industrial Processing, and Magnetic and Electronic Materials. Specific research areas drawing much interest include corrosion, catalysis, mechanical alloying, petrochemical, steel and mineralogical processing, nano-phase materials and environmental and pollution monitoring.

The book is of particular interest to university researchers and a very broad range of industrial R&D groups who desire to broaden their knowledge of the latest applications and methods of highly resolved spectroscopic analysis of their products.

Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect: International Conference on the Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (AIP Conference Proceedings)

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Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect: International Conference on the Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (AIP Conference Proceedings)

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All papers were peer reviewed. The ISIAME symposium is concerned with the application of a nuclear technique, Mössbauer Spectroscopy, to investigate industrially related problems. This technique yields information on certain elements in the solid state, with iron being the most rewarding element. Since iron is an abundant element with many important uses, the reader of these Proceedings will find on its pages a large variety of contributions devoted to such diverse areas as catalysis, magnetism, biology and planetary science (e.g., studies of minerals on the surface of Mars).

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This book provides an up-to-date account of the theory and applications of linear models. It can be used as a text for courses in statistics at the graduate level as well as an accompanying text for other courses in which linear models play a part. The authors present a unified theory of inference from linear models with minimal assumptions, not only through least squares theory, but also using alternative methods of estimation and testing based on convex loss functions and general estimating equations. Some of the highlights include: - a special emphasis on sensitivity analysis and model selection; - a chapter devoted to the analysis of categorical data based on logit, loglinear, and logistic regression models; - a chapter devoted to incomplete data sets; - an extensive appendix on matrix theory, useful to researchers in econometrics, engineering, and optimization theory; - a chapter devoted to the analysis of categorical data based on a unified presentation of generalized linear models including GEE- methods for correlated response; - a chapter devoted to incomplete data sets including regression diagnostics to identify Non-MCAR-processes The material covered will be invaluable not only to graduate students, but also to research workers and consultants in statistics. Helge Toutenburg is Professor for Statistics at the University of Muenchen. He has written about 15 books on linear models, statistical methods in quality engineering, and the analysis of designed experiments. His main interest is in the application of statistics to the fields of medicine and engineering.

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linear models and much more by renowned experts.......2001-04-22

C. R. Rao is one of the most famous statisticians living today. He has written many important books and produced fundamental results in mathematical statistics. Helge Toutenburg is well known for his numerous publications on linear models. As is Rao's style this text is jammed packed with useful theoretical results sometimes difficult to digest because of the concise treatment. I found his classic text "Linear Statistical Inference and Its Applications" that way also. Although Rao is famous for his fundamental research work in the 1940s and 1950s this book is very modern. Rao has always kept abreast on new developments in statistics and related fields.

I bought the book based on dataguru's amazon recommendation and a subsequent email correspondence. I was not disappointed. The book starts out covering the classical linear models and regression but then goes on to cover problems involving fixed and stochastic constraints. Also although Chapter 3 starts out with least squares regression it goes on to cover projection pursuit, censored regression and includes various alternative estimation procedures other than least squares. In the case of colinearity, principal components regression,ridge regression and shrinkage estimators are offered. Nonparametric regression, logistic regression and neural networks are all covered in this amazing Chapter 3.

The text provides a very current and thorough list of relevant references. Other nice features of this second edition include a completely revised and updated chapter on missing data, much of the unusual material in Chapter 3 including the restricted regression and neural networks, Kalman filtering in Chapter 6 and the use of empirical Bayes methods for simultaneous solution of parameter estimates in different linear models in Chapter 4.

This book will be a treasured reference source. I may have to search through it carefully to discover hidden treasures. Rao does that with his conciseness. I found that "Linear Statistical Inference and Its Applications" had a lot more to offer than I first thought. It was a required text for my mathematical statistics course at Stanford but served more as a reference than as a course text. When taking the course I did not find time to use it much. But many years later I looked through it and was amazed at all the deep and important theoretical results that were included in it. I expect the same from this book.

A thought-provoking and joy to read book.......2001-02-14

I recently got a copy of this book (first edition). While I try to look up some result I need at hand (obviously I find it, the most general and accurate answer, a typical use of Rao's book such as his other classic linear inference book), I find myself digging deeper and deeper into other places of the book. While linear model books and courses are typically boring and contain little new, I find all the new and deep results everywhere in this book, and it's a joy and refreshing experience. For example, the discussion of generalized linear model in the context of heteroscedastic linear model is very natural. The chapter on linear and stochastic constraints is a must read for anybody deals with high-dimensional and complex data. The prediction theory is very novel and general. After closing this book, I'm thinking what more can be said about linear models. Obviously they are useful, not obsolete or unrealistic as being often misconceived. The morale is use in proper context and wariness against violations of model assumptions. There are plenty of tests and remedies in this book for the latter. A modern view is that many nonlinear methods can be treated as extensions of linear models such as nonparametric regression (linear smoothers and local polynomial method), neural networks, etc. and the second edition of this book has added substantial materials in this regard. In all, I recomend this book as an excellent textbook for a seond course on linear models, a must read for researchers dealing with some aspects of linear models, and a must-have reference for anyone who needs to check up the most complete and updated results on linear models.

Linear Models and Generalizations: Least Squares and Alternatives (Springer Series in Statistics)

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Linear Models and Generalizations: Least Squares and Alternatives (Springer Series in Statistics)
C. Radhakrishna Rao , Helge Toutenburg , Shalabh , and Christian Heumann
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An alternative view of estimation in linear models

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Linear Models: Least Squares and Alternatives. Second Edition

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Linear Models: Least Squares and Alternatives. Second Edition
C. Radhakrishna and Helge Toutenburg. Rao
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The Haunted Wood fills in a valuable part of cold war history: the Soviet Union's attempts to spy on the United States from the time of FDR's New Deal, through the Second World War, and into the 1950s. Allen Weinstein (author of a highly regarded history of the Hiss-Chambers case, Perjury) and Alexander Vassiliev (a KGB agent turned journalist) show that among the Americans caught in the Soviet orbit were many top government officials, including a Congressman from New York and a close advisor to President Roosevelt, as well as an American ambassador's daughter. Most of these early spies were leftists driven by ideology--as opposed to money, which seems to have motivated many of the later cold war traitors, such as Aldrich Ames. (The Congressman, interestingly, is an exception--he demanded so much compensation that the Soviets gave him the code name "Crook.") The greatest windfall for the U.S.S.R. during this period was the acquisition of atomic secrets, with contributions from agents like Ted Hall, Klaus Fuchs, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (the authors do not believe, however, that the scientist Robert Oppenheimer was a Soviet spook). Yet there were also notable failures, many brought on by Stalin's insatiable appetite for purges; defections by Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley also dealt several mortal blows. By the end of the 1940s, the Soviet spy ring in the United States was in serious breakdown. Weinstein and Vassiliev make use of both American sources and Soviet archives to deliver what will surely be an authoritative account for many years--or at least until more top-secret archives on both sides of the Atlantic become declassified. And don't expect that to happen anytime soon. --John J. Miller

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Based upon previously secret KGB records, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States throughout the 1930s, World War II, and the early Cold War. Historian Allen Weinstein, author of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, and Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB agent-turned-journalist, were provided unique access to thousands of classified Soviet intelligence dispatches that documented the KGB's success in acquiring America's most valuable atomic, military, and diplomatic secrets. The Haunted Wood narrates the triumphs and failures of Soviet operatives and their American agents during the 1930s and 1940s, describing as well the compelling human dramas involved.

Reconstructed from Moscow's messages to its operatives and reports from Soviet recruits in America, The Haunted Wood describes many previously unknown personal tales: struggles for control among contending Soviet operatives and American agents, love affairs, business ventures, defections, and plotted or actual murders. The authors also detail the remarkable range of classified government documents and information stolen for Soviet intelligence during the 1930s and the war years.

Complementing its use of the KGB archives, The Haunted Wood incorporates, also for the first time, a number of the previously classified VENONA cables released in 1995-96 by the CIA and NSA. Among these thousands of translated intercepts sent by Soviet agents in the United States to the USSR during World War II were dozens that matched those found in the Moscow records.

The highly placed Americans who assisted Soviet intelligence operatives during this period included:

  the passionate daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany
  an influential member of the U.S. Congress
  one of President Roosevelt's personal assistants
  key officials of the OSS, America's wartime spy agency
  a flamboyant Hollywood producer-director
  the head of the American Communist Party

Several chapters provide major new accounts from Moscow's own record of its relations with Alger Hiss and atomic spies Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Theodore Hall, and Julius Rosenberg, among others, along with fresh information on Soviet espionage in the United States by British agents for the Kremlin--Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Harold "Kim" Philby.

The Haunted Wood's pages are filled with extraordinary and previously untold stories, including those of one war-time American spy ring whose head lived in a domestic ménage à trois with other agents, of Soviet involvement in a Hollywood music publishing company and possible major film investments, and of a station chief who proposed (with Moscow's agreement) funding U.S. journalists and congressional political campaigns.

The authors show how defection at war's end by a single emotionally depressed agent, despondent since the death of her Soviet station-chief lover, provoked the swift and virtually complete shutdown of Moscow's intelligence operations in the United States--ironically, years before the FBI and congressional investigations began their decade-long pursuit of "Soviet agents," who, by then, had either returned to Moscow or left the U.S. government!

With its new and uniquely documented information, The Haunted Wood offers the first fresh, realistic, and non-judgmental understanding of Soviet espionage in the United States during the Stalin era.

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The Soviet Penetration of the Roosevelt Administration.......2006-11-27

Authors Weinstein and Vassiliev were in the relatively unique position, in writing "The Haunted Wood", of having access to the Soviet as well as the American side of the story. They took advantage of a brief period of access to Soviet espionage achives after the breakup of the Soviet Union. What emerges is an exhaustive study of the penetration by Soviet spies of the U.S. government in the 1930's and 1940's.

The Soviets were materially aided in their espionage efforts by an admiration of Soviet communism shared by some Americans. This admiration looks badly misguided in retrospect, but apparently seemed very rational in the context of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the subsequent Great Depression and rise of Fascism. This admiration produced a generation of American (and British) traitors who gave away information on American foreign policy, military and industrial secrets.

Some of the names are familiar: Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs, among others. Less familiar may be the names and operating methods of their Soviet handlers, who worked not just against American counterintelligence but also against the increasing paranoia of the Soviet Government they served. Despite the continuing delivery of invaluable information, Josef Stalin repeatedly purged Soviet intelligence. The disruption caused by the purges almost certainly kept the Soviets from acquiring even more information than they did.

"The Haunted Wood" is written primarily for an audience already fascinated by the topic of espionage. The average reader may find long stretches of dry and sometimes repetitive reading. This book is highly recommended for those studying the history of espionage.

partially an advertisement for two Soviet Agent's talent.......2005-01-02

This book was written with the help of several present and former Soviet Intelligence officers. Be aware that that colored the book with favorable views of these people's talent level and Soviet Intelligence in general. The book does contain valuable information along with important omission and advertising style hot air. I would suggest that you consider Venona by John Earl Haynes or The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors by Herbert Romerstein. The former is an academic description of the 450+ Soviet agents disclosed by the US breaking Soviet codes used during the war. The latter is an inside story by two US espionage agents and experts. One of the gems it reveals is that President FDR was gullible and had several advisors who were Soviet agents. Stalin was afraid of a two front war in Europe and with Japan in the Pacific. He composed an insulting message for his agents to present to FDR who sent as is it to the Japanese government. This provoked the war in the Pacific. Had this not been done, The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor would have been done much later or not at all.

Second thoughts.......2002-06-27

I reviewed this book in 1999, and gave it three stars. Over time, I've decided it was better than I first thought, and came back here to up it to four...

A Critical View of "The Haunted Wood".......2002-06-04

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A Critical View of "The Haunted Wood"

The thesis of this book is that KGB documents prove many New Deal and other US government officials were spies for the Soviet Union. The documentation in the book, however, does not support the thesis, in my opinion.

The co-authors state that one of them, a former KGB agent named Alexander Vassiliev, saw the KGB documents in Moscow on an exclusive basis, in exchange for payments by the publisher, Random House, to an association of former KGB agents. There is no way to verify the authenticity of the KGB documents; no way to check the accuracy of the excerpts and paraphrases printed in the book; no way to study their context, such as the rest of the file from which a particular document came, which every historian and student knows can be crucial to a correct reading and interpretation. We do not even know whether the documents Vassiliev saw are in the Russian language and, if they are, who translated them and how accurately.

The book contains 1099 numbered footnotes, of which 1049 are citations to those off-limits KGB documents. Readers may well ask why those footnotes are there at all. Another frustrating puzzle for readers is the way the co-authors purport to quote KGB documents that contain code names (which the Soviet intelligence agencies routinely assigned to spies and occasionally to non-spies such as Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, and lesser figures): the co-authors delete the code names and replace them with real names in square brackets -- but often without disclosing what code names they have deleted, and without citing any KGB document or otherwise explaining how or where they got the real names. Compounding the confusion, they state that the Soviets sometimes assigned the same code name to more than one person and sometimes assigned two or three code names to the same person. For instance, the co-authors assert that the American diplomat Alger Hiss had two code names, "Ales" and "Lawyer", while the US Treasury official Harry Dexter White had three code names, "Lawyer", "Richard", and "Reed".

In The Haunted Wood, the co-authors do not explain why they cite no authority or source for ascribing "Lawyer" as a code name for Hiss. For their assertion that "Ales" was another code name for Hiss, they do not cite any KGB documentary source, but they reproduce (and misquote) a so-called "Venona" document, released in 1996 by the US National Security Agency and said to bear a translation of a partially decrypted 1945 KGB cablegram about "Ales". In 1950, an FBI agent tentatively identified Ales as Hiss and said the FBI would attempt to verify the identification; but it never did so, nor could it have done so.

The Venona-KGB cablegram itself, reproduced with the photographs in the book, shows that Ales could not have been Hiss. Ales was a military intelligence (GRU) agent who obtained only military information. Hiss, however, was charged with obtaining only non-military State Department materials; the papers that were used to convict him were copies of State Department documents. Ales was the leader of a group of GRU agents, whereas Hiss was accused of acting alone (except for his wife and his accuser, Whittaker Chambers). Ales conducted espionage throughout the eleven years 1935-45, whereas Hiss was accused of having conducted espionage not later than 1938, etc. etc. But The Haunted Wood does not mention, let alone attempt to explain away, any of those discrepancies that preclude Ales as having been Hiss.

Furthermore, there is an earlier Venona document that tends to exonerate Hiss, but I can not find any mention of it in the book. It contains a fragment of a GRU message that, in the original, included the name "Hiss" spelled out in the Latin alphabet, rather than the Cyrillic. For the GRU to use the Latin alphabet just for the name strongly suggests that the GRU had never before heard of Hiss and wanted to be sure to get the name right. (No first name is given, so we can not tell whether "Hiss" was Alger or his brother Donald, who was also in the State Department.) Moreover, for the GRU to use Hiss's real name suggests that he had no code name and was not an espionage agent, because Soviet intelligence agencies, for reasons of security, normally assigned code names to their agents and referred to them only by their code names. Given the many pages that The Haunted Wood devotes to Hiss, Ales, the GRU, and Venona, it is a serious lapse, in my view, for the co-authors not to tell their readers about this GRU message and not to discuss its implications.

The lack of verifiable documentation in The Haunted Wood, its plethora of errors, and its strategic omissions leave it demonstrably untrustworthy. In my opinion, the book falls too far below minimal standards of scholarly or journalistic rigor for any serious consideration.

Very informative. One of the best. But it is a boring read.......2000-11-25

I have read many books on the issue of intelligence. The insight provided by this book is excellent. In particular, the nature and history of America's volunteer ideological spies is the very best I have ever read. But I have found it a hard read. It is possible to be too through. Honest, it is. I had an easier time with Mitrokhin.

The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Era.(Review): An article from: World Policy Journal

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