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  • See It/Shoot It

    The Secret History of the CIA's Lethal Drone Program

    by Christopher J. Fuller ...
    An illuminating study tracing the evolution of drone technology and counterterrorism policy from the Reagan to the Obama administrationsThis eye-opening study uncovers the history of the most important instrument of U.S. counterterrorism today: the armed drone. It reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the CIA's covert drone program is not a product of 9/11. Rather, it is the result of U.S. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Crime and War

    Hybrid Legal Frameworks for Asymmetric Conflict

    Edited by Jens David Ohlin, Claire Finkelstein, Christopher J. Fuller, Mitt Regan ...
    Series series ETHICS NATIONAL SECURITY RULE LAW SERIES
    The threat posed by the recent rise of transnational non-state armed groups does not fit easily within either of the two basic paradigms for state responses to violence. The civilian paradigm focuses on the interception of demonstrable immediate threats to the safety of others. The military paradigm focuses on threats posed by collective actors who pose a danger to the state's ability to maintain ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land

    Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism

    by Daniel Ramirez, Daniel Fuller, Christopher Armstrong, Scott E. Erickson, Philip Goff, Stephen Marini, Darryl Hart, Katherine McGinn, Barbara Murison, Kay Norton0, David Rempel Smucker1 ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalismMusic and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identity and define their relationship with America and to Christianity. Representing seven groups—Baptists ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Lovely Bits of Old England

    John Betjeman at The Telegraph

    by John Betjeman ...
    Series series Telegraph Books
    John Betjeman began writing for the Telegraph in 1951 and continued to do so for a quarter of a century. During that time Britain underwent profound social and cultural changes. In architecture, grand Victorian edifices were pulled down to make way for gleaming brutalist monuments to the Future. In literature, a new generation of angry young men (and women) challenged convention head on. In music, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Drones and Targeted Killing

    Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues

    by Marjorie (ed.) Cohn ...
    EXPERT ANALYSIS OF AN ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL PRACTICE The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected terrorists; the Obama administration assassinates them. Assassination, or targeted killing, off the battlefield not only causes more resentment against the United States, it is also illegal. In this interdisciplinary collection, human rights and political activists, policy analysts, lawyers ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Obama's Wars

    by Bob Woodward ...
    In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

    Tales from the Pentagon

    by Rosa Brooks ...
    “A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and...wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.Once, war was a temporary state of affairs. Today, America’s wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms, and virtually anything can become a weapon. As war ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Necropolis

    London and Its Dead

    by Catharine Arnold ...
    From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales -- NECROPOLIS: LONDON AND ITS ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Drone Memos

    Targeted Killing, Secrecy and the Law

    by Jameel Jaffer ...
    "A trenchant summation" and analysis of the legal rationales behind the US drone policy of targeted killing of suspected terrorists, including US citizens ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In the long response to 9/11, the US government initiated a deeply controversial policy of "targeted killing"—the extrajudicial execution of suspected terrorists and militants, typically via drones. A ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dirty Wars

    The World Is a Battlefield

    by Jeremy Scahill ...
    A New York Times bestsellerNow also an Oscar-nominated documentaryIn Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Terror and Consent

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    Philip Bobbitt follows his magisterial Shield of Achilles with an equally provocative analysis of the West's struggle against terror. Boldly stating that the primary driver of terrorism is not Islam but the emergence of market states (like the U.S. and the E.U.), Bobbitt warns of an era where weapons of mass destruction will be commodified and the wealthiest societies even more vulnerable to ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

  • The London Nobody Knows

    by Geoffrey Fletcher ...
    Geoffrey Fletcher's off-beat portrayal of London does not focus on the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. His descriptions will transport you to an art nouveau pub, a Victorian music hall, a Hawksmoor church and even a public toilet in Holborn in which the attendant kept goldfish in the cisterns. Drawn to the corners where 'the kids swarm like ants and there are ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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