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  • Monrovia Modern

    Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia

    by Danny Hoffman ...
    In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfinished Ministry of Defense and Liberia Broadcasting System buildings, transformed during the urban warfare ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The War Machines

    Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia

    by Danny Hoffman ...
    Series series Cultures and practice of violence series
    In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries of West Africa. Based on his ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia during those countries’ recent civil wars, Hoffman traces the path of young fighters who moved from ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    Lebron James Story, The: Lessons Of Leadership, Perseverance, And Excellence

    by Danny Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 30 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The journey of a young boy from Akron, Ohio, to becoming one of the greatest basketball players of all time is a story that resonates far beyond the confines of sports. This narrative transcends the basketball court, offering profound insights into leadership, perseverance, and excellence that can inspire anyone, regardless of their background or ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy

    by Edward N. Luttwak ...
    As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Edward Luttwak worries about China’s own future prospects. Applying the logic of strategy for which he is well known, Luttwak argues that the most populous nation on Earth—and its second largest economy—may be headed for a fall.For any country whose rising strength cannot go unnoticed, the universal logic ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Living with Bad Surroundings

    War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

    by Sverker Finnström, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced to fight. Many observers have perceived Acholiland and northern Uganda to be an exception in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Winning the War on War

    The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

    by Joshua S. Goldstein ...
    Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Asian Waters

    The Struggle Over the Indo-Pacific and the Challenge to American Power

    by Humphrey Hawksley ...
    "Seamlessly connects geography, history and great power intrigue across the entire Indo-Pacific region, increasingly the fulcrum of world history." —James Clad, Director, Asian Security Programs at the American Foreign Policy CouncilIn the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Contest of the Century

    The New Era of Competition with China--and How America Can Win

    by Geoff A. Dyer ...
    From the former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief, a balanced and far-seeing analysis of the emerging competition between China and the United States that will dominate twenty-first-century world affairs—an inside account of Beijing’s quest for influence and an explanation of how America can come out on top.The structure of global politics is shifting rapidly. After decades of rising, China has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The US vs China

    Asia's new Cold War?

    by Jude Woodward, Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman ...
    This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in Asia to counteract any challenge. Examining and challenging the dominant causal explanations for and professed intentions of this shift in US policy ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict

    by Janie L. Leatherman ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month.This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes, consequences and responses to sexual violence in contemporary armed conflict. It explores the function and effect of wartime sexual ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Asia’s Unknown Uprisings Volume 2

    People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947–2009

    by George Katsiaficas ...
    Ten years in the making, this magisterial work—the second of a two-volume study—provides a unique perspective on uprisings in nine Asian nations in the past five decades. While the 2011 Arab Spring is well known, the wave of uprisings that swept Asia in the 1980s remain hardly visible. Through a critique of Samuel Huntington’s notion of a “Third Wave” of democratization, the author relates Asian ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Child Soldiers

    Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front

    by Myriam Denov ...
    Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and its atrocities, but many are drawn into conflict as active participants. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and focus groups with former ... Read more

    $38.59 USD