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  • Signature Wounds

    The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis

    by David Kieran ...
    The surprising story of the Army's efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injuryThe wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on the mental health of our troops. In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama took to the Senate floor to tell his colleagues that "many of our injured soldiers are returning from Iraq with traumatic brain injury," which doctors were calling the "signature ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The War of My Generation

    Youth Culture and the War on Terror

    by David Kieran, Holly Swyers, Cindy Dell Clark, Sunaina Maira, Laura Browder, Jeremy K. Saucier, Robertson Allen, Jo Lampert, Irene Garza, Benjamin Cooper0, Rebecca A. Adelman1 ...
    Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The US Army and Social Change

    Edited by Beth Bailey, David Kieran ...
    The US Army and Social Change offers historical context for ongoing, contemporary debates over the proper relationship of the US military to social change and social issues.Contributors look beyond the debate over whether the Army should be a site of social experimentation to argue that it always has and likely always will be. Examining specific cases from the twentieth century, the essays in The ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • Forever Vietnam

    How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory

    by David Kieran ...
    Series series Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
    Four decades after its end, the American war in Vietnam still haunts the nation's collective memory. Its lessons, real and imagined, continue to shape government policies and military strategies, while the divisions it spawned infect domestic politics and fuel the so-called culture wars. In Forever Vietnam, David Kieran shows how the contested memory of the Vietnam War has affected the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • At War

    The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

    by David Kieran, Edwin A. Martini, Sahr Conway-Lanz, Stefan Aune, Nick Witham, Mark R. Wilson, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Christopher Hamner, Wilbur J. Scott0, Jana K. Lipman1, Christine Knauer2, Kara Dixon Vuic3, John M. Kinder4, Richard P. Tucker5, Susan L. Carruthers6, Bonnie M. Miller7, Scott Laderman8, Katherine Ellison9, William Watson0, G. Kurt Piehler1 ...
    Series series War Culture
    The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Snowden

    The Only Safe Place Is on the Run

    by Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone ...
    A courageous look at a historic figure.From Oscar®-winner Oliver Stone, Snowden is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarizing figures of the twenty-first century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in US intelligence history. This official motion picture screenplay edition, written by Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver Stone, includes a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Sport

    Edited by Dr Kieran File, Dr David Caldwell, Dr Lindsey Meân ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The handbook brings together a growing body of research that explores the language people use when they are playing, coaching, administering, reporting on and watching sport. In addition to illustrating the variety of research being undertaken at the interface between language and sport, the volume conceptualises, consolidates and distinguishes the exciting and expanding field of sports ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

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    Signature Wounds

    The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis

    by David Kieran ...
    Narrated by Matthew Boston ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on the mental health of our troops. In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama took to the Senate floor to tell his colleagues that "many of our injured soldiers are returning from Iraq with traumatic brain injury," which doctors were calling the "signature wound" of the Iraq War. Alarming stories of veterans taking their own lives raised a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Irish Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends

    by Kieran Fanning ...
    Illustrated by David Wardle ...
    Series series Scholastic Classics
    A complete collection of much loved Irish fairy tales, myths and legends, bound into a beautiful new edition.Enjoy the rich mythical history of Ireland from the arrival of the Tuatha De Danann on the island and their great battles with the Fomorians right up to the modern day fairytales of Irish storytelling.Including the Ulster Cycle, and the Fenian Cycle, the book features heroes such as ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Václav Havel’s Meanings

    His Key Words and Their Legacy

    Edited by David Danaher, Kieran Williams ...
    Series series Václav Havel Series
    A close read of the rich collections of texts left behind by Václav Havel, one of the most important Czech thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century.No one in Czech politics or culture could match the international stature of Václav Havel at the time of his death in 2011. In the years since his passing, his legacy has only grown, as developments in the Czech Republic and elsewhere around the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Fate of Podkin One-Ear

    by Kieran Larwood ...
    Series Book 9 - The World of Podkin One-Ear
    The astonishing finale to a prize-winning nine book series that sits alongside Redwall, Warriors and Tolkien.Podkin and his friends have managed to find every gift from the Goddess . . . Bringing them together, the gifts melt and morph before their eyes, transforming into a suit of armour - that will only fit a rabbit with one ear!Podkin and Uki have proven more than once that little rabbits can ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Remote Warfare

    New Cultures of Violence

    Edited by Rebecca A. Adelman, David Kieran ...
    Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfareDrone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD