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  • Counterinsurgency in Crisis

    Britain and the Challenges of Modern Warfare

    by Robert Egnell, David Ucko ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    Long considered the masters of counterinsurgency, the British military encountered significant problems in Iraq and Afghanistan when confronted with insurgent violence. In their effort to apply the principles and doctrines of past campaigns, they failed to prevent Basra and Helmand from descending into lawlessness, criminality, and violence.By juxtaposing the deterioration of these situations ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Creating Connections

    Museums and the Public Understanding of Current Research

    by David Chittenden, Bill Nye, Marc Airhart, Carol Lynn Alpert, Eliene Augenbraun, Larry Bell, Rick Bonney0, Rick Borchelt1, Carol Bossert2, Peter J. Bruns3, Christine Cansfield-Smith4, Sir Neil Chalmers5, Cornelia Dean6, Sally Duensing7, John Durant8, Albert A. Einsiedel Jr.9, Edna F. Einsiedel0, John H. Falk1, Mark D. Hertle2, Nancy Linde3, Laura Martin4, Heather Mayfield5, Xerxes Mazda6, Chris Paola7, Don Pohlman8, Tim Radford9, Larry Stewart0, Rob Semper1, Martin Storksdieck2, David Ucko3 ...
    Science museums are in the business of making science accessible to the public-a public constantly bombarded with new information and research results. How the public understands this information will affect what they expect and take away from a museum's exhibits and programs. Creating Connections looks at the public understanding of research (PUR) and how it affects what science museums do. What ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict

    Politics, Violence and Transition

    Edited by Mats Berdal, David Ucko ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding
    This book looks at the political reintegration of armed groups after civil wars and the challenges of transforming ‘rebel’, ‘insurgent’ or other non-state armed groups into viable political entities.Drawing on eight case studies, the definition of ‘armed groups’ here ranges from militias, paramilitary forces, police units of various kinds to intelligence outfits. Likewise, the definition of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy

    by Kerry-anne Mendoza ...
    For the last five years, Britain has been under the hammer of Austerity’. In its name, wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country and by the poor and disabled most of all. ... Read more

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  • Inside 9-11

    What Really Happened

    by Der Spiegel ...
    The award-winning news publication presents their groundbreaking 9/11 reporting: "A deeply disturbing and comprehensive overview" (John le Carré).Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11th was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel ... Read more

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  • Longitudes and Attitudes

    Exploring the World After September 11

    by Thomas L. Friedman ...
    America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11, 2001--before, during and after .As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the world for American readers. Twice a week, Friedman's celebrated commentary provides the most trenchant, pithy,and illuminating perspective in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The War on Women in Israel

    A Story of Religious Radicalism and the Women Fighting for Freedom

    by Elana Maryles Sztokman ...
    THIS EYE-OPENING LOOK AT THE RISING OPPRESSION OF ISRAELI WOMEN OFFERS A RALLYING CRY FOR HOW WOMEN EVERYWHERE CAN FIGHT BACK.ACROSS ISRAEL—one of the world's most democratic countries—women are being threatened and abused as ultra-Orthodox Jewish factions seek to suppress them. In this stunning exposé, award-winning author and leading Jewish women's activist Elana Sztokman reveals the struggles ... Read more

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  • Going Down Jericho Road

    The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

    by Michael K. Honey ...
    The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade.Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up like ... Read more

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  • Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History

    by Corbett Joan OToole, Elizabeth Grace ...
    Uncovering stories about disability history and life, OToole shares her firsthand account of some of the most dramatic events in Disability History, and gives voice to those too often yet left out. From the 504 Sit-in and the founding of the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, to the Disability Forum at the International Woman's Conference in Beijing; through dancing, sports, queer ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

    by T.V. Reed ...
    Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of ... Read more

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  • The Slaveholding Republic

    An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery

    by the late Don E. Fehrenbacher ...
    Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Fehrenbacher shows that the Constitution itself was more or less neutral on the issue of ... Read more

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  • Brave New War

    The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization

    by John Robb ...
    “For my money, John Robb, a former Air Force officer and tech guru, is the futurists' futurist.”--"Slate"The counterterrorism expert John Robb reveals how the same technology that has enabled globalization also allows terrorists and criminals to join forces against larger adversaries with relative ease and to carry out small, inexpensive actions--like sabotaging an oil pipeline--that generate a ... Read more

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