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“john grenier0”

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  • Assessing War

    The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure

    by Leo J. Blanken, Hy Rothstein, Jason J. Lepore, Scott Sigmund Gartner, John Grenier0, Edward G. Lengel1, Brooks D. Simpson2, Col. Michael Richardson3, Brian McAllister Linn4, D. Scott Stephenson5, Gehrard Weinberg6, Conrad C. Crane7, Gregory Daddis8, William C. Hix9, Kalev I. Sepp0, Alejandro S. Hernandez1, Julian Ouellet2, Christopher J. Nannini3, Mark Stout4, Bradley J. Strawser5, Russell Muirhead6, Dorothy Denning7, Robert Reilly8, Aric P. Shafran9, Anthony H. Cordesman0 ...
    Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation.In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of ... Read more

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  • Science, Politics And The Pharmaceutical Industry

    Controversy And Bias In Drug Regulation

    by John Abraham, 0 John Abraham University of Reading., ...
    Drug disasters from Thalidomide to Opren, and other less dramatic cases of drug injury, raise questions about whether the testing and control of medicines provides satisfactory protection for the public. In this revealing study, John Abrahan develops a theoretically challenging realist approach, in order to probe deeply into the work of scientists in the pharmaceutical industry and governmental ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Tohopeka

    Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812

    by Susan M. Abram, Dr. Kathryn H. Braund, Dr. Robert P. Collins, Dr. Gregory Evans Dowd, Ph.D., Dr. John E Grenier, Ph.D., Mr. David S. Heidler, Ph.D., Dr. Jeanne T. Heidler, Ph.D., Mr. Ted Isham, Mr. Ove Jensen0, Dr. Tom Kanon, Ph.D.1, Ms. Jay Lamar2, Mr. Robert G. Thrower Jr., Ph.D.4, Mr. James W. Parker, Ph.D.5, Mr. Gregory A. Waselkov Jr.6, Dr. Craig T. Sheldon Jr., Ph.D.7 ...
    Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama was both ancient homeland and new frontier where a complex network of allegiances and agendas was playing out. The ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    by David Jordan, James D. Kiras, David J. Lonsdale, Ian Speller, Christopher Tuck, C. Dale Walton ...
    Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and ... Read more

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  • Bad Pharma

    How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

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  • Hippocrasy

    How doctors are betraying their oath

    by Rachelle Buchbinder, Ian Harris ...
    Two world-leading doctors reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down. In Hippocrasy, rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris argue that the benefits of medical treatments are often wildly overstated and the harms understated. That overtreatment and overdiagnosis are rife. And the medical system is not ... Read more

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  • Military Strategy

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    John M. Collins has distilled the wisdom of historys great military minds to tutor readers on the necessary intellectual skills to win not only battles but also wars. He illuminates practices that worked well or poorly in the past, together with reasons why. He discusses national security interests, strategic building blocks, military strategies across the conflict spectrum, methods for developing ... Read more

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  • The Big Stick

    The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force

    by Eliot A. Cohen ...
    "Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry but today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military presence, thinking it outdated, unnecessary or even dangerous.In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen-a scholar and practitioner of ... Read more

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  • In Your Own Time

    How western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop

    by Sara Wickham ...
    Pregnant women and maternity services are facing an induction epidemic. As medical guidelines include more “at risk” categories, women and our already overwhelmed and under resourced maternity systems are increasingly pressured to induce birth before labour begins spontaneously. Women are deemed to be too large and too old, while babies are estimated to be too big and too overdue. But is ‘better ... Read more

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  • Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime

    How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare

    by Peter Gotzsche ...
    PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behaviour, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm. He convincingly draws close co ... Read more

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  • Epidemiology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rodolfo Saracci ...
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    What is epidemiology? What are the causes of a new disease? How can pandemics be prevented? Epidemiology is the study of the changing patterns of disease and its main aim is to improve the health of populations. It's a vital field, central to the health of society, to the identification of causes of disease, and to their management and prevention. Epidemiology has had an impact on many areas of ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of War

    Edited by Julian Lindley-French, Yves Boyer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental causes of war, before reflecting on the moral and legal aspects of war. Theories on the practice of war ... Read more

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