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  • Making Information Matter

    Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference

    by Mareile Kaufmann ...
    Information matters to us. Whether recorded, recoded, or unregistered, information co-shapes our present and our becoming.This book advances new views on information and surveillance practices. Starting with a methodology for studying the liveliness of information, Kaufmann provides four empirical examples of making information matter: association, conversion, secrecy, and speculation. In so doing ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Resilience, Emergencies and the Internet

    Security In-Formation

    by Mareile Kaufmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Resilience
    This book traces how resilience is conceptually grounded in an understanding of the world as interconnected, complex and emergent.In an interconnected world, we are exposed to radical uncertainties, which require new modes of handling them. Security no longer means the promise of protection, but it is redefined as resilience - as security in-formation. Information and the Internet not only play a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Despot's Apprentice

    Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy

    by Brian Klaas ...
    ”[A] primer on the threat to democracy posed by—and I can’t believe I’m saying this—the current president of the United States.”—David Litt, New York Times bestselling authorDonald Trump isn’t a despot. But he is increasingly acting like The Despot’s Apprentice, an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threaten to erode American democracy, including:Attacking the pressThreatening rule of law by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Right-Wing Threat to Democracy

    The Undoing of America's Exceptionalism

    by Burt Hall ...
    p>For over thirty years, World War II veteran and author Burt Hall assessed accountability in government and national security. Now, this seasoned, professional analyst delivers a tough account of what went wrong in our politics and system of government over the past two decades and what we can do about it.The right wing (not to be confused with Conservatism) has hijacked the Republican Party and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Secret Science

    A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments

    by Ulf Schmidt ...
    From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated in secret experiments between 1939 and 1989. Some remembered their stay as harmless, but there were ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Across the Seas

    Australia's Response to Refugees: A History

    by Klaus Neumann ...
    In this eloquent and informative book, historian Klaus Neumann examines both government policy and public attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers since Federation. He places the Australian story in the context of global refugee movements, and international responses to them.Today, Australia's response to asylum-seeking 'boat people' is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Israeli Apartheid

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Ben White ...
    * Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2012*Since its release in 2009 Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide has become an essential primer for undergraduate students and activists getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of academics and experts into a highly accessible introduction.This new updated and expanded edition ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Militancy and Political Violence in Shiism

    Trends and Patterns

    Edited by Assaf Moghadam ...
    Series series Political Violence
    This book is the first systematic assessment of current trends and patterns of militancy in Shii communities in the Middle East and South Asia - specifically in Iran, Iraq, but also in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and BahrainMore than thirty years after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, there are signs of a growing assertiveness on the part of Shii actors, at times erupting ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Charter of the United Nations

    A Commentary

    by Nikolai Wessendorf ...
    Series series Oxford Commentaries on International Law
    Since the second edition of this commentary on the Charter of the United Nations was published, the text of the Charter may not have changed but the world has. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have had a lasting impact on international law and the Commentary has been fully updated to take their impact into account. The new edition has been completely revised and features a completely new chapter ... Read more

    $425.99 USD

  • Rights at Risk

    The Limits of Liberty in Modern America

    by David K. Shipler ...
    An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms.With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises—before and since 9/11—have undermined the criminal ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Future of African Peace Operations

    From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram

    Edited by Cedric De Coning, Linnéa Gelot, John Karlsrud ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent. But while the African Union has demonstrated its ability to deploy forces on short notice and in difficult circumstances, the challenges posed by increasingly complex conflict zones have revealed a widening ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Hollywood and the CIA

    Cinema, Defense and Subversion

    by Oliver Boyd Barrett, David Herrera, James Baumann ...
    Series series Media, War and Security
    This book investigates representations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Hollywood films, and the synergies between Hollywood product, U.S. military/defense interests and U.S. foreign policy.As probably the best known of the many different intelligence agencies of the US, the CIA is an exceptionally well known national and international icon or even "brand," one that exercises a powerful ... Read more

    $68.99 USD