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  • Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Protection and Community Engagement in South Asia

    Edited by Robin Coningham, Nick Lewer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Exploring archaeology, community engagement and cultural heritage protection in South Asia, this book considers heritage management strategies through community engagement, bringing together the results of research undertaken by archaeologists, heritage practitioners and policy makers working towards the preservation and conservation of both cultural and natural heritage. The book highlights the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Future of Non-lethal Weapons

    Technologies, Operations, Ethics and Law

    Edited by Nick Lewer ...
    These essays explore the increase in interest in non-lethal weapons. Such devices have meant that many armed forces and law enforcement agencies are able to act against undesirables without being accused of acting in an inhumane way. Topics for discussion in this volume include: an overview of the future of non-lethal weapons; emerging non-lethal technologies; military and police operational ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Physicians and the Peace Movement

    Edited by Nick Lewer ...
    First Published in 1992. This book was written in recognition of the many physicians and other health workers who, since the formation of the first peace societies in 1815, have dedicated their lives to make the world a more peaceful and just place to live. The intention is to introduce the field to illustrate the main issues and avenues that have motivated individuals and groups to work directly ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by Chris Hedges ...
    Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing ... Read more

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  • Intellectuals and Society

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public ... Read more

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  • The Tragedy of American Science

    From Truman to Trump

    by Clifford D. Conner ...
    A look at the destructive history of science-for-profit, including its toll on the US pandemic response, by the author of A People's History of Science.Despite a facade of brilliant technological advances, American science has led humanity to the brink of interrelated disasters. In The Tragedy of American Science, historian of science Clifford D. Conner describes the dual processes by which this ... Read more

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  • Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    A Brief Introduction

    by Bruce Caldwell ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek’s 1944 warning against the dangers of government control, continues to influence politics more than seventy years after it was turned down by three American publishers and finally published by the University of Chicago Press. A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, the definitive edition of The Road to Serfdom ... Read more

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  • Future War

    Preparing for the New Global Battlefield

    by Robert H. Latiff ...
    An urgent, prescient, and expert look at how future technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead.Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous systems that can process information and strike violently before a human being can blink.A leading expert on ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Anarchy in Action

    by Colin Ward ...
    The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and their superstitious separatism.Anarchist ideas are so much ... Read more

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  • Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy

    by Daniel Ziblatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in Weimar Germany. Based on rich historical and quantitative evidence, the book offers a major ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Mind Wars

    Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century

    by Jonathan D. Moreno ...
    One of the most important thinkers describes the literally mind-boggling possibilities that modern brain science could present for national security.” -LAWRENCE J. KORB, former US Assistant Secretary of DefenseFascinating and frightening.” -Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsThe first book of its kind, Mind Wars covers the ethical dilemmas and bizarre history of cutting-edge technology and ... Read more

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  • A History of International Thought

    From the Origins of the Modern State to Academic International Relations

    by Lucian Ashworth ...
    International thought is the product of major political changes over the last few centuries, especially the development of the modern state and the industrialisation of the world economy. While the question of how to deal with strangers from other communities has been a constant throughout human history, it is only in recent centuries that the question of ‘foreign relations’ (and especially ... Read more

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