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by Sun Tzu (Author), Carl Von Clausewitz (Author), Niccolo Machiavelli (Author)Collected here in this 4-in-1 omnibus are the most important books ever written on the art of war. The Art of War By Sun Tzu translated and commented on by Lionel Giles On War by Carl von Clausewitz The Art of War by Niccol? Machiavelli and The Art of War by Baron De Jomini. These four books will give you as complete a view on the art of war as you can attain.This is the most important book ever written about warfa...
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by Connor Whiteley (Author)Terrorists plan attacks, create mass terror and destroy lives to achieve their aims. But why? And what makes a person into a terrorist? Also, hostage takers hold people against their will, make demands and threaten the lives of hostages. How can research explain these actions?In this fascinating, easy-to-understand book, you'll learn the forensic psychology research behind terrorism and hostage-taking drawing on perspectives from social psychology, cognitive psychol...
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by Hermann Selchow (Author)The BRICS Awakening Kazan 2024 - New Developments and Western ReactionsIn the context of the current geopolitical upheavals and economic realignments, the book *"The BRICS Awakening Kazan 2024 - New Developments and Western Reactions"* presents up-to-date, in-depth insights into the growing importance of the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) on the world stage. The chapters examine step by step the BRICS meeting in Kazan 2024 as a key mo...
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by Phillip F. Tourney (Author)Phil Tourney provides an eyewitness account of Israel's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty. While patrolling in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea on June 8, 1967, the unarmed, intelligence-gathering vessel confronted an enemy they never expected: Israel. In an unprovoked and vicious attack, unmarked Israeli jets pounded the Liberty with cannon fire, rockets, and napalm, while the American crew tried to make sense of what was happening, as their fr...
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by Shirley R. Steinberg (Other), Peter H. Wolff (Author), Tanya Wolff (Choreography by)A Hundred Thousand Orphans vividly documents the war and orphanage environments experienced by thousands of traumatized Eritrean children and the long-term consequences of their unique education.Author BiographyPeter H. Wolff, MD (Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine), a renowned research psychiatrist and humanitarian, retired from positions as Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Senior Ass...
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by Teije H. Donker (Author)Islamism haunted post-2011 movements for democratisation in the Arab world. Political liberalisations opened space for Islamist movements - from the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist to Jihadists and the Islamic State - and seemed to threaten the liberal character of reforms. Going against this popular perception of Islamism as defined by an illiberal ideology, this book provides a ground breaking analysis of the concrete practices of Islamist movements to assess thei...
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by George Yancey (Author), Hayoung Oh (Author)In the summer of 2020 when protests were mobilizing for social justice, the term "antiracist" started getting more traction. It demanded a more active civic orientation and a commitment to uprooting racism from institutions. In Who Is Antiracist? George Yancey and Hayoung David Oh use this flashpoint moment to ask, what are the characteristics of those who support antiracism? Who is most likely to be swayed toward this set of commitments, who is n...
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by Rob Verchick (Author)Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title One morning in Miami Beach, an unexpected guest showed up in a luxury condominium complex's parking garage: an octopus. The image quickly went viral. But the octopus--and the combination of infrastructure quirks and climate impacts that left it stranded--is more than a funny meme. It's a potent symbol of the disruptions that a changing climate has already brought to our doorsteps and the ways we will have to adjust. Rob Ve...
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by Headquarters Of the United States Fleet (Created by) This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work....
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by Stacie L. Pettyjohn (Author)The Department of Defense argues that it must maintain a high level of readiness across the joint force to remain highly responsive. In this report, the author conducts a historical analysis to identify the demand for responsiveness in past U.S. operations. Going forward, the United States must balance readiness for smaller-scale crisis response operations and being prepared to deter and defeat a great power in major combat.
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by Philippe Hamman (Editor), Nadine Roudil (Editor)The Future of Cities and Energies in Western Europe explores a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to researching energy issues in Western European cities, as well as urban energy transition. It serves as a collection of materials, instruments, ideas, and theories to embrace this subject. The contributions are interdisciplinary, drawing from areas such as sociology, urbanism, geoecology, architecture, and political science, thus d...
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by John R. Vile (Author)This A-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Liberty Bell in American culture. This title provides a one-stop resource for understanding the fascinating history and enduring importance of the Liberty Bell in the fabric of American culture, from the pre-Revolutionary War era to the present day. The encyclopedia explains key concepts, principles, and intellectual influences in the creation and display of the Liberty Bell; profiles its cr...
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by Steven Chee Keong Sim (Author)As the first elected chairman of the Bukit Mertajam Town Council and subsequently a State Executive Councillor in the Penang Merdeka cabinet during the transformative 1950s through to the 1960s, Dr M P L Yegappan emerged as a beacon of integrity and dedication. He stood shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Wong Pow Nee, Penang's first Chief Minister. Yet, despite his pivotal role, Dr M P L Yegappan's story has remained largely untold -- until now.Heart of Se...
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by Sarah L. Hoiland (Author)A righteous sister identifies herself as a biker. She might wrench, or maintain, her own bike, and she prefers to ride with other righteous sisters. Righteous Sisterhood is Sarah Hoiland's insightful ethnography about an all-women motorcycle club (MC). She recounts stories of women bikers for whom riding in an MC is "an act of rebellion" and "liberating" even as it constrains--a reactionary populist version of the American Dream dipped in "girl power." Granted unp...
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by Robert S. Rycroft (Editor), Kimberley Kinsley (Editor)This authoritative reference work explores the factors driving the much-debated increase in economic inequality in U.S. society, as well as the impact that this divide is having on U.S. culture, politics, families, communities, and institutions. This reference work provides an authoritative and comprehensive resource for both students and scholars who are interested in learning more about the rich-poor divide in the United States-a divi...
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by Nora Fisher-Onar (Author)Contesting Pluralism(s) challenges a widespread tendency to limit studies of Turkish - and Muslim - politics to 'Islamist vs. secularist' or 'Islam vs. democracy' debates. Instead, Nora Fisher-Onar's innovative argument centers on coalitions for and against pluralism. Retelling Turkey's story from the late Ottoman Empire to the present as a tale of pluralizing vs. anti-pluralist coalitions, this book offers an alternative explanation for major outcomes from electio...
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by Rainer Zitelmann (Author)Asuncion, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Bucharest, Gdansk, Hanoi, Kathmandu, Montevideo, Memphis, New York, Santiago de Chile, Seoul, Tbilisi, Tirana, Ulaanbaatar, Zurich - these are just a few of the stops on Rainer Zitelmann's world tour. The historian and sociologist traveled to thirty countries on four continents in twenty months, covering over 160,000 miles. The author presents an exciting mix of personal impressions, historical research, results of international surv...
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by Myles Williamson (Author), Christopher Akor (Author), Amanda B. Edgell (Author)This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. We focus on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. To understand how these cases survived, we pair them with similar cases where incumbents successfully dismantled democracy from within. Through structured focused comparisons, our inductive ex...
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by Will Kymlicka (Author)Liberalism is often described as a theory about the proper relationship between the individual and the state. But liberalism also contains a broader account of the relationship between the individual and society. Kymlicka here presents the liberal view about the nature and value of community culture in an unusually explicit and systematic way, and links it to more familiar liberal views on individual rights and state neutrality.
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by Guillermo Rebollo Gil (Author)Using autoethnography to examine the social construction of whiteness in Puerto Rico. Guillermo Rebollo Gil draws from artistic, activist and popular culture registers to examine the multifarious yet often subtle ways race privilege shapes and informs daily life in the Puerto Rican archipelago. Cross-disciplinary in approach, Whiteness in Puerto Rico speaks to the present political moment in a country marked by austerity, disaster capitalism and protestAuthor...
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by Jake Morrett (Author)Here's the expanded version, adding more depth while maintaining the same perspective and tone: Are Americans truly free? In The Freedom Scale, Jake Morrett argues that personal liberty is under assault from an ever-expanding government and erosion of constitutional principles. This incisive examination of modern politics proposes a new framework for evaluating policies based on how they impact individual freedom.Morrett takes readers on a journey through the hot-butto...
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by John R. Vile (Author)This A-to-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Declaration of Independence by explaining its contents and concepts, profiling the Founding Fathers, and detailing depictions of the Declaration in art, music, and literature. A comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the Declaration of Independence, which marked the formal beginning of the colonies' march toward the creation of the United States of America, this encyclope...
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by Karen Ferguson (Author)When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal opened unprecedented opportunities for black Atlantans struggling to achieve full citizenship. Black reformers, often working within federal agencies as social workers and a...
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by Wadie Jwaideh (Author)A seminal work in the field of Kurdish studies, Wadie Jwaideh's pioneering research, published for the first time, presents a detailed analysis of the early phases of Kurdish nationalism and offers a framework within which to understand the movement's later development. Following Wadie Jwaideh's dissertation defense, his doctoral chairman took aside Jwaideh's wife, Alice, and asked her to submit the work for publication without Wadie's permission, believing that Wadie...
