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“christopher boucek”

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  • Yemen on the Brink

    Edited by Christopher Boucek, Marina Ottaway ...
    Yemen is facing a unique confluence of crises. A civil war in the North, a secessionist movement in the South, and a resurgence of al Qaeda are unfolding against the background of economic collapse, insufficient state capacity, and governance and corruption issues.The security challenges are the most important in the short run, because economic and governance issues cannot be addressed without a ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Deadly Choices

    How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

    by Paul A Offit, MD ...
    In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as "whooping cough," in more than fifty years. This tragedy was avoidable. An effective vaccine has been available since the 1940s. In recent years other diseases, like measles and mumps, have also made a comeback. The reason for these epidemics can be traced to a group whose vocal proponents insist, despite ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Fever of 1721

    The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics

    by Stephen Coss ...
    The “intelligent and sweeping” (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American Revolution in 1776—and how Boston’s smallpox epidemic was at the center of it all.In The Fever of 1721 Stephen Coss brings to life the amazing cast of characters who changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution: Cotton Mather, the great Puritan ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Everything You Need to Know to be a Politician

    by Wit Flounder ...
    This work is a collection of funny political statements that is sure to bring humor into any and every political situation, and even teach a little something as well. It's a real conversation piece! Wit's originality is priceless! ... Read more

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  • Rescuing a Broken America

    Why America is Deeply Divided and How to Heal it Constitutionally

    by Michael Coffman ...
    A plan for restoring and protecting freedom, based on the United States Constitution.There has been a deliberate effort over the past one hundred years to change the worldview of Americans from a liberty and constitutionally focused world view, based on the writings of Englishman John Locke, to that of government control of the individual based on the writings of Frenchman Jean Jacques Rousseau. ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Strategic Culture and Ways of War

    by Lawrence Sondhaus ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    A much-needed survey and synopsis of literature on strategic culture and ways of war.It clearly shows how national strategies and approaches to warfare are, to a significant extent, culturally determined. The concept of national ‘ways of war’ dates from the 1930s, when Basil H. Liddell Hart theorized that there was a ‘British Way in Warfare’.The concept of "strategic culture" dates from the 1970s, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Theocracy: Can Democracy Survive Fundamentalism?

    Resolving the Conflict Between Fundamentalism and Pluralism

    by P. J. Tierney ...
    During the past forty years, there has been extraordinary growth in the impact of religion on nations all over the world. The number of religious adherents has spiked, their zeal has intensified, and their political influence has expanded dramatically. Religious zeal has become the single most significant cause of conflicts between nations and of power struggles within nations.In Theocracy: Can ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

    Based on the Book by Garry Kasparov

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Winter Is Coming tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Garry Kasparov's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Winter Is Coming includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles ... Read more

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  • Power Struggles in the Middle East

    The Islamist Politics of Hizbullah and the Muslim Brotherhood

    by Eva Dingel ...
    Who are the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah? What do the two movements - one Sunni and one Shi'a - have in common? Despite being classified by a number of countries as 'terrorist' organisations, both are in fact serious political players in the states in which they operate - Egypt and Lebanon. Both have, at various points, advocated pan-Islamism: the unity of Muslims under an Islamic state or ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Arming without Aiming

    India's Military Modernization

    by Sunil Dasgupta, Stephen P. Cohen ...
    India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it now has the resources. But so far, the drive to rebuild has lacked a critical component-strategic military planning. India's approach of arming without strategic purpose remains viable, however, as it seeks great-power accommodation of its rise and does not want to appear threatening. What should we anticipate from this effort in the ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • US-UK Counter-Terrorism after 9/11

    A qualitative approach

    by Edgar Tembo ...
    Series series Contemporary Terrorism Studies
    This book provides a qualitative analysis of post-9/11 counter-terrorism strategy undertaken by the United Kingdom and United States of America.Since 9/11, both the UK and the U.S have significantly revamped their counter-terrorism approaches. The approaches apply, to varying degrees, three key policy instruments – intelligence, law enforcement and military force. However, the success or failure ... Read more

    $65.99 USD