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  • Tenure at a Crossroads, Again?

    An Examination of the Devolution of Higher Education in the Age of Corporatization

    by G.L.A. Harris, Dwight Vick, Arleen T. Dodd-Nufrio, Phil M. Dodd-Nufrio, Natalia Ermasova, Krista Lee, Judith Ramaley ...
    Tenure at a Crossroads, Again? goes beyond the explication of tenure to explore the contemporary challenges facing academia at the K–12 and higher education levels. This edited volume is unique in the sense that it grapples issues from multiple viewpoints—that of the university/college administrator and professor, to the K–12 educator.The book examines increased expectations and how existing ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Blacks in the Military and Beyond

    by G.L.A. Harris, Evelyn L Lewis ...
    African Americans have long used the military for gaining legitimacy and as the ultimate path to citizenship. Blacks in the Military and Beyond thoughtfully chronicles their tumultuous journey from slavery through the present, extending the ourstory to pre-service, in service and post-service economic considerations as significant factors in determining whether or not serving in the military has ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Women Veterans

    Lifting the Veil of Invisibility

    by G.L.A. Harris, R. Finn Sumner, M.C. González-Prats ...
    Women who fight in wars also have to fight for their right to do so. But what are the obstacles impeding their progress in achieving equal status as both active service members and as veterans? This book, written by a team of female veterans and military scholars, demonstrates the ways in which women service members and veterans experience a unique set of challenges when attempting to both ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Living Legends and Full Agency

    Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy

    by G.L.A. Harris ...
    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    WINNER OF THE 2017 ASPA SECTION ON PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION AND LABOR RELATIONS OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD! This research and policy book examines the role of women in the military and the overwhelming evidence to date that warranted repealing the combat exclusion policy. It explores the following questions: How can the success of women in the mil ... Read more

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    Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism

    by France Winddance Twine ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    A nuanced understanding of state violence and gender (in)equalities must consider the varied and contradictory experiences of armed civilian women, female soldiers, and opponents of gun possession. How is ‘feminism’ and ‘femininity’ negotiated in the early 21st century by civilian and military women in a nation that fetishizes guns? This book addresses this social problem by offering a comparative ... Read more

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  • Just War Reconsidered

    Strategy, Ethics, and Theory

    by James M. Dubik ...
    Series series Battles and Campaigns
    In the seminal Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer famously considered the ethics of modern warfare, examining the moral issues that arise before, during, and after conflict. However, Walzer and subsequent scholars have often limited their analyses of the ethics of combat to soldiers on the ground and failed to recognize the moral responsibilities of senior political and military leaders.In Just ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics

    Edited by George Lucas ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics is a comprehensive reference work that addresses concerns held in common by the military services of many nations. It attempts to discern both moral dilemmas and clusters of moral principles held in common by all practitioners of this profession, regardless of nation or culture.Comprising essays by contributors drawn from the four service branches (Army, ... Read more

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  • Fighting for Peace

    Veterans and Military Families in the Anti–Iraq War Movement

    by Lisa Leitz ...
    Series series Social Movements, Protest and Contention
    Fighting for Peace brings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War—the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on extensive participant observation and interviews, Lisa Leitz demonstrates how the harrowing war experiences of veterans and their families motivated a significant number of them to engage in peace activism.Married to a Navy pilot herself, Leitz ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Military Privatization

    The US Armed Contractor Phenomenon

    by David M. Barnes ...
    Series series Military and Defence Ethics
    This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate.While privatization is not a new concept for the US military, the public debate on military privatization is limited to legal, financial, and pragmatic concerns. A critical assessment of the ethical dimensions of military privatization in general is missing. ... Read more

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  • American Soldiers in Iraq

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    by Morten G. Ender ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition.Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves as a voice for their experience. It provides the reader with both a generalized and a deep view into a major ... Read more

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  • American Civil-Military Relations

    The Soldier and the State in a New Era

    by Suzanne C. Nielsen, Don M. Snider ...
    American Civil-Military Relations offers the first comprehensive assessment of the subject since the publication of Samuel P. Huntington's The Soldier and the State. Using this seminal work as a point of departure, experts in the fields of political science, history, and sociology ask what has been learned and what more needs to be investigated in the relationship between civilian and military ... Read more

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  • Co-ed Combat

    The New Evidence That Women Shouldn't Fight the Nation's Wars

    by Kingsley Browne ...
    A scholar makes a definitive, controversial argument against women in combatMore than 155,000 female troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. And more than seventy of those women have died. While that’s a small fraction of all American casualties, those deaths exceed the number of military women who died in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War combined.Clearly, women in combat isn ... Read more

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