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Drone: Remote Control Warfare
ISBN: 9780262534413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. " A] thoughtful examination of the dilemmas this new weapon poses." -- Foreign Affairs Drones are changing the conduct of war. Deployed at presidential discretion, they can be used in regular war zones or to kill people in such countries as Yemen and Somalia, where the United States is not officially at war. Advocates say that drones are more precise than conventional bombers, allowing warfare with minimal civilian deaths while keeping American pilots out of harm's way. Critics say that drones are cowardly and that they often kill innocent civilians while... " A] thoughtful examination of the dilemmas this new weapon poses." -- Foreign Affairs Drones are changing the conduct ... |
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161,02 zł |
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Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
ISBN: 9780520213739 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--Nuclear Rites takes the reader deep inside the top-secret culture of a nuclear weapons lab. Exploring the scientists' world of dark humor, ritualized secrecy, and disciplined emotions, anthropologist Hugh Gusterson uncovers the beliefs and values that animate their work. He discovers that many of the scientists are Christians, deeply convinced of the morality of their work, and a number are liberals who opposed the Vietnam War and the...
Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...
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222,60 zł |
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The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It
ISBN: 9780520259713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman gather essays from nineteen leading ethnographers to create a unique portrait of an anxious country and to furnish valuable insights into the nation's possible future. With an incisive foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, the contributors draw on their deep knowledge of different facets...
Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about th...
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166,01 zł |
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People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex
ISBN: 9780816638604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Rather than relying on archives and published sources, Gusterson (anthropology and science studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) interviewed people who took part in the birth of nuclear warfare: weapons scientists, policy makers, and activists at the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, and in Russia and Washington, D.
Rather than relying on archives and published sources, Gusterson (anthropology and science studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) interviewed...
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115,59 zł |
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Militarization: A Reader
ISBN: 9781478006237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Militarization: A Reader offers an anthropological perspective on militarization's origin and sustained presence as a cultural process in its full social, economic, political, cultural, environmental, and symbolic contexts throughout the world.
Militarization: A Reader offers an anthropological perspective on militarization's origin and sustained presence as a cultural process in its full soc...
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131,37 zł |
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Militarization: A Reader
ISBN: 9781478005469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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