We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11
ISBN: 9780807004616 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known as Little Pakistan, the community of Midwood, Brooklyn, has suffered a remarkable exodus in the years since 9/11. One sixth of the community—20,000 people—has left in search of liberty. In an ironic reversal of the American dream, this immigrant community now lives in fear, witnessing the unjust detainment or deportation of family members, friends, and neighbors.
Tram Nguyen reveals the human cost of the domestic war on terror and examines the impact of post-9/11 policies on people targeted because of immigration status, nationality, and religion.... Known as Little Pakistan, the community of Midwood, Brooklyn, has suffered a remarkable exodus in the years since 9/11. One sixth of the community&mda...
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American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War
ISBN: 9780807847497 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No professional group in the United States benefited more from World War II than the scientific community. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists enjoyed unprecedented public visibility and political influence as a new elite whose expertise now seemed critical to America's future. But as the United States grew committed to Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union and the ideology of anticommunism came to dominate American politics, scientists faced an increasingly vigorous regimen of security and loyalty clearances as well as the threat of intrusive investigations by...
No professional group in the United States benefited more from World War II than the scientific community. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...
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192,50 zł |
Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century: Strategic Flashpoints and U.S. Strategy
ISBN: 9780833025296 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discusses about how will the world change in the next century.
Discusses about how will the world change in the next century.
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179,67 zł |
Trends in Outside Support for Insurgent Movements
ISBN: 9780833030528 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report assesses post-Cold War trends in external support for insurgent movements. It describes the frequency that states, diasporas, refugees, and other non-state actors back guerrilla movements. It also assesses the motivations of these actors and which types of support matter most.
This report assesses post-Cold War trends in external support for insurgent movements. It describes the frequency that states, diasporas, refugees, an...
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102,67 zł |
The Effects of Equipment Age On Mission Critical Failure Rates: A Study of M1 Tanks
ISBN: 9780833034939 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assesses the relationship between tank age and the mission-critical failure rate for the Army's M1 Abrams tank. Budget limits have brought about extensions in the service lives of many Army weapon systems. In the widespread belief that the increases in fleet age will create readiness and cost problems, the Army is executing recapitalization programs to rebuild or upgrade selected weapon systems to retain combat capabilities and hold down maintenance costs. This research assesses the effects of age on mission-critical failure rates for M1 Abrams tanks.
Assesses the relationship between tank age and the mission-critical failure rate for the Army's M1 Abrams tank. Budget limits have brought about exten...
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102,67 zł |
U.S. Army Security Cooperation: Toward Improved Planning and Management
ISBN: 9780833035769 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discusses the Army's current process for planning and resourcing its security cooperation activities and explores avenues for improvement. In the realm of security cooperation--peacetime activities undertaken by the U.S. armed services with other armed forces and countries--the U.S. Army's current planning process is exceedingly complex and difficult to coordinate, control, and measure. This monograph seeks to help the U.S. Army improve its ability to assess future demand for resources devoted to security cooperation and to evaluate the impact of these demands upon the resources available to...
Discusses the Army's current process for planning and resourcing its security cooperation activities and explores avenues for improvement. In the real...
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102,67 zł |
Assessing the Value of U.S. Army International Activities
ISBN: 9780833038036 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report presents a framework for assessing U.S. Army International Activities (AIA). It also provides a matrix of eight AIA ends, derived from top-level national and Army guidance, and eight AIA ways, which summarize the various capabilities inherent in AIA programs. In addition, the report describes the new online AIA Knowledge Sharing System (AIAKSS) that is being used to solicit programmatic and assessment data from AIA officials in the Army's Major Commands.
This report presents a framework for assessing U.S. Army International Activities (AIA). It also provides a matrix of eight AIA ends, derived from top...
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123,20 zł |
Evaluation of Options for Overseas Combat Support Basin
ISBN: 9780833038746 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A worldwide combat support basing architecture is one of the major pillars for achieving the U.S. Air Force's goals of global strike and persistent dominance. The authors develop an analytic framework and model for evaluating options for overseas combat support basing and present a feasible set of candidate locations for consideration by the Air Force.
A worldwide combat support basing architecture is one of the major pillars for achieving the U.S. Air Force's goals of global strike and persistent do...
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115,50 zł |
Unconquerable Nation : Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves
ISBN: 9780833038913 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is unlike other RAND publications. While it is based in part on objective research, particularly as it applies to knowing the enemy, it also includes the personal reflections of someone who has thought about terrorism for decades. I initiated RAND's research on terrorism in 1972 with a simple memorandum that observed that this phenomenon was likely to spread and increase and could create serious problems for the United States and its allies; therefore, I proposed, we should take a serious look at it.... reader will find strong personal opinions on these pages. There is much...
This book is unlike other RAND publications. While it is based in part on objective research, particularly as it applies to knowing the enemy, it also...
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102,41 zł |
West Papua and Indonesia Since Suharto: Independence, Autonomy or Chaos?
ISBN: 9780868406763 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reviews the long guerilla struggle of the 'Organisasi Papua Merdeka' (OPM) for a Free Papua, and traces the rise of a non-violent independence movement alongside it, the Papua Council, following the fall from power of Indonesia's military dictator, General Suharto, in 1998.
This book reviews the long guerilla struggle of the 'Organisasi Papua Merdeka' (OPM) for a Free Papua, and traces the rise of a non-violent independen...
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123,62 zł |
Dreamland: How Canada's Pretend Foreign Policy Has Undermined Sovereignty
ISBN: 9781553391197 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roy Rempel argues that the past decade has been marked by an ideological and domestically driven foreign policy agenda that has lost sight of the national interest. As a consequence, Canada's policy options are narrowing, national sovereignty is eroding, and the country risks evolving into a protectorate of the United States. Dreamland analyzes how Canada's foreign policy has subverted the myths that Canadians believe about themselves and their place in the world. Rempel champions the development of a non-ideological foreign policy that puts the security and prosperity of Canadians first. He...
Roy Rempel argues that the past decade has been marked by an ideological and domestically driven foreign policy agenda that has lost sight of the nati...
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573,12 zł |
Canadian and Mexican Security in the New North America : Challenges and Prospects
ISBN: 9781553391234 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume investigates the security issues confronting Mexico and Canada in a post-9/11 North America, including the evolution of NAFTA and the emerging North American security context and its implications.
This volume investigates the security issues confronting Mexico and Canada in a post-9/11 North America, including the evolution of NAFTA and the emer...
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143,23 zł |
Cast ME out If You Will: Stories and Memoir
ISBN: 9781558611887 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There have been no women in our part of the country whose names posterity found it worthwhile to cherish," writes Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1985) in "Come Back," her fictional account of an Indian woman activist's life. In Cast Me Out If You Will, however, Antherjanam's stories bring to life the experiences of women living at all levels of Indian society. From the faithful and devoted nanny of "Wooden Cradles" to the lonely young bride of "In the Moonlight," Antherjanam's characters are keenly observed and faithfully rendered. This unique collection of short stories and personal...
"There have been no women in our part of the country whose names posterity found it worthwhile to cherish," writes Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1985...
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82,17 zł |
The Future of War: Organizations as Weapons
ISBN: 9781574886306 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many analysts have heralded the U.S. military's Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), a qualitative improvement in operational concepts and weapons that transforms the nature and character of warfare. Focusing on military technology, most argue that the new sensor, surveillance, communications, and computational technologies will usher in a period in which U.S. military capabilities will far exceed those of potential competitors. Developments in such fields as nanotechnology, robotics, and genetic engineering will greatly influence new weapons designs of the twenty-first century. Many analysts have heralded the U.S. military's Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), a qualitative improvement in operational concepts and weapons th...
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231,62 zł |
Voices of Protest: Documents of Courage and Dissent
ISBN: 9781579125851 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This eye-opening collection of documents ranging from the pre-Christian era to the present explores the undeniable power of social, political, and religious dissent throughout history and around the world.
Voices of Protest is an inspiring and comprehensive look at the meaning of protest throughout history, in democratic and nondemocratic societies. It is also a rousing confirmation that individual and community action matters and has great influence. Collected here are more than 300 documents essays, letters, newspaper articles, court decisions, song lyrics, poetry, cartoons, and... This eye-opening collection of documents ranging from the pre-Christian era to the present explores the undeniable power of social, political, and rel...
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241,26 zł |
The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
ISBN: 9781586483548 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A renowned former dissident, human rights activist, and Jewish leader shares a passionate, controversial argument against compromise on the road to freedom.
A renowned former dissident, human rights activist, and Jewish leader shares a passionate, controversial argument against compromise on the road to fr...
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112,88 zł |
Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terro
ISBN: 9781591025917 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this compelling argument for a new direction in US energy policy, world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Robert Zubrin lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that the OPEC oil cartel has on our country and the world. Zubrin presents persuasive evidence that our decades-long relationship with OPEC has resulted in the looting of our economy, the corruption of our political system, and now the funding and protection of terrorist regimes and movements that are committed to our destruction.
Zubrin's plan is straightforward and practical. He argues that if... In this compelling argument for a new direction in US energy policy, world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Robert Zubrin lays out a bold pla...
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109,96 zł |
Capitalism and Freedom: The Contradictory Character of Globalisation
ISBN: 9781843312802 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since ancient times the exercise of individual freedoms has been inseparable from the expansion of the market, driven by the search for profit. This force, namely capitalism, has stimulated human creativity and aggression in ways that have produced immense benefits. As capitalism has broadened its scope in the epoch of globalization, these benefits have become even greater. Human beings have been liberated to an even greater degree than hitherto from the tyranny of nature, from the control of others, from poverty and from war. The advances achieved by the globalization of capitalism have... Since ancient times the exercise of individual freedoms has been inseparable from the expansion of the market, driven by the search for profit. Thi... |
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Distribution and Administration of Potassium Iodide in the Event of a Nuclear Incident
ISBN: 9780309090988 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radioactive iodines are produced during the operation of nuclear power plants and during the detonation of nuclear weapons. In the event of a radiation incident, radioiodine is one of the contaminants that could be released into the environment. Exposure to radioiodine can lead to radiation injury to the thyroid, including thyroid cancer. Radiation to the thyroid from radioiodine can be limited by taking a nonradioactive iodine (stable iodine) such as potassium iodide. This book assesses strategies for the distribution and administration of potassium iodide (KI) in the event of a nuclear... Radioactive iodines are produced during the operation of nuclear power plants and during the detonation of nuclear weapons. In the event of a radia... |
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Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
ISBN: 9780316118057 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praised everywhere as a stunning work of reportage, TAKEOVER lays bare a hidden agenda, three decades in the making, to allow the White House to wield enormous powers, unchecked by Congres or the courts--an agenda that links warrantless wiretapping and Bush's judicial nominees, torture and Cheney's energy task force, the faith-based initiative and the imprisonment of citizens without trial. TAKEOVER tells the story of how a group of true believers, led by Cheney, set out to establish near-monarchical executive powers that, in the words of one conservative critic, "will lie around like a...
Praised everywhere as a stunning work of reportage, TAKEOVER lays bare a hidden agenda, three decades in the making, to allow the White House to wield...
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101,81 zł |