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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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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
ISBN: 9780865476752 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site. American Ground is a tour of this intense, ephemeral world and those who improvised the recovery effort day by day, and in the process reinvented themselves, discovering unknown strengths and weaknesses. In all of its aspects--emotionalism,... Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Time... |
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Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
ISBN: 9780865715400 / Angielski / Miękka / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects--finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government--by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee that the attacks produced the desired result. Crossing the Rubicon is unique not only for its case-breaking examination of 9/11, but for the breadth and depth of its world picture--an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narcotraffic, intelligence and... The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon disco... |
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What Price Security?: Taking Stock of Australia's Anti-Terror Laws
ISBN: 9780868409092 / Angielski / Miękka / 95 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this timely and important book, Andrew Lynch and George Williams provide a clear and accessible guide to the major components of Australia's anti-terrorism laws and their effects. They show readers: what constitutes a crime of terrorism in Australia, what powers our main intelligence agency has to question and detain members of the community, what happens when the authorities seek a control order or an order of preventative detention over an individual, what speech risks making a person liable for the crime of sedition, how judicial processes have been modified for the trial of people...
In this timely and important book, Andrew Lynch and George Williams provide a clear and accessible guide to the major components of Australia's anti-t...
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Terrorism for Self-Glorification: The Herosratos Syndrome
ISBN: 9780873388184 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the motives of terrorists, from ancient Greece to the present day
"A unique work of. . . history, made all the more interesting by its relevance to the time in which we live." In this timely study of the roots of terrorism, author Albert Borowitz deftly assesses the phenomenon of violent crime motivated by a craving for notoriety or self-glorification. He traces this particular brand of terrorism back to 356 BCE and the destruction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus by arsonist... Examines the motives of terrorists, from ancient Greece to the present day
"A unique work of. . . history, made all the mo... |
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Preventing Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism
ISBN: 9780876093559 / Angielski / Miękka / 33 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States and the international community must do more to prevent terrorists from buying, stealing, or building nuclear weapons. Pakistans highly enriched uranium (HEU) is vulnerable to both external and insider theft by Islamic terrorists and Taliban sympathizers; Russias massive HEU supplies are susceptible to insider theft; a large portion of civilian nuclear material around the world remains in weapons-usable form; and Russias shorter-range tactical nuclear weapons are highly attractive to terrorists because of their smaller size and ease of transport. To address these...
The United States and the international community must do more to prevent terrorists from buying, stealing, or building nuclear weapons. Pakistans hig...
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Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy
ISBN: 9780878403479 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The definition and understanding of "terrorism" is in a state of unprecedented evolution. No longer are acts of terrorism rare and far-flung. Following the horrendous attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S. citizens have had their eyes opened to a new world where this nightmare stalks the daily news and is never far from consciousness. Attacking Terrorism brings together some of the world's finest experts, people who have made the study of this rising menace their life's work, to provide a comprehensive picture of the challenges and opportunities of the... The definition and understanding of "terrorism" is in a state of unprecedented evolution. No longer are acts of terrorism rare and far-flung. Follo... |
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State Terrorism and the United States: From Counterinsurgency to the War on Terrorism
ISBN: 9780932863393 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study exposes the support that administrations in Washington have given right-wing dictatorships that committed terrorism especially during the cold war and war on terrorism. It offers a critique of this latter war, and the study's portrayal of the earlier war serves as necessary background for understanding and evaluating the latter war. It rejects the narrow definition of terrorism insisted on by Washington that exempts terrorism committed by governments (state terrorism) from the definition, and for political reasons restricts the term solely to the private terrorism committed by...
This study exposes the support that administrations in Washington have given right-wing dictatorships that committed terrorism especially during the c...
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Yesterday's Enemy: Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?
ISBN: 9780954994303 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Why: The Deeper History Behind the September 11the Terrorist Attack on America -- 3rd Edition Hbk
ISBN: 9780975355565 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Resource-poor wealthy nations and resource-rich poor nations. Restructurning the 1700 year struggle between the Christian and Muslim worlds into global peace and sustainable development. Restructuring exclusive titles to nature's wealth to conditional titles eliminates the monopolies we are told are not there. Creating a modern commons increases economic efficiency equal to the invention of money, the printing press, and electricity. Under full and equal rights poverty can be eliminated in 10 years. Under full and equal rights a quality life in 50 years. Plunder by trade, Capital destroying...
Resource-poor wealthy nations and resource-rich poor nations. Restructurning the 1700 year struggle between the Christian and Muslim worlds into globa...
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WMD Attacks on America
ISBN: 9780977267606 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating and frightening novel is a call to our nation's leaders to prepare to protect the United States and its people from possible weapons of mass destruction events.
This fascinating and frightening novel is a call to our nation's leaders to prepare to protect the United States and its people from possible weapons ...
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An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism
ISBN: 9781400031139 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right to respond with force. An Autumn of War, which opens with that first essay, will stimulate readers across the political spectrum to think more deeply about the attacks, the war, and their lessons for all of us.
On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an artic...
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Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism
ISBN: 9781400031252 / Angielski / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Olive Tree comes this smart, penetrating, brilliantly informed book that is indispensable for understanding today's radically new world and America's complex place in it.
Thomas L. Freidman received his third Pulitzer Prize in 2002 "for his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat." In Longitudes and Attitudes he gives us all of the columns he... From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Oli...
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How to Survive in a 911 Environment
ISBN: 9781403314222 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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September Fury: The Day Terrorists Tried to Kill the American Dream
ISBN: 9781403322999 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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September 11: Through the Eyes of a Child
ISBN: 9781403377722 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Manhattan Massacre
ISBN: 9781403388377 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Terrorism: The Philosophical Issues
ISBN: 9781403918161 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive discussion of all the main philosophical issues raised by terrorism against the background of its past and recent developments. Prominent philosophers discuss definitions of terrorism, various approaches to its moral evaluation, and the contentious subject of state terrorism. Also included are four case studies, showing how the concepts and arguments philosophers deploy in discussing violence, war and terrorism apply to particular instances of both insurgent and state terrorism, ranging from World War II to September 11, 2001.
The first comprehensive discussion of all the main philosophical issues raised by terrorism against the background of its past and recent developments...
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Terrorism: The Philosophical Issues
ISBN: 9781403918178 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive discussion of all the main philosophical issues raised by terrorism against the background of its past and recent developments. Prominent philosophers discuss definitions of terrorism, various approaches to its moral evaluation, and the contentious subject of state terrorism. Also included are four case studies, showing how the concepts and arguments philosophers deploy in discussing violence, war and terrorism apply to particular instances of both insurgent and state terrorism, ranging from World War II to September 11, 2001.
The first comprehensive discussion of all the main philosophical issues raised by terrorism against the background of its past and recent developments...
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The Selling of 9/11: How a National Tragedy Became a Commodity
ISBN: 9781403968173 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Selling of 9/11 argues that the marketing and commodification of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, reveal the contradictory processes by which consumers in the United States (and around the world) use, communicate, and construct national identity and their sense of national belonging through cultural and symbolic goods. Contributors illuminate these processes and make important connections between myths of nation, practices of mourning, theories of trauma, and the politics of post-9/11 consumer culture. Their essays take critical stock of the role that consumer goods, media and...
The Selling of 9/11 argues that the marketing and commodification of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, reveal the contradictory processes b...
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