Culture and the Soldier. Identities, Values, and Norms in Military Engagements, Hardback - H. Christian Breede

Culture and the Soldier offers a long-overdue examination of how culture - defined as reproduced identities, values, and norms - both shapes the mi...

Over recent years, a series of challenges including Brexit and the rise of Euroscepticism, have manifested in landmark moments for European integra...

This book compares the dimensions of state strength characterised by community, society, and nation. By exploring factors related to social cohesio...

This edited book applies to tourism a humanistic management approach entailing a re-discovery of the value of human life and awareness of the ethic...

Flourishing in Music Education: Lessons from Positive Psychology presents research, theory, and best practices about potential pitfalls, as well as...

Discusses African metal scenes and conversations around the presence of heavy metal in the continent, and how acts in Africa are changing the conve...

Publisher: Citadel Press Inc., U.S.Author(s): Michael L. LanningNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 28Cover type: Pap...

This volume represents the first attempt to comprehensively showcase the resources comparative philosophy, and in particular Chinese philosophy, ca...

Using evolutionary psychology, Fischer develops a holistic model of personality that includes both what we do (our personality traits) and what mot...

In 1800, Jacques Chevillet enlisted in Napoleon's French Army. He was 14 years old. Assigned to a light cavalry regiment, Chevillet learned to ride...

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The true saviour of Little Round Top at Gettysburg was a 26-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, who paid with his life to defend that hill. This is t...

The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. The central argument in this book is twofold. Fir...

Reducere. The Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most dif...

Reducere. What characterises the development and social transformation of the military profession in Scandinavia? Has the broadening of tasks, function and s...

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Reducere. An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superin...

Reducere. From the earliest hill tribes to the cultural peak of the Pax Romana, and finally to the Western Empire's chaotic decline - H. A. Guerber's history...

Reducere. The General paints a moving portrait of a family man, a business man, a man of faith and a military man who loved his country.

Reducere. This books examines representations and experiences of trans and nonbinary identities in a variety of contemporary cultural contexts including medi...

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Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are a...

Examines human rights disasters during Myanmar's democratisation.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Anchalee RulandIllustration(...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): L WietholterNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 236 x 31Cover type: HardbackRede...

"An army may march on its stomach but it leans on its funny bone." So says Brigadier Charles Ritchie, and he should know. Postings to the Yemen, No...

This book is about the importance of pre-Christian, pagan statues in Byzantine art which has so far focused heavily on the sacred icons of Christ a...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Allison P. AnollIllustration(s): 27 line drawings, 25 tablesNumber of pages: 264Collection: Ch...

DescriptionIn a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dinesh D'SouzaA comprehensive inquiry into the history, nature and meaning of racism. There is little agreement about what ...

A comprehensive, accurate, and academically-supported reference of all of the major military and paramilitary camouflage patterns that have been in...

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What impact have African actors had on perceptions of current international security challenges? How can they help to shape prevailing conceptions ...

This edited collection focuses on the negotiation of national, geographic and cultural identities during the Second World War among the constituent...

Reducere. Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us--and to make decisions on our ...

DescriptionThis study examines the force of tradition in conservative German visual culture, exploring thematic continuities in the post-conflict r...

Reducere. Research into the construction of librarians' professional identities indicates a strong emphasis on our work as service providers, from both withi...

Reducere. Some of today's problematic ideologies of racial and religious difference can be traced back to constructions of the relationship between Judaism a...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis IncAuthor(s): Brian SudlowNumber of pages: 228Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 234 x 163 x 17Cover type: HardbackRedes...

This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire's fie...