Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War, Paperback - Hugh Gusterson

Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

The Human Factor tells the dramatic story about the part played by political leaders - particularly the three very different personalities of Gorba...

The first study of Israeli foreign policy towards the Middle East and selected world powers, including China, India, the European Union and the US ...

Reducere. As secretary of state, James A. Baker III played a critical role on the world stage in the final years of the Cold War as the Soviet Union unravele...

Reducere. On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbach ...

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

Reducere. In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking ...

A detailed examination of the events before and after the Battle of Angola, with several chapters covering the colonial struggle between Africa and...

Reducere. In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western eco...

"Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands of a storyteller as s...

DescriptionFrom its inception, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) provoked controversy. Today it is widely regarded as hav...

There's a start and end to everything, war included. In this case, we'll be learning about how the cold war ended and what the contribution of the ...

The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughou...

Reducere. A team of leading scholars examines the evolution of the Cold War from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 to the Soviet collapse in 1991. The authors ...

With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin ascendent, U.S. officials set out to reconstruct Western Europe as a bulwark against communist authorit...

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DescriptionDuring the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would...

Reducere. With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks's 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what bla...

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they sh...

A fresh, new study on the overlooked history of the backbone of the Cold War US Navy, the go-anywhere, do-anything frigate. Though they were never ...

A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of frontline U.S. special operations troops fighting to keep the Tali...

Reducere. Since 2002, the first edition of this best-selling book has helped thousands of newly appointed principal investigators successfully transition to ...

A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Peter E. DaviesNumber of pages: 96Collection: Combat AircraftPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 185 x...

A science fiction mystery about the final two surviving members of the human race. Features an inclusive cast of characters and advocacy of the val...

Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War. The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA - Dustin M. Wax

Reducere. One summer, while exploring the town during their annual stay at Grandma's house, two siblings and their cousin come across a creepy old house. The...

Part two of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring additional material from the Adams archives, and an introduction from M...

If Daria Demarest didn't have ice water in her veins, like her coalminer father taught her, life might look bleak. She's divorcing successful but u...

The Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the Second World war, and analyses its eight major phases from th...

Back in the 1950s during the "Cold War" every new day beckoned the possibility of the end of the world. Kids grew up in the shadow of bomb shelters...

After thirty-five years of quiet acceptance, Tonia Rotkopf Blair returned to Poland and confronted the Holocaust. Growing into an outspoken survivo...

Publisher: ListLabAuthor(s): Adriano MacconeIllustration(s): 100 b&wNumber of pages: 112Collection: Inspiration GuidePublication date: 2018Dimensio...

The Kate Greenaway-award winning author and illustrator of over 18 picture books emerges with a debut novel in which a boy called Ben Makepeace rec...

The classic comic science fiction masterpiece with a new introduction by Mitch Benn.

This is no ordinary apocalypse... Hannah wakes up to silence. The entire city around her is empty, except for one other person: Leo. Together, they...

Reducere. At the End of the Santa Fe Trail, first published in 1932 (and reprinted in 1948), is Sister Blandina Segale's account of her life in the southwest...

After thirty-five years of quiet acceptance, Tonia Rotkopf Blair returned to Poland and confronted the Holocaust. Growing into an outspoken survivo...

This book examines major political movements during the Cold War through the rhetorical trope of the Nazi analogy. The examination pits ideas conce...

Reducere. Volume Two of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War into a long-lasting international system durin...

Reducere. This volume examines the origins, causes and early years of the Cold War. Leading scholars show how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ide...

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Wonderful photographs documenting the local rail scene from the late 1980s to the early twenty-first century, featuring a range of trains and locom...

Reducere. This is no ordinary apocalypse...Hannah Ashton wakes up to silence. The entire city around her is empty, except for one other person: Leo Sterling....

A heartfelt story of the horrific events that happened to those who were there on that fateful day. Saturday 15th April 1989, the Hillsborough Disa...

As we have shifted over the years from simple living to more complex lifestyles, we are now inundated with an abundance of information to help us l...

Reducere. Vivid photos of a wolf fish munching a sea urchin, a hermit crab switching shells, a sea slug arming itself with stinging cells stolen from an anem...

Explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. In this study, the author examines the last days of the war and as...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

Reducere. The British are comingFourteen-year-old Daniel wants to join the militia and fight against the redcoats. His father wants him to stay in Concord, M...