The Changing Face of War: Combat from the Marne to Iraq, Paperback - Martin Van Creveld

One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the pa...

Reducere. At a time when unprecedented change in international affairs is forcing governments, citizens, and armed forces everywhere to re-assess the questio...

Wargames: From Gladiators to Gigabytes - Professor Martin van Creveld

O istorie culturala: Profetia. Seeing into the future Profetia de Martin van Creveld ne ofera o examinare amplu documentata a unora dintre nenumara...

DescriptionIn this fascinating narrative history, internationally recognized military expert Martin van Creveld narrates the rise and fall of the m...

Think the 'selfie' is a modern phenomenon...? Think again!

Reducere. War and games have always been intimately related in many different ways. This book studies the history of wargames - from the Old Testament to com...

A week on a beach, a day at a spa, a hike in the hills -- tourism is taken for granted today, but over the past 500 years, it has played a signific...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Martin DanahayNumber of pages: 154Collection: War CulturePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 228 ...

Reducere. Spurred first by the civil rights debates of the 1960s and 1970s, then by the culture wars of the following decades, the Chicago Historical Society...

A pictorial history of Mansfield then and now

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Publisher: Helion & CompanyIllustration(s): 1 b/w ills. 2 colour ills, 2 colour photos, 6 maps, 8 tablesNumber of pages: 344Collection: From Reason...

This compelling book examines parental leave policies in Nordic countries, looking at how these laws encourage men towards life courses with greate...

Publisher: Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingAuthor(s): Robert HendryNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 288 x 223 x 18Cover type: H...

Reducere. Country music has exploded across the U.S. and undergone a sweeping revolution, transforming the once ridiculed world of Nashville into an unlikely...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom its founding in the late 1800s through the 1950s, Brownsville, a section of eastern Brooklyn, was a white, predominantly Jewish, wo...

Reducere. All over the Western world gaps between rich and poor are widening-or the headlines say. Nobody has done more to spread this view than the French e...

A compelling guide to prediction, a subject that is vital to modern existence.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book presents a timely discussion for educational leaders, policymakers, and the interested public of how students engage subject matter.

This book presents a timely discussion for educational leaders, policymakers, and the interested public of how students engage subject matter.

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away ...

Reducere. DescriptionApproximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and ...

``A superb book--an American equivalent to John Keegan's The Face of Battle. I sincerely believe that Grunts is destined to be a classic.``--Dave G...

The Civilianization of War: The Changing Civil–Military Divide, 1914–2014 - Andrew Barros, Martin Thomas

Reducere. The Dramatic History of Iraq in One Concise VolumeThe destinies of Iraq and America will be tightly intertwined into the foreseeable future due to ...

Reducere. In the US Army there are only a few men who are able to earn all three tabs worn on the uniform, the Airborne Tab, the Ranger Tab and the Special F...

With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts from the front lines, three dozen of the world's leading photojournalists...

In this annotated anthology, Robert Gullifer and Matthew Jenkinson demystify poetry while showing that there are many good reasons to pick poems ap...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gulf War, then keep reading...The late 1980s and early 1990s were times of significant chang...

Reducere. DescriptionA War Zone of the SoulDr. W. Lee Warren's life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve...

Reducere. A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments -- not ...

Highly illustrated, Amphibious Warfare takes the reader through the different stages of an amphibious campaign chapter by chapter, illustrating eac...

A landmark work within the study of conflict, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, Listening to War offers a broad theorization of sound, violence, ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gulf War, then keep reading...The late 1980s and early 1990s were times of significant chang...

Exploring the US experience of war in the twenty-first century, this book argues that wherever and whenever there is war, there will be imaginative...

Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that t...

With the aid of superb line artworks, Unarmed Combat demonstrates how different martial arts have been combined by special forces units to create h...

Intracranial injury, caused by a transorbital penetrating object, is a neglected topic in neurosurgery. Through a perusal of the world literature -...