Vicarious Warfare: American Strategy and the Illusion of War on the Cheap, Hardcover - Thomas Waldman

America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, w...

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A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. 'This is one of the m...

}Smile Or Die{ author and seminal thinker reflects on our powerlessness in the failed attempt to control our bodies and selves, proposing a differe...

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Pre-eminent behavioural scientist Nick Chater draws on cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to debunk the image of hidden depths and unconsciou...

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Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality. But that was just the beginning. In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed...

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In 1969, the world was shocked by a series of murders committed by Charles Manson and his "family" of followers. Although the defendants were sente...

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Traces the development of Disney animation, explains what made Disney's style unique, and features original sketches and drawings revealing the ori...

DescriptionThe American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese attacked the islands hours after the ...

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American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be "overpaid, oversexed, and over here." But the assaults, rapes, and other br...

**The documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to explore the little-kn...

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Paper Tiger is a small concise picture of my thirteen years spent contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Starting with securing weapons of mass destr...

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Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, this reader assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of internati...

In October 1936, as the Spanish Civil War turned a tension in peripheral Europe into a European disaster, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Nazi ...