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49 produkter
United States Special Operations Forces
Av David Tucker, Christopher J. Lamb
Inbunden, 2007
1077 kr
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In October and November of 2001, small numbers of soldiers from the Army Special Forces entered Afghanistan, linked up with elements of the Northern Alliance (an assortment of Afghanis opposed to the Taliban), and, in a remarkably short period of time, destroyed the Taliban regime. Trained to work …
United States Special Operations Forces
Av Christopher Lamb, David Tucker
Inbunden, 2019
2293 kr
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In this book, two national-security experts put the exploits of America’s special operation forces in historical and strategic context. David Tucker and Christopher J. Lamb offer an incisive overview of America’s turbulent experience with special operations. Starting with in-depth interviews with …
United States Special Operations Forces
Av Christopher Lamb, David Tucker
Häftad, 2019
635 kr
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In this book, two national-security experts put the exploits of America’s special operation forces in historical and strategic context. David Tucker and Christopher J. Lamb offer an incisive overview of America’s turbulent experience with special operations. Starting with in-depth interviews with …
United States Special Operations Forces
Av David Tucker, Christopher J. Lamb
E-bok, 2007
795 kr
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In October and November of 2001, small numbers of soldiers from the Army Special Forces entered Afghanistan, linked up with elements of the Northern Alliance (an assortment of Afghanis opposed to the Taliban), and, in a remarkably short period of time, destroyed the Taliban regime. Trained to work …
Integrating Knowledge and Practice
The Case of Social Work and Social Science
Av Charles Garvin, Rosemary Sarri m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1073 kr
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As a profession that works directly to improve the human condition, social work has made a special effort to integrate social science knowledge with its methods for identifying and dealing with human problems. This book is about the relationship between the systematic study of human problems and …
Skirmishes at the Edge of Empire
The United States and International Terrorism
Av David Tucker
Inbunden, 1997
1073 kr
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Over the past 25 years, the United States government has developed, through trial and error, both an understanding of terrorism and the means to deal with it. Using information collected in interviews with key decisionmakers from the Nixon to the Clinton administrations, David Tucker draws both …
Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook
Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers
Av Rich Tretola, Koen De Weggheleire m. fl.
E-bok, 2008
339 kr
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Thoroughly vetted by Adobe''s AIR development team, Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook addresses fundamentals, best practices, and topics that web developers and application designers inquire about most. The hands-on recipes in this cookbook help you solve a variety of tasks and scenarios you may encounter …
Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook
Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers
Av Rich Tretola, Koen De Weggheleire m. fl.
E-bok, 2008
362 kr
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Thoroughly vetted by Adobe''s AIR development team, Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook addresses fundamentals, best practices, and topics that web developers and application designers inquire about most. The hands-on recipes in this cookbook help you solve a variety of tasks and scenarios you may encounter …
Enlightened Republicanism
A Study of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
Av David Tucker
Inbunden, 2008
1397 kr
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Enlightened Republicanism is the first book-length study of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, which has often been used as a treasury of quotations from which historians, political scientists, and literary scholars have borrowed in order to prove one point or another about America …
London Walks: London Stories
Av David Tucker
Häftad, 2009
201 kr
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London Walks is the award-winning original walking tour company. Written by the expert and knowledgeable guides who lead the walks, London Stories is the perfect way to discover the rich history of London and its hidden gems, including:Sinister London - haunted London and Jack the Ripper.Literary …
London Walks: London Stories
Av David Tucker
E-bok, 2009
147 kr
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London Walks is the award-winning original walking tour company. Written by the expert and knowledgeable guides who lead the walks, London Stories is the perfect way to discover the rich history of London and its hidden gems, including:Sinister London - haunted London and Jack the Ripper.Literary …
Out of London Walks
Great escapes by Britain’s best walking tour company
Av Stephen Barnett, David Tucker
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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Enjoy all that out of London has to offer, and discover the heritage and history behind the scenes in some of England's most picturesque places, such as Bath, Canterbury, Royal Winchester and Stratford. With stories and advice drawn from the expertise and knowledge of the famous London Walks …
End of Intelligence
Espionage and State Power in the Information Age
Av David Tucker
Inbunden, 2014
1371 kr
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Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors—and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have …
End of Intelligence
Espionage and State Power in the Information Age
Av David Tucker
Häftad, 2014
331 kr
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Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors—and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have …
End of Intelligence
Espionage and State Power in the Information Age
Av David Tucker
E-bok, 2014
423 kr
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Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors—and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have …
Confronting the Unconventional
Innovation and Transformation in Military Affairs
Av David Tucker
Häftad, 2012
310 kr
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Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light
Inbunden, 2021
1806 kr
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The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to reconcile his …
James Joyce and Photography
Av Georgina Binnie-Wright, David Tucker
Inbunden, 2022
1560 kr
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James Joyce and Photography is the first book to explore in-depth James Joyce's personal and professional engagement with photography. Photographs, photographic devices and photographically-inspired techniques appear throughout Joyce’s work, from his narrator's furtive proto-photographic framing in …
Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence
Creative Flux, Genetic Dialogism, and the Dilemma of Endings
Av Elliott Morsia, David Tucker
Inbunden, 2020
1806 kr
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Winner of the DHLSNA Biennial Award for a Book by a Newly Published ScholarExploring draft manuscripts, alternative texts and publishers’ typescripts, The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence reveals new insights into the writings and writing practices of one of the most important writers of the 20th …
Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence
Creative Flux, Genetic Dialogism, and the Dilemma of Endings
Av Elliott Morsia, David Tucker
Häftad, 2022
531 kr
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Winner of the DHLSNA Biennial Award for a Book by a Newly Published ScholarExploring draft manuscripts, alternative texts and publishers’ typescripts, The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence reveals new insights into the writings and writing practices of one of the most important writers of the 20th …
Judith Wright and Emily Carr
Gendered Colonial Modernity
Av Anne Collett, Dorothy Jones m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
531 kr
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Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work of two women, each a cultural icon in her own country yet lesser known in the other's. Australian poet Judith Wright and Canadian painter Emily Carr …
W.B. Yeats's Robartes-Aherne Writings
Featuring the Making of His "Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends"
Av Wayne K. Chapman, David Tucker
Häftad, 2021
451 kr
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The figures of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne appear throughout the writing of the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats, featuring in his poems, short fictions, dialogues and as authorities in notes to his work. Bringing together into one volume published and unpublished writings featuring these two …
Samuel Beckett and Experimental Psychology
Perception, Attention, Imagery
Av Joshua Powell, David Tucker
Häftad, 2021
547 kr
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Samuel Beckett’s private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind. Samuel Beckett and Psychology is an innovative study of the author’s engagement with key concepts in early experimental psychology and rapidly developing scientific ideas about perception, …
Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources
The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy
Av Jonathan Ullyot, David Tucker
Inbunden, 2022
1560 kr
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This book uses Ezra Pound’s The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism’s ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods. Homer’s Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos. The Cantos translates, interprets, abridges, adapts, critiques, …
Revolution and Resistance
Moral Revolution, Military Might, and the End of Empire
Av David Tucker
Häftad, 2016
343 kr
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In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that "irregular warfare"-including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics-is intimately linked to the rise and decline of Euro-American empire around the globe. Tracing the evolution of resistance warfare from the age of the …
Illuminating the Dark Arts of War
Terrorism, Sabotage, and Subversion in Homeland Security and the New Conflict
Av David Tucker
Inbunden, 2012
2138 kr
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In this title, terrorism, sabotage, and subversion are analyzed to challenge the dominant views that a 'new conflict' is now posing unprecedented threats to U.S. homeland security. Since 9/11, the dominant view is that we have entered an era of 'new conflict' in which technology has empowered …
Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx
Tracing 'a literary fantasia'
Inbunden, 2012
2296 kr
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"Samuel Beckett once wrote that were he in the unfortunate position of a critic studying his work, one of his points of departure would be the ideas of the seventeenth-century philosopher, Arnold Geulincx. Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing a literary fantasia is the first full-length …
Illuminating the Dark Arts of War
Terrorism, Sabotage, and Subversion in Homeland Security and the New Conflict
Av David Tucker
E-bok, 2012
561 kr
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Since 9/11, the dominant view is that we have entered an era of ''new conflict'' in which technology has empowered non-state actors who now pose unprecedented and unmanageable threats to U.S. national security. This unique work studies a range of threats, from homegrown and foreign terrorism to the …
Illuminating the Dark Arts of War
Terrorism, Sabotage, and Subversion in Homeland Security and the New Conflict
Av David Tucker
Häftad, 2012
518 kr
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In this title, terrorism, sabotage, and subversion are analyzed to challenge the dominant views that a 'new conflict' is now posing unprecedented threats to U.S. homeland security. Since 9/11, the dominant view is that we have entered an era of 'new conflict' in which technology has empowered …
