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Soldiers As Statesmen

~~45,95€~~ 36,76€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Originally published in 1976, this book examines the careers of five distinguished 20th century soldiers and assesses their contribution as statesmen. Hindenburg, Byng, Franco, Eisenhower and De Gaulle all came into political life in different circumstances, but none did so in the name of the profession or to establish a praetorian state.
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Merchants Of Death - A Study Of The International Armament Industry

de F. C. Hanighen e H. C. Engelbrecht

~~50,01€~~ 40,01€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Merchants of death was an epithet used in the USA in the 1930s to attack industries and banks that supplied and funded the First World War (then called the Great War). Originally published in 1934, this book uses the term to expose the international arms industry at the time.
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War, Economy And The Military Mind

~~45,95€~~ 36,76€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Originally published in 1976, this book explores the relationship between European society and the military institutions it fostered from 1815â€"1918. In the period from the fall of Napoleonic imperialism to the outbreak of the First World War armies and navies grew in complexity, cost and size.
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Genetic Seeds Of Warfare - Evolution, Nationalism, And Patriotism

de R. Paul Shaw e Yuwa Wong

~~45,95€~~ 36,76€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Is there some force that impels us toward our own destruction? To explain this central paradox of human behaviour,this title, first published in 1989, advances a new theory. It traces the origins of warfare back to early groups of Homo sapiens in competition for scarce resources, showing that warfare evolved as these groups evolved.
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The Soldier In Modern Society

de J. C. M. Baynes

~~45,95€~~ 36,76€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Originally published in 1972, Colonel Baynesâ€™s book begins by examining the ways in which armies can be used, and then turns to more specific issues connected with the employment of the British Army in the modern world. He summarises what the British Army has accomplished since 1945 and how its strength has varied.
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War Photography - Realism In The British Press

de John Taylor

~~45,95€~~ 36,76€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 What makes news patriotic? How is photojournalism used in wartime? Originally published in 1991, with the help of full-page illustrations from newspapers and journals, John Taylor looks at the special truth of war news, how it is built on established ways of storytelling, and how photography is used to make it seem real.
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Paradoxes Of War - On The Art Of National Self-Entrapment

de Zeev Maoz

~~50,01€~~ 40,01€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Why do reasonable people lead their nations into the tremendously destructive traps of international conflict? Why do nations then deepen their involvement and make it harder to escape from these traps? In this title, originally published in 1990, Zeev Maoz addresses these and other paradoxical questions about the war process.
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Feuding And Warfare - Selected Works Of Keith F. Otterbein

~~45,95€~~ 36,76€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 First published in 1994, Keith F. Otterbeinâ€™s scholarship had followed an overall design since 1962, when he began conducting comparative studies of warfare using both ethnographic and cross-cultural methods. This volume will serve both as a useful introduction to the anthropology of war and as a needed compendium of Otterbeinâ€™s ideas.
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War And Ideology

de Eric Carlton

~~45,95€~~ 36,76€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 First published in 1990, the author looking across various societies investigates why men and women go to war, and why they commit atrocities against their enemy. He argues that military training and ideology are based on a particular perception of the enemy, and that this determines the nature of war as much as any other single factor.
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Military Ethics - Guidelines For Peace And War

de Gerard Elfstrom e N. Fotion

~~50,01€~~ 40,01€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Many people believe that the violent and disruptive nature of war makes a military ethic impossible. The authors of this book, originally published in 1986 however, develop an ethical system that aims to control the military monster at least to some degree, rather than one that preaches to it idealistically â€" with little or no effect.
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Social Order And The General Theory Of Strategy

de Alexander Atkinson

~~50,01€~~ 40,01€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Is there a place left in international politics for the real use of violence as an instrument of policy in the nuclear age? Originally published in 1981, Dr Atkinson attempts to answer this question with new considerations in the presentation of a general theory of strategy.
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War Stories - The Culture Of Foreign Correspondents

de Mark Pedelty

~~43,25€~~ 34,60€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Originally published in 1995, Mark Pedelty explores the lives, work and culture of an international press corps. He writes about the reporters who covered El Salvadorâ€™s civil war. Going beyond those specifics to look at the institutions, practices, myths, and rituals that pattern the work of journalists everywhere.
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Routledge Library Editions: Security And Society - 12 Volume Set

de Various

~~1159,38€~~ 927,50€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 <P>This 12-volume set contains titles, originally published between 1934 and 1995. An eclectic mix of titles, this collection draws from anthropology, economics, ethics, politics, psychology and sociology. Exploring security in both war and peacetime it includes volumes looking at: the causes of war and its effect on society as a whole; the soldiers themselves and their place in society; the portrayal of war in the press, both in words and photographs and the politics behind them.</P>
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War Stories - The Culture Of Foreign Correspondents

de Mark Pedelty

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Originally published in 1995, Mark Pedelty explores the lives, work and culture of an international press corps. He writes about the reporters who covered El Salvadorâ€™s civil war. Going beyond those specifics to look at the institutions, practices, myths, and rituals that pattern the work of journalists everywhere.
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Soldiers As Statesmen

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Originally published in 1976, this book examines the careers of five distinguished 20th century soldiers and assesses their contribution as statesmen. Hindenburg, Byng, Franco, Eisenhower and De Gaulle all came into political life in different circumstances, but none did so in the name of the profession or to establish a praetorian state.
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War Stories - The Culture Of Foreign Correspondents

de Mark Pedelty

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Originally published in 1995, Mark Pedelty explores the lives, work and culture of an international press corps. He writes about the reporters who covered El Salvadorâ€™s civil war. Going beyond those specifics to look at the institutions, practices, myths, and rituals that pattern the work of journalists everywhere.
INGLÊS

Soldiers As Statesmen

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Originally published in 1976, this book examines the careers of five distinguished 20th century soldiers and assesses their contribution as statesmen. Hindenburg, Byng, Franco, Eisenhower and De Gaulle all came into political life in different circumstances, but none did so in the name of the profession or to establish a praetorian state.
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Military Ethics - Guidelines For Peace And War

de Gerard Elfstrom e N. Fotion

~~49,01€~~ 39,21€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Many people believe that the violent and disruptive nature of war makes a military ethic impossible. The authors of this book, originally published in 1986 however, develop an ethical system that aims to control the military monster at least to some degree, rather than one that preaches to it idealistically â€" with little or no effect.
INGLÊS

Military Ethics - Guidelines For Peace And War

de Gerard Elfstrom e N. Fotion

~~49,01€~~ 39,21€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Many people believe that the violent and disruptive nature of war makes a military ethic impossible. The authors of this book, originally published in 1986 however, develop an ethical system that aims to control the military monster at least to some degree, rather than one that preaches to it idealistically â€" with little or no effect.
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War, Economy And The Military Mind

~~45,04€~~ 36,03€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Originally published in 1976, this book explores the relationship between European society and the military institutions it fostered from 1815â€"1918. In the period from the fall of Napoleonic imperialism to the outbreak of the First World War armies and navies grew in complexity, cost and size.
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Soldier In Modern Society

de J. C. M. Baynes

~~45,04€~~ 36,03€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Originally published in 1972, Colonel Baynesâ€™s book begins by examining the ways in which armies can be used, and then turns to more specific issues connected with the employment of the British Army in the modern world. He summarises what the British Army has accomplished since 1945 and how its strength has varied.
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War Photography - Realism In The British Press

de John Taylor

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 What makes news patriotic? How is photojournalism used in wartime? Originally published in 1991, with the help of full-page illustrations from newspapers and journals, John Taylor looks at the special truth of war news, how it is built on established ways of storytelling, and how photography is used to make it seem real.
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Paradoxes Of War - On The Art Of National Self-Entrapment

de Zeev Maoz

~~49,01€~~ 39,21€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Why do reasonable people lead their nations into the tremendously destructive traps of international conflict? Why do nations then deepen their involvement and make it harder to escape from these traps? In this title, originally published in 1990, Zeev Maoz addresses these and other paradoxical questions about the war process.
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War And Ideology

de Eric Carlton

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% IMEDIATO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 First published in 1990, the author looking across various societies investigates why men and women go to war, and why they commit atrocities against their enemy. He argues that military training and ideology are based on a particular perception of the enemy, and that this determines the nature of war as much as any other single factor.
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