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First Strike America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780300124484, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book, Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive...
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£57,00
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Seven Shots An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath
ISBN: HB: 9780226360904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team from the NYPD raided a terrorist cell in Brooklyn and narrowly prevented a suicide bombing of the New York subway that would have cost hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. "Seven Shots" tells the...
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£22,00
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Bite the Hand that Feeds You Essays and Provocations
ISBN: PB: 9780300164602, Yale University Press, July 2010
368 pp., 21x14 cm
Henry Fairlie was one of the most colourful and trenchant journalists of the twentieth century. The British-born writer made his name on Fleet Street, where he coined the term 'The Establishment', sparred in print with the likes of Kenneth Tynan, and...
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£32,00
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Survival City Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America
ISBN: PB: 9780226846941, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 80 halftones
On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruine...
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£13,00
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