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  • "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People"

    And Other Myths About Guns and Gun Control

    by Dennis A. Henigan ...
    Series Book 4 - Myths Made in America
    “A must-read for every American who longs to bring sanity to our nation’s gun laws,” this book debunks the lethal logic behind the myths that have framed the gun control debate (Ariana Huffington, Huffington Post).The gun lobby’s remarkable success in using engaging slogans to frame the gun control debate has allowed it to block lifesaving gun legislation for decades. But is there any truth to ... Read more

    PHP758.89

  • The Politics of South China Sea Disputes

    by Nehginpao Kipgen ...
    This book is a comprehensive political study of the South China Sea (SCS) disputes. With over US $5 trillion worth of trade passing through it every year and a history of military flashpoints, the SCS is invariably a hotbed of great power rivalry.This book:Traces the history of the disputes from the 19th century until recent developments;Examines recent arbitrations including the ruling on the ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • Come l'Occidente ha provocato la guerra in Ucraina

    by Benjamin Abelow, Luciano Canfora ...
    Translated by Valentina Nicolì ...
    Chi è il vero responsabile del ritorno della guerra in Europa? Secondo il mantra della narrazione occidentale dominante, c’è un solo e unico colpevole: Vladimir Putin, novello Hitler, che avrebbe invaso l’Ucraina senza alcuna motivazione, se non quella di un violento e sfrenato espansionismo.Ma è lecito porsi ulteriori dubbi. In realtà, secondo lo storico americano Benjamin Abelow, sono gli Stati ... Read more

    PHP365.15

  • The Doomsday Machine

    Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

    by Daniel Ellsberg ...
    Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the YearIn These Times “Best Books of the Year"Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books ListLitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week”</str... ... Read more

    PHP795.39

  • The Dead Hand (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified ... Read more

    PHP403.59

  • True Colours

    The 10th Spider Shepherd Thriller

    by Stephen Leather ...
    Series Book 10 - The Spider Shepherd Thrillers
    Readers can't get enough of Dan 'Spider' Shepherd'I simply can't get enough of Spider Shepherd' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Spider Shepherd is the new James Bond' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This series just gets better and better' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Action packed, spine-chilling excitement' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A truly heart-racing read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Russian oligarchs are the world's new elite. They treat the world as... ... Read more

    PHP732.49

  • Selling Reagan's Foreign Policy

    Going Public vs. Executive Bargaining

    by N. Stephen Kane ...
    This book examines President Reagan’s and his administration’s efforts to mobilize public and congressional support for seven of the president’s controversial foreign policy initiatives. Each chapter deals with a distinct foreign policy issue, but they each is related in one way or another to alleged threats to U.S. national security interests by the Soviet Union and its allies. When taken ... Read more

    PHP2,531.59

  • Aspects of Political Theory

    Classical Concepts in an Age of Relativism

    Edited by W.J. Stankiewicz ...
    First published in 1976. This study continues an endeavour whose aim was to use traditional concepts as a basis for the discussion of contemporary political predicaments. The endeavour began with the publication of the symposium In Defense of Sovereignty (1969). Its long-range goal is to consider under a common denominator—relativism in politics— various aspects of theory such as the basic ... Read more

    PHP4,434.46

  • Arms Transfers and Dependence

    by Christian Catrina ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1988, Arms Transfers and Dependence was written to provide a view of arms transfers in the context of the global distribution of power.The book analyses different types of dependence and is focused on comparing the enhancement of military capabilities as a result of arms transfers with the dependence that may be caused by those transfers. In doing so, it provides an overview of ... Read more

    PHP3,079.30

  • The International Atomic Energy Agency

    Historical Reflections, Current Challenges and Future Prospects

    Edited by Joseph F. Pilat ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This volume offers a wide-ranging examination and discussion of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) past, present and future as it enters its seventh decade.Including contributions from leading experts across the globe, the book assesses the historical record of the IAEA; the issues and challenges it faces at present; and its future prospects. In doing so, it addresses the primary ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli Vol 5

    by Daniel Schwarz, Geoffrey Harvey, Ann Hawkins, Miles Kimball, Charles Richmond, Michael Sanders ...
    Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) was one of the most important political figures in 19th century Britain. However, before rising to political prominence he had established himself as a major literary figure. This set takes a critical look at Disraeli's early work. Volume 5 includes Henrietta Temple (1837). ... Read more

    PHP3,572.09

  • Inside Nuclear South Asia

    Edited by Scott D. Sagan ...
    Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947. They went to the brink of a fourth in 2001 following an attack on the Indian parliament, which the Indian government blamed on the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist organizations. Despite some attempts at rapprochement in the intervening years, a new ... Read more

    PHP1,774.09

  • Enduring and Emerging Issues in South Asian Security

    Edited by Sumit Ganguly, Dinshaw Mistry ...
    Anyone interested in South Asian security and U.S. policy toward the region will be rewarded with new insights on these topics, written by academics and analysts specializing in the issues.The chapter authors were close colleagues or advisees of long-time Brookings Institution senior fellow Stephen Philip Cohen. Cohen was the first American scholar to work on South Asian security studies. He ... Read more

    PHP1,898.59

  • A truly global NATO

    How to abolish War and nuclear weapons

    by Anna Beyer ...
    The discipline of International Relations was invented to solve the problem of war. However, so far, no really encompassing solutions have been found. The solutions that were proposed centered around the establishment of the United Nations and the spread of democratization and globalization. But war continues.Cornelia Beyer believes she has found a missing piece in the peace puzzle: the militaries ... Read more

    PHP4,981.19

  • Russia, America, the Bomb and the Fall of Western Europe

    by Brian May ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, Russia, America, the Bomb and the Fall of Western Europe offers a dual approach to unilateral nuclear disarmament. While it systematically analyzes and rejects stock arguments for retaining nuclear weapons, from the supposed threat of Soviet invasion to fears of Finlandization and the loss of mineral resources, it examines the issue within the context of Western Europe’s ... Read more

    PHP2,832.91

  • National Security and Arms Control in the Age of Biotechnology

    The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

    by Daniel M. Gerstein ...
    This book accessibly and expertly details the history and implications of the BWC—the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention—a controversial arms control agreement drafted in the 1970’s meant to supplement the Geneva protocol for warfare from decades earlier. That treaty banned the use of biological weapons in modern warfare, but failed to ban their development, transport or trafficking, holes ... Read more

    PHP4,327.09

  • Chechnya - Russia's 'War on Terror'

    by John Russell ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    The Russo-Chechen conflict has been the bloodiest war in Europe since the Second World War. It continues to drag on, despite the fact that it hits the headlines only when there is some 'terrorist spectacular'.Providing a comprehensive overview of the war and the issues connected with it, the author examines the origins of the conflict historically and traces how both sides were dragged inexorably ... Read more

    PHP4,249.67

  • BAD MONEY

    FinTech as an Instrument in the Battle for Global Dominance

    by Brad Rigden ...
    Veteran FinTech specialist and technology executive, Brad Rigden, takes us on an illuminating journey of how technology and innovation have disrupted not only money and our economy, but our societal fabric on a global scale. This evolution is brought into context amidst the backdrop of cyclic patterns, historical events and behavioural forces, leading us to the precipice of financial entropy ... Read more

    PHP1,410.89

  • Yihadismo

    by Miguel Ángel Ballesteros ...
    Series Book 6 - Ensayo
    ¿Qué impulsa a un joven musulmán a colocarse un cinturón de explosivos para inmolarse y causar la muerte a un gran número de desconocidos inocentes? Un acto que a todas luces nos resulta irracional, y tras el que quizás pueda ocultarse más de un motivo, pero el principal es este: la pretensión de cumplir con la yihad, el afán de implantar por medio del terror la sharia o ley islámica en los países ... Read more

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  • On Thermonuclear War

    by Herman Kahn, Evan Jones ...
    On Thermonuclear War was controversial when originally published and remains so today. It is iconoclastic, crosses disciplinary boundaries, and finally it is calm and compellingly reasonable. The book was widely read on both sides of the Iron Curtain and the result was serious revision in both Western and Soviet strategy and doctrine. As a result, both sides were better able to avoid disaster ... Read more

    PHP4,311.27

  • Hot Spots

    American Foreign Policy in a Post-Human-Rights World

    by Amitai Etzioni ...
    There are important reasons for the distinct yet significant course adjustments in American and Western foreign policy, which is currently focused on the Middle Eastern and Chinese "hot spots." In early 2012, the United States "pivoted" to make the Far East its military and strategic first priority, thereby downgrading the Middle East. This change in priorities has been accompanied by a curtailed ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough

    The Treaty Eliminating Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Missiles

    Edited by David T. Jones ...
    An analysis of the negotiations, both international and domestic, behind this landmark treaty through the words of those directly involved.This book analyzes the elimination of intermediate-range nuclear force missiles through vivid, fresh impressions by those who conducted the INF negotiations. The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough brings this period to life through the writing of key ... Read more

    PHP754.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indefensible

    Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade

    by Paul Holden ...
    Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy. Not only conservatives, but many progressives and liberals, support it for these reasons.Indefensible puts forward a devastating challenge to this conventional wisdom, which has normalised the ... Read more

    PHP997.79

  • Los años del terror (1974-1976)

    by José Luis Méndez Méndez ...
    En este libro se aborda como tema fundamental el terrorismo de Estado ejercido por los Estados Unidos, a través de sus mercenarios contra Cuba. Entre 1974 y 1976 los planes para derrocar al gobierno revolucionario cubano se acrecentaron, mediante la utilización de todos los recursos disponibles con la ayuda de figuras connotadas del terrorismo internacional como: Orlando Bosch Ávila y Luis Posada ... Read more

    PHP299.00 or Free with Kobo Plus