(Paperback, 6th edition)

In this completely updated sixth edition, Peretz offers a comprehensive introduction to the history, politics, and contemporary life of the Middle East.

(Hardback, 6th Revised edition)

In this completely updated sixth edition, Peretz offers a comprehensive introduction to the history, politics, and contemporary life of the Middle East.

(Hardback)

The wide variety of reference sources include not only books and journals, but also annual reports, directories, statistics, unpublished documents, computerized data bases, authors, and organizations active in the field.

(Hardback)

The text focuses on three interrelated subject areas that are at the heart of the current foreign and national security dilemma: the Middle East, energy policy, and military manpower policy. Remedying these obvious cases of policy dysfunction would create opportunities for less confrontational, adversary-driven foreign and defense posture.

(Paperback)

The text focuses on three interrelated subject areas that are at the heart of the current foreign and national security dilemma: the Middle East, energy policy, and military manpower policy. Remedying these obvious cases of policy dysfunction would create opportunities for less confrontational, adversary-driven foreign and defense posture.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Offers the comprehensive assessment necessary to discuss the next steps in the Middle East peace process. The authors provide an analytical basis for understanding the intricate links among domestic political forces, regional politics, and superpower policies as elements in the Arab-Israel peace process.

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

(Paperback)

This book is a must read for anyone in close proximity to middle schoolers. Using actual events from the lives of real teenagers, the authors (a middle school principal and a child neuropsychologist) combine perspectives to provide an engaging, light-hearted journey into the adventures and misadventures of newly-minted teens.

(Hardback)

This book explores contemporary writers use of nonrepresentational techniques, similar to those of ancient rabbis who composed classical Midrash, as they grapple with the violence of our era. With particular attention paid to Holocaust literature, the book identifies an important trend in literature about collective trauma.

(Hardback)

Notions of Middle America abound within the American mindset, yet often forgotten are the manifold cultural elements found in the American Midwest.

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Drawing upon his three decades of experience as a corporate economist, including 17 years as a senior economist with Business International Corporation, Alex Rubner here offers an incisive study of the multinational corporation as its fortunes have waxed and waned over the years.

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Simon Bent's stage adaptation of Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson's hilarious homage to Manchester

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The Migration Mobile explores how governments use technology to control borders, and how migrants use technology to circumvent, challenge, and reconfigure that same border apparatus. The book investigates these issues through empirical examples drawn from across Europe, including cases from Greece, the Austrian-Italian border, and Northern Europe.

(Hardback)

The Migration Mobile explores how governments use technology to control borders, and how migrants use technology to circumvent, challenge, and reconfigure that same border apparatus. The book investigates these issues through empirical examples drawn from across Europe, includ...

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

This extensive examination of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and the EU focuses on the history and development of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and its impact on transnational security, human rights, and democratization.

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The Militant Song Movement in Latin America examines the history of the militant song movement in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina, considering their different political stances and musical deportments.

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UN peacekeeping operations, long expected to use force only in self-defence and to act impartially, are now being relied upon as a means to maintain and restore security. Through a close examination of 21st century peacekeeping operations the book shows that they are fundamentally ill-suited to the enforcement-type tasks being asked of them.

(Hardback)

Argues for fundamental restructuring of national journalism in the USA. This study documents what it considers to be the failure of American journalism in the national security field over the past 30 years. It features, in particular, the Gulf War of 1990-91.

(Hardback)

Using the United States and Australia as examples, Collins argues that the justification for separateness weakens both the military standing and the practice of civilian control of the military on top of leading to an overall decline in morality and values in a democratic society.

(Hardback)

Introduction; Defining the Middle East Military Balance; The Changing Face of the Middle East Military Balance; "The Most Militarized Area in the World": Regional Military Expenditures, Arms Transfers, and Manpower Resources; North Africa and the Maghreb; The Arab-Israel States; The Gulf Military Balance and Force Developments in the.

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Designed as a primer for human service providers, this volume contains research-based information about the unique needs of military families across various duty-related conditions, as well as within the context of military career demands, in both peace and wartime.