By the 1960s the two key components of air warfare, the fighters and bombers, had been honed to an elite - the Strike Command and the Top Gun pilots. This volume is full of personal tales of derring-do in just about every conflict in which Britain has been engaged.

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Uniquely visual history of tanks with commentary by military experts, produced in association with The Tank Museum, which holds the largest collection of tanks in the world.

The Royal Navy, at the start of the 21st century, has undergone a remarkable transformation. Telling the story of today's sea-going ultra-mobile, rapid reaction, missile- and aircraft-carrying task force, John Parker includes personal interviews with the men and women who have served in Navy.

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Sociopath Absolutely! Prophetic genius The First Amendment ensures that every reader gets to decide.

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Yamamoto Tsunetomo's insider's look into the Japanese warrior code of the samurai, The Art of the Samurai, is now presented in this beautifully illustrated edition that will enlighten anyone with an interest in Japanese culture and world literature.

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Every American's owner's manual for Washington D.C., our functionally dysfunctional seat of government.

An authoritative work of reference on the lives and careers of senators of the Federal Parliament. This volume highlights the achievements of some of the Senate's trailblazers: the first Aboriginal senator Neville Bonner, first Jewish senator Sam Cohen, the first ACT senator John Knight, and a cohort of pioneering women.

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Human trickery and credulity have always gone hand-in-hand. This text presents an A-Z of the most famous and outrageous fakes, frauds, scams and cons ever perpetrated.

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A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.

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The landmark book by 'Europe's pre-eminent scholar-diplomat' (Robert Kagan), now in paperback: 'You have no excuse: if you want to be a responsible citizen and understand your country's foreign policy, you must read this book.' (Johann Hari, Independent on Sunday)

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The first history and definitive history of the Cabinet Office, one of Britain's most important political institutions.

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Complete and up-to-date information on the world's nations, with details on geography, people, government, the economy, communications, transportation, the military, and transnational issues and comprehensive, country-by-country statistical information.

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In the coming half century humanity faces a planetary crisis that will affect everyone. A doubling in human demand for food is set to collide with increasing scarcities of the very resources needed to grow our food - water, land, energy, nutrients and knowledge. Urgent action is now needed to ensure global food security.

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A fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries.

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Fascinating research from the woman who inspired an entire generation of anti-Fascist conspiratorial investigations.

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The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War

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In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how Chinas aggressive foreign policy is arguably the biggest threat to our security and is a problem that not just the West but the rest of the world ignores at its peril.

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A report on Multi-Ethnic Britain, how it is changing, and the policies that have to be put in place.

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Written in a brief and thoughtful way, this treaty describes the deficiencies of post-industrial culture and its human and plant-centred alternatives. The author's first work to be translated into English, this book is considered by John Zerzan, Derrick Jensen and other major anarchist thinkers to be the primary 21st century anarchist essay.