Walt Disney's Mickey and the Gang: Classic Stories in Verse, Vintage Magazine Art 1934-1944 (Häftad)
avDavid Gerstein, David R. Smith
ISBN: 9781888472066 - UTGIVEN: 200511This complete collection of beautifully rendered art graphically depicts Disney cartoon shorts from the 1930s and 1940s. This handsome coffee-table book collects ad pages featured in "Good Housekeeping" magazine that were originally designed to both promote Disney's cartoons and to act as springboar[...]
The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency (Inbunden)
avM. L. R. Smith, David Martin Jones, M. L. R. Smith
ISBN: 9780231170000 - UTGIVEN: 2015-05The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is understood as a[...]
R. G. Collingwood (Inbunden)
avDavid (EDT) Boucher, Teresa (EDT) Smith, David (EDT) Boucher
ISBN: 9780199586035 - UTGIVEN: 2014-01This volume presents a many-faceted view of the Oxford philosopher R. G. Collingwood. At its centre is his Autobiography, published in 1939, which has the status of a cult classic for its compelling 'story of his thought'. Collingwood's work has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years, with new e[...]
Sacred Violence (Inbunden)
avDavid Martin Jones, M. L. R Smith, David Martin Jones
ISBN: 9781137328076 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08Sacred Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to achieve a condition of worldly perfection. In particular, the book focuses upon Islamism as a post modern political religion that considers violence both necessary and purificatory. It also exami[...]
Asian Security and the Rise of China (Inbunden)
avDavid Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo, M.L.R. Smith
ISBN: 9781781004616 - UTGIVEN: 2013-04East Asia is without question a region of huge economic, political, and security significance. Asian Security and the Rise of China offers a comprehensive overview and assessment of the international politics of the Asia-Pacific since the end of the Cold War, seeking to address the overarching quest[...]
Wolves on the Hunt (Inbunden)
avL. David Mech, Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Macnulty
ISBN: 9780226255149 - UTGIVEN: 2015-05The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature - displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in its hunting - or more infamous, more misjudged - t[...]
The New Counter-Insurgency Era in Critical Perspective (Inbunden)
avCeleste Ward (EDT) Gventer, David Martin (EDT) Jones, M. L. R. (EDT) Smith
ISBN: 9781137336934 - UTGIVEN: 2014-01Over the last decade, the notion of counter-insurgency (COIN) has risen to prominence as the dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite the high level of attention paid to the subject by military analysts, the broader theoretical and historical[...]
Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (Inbunden)
avDavid J. (EDT) Smith, Rachelle (EDT) Taylor, Julia R. (CON) Dokter
ISBN: 9781472411983 - UTGIVEN: 2013-12Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. Despite the undeniable quality of his music, Philips[...]
