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  • The EU and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict 1971–2013

    In Pursuit of a Just Peace

    Just peace has been much talked about in everyday life, but it is less well researched by academics. The rationale of this book is therefore to probe what constitutes a just peace, both conceptually within the field of peacebuilding and empirically in the context of the EU as a peacebuilder in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The EU has used the term just peace in many of its most important ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Contested Technologies

    Xenotransplantation and Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Addressing the important perspectives on xenotransplantation and human embryonic stem cell research, this book explores both the enthusiastic proponents and vehement resistance to these new biomedical technologies. Investigating the political, social, and ethical forces behind this kind of research and development, as well as the commercial actors and strong financial incentives that are necessary ... Read more

    $34.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sociology of School

    Studies of Social Interaction in Education

    This book examines schools as dynamic social arenas where everyday interactions are shaped by broader institutional conditions.Drawing on sociological theory - particularly Erving Goffman's interactionism and dramaturgical perspective - Ingrid Bosseldal and Anders Persson analyze how teachers and students perform and negotiate roles within the classroom while also considering the school as a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Rock Blasting and Explosives Engineering

    Rock Blasting and Explosives Engineering covers the practical engineering aspects of many different kinds of rock blasting. It includes a thorough analysis of the cost of the entire process of tunneling by drilling and blasting in comparison with full-face boring. Also covered are the fundamental sciences of rock mass and material strength, the thermal decomposition, burning, shock initiation, and ... Read more

    $400.99 USD

  • Strategic Challenges in the Baltic Sea Region

    Russia, Deterrence, and Reassurance

    How should the countries in the Baltic Sea region and their allies meet the strategic challenges posed by an openly aggressive and expansionist Russia? NATO and the nonaligned states in the region are now more concerned about an external threat than they have been since the end of the Cold War. Russia has been probing air space, maritime boundaries, and even land borders from the Baltic republics ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Conflicts and Informal Power

    Big Men and Networks

    Series series Africa Now
    In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society. The aim is to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a period of fragmentation. In reality, African economies and polities are very much informal in character, with informal actors, including so-called Big ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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  • Why You Can't Shoot Straight: The Basic Science of Shooting

    by John Cramer ...
    This is a book about the science of shooting guns but it also applies to archery. Beginning with the most basic science, that gravity means you can never shoot straight, it carefully and clearly explains the physical science behind all aspects of shooting. Projectile motion, the effects of air resistance and rotational motion on projectiles, the importance of projectile shapes and materials, the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Trouble with the Congo

    Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding

    Series series Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003–6). Grassroots rivalries over land, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Physics and Maths for the PPL

    by Luis Burnay ...
    Many student private pilots don't realize at the start of their course that many hours of study are required on top of the in-class schedule. This book will help those trainee pilots without science backgrounds, or those that need a refresher, to brush up on the necessary theory. It covers subjects that will be encountered many times during the PPL course, such as principles of flight, aircraft ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • The Russo-Ukrainian War

    The Return of History

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    **“Compelling.… [E]rudite, objective and immensely readable.” —Ben Hall, Financial TimesAn authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe.**Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war—and why has it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Winning the War on War

    The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

    Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD