Building the Nation: Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan (Gregg Heather Selma)(Pevná vazba)

Building the Nation: Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan (Gregg Heather Selma)(Pevná vazba)

Building the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts to 'nation-build' in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heather Selma Gregg argues that efforts to nation-build in both countries mistakenly focused more on what should be

Unravelling - High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq (Sky Emma)(Paperback / softback)

The riveting first-hand account of a young British civilian woman who volunteered to help rebuild Iraq immediately after the invasion in 2003, and soon found herself as a political advisor to the US

Book of Two Ways: The stunning bestseller about life, death and missed opportunities (Picoult Jodi)(Pevná vazba)

Jodi Picoult's new bestseller explores life, death, and missed

Into Suez (Davies Stevie)(Paperback)

Making connections between the Suez Canal War in 1949 and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this novel about a British couple's disastrous marriage is told by their daughter, who has discovered her mother's diary written at the end of World War II. Ailsa Roberts, the writer of the diary,

Greening the Global Economy (Pollin Robert)(Pevná vazba)

A program for building a global clean energy economy while expanding job opportunities and economic well-being.In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by about forty percent by 2030. Achieving the

Anti-Crisis (Roitman Janet)(Paperback)

Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereign currencies. In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why we declare so many crises but also what

Drifter (Petrie Nick)(Paperback / softback)

Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: the buzzing claustrophobia due to PTSD. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash helps the man's widow with some home repairs. But he makes an unexpected discovery: a suitcase stuffed with cash and

Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq (Pursley Sara)(Pevná vazba)

Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American

Kiss and Repeat (Truett Heather)(Pevná vazba)

In Heather Truett's Kiss and Repeat, a teen uses the scientific method drilled into him by his scientist father to begin a kissing experiment. Only the experiment gets messy, and Stephen will have to come clean if he wants to win one girl's

Forever War - Dispatches from the War on Terror (Filkins Dexter)(Paperback / softback)

There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. instead, he captures with searing immediacy, the human experience - and tragedy - of

Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (Ray Avishek)(Pevná vazba)

From the shaping of identities and belongings through to current reconfigurations of nation, governance and state under a Hindu-Right dispensation, this book tracks the sentiments and structures that sustain the nation and nationalism in India. Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious

The Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified (Gregg John)(Pevná vazba)

A shortand outline for almost every word in the English language. The GREGG Shorthand Dictionary Simplified is divided into two parts: Part I contains 26,098 words most commonly used in notation with their official shorthand outlines. Also included are words that are frequently used in such fields

Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture (Twitchell James B.)(Pevná vazba)

In Winnebago Nation, popular critic James B. Twitchell takes a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend the night in one's car. For the young the roadtrip is a coming-of-age ceremony; for those later in life it is the realization of a lifelong desire to be

Managing Patients' Organizations to Improve Healthcare: Emerging Research and Opportunities (Costanza Francesca)(Pevná vazba)

In the last decades, the importance of performance management in healthcare organizations has progressively increased. Patient organizations can play a strategic role by providing peer support and education, filling service provision gaps within public healthcare. As experts of their own

Community Nutrition in Action (Boyle Marie a.)(Pevná vazba)

Discover the diverse range of practice settings and opportunities available to you as a community and public health nutritionist with COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION, 8th Edition The book provides easy-to-understand coverage of program planning, policymaking, and nutrition issues specific to

Outside Eden (Jones Merry)(Pevná vazba)

July, Israel. Iraqi war vet and archaeology graduate Harper Jennings doesn't believe in the evil eye. So when Hagit - the woman assigned to show her and Chloe, Harper's fourteen-month-old baby, around Tel Aviv - drags the pair of them into a market to buy charms to ward off evil, it isn't the bad

When the Heather Blooms (Kirkwood Gwen)(Pevná vazba)

The sequel to Call of the Heather - There's unrest in the air in Donarlachie, as the past is revisited and family feuds threaten the peace . . . Victoria Pringle has unexpectedly been contacted by Mark's fianc e, who wants her to meet his son, Peter, whose dreams to farm the land are under threat

U.S. Military Detention Operations in Post-Abu Ghraib Iraq (Meriwether Jeffrey)(Pevná vazba)

Detention operations are vital to U.S. military doctrine and crucial to the success of combat and recovery missions. This book shows that the image of abuse from Abu-Ghraib were but one small, harmful element in an overwhelmingly successful detention mission in Iraq. It focuses on the subsequent

Danger Close: Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq (Call Steve)(Paperback)

'America had a secret weapon,' writes Steve Call of the period immediately following September 11, 2001, as planners contemplated the invasion of Afghanistan. This weapon consisted of small teams of Special Forces operatives trained in close air support (CAS) who, in cooperation with the loose

New Trends and Opportunities for Central and Eastern European Tourism (Nistoreanu Puiu)(Pevná vazba)

Provides research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of contemporary tourism in Eastern Europe and its effect on economics and sociology. The book features coverage on a broad range of topics, including monument protection, economic features, and socialist

The Arabs at War in Afghanistan (Hamid Mustafa)(Pevná vazba)

A former senior mujahidin figure and an ex-counter-terrorism analyst cooperating to write a book on the history and legacy of Arab-Afghan fighters in Afghanistan is a remarkable and improbable undertaking. Yet this is what Mustafa Hamid, aka Abu Walid al-Masri, and Leah Farrall have achieved with

Devil in the Device (Johnson Lora Beth)(Pevná vazba)

Devil in the Device brims with brilliant world-building and richly-imagined characters--a great encapsulation of everything that makes science fiction so much fun!'  --Andrea Tang, author of Rebelwing and Renegade Flight Zhade's power might be going to his head. Newly on the throne, he's still

Public Relations and the Power of Creativity: Strategic Opportunities, Innovation and Critical Challenges (Bowman Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space (Pieris Anoma)(Pevná vazba)

Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation state borders are porous to a few but impermeable to many. It asks how these uneven and conflicted social realities are embodied in the physical and material conditions imagined, produced or