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Iran and Nuclear Weapons: Protracted Conflict and Proliferation (Routledge Global Security Studies)

Routledge, 2009

This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation.

Iran’s nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the forefront of international security...

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair

Head of Zeus, 2018

The death of Dr David Kelly in 2003 is one of the the strangest events in the 21st century. This scrupulous scientist, an expert on weapons of mass destruction, was caught up in the rush to war in Iraq and in the pressure of those around Tony Blair to provide evidence that Saddam Hussein was producing chemical weapons. Kelly seemed...

Macroeconomics (Available Titles Coursemate)

Cengage Learning, 2010

Economics is global and the Eighth Edition of MACROECONOMICS maintains the hallmarks of the Boyes/Melvin series--accessible writing, strong pedagogy, and integration of global economic issues--while faithfully presenting the latest thinking of economists on important macroeconomic phenomena. The authors have carefully integrated their popular...

Multicultural Manners: Essential Rules of Etiquette for the 21st Century

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Basically, this is still a how-to book—how to get along with others who are culturally different. As before, it is not targeted just to those who travel or conduct international business. Cultural information has many applications: To help interact more effectively with new populations from East Africa, the San Diego Police Department has...

Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building

MIT Press, 2006

This is the story of a small building in Ohio that was one of the first, if not the first, substantially green or high-performance buildings on a college campus. It spans the decade between 1995 and 2005. In that time, Americans impeached a president, balanced the federal budget and then unbalanced it again, witnessed the largest corporate...

Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs

Apress, 2004

Do you occasionally wonder,

What kind of person works at a porn video store?
Do public defenders believe in their clients?
What does a reporter feel when he visits war-torn Iraq?
What happens after a child star falls into obscurity?

Thanks to Web logs, or...

North Korea: The Struggle Against American Power

Pluto Press, 2005

George W. Bush's infamous remark about the 'Axis of Evil' brought North Korea dramatically back into the international spotlight. During the late 1990s relations between North Korea and the US and its allies were on the mend. However, the election of George W. Bush resulted in renewed crisis. The nuclear accord between the two...

Managing Security Overseas: Protecting Employees and Assets in Volatile Regions

Auerbach Publications, 2009

Written by a Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and FBI recognized subject matter expert, Managing Security Overseas: Protecting Employees and Assets in Volatile Regions details the dos and don’ts of protecting people and assets in hostile global settings. The author, Scott Alan Ast,...

Aquaculture in the Middle East and North Africa: Status and Research Needs (Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology)

Nova Science Pub Inc, 2011

World population at present stands at approximately 7 billion and is expected to cross the 9 billion mark by the middle of this century. Though, food for the growing population is believed to be adequately produced the quality of food remains a question. Food quality depends on the quality of protein, and the aquatic food, especially...

Pride and Power: A Modern History of Iraq

Hurst, 2021

The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty.

Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown together into a nation-state by imperialist statecraft. From the...

Encyclopedia of Islam & the Muslim World

Macmillan Technical, 2003

A growing number of scholars and pundits have declared that the twenty-first century will be the era of Islam. Such predictions, whether intended in a positive or negative light, err in failing to appreciate the spread and influence of Islam during the past millennium and a half, especially on the continents of Asia and Africa. Nonetheless, events...

What We Could Have Done With the Money: 50 Ways to Spend the Trillion Dollars We've Spent on Iraq

Hyperion, 2008

The war in Iraq is not only controversial, it's also astronomically expensive. Now Rob Simpson answers the question many concerned Americans have been asking: Wasn't there some other way the government could have spent one trillion of our tax dollars?

What We Could Have Done with the Money presents 50 thought-provoking spending...

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