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War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $67.43Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of... -
Military Theory and the Conduct of War by Azar Gat 9780197828489
Booksplease Price: $54.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197828489Author Azar GatFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP... -
Clausewitz Myth, The: Or the Emperor's New Clothes Azar Gat 9781803416212
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is, by far, the most celebrated military theorist, whose prestige has reached new heights. However, this book argues that his reputation has been largely inflated... -
The Origins of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz by Azar Gat 9780198202578
Booksplease Price: $112.50This book sheds new light on the origins and nature of modern military thinking. The ideas of Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) - which remain at the heart of strategic analysis today - have hitherto... -
Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars by Azar Gat
RRP: $49.71Booksplease Price: $48.83Combining insights from evolutionary psychology with a broad sweep through history, down to the ideological civil war ripping the United States apart, the book explores the deeper roots of people's... -
A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War by Azar Gat 9780199247622
Booksplease Price: $227.88From the ideas of Clausewitz to contemporary doctrines of containment and cold war, this is a definitive history of modern military thought. A one-volume collection of Azar Gat's acclaimed trilogy,... -
Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism by Azar Gat
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $48.73What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and... -
British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm: Revising the Revisionists by Azar Gat
RRP: $214.48Booksplease Price: $175.40Utilizing hitherto untapped archival sources, Azar Gat overturns recent historiographical trends in the study of British and German armour developments between the two World Wars. He reinstates... -
Military Theory and the Conduct of War: What Is Strategy All About? Azar Gat 9781911723936
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $35.82The question of whether there is a general, universal theory for the conduct of war has long preoccupied military thinkers, army personnel and students of conflict. Warfare has been radically... -
Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars Azar Gat 9780197806821
Booksplease Price: $41.54Combining insights from evolutionary psychology with a broad sweep through history, down to the ideological civil war ripping the United States apart, the book explores the deeper roots of people's... -
War and Strategy in the Modern World: From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terror by Azar Gat 9780367666989
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $83.19This volume brings together some of Professor Azar Gat's most significant articles on the evolution of strategic doctrines and the transformation of war during the 20th and early 21st centuries.It... -
Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism by Azar Gat 9781107007857
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $163.39What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and... -
The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? Azar Gat (Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security, Tel Aviv University) 9780198795025
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $45.30Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight and can they stop. Spanning warfare from prehistory to the 21st century, the book shows that, neither an... -
Mercy Hat by Mark Lazarus Gatti 9780595169955
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $18.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595169955Author Mark Lazarus GattiFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Writers Club... -
Human Morality and Sociality: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives by Henrik Hogh-Olesen 9780230238008
Booksplease Price: $89.21Human nature is enigmatic. Are we cruel, selfish creatures or good merciful Samaritans? This book takes you on a journey into the complexities of human mind and kind, from altruism, sharing, and... -
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition by Paul Seabright
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $46.47The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall... -
Constructing Nationalism in Iran: From the Qajars to the Islamic Republic by Meir Litvak 9780367275303
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Nationalism has played an important role in the cultural and intellectual discourse of modernity that emerged in Iran from the late nineteenth century to the present, promoting new formulations of... -
The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth by Michael Mandelbaum 9780190935931
RRP: $47.76Booksplease Price: $37.69In the twenty-five years after 1989 the world enjoyed the deepest peace in its history. The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth examines that singular quarter century, describing how and why peace was... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to War: Origins and Prevention Oleg Kobtzeff 9781138111097
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $87.24Many different social scientists have been challenged by the origins of wars, their immediate causes and the mechanisms leading to the breakdown of peaceful relations. Many have speculated whether... -
Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War Tim Sweijs 9781805265993
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.52Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine has sparked a major shift in thinking about the future of war. This book offers a comprehensive examination of its impact on visions of conflict. War in the... -
The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth by Michael Mandelbaum
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $31.96In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that... -
Moshe Dayan: The Making of a Strategist Eitan Shamir 9781009011730
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $48.52In this major re-evaluation of Moshe Dayan's life and career, Eitan Shamir examines one of the most influential individuals in the history of modern Israel. As IDF Chief of Staff, theatre commander... -
Moshe Dayan: The Making of a Strategist Eitan Shamir 9781316515822
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $142.08In this major re-evaluation of Moshe Dayan's life and career, Eitan Shamir examines one of the most influential individuals in the history of modern Israel. As IDF Chief of Staff, theatre commander... -
Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Strategy by William C. Martel 9780521177733
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $73.01War demands that scholars and policy makers use victory in precise and coherent terms to communicate what the state seeks to achieve in war. The failure historically to define victory in consistent... -
Strategy: A History by Sir Lawrence Freedman 9780199325153
RRP: $61.41Booksplease Price: $48.93In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging... -
The Culture of Military Innovation: The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel. by Dima Adamsky 9780804769518
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their...