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Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide by John Nagle
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.89Sociology is interested in the ways people shape the society they live in, and the ways society shapes them. Simply, it is the study of what modern society is and how it functions. In the series'... -
Resisting Sextarianism: Queer Activism in Postwar Lebanon by John Nagle
Booksplease Price: £29.16The Middle East is often portrayed as oppressively patriarchal and homophobic. Yet, in recent years the region has become a vibrant and important arena for feminist and LGBTQ activism. This book... -
Resisting Sextarianism: Queer Activism in Postwar Lebanon by John Nagle 9781786997999
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £25.07The Middle East is often portrayed as oppressively patriarchal and homophobic. Yet, in recent years the region has become a vibrant and important arena for feminist and LGBTQ activism. This book... -
Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice by John Nagl 9780143127765
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127765Author John NaglFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Social Movements in Violently Divided Societies: Constructing Conflict and Peacebuilding by John Nagle 9780367872779
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Violently divided societies present major challenges to institutions seeking to establish peace in places characterised by ethnic conflict and high levels of social segregation. Yet such societies... -
Shared Society or Benign Apartheid?: Understanding Peace-Building in Divided Societies by John Nagle 9780230240049
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book analyses the role power sharing, social movements, economic regeneration, urban space, memorialisation and symbols play in transforming divided societies into shared peaceful ones. It... -
Power-Sharing after Civil War: Thirty Years since Lebanon’s Taif Agreement by John Nagle 9781032135472
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of the legacy of Lebanon's peace agreement in the 30 years since it was signed. The chapters in this edited volume have been written by leading scholars... -
Caribou and Conoco: Rethinking Environmental Politics in Alaska's ANWR and Beyond by Robert John McMonagle 9780739119624
Booksplease Price: £46.74Step by step, this book shatters the myth that important environmental energy debates in the United States have been driven by forces too complex for the average American to comprehend. Although made... -
Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace by Richard K. Betts 9781032010083
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £112.00Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard K. Betts's Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security... -
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife by John A. Nagi 9780275976958
Booksplease Price: £96.35Armies are invariably accused of preparing to fight the last war. Nagl examines how armies learn during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared in organization, training, and... -
Civic Identity and Public Space: Belfast Since 1780 by Dominic Bryan 9780719086366
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over... -
Civic Identity and Public Space: Belfast Since 1780 by Dominic Bryan 9781526163660
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over... -
The Identity Dilemma: Social Movements and Collective Identity by Aidan McGarry 9781439912522
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Collective identities are politically necessary, or at least useful, as banners for recruiting others and engaging opponents and the state. However, not every member fits or accepts the label in the... -
The Identity Dilemma: Social Movements and Collective Identity by Aidan McGarry 9781439912515
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £64.39Collective identities are politically necessary, or at least useful, as banners for recruiting others and engaging opponents and the state. However, not every member fits or accepts the label in the... -
Military Anthropology: Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire by Montgomery McFate
Booksplease Price: £37.15In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the counterproductive strategic bombing of Vietnam to the... -
A Sustainable U.S. Strategy for Transatlantic Relations: NATO, the EU, and the USA Dr. Joel R. Hillison 9781666963779
Booksplease Price: £90.57The election of President Donald J. Trump in 2024, is reshaping the current transatlantic relationship. There are those who argue that this relationship no longer serves U.S. interests. Others argue... -
Social Science Goes to War: The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan by Montgomery McFate
Booksplease Price: £36.85The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece... -
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'A training manual for our troubled times ... It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements. ... It is a book that cares about liberty, choice... -
Lessons Unlearned: The U.S. Army's Role in Creating the Forever Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by Pat Proctor 9780826221940
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £39.94Colonel Pat Proctor's long overdue critique of the Army's preparation and outlook in the all-volunteer era focuses on a national security issue that continues to vex in the twenty-first century: Has... -
The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency by Walter C. Ladwig 9781316621806
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.75After a decade and a half of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policymakers are seeking to provide aid and advice to local governments' counterinsurgency campaigns rather than directly intervening with... -
Outmaneuvered: From Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan--The Hidden Dangers of the American Way of War James A Warren 9781668004555
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25From a celebrated military historian, a highly engaging and thought-provoking exploration of why the United States has failed again and again in irregular wars and military campaigns from Vietnam to... -
The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency by Walter C. Ladwig 9781107170773
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £91.76After a decade and a half of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policymakers are seeking to provide aid and advice to local governments' counterinsurgency campaigns rather than directly intervening with... -
Vortex of Conflict: U.S. Policy Toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq by Dan Caldwell
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69More than two million Americans have now served in Afghanistan or Iraq; more than 5,000 Americans have been killed; and more than 35,000 have been grievously wounded. The war in Afghanistan has... -
Modern Military Strategy: An Introduction Elinor C. Sloan 9781138825383
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to post-Cold War military theory for students of strategic studies.This second edition has been fully revised and updated, including a new chapter... -
Vortex of Conflict: U.S. Policy Toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq by Dan Caldwell 9780804776660
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36More than two million Americans have now served in Afghanistan or Iraq; more than 5,000 Americans have been killed; and more than 35,000 have been grievously wounded. The war in Afghanistan has... -
War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics by Emile Simpson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATURE** **SHORTLISTED FOR BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR** In the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan... -
Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq by Samuel Helfont
RRP: £25.49Booksplease Price: £24.58Samuel Helfont draws on extensive research with Ba'thist archives to investigate the roots of the religious insurgencies that erupted in Iraq following the American-led invasion in 2003. In looking... -
War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict in the Afghan Frontier by Carter Malkasian 9781849042642
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.54War in Afghanistan will never be understood without getting to grips with the small places - the provinces, districts, and villages - where most of the fighting occurred, away from the cities, in... -
Chaos in the Green Zone: My Time As an Iraq War Strategist Tom Mowle 9780700641314
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47An American officer offers an explosive memoir from inside coalition headquarters in Baghdad. With raw honesty and exhilarating detail, Tom Mowle shares how policy and strategy were built at a time... -
Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War Sean Michael Wiswesser 9781682476017
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.72Step into the covert world of Russian espionage with this revealing insider's account of how the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) operate across the globe. Drawing on years of CIA field... -
The Marines Take Anbar: The Four Year Fight Against Al Qaeda by Richard H Shultz 9781682472088
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.75The U.S. Marine Corps' four-year campaign against al Qaeda in Anbar is a fight certain to take its place next to such legendary clashes as Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,...