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Two Concepts of the Soul in Plato's Phaedo - Ryan Topping - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Spanish-English Cognates / Los Cognados Espa-oles-Ingleses - Richard D. Woods - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Management by Ethics - Richard H. Guerrette - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Reinventing the Culture of Womanhood in America and Brazil, an Anthropological Perspective - Alex Huxley Westfried - Bog - University Press of America

Mummy Wheat - R. Drew Griffith - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

'Play It Where It Lies!' - Don E. Peavy - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Jews of North Africa - Sarah Taieb Carlen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Phonetics and Phonology of Moras, Feet and Geminate Consonants in Japanese - Hiromi Otaka - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Intervention Strategies to Increase the Success Rate on the General Educational Development Examination for Adjudicated Youths - Floyd A. Johnson -

Freedom in Religion or Freedom from Religion - James Larry Hood - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Letters to the Grammarians - Dipo Kalejaiye - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Dominican Republic and the Beginning of a Revolutionary Cycle in the Spanish Caribbean - Luis Alvarez Lopez - Bog - University Press of America -

State Structure and Genocide - Andrew Kolin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

From Custodialism to Community - Howard W. Polsky - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Activism through Poetry - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Objective Economics - M. Northrup Buechner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

From Troy to Entebbe - John Arquilla - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

From Troy to Entebbe - John Arquilla - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Special operations, though most commonly associated with the period from the Second World War to the present, have played a key role throughout the history of conflict from the Trojan War to the great arms struggles of the 20th century. This volume introduces the reader to the broad sweep of the history of special operations, and also includes several excerpts from the classic literature on the subject. Contents: Origins: Robert Graves, ''The Wooden Horse'', ''The Sack of Troy''; Raiding in the Age of Sail: G.M. Thomson, ''The Damage Done by this Corsair'', ''The Wind Commands Me Away''; Ian Grimble, ''The Imp,^Rrieuse''; The Early American Tradition: Kenneth Roberts, ''The Raid on St. Francis''; Fred Cook, ''Struggle for the South''; R.E. Dupuy and W.H. Baumer, ''Wars With the Barbary Pirates''; 19th Century Colonial Warfare; Leo Tolstoy, The Raid; Wyatt Blassingame, ''How the Legion Began'', ''The Legion Fights in Algeria''; The Civil War: Archer Hines, ''Military Means, Political Ends''; Bruce Catton, ''Total War and an Election''; World War I: Lowell Thomas, ''Trapped by a G-Ship..''; T.E. Lawrence, ''The Raid Upon the Bridges''; World War II in Western Europe and North Africa: Cajus Bekker, ''The Coup de Main at Eben Emael'', ''The Blood-Bath of Crete''; Paul Carell, ''A British Commando Attempt to Capture Rommel'', ''The British Raid on Tobruk'', ''Brandenburgers in Action Behind the Front''; John Lodwick, Raiders from the Sea, Chapters 16-18; The Pacific War: Walter Lord, ''A Very Private War'';Ronald Spector, ''The Road to Myitkyina''; Milton E. Miles, ''Chinese Pirates and the SACO Dragon''; Algeria, Round II: Jean Lart,^Rguy, ''The Leap of Leucadia''; The Ultimate Rescue: Chaim Herzog, ''Entebbe''; Bibliography; Index.

DKK 538.00
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War and the Arc of Human Experience - Glenn Petersen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

War and the Arc of Human Experience - Glenn Petersen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Glenn Petersen flew seventy combat missions in Vietnam when he was nineteen, launching from an aircraft carrier in the Tonkin Gulf. He’d sought out the weighty responsibilities and hazardous work. But why? What did the cultural architecture of the society he grew up in have to do with the way he went to war? In this book he looks at the war from an anthropological perspective because that’s how he’s made his living in all the subsequent years: it’s how he sees the world. While anthropologists write about the military and war these days, they do so from the perspective of researchers. What makes this a fully original contribution is that Petersen brings to the page the classic methodology of ethnographers, participant observation—a kind of total immersion. He writes from the dual perspectives of an insider and a researcher and seeks in the specifics of lived experience some larger conclusions about humans’ social lives in general. Petersen was long oblivious to what had happened to him in Vietnam and he fears that young men and women who’ve been fighting the US military’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq might be similarly unaware of what’s happened to them. Skills that allowed him to survive in combat, in particular his ability to focus tightly on the challenges directly in front of him, seemed to transfer well to life after war. The same intensity led him to a successful academic career, including the time he represented the Micronesian islands at the United Nations; how could anything be wrong? Then surreptitiously, the danger, the stress, and the trauma he’d hidden away broke through a brittle shell and the war came spilling out. As an anthropologist he sees in this a classic pattern: an adaptation to one set of conditions is put to a new and practical use when conditions change, but in time what had once been beneficial turns into maladaptive behavior. In writing about why we fight, he shed lights on what the fighting does to us.

DKK 214.00
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