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“james kurth”

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  • The American Way of Empire

    How America Won a World--But Lost Her Way

    by James Kurth ...
    Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st Century challenges of Islamic terrorism and globalization.In this ground-breaking analysis, author James Kurth explains that the roots of America's current foreign policy crisis lie in contradictions of an American empire which attempted to transform ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Family and Civilization

    by Carle C. Zimmerman ...
    In Family and Civilization, the distinguished Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall of different types of families and the rise and fall of civilizations, particularly ancient Greece and Rome, medieval and modern Europe, and the United States. Zimmerman traces the evolution of family structure from tribes and clans to extended ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Attacking Terrorism

    Elements of a Grand Strategy

    by Audrey Kurth Cronin, David Rapoport, Martha Crenshaw, Michael Sheehan, Paul R. Pillar, Lindsay Clutterbuck, Timothy D. Hoyt, Carnes Lord, Adam Roberts0, Patrick M. Cronin1, Daniel Goure2 ...
    The definition and understanding of "terrorism" is in a state of unprecedented evolution. No longer are acts of terrorism rare and far-flung. Following the horrendous attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S. citizens have had their eyes opened to a new world where this nightmare stalks the daily news and is never far from consciousness.Attacking Terrorism brings together some of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The West at War

    by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Robert Alt, Alberto R. Coll, Barry Cooper, David D. Corey, Leon Craig, James Kurth, Paul Marshall, David Tucker, Bradley C. S. Watson, Kenneth R. Weinstein1 ...
    In The West at War, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time-the West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors deal with the internal challenges and external conflicts facing Western civilization in the ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    by Alan Ryan ...
    This is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question:how should human beings best govern themselves? That question raises innumerable others: can we manage our own affairs at all? Should we even try? Many people in the past have thought that only some individuals were either able or entitled to ... Read more

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  • What Terrorists Want

    Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat

    by Louise Richardson ...
    “This is at the top of my list for best books on terrorism.”–Jessica Stern, author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants KillHow can the most powerful country in the world feel so threatened by an enemy infinitely weaker than we are? How can loving parents and otherwise responsible citizens join terrorist movements? How can anyone possibly believe that the cause of Islam can be ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • How Civilizations Die

    (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)

    by David Goldman ...
    Thanks to collapsing birthrates, much of Europe is on a path of willed self-extinction. The untold story is that birthrates in Muslim nations are declining faster than anywhere elseâ??at a rate never before documented. Europe, even in its decline, may have the resources to support an aging population, if at a terrible economic and cultural cost. But in the impoverished Islamic world, an aging ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Short History of European Law

    The Last Two and a Half Millennia

    by Tamar Herzog ...
    A Short History of European Law brings to life 2,500 years of legal history, tying current norms to the circumstances of their conception. Tamar Herzog describes how successive legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the European Union. Roman law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was used and reshaped varied dramatically from one century and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How Terrorism Ends

    Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns

    by Audrey Kurth Cronin ...
    “A landmark study."—Robin Wright, The New YorkerWhy every terrorist movement comes to an end—and how this history can help us combat today's terrorist threatsAmid the fear following 9/11 and more recent terror attacks, it is easy to forget the most important fact about terrorist campaigns: they always come to an end—and often far more quickly than expected. Contrary to what many assume, when it ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The West and the Rest

    Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies' profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations, is entirely absent in Islamic societies. Similarly, Scruton explains why the notions of territorial ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kenneth Minogue ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this provocative but balanced essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prompts us to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in our society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Passions and the Interests

    Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Jeremy Adelman ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD