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  • New Armies from Old

    Merging Competing Military Forces after Civil Wars

    by Roy Licklider, Bruce Russett, Caroline Hartzell, Matthew LeRiche, Paul Jackson, Florence Gaub, Stephen Burgess, Rosalie Arcala Hall, Judith Verweijen, Andrea Bartoli0, Martha Mutisi1, Rohan Maxwell2, Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs3, Cyrus Samii4, David Laitin5, Ronald Krebs6 ...
    Negotiating a peaceful end to civil wars, which often includes an attempt to bring together former rival military or insurgent factions into a new national army, has been a frequent goal of conflict resolution practitioners since the Cold War. In practice, however, very little is known about what works, and what doesn’t work, in bringing together former opponents to build a lasting peace ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Small Businesses and Effective ICT

    Stories and Practical Insights

    by Carmine Sellitto, David Banks, Scott Bingley, Stephen Burgess ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
    Small businesses make up some 90-95 percent of all global firms. Many undervalue the importance of information and communication technology (ICT). Within the small business segment there can be significant differences amongst the avid early adopters of ICT and the laggards. Research on early adopters tends be more prevalent as they are perceived to have a more interesting and positive story. ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

  • Slaying the Nuclear Dragon

    Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Stephen Burgess, Mark Fitzpatrick, Devin Hagerty, Marianne Hanson, Togzhan Kassenova, Maria Rost Rublee, Jacqueline Shire ...
    Series series
    In recent decades the debate on nuclear weapons has focused overwhelmingly on proliferation and nonproliferation dynamics. In a series of Wall Street Journal articles, however, George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons, helping to put disarmament back into international security discussions. More recently, U.S. president ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Mendelian Randomization

    Methods for Causal Inference Using Genetic Variants

    by Stephen Burgess, Simon G. Thompson ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics
    Mendelian Randomization: Methods For Causal Inference Using Genetic Variants provides thorough coverage of the methods and practical elements of Mendelian randomization analysis. It brings together diverse aspects of Mendelian randomization from the fields of epidemiology, statistics, genetics, and bioinformatics.Through multiple examples, the first part of the book introduces the reader to the ... Read more

    $147.02 CAD

  • The Story of the Nations: Portugal

    Enriched edition. Unveiling Portugal's Rich Historical Tapestry

    by H. Morse Stephens, Connor Burgess ...
    In "The Story of the Nations: Portugal," H. Morse Stephens presents an extensive and meticulously researched account of Portugal's storied past, from its legendary origins to its maritime explorations and enduring cultural contributions. Written in a clear and engaging style, Stephens weaves together historical narrative with an analysis of social, political, and economic dynamics, offering ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age

    Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon

    by Toshi Yoshihara, James R. Holmes, Joshua Rovner, Helen E. Purkitt, Stephen F. Burgess, Christopher T. Yeaw, Andrew S. Erickson, Michael S. Chase, Terence Roehrig0, James L. Schoff1, Anupam Srivastava2, Seema Gahlaut3, Andrew C. Winner4, Timothy D. Hoyt5, Scott A. Jones6 ...
    A “second nuclear age” has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout in North Korea, and the potential for more states to cross the nuclear-weapons threshold from Iran to Japan ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Synaptic Self

    How Our Brains Become Who We Are

    by Joseph LeDoux ...
    In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons—the brain's synapses—are the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember. Synapses ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Winning the War on War

    The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

    by Joshua S. Goldstein ...
    Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is ... Read more

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  • Medical Nihilism

    by Jacob Stegenga ...
    This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low. ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of Portugal

    by Ian Robertson ...
    A concise history of Portugal, from its earliest beginnings up to the politics and life of the present day. It was not until the twelfth century that Portugal became a country in its own right, having been a Roman colony and then having suffered both Barbarian and Islamic invasions. The golden age of discoveries, the reign of Henry the Navigator, and great seamen such as Vasco da Gama led to the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind

    by Eric R. Kandel ...
    Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these eight important and fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist Eric Kandel provide a breakthrough perspective on how biology has influenced modern psychiatric thought. Complete with commentaries by experts in the field, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind reflects the author's evolving view of how biology ... Read more

    $85.79 CAD

  • 1494

    How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half

    by Stephen R. Bown ...
    When Columbus triumphantly returned from America to Spain in 1493, his discoveries inflamed an already-smouldering conflict between Spain's renowned monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, and Portugal's João II. Which nation was to control the world's oceans? To quell the argument, Pope Alexander VI - the notorious Rodrigo Borgia - issued a proclamation laying the foundation for the Treaty of ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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