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Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States (Book Review)
Building Militaries the United States Iraq BWT
2019/10/11
After more than a decade of supporting large expeditionary forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. battle cry today is “by, with, and through” (BWT). According to General Joseph Votel, Commander U.S....
Peace Works: America's Unifying Role in a Turbulent World (Book Review)
Peace Works America's Unifying Role Turbulent World
2019/10/11
Peace Works is two things: an impassioned argument on why the United States should involve itself in conflict prevention, management and peace-making; and an important contribution to the practitioner...
With an historian’s keen eye for detail and nuance, John Lewis Gaddis surveys a variety of case studies from the Peloponnesian War to World War II in his new book On Grand Strategy, identifying in the...
The Politics of Weapons Inspections: Assessing WMD Monitoring and Verification Regimes (Book Review)
Weapons Inspections Verification Regimes WMD
2019/10/21
Nathan E. Busch and Joseph F. Pilat in their book The Politics of Weapons Inspections: Assessing WMD Monitoring and Verification Regimes draw attention to the important role that politics ca...
The Darkest Sides of Politics, II: State Terrorism, "Weapons of Mass Destruction," Religious Extremism, and Organized Crime (Book Review)
State Terrorism Religious Extremism Organized Crime Weapons of Mass Destruction
2019/10/21
In this companion to his first volume on Postwar Facism, Covert Operations, and Terrorism, Jeffrey Bale explores the influence of some of the world’s most pressing security concerns through a rev...
Dirty War: Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975-1980 (Book Review)
Chemical Biological Warfare biological warfare chemical
2019/10/21
Glenn Cross’s Dirty War: Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975–1980 is a welcome addition to the small, but growing scholarly literature on the history of chemical and biological war...
Psychiatry in the Service of Oppression:An Essay Book Review
Psychiatry Service Oppression
2015/7/24
Jonathan Metzl and Ethan Watters present arguments about the nature of mental illness from quite different arenas, yet they can be used to comment on the epistemology and ontology of psychosis and moo...
I will always remember my first visit to Scripps Institution of Oceanography to see Walter Munk. It was a November lunchtime when I arrived at a sun-drenched Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Phys...
By now, there is no mistaking that the oceans are in peril. But, how do we move forward to address the problems and manage our ocean ecosystems for sustainability? How do we create new solutions to re...
BOOK REVIEW:Cold-Water Corals:The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats
Cold-Water Corals Biology and Geology Deep-Sea Coral Habitats
2015/7/7
Cold-Water Corals is the first comprehensive synthesis of one of the most active areas of current deep-sea research. It is a timely contribution to this field, which is experiencing a rapid increase i...
BOOK REVIEW | The Silent Deep:The Discovery,Ecology,and Conservation of the Deep Sea
Silent Deep Discovery Ecology Conservation of the Deep Sea
2015/7/7
The deep sea represents one of the last great frontiers on Earth. Although once thought devoid of life, technology has brought the true abundance of deep ocean life into our human consciousness. Koslo...
BOOK REVIEW:World Ocean Census:A Global Survey of Marine Life
World Ocean Census Global Survey Marine Life
2015/7/7
During the first decade of the new millennium, a revolutionary approach to studying life in the sea was launched—The Census of Marine Life.
The basic governing equations of coastal dynamics have been known for decades, but how can these equations be formulated to improve our understanding of coastal basins? The Dynamics of Coastal Models ...
BOOK REVIEW | Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle
Chemical Oceanography Marine Carbon Cycle
2015/7/3
Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle reflects the two authors' wealth of research and teaching experience, and the community is fortunate that Steve Emerson was able to complete this majo...
R.K. Horst – Westcott’s Plant Disease Handbook (6th Edition) – Book Review
Plant pathology plant best seller
2015/1/28
Science, including plant pathology, is characterized by very fast development of knowledge. This is a reason why the life time of scientific book is mostly rather short. There are many books which wer...