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Author : Edmund Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521799376
This 2001 book shows the intersection of chemical warfare and pest control in the twentieth century.
Author : Jurgen Brauer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0759112061
SOME PLACES YOU NEVER FORGET... For Amanda Stockenberg, that place was Smugglers' Inn. The seaside inn had been a refuge for Amanda when she was sixteen, a place to find solace, to find herself...and to find love. She can't think of the inn now without remembering Dane Cutter. The then nineteen-year-old illegitimate son of the cook had taught her about love. She'd been ready to give up everything to be with him. But at the end of the summer he, it seemed, was not. Now, ten years later, Amanda once again finds herself staying at Smugglers' Inn, this time for a corporate retreat. The event is her last chance to prove herself to her bosses, so she doesn't need any complications...like finding Dane Cutter still working at the inn. And still as dangerous to her equilibrium as ever. Because suddenly, Amanda isn't sure what she wants—the window office or the window room of a seaside inn. She has one week. Seven days to choose between achieving all her dreams...or reuniting with the man she never stopped loving.
Author : Rachel Carson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780141996967
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. With the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, Rachel Carson reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed wildlife, creating a world of polluted streams and silent songbirds. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.
Author : Stephen Peter Rosen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400826360
Why did President John F. Kennedy choose a strategy of confrontation during the Cuban missile crisis even though his secretary of defense stated that the presence of missiles in Cuba made no difference? Why did large numbers of Iraqi troops surrender during the Gulf War even though they had been ordered to fight and were capable of doing so? Why did Hitler declare war on the United States knowing full well the power of that country? War and Human Nature argues that new findings about the way humans are shaped by their inherited biology may help provide answers to such questions. This seminal work by former Defense Department official Stephen Peter Rosen contends that human evolutionary history has affected the way we process the information we use to make decisions. The result is that human choices and calculations may be very different from those predicted by standard models of rational behavior. This notion is particularly true in the area of war and peace, Rosen contends. Human emotional arousal affects how people learn the lessons of history. For example, stress and distress influence people's views of the future, and testosterone levels play a role in human social conflict. This thought-provoking and timely work explores the mind that has emerged from the biological sciences over the last generation. In doing so, it helps shed new light on many persistent puzzles in the study of war.
Author : Edmund Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521790034
While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to believe that war and control of nature are separate, there are many more similarities than most people might suspect. Tracing the history of chemical warfare and pest control, Edmund Russell shows how war and control of nature coevolved. Ideologically, institutionally, and technologically, the paths of chemical warfare and pest control intersected repeatedly in the twentieth century. War and Nature helps us to understand the impact of war on nature and vice versa, as well as the development of total war, and the rise of the modern environmental movement. Edmund Russell is an assistant professor in the Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. This is his first book.
Author : Chris Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 152616194X
This book traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France, from the creation of Chalons Camp in 1857 to military environmentalist policies in the twentieth century. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known histories of the Franco-Prussian War, Western Front (1914-18), Second World War, Cold War and the anti-base campaign at Larzac, whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside. Mobilising nature argues that the history of war and militarisation can only be fully understood if human and environmental histories are considered in tandem. Preparing for and conducting wars were only made possible through the active manipulation and mobilisation of topographies, climatic conditions, vegetation and animals.
Author : Judith Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521781507
This book tells the story of environmental destruction and human suffering during the Mao years.
Author : John David Orme
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319771670
What are the causes of war? Wars are generally begun by a revisionist state seeking to take territory. The psychological root of revisionism is the yearning for glory, honor and power. Human nature is the primary cause of war, but political regimes can temper or intensify these passions. This book examines the effects of six types of regime on foreign policy: monarchy, republic and sultanistic, charismatic, and military and totalitarian dictatorship. Dictatorships encourage and unleash human ambition, and are thus the governments most likely to begin ill-considered wars. Classical realism, modified to incorporate the impact of regimes and beliefs, provides a more convincing explanation of war than neo-realism.
Author : David J. Lonsdale
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Information warfare
ISBN : 0714655465
There has been a great deal of speculation recently concerning the likely impact of the 'Information Age' on warfare. In this vein, much of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) literature subscribes to the idea that the Information Age will witness a transformation in the very nature of war. In this book, David Lonsdale puts that notion to the test. Using a range of contexts, the book sets out to look at whether the classical Clausewitzian theory of the nature of war will retain its validity in this new age. The analysis covers the character of the future battlespace, the function of command, and the much-hyped concept of Strategic Information Warfare. Finally, the book broadens its perspective to examine the nature of 'Information Power' and its implications for geopolitics. Through an assessment of both historical and contemporary case studies (including the events following September 11 and the recent war in Iraq), the author concludes that although the future will see many changes to the conduct of warfare, the nature of war, as given theoretical form by Clausewitz, will remain essentially unchanged.
Author : Isabelle Duyvesteyn,Jan Angstrom
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415354615
The book aims to evaluate claims about the so-called 'new wars' thesis.
Author : Kathryn Shively Meier
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469610764
In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344
"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Leonard Woolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000460247
In this book, first published in 1940, Leonard Woolf lays out the necessity for the establishment of a system providing for the rule of international law and cooperation, control of international power and collective defence against international aggression. He lays bare the issues at stake in the Second World War and draws lines on which a lasting peace could be framed.
Author : Douglas P. Fry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190232467
"The chapters in this book [posit] that humans clearly have the capacity to make war, but since war is absent in some cultures, it cannot be viewed as a human universal. And counter to frequent presumption, the actual archaeological record reveals the recent emergence of war. It does not typify the ancestral type of human society, the nomadic forager band, and contrary to widespread assumptions, there is little support for the idea that war is ancient or an evolved adaptation. Views of human nature as inherently warlike stem not from the facts but from cultural views embedded in Western thinking"--Amazon.com.
Author : Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199733538
Examines how insects have been used as weapons in wartime conflicts throughout history, presenting as examples how scorpions were used in Roman times and hornets nests were used during the MIddle Ages in siege warfare and how insects have been used in Vietnam, China, and Korea.