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Johns Hopkins University Press Delta of Power
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of FiguresIllustrationsIntroductionPart I. The Cold War MIC, 1950-1991Chapter 1. Defining the ComplexChapter 2. Civil-Military RelationsChapter 3. State and IndustryChapter 4. Among Government AgenciesChapter 5. The Scientific-Technical CommunityChapter 6. Society and TechnologyChapter 7. International Arms TradePart II. Since the Cold War, 1991-2020Chapter 8. New World OrderChapter 9. War on TerrorChapter 10. A Peer RivalConclusionGlossaryNotesIndex
£21.60
Cornell University Press Living by the Sword
Book SynopsisSharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living by the Sword reveals that warrior culture, with the sword as its ultimate symbol, was deeply rooted in ritual long before the introduction of gunpowder weapons transformed the battlefield.Neuschel argues that objects have agency and that decoding their meaning involves seeing them in motion: bought, sold, exchanged, refurbished, written about, displayed, and used in ceremony. Drawing on evidence about swords (from wills, inventories, records of armories, and treasuries) in the possession of nobles and royalty, she explores the meanings people attached to them from the contexts in which they appeared. These environments included other prestige goods such as tapestries, jewels, and tablewareall used to construct and display status.Living by the Sword draws on an exciting diversity of sources from archaeology, milTrade ReviewLiving by the Sword cuts through a broad swath of history, and such a scope is necessary for a project that charts how swords were understood over time. Kristen Neuschel's Living by the Sword will interest a wide range of readers. * Comitatus *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Do Swords Mean? 1. Swords and Oral Culture in the Early Middle Ages 2. Swords and Chivalric Culture in the High Middle Ages 3. Swords, Clothing, and Armor in the Late Middle Ages 4. Swords and Documents in the Sixteenth Century Conclusion
£18.89
Cornell University Press Living by the Sword
Book SynopsisSharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living by the Sword reveals that warrior culture, with the sword as its ultimate symbol, was deeply rooted in ritual long before the introduction of gunpowder weapons transformed the battlefield.Neuschel argues that objects have agency and that decoding their meaning involves seeing them in motion: bought, sold, exchanged, refurbished, written about, displayed, and used in ceremony. Drawing on evidence about swords (from wills, inventories, records of armories, and treasuries) in the possession of nobles and royalty, she explores the meanings people attached to them from the contexts in which they appeared. These environments included other prestige goods such as tapestries, jewels, and tablewareall used to construct and display status.Living by the Sword draws on an exciting diversity of sources from archaeology, milTrade ReviewLiving by the Sword cuts through a broad swath of history, and such a scope is necessary for a project that charts how swords were understood over time. Kristen Neuschel's Living by the Sword will interest a wide range of readers. * Comitatus *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Do Swords Mean? 1. Swords and Oral Culture in the Early Middle Ages 2. Swords and Chivalric Culture in the High Middle Ages 3. Swords, Clothing, and Armor in the Late Middle Ages 4. Swords and Documents in the Sixteenth Century Conclusion
£97.20
Westholme Publishing, U.S. Secrets of the English War Bow
Book SynopsisHistorian Hugh D. H. Soar is joined by Mark Stretton, master blacksmith, and Joseph Gibbs, bowyer, in order to demonstrate how a war bow and its associated arrow heads and shafts may have been constructed and used. In addition to showing the complete manufacture of a bow from tree selection to stringing and how specialized arrowheads were forged and attached to shafts, Secrets of the English War Bow provides information on the actual performance of the war bow, including the bow's effectiveness against various materials and, for the first time, its useagainst moving targets, since bows were often drawn against mounted soldiers. Armed with this new information, Soar provides an analysis of both successes and failures of the war bow in several important battles. Illustrated in color and black and white, Secrets of the English War Bow provides an invaluable service for those interested in medieval military history, archery, and technology.--De re Militari
£26.87
Springer Nature Switzerland The Very Long Game
Book SynopsisThis open access book is the outcome of a unique multinational effort organized by the Hamburg-based Defense AI Observatory (DAIO) to portray the current state of affairs regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by armed forces around the world.
£42.74
Trivent Publishing Designed for Death: Controlling Killer Robots
Book SynopsisAutonomous weapons systems, often referred to as 'killer robots', have been a hallmark of popular imagination for decades. However, with the inexorable advance of artificial intelligence systems (AI) and robotics, killer robots are quickly becoming a reality. These lethal technologies can learn, adapt, and potentially make life and death decisions on the battlefield with little-to-no human involvement. This naturally leads to not only legal but ethical concerns as to whether we can meaningful control such machines, and if so, then how. Such concerns are made even more poignant by the ever-present fear that something may go wrong, and the machine may carry out some action(s) violating the ethics or laws of war. Researchers, policymakers, and designers are caught in the quagmire of how to approach these highly controversial systems and to figure out what exactly it means to have meaningful human control over them, if at all. In Designed for Death, Dr Steven Umbrello aims to not only produce a realistic but also an optimistic guide for how, with human values in mind, we can begin to design killer robots. Drawing on the value sensitive design (VSD) approach to technology innovation, Umbrello argues that context is king and that a middle path for designing killer robots is possible if we consider both ethics and design as fundamentally linked. Umbrello moves beyond the binary debates of whether or not to prohibit killer robots and instead offers a more nuanced perspective of which types of killer robots may be both legally and ethically acceptable, when they would be acceptable, and how to design for them.
£76.50
United Nations Civil society and disarmament 2022: B Flat, B
Book SynopsisLaunched in 2019, the #Youth4Disarmament (Y4D) initiative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) seeks to engage, educate and empower young people to facilitate their meaningful contribution to disarmament efforts. The 'Spotlight Stories' section of the Y4D community website (https://www.youth4disarmament.org/youth_spotlight) offers a space for young people to share - in their own voices and from their own perspectives - why the work of disarmament is critical to building peace and how they are helping push the field forward. This compilation of stories reveals the hope for a better future shared by members of the largest generation in history, and it shows some of the diverse ways they are finding to pursue peace through disarmament in the twenty-first century
£29.71
Woodfield Publishing The Dreyse Military Needle-Ignition System: An illustrated history of the Dreyse Needle Gun: 2019
£45.00
Woodfield Publishing The History Mechanics and Firing Characteristics of Two Boer Mausers
£33.75
Taylor & Francis A History of Technoscience
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Radar Imaging of Airborne Targets
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arms in Academia The Political Economy of the Modern UK Defence Industry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Countdown to Space War
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Military Technology Adelphi Papers Reissue Hardback
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Taylor & Francis Technology Transfers and NonProliferation Between control and cooperation Routledge Global Security Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unconventional weapons and international terrorism Challenges and New Approaches Political Violence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis New Conventional Weapons and Western Defence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Future of Nonlethal Weapons
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Forensic Mental Health
Book SynopsisThis book provides a concise introduction to the increasingly important field of forensic mental health. It aims to set out both the key concepts in forensic mental health as well as the way the discipline operates in the broader context of criminal justice and mental health care systems. It will provide an ideal introduction to the subject for students taking courses in universities and elsewhere, for mental health practitioners in the early stages of their careers, and for professionals from other agencies needing an informed and up-to-date account of forensic mental health.Trade Review"'I believe that this will be an invaluable reference guide to anyone who is entering (or thinking of entering) the field, While it may have its greatest appeal to the novice practitioner who wishes to understand the difficult terrain, it will also benefit the more established practitioner provided that he/she is prepared to listen to what it has to say.' Professor Conor Duggan"Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Criminal Justice System and Mental Health Legislation 2. Mental Disorder and Offending 3. Entering the Forensic Mental Health System 4. Forensic Mental Health Services 5. The Multidisciplinary Team 6. Risk Assessment 7. Treatments in Prison and Probation Services 8. Treatments in Mental Health Settings 9. Leaving the System, Patients' Rights and Advocacy
£36.99
Cambridge University Press NonLethal Weapons
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Cambridge University Press Deterring America Rogue States And The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction
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Cambridge University Press Firearms A Global History to 1700
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Cambridge University Press Firearms A Global History to 1700
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Cambridge University Press The Asian Military Revolution From Gunpowder to the Bomb 3 New Approaches to Asian History Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Deterring America
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Cambridge University Press Guns Race and Power in Colonial South Africa 109 African Studies Series Number 109
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Cambridge University Press Guns Race and Power in Colonial South Africa 109 African Studies Series Number 109
Book SynopsisIn this book, William Kelleher Storey shows that guns and discussions about guns during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries were fundamentally important to the establishment of racial discrimination in South Africa.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… without doubt the most stimulating and significant discussion concerning South Africa's colonial 'gun society' to have appeared since the publication in 1971 of the influential series of articles on guns in colonial Africa in the Journal of African History. Storey's study is consequently absolutely essential reading, not only for military historians of South Africa in the colonial period, but for all those with an interest in related technology, hunting, ecology, culture and society.' Journal of the Society for Army Historical ResearchTable of Contents1. Guns in colonial South African history; 2. Early colonialism and guns at the Cape up to 1795; 3. Guns, conflict, and political culture along the Eastern Frontier, 1795–1840; 4. Hunting, warfare, and guns along the Northern Frontier, 1795–1868; 5. Capitalism, race, and breechloaders, 1840–80; 6. Guns and the Langalibalele Affair, 1873–5; 7. Guns and confederation, 1875–6; 8. Risk, skill, and citizenship in the Eastern Cape, 1876–9.
£36.87
Irish Academic Press Ltd IRA THE BOMBS AND THE BULLETS A HISTORY OF DEADLY
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DK Gun
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Flamethrowers of the German Army 19141945
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Marder III Schiffer MilitaryAviation History
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd DFS 228 Schiffer Military History Book
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd ZÃndapp KS 601
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd VW Iltis
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Soviet and Russian Nuclear Submarines
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Air Launch
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Engraved Handguns of 22 Calibre 18551885 Schiffer
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Developmental Cartridge Handguns in 22 Calibre As
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Argentine Mauser Rifles 18711959
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Luftwaffe Gravity Knife
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Sword
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Dagger Fighting
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Deadly BeautiesRare German Handguns Vol. 1
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIf you have a spare few minutes, check out the review of our book Deadly Beauties by the YouTube account Forgotten Weapons.
£62.04
Kensington Publishing Churchills Shadow Raiders The Race to Develop
Book SynopsisFrom bestselling and award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis and for fans of Erik Larsen’s The Splendid and Vile and Alex Kershaw’s The Forgotten 500 comes a thrilling account of one of the most daring raids of WWII…the true story of the race to stop Hitler from developing a top-secret weapon that would change the course of history. One of the most readable World War 2 history books I have read in years” —We Are the Mighty In the winter of 1941, as Britain faced defeat on all fronts, an RAF reconnaissance pilot photographed an alien-looking object on the French coast near Le Havre. The mysterious device—a “Wurzburg Dish”—appeared to be a new form of radar technology: ultra-compact, highly precise, and pointed directly across the English Channel. Britain’s experts found it hard to believe the Germans had mastered such groundbreaking technology. But one young technic
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Kensington Publishing Churchills Shadow Raiders
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Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. Churchills Hellraisers
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Tiger I
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