La Place De La Concorde Suisse

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374182418
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Place de la Concorde Suisse written by John McPhee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1984-05-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In admirable disregard for the orthodoxy of public relations, the Swiss Army has chosen Luc Massy to be the soldier companion of the American observer John McPhee during various exercices of a "refresher" course among the high Alps of the Canto de Valais.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708533
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Place de la Concorde Suisse written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Israelis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model.

Author : John MacPhee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782724227062
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La place de la Concorde suisse written by John MacPhee and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John McPhee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571134847
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swiss Army: la Place de la Concorde Suisse written by John McPhee and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526174030
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the end written by David L. Pike and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global South. The argument draws examples from literature and literary criticism, film, music, the historical and social scientific record and past and present physical sites to consider the bunker as a material form, an image and as a fantasy that took shape in the global North in the 1960s and that spread globally into the twenty-first century. After the End reminds us not only that most of the world’s peoples have lived with or died from apocalyptic conditions for centuries, but that the Cold War imaginaries that grew from and fed those conditions, continue to survive as well.

Author : John Beck
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789143063
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape as Weapon written by John Beck and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avantgarde, abandoned places and things—decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelands—are now just as likely to be seen as assets for entrepreneurs or connoisseurs of the authentically worn-out. This is the age of patina, where the material remains of times past—the fields and factories, test sites, back alleys, machines, and statues—are coveted, adored, mourned, and commemorated, as well as sometimes despised. Through an exploration of a wide range of recent film, photography, art, and writing about place, Landscape as Weapon argues that these abandoned sites are a critical arena for debate about the meaning of space and time under late capitalism.

Author : Alison J. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317042581
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods written by Alison J. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues. As an edited collection, it brings together an extensive group of authors from a range of disciplinary perspectives whose chapters engage with the conceptual, practical and political questions raised when doing military research. The book considers a wide range of questions around research about, on and with military organisations, personnel and activities, from diverse starting-points across the social sciences, arts and humanities. Each chapter in this volume: Describes the nature of the military research topic under scrutiny and explains what research practices were undertaken and why. Discusses the author's research activities, addressing the nature of their engagement with their subjects and explaining how the method or approach under scrutiny was distinctive because of the military context or subject of the research. Reflects on the author’s research experiences, and the specific, often unique, negotiations with the politics and practices of military institutions and military personnel before, during and after their research fieldwork. The book provides a focussed overview of methodological approaches to critical studies of military personnel and institutions, and processes and practices of militarisation and militarism. In particular, it engages with the growth in qualitative approaches to military research, particularly research carried out on military topics outside military research institutions. The handbook provides the reader with a comprehensive guide to how critical military research is being undertaken by social scientists and humanities scholars today, and sets out suggestions for future approaches to military research. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, war and conflict studies, and research methods in general.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708452
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second John McPhee Reader written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1996-02-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four books on geology that comprise Annals of the Former World.

Author : Clark C Abt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429711581
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Strategy For Terminating A Nuclear War written by Clark C Abt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avoiding a nuclear war, or ending one if avoidance fails, is an important but relatively unexplored aspect of nuclear doctrine. Dr. Abt examines the feasibility of antagonists' agreeing to exclude their open cities from nuclear targeting and to replace strategic bombardment with retaliatory invasion to create less of a hair[1]trigger deterrent. Critical net assessments by U.S. strategists and the effects of such a strategy on the Soviet Union and on U.S. allies are considered, along with problems implementation might pose. The author contends that both deterrence and the potential for limiting damage are strengthened by pre-war plans for a nuclear ceasefire and stalemate short of holocaust.

Author : David W. Hall
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739111062
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding written by David W. Hall and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that the American founders were more greatly influenced by Calvinism than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood. Calvinism's insistence on human rulers' tendency to err played a significant role in the founders' prescription of limited government and fed the distinctly American philosophy in which political freedom for citizens is held as the highest value. Hall's timely work countervails many scholars' doubt in the intellectual efficacy of religion by showing that religious teachings have led to such progressive ideals as American democracy and freedom.