Product Description: Long considered the masters of counterinsurgency, the British military encountered significant problems in Iraq and Afghanistan when confronted with insurgent violence. In their effort to apply the principles and doctrines of past campaigns, they failed to prevent Basra and Helmand from descending into lawlessness, criminality, and violence...read more

Product Description: Airpower for Strategic Effect provides a critical, strategic history of airpower as well as a new general theory. A wholly original work combining ideas drawn from existing literature on airpower with Colin S. Gray's own research on strategy, this study situates the story of airpower within a larger history of modern strategy, reevaluating the benefits of airpower from World War I to recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan...read more

Product Description: British photographer Colin Gray began to take photographs of his parents in the 1960s, when he was just five years old. This book describes the years from 2000 through to his mother's death, when hospital and church visits became more frequent, ailments more serious and medication regimes more complex...read more

Product Description: SPSS 12 Made Simple provides a step-by-step coverage of every aspect of data analysis with SPSS from data entry to interpretation of the output. As well as advice on data entry and checking, there is guidance on the best ways of describing a data set and the choice of an appropriate statistical technique...read more

Enterprise and Culture is a uniquely wide-ranging, insightful and well-informed critical evaluation of the economic and social project of creating an enterprise culture.Colin Gray argues that the failure of small enterprise policy is not just a question of economics, but is also caused by psychological and cultural factors. The book demonstrates that the individualism at the centre of enterprise culture policies is, itself, the main impediment to the successful growth and development of small enterprises.

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Product Description: Encouraging businesses to grow and promoting new businesses has been a policy feature of recent governments, but businesses cannot be turned on like a tap. Growth in business is usually not painless and owners of small businesses have to address a number of problems associated with growth before they can develop their business successfully...read more