Product Description: Since 2001, Western forces have been involved in a series of major military campaigns, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan but also in Africa. For all the sophistication of the contemporary Western way of war with its digital technologies and precision weapons, infantry soldier have been frequently involved in close combat of an intensity which is comparable to the wars of the twentieth century...read more

As a result of new strategic threats, Europe's land forces are currently undergoing a historic transformation which may reflect wider processes of European integration. Europe's mass, mainly conscript armies are being replaced by smaller, more capable, professionalised militaries concentrated into new operational headquarters and rapid reaction brigades, able to plan, command and execute global military interventions. At the same time, these headquarters and brigades are co-operating with each other across national borders at a level which would have been inconceivable in the twentieth century. As a result, a transnational military network is appearing in Europe, the forces in which are converging on common forms of military expertise. This is a groundbreaking study of the military dimensions of European integration, which have been largely ignored until now. It will appeal to scholars across the social sciences interested in the progress of the European project, and the nature of the military today.

Product Description: This book reviews Samian ware chronology, c. AD 150-275. A dating scheme is proposed, based upon the stratigraphic association of Samian ware with coins, and using the statistical strength of association between potters or styles with each other and with dated deposits...read more

Product Description: Drawing on the work of Gadamer, the book demonstrates that a sociology which focuses on social relations does not imply a return to idealism, nor a retreat into individualism, nor a rejection of critique. Rather, a hermeneutic sociology which prioritises human social relations is the only coherent paradigm which is available today...read more

Product Description: As pundits and politicians remind us at every election cycle or turn of the television dial, the United States sees itself as the world’s greatest democracy. But what citizens might also hear, if they knew how to listen, is the grinding of two tectonic plates on which this democracy was established...read more

Product Description: The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular society, to be understood only in terms of its values, behaviour and institutions and the distribution of social and political power within it...read more

A young girl brings cupcakes to school to share with her classmates, but her teacher disapproves because the cupcakes are not all decorated the same. The child's father uses the event as an opportunity to teach her about tolerance for differences.

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An examination of the British constitutional tradition exploring where it is now heading. It describes the constitutional changes over the last 30 years of the 20th century, and it maintains that, although no one seems to have noticed the fact, the traditional British constitution no longer exists.

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Product Description: Launched on a wave of euphoria in 1981, the SDP aroused the hopes and enthusiasm of millions of people. Promising to break the mould of British politics, its leaders included three of the most respected figures in British public life--Roy Jenkins, David Owen, and Shirley Williams...read more

Product Description: Jerusalem Revealed:

In a perceptive analysis of the American political scene, a British political expert discusses why American politicians spend so much time campaigning and explains how politicians' vulnerability has led to budget, decision-making, and policy-making problems. 15,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by King, Anthony

Product Description: This bibliographical guide covers a selection of 5000 of the most important books and articles on British archaeology. Ranging from the Palaeolithic to 19th-century industrial archaeology in Great Britain and Ireland, the bibliography presents the reference in a clear, classified format, with each period subdivided for easy reference...read more

Looks at Roman ruins in France and Germany, including recent finds, and describes what life was like under the reign of the Roman Empire