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War on Terror, Inc.: Corporate Profiteering from the Politics of Fear

A critical assessment of the practices of commercial military suppliers who have profited from the War on Terror evaluates the relationships between political decision-makers and wartime commercial ventures, the wartime contributions of private contractors, and the moral issues associated with wartime profit making.

By Solomon Hughes

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9781844671236 | Verso Books, February 28, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A critical assessment of the practices of commercial military suppliers who have profited from the War on Terror evaluates the relationships between political decision-makers and wartime commercial ventures, the wartime contributions of private contractors, and the moral issues associated with wartime profit making.

Defence Industries in Europe: Emerging Challenges and Functions

By Peter Schmidt and Trevor Taylor

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Hardcover:

9780714649054 | Frank Cass & Co, September 30, 2007, cover price $150.00

Paperback:

9780714644615 | Frank Cass & Co, November 30, 2007, cover price $39.95

Private Actors and Security Governance: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

Product Description: The privatisation of security - understood as both the top-down decision to outsource military and security-related tasks to private firms and the bottom-up activities of armed non-state actors such as rebel opposition groups, insurgents, militias and warlord factions - have profound implications for the state's monopoly on the legitimate use of force...read more

By Alan Bryden (editor) and Marina Caparini (editor)

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9783825898403 | Lit Verlag, August 31, 2007, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: The privatisation of security - understood as both the top-down decision to outsource military and security-related tasks to private firms and the bottom-up activities of armed non-state actors such as rebel opposition groups, insurgents, militias and warlord factions - have profound implications for the state's monopoly on the legitimate use of force.

Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory

Product Description: This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology. The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and theories by architects and architectural writers from 1900 to 2004...read more

By William W. Braham (editor), Jonathan A. Hale (editor) and John Stanislav Sadar (editor)

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9780415346535 | Routledge, April 30, 2007, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology.

9780080409641, titled "Co-Operation or Competition? Defense Procurement Options for the 1990s" | Pergamon Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $15.25 | also contains Co-Operation or Competition? Defense Procurement Options for the 1990s

9780120584604, titled "The Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis" | Academic Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $97.00 | also contains The Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis

Paperback:

9780415346542 | Routledge, December 28, 2006, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Provides information on key texts in the fast developing discipline of the philosophy of technology.

Miscellaneous:

9780203624333 | Routledge, December 18, 2006, cover price $49.95

The Arms Trade

The dangers and benefits of arms trading affect all parts of the world. This book examines the fundamental questions surrounding the arms trade today. What is the arms trade? Is the arms trade legal? What are weapons of mass destruction? Are there benefits from the arms trade? Will the arms trade ever stop?

By Clive Gifford

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9781593891541 | Chrysalis Education, August 1, 2004, cover price $32.80 | About this edition: The dangers and benefits of arms trading affect all parts of the world.

9781844580798 | Gardners Books, May 20, 2004, cover price $28.55 | About this edition: This series examines important issues facing the world today.

Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

By P. W. Singer

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Hardcover:

9780801441141 | Cornell Univ Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $39.95

Paperback:

9780801474361 | Revised edition (Cornell Univ Pr, January 3, 2007), cover price $19.95

9780801489150 | Cornell Univ Pr, March 31, 2004, cover price $19.95

Jane's International Defense Directory 2004

By Simon

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Hardcover:

9780710625502 | Janes Information Group, November 1, 2003, cover price $811.00

The Arms Trade

Summarizes the arguments in the debate over the selling of arms, from small pistols to military computers, provides facts and figures, and suggests solutions to the problems associated with this industry.

By Richard Bingley

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9781410900463 | Not Applicable, February 1, 2003, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Summarizes the arguments in the debate over the selling of arms, from small pistols to military computers, provides facts and figures, and suggests solutions to the problems associated with this industry.

Library:

9780739864319 | Heinemann/Raintree, February 1, 2003, cover price $32.86 | About this edition: Summarizes the arguments in the debate over the selling of arms, from small pistols to military computers, provides facts and figures, and suggests solutions to the problems associated with this industry.

Prebinding:

9780613781251, titled "Arms Trade" | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: Based on the "Need to Know" series, "Just the Facts" aims to educate teenagers without patronizing the reader or simplifying the issue.

Jane's International Defense Directory 2003

By Simon

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Hardcover:

9780710624369 | Janes Information Group, November 1, 2002, cover price $765.00

Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare

Product Description: Analyzing the growth of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco from 1910 to 1961, the author discredits the assumption that the industrialization of the Sunbelt was a result of a partnership between industry and the military. He argues that municipalities used federal resources to build urban empires and metropolitan-military complexes...read more

By Roger W. Lotchin

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9780195047790 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Urbanization and wars have been two of the most important continuities in modern history.

Paperback:

9780252071034 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, August 1, 2002), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Analyzing the growth of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco from 1910 to 1961, the author discredits the assumption that the industrialization of the Sunbelt was a result of a partnership between industry and the military.

Israel's Aerospace and Defense Industry

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9780710624956, titled "Israels Aerospace and Defense Industry" | Janes Information Group, July 1, 2002, cover price $995.00

9780710623706 | Janes Information Group, May 1, 2001, cover price $9.95

China's Entrepreneurial Army

Product Description: This book examines the rise and fall of the Chinese military business complex between the early 1980s and late 1990s. Cheung analyzes the commercial success of this economic powerhouse, its impact on civil-military relations, and the broader benefits and drawbacks of the military's participation on money-making activities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Tai Ming Cheung and Ming Cheung Tai

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9780199246908 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 7, 2002, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: This book examines the rise and fall of the Chinese military business complex between the early 1980s and late 1990s.

Jane's International Defense Directory 2002

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Hardcover:

9780710623195 | Janes Information Group, November 1, 2001, cover price $725.00

The Economics of Defence: 82 Articles, Dating from 1936 to 1997

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By Keith Hartley (editor) and Todd Sandler (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781852789459 | Edward Elgar Pub, November 1, 2001, cover price $800.00

Subcontracting Opportunities With Dod Major Prime Contractors Fy 1999

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Paperback:

9780160505492 | United States Government Printing, December 1, 2000, cover price $29.00

Jane's International Defence Directory

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Hardcover:

9780710620217 | Janes Information Group, November 1, 2000, cover price $685.00

Captives of the Cold War Economy: The Struggle for Defense Conversion in American Communities

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By John J. Accordino

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Hardcover:

9780275965617 | Praeger Pub Text, July 1, 2000, cover price $138.00

The Soviet Defence-Industry Complex from Stalin to Khrushchev

The huge complex of Soviet institutions and enterprises specializing in military production powerfully influenced the course of the 20th century through resistance to imperial Japan, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and nuclear stalemate with America in the Cold War. Based on collaborative research by Russian and British scholars in the hitherto secret archives of the Soviet government, party, and armed forces, this book is a pioneering investigation of the economic dynamics and social and political significance of Soviet defense. (view table of contents)

By John Barber (editor) and Mark Harrison (editor)

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9780333727638 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 2000, cover price $189.00

9780312226022 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 1999, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The huge complex of Soviet institutions and enterprises specializing in military production powerfully influenced the course of the 20th century through resistance to imperial Japan, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and nuclear stalemate with America in the Cold War.

Rescuing Prometheus

The author shows how the socalled 'militaryindustrial complex' succeeded in revolutionizing aerospace, computers, and communications by changing how technology was used, understood, and managed in business, industry, and government. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Thomas Parke Hughes

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Hardcover:

9780679411512 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, August 1, 1998), cover price $28.50 | About this edition: Looks at how the military and private industry worked together on four projects, including the SAGE interactive digital computer, the Atlas Missile Project, the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project, and ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet

Paperback:

9780679739388 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 2000), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The author shows how the socalled 'militaryindustrial complex' succeeded in revolutionizing aerospace, computers, and communications by changing how technology was used, understood, and managed in business, industry, and government.

Restructuring & Reform: Business Development Opportunities in Military Industry Conversion to Civilian Markets

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9789211231298 | United Nations Pubns, December 1, 1999, cover price $45.00

Jane's International Defence Directory: Quick-Reference to Key Organisations, People and Products in the World of Defence

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Paperback:

9780710619082 | Annual edition (Janes Information Group, December 1, 1999), cover price $575.00

Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace

Explores the peacetime condition of the U.S. military as, without clear goals, it begins to slowly consume itself

By William Greider

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9781891620096 | Public Affairs, November 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Explores the peacetime condition of the U.

Paperback:

9781891620454 | Public Affairs, December 12, 1999, cover price $14.00

The Political Economy of Defense Spending Around the World

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By Uk Heo

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Hardcover:

9780773480179 | Edwin Mellen Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $99.95

Defence and the Environment

Product Description: These Special Reports are a series of professional studies that provide a detailed, expert analysis of significant international markets and identify potential new business opportunities. Each has been researched and prepared by an expert in the field...read more

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Paperback:

9780710616654 | 2 spl sub edition (Janes Information Group, February 1, 1999), cover price $765.00 | About this edition: These Special Reports are a series of professional studies that provide a detailed, expert analysis of significant international markets and identify potential new business opportunities.

China's Aerospace Industry: The Industry and It's Products Assessed

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Paperback:

9780710616241 | Special edition (Janes Information Group, February 1, 1999), cover price $795.00

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