Product Description: In T. E. Lawrence’s classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a “dream palace” of Arab nationalism. What he really inspired, however, was an American idea of the area now called the Middle East that has shaped U...read more

Product Description: Fear and terror have come to drive world politics, and the people who do the driving have shaped and used them to carry out their policies. As the world's political economy devolves into chaos, Globalization of American Fear Culture posits that violence and fear have become the new statecraft...read more

Product Description: This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War. The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated...read more

This new edition is written with two major objectives: (1) to help students understand audit decision making and evidence accumulation, and (2) to reflect changes in the profession by integrating assurance and attestation services as well as risk issues. This 6th edition introduces two new tools that practitioners use to assess risk and to identify assurance service opportunities: Client Strategy Templates and Balanced Scorecards.

Product Description: Harold Brown served as U.S. secretary of defense when the Soviet Union posed an existential threat with superior conventional force capability and a daunting nuclear weapons arsenal. No one could have been better suited to deter the Soviets during that most dangerous period in the Cold War...read more

Product Description: This volume assesses Franklin Roosevelt's role as war leader from the vantage point of the twenty-first century, by looking at different aspects of his foreign policy.

Product Description: This two-volume set provides a chronological view of the foreign policy/national security doctrines of key American presidents from Washington to Obama, framed by commentary on the historical context for each, discussions of major themes, and examinations of the lasting impact of these policies...read more

Product Description: In response to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the United States embarked on a dramatic and sustained effort to reform and revitalize its homeland security policies and structures. This book offers an examination of the evolution of policy and the concurrent restructuring of existing agencies, as well as the creation of new bodies designed to counter the threat of transnational terrorism...read more

Product Description: An analysis of how America overreacted to Pearl Harbor at the outset of World Wart II by building the Alcan highway and other projects, believing that Alaska would be Japan's next U.S. target. This governmental panic to "do something" resulted in massive spending on unnecessary actions similar to what happened after 9/11-including waste, profiteering, bureacratic infighting, coverups, and an assertion of America's dominating role in the world...read more

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Product Description: This new edition is written with two major objectives: (1) to help students understand audit decision making and evidence accumulation, and (2) to reflect changes in the profession by integrating assurance and attestation services as well as risk issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For over fifty years, the United States has failed to protect even its most vital secrets. Each new spy scandal creates public anxiety which lasts only as long as media scrutiny. And yet, as AMERICA TWICE BETRAYED eloquently portrays, the problem is not only one of individuals willingly betraying our country, but of a system that cannot function effectively...read more

Product Description: From the very start, at the age of twenty-one, Herbert York was swept into the century's most daring and dangerous technical achievement, the making of the atomic bomb. In Arms and the Physicist, York takes us backstage to witness key events of our time: to the Manhattan Project for the birth of the atomic bomb; to Lawrence Livermore where the H-bomb was built; to Washington to eavesdrop on how post-war history was being forged; and to Geneva where he tried to stem the madness...read more