The textbook provides an introduction to the scientific study of politics. It presents the basic tools to become both critical consumers and beginning producers of scholarly research in polititcal science

Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849, that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston brahmin whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in 1849 was a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. Out of these stories -- with all of their bizarre coincidences and contradictions -- Schama creates a dazzling and supremely vital work of historical imagination

The book describes the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 in fascinating detail. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the crushing defeats of the Prussian army in Denmark, the French emperor Napoleon III vowed to subjugate Prussia, but Prussia and its German allies had twice as many troops as the French, in July 1870, the conflict was too close to the end of hostilities on both sides

In this volume on Stability Economics begins to fill the gap that expeditionary economics did not: the operational details - theoretical relationship between economics and security, strategic, political, and environmental contexts do military planners need to consider in order to write economic development lines of effort into operations, etc

Kahneman's research has shown that people's constant thinking errors are caused more by the mechanism of thinking itself than by the influence of emotions. Today, researchers agree with the thesis that our minds are prone to systematic errors. Kahneman's main idea is to demonstrate the workings of the mind, taking into account the latest discoveries in cognitive and social psychology

Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War. The Union victory at Vicksburg was hailed with as much celebration in the North as the Gettysburg victory and Ballard makes a convincing case that it was equally important to the ultimate resolution of the conflict

In both text and photography, the story of September 11 is told through a selection of powerfully moving artifacts from the 9/11 museum’s collection that serve as touchstones to the day and its aftermath

Using essays from renowned archaeologists, historians and scholars as the core of each chapter, this book explains Kazakhstan’s long and complex history as a single flowing narrative, complemented by a range of beautiful maps and images, from exquisite museum pieces

David Glantz examines the Soviet study of war, the re-emergence of the operation level and its connection with deep battle, the evolution of the Soviet theory of operations in depth before 1941, and its refinement and application in the European theatre and the Far East between 1941 and 1945

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