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“christopher j nannini”

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  • Assessing War

    The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure

    by Leo J. Blanken, Hy Rothstein, Jason J. Lepore, Scott Sigmund Gartner, John Grenier0, Edward G. Lengel1, Brooks D. Simpson2, Col. Michael Richardson3, Brian McAllister Linn4, D. Scott Stephenson5, Gehrard Weinberg6, Conrad C. Crane7, Gregory Daddis8, William C. Hix9, Kalev I. Sepp0, Alejandro S. Hernandez1, Julian Ouellet2, Christopher J. Nannini3, Mark Stout4, Bradley J. Strawser5, Russell Muirhead6, Dorothy Denning7, Robert Reilly8, Aric P. Shafran9, Anthony H. Cordesman0 ...
    Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation.In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy

    The Action-Theoretic Basis of Practical Philosophy

    by Sandro Nannini ...
    Many important thinkers in the philosophical tradition, like Aristotle or Hume, have used an explicit theory of action as the basis of their respective normative theories of practical rationality and morality. The idea behind this architecture of theories is that action theory can inform us about the origin, bonds, reach and limits of practical reason. The aim of this book is to revive this direct ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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    Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and ... Read more

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  • Politeness

    Some Universals in Language Usage

    by Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

    Translated by Christian Lenhardt, Shierry Weber Nicholsen ...
    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range of moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative action, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourse ethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged.Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Military Strategy

    by John M. Collins ...
    John M. Collins has distilled the wisdom of historys great military minds to tutor readers on the necessary intellectual skills to win not only battles but also wars. He illuminates practices that worked well or poorly in the past, together with reasons why. He discusses national security interests, strategic building blocks, military strategies across the conflict spectrum, methods for developing ... Read more

    $46.45 CAD

  • Morality for Humans

    Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

    by Mark Johnson ...
    "A welcome renewal and defense of John Dewey's ethical naturalism, which Johnson claims is the only morality 'fit for actual human beings.'" — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsWhat is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Stick

    The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force

    by Eliot A. Cohen ...
    "Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry but today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military presence, thinking it outdated, unnecessary or even dangerous.In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen-a scholar and practitioner of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Vygotsky

    Philosophy and Education

    by Jan Derry ...
    Series series Journal of Philosophy of Education
    Vygotsky Philosophy and Education reassesses the works of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky work by arguing that his central ideas about the nature of rationality and knowledge were informed by the philosophic tradition of Spinoza and Hegel.Presents a reassessment of the works of Lev Vygotsky in light of the tradition of Spinoza and Hegel informing his workReveals Vygotsky’s connection with the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Trust and Power

    Translated by John Raffan, Kathryn Rooney, Howard Davis ...
    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    In this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power. He criticises those theoretical accounts whose roots lie in what he refers to as ideologies – accounts which use implicit beliefs in particular conceptions of human nature to explain and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Philosophies of Qualitative Research

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    Series series Understanding Qualitative Research
    In Philosophies of Qualitative Research, Svend Brinkmann explores the different philosophical paradigms and ideas that influence qualitative research today. Adopting a historical perspective, the book shows readers exactly how philosophical ideas have evolved and influenced qualitative research in both the past and present. Today, qualitative researchers tend to report on their philosophical ... Read more

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  • Conundrums

    A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis

    by Jon Mills ...
    2013 Goethe Award Winner! This is the first book of its kind to offer a sustained critique of contemporary psychoanalytic thought favoring relational, postmodern, and intersubjective perspectives, which largely define American psychoanalysis today. Conundrums turns an eye toward the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary theory; its theoretical relation to traditional psychoanalytic thought; ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD