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  • In Search of a Peace Settlement

    Egypt and Israel between the Wars, 1967-1973

    by M. Gat ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This is the first examination of the Israeli and Egyptian peace process between 1967-1973, which highlights the rise and fall of Soviet influence after the Six Day War and explores how the increasing importance of America's political leadership affected the region. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Ideological Fixation

    From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

    by Azar Gat ...
    Combining insights from evolutionary psychology with a broad sweep through history, down to the ideological civil war ripping the United States apart, the book explores the deeper roots of people's inability to accept claims about reality which come from the opposite ideological camp, no matter how valid they might be. After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the 'death of ideology', ideological ... Read more

    $27.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nations

    The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism

    by Azar Gat ...
    What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or 'invented'. He sweeps across history and around the globe to reveal that ethnicity has always been highly political and that nations and national states have ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace

    But Will War Rebound?

    by Azar Gat ...
    Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight and can they stop. Spanning warfare from prehistory to the 21st century, the book shows that, neither an irresistible drive nor a cultural invention, deadly violence and warfare have figured prominently in our behavioural toolkit since the dawn of our species. People have always alternated between ... Read more

    $17.89 CAD

  • Victorious and Vulnerable

    Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is Still Imperiled

    by Azar Gat ...
    Series series Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society
    In the blink of an eye, liberal democracy's moment of triumph was darkened by new threats, challenges, and doubts. Rejecting the view that liberal democracy's twentieth-century victory was inevitable, distinguished student of war Azar Gat argues that it largely rested on contingent factors and was more doubtful than has been assumed. The world's liberal democracies, with the United States at the ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1956–1975

    From Violent Conflict to a Peace Process

    by Moshe Gat ...
    Series series Israeli History, Politics and Society
    The Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1956–1975 contains a collection of articles that examine select issues between the end of the Suez Campaign in November 1956 and the Sinai II, or Interim Agreement, signed by Israel and Egypt in September 1975.The book provides a comprehensive overview of the struggle between the three superpowers – the UK, the United States and the Soviet Union – and the effects this ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • China Automotive

    From Tech Transfer Nation to Startup Super Nation

    by Hagai Gat ...
    China Automotive: From Tech Transfer to Startup Super NationHow did China go from copying Western car tech to leading the global EV race?I never imagined that one day I would stand on a stage at a major auto show in China alongside industry leaders from Xiaomi, BAIC, Dongfeng, and others to discuss the Chinese automotive sector.While this book mainly discusses the automotive sector, it also ... Read more

    $13.52 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War in Human Civilization

    by Azar Gat ...
    Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of war today - is it a declining phenomenon or simply changing its shape? In this truly global study of war and civilization, Azar Gat sets out to find definitive answers to these questions in an attempt ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

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    My Family's Survival

    The true story of how the Shwartz family escaped the Nazis and survived the Holocaust

    by Aviva Gat ...
    Narrated by Callie Beaulieu, Neil Hellegers ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    For the Shwartz family, survival was the only option. Their will to live, and a bit a luck, kept the family safe during the Holocaust, bringing them across Eastern Europe all the way to Israel.In 1937, the Shwartz family lived a calm life in their small village in Poland. Fifteen-year-old Rachel liked to sing and go out dancing at a local night club, while her older brother David was busy running ... Read more

    Was $34.99 CAD Now $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ideological Fixation

    From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

    by Azar Gat ...
    Narrated by Shawn K. Jain ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 16 min

    After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the "death of ideology," ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with renewed intensity throughout the world. In the United States they have become particularly venomous. Each side in America's escalating ideological civil war charges the other with concocting "fake news" and "alternative facts." The other side is widely viewed as malicious, irrational ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Clausewitz Myth

    Or the Emperor's New Clothes

    by Azar Gat ...
    Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) is, by far, the most celebrated military theorist, whose prestige has reached new heights. However, this book argues that his reputation has been largely inflated because of the notorious difficulties of understanding his major book, On War (1832). Many of Clausewitz's interpreters, struggling to make sense of his work, have not admitted - to themselves no less than ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • War and Strategy in the Modern World

    From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terror

    by Azar Gat ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This volume brings together some of Professor Azar Gat's most significant articles on the evolution of strategic doctrines and the transformation of war during the 20th and early 21st centuries.It sheds new light on the rise of the German Panzer arm and the doctrine of Blitzkrieg between the two world wars; explores the factors behind the formation of strategic policy and military doctrine in the ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD