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    Resurrection Pass [Dramatized Adaptation]

    by Kurt Anderson ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Zeke Alton, Laura C. Harris, Todd Scofield, Lawrence Redmond, Chris Genebach, Andy Brownstein, Thomas Penny, Lise Bruneau, Eric Messner, Marni Penning, Michael Glenn, Tim Getman, Bradley Smith, Terence Aselford, Patrick Bussink, Dani Stoller, Matthew Ward, Richard Rohan, Tracy Olivera, Colleen Delany ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    IT IS REAL . . .Some call it a spirit, a demon. Others, an all-consuming force of nature. According to Cree legend, it goes by the name of Wendigo. For a hundred years it has been sleeping. Resting beneath the earth. Buried in a godless no-man's-land known as Resurrection Pass . . .IT IS RISING . . .Led by half-Cree guide Jake Trueblood, a clandestine team of exploratory miners enter a remote ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patriots for Profit

    Contractors and the Military in U.S. National Security

    by Thomas Bruneau ...
    This book develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the armed forces in fulfilling roles & missions, and on their efficiency in terms of cost. The approach is applied to the United States using official documents and interviews with policy-makers. In addition to analyzing the impact of defense reform initiatives over the past thirty ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Church in Brazil

    The Politics of Religion

    by Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In 1980, Brazil was the largest Roman Catholic country in the world, with 90 percent of its more than 120 million people numbered among the faithful. The Church hierarchy became aware, however, that the religion practiced by the majority of its members was not that promoted by the institution, a point dramatized by the rapid growth of other religious movements in Brazil—particularly Protestant ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Reforming Intelligence

    Obstacles to Democratic Control and Effectiveness

    Edited by Thomas C. Bruneau, Steven C. Boraz ...
    These days, it's rare to pick up a newspaper and not see a story related to intelligence. From the investigations of the 9/11 commission, to accusations of illegal wiretapping, to debates on whether it's acceptable to torture prisoners for information, intelligence—both accurate and not—is driving domestic and foreign policy. And yet, in part because of its inherently secretive nature, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations

    Edited by Florina Cristiana Matei, Carolyn Halladay, Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil-military relations.The armed forces are central actors in most societies and are involved in many different roles. Amongst other activities, they engage in peace operations, support the police in fighting crime, support civilian authorities in ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Authoritarian Capitalism: Brazil's Contemporary Economic and Political Development

    Edited by Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    During the past decade, the potential offered by Brazil's size, resources, and location has begun to be realized. There are, however, a number of international and domestic obstacles to the country's continued development, as indicated by its extreme inflation rate and its foreign indebtedness. There are also serious questions about the social and political results of the Brazilian approach to ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Who Guards the Guardians and How

    Democratic Civil-Military Relations

    Edited by Thomas C. Bruneau, Scott D. Tollefson ...
    The continued spread of democracy into the twenty-first century has seen two-thirds of the almost two hundred independent countries of the world adopting this model. In these newer democracies, one of the biggest challenges has been to establish the proper balance between the civilian and military sectors. A fundamental question of power must be addressed—who guards the guardians and how?In this ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Acoustics

    by Michel Bruneau, Socit Franaise d'Acoustique ...
    Translated by Thomas Scelo ...
    The central theme of the chapters is acoustic propagation in fluid media, dissipative or non-dissipative, homogeneous or nonhomogeneous, infinite or limited, placing particular emphasis on the theoretical formulation of the problems considered. ... Read more

    $332.99 CAD

  • Power And Poverty

    Development And Development Projects In The Third World

    by Donald W. Attwood, Thomas C Bruneau, John G Galaty, D W Attwood ...
    This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluence and modernization. They demonstrate project variety, and the ecological, economic, political and social contexts within which development is attempted but seldom achieved. ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Maras

    Gang Violence and Security in Central America

    by Lucía Dammert, Elizabeth Skinner, Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    Sensational headlines have publicized the drug trafficking, brutal violence, and other organized crime elements associated with Central America's mara gangs, but there have been few clear-eyed analyses of the history, hierarchies, and future of the mara phenomenon. The first book to look specifically at the Central American gang problem by drawing on the perspectives of researchers from different ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

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  • National Security Cultures

    Patterns of Global Governance

    Edited by Emil J. Kirchner, James Sperling ...
    This edited collection examines changes in national security culture in the wake of international events that have threatened regional or global order, and analyses the effects of these divergent responses on international security.Tracing the links between national security cultures and preferred forms of security governance the work provides a systematic account of perceived security threats and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The International Arms Trade

    by Rachel Stohl, Suzette Grillot ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    The multi-billion dollar business of the international conventional arms trade involves virtually every country in the world. Around the globe, people's lives are being irrevocably changed by the effects of guns, tanks, and missiles. These weapons have the potential to cause a deadly and current threat - one responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.This succinct and accessible new ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD