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Studies in Intelligence eBook Series

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  • The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War

    The State-Private Network

    Edited by Helen Laville, Hugh Wilford ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This new book examines the construction, activities and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War.By moving beyond state-dominated, ‘top-down’ interpretations of international relations and exploring instead the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and cultures, it presents a radical new approach to the study of propaganda and American foreign policy and ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

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  • The Mauritanian (originally published as Guantánamo Diary)

    by Larry Siems ...
    The "profound and disturbing" national bestseller written by a Guantánamo prisoner—now a major feature film starring Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster ( The New York Times Book Review).When The Mauritanian was first published as Guantánamo Diary in 2015—heavily redacted by the U.S. government—Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA

    A Father, a Son, and the CIA

    by Scott C. Johnson ...
    What happens when a father asks his son to lie for the greater good?Growing up, Scott C. Johnson always suspected that his father was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the CIA’s most trusted officers. At first the secret was thrilling. But over time Scott began to have doubts. How could a man so rigorously trained to deceive and manipulate simply ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Mr. Putin REV

    Operative in the Kremlin

    by Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    Fiona Hill and other U.S. public servants have been recognized as Guardians of the Year in TIME's 2019 Person of the Year issue.From the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at war with the West.Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How does he look at the outside world? What does he want, and how far is he willing to go?The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The American Freedoms Primer

    A Citizen's Guidebook to the Most Celebrated Declarations of American Liberty

    by Les Adams ...
    The American Freedoms Primer is a compilation of the most historically significant speeches and writings on liberty, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Many of the declarations contained in these pages have influenced and inspired legislation, shaping United States policies on human equality and civil rights. Several works by theorists and philosophers who drove the expansion of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Lexicon of Terror

    Argentina and the Legacies of Torture

    by Marguerite Feitlowitz ...
    "We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Change the World Without Taking Power

    The Meaning of Revolution Today

    by John Holloway ...
    Series series Get Political
    The wave of political demonstrations since the Battle of Seattle in 2001 have crystallised a new trend in left-wing politics. Modern protest movements are grounding their actions in both Marxism and Anarchism, fighting for radical social change in terms that have nothing to do with the taking of state power. This is in clear opposition to the traditional Marxist theory of revolution, which centres ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quarterly Essay 7 Paradise Betrayed

    West Papua's Struggle for Independence

    by John Martinkus ...
    Series Book 7 - Quarterly Essay
    In Paradise Betrrayed John Martinkus details what is being done to West Papua by its Indonesian overlords. He illustrates how those who seek independence are killed and tortured for their cause. There is now no one like the Papuan leader Theys Eluay, murdered in 2001 by the Indonesian military, and a campaign of death and terror has been launched on those who raise the Morning Star flag. Martinkus ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Activists' Handbook

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy

    by Aidan Ricketts ...
    A priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get involved in grass-roots movements and beyond.Providing all essential practical tools, methods and strategies needed for a successful campaign and extensively discussing legal and ethical issues, this book empowers its readers to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Eye of the Storm

    The View from the Centre of a Political Scandal

    by Rob Wilson ...
    MPs' expenses in 2009. Phone hacking in 2011. 'Plebgate' in 2012. If a good speech or a ground-breaking new policy fails to get people talking, you can be sure a juicy scandal will do the trick. Our instantaneous news culture of social networks, blogs and Twitter feeds means politicians now, more than ever, can find themselves the focus of every journalist in the country in what seems like the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beautiful Trouble

    A Toolbox for Revolution

    by Andrew Boyd, Dave Oswald Mitchell ...
    "Elegant and incendiary." -Naomi Klein. Beautiful Trouble brings together dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. Sophisticated enough for veteran activists, accessible enough for newbies, this compendium of troublemaking wisdom is a must-have for aspiring changemakers. Showcasing the synergies between ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Modern Hatreds

    The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War

    by Stuart J. Kaufman ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Ethnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an enigma. What is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors?Stuart Kaufman rejects the notion of permanent "ancient hatreds" as the answer. Dissatisfied as well with a purely rationalist explanation, he finds the roots of ethnic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD