Seth: 937 books
Afghanistan's Local War
Building Local Defense Forces
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
In Afghanistan, local communities have played a critical role in security, especially in rural areas. Afghan national security forces are important to the top-down strategy, but the Afghan government and NATO forces also need to leverage local communities to gain a complementary bottom-up strategy....
The Deadly Politics of Giving
Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2006
A clash of cultures on the North American continent.
With a focus on indigenous cultural systems and agency theory, this volume analyzes Contact Period relations between North American Middle Atlantic Algonquian Indians and the Spanish Jesuits at Ajacan (1570–72) and English settlers...
A Persistent Threat
The Evolution of al Qa'ida and Other Salafi Jihadists
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
This report examines the status and evolution of al Qa’ida and other Salafi-jihadist groups, and uses qualitative and quantitative data to assess whether this movement has strengthened. The author uses this analysis to examine U.S. strategic options to counter al Qa’ida and other terrorist groups based on the threat level and the capacity of local governments.
by Seth G. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Examines reintegrating Taliban and other insurgents into their local communities in Afghanistan and outlines steps to facilitate that reintegration process. The author discusses the factors that increase the likelihood of reintegrating fighters and the key options for fighters as they consider reintegration....
How Terrorist Groups End
Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
All terrorist groups eventually end. But how do they end? The evidence since 1968 indicates that most groups have ended because (1) they joined the political process (43 percent) or (2) local police and intelligence agencies arrested or killed key members (40 percent). Military force has rarely been...
Daughters of the Puritans
A Group of Brief Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK, 1789 – 1867
MARY LOVELL WARE, 1798 – 1849
LYDIA MARIA CHILD, 1802 – 1880
DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX, 1802 – 1887
SARAH MARGARET...
Guidelines for Laboratory Design
Health, Safety, and Environmental Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Proven and tested guidelines for designing ideal labs for scientific investigations
Now in its Fourth Edition, Guidelines for Laboratory Design continues to enable readers to design labs that make it possible to conduct scientific investigations in a safe and healthy environment. The book brings...
by Indoo Seth
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Love Laws & Outlaws tells the story of a young couple who overcome the trials and tribulations thrown at them by society, to hold on to the one thing that matters to them more than their lives - the love they hold for each other. Vikram, a doctor, and Radha, a lawyer, hail from Haryana. However,...
Partnership Governance in Public Management
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The ability to create and sustain partnerships is a skill and a strategic capacity that utilizes the strengths and offsets the weaknesses of each actor. Partnerships between the public and private sectors allow each to enjoy the benefits of the other: the public sector benefits from increased entrepreneurship...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
Please Undo This Hurt
A Tor.Com Original
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Ever feel like you care too much? After a breakup, after the funeral...it feels like the way to win at life is to care the least.
That's not an option for Dominga, an EMT who cares too much, or her drinking buddy Nico, who just lost his poor cat. Life hurts. They drink. They talk:
Nico's tired of...
Beyond Walls and Cages
Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized...
by Seth Giolle
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Customer Rights in Retail Situations lays out what some customers feel are their Rights in a Retail Situation. Other shoppers, employees, and supervisors greatly disagree, but these dedicated egotists continue to believe they are completely in the right. This book is a satire giving their self-centered arguments all possible support I could muster, in a sarcastic tone of course!
Difference and Disease
Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018