Thomas Preston: 10 books
Pandora's Trap
Presidential Decision Making and Blame Avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
How important is presidential personality and leadership style in foreign policy decisions? To answer this question, Thomas Preston takes readers inside the Bush administration's decision-making process and use of intelligence to better understand how administration officials justified the Iraq War—and...
From Lambs to Lions
Future Security Relationships in a World of Biological and Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
While many books discuss how nations can prevent the proliferation of biological and nuclear weapons, this unique and controversial volume begins with the premise that these weapons will certainly multiply despite our desperate desire to slow this process. How worried should we be and what should...
The President and His Inner Circle
Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2001
Few would argue that presidential policies and performance would have been the same whether John F. Kennedy or Richard Nixon became president in 1960, or if Jimmy Carter instead of Ronald Reagan had won the White House in 1980. Indeed, in recent elections, the character, prior policy experience, or...
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God
Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God is a collection of essays on the religious communication of members of the Democratic Party, past and present-in office, while campaigning, and in their public and private writing. While many books on the market address issues at the intersection...
by Thomas Preston
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...
Introduction to Political Psychology
3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This comprehensive, user-friendly introductory textbook to political psychology explores the psychological origins of political behavior. The authors introduce readers to a broad range of theories, concepts, and case studies of political activity to illustrate that behavior. The book examines many...
by Nicholas Royle, Claire-Louise Bennett, Neil Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year.
Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British...
Synthetic Biology and Morality
Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The...
by Preston Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
This book is a restatement of the life and teachings of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Like an earlier effort by Thomas Jefferson, who produced The Jefferson Bible in the early 1800's, its purpose is to distill from the Scriptures only those verses...
Guardian
Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA's War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Tom Pecora is prepared to draw back the curtain on the little-known and misunderstood world of the CIA protective operations—security teams who work on the front lines in some of the most dangerous places in the world, doing battle with America’s most determined enemies in the War on Terror and...