Steven Simon: 16 books
by Ray Takeyh, Steven Simon
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
A bold reexamination of U.S. influence in the Middle East during the Cold War.
The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war, and the Syrian civil war—these contemporary conflicts have deep roots in the Middle East’s postwar emergence from colonialism.
In The Pragmatic...
by Steven Simon Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Would you like to regain passion for your work in your next job? Has your job search stalled, or does it lack direction? Has it been a while since you've searched for a new job? This short, no-fluff, comprehensive guide provides unique, high-value expert guidance and quickly highlights crucial,...
The Next Attack
The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
The authors of the bestseller The Age of Sacred Terror show how the United States is losing the war on terror and what we need to do if we're serious about winning it.
We are losing. Four years and two wars after September 11, 2001, the United States is no closer to victory in the "war...
by Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this book shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched the rise of al-Qaeda and helped coordinate America’s fight against Usama bin Laden and his organization. They...
The Sixth Crisis
Iran, Israel, America, and the Rumors of War
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
There have been five central crises in America's post World War II encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth. Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapons capability, and the prospect of Israel launching air strikes to stop it, are ingredients for a conflict that could...
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle,...
by Antonio Simon Jr, Bryan Cassiday, Reed W. Huston
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Volume of two this award-winning series emerges from the shadows with a fresh crop of extreme horror. This collection of ten stories features authors from all over the globe for an international perspective on fear. Take care as you reach into these dark places, for the things here bite, and you may...
Our Separate Ways
The Struggle for the Future of the U.S.Israel Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The future of the relationship between Israel and America is deeply uncertain: the current political leadership of both countries is hostile to the other, there is no longer a sense of shared strategic focus, and demographic changes are forcing the countries further apart with every passing year....
Diasporas
Concepts, Intersections, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping...
US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy
Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
While domestic issues loom large in voters' minds during American presidential elections, matters of foreign policy have consistently shaped candidates and their campaigns. From the start of World War II through the collapse of the Soviet Union, presidential hopefuls needed to be perceived as credible...
by Steven Fonts, Ramiro Perez de Pereda, Antonio Simon Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
These twenty-five poems explore the dark paths on our walks through life: addiction, bereavement, solitude. These are the forgotten spaces, blighted areas we pretend don't exist. Everybody's got one. For some, it's outside their windows; others, it's under their very roofs. But regardless of where...
The Democratic Arts of Mourning
Political Theory and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
The Democratic Arts of Mourning reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. In recent decades, political theorists have increasingly examined and explored the themes of loss, grief, and mourning. With an introduction that contextualizes the turn to mourning...
The Language of Asylum
Refugees and Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The early part of the 21st century has been marked by widespread social upheaval and geographical displacement of people. This book examines how refugees, asylum-seekers, locals and professional refugee workers make sense of asylum and refuge in the context of current UK asylum policies.
Out at the Movies
A History of Gay Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicized dramas like Victim in the 1960s, The Naked Civil Servant in the 1970s, and the AIDS cinema of the 1980s have given way in recent years to films which celebrate a vast array...
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