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► Air power : a global history / Jeremy Black. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. xiv, 372 pg.; 23 cm. ► America, sea power, and the world / edited by James C. Bradford. Chichester : John Wiley-Blackwell , 2016. xxii, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. Designed to be accessible to students and scholars alike, the book contains a host of pedagogical features, including many illustrations and maps integrated with the text. Each chapter is enhanced with detailed vignettes featuring biographical sketches of influential leaders and descriptions of weapons and technological developments of the period. ► Armed conflict, peace audit and early warning 2014 : stability and instability in South Asia / edited by D. Suba Chandran and P.R. Chari. New Delhi , India : Sage Publications India , 2015. xiv, 430 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Discussing the gap between the end of violence and the response to peace, this volume assesses whether peace processes are fragile in South Asia. ► Armed forces of the United Kingdom 2014-2015 / editor Charles Heyman Barnsley : Pen & Sword , 2013 207 pg.: col. ill.; 20 cm. ► Assessing command and control effectiveness: dealing with a changing world / edited by Peter Berggren Farnham : Ashgate, 2014. xix, 202 pg.: ill.; 24 cm. ► Becoming a global chief security executive officer : a how to guide for next generation security leaders / Roland Cloutier. Oxford : Elsevier butterworth-hein, 2016. xi, 293 pg.; 23 cm. ► Chocolate soldiers : the story of the young citizen volunteers and 14th royal Irish rifles during the Great War / Steven Moore. Newtownards : Colourpoint Books, 2016. 256 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps, portraits ; 26 cm. ► Cold world they made : the strategic legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter / Ron Robin. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2016. vi, 365 pg.: ill.; 24 cm.

► Commander in chief : FDR's battle with Churchill 1943 / Nigel Hamilton. London : Biteback Publishing, 2016. xv, 464 pg.: maps; 24 cm. ► Conversations at work : promoting a culture of conversation in the changing workplace / Tim Baker and Aubrey Warren. Basingstoke , Hampshire New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ix, 250 pages ; 20 cm. ► Critical thinking for marketers: learn how to think, not what to think / David Dwight, Terry Grapentine, David Soorholtz. Volume: 1 New York : Business expert press , 2017. xi, 177 pages. ► Critical thinking for marketers: learn how to think, not what to think / David Dwight, Terry Grapentine, David Soorholtz Volume: 2 New York : Business expert press , 2017. viii, 82 pages ;23cm ► Cyber-war : the anatomy of the global security threat / Julian Richards. New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014. viii, 91 pg.; 22 cm. ► Cyber crime & warfare : all that matters / Peter Warren London: Hodder Education, 2013. 149 pg.: ill.; 18 cm. ► Cyber dragon : inside China's information warfare and cyber operations / Dean Cheng. Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2017. x, 290 pages ; 25 cm. As a society that has revered learning and education for millennia, China has a long history of valuing information. As early as the 1980s, the People's Republic of China (PRC) began to pay attention to information technology. ► Cyber operations and the use of force in international law / Marco Roscini. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. xxviii, 307 pg.; 24 cm.

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► Cybersecurity : protecting critical infrastructures from cyber attack and cyber warfare / edited by Thomas A. Johnson. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2015. xvi, 347 pages ; 24 cm. Cyber attacks are increasingly targeting the core functions of the economies in nations throughout the world. The threat to attack critical infrastructures, disrupt critical services, and induce a wide range of damage is becoming more difficult to defend against. ► Detainee abuse during Op TELIC : "a few rotten apples"? / Timothy Wood Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 xi, 120 pg.; 22 cm. ► Effective implementation in practice : integrating public policy and management / Jodi Sandfort and Stephanie Moulton. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2015. xix, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. ► Essentials of counterterrorism / James J.F. Forest, editor Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2015. xviii, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. These titles represent an invaluable resource for students and researchers as well as anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of the complex issues that affect our lives and future. ► Ethics and cyber warfare : the quest for responsible security in the age of digital warfare / George R Lucas. New York : Oxford Univ Press , 2017. xii, 187 pg.: map; 24 bm. ► Explanation and progress in security studies : bridging theoretical divides in international relations / Fred Chernoff. Stanford Stanford University Press, 2014 ix, 311 pg.; 23 cm. This book asks why security studies, as a central area of international relations, has not experienced scientific progress in the way natural sciences have, and answers by arguing that the underlying reason is that scholars in security studies have advanced a range of different notions of "explanation" or different criteria of "explanatory superiority" to show that their positions are better than rival positions. ► Global intelligence oversight : governing security in the twenty-first century / edited by Zachary K. Goldman New York : Oxford University Press, 2016 xxxi, 357 pg.; 24 cm.

► Global security in the twenty-first century : the quest for power and the search for peace / Sean Kay. 3rd edition Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. ► How the war was won : air-sea power and Allied victory in World War II / Phillips Payson O'Brien Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015. xx, 626 pages ; 24 cm. ► Humanitarian intervention and legitimacy wars :: seeking peace and justice in the 21st century / Richard Falk. London : Routledge , 2015. x, 223 pg.; 23 cm. ► Humanizing the sacred : sisters in Islam and the struggle for gender justice in Malaysia / Azza Basarudin. Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2016. xvii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. ► India at war : the subcontinent and the Second World War / Yasmin Khan. New York : Oxford University Press , 2015. xvi, 416 pg.: ill.; 24 cm. ► Influential leadership a leader's guide to getting things done / Colin Gautrey. 1st Edition. London: Kogan Page, 2014. ix, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. With an emphasis on the role of trust and power, this book provides practical guidance to becoming a more effective leader. Readers will learn how to: get bigger, better and safer results through influence, become a leader who gets more done ► Inside cyber warfare / Jeffrey Carr. 2nd edition, Sebastopol : O'Reilly , 2012. xviii, 294 pg.: ill.; 23 cm. ► Inspiring innovation : examining the operational, policy, and technical contributions made by Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr. and his successors / Lieutenant Commander Robert Crosby, USN. Newport, Rhode Island : Naval War College Press, 2018. v, 197 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm. History of African American admirals in the US Navy

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► International strategic relations and China's national security : world at the crossroads / National Defense University Blue Paper. Singapore : World Scientific, 2017 xviii, 351 pg.; 23 cm. ► Jihadism transformed : Al-Qaeda and Islamic State's global battle of ideas / Simon Staffell & Akil N. Awan (editors). London : C Hurst & Co., 2016 xv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. ► Jumpstart! Thinking skills and problem solving : games and activities for ages 7-14 / Steve Bowkett. London, England : Routledge, 2015. xix, 132 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. If you are one of the thousands of teachers looking for a range of practical and fun ideas to engage pupils in effective proactive learning, then this is the perfect book for you. ► Maintaining maritime order in the Asia-Pacific The National Institute for Defense Studies Tokyo : The National Institute for Defence Studies , 2018 162 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. ► Management shift : how to harness the power of people and transform your organization for sustainable success / Vlatka Hlupic. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xxxii, 251 pg.; 22 cm. ► Mental illness at work : a manager's guide to identifying, managing and preventing psychological problems in the workplace / Mary-Clare Race, Adrian Furnham. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Written by leading psychologists Mary-Clare Race and Adrian Furbanham, this book explores the psychiatric classification of mental illness and offers practical and solid advice on the identification, mitigation and prevention of mental illness in the workplace. ► Military Inc. : inside Pakistan's military economy / Ayesha Siddiqa. 2nd edition, London : Pluto Press , 2017 xvi, 382 pages ; 23cm

► Missionaries of modernity : advisory missions and the struggle for hegemony in Afghanistan and beyond / Antonio Giustozzi, Artemy M. Kalinovsky ; with Paul Robinson, Bob Spencer and Alfia Sorokina. London : C. Hurst & Co , 2016. ix, 496 pages ; 23 cm. This volume is an historical survey of advisory and mentoring missions from the 1940s onward, starting from the Soviet missions to the Kuomintang and ending with the mission to Iraq. It focuses on Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and after 2001, but also deals with virtually every single advisory mission from the 1940s onward

► Moral reasoning at work : rethinking ethics in organizations / Øyvind Kvalnes. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. vi, 108 pages ; 23 cm. ► National security through a cockeyed lens : how cognitive bias impacts U.S. foreign policy / Steve A. Yetiv Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 155 pages ; 23 cm. The book is aimed chiefly at students and the lay public, though academics may benefit from it ► New Arab wars : uprisings and anarchy in the Middle East / Marc Lynch. New York : Public Affairs, 2016. xviii, 284 pg.; 24 cm. ► New thinking in Islam : the jihad for democracy, freedom and women's rights / Katajun Amirpur London : Gingko Library, 2015. xvi, 220 pg.; 24 cm. ► Public management / Ian Greener. Second edition. Basingstoke, Hampshire New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Public Management adopts a critical, comparative and international approach to the key concepts and ideas of public management. This edition has been fully updated to reflect changes in public policy since the global financial crisis, and it includes examples of different approaches to public policy in the UK, Europe and the USA. ► Putin's wars : the rise of Russia's new imperialism / Marcel H. Van Herpen. 2nd edition Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015 xx, 317 pg.: map; 23 cm.

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► Refuting ISIS : destroying its religious foundations and proving that it has strayed from Islam and that fighting it is an obligation / by Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi. Second edition. Herndon, Virginia: Sacred knowldege , 2016. xviii, 133 pages ; 23 cm This second edition of the book comes after the heinous attacks that ISIS perpetrated in Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, France, the USA and Indonesia. These attacks, which must be condemned by Muslim scholars and preachers around the world, are another testimony that, by killing women, children, and civilians, ISIS betrayed Islam, betrayed the Holy Quran, and betrayed the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). ► Religion and representation : Islam and democracy / edited by Ingrid Mattson, Paul Nesbitt-Larking, Nawaz Tahir. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. x, 311 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm. ► Rethinking risk in national security : lessons of the financial crisis for risk management / Michael J. Mazarr. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. ix, 246 pg.; 23 cm. ► Risk and crisis management in the public sector / Lynn T Drennan, Allan McConnell, Alastair Stark. New York : Routledge, 2015. This exciting new edition enhances the original text with contemporary cases and a greater focus on the international, trans-boundary and multi-agency dimensions of risk and crisis management. ► Russia and the new world order / Bobo Lo. Washington : Brookings Institution Press , 2015. xxiv, 341 pages ; 24 cm. Examines the interplay between Russian foreign policy and a complex global environment, contrasting the Kremlin's view of a declining west and resurgent Russia with the world Moscow actually faces, which is defined by a new disorder that challenges core Russian assumptions and puts a premium on adaptability ► Security leader insights for risk management : lessons and strategies from leading security professionals / edited by Richard Chase. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2015. x, 50 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. This collection of best practices is a quick way to bring staff and contractors up to speed on topics related to defining risk, security's role in mitigating board-level global risk, and being part of a unified risk oversight process in enterprise risk management.

► Social media analytics : techniques and insights for extracting business value out of social media / Matthew Ganis, Avinash Kohirkar. New York: IBM Press, 2016. xxxv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Social Media Analytics is the complete insider's guide for all executives and marketing analysts who want to answer mission-critical questions and maximize the business value of their social media. ► Strategic leader's roadmap : 6 steps for integrating leadership and strategy/ Singh Harbir & Michael Useem. Philadelphia: Wharton Digital Pr , 2016. 123 pages ; 21cm ► The accidental admiral : a sailor takes command at NATO / Adm. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.). Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 2014 xvi, 246 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. ► The dragon's teeth : the Chinese People's Liberation Army : its history, traditions, and air sea and land capability in the 21st century / Benjamin Lai. Philadelphia : Casemate Academic, 2016. xvi, 320 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm. ► The fall of the Turkish model : how the Arab uprisings brought down Islamic Liberalism / by Cihan TuÄŸal. London : Verso , 2016. viii, 296 pages ; 21 cm. In this incisive analysis, Cihan TuÄŸal argues that the problem with this model of Islamic liberalism is much broader and deeper than Erdogan's increasing authoritarianism. The problems are inherent in the very model of Islamic liberalism that formed the basis of the AKP's ascendancy and rule since 2002--an intended marriage of neoliberalism and democracy. ► The military revolution in early modern Europe : a revision / Frank Jacob and Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo. London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016. v, 101 pages ; 22 cm. This book challenges the premise that a 'military revolution' prompted the major European powers to enter into an era of global hegemony during the Early Modern period, and suggests that this theory is not supported if we closely examine contemporary historical events.

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► The new Russia / Mikhail Gorbachev ; translated by Arch Tait. Cambridge : Polity Press, 2016. xi, 464 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. This book represents the summation of Gorbachev's thinking on the course that Russia has taken since 1991 and stands as a testament to one of the greatest and most influential statesmen of the 20th century. ► The Pivot : the future of American statecraft in Asia / Kurt M. Campbell. First edition. New York : Grand Central Pub, 2016. xxiii, 399 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. This book is about a necessary course correction for American diplomacy, commercial engagement, and military innovation during a time of unrelenting and largely unrewarding conflict. While the United States has intensified its focus on the Asia-Pacific relative to previous administrations, much more remains to be done. THE PIVOT is about that future. ► The roots and consequences of 20th-century warfare : conflicts that shaped the modern world / Spencer C. Tucker. Santa Barbara , California : ABC-CLIO, 2016. xvi, 545 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. This book introduces readers to the causes and effects of the 20th century's most significant conflicts and explains how the impact of these conflicts still resonates today. Introductory essays that provide detailed overviews of each conflict, as well as an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of these critical 20th-century events are presented. ► The smell of battle, the taste of siege : a sensory history of the Civil War / Mark M. Smith. New York : Oxford University Press , 2017. xii, 197 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. In the smell of battle, the taste of Siege, historian Mark M. Smith considers how all five senses, including sight sound, smell, taste, and touch, shaped the experience of the Civil War and thus its memory, exploring its full sensory impact on everyone from the soldiers on the field to the civilians waiting at home. ► Too young to die : Canada's boy soldiers, sailors and airmen in the Second World War / John Boileau and Dan Black ; foreword by General John de Chastelain. Toronto : James Lorimer & Company, 2016. 484 pages ; 24 cm. ► Tools of critical thinking : metathoughts for psychology / David A. Levy. 2nd edition Prospect Heights : Waveland Press, 2010. xxii, 298p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

► Voices of the Arab spring : personal stories of the Arab revolutions / Asaad al-Saleh. New York : Columbia University Press, 2015. xxiv, 244 pages ; 24 cm. This book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Arab citizens were called to join the revolt during the second half of 2011, while the revolutionary moment was still unfolding. Their stories offer unique access to the message that inspired citizens to act, their experiences during revolt, and the lessons they learned from some of the most dramatic changes and appalling events to occur in the history of the Arab world. ► Women and Jihad : debating Palestinian female suicide bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab media / Rachel Avraham. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing, 2016. 335 pages ; 22 cm.

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