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Philip II of Macedonia
Greater Than Alexander
The military genius of Philip II of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great
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When Angels Wept
A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
What if the Cuban missile crisis had led to war?
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Defiant Failed State
The North Korean Threat to International Security
Delineates the challenges posed by North Korea
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Pirate Hunting
The Fight Against Pirates, Privateers, and Sea Raiders from Antiquity to the Present
To catch a predator—on the high seas
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Breeding Ground Back To Top
Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism
Foreword by Richard Falk
How Afghanistan became, and may remain, a safe haven for terrorists
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Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide
What Each Side Must Know About the Other—and About Itself
How civilians and the military can better understand each other
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Flawed Diplomacy
The United Nations & the War on Terrorism
Evaluates the UN’s counterterrorism role
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Virtual Caliphate
Exposing the Islamist State on the Internet
Exposes the fallacy of al Qaeda’s “statelessness”
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A War It Was Always Going to Lose
Why Japan Attacked America in 1941
Makes sense of Japan’s seemingly incomprehensible decision to go to war against the United States
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A Warrior's Guide to Psychology and Performance Back To Top
What You Should Know about Yourself and Others
Psychological information for the armed forces in a readily accessible handbook
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World in the Balance
The Perilous Months of June–October 1940
How Britain survived the darkest days of the Second World War
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American Technology Policy
Evolving Strategic Interests after the Cold War
Balancing the requirements of national security and economic competitiveness
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Inside a U.S. Embassy
Diplomacy at Work, All-New Third Edition of the Essential Guide to the Foreign Service
All-new third edition of the essential guide to the Foreign Service
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America's Covert Warriors
Inside the World of Private Military Contractors
A cogent analysis of the failings and potential of private military contractors
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How the Cold War Ended Back To Top
Debating and Doing History
Examines the debates surrounding the end of the Cold War
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Public Opinion and International Intervention
Lessons from the Iraq War
The role of public opinion in nations' decisions to join or withdraw from the war in Iraq
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Roman Warfare, 300 B.C. to A.D. 450
The Essential Bibliography
The third volume in Potomac's Essential Bibliographies series
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The Most Famous Woman in Baseball
Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues
The powerful woman who ran a baseball team and became a legend
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Tortured Logic
A Verbatim Critique of the George W. Bush Presidency
Hoisted by their own petards
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Days of Decision Back To Top
Turning Points in U.S. Foreign Policy
Shows students how to analyze foreign policy choices
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Endless Enemies
Inside FBI Counterterrorism
An FBI agent's adventures in fighting terrorists
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Father of the Tuskegee Airmen, John C. Robinson
A thrilling biography of one of the most famous African American pilots of all time
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Global Air Power
The state of air power around the world
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Amid a Warring World
American Foreign Relations, 1775–1815
The critical role of early American diplomacy in preserving the existence of the United States
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Socrates in Sichuan Back To Top
Chinese Students Search for Truth, Justice, and the (Chinese) Way
What we can learn from China's millennial generation
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Vampires' Most Wanted
The Top 10 Book of Bloodthirsty Biters, Stake-wielding Slayers, and Other Undead Oddities
Something to sink your teeth into
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Father of Money
Buying Peace in Baghdad
The challenges of creating order from chaos in a wartime Baghdad slum
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High-Value Target
Countering al Qaeda in Yemen
A diplomat reflects on confronting the terrorist threat in Yemen
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Islamic Pacifism
Confessions of a Muslim Gandhi
Toward starting a truly global pacifist movement of nonviolence within Islam
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Mixed Martial Arts' Most Wanted™ Back To Top
The Top 10 Book of Crazy Combat, Great Grappling, and Sick Submissions
Boxing with a kick!
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Nuclear Jihad
A Clear and Present Danger?
Evaluates the likelihood of a terrorist attack with nuclear weapons
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The Obama Haters
Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism
Crossing the line
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Obama's War
Avoiding a Quagmire in Afghanistan
Another Vietnam?
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Pick Up Your Own Brass
Leadership the FBI Way
Leadership strategies tips straight from the FBI
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Coping with Anti-Americanism Back To Top
A Guide to Getting the Most Out of Studying Abroad
Helps students, parents, and advisers overcome fears of anti-Americanism and deal with it if it occurs
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Dark Soul of the South
The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin
The first full, factual account of America's most prolific racist killer
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Hannibal
The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy
The life of Rome's fiercest would-be conquerer
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Joel Barlow, American Diplomat and Nation Builder
The fascinating biography of one of America's most colorful diplomats
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Planning Reagan's War
Conservative Strategists and America's Cold War Victory
Ronald Reagan as a man of ideas
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Radical Islam in America Back To Top
Salafism's Journey from Arabia to the West
Reveals the inroads of radical Islam in the West since the 1960s
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The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789
The Art of American Power During the Early Republic
The creation of American diplomacy and power as an art
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The Terrorist Threat from Thailand
Jihad or Quest for Justice?
The first book to thoroughly examine the terrorist conflict in Thailand in the context of global jihad
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Warfare Welfare
The Not-So-Hidden Costs of America's Permanent War Economy
Reveals the true economic price of a “forever war”
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American Avatar
The United States in the Global Imagination
Untangling the world's love-hate relationship with America
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Life in the Slipstream Back To Top
The Legend of Bobby Walthour Sr.
The riveting life of one of America's most famous cyclists
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Nation Building
The World's Unfinished Business
Foreword by James Lyon
What works and what doesn't in nation building
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The "Ugly American" in the Arab Mind
Why Do Arabs Resent America?
The roots of America's image problem in the Middle East
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Vote Thieves
Illegal Immigration, Redistricting, and Presidential Elections
Why do states with more illegal aliens get more congressional seats?
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Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
Toward a coherent policy response
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NATO 2.0 Back To Top
Reboot or Delete?
The reinvention of NATO
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The Politics of Gratitude
Scale, Place & Community in a Global Age
Explores the need for a new vision of postpartisan politics
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Second Manassas
Longstreet's Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge
Introduction by John Hennessey
The turning point of one of the Civil War's most crucial battles
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Withdrawing Under Fire
Lessons Learned from Islamist Insurgencies
How irregular wars end
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Crucible of Fire
Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service
How the tragedies of the nineteenth-century's great municipal fires changed firefighting today
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JFK Assassination Logic Back To Top
How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy
Untangling the logic behind the JFK conspiracy claims
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Shadow of the Sultan's Realm
The Destruction of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
The rise of the modern Middle East from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire
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Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft
An interpretive biography of one of Russia’s most formidable leaders
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Washington & Napoleon
Leadership in the Age of Revolution
Two political and military giants compared
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