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True Colours

The 10th Spider Shepherd Thriller

by Stephen Leather ...

Series Book 10 - The Spider Shepherd Thrillers
Readers can't get enough of Dan 'Spider' Shepherd'I simply can't get enough of Spider Shepherd' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Spider Shepherd is the new James Bond' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This series just gets better and better' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Action packed, spine-chilling excitement' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A truly heart-racing read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Russian oligarchs are the world's new elite. They treat the world as... ... Read more

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Readers can't get enough of Dan 'Spider' Shepherd'I simply can't get enough of Spider Shepherd' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Spider Shepherd is the new James Bond' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This series just gets better and better' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Action packed, spine-chilling excitement' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A truly heart-racing read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Russian oligarchs are the world's new elite. They treat the world as...
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The American Way of Killing

The Invention of an Epidemic

by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the world’s wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world’s poorest countries.Drawing ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

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Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the world’s wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world’s poorest countries.Drawing
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The Shortest History of War

From Hunter-Gatherers to Nuclear Superpowers — A Retelling for Our Times

by Gwynne Dyer ...

War has changed, but we have not. From our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the rival nuclear powers of today, whenever resources have been contested, we’ve gone to battle. Acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer illuminates our many martial clashes in this brisk account, tracing warfare from prehistory to the world’s first cities — and on to the thousand-year “classical age” of combat, which ended when the ... Read more

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War has changed, but we have not. From our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the rival nuclear powers of today, whenever resources have been contested, we’ve gone to battle. Acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer illuminates our many martial clashes in this brisk account, tracing warfare from prehistory to the world’s first cities — and on to the thousand-year “classical age” of combat, which ended when the
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Of Arms and Men : A History of War Weapons and Aggression

A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression

by Robert L. O'Connell ...

The appearance of the crossbow on the European battle field in A.D. 1100 as the weapon of choice for shooting down knights threatened the status quo of medieval chivalric fighting techniques. By 1139 the Church had intervened outlawing the use of the crossbow among Christians. With this edict arms control was born. As Robert L. O'Connell reveals in this vividly written history of weapons in ... Read more

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The appearance of the crossbow on the European battle field in A.D. 1100 as the weapon of choice for shooting down knights threatened the status quo of medieval chivalric fighting techniques. By 1139 the Church had intervened outlawing the use of the crossbow among Christians. With this edict arms control was born. As Robert L. O'Connell reveals in this vividly written history of weapons in
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The Twilight of the Bombs

Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons

by Richard Rhodes ...

The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post–Cold War age.The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers—Russia, ... Read more

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The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post–Cold War age.The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers—Russia,
... Read more
The War That Must Never Be Fought

Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence

Edited by George P. Shultz, James E. Goodby ...

Explore the complex dilemmas of nuclear deterrence in a multipolar world.War That Must Never Be Fought examines the challenges of nuclear deterrence in the 21st century, considering perspectives from Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and beyond. This book analyzes the evolving nature of nuclear threats and proposes solutions for strengthening the non-proliferation treaty. It is for anyone seeking a ... Read more

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Explore the complex dilemmas of nuclear deterrence in a multipolar world.War That Must Never Be Fought examines the challenges of nuclear deterrence in the 21st century, considering perspectives from Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and beyond. This book analyzes the evolving nature of nuclear threats and proposes solutions for strengthening the non-proliferation treaty. It is for anyone seeking a
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The Dead Hand (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

by David Hoffman ...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified
... Read more
The Doomsday Machine

Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

by Daniel Ellsberg ...

Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the YearIn These Times “Best Books of the Year"Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books ListLitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week”</str... ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the YearIn These Times “Best Books of the Year"Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books ListLitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week”</str...
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Conflict

The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts ...

New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestsellerAspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.**Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of military history and war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the ... ... Read more

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New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestsellerAspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.**Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of military history and war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the ...
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One Minute to Midnight

by Michael Dobbs ...

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In thishour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon.Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U ... Read more

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In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In thishour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon.Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U
... Read more
"Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People"

And Other Myths About Guns and Gun Control

by Dennis A. Henigan ...

Series Book 4 - Myths Made in America
“A must-read for every American who longs to bring sanity to our nation’s gun laws,” this book debunks the lethal logic behind the myths that have framed the gun control debate (Ariana Huffington, Huffington Post).The gun lobby’s remarkable success in using engaging slogans to frame the gun control debate has allowed it to block lifesaving gun legislation for decades. But is there any truth to ... Read more

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“A must-read for every American who longs to bring sanity to our nation’s gun laws,” this book debunks the lethal logic behind the myths that have framed the gun control debate (Ariana Huffington, Huffington Post).The gun lobby’s remarkable success in using engaging slogans to frame the gun control debate has allowed it to block lifesaving gun legislation for decades. But is there any truth to
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Iran: The Coming Crisis

Radical Islam, Oil, and the Nuclear Threat

by Mark Hitchcock ...

The Past, Present, and Future—ExposedThe events wracking the Middle East today are confusing to even the most avid news buff. Now all the answers to your questions are offered in just one resource. Divided into five main sections, Iran: The Coming Crisis contains the most up-to-date, thorough information available and is complete with maps, charts, and timelines for visual assistance. Iran’s past, ... Read more

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The Past, Present, and Future—ExposedThe events wracking the Middle East today are confusing to even the most avid news buff. Now all the answers to your questions are offered in just one resource. Divided into five main sections, Iran: The Coming Crisis contains the most up-to-date, thorough information available and is complete with maps, charts, and timelines for visual assistance. Iran’s past,
... Read more
Project Maven

A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare

by Katrina Manson ...

**The dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare.Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year AwardOne of the Economist's Best Books of 2026 • An NPR Staff Favorite Nonfiction of 2026 So Far**In 2017, a small crew gathered in a windowless Pentagon room to put AI at the heart of how America makes war. Led by Drew Cukor ... Read more

$28.79 CAD

**The dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare.Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year AwardOne of the Economist's Best Books of 2026 • An NPR Staff Favorite Nonfiction of 2026 So Far**In 2017, a small crew gathered in a windowless Pentagon room to put AI at the heart of how America makes war. Led by Drew Cukor
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A Narco History

How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"

by Carmen Boullosa, Mike Wallace ...

The term Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs ... Read more

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The term Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs
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Sandy Hook Slaughter: The Newtown Shooting and Massacre in Connecticut - Adam Lanza. Thoughts and Lessons on a Tragedy and the Coming Paradigm Shift.

by Conrad Powell ...

"As much as it is the right of citizens to bear arms, so too is the right of parents to bear their children in their arms." - Conrad Powell, Dec 16, 2012, quoting from "Sandy Hook Slaughter..." Our hearts go out to the families devastated by the Newtown tragedy. We as a nation are left with broken hearts and a reality that public policy on gun control or lack thereof is broken as well."Sandy Hook ... Read more

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"As much as it is the right of citizens to bear arms, so too is the right of parents to bear their children in their arms." - Conrad Powell, Dec 16, 2012, quoting from "Sandy Hook Slaughter..." Our hearts go out to the families devastated by the Newtown tragedy. We as a nation are left with broken hearts and a reality that public policy on gun control or lack thereof is broken as well."Sandy Hook
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First Into Nagasaki

The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War

by George Weller, Anthony Weller ...

George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with the press corps in northern Japan, Weller broke away. The intrepid newspaperman reached Nagasaki just ... Read more

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George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with the press corps in northern Japan, Weller broke away. The intrepid newspaperman reached Nagasaki just
... Read more
The Seventh Decade

The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

by Jonathan Schell ...

Series series American Empire Project
From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America's new nuclear policies.When the cold war ended, many Americans believed the nuclear dilemma had ended with it. Instead, the bomb has moved to the dead center of foreign policy and even domestic scandal. From missing WMDs to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, nuclear matters are back ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America's new nuclear policies.When the cold war ended, many Americans believed the nuclear dilemma had ended with it. Instead, the bomb has moved to the dead center of foreign policy and even domestic scandal. From missing WMDs to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, nuclear matters are back
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The Withdrawal

Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power

by Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad ...

Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan“Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are urged to defy the inattention of the media to the disastrous damage inflicted in Afghanistan on life, land, and resources in the aftermath of the U.S. ... Read more

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Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan“Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are urged to defy the inattention of the media to the disastrous damage inflicted in Afghanistan on life, land, and resources in the aftermath of the U.S.
... Read more
臺灣的勝算：以小制大的不對稱戰略，全臺灣人都應了解的整體防衛構想

The Overall Defense Concept: An Asymmetric Approach to Taiwan’s Defense

by 李喜明 ...

總長級上將親自執筆，攸關臺灣安全防衛的務實鉅著！此時此刻，你最需要熟讀的一本書。前參謀總長李喜明上將，精粹49年戰略實務經驗具體闡釋國外政軍高度推崇的不對稱作戰、擘劃臺灣整體防衛藍圖你知道，臺灣是世界上最危險的國家嗎？你有準備好直視恐懼、面對危險嗎？我們該如何「避免戰爭」、「嚇阻戰爭」、「打贏戰爭」★ 務實面對始終存在的威脅，思索臺海戰爭的可能性。★ 2022、2027、2032、2049年……戰爭什麼時候可能爆發？★ 面對戰爭，我們的勝算又是什麼？身為臺灣人，面對險峻情勢，你有徹底了解、做好準備嗎？▍臺灣與戰爭的距離，比你我想像的要近2022年2月，俄烏戰爭爆發，震驚國際。戰火的煙硝吹向地球的另一端，各大媒體紛紛刊出「下一個會是臺灣嗎？」為題的報導，然而臺灣民眾處「驚」不變、見怪不怪，很快又投身日常... ... Read more

$10.35 CAD

總長級上將親自執筆，攸關臺灣安全防衛的務實鉅著！此時此刻，你最需要熟讀的一本書。前參謀總長李喜明上將，精粹49年戰略實務經驗具體闡釋國外政軍高度推崇的不對稱作戰、擘劃臺灣整體防衛藍圖你知道，臺灣是世界上最危險的國家嗎？你有準備好直視恐懼、面對危險嗎？我們該如何「避免戰爭」、「嚇阻戰爭」、「打贏戰爭」★ 務實面對始終存在的威脅，思索臺海戰爭的可能性。★ 2022、2027、2032、2049年……戰爭什麼時候可能爆發？★ 面對戰爭，我們的勝算又是什麼？身為臺灣人，面對險峻情勢，你有徹底了解、做好準備嗎？▍臺灣與戰爭的距離，比你我想像的要近2022年2月，俄烏戰爭爆發，震驚國際。戰火的煙硝吹向地球的另一端，各大媒體紛紛刊出「下一個會是臺灣嗎？」為題的報導，然而臺灣民眾處「驚」不變、見怪不怪，很快又投身日常...
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Almighty

Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age

by Dan Zak ...

****A Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016"**ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT** in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” Y-12 was supposedly one of the most secure sites in the world, a bastion of warhead parts and hundreds of tons of highly enriched uranium—enough to power thousands ... Read more

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****A Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016"**ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT** in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” Y-12 was supposedly one of the most secure sites in the world, a bastion of warhead parts and hundreds of tons of highly enriched uranium—enough to power thousands
... Read more
Iran: The Nuclear Challenge

by Robert D. Blackwill, Elliott Abrams, Robert M. Danin, Richard A. Falkenrath, Matthew Kroenig, Meghan L. O'Sullivan, Ray Takeyh ...

Iran: The Nuclear Challenge maps the objectives, tools, and strategies for dealing with one of the most vexing issues facing the United States and global community today. The book brings together leading expertsCFRs Elliott Abrams, Robert D. Blackwill, Robert M. Danin, Richard A. Falkenrath, Matthew Kroenig, Meghan L. OSullivan, and Ray Takeyhon the issues and contingencies surrounding Irans ... Read more

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Iran: The Nuclear Challenge maps the objectives, tools, and strategies for dealing with one of the most vexing issues facing the United States and global community today. The book brings together leading expertsCFRs Elliott Abrams, Robert D. Blackwill, Robert M. Danin, Richard A. Falkenrath, Matthew Kroenig, Meghan L. OSullivan, and Ray Takeyhon the issues and contingencies surrounding Irans
... Read more
Le jour où le Canada se relèvera

by David Suzuki ...

Un texte très personnel de David Suzuki, le grand environnementaliste canadien-anglais. ... Read more

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Un texte très personnel de David Suzuki, le grand environnementaliste canadien-anglais.
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America through Foreign Eyes

by Jorge G. Castañedaa ...

Do Americans care what foreigners think about the United States? This book makes the case that they should. In these pages, Jorge Castañeda writes from his unique vantage point as a former Foreign Minister of Mexico who has lived, studied, and worked in America. He offers an impressionistic, analytical, and intuitive review of his experience in the country over the last half-century, and shows how ... Read more

$20.15 CAD

Do Americans care what foreigners think about the United States? This book makes the case that they should. In these pages, Jorge Castañeda writes from his unique vantage point as a former Foreign Minister of Mexico who has lived, studied, and worked in America. He offers an impressionistic, analytical, and intuitive review of his experience in the country over the last half-century, and shows how
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Dawn of the Drones

Europe's Security Response to the Cyber Age

by Henna Hopia ...

Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
In the twenty-first century, Europe faces disruptive technological developments that have an immediate impact on its societies. The historyof mankind has seen several of these disruptions, such as the inventions of gunpowder, aircraft, tanks, weapons of mass destruction and missiles. Remotely piloted aircraft systems and cyber technologies pose the newest technological challenges of our time and ... Read more

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In the twenty-first century, Europe faces disruptive technological developments that have an immediate impact on its societies. The historyof mankind has seen several of these disruptions, such as the inventions of gunpowder, aircraft, tanks, weapons of mass destruction and missiles. Remotely piloted aircraft systems and cyber technologies pose the newest technological challenges of our time and
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