Thinking About National Security
Author: Harold Brown
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
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Thinking about the Insanity Defense
Author: Ellsworth Lapham Fersch
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0595344127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thinking About the Insanity Defense answers ninety-seven frequently asked questions and presents sixteen case examples in easily understood language. This volume provides a clear and compelling introduction to one of the most important topics in the relation between psychology and law. Compiled by members of a Harvard seminar, it directs attention to the issues most often raised by the general public and by students of social science and criminal justice. The frequently asked questions about the insanity defense address: its history and psychological aspects; the effects of different standards for determining insanity; the arguments for its retention, abolition, and revision; media and other responses to it; controversies around pre- and post-conviction commitment; and the roles of psychologists, psychiatrists, and lawyers. The case examples illustrate a variety of outcomes and include individuals who were: found not guilty by reason of insanity; found guilty even though mentally ill; and not charged because of mental illness. The extensive bibliography directs students and citizens interested in psychology, law, and criminal justice to further cases and analyses. The insanity defense is one of the most significant topics in psychoforensics. This brief and readable book is the first place to look for what most people want to know about the insanity defense.
The Essential Herman Kahn
Author: Paul Dragos Aligica
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009-06-16
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0739135147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By the time of his untimely death in 1983, Herman Kahn was recognized by both friends and intellectual adversaries as 'one of the world's most creative and best minds.' The current growing resurgence of interest in Kahn's ideas and intellectual legacy demonstrates the enduring relevance of his work. Yet, in spite of the constant influence of his arguments, there is a shortage of books summarizing Kahn's essential contributions, and thus his work is not as well known as it should be. The Essential Herman Kahn is an attempt to cope with this predicament and offer the public for the first time an anthology consisting of the essence of Kahn's work, organized thematically. The two decades that have passed since his death allow us today to approach his work undisturbed by the 'sound and fury' of the many public debates and controversies he participated in and to focus on some of the deepest and most enduring dimensions of his intellectual contributions. The anthology will try to bring together, out of the several thousands pages published by Kahn during his life, the 'essential Kahn,' the most relevant, consequential and interesting themes, ideas and arguments defining his legacy. As such it will met the needs of those who are interested in Kahn's work but do not have the time and energy to access his out-of-print books, to make their way through the voluminous number of pages, and then to sort out the essential from the accidental, the perennial from the contextual.
Military and Defense Critical Thinking Inventory
Author: Peter A. Facione
Publisher: Insight Assessment
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781891557026
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Author: Sanford Strong
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1996-05
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0671522930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows you how to make tough-minded survival decisions. It's a book you can't afford to live without.
In Defence of Food
Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2008-01-31
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0141908513
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'A must-read ... satisfying, rich ... loaded with flavour' Sunday Telegraph This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize. In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy. It's time to fall in love with food again. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. His most recent book, about the ethics and ecology of eating, is The Omnivore's Dilemma, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature.
Thinking on Defense
Author: Jim Priebe
Publisher: Master Point Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781894154376
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Defense is the most difficult part of bridge, and for most players, the hardest part of defense is figuring out what kind of strategy they should be pursuing. In this book, the reader is shown step-by-step how to visualise declarer's cards from the bidding and play, and then how to use this information to form a plan for the defense. This book is based on Jim Priebe's popular articles 'Visualisation on Defense' which appeared in the ACBL Bulletin in early 2001.
In Defense of Magical Thinking: Essays in Defiance of Conformity to Reason
Author: Jack Preston King
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05-23
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781521355732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Do arrogant Twitter atheists make your blood boil? When Richard Dawkins, the Amazing Randi, or Bill Nye the Science Guy smugly tell you how stupid you are for believing in God, or psychic powers, or ghosts, or the afterlife, or even your own immortal soul, do you want to just reach through the screen and strangle them?You're going to love this book.Jack Preston King is not an apologist for any one religion or spiritual path. He's a defender of the human spiritual impulse in all its forms. In these 25 rollicking essays, King makes the case for both the reality and importance of spiritual experience, citing Jungian and Cognitive psychology, neuroscience, shamanism, Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, Pentecostal Christianity, Wicca, philosophers from Aristotle to Plato to Hume to Nietzsche, quantum physics, and even pop culture icons Philip K. Dick and the Face on Mars. Read this book, and the next time some jerk on Twitter says magic isn't real, and human beings are soulless, chemically-driven animals inhabiting a dead, material universe, you'll be armed and ready to make your stand In Defense of Magical Thinking.
The Combative Perspective
Author: Gabriel Suarez
Publisher: Paladin Press
Published: 2003-09-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781581604047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →If you want to win, and not just survive, in a fight for your life, mind-set is at least as critical as tactics. Here Suarez shows how desire for victory, elimination of uncertainty, situational awareness and willingness to act can give you the mental edge. The perfect companion to Cooper's classic Principles of Personal Defense.
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