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Product Description: There’s been an apparent terrorist attack on a government laboratory that has been conducting controversial experiments using the smallpox virus. Professor David Turner is surreptitiously tasked by a wary president to investigate the incident independent of a formal commission appointed for the purpose...read more
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9781461164623 | Createspace, September 28, 2011, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: There’s been an apparent terrorist attack on a government laboratory that has been conducting controversial experiments using the smallpox virus.

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Product Description: In this classic work, John Steinbruner argues that the time is ripe for exploration of a new theoretical perspective on the decision-making process in government. He suggests that the cybernetic theory of decision as developed in such diverse fields as information theory, mathematical logic, and behavioral psychology generates a systematic but non-rational analysis that seems to explain quite naturally decisions that are puzzling when viewed from the rational perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780691094878, titled "The Cybernetic Theory of Decision: New Dimensions of Political Analysis" | Princeton Univ Pr, August 5, 2002, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: In this classic work, John Steinbruner argues that the time is ripe for exploration of a new theoretical perspective on the decision-making process in government.
9780691021751 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 1977, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this classic work, John Steinbruner argues that the time is ripe for exploration of a new theoretical perspective on the decision-making process in government.

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Product Description: From the earliest human records, warfare has been both an organizing focus and a prime source of political motivation. Countless battles have been fought in the course of colonizing the planet, and the experience has created a legacy of military confrontation that many people consider immutable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780815780960 | Brookings Inst Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: From the earliest human records, warfare has been both an organizing focus and a prime source of political motivation.

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9780815780953 | Brookings Inst Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: From the earliest human records, warfare has been both an organizing focus and a prime source of political motivation.

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Product Description: At the moment, the revision of security policy and the formation of a new consensus to support it are still at an early stage of development. The idea of comprehensive security cooperation among the major military establishments to form an inclusive international security arrangement has been only barely acknowledged and is only partially developed...read more
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9780815781455 | Brookings Inst Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: At the moment, the revision of security policy and the formation of a new consensus to support it are still at an early stage of development.

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Product Description: Kaufmann and Steinbruner take a close look at the most recent spending plan from the Pentagon, contending that the potential for greater cost reduction is possible. They offer alternatives for force reduction and future budgeting...read more
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9780815748854 | Brookings Inst Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Kaufmann and Steinbruner take a close look at the most recent spending plan from the Pentagon, contending that the potential for greater cost reduction is possible.

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Product Description: Among its many important effects, the political revolution in central Europe has provided a sharp reminder that international security is as much a state of mind as it is a physical condition. The threat of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, long hypothesized by Western defense ministries on the basis of a perceived imbalance in inherent conventional force capability, is now acknowledged to be a practical impossibility because shifts in political alignment have been credited...read more
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9780815709398 | Brookings Inst Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Among its many important effects, the political revolution in central Europe has provided a sharp reminder that international security is as much a state of mind as it is a physical condition.

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Essays discuss America's global role, defense priorities, prospects for cooperative security, technology investments and policy towards the Middle East
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9780815781448 | Brookings Inst Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss America's global role, defense priorities, prospects for cooperative security, technology investments and policy towards the Middle East

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9780815781431 | Brookings Inst Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss America's global role, defense priorities, prospects for cooperative security, technology investments and policy towards the Middle East

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9780815755258 | Brookings Inst Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $8.95

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9780815781189 | Brookings Inst Pr, June 1, 1983, cover price $29.95

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9780815781172 | Brookings Inst Pr, June 1, 1983, cover price $10.95

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