1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787788903321

Autore

Gardner Lloyd C

Titolo

Killing Machine [[electronic resource] ] : The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : The New Press, 2013

ISBN

1-59558-943-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Classificazione

HIS036070POL040010POL025000

Disciplina

352.23/5

Soggetti

Afghan War, 2001 -- Aerial operations

Drone aircraft -- Government policy -- United States

Executive power -- United States

Obama, Barack

Targeted killing -- Government policy -- United States

War and emergency powers -- United States

Executive power - Government policy - United States

War and emergency powers - Government policy - United States

Drone aircraft - Aerial operations - United States

Targeted killing - Aerial operations - United States

Afghan War, 2001-2021

Iraq War, 2003-2011

Government - U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S.,  Executive Branch

United States Military policy Moral and ethical aspects

United States Politics and government 2009-2017

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Dream Candidate""; ""2. Afghanistan Shortchanged""; ""3. A Tale of Two Speeches""; ""4. On to Marja!""; ""5. The War of the Drones""; ""6. The Meaning of Two Deaths""; ""7. A Better War?""; ""8. American Hubris""; ""Afterword: The New Normal?""; ""Notes""; ""Index""



Sommario/riassunto

<div><B>Lloyd C. Gardner</B> is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including <I>The Long Road to Baghdad</I> and <I>Three Kings</I> (both available from The New Press). He lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania.</div>

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811861703321

Autore

Applegarth Risa

Titolo

Rhetoric in American anthropology : gender, genre, and science / / Risa Applegarth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8229-7947-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 pages)

Collana

Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Classificazione

LAN015000SOC002000

Disciplina

301.01/4

Soggetti

Ethnology - History

Anthropology - Philosophy

Anthropologists' writings

Women anthropologists

Feminist anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the "welcoming science," uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the "rhetorical archeology" of this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists"--



3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0278195

Autore

Calò, Giovanni

Titolo

Antologia pedagogica ad uso degl'istituti magistrali e delle facoltà universitarie di Lettere e Filosofia e di Magistero con note e indice bio-bibliografico degli autori / Giovanni Calò

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : Sansoni

Descrizione fisica

v. ; 20 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia