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How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of ...

How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of ...

Audrey Kurth Cronin

Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns Audrey Kurth Cronin ... Lehi,36 another offshoot organization headed by Avraham Stern (thus also known by the British as the “Stern Gang”), was founded in 1940 in the belief  ...
When Should We Talk to Terrorists?

When Should We Talk to Terrorists?

Audrey Kurth Cronin

This report explains the conditions under which governments might promisingly negotiate with terrorist groups so as to end their violence.
Ending Terrorism: Lessons for defeating al-Qaeda

Ending Terrorism: Lessons for defeating al-Qaeda

Audrey Kurth Cronin

It then describes historical patterns in ending terrorism to suggest how insights from that history can lay a foundation for more effective counter-strategies.
Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy

Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy

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Attacking Terrorism demonstrates that there are no easy answers—and that the road toward victory will be long and arduous, frightening and dangerous—but as Audrey Kurth Cronin states in her introduction, "As the campaign against ...
Terrorists and Suicide Attacks

Terrorists and Suicide Attacks

Audrey Kurth Cronin

Suicide attacks by terrorist organizations have become more prevalent globally, and assessing the threat of suicide attacks against the U.S. and its interests at home and abroad has therefore gained in strategic importance.
How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida

How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida

Seth G. Jones

3 See, for example, Lindsay Clutterbuck, “Law Enforcement,” in Audrey Kurth Cronin and James M. Ludes, eds., Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004, pp. 140–161; Ross and ...
Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy is ...

Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy is ...

Benjamin H. Friedman

Professor Audrey Kurth Cronin is the author of Ending Terrorism: Lessons for Defeating al-Qaeda (London: Routledge, 2008), and How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns (Princeton, NJ: Princeton ...
Dimensional Analysis and Group Theory in Astrophysics

Dimensional Analysis and Group Theory in Astrophysics

Rudolf Kurth

Rudolf Kurth. KUIPER, G.D. (1938a) The magnitude of the Sun, the stellar temperature scale, and bolometric corrections. ... KURTH, R. (1950a) Massenabschätzung der kugelförmigen Stern- und Nebelhaufen auf dynamischer Grundlage, ...
Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings

Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings

Ernst Kurth

Ernst Kurth Lee A. Rothfarb. Deutschen (1890), a "rhapsody of irrationality," ... Stern's book contains the most extensive critical exposition in English of Langbehn's background and career. In four detailed chapters Stern covers Langbehn's ...
Terrorist Financing and Resourcing

Terrorist Financing and Resourcing

J. Vittori

Stern, Terror in the Name ofGod, 143–4. Ibid., 248. Kurth Cronin, “Behind the Curve,” 46–51. Stern, Terror in the Name ofGod, 274–7. Bruce Hoffman, “The Leadership Secrets of Osama Bin Laden: The Terrorist as C.E.O.,” Atlantic Monthly 291, ...
Axiomatics of Classical Statistical Mechanics

Axiomatics of Classical Statistical Mechanics

Rudolf Kurth

Rudolf Kurth I. N. Sneddon, S. Ulam, M. Stark. AXIOMATICS OF CLASSICAL STATISTICAL MECHANICS RUDOLF KURTH Department of Mathematics The Durham Colleges in the University of Durham PERG AMON PRESS OXFORD ...
Hatter's Castle

Hatter's Castle

A. J. Cronin

A. J. Cronin’s famous story is a soul-stirring novel of pride and greed, and its terrible retribution.
Ernst Kurth at the Boundary of Music Theory and Psychology

Ernst Kurth at the Boundary of Music Theory and Psychology

Daphne Tan

This study underscores points of connection between these two works and moreover, the evolution of Kurth's thinking. The final chapter considers issues of form and rhythm in Musikpsychologie, setting the course for further research.
The Stars Look Down

The Stars Look Down

A. J. Cronin

The Stars Look Down was A.J. Cronin's fourth novel, published in 1935, and this tale of a North country mining family was a great favourite with his readers.
The Summer Guest

The Summer Guest

Justin Cronin

With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man’s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love.
Audrey Tennyson's Vice-regal Days: The Australian Letters of ...

Audrey Tennyson's Vice-regal Days: The Australian Letters of ...

Audrey Tennyson

The Australian Letters of Audrey Lady Tennyson to Her Mother Zacyntha Boyle, 1899-1903 Audrey Tennyson, Zacyntha Antonia Lorenzina Boyle Lady Alexandra Hasluck. Territorial waters—the area of sea, usually three miles out, adjoining ...
The Gender Communication Handbook: Conquering Conversational ...

The Gender Communication Handbook: Conquering Conversational ...

Audrey Nelson

Conquering Conversational Collisions between Men and Women Audrey Nelson , Claire Damken Brown ... Source: Developed by Audrey Nelson, Ph.D., and Claire Damken Brown, Ph.D. Copyright © 2012 by Audrey Nelson, Ph.D., and ...
The Hand of Science: Academic Writing and Its Rewards

The Hand of Science: Academic Writing and Its Rewards

Blaise Cronin

Cronin, a master of the subject, examines the complex relationship between authorship (individual or collective) and the reward system of science in the face of the burgeoning growth of scholarly communication.
The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book ...

The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book ...

Justin Cronin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Look for a special preview of Justin Cronin’s The City of Mirrors in the back of the book.
Jeremiad Jottings

Jeremiad Jottings

Blaise Cronin

In his Jeremiad Jottings, Blaise Cronin presents a collection of essays that touch upon a range of issues, spanning from affirmative action to academic dress.
Soldiers, Shahs and Subalterns in Iran: Opposition, Protest ...

Soldiers, Shahs and Subalterns in Iran: Opposition, Protest ...

S. Cronin

151–4; Stephanie Cronin, Tribal Politics, pp. 109–10. Mansoureh Ettehadieh has shown that peasants petitioned the shah even before the constitutional period. Mansoureh Ettehadieh Nezam-Mafi, “The Council for the Investigation of ...
Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions Since 1800

Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions Since 1800

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Stephanie Cronin, ed., The Making of Modern Iran: State and Society under Riza Shah, 1921–1941 (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), especially Cronin's introduction and “Riza Shah and the Paradoxes of Military Modernization,” pp. 37 –64 ...
A Study Guide for Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World

A Study Guide for Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World

Gale, Cengage Learning

Audrey Collins Audrey is the fiveyearold daughter of Dan and Theresa Collins and the sister of Lizzy. Dan Collins Dan is the husband of Theresa Collins and the father of Lizzy and Audrey. He deals with the depression that follows Lizzy's ...
The Illustrated Guide to Safe Patient Handling and Movement

The Illustrated Guide to Safe Patient Handling and Movement

Audrey L. Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN

Audrey L. Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN, Ms. Kathleen Motacki, MSN, BSN, RN, BC, Dr . Nancy Menzel, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC ... Audrey L. Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VHA) VISN 8 Patient Safety Center of ...
Le Passage

Le Passage

Justin CRONIN

Un jour, une jeune fille silencieuse et énigmatique se présente à la porte de la Colonie. Elle paraît à peine quatorze ans, mais elle en a plus de cent... Justin Cronin livre ici le premier volume d'une trilogie monumentale.
The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of ...

The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of ...

Audrey Vernick

Audrey Vernick and Steven Salerno have again collaborated to bring us a captivating picture book about a compelling but little-known piece of baseball history.
Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography: The Acclaimed Biography of ...

Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography: The Acclaimed Biography of ...

Antoinette Quinn

Chapter 16 Based in part on conversations with Sheila Bradshaw, Anthony Cronin, the late Thérèse Cronin, the late Dr Patrick Henchy, Con Howard, Benedict Kiely, John McGahern, T. P. McKenna, Priscilla MacNamara, Deirdre Manifold (née ...
Den første

Den første

Justin Cronin

Følgende: læs denne bog, og den almindelige verden forsvinder." – Stephen King Justin Cronin (1962) er med udgivelsen af Den Første godt på vej til at slå sit navn fast som international bestsellerforfatter, og filmrettighederne er ...

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