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  • THE CONDUCT OF INQUIRY
    ABRAHAM KAPLAN
    In arguably the finest text ever written in the philosophy of social science, Abraham Kaplan emphasizes what unites the behavioral sciences more than what distinguishes them from one another. Kaplan avoids the bitter disputes among people doing methodology, claiming instead that what is important are those qualities intrinsic to the overall aspirations of the social sciences. H...

    $1,360.00

  • THE COUNTER-TERRORISM PUZZLE
    ABRAHAM KAPLAN / BOAZ GANOR
    The expansion and escalation of global terrorism has left populations across the world and decision-makers responsible for contending with it unprepared. This book, now in paperback, is the first attempt of its kind to create a manual of counter-terrorism measures on all the relevant operational levels. The author's main purpose is to give decision-makers the tools to make rati...

    $1,320.00

  • THE COSTS OF WAR
    ABRAHAM KAPLAN
    The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war-torn twentieth century, we rarely hear that one of the main costs of armed conflict is long-term loss of liberty to winners and losers alike. Beyond the obvious and direct costs of dead and wounded soldiers, there is the life...

    $1,420.00

  • FREEDOM AND TERROR
    GABRIEL WEIMANN / ABRAHAM KAPLAN
    This book examines reason and unreason in the legal and political responses to terrorism. Terrorism is often perceived as sheer madness, unreasonable use of extreme violence and senseless, futile political action. These assertions are challenged by this book. Combining ‘traditional’ thought (by Kaplan) on reason and unreason in terrorism with empirical explorations of post-mode...

    $1,420.00