Potomac: 565 books
Sand in the Gears
How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations. That fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile factories has created ghost towns that dot the landscape. It is also clear from the dormant...
by John H. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
The Antarctic is the last vast terrestrial frontier. Just over a century ago, no one had ever seen the South Pole. Today odd machines and adventure skiers from many nations converge there every summer, arriving from numerous starting points on the Antarctic coast and returning some other way. But not...
Stories from Langley
A Glimpse inside the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Applicants to the Central Intelligence Agency often asked Edward Mickolus what they might expect in a career there. Mickolus, a former CIA intelligence officer whose duties also included recruiting and public affairs, never had a simple answer. If applicants were considering a life in the National...
Megaquake
How Japan and the World Should Respond
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In March 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of northern Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and damaging a nearby nuclear reactor. Nearly twenty thousand people were killed or went missing, and many areas have yet to rebuild. Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should Respond,...
by Carolyn Han
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
In 2004, Carolyn Han left her comfortable life and position as a lecturer in English at Hawaii Community College and went to live in one of the most remote and mysterious places in the Middle East—Yemen, known in the West primarily for providing a haven for terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda. The...
Trial By Gas
The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
World War I has long captured the macabre imagination for the seemingly willful manner in which nations sent their young men to die in droves while fighting over essentially the same patch of land for four long years. The vision of those senseless deaths becomes even harsher and more depraved when...
Games' Most Wanted
The Top 10 Book of Players, Pawns, and Power-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Ever thought about capturing a queen, amassing real estate gold, or striking down a zombie or two? For centuries, games have stimulated the imagination. They have divided, and they have united. They have driven our competitive spirit and indulged our fancy. Live an entire lifetime in a few rolls of...
Killing without Heart
Limits on Robotic Warfare in an Age of Persistent Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The days of large force-on-force engagements with conventional fielded armies are seemingly gone. TodayÆs persistent conflict, conducted among civilian populations and fought by small bands of combatants, will be remembered for this alteration in the tapestry of war and for the first large-scale...
by Orlando J. Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Every ten years political representation in the U.S.House of Representatives is redistributed (reapportioned) among the fifty states.The process began anew with the 2010 census, which is counting the nation's population as the basis for reapportionment.The decennial census has a history wrought with...
The Path to Salvation
Religious Violence from the Crusades to Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the wake of 9/11, policy analysts, journalists, and academics have tried to make sense of the rise of militant Islam, particularly its role as a motivating and legitimating force for violence against the United States. The general perception is that Islam is more violence-prone than other religions...
Making Sense of Proxy Wars
States, Surrogates & the Use of Force
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Dragon Extends its Reach
Chinese Military Power Goes Global
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
China has evolved from a nation with local and regional security interests to a major economic and political power with global interests, investments, and political commitments. It now requires a military that can project itself around the globe, albeit on a limited scale, to secure its interests....
by Croswell Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II. As the war continued to escalate, he would have his mental, emotional, and physical well-being tested beyond anything he ever imagined....
by D. A. Romanov
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2006
This book is the first complete English-language edition of D. A. Romanov's vigorous defense of the people and institutions that built the ill-fated Soviet nuclear attack submarine Komsomolets which caught fire and sank in the Norwegian Sea on April 7, 1989, while on its first patrol. Afterward, the...