Publicado por Hill and Wang (edition First Edition), 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
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Publicado por Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Good. 1st. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: HPB-Red, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Publicado por Hill & Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.2.
Publicado por Hill & Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Hill & Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.2.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: The Maryland Book Bank, Baltimore, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Used - Very Good.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 1.2.
Publicado por Brand: Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Argues that America's defeat in Vietnam and challenges to the status quo have created a crisis in American identity, and have given birth to a reactionary new war culture.
Publicado por New York : Hill and Wang, 1994., 1994
ISBN 10: 0809015781 ISBN 13: 9780809015788
Librería: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, Estados Unidos de America
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Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN 0809015781. Trade Paperback. First Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. First printing of this paperback edition. No Signature.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. N7.
Publicado por Brand: Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
hardcover. Condición: New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Phatpocket Limited, Waltham Abbey, HERTS, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: NEW. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service.
Publicado por Brand: Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Hill & Wang 1993, 1993
Librería: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nueva Zelanda
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Tidy ex-library. Super octavo, hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Publicado por Hill & Wang, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Kenneth A. Himber, Lebanon, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: USED_ASNEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Squeaky Trees Books, Greenfield TWP, ME, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. 9.3 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 357 pages.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, New York, N.Y., 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. 357 pages. Contains Acknowledgments, Conclusion, Notes, and Index. James William Gibson is a professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He attended graduate school at Yale University, and wrote his thesis on how the U.S. military conceptualized and fought the Vietnam War, and why, despite overwhelming technological superiority, it was defeated by the Vietnamese. The Atlantic Monthly Press subsequently published a revised version of the thesis in 1986 as The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. While writing The Perfect War in the early and mid-1980s Gibson began to study the cultural and political traumas caused by America's defeat in Vietnam. He began to search the emerging paramilitary culture, where men fantasized themselves as warriors fighting outside the corrupt establishment to restore the country's sense of virtue, power, and masculinity. With fellowships from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Cornell University's Society for the Humanities, Gibson wrote Warrior Dream: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America. The book received considerable attention after the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995. Gibson subsequently became a consultant to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. He continues to study changes in America's war culture, publishing essays in several edited collections, op-eds in the Los Angeles Times, and book reviews for The Washington Post and The Dallas Morning News. Vietnam signaled the end of America's long history of martial victories. In Warrior Dreams, James William Gibson argues that the shame of defeat by a technologically inferior enemy, compounded by challenges to the status quo from feminism and minority groups, created a profound crisis in American identity--particularly for the white American male--and gave birth to a disturbing and reactionary new war culture designed to make America well again. Armed with a journalist's curiosity and a critic's precision, Gibson sets out to map this new American war zone. He plays paintball with Los Angeles's weekend warriors, learns to shoot like a pro at Arizona's elite Gunsite Ranch, and parties with soldiers of fortune at their annual convention in Las Vegas. Gibson surveys the combat magazines and weapons advertisements, films and novels that fuel the sexual, violent fantasies of millions of would-be warriors across the country. And he shows how this mythology, far from harmless consumer entertainment, has indeed started a new war with real warriors--Aryan Nation, contract killers, mercenaries in Central America--and with dangerous consequences for our democracy. Derived from a Kirkus review: Powerful, deadly trends now present in US society are traced to a loss of male self-esteem and national pride following our defeat in Vietnam - in this fluid, captivating analysis from Gibson. Claiming the "New War" mentality as a fresh wrinkle in the fabric of post-Vietnam America - in which killing capacity via new technology merges with traditions of a warrior's solo pursuit of guts and glory - Gibson's evidence is compelling. When Soldier of Fortune magazine premiered in 1975, New Warriors gained both an advocate and an outlet for their dreams, and the annual SOF convention in Las Vegas became a perfect training ground. Likewise, the "action-adventure" genre achieved new popularity as Sylvester Stallone and Clint Eastwood updated the John Wayne warrior in movies, while reams of visceral, macho fiction titillated male readers. Used by such heroes, handguns and similar weapons became the rage; facilities like Arizona's Gunsite Ranch taught the art of shooting-to-kill to cops and Rambo wannabes, while paramilitary groups prospered. In the 80's with mercenary options few and US conflicts limited, the lust for lethal encounters to prove one's manhood was vented on innocent citizens, and incidents of mass-murder rose accordingly. Tightly knit, wide-ranging, and well researched -.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, Place_Pub: New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. First Edition. First Printing. 357 pages. Notes, index. Signed by the author. Vietnam signaled the end of America's long history of martial victories. In Warrior Dreams, James William Gibson argues that the shame of defeat by a technologically inferior enemy, compounded by challenges to the status quo from feminism and minority groups, created a profound crisis in American identity--particularly for the white American male--and gave birthto a disturbing and reactionary new war culture designed to make America well again. Armed with a journalist's curiosity and a critic's precision, Gibson sets out to map this new American war zone. He plays paintball with Los Angeles's weekend warriors, learns to shoot like a pro at Arizona's elite Gunsite Ranch, and parties with soldiers of fortune at their annual convention in Las Vegas. Gibson surveys the combat magazines and weapons advertisements, films and novels that fuel the sexual, violent fantasies of millions of would-be warriors across the country. And he shows how this mythology, far from harmless consumer entertainment, has indeed started a new war with real warriors--Aryan Nation, contract killers, mercenaries in Central America--and with dangerous consequences for our democracy.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New.
Publicado por Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
Librería: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, Estados Unidos de America
hardcover. Condición: NEW. In shrink wrap! Looks like an interesting title!.