Armaments industries books

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International Restructuring and Conversion of the Arms Industries and the Military Sector: Industrial, Regional and Sociocultural Aspects Proceedings of the International Conversion Conference, Bremen, April 2001

International Restructuring and Conversion of the Arms...

Author: Wolfram Elsner
ISBN: 9783825857615
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The decade of the nineties saw a rapidly changing political world, a sudden and severe change of political conditions...  Read More >>

Arming the South: The Economics of Military Expenditure, Arms Production and Arms Trade in Developing Countries

Arming the South: The Economics of Military Expenditure,...

Author: J. Brauer ,  P. Dunne
ISBN: 9780333754405
Format: Hardback
$252.00

After marked reductions in military spending in the 1990s military budgets around the world are on the increase....  Read More >>

The House of Krupp: The Steel Dynasty that Armed the Nazis

The House of Krupp: The Steel Dynasty that Armed the...

Author: Peter Batty
ISBN: 9780815411550
Format: Paperback
$50.03

This is the fascinating and horrifying history of the Krupp family and it's armament factories which supplied Germany's...  Read More >>

Dangerous Energy: The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture

Dangerous Energy: The archaeology of gunpowder and military...

Author: Wayne D. Cocroft (Historic England (United Kingdom)) ,  David Jones
ISBN: 9781850747185
Format: Paperback
$211.20

This book comprises a national study of the explosives industry and provides a framework for identification of its...  Read More >>

The Post-Cold War Armored Vehicle Industries in Britain, Germany, and France: A Study in Political Economy and Transition

The Post-Cold War Armored Vehicle Industries in Britain,...

Author: James L. Graves
ISBN: 9780313312465
Format: Hardback
$348.35

Identifying five conditions necessary for successful restructuring of a post Cold-War armoured vehicle industry,...  Read More >>

Human Factors in Certification

Human Factors in Certification

Author: John A. Wise (Honeywell International, Phoenix, Arizona, USA) ,  V. David Hopkin
ISBN: 9780805831139
Format: Hardback
$329.87

Much has happened to certification and to human factors over the years. This volume discusses the topic of human...  Read More >>

Making a Killing: Business of Guns in America

Making a Killing: Business of Guns in America

Author: Tom Diaz
ISBN: 9781565845671
Format: Paperback
$27.00

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An Acquisition Strategy, Process and Organization for Innovative Systems

An Acquisition Strategy, Process and Organization for...

Author: John Birkler ,  Giles Smith
ISBN: 9780833028020
Format: Paperback
$66.00

"The length of time required for the US armed forces to acquire a new weapons system has long been a source of frustration...  Read More >>

The Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Krushchev

The Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Krushchev...

Author: J. Barber ,  M. Harrison
ISBN: 9780333727638
Format: Hardback
$238.00

Based on collaborative research by Russian and British scholars in the hitherto secret archives of the Soviet government,...  Read More >>

Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868-1917

Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late...

Author: Jonathan Grant
ISBN: 9780822941101
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Counter to the traditional view that Russian capitalism was shaped by tsarist states orders, this work argues that...  Read More >>

Making a Killing: Business of Guns in America

Making a Killing: Business of Guns in America

Author: Tom Diaz
ISBN: 9781565844704
Format: Hardback
$45.00

The gun industry is the last unregulated manufacturer of a consumer product in America, with a level of secrecy...  Read More >>

Defense Industry in the Post-cold War Era: Corporate Strategies and Public Policy Perspectives

Defense Industry in the Post-cold War Era: Corporate...

Author: G.I. Susman ,  S. O'Keefe
ISBN: 9780080433561
Format: Hardback
$243.95

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The Politics and Economics of Defence Industries

The Politics and Economics of Defence Industries

Author: Efraim Inbar ,  Benzion Zilberfarb
ISBN: 9780714644103
Format: Paperback
$78.00

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The Politics and Economics of Defence Industries

The Politics and Economics of Defence Industries

Author: Efraim Inbar ,  Benzion Zilberfarb
ISBN: 9780714648521
Format: Hardback
$266.00

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The Defence Industry in East-Central Europe: Restructuring and Conversion

The Defence Industry in East-Central Europe: Restructuring...

Author: Yudit Kiss (formerly consultant to the UN World Institute for Development and Economic Research (UN WIDER))
ISBN: 9780198292807
Format: Hardback
$282.95

The Defence Industry in East-Central Europe charts the changes in Eastern European defence industries - in particular...  Read More >>

The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s: Beyond the Merchants of Death

The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s: Beyond the...

Author: Matthew W. Coulter
ISBN: 9780313303944
Format: Hardback
$131.00

The Munitions Inquiry, often called the Nye Committee after its chairperson, Senator Gerald Nye, critically examined...  Read More >>

Adjustment Processes in Russian Defence Enterprises within the Framework of Conversion and Transition

Adjustment Processes in Russian Defence Enterprises...

Author: Petra Opitz ,  Wolfgang Pfaffenberger (both Teachers, University of Oldenburg, Germany)
ISBN: 9783825820282
Format: Paperback
$69.86

Military production in Russia has decreased nearly 70 per cent since 1989, and that now-unused industrial capacity...  Read More >>

Defense Addiction: Can America Kick The Habit?

Defense Addiction: Can America Kick The Habit?

Author: Sanford Gottlieb
ISBN: 9780813331201
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Manufacturing Insecurity: Rise and Fall of Brazil's Military-industrial Complex

Manufacturing Insecurity: Rise and Fall of Brazil's...

Author: Ken Conca
ISBN: 9781555876951
Format: Hardback
$39.95

Using case studies of four weapons programmes, the author explores the spectacular growth and decline of Brazil's...  Read More >>

Nuclear Rites

Nuclear Rites

Author: Hugh Gusterson
ISBN: 9780520213739
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, this book takes the reader inside the top-secret...  Read More >>

Defense Conversion

Defense Conversion

Author: Jacques S. Gansler (University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9780262571166
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Jacques Gansler takes a hard look at the need to convert the industry from an inefficient and noncompetitive part...  Read More >>

Responding to Defense Dependence: Policy Ideas and the American Defense Industrial Base

Responding to Defense Dependence: Policy Ideas and the...

Author: Erik Pages ,  Theodore H. Moran
ISBN: 9780275953133
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The 1970s and 1980s witnessed growing concern in the United States regarding the relative decline of the American...  Read More >>

Operations Research Analysis in Quality Test and Evaluation

Operations Research Analysis in Quality Test and Evaluation...

Author: Donald L. Giadrosich
ISBN: 9781563471124
Format: Hardback
$184.67

This text provides a technical exploration of military and commercial test and evaluation. It addresses the vital...  Read More >>

The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945

The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945

Author: Walter S. Dunn Jr.
ISBN: 9780275948931
Format: Hardback
$131.00

This book describes the creation of a new economy in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1945. The Red Army defeated the...  Read More >>

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