Textbooks

I've just uncovered a secret 'casserole cabal' here at work. There are about 5 members, and each Monday they take it in turns to bring in a homemade casserole to share for lunch. Sounds a bit communist to me - yet another example of The Left infiltrating academia :) Two textbooks for next semester arrived today. Michael S. Neiberg's Warfare in World History clocks in at a whopping 98 pages, and cost me $45. If I had've known it was this slim, I'd have just photocopied the State Library's version. The other book is Jonathan R. White's Terrorism and Homeland Security, and is a bit more substantial at 346 pages ($76). The two subjects I've got lined up next semester are:

HST220 - War and Peace in World History This unit examines warfare and conflict between human beings. Wars have been fought in the name of national freedom, religious crusade and political justice. This unit explores ways in which war is the arena in which national and imperial memory is forged. Students will study ten war settings including: The early west; The Crusades; The Renaissance and Reformation of Europe; Revolutionary Europe; Imperial and frontier wars in Australasia; The American Civil War; The Great War of 1914-18; The Pacific from 1941; Algeria and the wars of national liberation; Women and Greenham Common. PAC30 - Terrorism: Its Causes and Consequences The Unit is divided into three modules. The first presents an overview of the history of terror and highlights the difficulties in arriving at a consensus about an effective definition of the term. It also evaluates the causes of terrorism. The unit also looks at the strategies and objectives of a number of organizations that have been labelled terrorist and their regional political and economic contexts. The third module describes a number of impacts of terrorism for global security and the international political economy. The ethics of terrorist approaches will also be discussed.