Chinese Naval Shipbuilding: An Ambitious and Uncertain Course, Hardcover - Andrew S. Erickson

China's shipbuilding industry has grown more rapidly than any other in modern history. Commercial shipbuilding output jumped thirteen-fold from 200...

An examination of how America can strengthen its approach to China by building on its existing advantages

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Reducere. This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence...

Reducere. Risk Thinking is a book about codifying common sense in a world of radical uncertainty. Our brains are wired to think forward, to imagine future si...

DescriptionOver the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate students--mostly self-funded--has swept across American higher educa...

Reducere. Honorable Survivor weaves John S. Service's extraordinary story into the fabric of a watershed moment in our history when World War II was ending, ...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Abbey DuplagaIllustrator: Andrew ThomasWhile selling lemonade to her neighborhood friends on an ordinary Saturday, Abbey is...

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The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel t...

China's economic development has been matched by rising political ambitions and the aim of returning the country to a central role in regional and ...

The subject of this volume is best known for the disaster of 22 September 1914 where Cressy and two sister-ships, Aboukir and Hogue, were sunk with...

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Contributor(s): Author: Bob RosenA provocative, personal approach to leadership based on in-depthresearch with hundreds of executives around the wo...

Reducere. The Good Shepherd was described as one of the best novels of 1955. In it, C.S. Forester departs from the age-of-sail Hornblower genre that made him...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrew GordonForeword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providin...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well explores how today's parenting techniques and our myop...

A revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choices Selected by Publishers We...

The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk a...

A vision of a European future of peace and stability despite the present gloomThe world appears to be at another major turning point. Tensions betw...

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Reducere. This celebration of the woman who took us to the heights of a secluded attic and the depths of our own dark psyches reveals an intimate portrait of...

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DescriptionThe protection of the homeland is the top priority for U.S. national security strategy. Strategic defense, however, has been an overlook...

Rock-A-Bye Child expands on the traditional Rock-A-Bye Baby poem to explore the meaning of the tree and the wind and life's wonder in this delightf...

Reducere. Game theory is a fascinating subject. We all know many entertaining games, such as chess, poker, tic-tac-toe, bridge, baseball, computer games -- t...

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DescriptionThis book presents a new approach to risk management that enables executives to think systematically and strategically about future risk...

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a solid background and understanding of the basic results and methods in probability theory ...

Reducere. Completely revised and expanded since its French publication, Armoured Trains: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 1825-2016 is the first English-language ...

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Reducere. The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honorable East India Company's gunboat Diana went ...

Reducere. When thousands of naval aviators and flight officers gathered in Las Vegas in September 1991 to celebrate their victory in the First Gulf War, none...

This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackn...

Reducere. This timeless rhyming bedtime tale for kids ages 3 through 7 asks a simple but profound question: What makes a tree good? Children explore this con...

Reducere. For thousands of years, Chinese storytellers have delighted listeners with stories about the value of virtues like honesty, respect, courage and se...

Reducere. Version: Written in Simplified Chinese, Pinyin, and English.SIMPLE AND FUN: Learn to pronounce Mandarin Chinese accurately from the beginning. The ...

For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increas...