The Fire of the Dragon. China's New Cold War, Paperback - Ian Williams

In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how China's aggressive foreig...

Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, how information is controlled and how it affects the population. Th...

Are we witnessing the dawn of a new cold war?

Many believe the recent deterioration in US-China relations represents a 'New Cold War' rooted in ideological differences. In this Element, Ho-fung...

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The first comprehensive study of the history of the Chinese Communist Party's science diplomacy. Based on a wide range of archival research, includ...

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

A funny and eloquent graphic novel taking us behind the scenes of a GP practice and reminding us that doctors are human too, from cartoonist and do...

Reducere. Cold reading can be loosely defined as 'how to talk to people so you sound psychic'. This is the definitive guide to how cold reading is used in th...

With the end of the Second World War Britain needed time to recover; it could not face another war, but the new threat of Soviet hegemony put paid ...

An interpretation of the political and cultural history of the early cold war years. The author argues that art is part of the general culture, not...

Reducere. Hitler's regime was notorious for its many experiments and its various secret ploys, weapons, and technological developments. But typically, the te...

Reducere. Description"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. --Sun Tzu, author, The Art of WarThe challenge is this: how can America...

Reducere. The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it Bottom-up history at its ver...

Reducere. In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped that a policy of appeasement would satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial appetite and structured Bri...

Reducere. One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and his UN team ...

A follow-up companion volume to The Bad Doctor, this is a comic novel which follows the fortunes of Dr Lois Pritchard, who works with Robert Smith ...

Incisive insights into the distinctive nature of Japanese foreign intelligence and grand strategy, its underlying norms, and how they have changed ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Brigid CohenIllustration(s): 19 halftones, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 376Collection: New Materia...

Reducere. Incisive insights into the distinctive nature of Japanese foreign intelligence and grand strategy, its underlying norms, and how they have changed ...

"A masterpiece of prophecy." -Whitley Strieber, author of "Communion" Prophets, such as Nostradamus, Stormberger and others introduced in this new ...

A hilarious and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Wil...

Reducere. Ian Williams describes in captivating detail how Rum and the molasses that it was made from was to the 18th century what oil is today. Rum was used...

A new and dangerous computer bug is sweeping the internet. But this bug is different. Smart, quick, sophisticated, and developed by elite hackers w...

Urges US policymakers to rethink the War on Terror along the lines of the Cold War against communism. This fresh perspective on the ongoing threat ...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE AND CBC'S BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR, this best-selling debut novel is an energetically told, funny, and mov...

The true story of Theseus and the Minotaur. Everyone thinks they know Theseus, the great Hero of Athens. But what legend has retained is merely a w...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Rachel S. CordascoIllustration(s): 28 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 316Publication da...

On 17 July 2014 Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down amid unrest in Ukraine, a conflict that led to a NATO-Russia standoff and the onset of...

DescriptionGrace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the tw...

Reducere. With 70 FREE-TO-DOWNLOAD high-resolution infographics to aid historical comprehension. Following on from the success of An Infographic History of G...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Andrew ImbrieIllustration(s): 8 figuresNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 30Cover...

Stephanie Surber is stationed on board a submarine tender in the South China Sea when a naval war breaks out. After a gruesome discovery escalates ...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

DescriptionAn important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco off...