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  • Movable Types

    Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World

    by David Finkelstein ...
    This is a study of international print networks developed across the English-speaking world over a significant part of the long nineteenth century. The first study of its kind, it draws on unique sources from Australasia, North America, South Africa, the British Isles, and Ireland, to explore how printers interacted and shared trade and cultural identities across international boundaries during ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Washington's Taiwan Dilemma, 1949-1950

    From Abandonment to Salvation

    by David Finkelstein ...
    The declaration of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949 presented American foreign policy officials with two dilemmas: How to deal with the communist government on the mainland and what to do about Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist regime on Taiwan. By 1950, these questions were pressing hard upon U.S. civilian and military planners and policy makers, for it appeared that the Red Army was ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Introduction to Book History

    by David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery ...
    This second edition of An Introduction to Book History provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture. Each fully revised and updated chapter contains new material and covers recent developments in the field, including:The Postcolonial BookCensorship by states and religionsSocial History, and the recognition of underrepresentation of its value to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

    A Tribute to John Sutherland

    by Tony Bareham, Michael Caines, Mario Curreli, Simon Eliot, Lara Feigel, David Finkelstein, Simon Frost, Simon Gatrell, Philip Horne, Graham Law, Deirdre Le Faye, David Lodge, Brian Maidment, Karl Miller, K. M. Newton, Robert L. Patten, Fred Schwarzbach, Patrick Scott, Joanne Shattock, Cedric Watts, Alexis Weedon, René Weis, Troy J. Bassett, Linda Hughes, Rosemary Ashton ...
    This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles. With contributions from over twenty-five distinguished critics, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Expression and the Inner

    by David H. Finkelstein ...
    At least since Descartes, philosophers have been interested in the special knowledge or authority that we exhibit when we speak about our own thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. Expression and the Inner contends that even the best work in contemporary philosophy of mind fails to account for this sort of knowledge or authority because it does not pay the right sort of attention to the notion of ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Civil-military Relations in Today's China: Swimming in a New Sea

    Swimming in a New Sea

    by David M. Finkelstein, Kristen Gunness ...
    This work provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of civil-military relations in China. It reflects the significant changes taking place in Chinese society and their impact on the civil-military dynamic, with particular attention to how the military will fit in with the new class of entrepreneurs. Rather than focusing exclusively on elite Party-Army relations, the book examines civil ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • China's Leadership in the Twenty-First Century

    The Rise of the Fourth Generation

    by David M. Finkelstein, Maryanne Kivlehan ...
    Between Fall 2002 and Spring 2003, most of the national leadership of China's party, state, and military organs will be replaced by a new generation of officials. The accession to power of this "Fourth Generation" leadership, and the "Fifth Generation" officials who will rise to positions of influence on their coattails, will have profound implications for China, for nations in the region, and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Melencolia Manifesto

    by David Ritz Finkelstein ...
    Series series IOP Concise Physics
    Few artworks have been the subject of more extensive modern interpretation than Melencolia I by renowned artist, mathematician, and scientist, Albrecht Dürer (1514). And yet, did each of these art experts and historians miss a secret manifesto that Dürer included within the engraving? This is the first work to decrypt secrets within Melencolia I based not on guesswork, but Dürer’s own writings, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • School To Work

    Research On Programs In The United States

    by David Stern, Neal Finkelstein, John Latting, Carolyn Dornsife, James Stone ...
    An in-depth investigation into career-related programmes in American secondary schools and two-year further education colleges is given in this book. In addition to reviewing evidence on the effectiveness of vocational coursework, the authors analyse programmes involving students who study and work simultaneously, including co-operative education, youth apprenticeship and school-based enterprise.; ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience since 1949

    The PLA Experience since 1949

    by Mark A. Ryan, David M. Finkelstein, Michael A. McDevitt, CNA Corporation ...
    This is the first systematic study of modern China's military campaigns and the actual fighting conducted by the People's Liberation Army since the founding of the People's Republic. It provides a general overview of the evolution of PLA military doctrine, and then focuses on major combat episodes from the civil war with the Nationalists to the last significant combat in Vietnam in 1979, in ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Between Crime and War

    Hybrid Legal Frameworks for Asymmetric Conflict

    Edited by Jens David Ohlin, Claire Finkelstein, Christopher J. Fuller, Mitt Regan ...
    Series series ETHICS NATIONAL SECURITY RULE LAW SERIES
    The threat posed by the recent rise of transnational non-state armed groups does not fit easily within either of the two basic paradigms for state responses to violence. The civilian paradigm focuses on the interception of demonstrable immediate threats to the safety of others. The military paradigm focuses on threats posed by collective actors who pose a danger to the state's ability to maintain ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Targeted Killings

    Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World

    Edited by Claire Finkelstein, Jens David Ohlin, Andrew Altman ...
    Series series Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law
    The war on terror is remaking conventional warfare. The protracted battle against a non-state organization, the demise of the confinement of hostilities to an identifiable battlefield, the extensive involvement of civilian combatants, and the development of new and more precise military technologies have all conspired to require a rethinking of the law and morality of war. Just war theory, as ... Read more

    $76.49 USD