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The Military Balance 2013

The Military Balance 2013

The Military Balance 2013 is the annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries world-wide. New features of the 2013 edition include: reorganised and expanded analytical essays. New sections on trends in contemporary armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria as well as trends in defence capability areas with a focus on equipment technological or doctrinal developments. There is also an essay on trends in defence economics and procurement one on European defence industries and another on anti-access/area denial detailed analysis of regional and national defence policy and economic issues for selected states updated graphics feature on comparative defence statistics with focus on defence economics and major land sea and air capability concerns tables graphics and analysis of defence economics issues additional national capability summaries additional data on land forces: combat support and combat service support new graphics and maps on defence capability issues additional data on cyber capabilities.

GBP 145.00
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Balance of Payments Theory and Economic Policy

Balance of Payments Theory and Economic Policy

An original and systematic synthesis of the major postwar developments in theory and policy of balance-of-payments adjustment this book focuses on the present-day system of pegged-but-adjustable exchange rates and the problems that policy authorities must face if they are to attain full employment price stability balance-of-payments equilibrium and a satisfactory rate of economic growth. The dominate theme of this book is that any system of exchange rates carries with it assumptions about the way it works and how effective the automatic and policy-motivated forces operate to bring about equilibrium in a country's balance of payments. By analyzing balance-of-payments adjustment and policies under alternative exchange-rate systems and with different assumptions concerning the level of employment and prices it is possible to embrace a wide variety of contemporary and historical circumstances experienced by individual countries and the world as a whole. In this way the author assesses the economic consequences of the different exchange-rate systems and of the policies that countries may follow to attain their national objectives. In particular it appears to Professor Stern that the international monetary turmoil of the past ten years can be traced to the exchange-rate inflexibilities of the adjustable-peg system and to the creation of excessive reserves under the dollar standard. He demonstrates that the international monetary system must be redesigned to permit greater exchange-rate inflexibility and control over the creation of new international reserve assets. | Balance of Payments Theory and Economic Policy

GBP 130.00
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Seemings New Arguments New Angles

Seemings New Arguments New Angles

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings. It features original essays by leading epistemologists on the nature and epistemic import of seemings and intuitions. Seemings and intuitions are often appealed to in philosophical theorizing. In fact epistemological theories such as phenomenal conservatism and dogmatism give pride of place to seemings. Such views insist that seemings are of central importance to theories of epistemic justification. However there are many questions about seemings that have yet to be answered satisfactorily. What kinds of seemings are there? How do seemings justify? Are seemings connected to truth? Do they play a significant role in inquiry? The chapters in this volume offer a range of useful arguments and fresh ideas about seemings the nature of justification and evidential support intuitions inquiry and the nature of inference. Seemings: New Arguments New Angles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology and philosophy of mind. | Seemings New Arguments New Angles

GBP 130.00
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Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies. It addresses the sizing of France’s nuclear forces technological assistance to countries with nuclear weapons programs uranium prospection nuclear testing its health effects and protests against it as well as plans to prevent and manage accidents in nuclear power plants. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad. The chapters in this volume show how independent and interdisciplinary scholarship free from conflicts of interests can uniquely advance our understanding of nuclear history and politics. This is the case because it does not treat the categories and judgments of official discourse as neutral starting points of the analysis. This volume is based on untapped primary sources from France the UK the US India South Africa and Iran on a new assessment of the health consequences of French nuclear testing in Polynesia thanks to a modern atmospheric particle transport code coupled with historical weather data open-source information about radioactive debris (“mushroom”) clouds as well as data on the composition and particle sizes of the fallout; and on new survey data about French knowledge of and attitudes towards nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. They show notably that the first generation of French nuclear forces lacked technical credibility despite reliance on outside help. Several French officials knew this as did France's allies and adversaries. Moreover French strategic collaborations associated to nuclear programs extended to India and South Africa; nuclear safety regulations changed fundamentally after the Cold War and approximately 110 000 people i. e. 90% of the French Polynesian population in the 1970s could have received doses that would qualify them for compensation according to French law. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of history politics international relations military history war studies conflict and global governance. Most of the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Cold War History. A few chapters were first published in the Nonproliferation Review Diplomacy & Statecraft and Science & Global Security. | Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

GBP 130.00
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The Idea of New India Essays in Defence of Critical Thought

The Idea of New India Essays in Defence of Critical Thought

The idea of ‘New India’ has acquired a new currency. The dominant grammar of politics dilutes the critical impulse and deters the expression of alternate politics. The interpretive possibilities have been replaced by a reactive exchange. Technology is presented as a panacea rather than just a facilitator. Legitimacy and normative dignity for these ideas is acquired by redefining the role of the institutions and also through constitutional amendments. A major intellectual effort is required to reformulate public policy governance systems and social relations to balance the opposite claims of market efficiency and economic growth with social equity and justice. This book is co-published with Aakar Books New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | The Idea of New India Essays in Defence of Critical Thought

GBP 130.00
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The New Digital Education Policy Landscape From Education Systems to Platforms

The New Digital Education Policy Landscape From Education Systems to Platforms

This book provides a scholarly investigation of the new era we have entered in which platforms can replace or profoundly modify educational systems and questions the role of educational policy in this new stage of platform-based digital technology. The contributors explore important questions around who controls these transformations what form they are taking what the balance between national education policies and Big Tech education solutions should be as well as whether there should be a public platform in every education system that digitally expands learning and what evidence there is that learning will be more efficient using these platforms. The first part provides a selection of empirical studies on the new digital educational policy and an analysis of the real opportunities and concerns that governments face in this regard while the second offers reflections on the processes of platformization and the role of the state in this new digital world. Uniquely examining the temporal evolution of these changes and taking a theoretical political and epistemological approach it crucially opens pathways for dialogical and diverse critical thinking about profound problems and possibilities. Gathering purposeful thinking that creates space for design solutions and rethinking educational systems considering these new technological artefacts it will appeal to researchers and specialists in the fields of educational technology and educational policy. | The New Digital Education Policy Landscape From Education Systems to Platforms

GBP 130.00
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Great Power Competition and Order Building in the Indo-Pacific Towards a New Indo-Pacific Equilibrium

Great Power Competition and Order Building in the Indo-Pacific Towards a New Indo-Pacific Equilibrium

This book argues that the new great power contest between the United States and the People’s Republic of China which has as its epicentre the complex Indo-Pacific region is having a detrimental impact on the region’s existing order system. Analysing why the great powers are increasingly at loggerheads the manifold risks this entails and how the various stakeholders in the Indo-Pacific can find a durable regional order more constructive than confrontational the book avoiding theory proposes a new equilibrium based on practical ways to manage burgeoning conflict and maintain order and stability by compartmentalising problems and challenges while seeking to maintain a balance among stakeholder interests. | Great Power Competition and Order Building in the Indo-Pacific Towards a New Indo-Pacific Equilibrium

GBP 130.00
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New Thinking for a New Millennium The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies

New Thinking for a New Millennium The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies

In this book Richard Slaughter draws on the relatively new but rapidly developing field of futures studies to illustrate how our thinking must change in order to deal with the challenges presented by the new millennium. In doing so he brings together the latest work from some of the leading international names in futures thinking. Part One considers the foundations of futures thinking in history literature and ideas. Part Two explores some of the ways that futures studies have been and are being applied in different educational contexts around the world from pre-school to postgraduate levels. Part Three takes the crucial step from institutional learning to social learning and explores how futures provides us with insights which can help guide our society into the new millennium together with suggestions for the development of the field itself. This book is essential reading for teachers students and anyone interested in the perils and promise of the twenty-first century. | New Thinking for a New Millennium The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies

GBP 130.00
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Alcoholism New Knowledge and New Responses

Alcoholism New Knowledge and New Responses

Originally published in 1977 alcoholism was acknowledged to be a seriously growing problem in many parts of the world. It is a complex disorder with psychiatric physical psychological and social aspects having far reaching harmful effects on the family and society as well as on physical and mental health of the alcoholic themself. At the time of original publication it had been estimated that in England and Wales 11 out of every 1 000 in the adult population had a serious drink problem and alcoholism was a major cause of admission to psychiatric and general hospitals. Alcoholism was a medico-social problem of such magnitude that this comprehensive volume embodying advances in knowledge of causation treatment and prevention filled an urgent need at the time. Still a major concern today this reissue can be read in its historical context. | Alcoholism New Knowledge and New Responses

GBP 105.00
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Contemporary New Confucianism II

Contemporary New Confucianism II

As the second volume of a two-volume seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China this book focuses on six leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century. Contemporary New Confucianism refers to the Confucianism or Confucian thought that has emerged in China since the 1920s which aims to revive the spirituality of Confucianism in a changing society. This volume introduces the philosophical thought of Zhang Junmai Feng Youlan He Lin Fang Dongmei Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan including Zhang's political philosophy and comparative philosophy Feng's transformation of Chinese philosophy He's idea of culture and spirit-only idealism Fang's comparative philosophy Tang's idea of moral self and theory of human spiritual realms and Mou's new ontology for Confucianism. It analyzes their divergences and the contemporary relevance of their thought in terms of revisiting and transforming traditional Chinese philosophy and reconciling Chinese and Western traditions. This title will appeal to scholars and students of modern and contemporary Confucianism intellectual history philosophy and thought of contemporary China and comparative philosophy. | Contemporary New Confucianism II

GBP 130.00
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Contemporary New Confucianism I

Contemporary New Confucianism I

As the first volume of a two-volume seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China this book charts the development of this intellectual trend and examines four leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century. Contemporary New Confucianism refers to the Confucianism or Confucian thought that has emerged in China since the 1920s and that seeks to revive Confucian spirituality in a changing society. This volume first analyzes the cultural context logical approach major themes and problems of New Confucianism before delving into the four leading figures namely Liang Shumin Xiong Shili Ma Yifu and Qian Mu. The chapter on Liang Shumin analyzes his concept of will his arguments on Confucian moral ideals and his theory of culture. It then discusses Xiong Shili's contribution to the philosophical metaphysics of New Confucianism. The following chapter on Ma Yifu examines his theory of the mind nature and the six arts. The final chapter on Qian Mu presents his views on nationality history and the Chinese classics. This title will appeal to scholars and students of modern and contemporary Confucianism intellectual history philosophy and thought of contemporary China and comparative philosophy.

GBP 130.00
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The New Realities

The New Realities

Even in the flattest landscape there are passes where the road first climbs to a peak and then descends into a new valley. Most of these passes are simply topography with little or no difference in climate language or culture between the valleys on either side. But some passes are different: they are true divides. History too knows such divides. Once these divides have been crossed the social and political landscape changes; the social and political climate is different and so is the social and political language. Some time between 1965 and 1973 we passed over such a divide and entered the next century. Challenging insightful and provocative Peter Drucker's The New Realities anticipates the central issues of a rapidly changing world. When it was initially published in 1989 some reviewers mistakenly thought The New Realities was a book about the future or in other words a series of predictions. But as indicated in the title the book discusses realities. Drucker argues that events of the next thirty to forty years or even further on had already largely been defined by events of the previous half-century. Thus Drucker discusses episodes in world history that had not yet happened at the time of the book's initial publication such as: the archaism of the hope for salvation by society in The End of FDR's America; the democratization of the Soviet Union in When the Russian Empire is Gone; the technology boom of the 1990s in The Information-Based Organization; and the evolution of management in Management as Social Function and Liberal Art. Graced with a new preface by the author that discusses both reactions to the original publication of the book and how important it is for decision-makers to consider the past and present when planning for the future The New Realities is mandatory reading for understanding politics government the economy information technology and business in an ever-changing world.

GBP 130.00
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Fashion New Feminist Essays

Fashion New Feminist Essays

Inspired by a rapidly changing fashion landscape Fashion: New Feminist Essays offers historical and contemporary studies that reveal the relationships between fashion with gender sexuality race and age. Fashion is a rich terrain for feminist scholars in the twenty-first century. Explicit engagements with feminist and queer politics critical interventions by industry outsiders across digital platforms diversifying images of stylish bodies and ongoing discussions of the ethics and sustainability of fashion production: all of these point to an urgent need to reappraise the relationship of fashion to feminism and other justice-seeking movements. The essays in this collection take up fashion as a feminist critical tool that uniquely holds together the lived and represented body with larger cultural structures. Contributors unearth surprising new lines of connection between gender sexuality race age and religion in their relationship to capitalism both historically and in the present. Bringing together established and emerging scholars and perspectives from gender studies history sociology philosophy and literary studies Fashion: New Feminist Essays traces the far-reaching impact of this most feminized of forms underscoring the significance of fashion studies for understanding the politics of culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Australian Feminist Studies journal. | Fashion New Feminist Essays

GBP 130.00
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New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism Critical Perspectives

New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism Critical Perspectives

A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorism—the view that it’s permissible if not obligatory to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products. This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conversation with one another to further debate in food ethics in novel and meaningful ways. The book includes six chapters that defend distinct versions of new omnivorism and six critical responses from scholars who are sympathetic to strict veganism. The contributors debate whether it’s ethically permissible to eat the following: freegan meat; roadkill; cultured meat; genetically disenhanced animals; possibly insentient animals such as insects; and fish. The volume concludes with two chapters that examine strict vegan and new omnivore policies. Presenting readers with clear defenses and criticisms of the various dietary proposals this book draws attention to the most important ethical challenges facing traditional animal agriculture and alternative systems of food production. New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism will appeal to scholars and students interested in food ethics animal ethics and agricultural ethics. | New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism Critical Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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Ready Technology Fast-Tracking New Business Technologies

Ready Technology Fast-Tracking New Business Technologies

Companies understand that their ability to compete is tied directly to their ability to leverage the very latest technology advances. Fortunately deploying new technology has never been easier primarily due to early maturity and cloud delivery. One approach that is helping companies rapidly pilot and affordably deploy new technologies is ready technology a new category of information technology (IT). This book explains the ready technology adoption process in detail enabling companies to exploit new technology immediately and effectively. In this book the author challenges the traditional requirements-first/technology-second approach to technology deployment. Espousing a technology-first/requirements-second approach the author explains how business solutions are discovered by deploying not studying ready technology. The book covers the latest trends and processes in ready technology. It also describes the characteristics of ready companies and recommends ready technology pilots that should be launched by the following industries: higher education retail and healthcare. | Ready Technology Fast-Tracking New Business Technologies

GBP 170.00
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China's New Diplomacy Rationale Strategies and Significance

China's New Diplomacy Rationale Strategies and Significance

What is the impact of China's new multi-directional diplomacy on international political economy and how can the international community properly respond to the new diplomacy? Based on extensive research addressing these and other important policy questions this book investigates China's new diplomacy since the early 1990s with a focus on Chinese initiatives in the Middle East Latin America and the Caribbean Africa Central Asia Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. Zhiqun Zhu examines China's current efforts to secure energy to expand investment and trade and to enhance 'soft power' around the world. He evaluates how China's activities affect international political economy and how the international community especially the United States has reacted to China's new pro-active diplomacy. The study answers some of the lingering questions about Chinese politics and the policy implications for both China and the international community as they become increasingly interdependent. | China's New Diplomacy Rationale Strategies and Significance

GBP 130.00
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Non-Conservative Systems New Static and Dynamic Stability Criteria

Non-Conservative Systems New Static and Dynamic Stability Criteria

Non-Conservative Systems: New Static and Dynamic Stability Criteria summarizes the essential properties of non-conservative elastic systems (static stability and post-critical behavior) and the importance of novel stability criteria for such systems. Beginning with the history of non-conservative systems theory the text goes on to propose new theories regarding static stability in massless non-conservative systems and dynamic stability in systems with mass. Experiments are included as are computational models developed by the author along with an extensive bibliography. This new work is a valuable new resource for those working in the area of structural stability. | Non-Conservative Systems New Static and Dynamic Stability Criteria

GBP 150.00
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America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States he explained was fighting for its very survival as an independent country because the conquests of Germany and Japan raised the specter of our geopolitical encirclement by hostile forces controlling the power centers of Europe the Middle East and East Asia. Spykman warned that the United States could not safely retreat to a defensive position in the Western Hemisphere. Spykman looked beyond the immediate strategic requirements of the Second World War envisioning a postwar world in which the United States would help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs. Even though Soviet Russia was our wartime ally Spykman recognized that a geopolitically unbalanced Soviet Union could threaten to upset the postwar balance of power and thereby endanger U. S. security. Spykman also foresaw the rise of China in postwar Asia and the likely need for the United States to ally itself with Japan to balance China's power. He also recognized that the Middle East would play a pivotal role in the postwar world. Spykman influenced American postwar statesmen and strategists. During the Cold War the U. S. sought to deny the Soviet Union political control of Western Europe the Middle East and East Asia. Spykman's geopolitical vision of U. S. security supported by a balanced Eurasian land mass coupled with his focus on power as the governing force in international relations makes America's Strategy in World Politics relevant to the twenty-first century. | America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

GBP 140.00
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The New History

The New History

The notion of 'history' has always been one strenuously debated by both academics and the wider population. This deeply provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past by one of the world's leading post-modern historians takes that debate one step further. Alun Munslow re-assesses history in the light of post-modernism and other intellectual challenges which have questioned the primacy of the modernist epistemology of empiricism. In an original and stimulating vision of history that will intrigue all those seriously interested in the subject Munslow argues that history is not only about the sources but a literary construction. Munslow concludes that history as a cultural narrative about the past can never tell us what the past really means. This far reaching conclusion is based on the radical idea that the content of history is defined as much by the nature of the language used to represent and interpret that content as it is by research into the sources. This suggests that history does not produce the most likely meaning of the past but rather can only generate alternative meanings. The lead volume in a major new series on historical thinking and practice this is an accessible yet absorbing study that breaks new ground in discussing the stage history is at now and perhaps most engagingly the direction it will take in the future. | The New History

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Stakeholding and the New International Order

Stakeholding and the New International Order

Title first published in 2003. This invaluable book provides the first definitive critical introduction to the concept of stakeholding and its implications for policy and practice of key players in the new global order. Braddon and Maile take an interdisciplinary approach with particular emphasis upon the political economy of stakeholding which has become the major managerial and political motif of the 1990s. | Stakeholding and the New International Order

GBP 99.99
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Historical Performance and New Music Aesthetics and Practices

Historical Performance and New Music Aesthetics and Practices

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet upon closer consideration clear points of convergence emerge. Not only do many contemporary performers move easily between these two worlds but they often do so using a shared ethos of flexibility improvisation curiosity and collaboration—collaboration with composers past and present with other performers and with audiences. Bringing together expert scholars and performers considering a wide range of issues and case studies Historical Performance and New Music—the first book of its kind—addresses the synergies in aesthetics and practices in historical performance and new music. The essays treat matters including technologies and media such as laptops printing presses and graphic notation; new music written for period instruments from natural horns to the clavichord; personalities such as the pioneering singer Cathy Berberian; the musically “omnivorous” ensembles A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth; and composers Luciano Berio David Lang Molly Herron Caroline Shaw and many others. Historical Performance and New Music presents pathbreaking ideas in an accessible style that speaks to performers composers scholars and music lovers alike. Richly documented and diverse in its methods and subject matter this book will open new conversations about contemporary musical life. | Historical Performance and New Music Aesthetics and Practices

GBP 130.00
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