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  • Blunting the Spear

    The Pacific Carrier War from Pearl Harbor to the Doolittle Raid

    by Robert C. Stern ...
    This compelling book explores the first four months of fighting in the Pacific between the United States and its Allies against Japan, focusing mainly on the aircraft carrier action of the respective navies in the Pacific Theater.In the chaotic months after Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War was anything but certain. The U.S. Navy, reeling from sudden loss, scrambled to slow Japanese momentum, while ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

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  • Knife's Edge

    South Pacific Carrier Battles from the Eastern Solomons to Santa Cruz

    by Robert C. Stern ...
    A World War II naval history of the Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz carrier battles that tested U.S. momentum after Midway.While the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific. In Knife‘s Edge Robert C. Stern provides an account of the Battles of the Eastern ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Big Gun Battles

    Warship Duels of the Second World War

    by Robert C. Stern ...
    This naval history of WWII explores the advancing technology and tactics of battleships through a fascinating survey of ship-to-ship duels.While many naval battles of the Second World War were decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, there was a surprising number of traditional ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. Big Gun Battles recounts some of the most ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scratch One Flattop

    The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea

    by Robert C. Stern ...
    A study of the historic World War II naval battle, the first involving aircraft carriers and first in which neither warship was in sight of the other.By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Modern Cruiser

    The Evolution of the Ships that Fought the Second World War

    by Robert C. Stern ...
    "An entertaining and informative review of the evolution of one of the most important classes of warship, from the technology of WWII into the missile age." —FiretrenchCruisers probably vary more in their characteristics than any other warship type and have certainly been subject to the most convoluted development. There was always a basic tension between quantity and quality, between numbers and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hegel, Kant and the Structure of the Object

    by Robert Stern ...
    Hegel's holistic metaphysics challenges much recent ontology with its atomistic and reductionist assumptions; Stern offers us an original reading of Hegel and contrasts him with his predecessor, Kant. ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The US Navy and the War in Europe

    by Robert C. Stern ...
    The author of Big Gun Battles "shows how the US Navy was slowly but surely drawn into WW2 in the Atlantic theatre of operations . . . well researched" (Warships Magazine).Although the defeat of Japan was the US Navy's greatest contribution to the Second World War, it also played a significant role in the battle against Hitler. Even before Germany declared war in 1941, US naval vessels were ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Guidebook to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

    by Robert Stern ...
    Series series The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
    The Phenomenology of Spirit is arguably Hegel’s most influential and important work, and is considered to be essential in understanding Hegel’s philosophical system and his contribution to western philosophy. The Routledge Guidebook to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit introduces the major themes in Hegel’s great book and aids the reader in understanding this key work, examining:The context of Hegel ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Kantian Ethics

    Value, Agency, and Obligation

    by Robert Stern ...
    This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. It begins by focusing on the relation between Kant's account of obligation and his view of autonomy, arguing that this leaves room for Kant to be a realist about value. Stern then considers where this places Kant in relation to the question of moral scepticism, and in relation to the principle of 'ought implies ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Balance of Payments

    Theory and Economic Policy

    by Robert Stern ...
    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 ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Radical Demand in Løgstrup's Ethics

    by Robert Stern ...
    How much does ethics demand of us? On what authority does it demand it? How does what ethics demand relate to other requirements, such as those of prudence, law, and social convention? Does ethics really demand anything at all? Questions of this sort lie at the heart of the work of the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup (1905-1981), and in particular his key text The Ethical Demand ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Understanding Moral Obligation

    Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard

    by Robert Stern ...
    Series series Modern European Philosophy
    In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it is not ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD