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  • The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific

    Strategy, Order, and Regional Security

    by Catherine L. Grant, Alessio Patalano, James A. Russell, Christopher P. Twomey, Peter Dutton, Clive Schofield, Nicola Leveringhaus0, Ryan Gingeras1, Richard Dunley2, Daniel Moran3, Kevin Rowlands4, Ian Bowers5, Julie Marionneau6, Sheryn Lee7, James Goldrick8, James Wirtz9, Abhijit Singh0 ...
    A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-PacificCompetition at sea is once again a central issue of international security. Nowhere is the urgency to address state-on-state competition at sea more strongly felt than in the Indo-Pacific region, where freedom of navigation is challenged by regional states’ continuous investments in naval power, and the ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Directions in Childhood Studies

    Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century

    by James M. Curtis, Kirsten Bilger, Sumaria Butt, Cara Byrne, Michael G. Cornelius, S. Leigh Ann Cowan, Jamie M. Fine, Joseph V. Giunta, Kristin Kondrlik, Imogen Nutting0, Ryan Twomey1, Meghan Whitfield2, Allyson Wierenga3 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine contemporary children’s literature, film, and video games ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Examining The Wire

    Authenticity and Curated Realism

    by Ryan Twomey ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines The Wire’s authenticity and its establishment of the series realism.Along with tracing creator David Simon’s onscreen critique of numerous failed American institutions, the book focuses on the connection between authenticity and realism in three distinct areas: language, character, and location. While it is shown that The Wire is indeed authentic, the study examines occasions ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • True Detective

    Critical Essays on the HBO Series

    by Scott F. Stoddart, Michael Samuel, Cameron Williams Crawford, Jennifer Crumley, Alexis Egan, Rick Elmore, Isabell Große, Kathryn Jensen, Tony Prichard0, Amy Stavola1, Ryan Twomey2, Jessica Walker3, Helen Williams4 ...
    Throughout its limited run beginning in 2014, the HBO series True Detective has presented viewers with unique takes on the American crime drama on television, marked by literary and cinematic influences, heavyweight performances, and an experimental approach to the genre. At times celebrated and opposed, the series has ignited a range of ongoing critical conversations about representations of ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Radiological Imaging of the Neonatal Chest

    by V. Donoghue, G.F. Eich, J. Folan Curran, L. Garel, D. Manson, C.M. Owens, S. Ryan, B. Smevik, G. Stake0, A. Twomey1 ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    As outlined by Dr. V. Donoghue in her preface, recent advances in the therapeutic manage ment of neonates with low gestational age have resulted in a significantly high er survival rate and better outcome for these newborns. Lung and heart malformations or acquired diseases represent a major part of the life threatening conditions in this group of critically ill patients, and radiological imaging ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

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  • The Echidna Strategy

    Australia's Search for Power and Peace

    by Sam Roggeveen ...
    In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?The Echidna Strategy overturns the conventional wisdom about Australia's security. Australia will need to defend itself without American help, but this doesn't need to cost more.The truth, which no Australian political leader is willing to confront, is that America's security is not threatened by China's rise ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Where Great Powers Meet

    America & China in Southeast Asia

    by David Shambaugh ...
    After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American-led order for the foreseeable future. In the last two decades, however, the re-emergence of China as a major great power has called into question the geopolitical future of the region and raised the specter of renewed great power competition. As the eminent China scholar ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

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  • The Great Wall at Sea, Second Edition

    China's Navy in the Twenty-First Century

    by Bernard D Cole USN (Ret.) ...
    Bernard Cole takes a comprehensive look at China’s Navy, a Navy that continues to grow while the U.S. Navy shrinks. Of particular note, according to the author, is Beijing’s increased attention to guarding its vital sea lanes because of the nation’s growing dependence on maritime trade, especially energy supplies. He provides a thorough description of China’s naval establishment, including its ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Arms Race in Asia

    Trends, causes and implications

    by Andrew T.H. Tan ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This book is the first systematic examination of the emerging arms race in Asia.The global trade in arms is to a large degree underpinned by the strong demand for arms in Asia and the Middle East, the two largest arms export markets in the world. Of these two regions Asia has become particularly significant, led by the emergence of China and India as major powers. It is therefore not surprising ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Twenty-First Century Seapower

    Cooperation and Conflict at Sea

    Edited by Peter Dutton, Robert Ross, Øystein Tunsjø ...
    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order.Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced naval capabilities. The emergence of rising naval powers is a cause for concern, as the potential for ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia

    Nature, Causes and Consequences

    Edited by Geoffrey Till, Jane Chan ...
    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    This edited volume analyses the naval arms race in South-East Asia, and reviews the content, purposes and consequences of the naval policies and development of the main countries of the region.The rise of naval capability in the countries of the Asia-Pacific Region is increasingly recognised as a major indicator of the ‘rise of Asia’ and its increasing importance in the world’s political, economic ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The End of Grand Strategy

    US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century

    by Simon Reich, Peter Dombrowski ...
    In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America's military actually does, day to day. They argue that a series of fundamental recent changes in the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD