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  • The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Maternal-Fetal Medicine⁠ Clerkship

    A Guide for Senior Medical Students

    Edited by Edith Antonio MD, Nina K. Ayala MD, ScM ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This quick-reference guide is the first book written specifically for the many third- and fourth-year medical students rotating on maternal-fetal medicine service.The book focuses on the diagnosis and management of the most common pathologic entities. Each chapter covers history, physical examination, imaging, and common diagnoses. For each diagnosis, the book sets out the typical presentation, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Modern China

    Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present

    by S. C. M. Paine, Bruce A. Elleman ...
    Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. Through years of living and research in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Russia, the authors are deeply qualified to understand China’s internal dynamics as well as its foreign relations over centuries. Arguing that modern Chinese history cannot be understood without a deep appreciation ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895

    Perceptions, Power, and Primacy

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power, disrupting the traditional power balance and fracturing the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Japanese Empire

    Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–5) and the Russo ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Social Insurance and Social Justice

    Social Security, Medicare and the Campaign Against Entitlements

    Edited by Leah Rogne, PhD, Carroll Estes, PhD, Brian Grossman, ScM, Brooke Hollister, Erica Solway, MSW, MPH ...
    "[W]e must tell the story of how social insurance programs have assured basic economic and health security for millions of AmericansÖ.This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about these goals."-From the Foreword by Barbara KennellyPresident and CEO,National Committee to Preserve Social Security and MedicareThis politically charged, provocative text serves as an introduction to social ... Read more

    $113.99 CAD

  • Principles of Maritime Power

    by Bruce A. Elleman ...
    Maritime powers dominate the planet, from the British empire of the 19th century, to the American post-World War II domination of global affairs. To a large degree their control of the globe is based on control of the seas. This book seeks to examine the strengths and weaknesses of maritime power, including specific chapters on mutiny, blockades, coalitions, piracy, expeditionary warfare, commerce ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Urban Informatics and Future Cities

    Edited by S. C. M. Geertman, Christopher Pettit, Robert Goodspeed, Aija Staffans ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book forms a selection of chapters submitted for the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of June 2021 at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Chapters were selected from a double-blind review process by the conference's scientific committee. The chapters in the book cover developments and applications with big data and urban ... Read more

    $267.99 CAD

  • Naval Coalition Warfare

    From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom

    Edited by Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine ...
    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    This is the first scholarly book examining naval coalition warfare over the past two centuries from a multi-national perspective. Containing case studies by some of the foremost naval historians from the US, Great Britain, and Australia, it also examines the impact of international law on coalitions. Together these collected essays comprise a compr ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars

    Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare

    Edited by Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine ...
    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory.Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a secondary theatre accessible to them by sea and difficult for their enemies to reach by land, giving the sea ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • From Quills to Tweets

    How America Communicates about War and Revolution

    by Andrea J. Dew, Marc A. Genest, S. C. M. Paine, Troy Bickham, Martin J. Manning, Michelle Getchell, David Silbey, J. Lee Thompson0, Bruce A. Elleman1, Mike Carew2, Steven Casey3, David Kaiser4, Judith Baroody5, Thomas H. Johnson6, Matthew C. DuPée7, Haroro Ingram8, Craig Whiteside9 ...
    While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal. This book explores the roles that political narratives, media coverage, and evolving communication technologies have played in precipitating, shaping, and concluding or prolonging wars and revolutions over the ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sitting on Death, Standing to Life

    by Pernell Reid Grant, RN SCM; BSN; Pearl, Pearly ...
    Sitting on Death, Standing to LifeBy: Pernell Reid Grant, RN SCM; BSN; Pearl, PearlyThe older woman and her potted plant are intrinsically linked in this autobiographical tale of illness and rejuvenation. As the older woman finds herself suffering ailments of the stomach, the potted plant falters and begins to wilt. Caring for her own wellness, the older woman must discover how to bring health and ... Read more

    $20.61 CAD