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Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of DSM-IV Personality Disorders
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 64.95The second edition of this classic handbook includes the latest developments in the diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders that have emerged since the publication of the DSM-IV-TR. Sperry highlights the many significant advances in the field, providing the reader with a complete summary of new intervention strategies, treatment approaches,... more...
Living with HIV and Dying with AIDS
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 49.95Doyal brings together findings from a wide range of empirical studies spanning the social sciences to explore experiences of HIV positive people across the world. This will illustrate how the disease is physically manifested and psychologically internalised by individuals in diverse ways depending on the biological, social, cultural and economic circumstances... more...
European Armies and the Conduct of War
Taylor and Francis 1983; US$ 41.95Discussing the key issues of modern warfare, Hew Strachan?s work examines the theory and practice of land warfare in Europe since 1700. Looking at warfare in the context of social and political change, Dr. Strachan interprets his subject matter as widely as possible, and European Armies and the Conduct of War considers the roles of air power... more...
Big Wars and Small Wars
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95This is a fascinating new insight into the British army and its evolution through both large and small scale conflicts. To prepare for future wars, armies derive lessons from past wars. However, some armies are defeated because they learnt the wrong lessons, fighting new conflicts in ways appropriate to the last. For the British Army in the twentieth... more...
The First World War in Africa
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 34.99To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete in itself, and with a new introduction by the author. The First World War was not just fought in the trenches of the western front. It embraced all... more...
The First World War, 1
Oxford University Press, UK 2003; US$ 27.99Hew Strachan's monumental account has been heralded as the definitive work on the First World War. His narrative, always readable and incisive, brings together an unparalleled range of material. Military and strategic perspectives are combined with those of cultural, diplomatic, economic, and social history. The viewpoints of Germany, England,... more...
The First World War
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 18.00Soon to be a major television series on the Discovery Channel! Ninety years have passed since the outbreak of World War I, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative new book, the legacy of the ?war to end all wars? is with us still. The First World War was a truly global conflict from the start, with many... more...
The First World War: Volume I
OUP Oxford 2001; US$ 27.99This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military events. More recent approaches have embraced cultural, diplomatic, economic, and social history.... more...
Women Workers, Migration and Family in Sarawak
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 178.00In many parts of South-East Asia, women's lifestyles are going through enormous changes as women move from traditional rural, agricultural lifestyles to modern, urban lifestyles, which often involve migration to cities, taking on paid work, and having a quite different relationship with their families. This book, based on intensive research among the... more...
Village Mothers, City Daughters
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2007; US$ 59.90This unique volume draws together a compelling collection of studies on the diverse and transformatory experiences of women as they encounter the forces of modernization altering the face of contemporary Borneo. The authors, all locally based scholars specializing in gender issues, shed much-needed light upon this hidden academic area. It presents... more...









