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Xinjiang: China's
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 49.95Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese and Muslim, there are powerful forces for autonomy, and independence, in Xinjiang. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Xinjiang. It introduces Xinjiang's history,... more...
Politics of Security
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 56.95In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, Michael Dillon contributes to the rethinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental thought. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, Politics... more...
Contemporary China
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 46.95This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics and international relations; China's history, especially the... more...
Chinese Economic History up to 1949 (2 vols)
BRILL 2008; US$ 419.00The development of China?s economy has been an enigma to Western historians. Was it centuries of stagnation followed by collapse or was it a process of steady development, reaching a high point by the eighteenth century? What is certain is that its economic growth never developed into a full industrial revolution and was overtaken by the West. more...
Deconstructing International Politics
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not only in challenging traditional scholarship and addressing... more...
China
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 58.00China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable -- and most controversial -- development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and out-dated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist state, to hybrid capitalist superpower. Yet... more...
How to Think About Law School
R&L Education 2013; US$ 29.99This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide for college students and high school seniors considering law school. It teaches how to build an undergraduate resume, how to gather information about law school and legal careers, how to prepare for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) and how to navigate the pitfalls of the law school application... more...
The Liberal Way of War
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 45.95The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of species being; what the book calls 'the biohuman'. ... more...
Foucault on Politics, Security and War
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 28.95Foucault on Politics, Society and War interrogates Foucault's controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign and bio-power and examine the relation of bios, nomos and race in relation to modern war. more...
Economic Geology of Natural Gas Hydrate
Springer 2006; US$ 219.99Attempts to integrate the knowledge in the fields of hydrate nucleation and growth in permafrost regions and marine sediments. This book discusses gas hydrate reactant supply, growth models, and implications for pore fill by natural gas hydrate for both seawater precursors in marine sediments and for permafrost hydrate. more...









