Author: Denny Roy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: relations, foreign, china
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1998-03
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 0847690121
ISBN-13: 9780847690121

Poised to become the dominant Asia-Pacific power, China yet remains an elusive international player. In this timely text, Denny Roy shows how the drive for security and power underlying Chinese foreign policy is reinforced by other important factors, including China’s internal political struggles and unique, historically driven perceptions of international affairs. Providing a wide-ranging assessment of China’s foreign policy, the author explores the PRC’s relationships with key international organizations and countries, including the United States, Japan, Russia, Korea, Indi

Author: Denny Roy
Publisher: Cornell University Pre
Keywords: history, political, taiwan
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0801488052
ISBN-13: 9780801488054

For centuries, various great powers have both exploited and benefited Taiwan, their designs for this island frequently clashing with the desire of local inhabitants to control their own destiny. Such conflicts have shaped Taiwan?s multiple, and frequently contradictory, identities. Denny Roy contends that Taiwan?s political history is best understood as a continuous struggle for security. Eschewing the usual emphasis on the high politics of the recent era, he offers a comprehensive narrative of the island?s political history from the first Chinese settlements to the Chen Shui-bian presidency.

Author: Denny K. Miu
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: engineering, series, mechanical, contromechanics, electromechanics, mechatronics
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1992-11-19
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 0387978933
ISBN-13: 9780387978932

This book is concerned with electromechanical systems, particularly the interaction between and the control of the electrical (electronic) and mechanical components. As electronics is becoming increasingly important in controlling machines, the problems of mechanical engineering can be less and less separated from those of electronic engineering and control engineering. This graduate-level text fills a gap in the literature by considering these problems from a unified perspective; it requires only a background in undergraduate mechanical engineering as a prerequisite. The first part of the boo

Author: Jim Denny
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: books, latitude, kaua, birds
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0824820975
ISBN-13: 9780824820978

Author: Roz Denny Fox
Publisher: Harlequin
Keywords: heartwarming, harlequin, love, linked
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2011-05-24
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 037336427X
ISBN-13: 9780373364275

At twenty-seven, Tibby Mack’s the youngest resident of Yaqui Springs, a retirement community near California’s Salton Sea. The folks there have become her family, her friends…and her matchmakers. But since the youngest man in town is sixty-five, their chances of success are slim to none.So when Cole O’Donnell comes to Yaqui Springs, he meets all the matchmakers’ qualifications. Age: thirty. Looks: gorgeous. And he’s inherited his grandfather’s property. He’s the answer to their prayers.Except that Tibby’s livelihood—her late aunt’s lega

Author: Denny Borsboom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: contemporary, psychometrics, issues, conceptual, mind, measuring
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2005-07-11
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521844630
ISBN-13: 9780521844635

Is it possible to measure psychological attributes like intelligence, personality and attitudes and if so, how does that work? What does the term ’measurement’ mean in a psychological context? This fascinating and timely book discusses these questions and investigates the possible answers that can be given response. Denny Borsboom provides an in-depth treatment of the philosophical foundations of widely used measurement models in psychology. The theoretical status of classical test theory, latent variable theory and positioned in terms of the underlying philosophy of science. Speci

Author: Mark Denny
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: world, changed, machines, five, ingenium
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-05-04
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0801885868
ISBN-13: 9780801885860

Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances -- the bow and arrow, the waterwheel, the counterpoise siege engine (including the trebuchet), the pendulum clock anchor escapement, and the centrifugal governor -- and demonstrates how they literally changed the world. Interweaving an entertaining narrative with diagrams, equations, and drawings, Denny shares the history of each device, explains the physics behind it, and describes how it was used, how it evolved, and why it is significant in