Authors:James C. Mulvenon, RAND Corporation, Roger Cliff, Kei
Publisher: Rand Publishing
Keywords: industry, defense, chinas, direction, new
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 2005-11-02
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0833037943
ISBN-13: 9780833037947

Since the early 1980s, a prominent and consistent conclusion drawn from research on China’s defense-industrial complex has been that China’s defense-production capabilities are rife with weaknesses and limitations. This study argues for an alternative approach: From the vantage point of 2005, it is time to shift the focus of current research to the gradual improvements in and the future potential of China’s defense-industrial complex. The study found that China’s defense sectors are designing and producing a wide range of increasingly advanced weapons that, in the shor

Author: Michael Gurian
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: significance, direction, lives, meaning, sons, boys, helping, purpose
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-04-06
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0470243376
ISBN-13: 9780470243374

The final and conclusive book in the groundbreaking series on boys and their development In this climax to his series of landmark books about boys, Michael Gurian offers a powerful new program to help us give our sons a core purpose–a program based on building morality, character, career goals, the ability to form intimate relationships, selflessness, personal and community responsibility, and an accelerated process of developmental maturity. Gurian reveals how important purpose is for the success and happiness of boys and explains how a boy’s core personality, nature, and genetic p

Author: Chris Smith
Publisher: A SIPRI Publication
Keywords: policy, sipri, publication, defence, drift, hoc, arsenal, direction, india
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1994-06-02
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 019829168X
ISBN-13: 9780198291688

India’s ad hoc Arsenal traces the evolution of the domestic dynamics of Indian defense policy since 1947. Chris Smith provides an in-depth analysis of defense policy from 1947 to 1962, a period often ignored by Indian defense analysts, and an evaluation of the performance of the defense industrial base. The author concludes that India’s defense policy is designed more to achieve a great power status than to acquire security at an affordable price.

Author: Natasha Zaretsky
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: national, decline, family, american, home, direction
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-04-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0807857971
ISBN-13: 9780807857977

Between 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. In No Direction Home, Natasha Zaretsky shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another.

Authors:John Alston, Lloyd Thaxton,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: life, right, direction, steer, rules, happens, fix, reality, stuff
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-01-13
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0471273600
ISBN-13: 9780471273608

"Every once in a while a book comes along that is both simple in its presentation and profound in its impact. This is such a book." —Jack Canfield, coauthor, Chicken Soup for the Soul ® "Bad stuff happens to everyone! This easy-to-read, lighthearted book takes the sting out of painful events and puts perspective into life by using principles that everyone can relate to. A must-read!" –– Mark Victor Hansen co-creator, #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul®, coauthor, The One Minute Millionaire "We’ve all had bad stuff happen to us. In

Author: Haim Hazan
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: new, direction, anthropology, volume, zionism, virtual, dreams, israeli, youth, simulated
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-12
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 157181325X
ISBN-13: 9781571813251

Fragments of the Israeli experience are pieced together in this provocative essay to provide a socio-anthropo-logical agenda for some of the issues involved in the manufacturing of items of symbolic solidarity and common national imagery in an epoch of social disunification and cultural pastiche. The author argues that even though the aesthetic forms of major cultural idioms have unrecognizably altered and are accommodated to befit the shape and style of postmodern living, the basic programs underlying them have remained immutable. Furthermore, it is the quality of adaptability to changing aes

Author: Committee to Assess the Scope and Direction of Com
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: science, engineering, computer, agenda, future, broader, computing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0309047404
ISBN-13: 9780309047401

Computers are increasingly the enabling devices of the information revolution, and computing is becoming ubiquitous in every corner of society, from manufacturing to telecommunications to pharmaceuticals to entertainment. Even more importantly, the face of computing is changing rapidly, as even traditional rivals such as IBM and Apple Computer begin to cooperate and new modes of computing are developed. "Computing the Future" presents a timely assessment of academic computer science and engineering (CS&E), examining what should be done to ensure continuing progress in making discoveries th