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  • Workaholics: Investment Techniques for Escaping the Workaholic (Lessons on Life and Leadership from a Supply Chain Executive With 30 Years in Industry)

    by Joseph Marques ...
    Workaholic refers to an uncontrollable need to work constantly, often at the expense of personal health, relationships, and overall well-being. While dedication and ambition can be positive traits, workaholics struggle to disconnect from work, even during leisure time. This behavior is often driven by internal pressures such as perfectionism, fear of failure, or the need for validation. Over time, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians

    An Anthology of Oral History Education

    by Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Michael Brooks, Patrick W. Carlton, Fran Chadwick, Margaret Smith Crocco, Jennifer Braithwait Darrow, Toby Daspit, Joseph DeFilippo, Susan Douglass, David King Dunaway, Sandy Eades, The Foxfire Fund, Inc., Amy S. Green, Ronald J. Grele, M. Gail Hickey, Cliff Kuhn, Erin McCarthy, Marjorie L. McLellan, Susan Moon, Charles Morrissey, John A. Neuenschwander, Rich Nixon, Irma M. Olmedo, Sandy Polishuk, Alessandro Portelli, Kimberly K. Porter, Troy Reeves, Donald A. Ritchie, Marie Scatena, David Sidwell, Ronald Simon, Alan Stein, Debra Sutphen, Kathryn Walbert, Glenn Whitman, John D. Willard, 5th, Linda P. Wood ...
    Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on the fundamentals of oral history and its place in the classroom, but its heart lies in nearly two dozen insightful personal essays by educators who have successfully incorporated oral history into their own teaching. ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Middle Powers and the Rise of China

    by Bruce Gilley, Andrew O'Neil, James Manicom, Jeffrey Reeves, David A. Cooper, Toshi Yoshihara, TongFi Kim, Amy Freedman, Ann Marie Murphy0, Thomas Wilkins1, Sven Grimm2, Yitzhak Shichor3, Anthony P. Spanakos4, Joseph Marques5, Janis van der Westhuizen6 ...
    China’s rise is changing the dynamics of the international system. Middle Powers and the Rise of China is the first work to examine how the group of states referred to as “middle powers” are responding to China’s growing economic, diplomatic, and military power. States with capabilities immediately below those of great powers, middle powers still exercise influence far above most other states. ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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    A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

    by Ayesha Jalal ...
    Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history that has unfolded in the vortex of dire regional and international conflicts. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her ... Read more

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  • Midnight's Descendants

    A History of South Asia since Partition

    by John Keay ...
    Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants-the generations born since the 1947 "midnight hour partition" of British India-are the world's fastest growing population. This vast region and its peoples wield an enormous influence over global economics and geopolitics, yet their impact is too often simplified by accounts that focus solely on one nation ... Read more

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  • Changing Politics in Japan

    by Ikuo Kabashima, Gill Steel ...
    Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia

    Strategy, Resources, and Modernization, Volume I

    by Anthony H. Cordesman, Ashley Hess ...
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    The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia describes the strategy, force deployments, and the military balance in potential current and future scenarios involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the United States. The analysis in these volumes shows how tensions between the Koreas—and the potential ... Read more

    $74.59 USD

  • The Politics of Financing Education in China

    by T. Lin ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders prove reluctant to equalize education when doing so means sacrificing their future promotion. ... Read more

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  • Getting India Back on Track

    An Action Agenda for Reform

    Edited by Ashley J. Tellis, Bibek Debroy, Reece Trevor ...
    India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In order to reverse this trend, New Delhi must seriously reflect on its policy choices across a wide range of issue areas.Getting India Back on Track broadly coincides with the 2014 Indian elections to spur a public debate about the program that the next government should pursue ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Arming without Aiming

    India's Military Modernization

    by Stephen P. Cohen, Sunil Dasgupta ...
    India's growing affluence has led experts to predict a major rearmament effort. The second-most populous nation in the world is beginning to wield the economic power expected of such a behemoth. Its border with Pakistan is a tinderbox, the subcontinent remains vulnerable to religious extremism, and a military rivalry between India and China could erupt in the future. India has long had the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Generational Gap in Japanese Politics

    A Longitudinal Study of Political Attitudes and Behaviour

    by Willy Jou, Masahisa Endo ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    After decades of stable and seemingly semi-permanent single-party dominance, Japanese politics have gone through fundamental changes since the early 1990s. Government ministries have been reorganised, prime ministerial powers strengthened, and rules for electing the lower house of parliament overhauled. Furthermore, frequent formation, merger, splintering and disappearance of new parties have ... Read more

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  • Asia in Washington

    Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past several decades has been the United States. But in a world growing smaller, with a globalizing system ... Read more

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