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  • CAPE OF TORMENTS
    ROBERT ROSS
    Cape of Torments, first published in 1983, is a detailed examination of slavery in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. It describes the reactions of the slaves to their conditions of slavery, concentrating on those aspects of their lives which their masters considered criminal, and above all on the large numbers of occasions when slaves ran away in an attempt to start a new li...

    $859.00

  • US–CHINA FOREIGN RELATIONS
    ROBERT S. ROSS / ØYSTEIN TUNSJØ / WANG DONG
    This book examines the power transition between the US and China, and the implications for Europe and Asia in a new era of uncertainty. The volume addresses the impact that the rise of China has on the United States, Europe, transatlantic relations, and East Asia. China is seeking to use its enhanced power position to promote new ambitions; the United States is adjusting to a n...

    $999.00

  • MISSION POSSIBLE
    ROBERT ROSS
    The Latin American Agribusiness Development Corporation (LAAD) was one of many initiatives taken at the height of the Cold War to alleviate poverty in countries threatened by communist insurgencies. Its mission was to promote rural development by funding local agribusiness enterprises to create new permanent jobs and new economic activity. In Mission Possible, Ross, president o...

    $1,179.00

  • EAST ASIA IN TRANSITION:
    ROBERT S. ROSS
    "Has uniformly good essays on economic and political change, the policies of the great and local powers, and the prospects for building a new regional order". -- Foreign Affairs ...

    $1,139.00

  • TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SEAPOWER
    DUTTON, PETER / ROSS, ROBERT / TUNSJØ, ØYSTEIN
    This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order. Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced naval capabilities. The emergence of rising naval powers is a cause for concern, as...

    $1,239.00

  • CHINESE SECURITY POLICY
    ROBERT ROSS
    This volume provides a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Chinese security policy, comprising essays written by one of America's leading scholars. Chinese Security Policy covers such fundamental areas as the role of international structure in state behavior, the use of force in international politics (including deterrence, coercive diplomacy, and war), and the sources ...

    $1,279.00

  • CHIEF JOSEPH, YELLOW WOLF AND THE CREATION OF NEZ PERCE HISTORY IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
    ROBERT ROSS MCCOY
    This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework. ...

    $1,239.00

  • ENGAGING CHINA
    JOHNSTON, ALASTAIR IAIN / ROSS, ROBERT S.
    Engaging China is one of the first books to look at the responses of major international powers to the recent economic growth of China. Anyone interested in the financial fortunes of the Asia-Pacific region cannot afford to ignore the rise of China as an economic power since the 1970s. Economic growth coupled with increased military capability and spreading nationalism have gra...

    $1,339.00

  • MIMS' PATHOGENESIS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
    NASH, ANTHONY A. / DALZIEL, ROBERT G. / FITZGERALD, J. ROSS
    Mims' Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease is the landmark book in the field of infectious disease. The new, revised edition of this work provides a comprehensive, up-to-date description of the mechanisms of microbial infection and the pathogenesis of infectious disease. Presented in a clear, accessible style, it deals in an integrated manner with the spectrum of microorganisms, ...

    $763.00

  • CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS: DESIGN AND APPLICATION: DESIGN AND APPLICATION
    LOBANOFF, VAL S. / ROSS, ROBERT R.
    Centrifugal Pumps: Design and Application ...

    $928.00

  • COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL FICTION IN ENGLISH
    ROBERT ROSS
    Fiction from the old British Commonwealth once took second place to the literature of England and the United States, but his is no longer the case. Writers from around the globe-Africa, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, and the Caribbean-have recorded their encounters with colonialism from its beginnings to its collapse and aftermath to produce an impressive body of wor...

    $1,139.00

  • CHINA, THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION
    ROBERT S. ROSS
    This text considers the importance of various factors which influenced the policies of each country during the Cold War including strategic considerations, domestic politics and ideology. ...

    $1,139.00

  • WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS
    ROBERT R. N. ROSS / DEANNE E. B. ROSS
    Two and a half years after the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, New Orleans and south Louisiana continue to struggle in an unsettled gumbo of environmental, social, and rebuilding chaos. Citizens await the fruition of four successive recovery and reconstruction planning processes and the realization of essential infrastructure repairs. Repopulation in Orleans Parish ...

    $1,082.00