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The Generalissimo (Pocket)
avJay Taylor
ISBN: 9780674060494 - UTGIVEN: 2011-04One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo[...]
Counting Civilian Casualties (Pocket)
avTaylor B. (EDT) Seybolt, Jay D. (EDT) Aronson, Baruch (EDT) Fischhoff
ISBN: 9780199977314 - UTGIVEN: 2013-06A popular myth emerged in the late 1990s: in 1900, wars killed one civilian for every eight soldiers, while contemporary wars were killing eight civilians for every one soldier. The neat reversal of numbers was memorable, and academic publications and UN documents regularly cited it. The more it was[...]
