Author: David C. Kang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: east, asia, order, power, rising, peace, china
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-10-26
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0231141882
ISBN-13: 9780231141888

Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have flocked to invest in China, and Chinese exports have begun to flood the world. China is modernizing its military, has joined numerous regional and international institutions, and plays an increasingly visible role in international politics. In response to this growth

Author: Barry Buzan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: directions, world, politics, new, realism, anarchy, neorealism, structural, logic
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 1993-01
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0231080409
ISBN-13: 9780231080408

This treatise attempts to release structural theory from the confines of neorealism, and in the process lays the groundwork for a comprehensive theory of international relations based upon a methodologically open structural realism.

Author: Seth Lerer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: language, history, portable, english, inventing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-03-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 023113794X
ISBN-13: 9780231137942

Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth Lerer’s Inventing English is a masterful, engaging history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of our grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments in the larger history of English, America, and literatu

Author: Michael J. Mauboussin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: places, unconventional, wisdom, financial, finding
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2006-04-21
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0231138709
ISBN-13: 9780231138703

One of Wall Street’s most creative and influential minds offers provocative new ways of thinking about the stock market, investing, and how we make decisions.

Author: Bruce Gilley
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: lead, future, democratic, china
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-02-20
List price: $77.50
ISBN-10: 0231130848
ISBN-13: 9780231130844

The end of communist rule in China will be one of the most momentous events of the twenty-first century, sounding the death knell for the Marxist-Leninist experiment and offering freedom to a fifth of mankind. This book provides a detailed account of how that is likely to happen. In more than half a century of rule, the Chinese Communist Party has turned a poor and benighted China into a moderately well-off and increasingly influential nation. Yet the Party has failed to keep pace with change since stepping aside from daily life in the late-1970s. After nearly a hundred years of frustrating a

Author: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: crisis, china, taiwan, strait, dangerous
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0231135645
ISBN-13: 9780231135641

Dangerous Strait provides fresh perspectives on the complex political, economic, and strategic issues of the Taiwan Strait. Essays examine a variety of topics, which include the movement for independence and its place in Taiwanese domestic politics, the underlying weaknesses of democracy in Taiwan, and the significance of China and Taiwan’s economic interdependence. In the area of security, contributors provide incisive critiques of Taiwan’s incomplete military modernization, the strains in U.S.-Taiwan relations and their differing interpretations of China’s intentions, and

Author: Kenneth G. Wilson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: english, american, standard, guide, columbia
Number of Pages: 482
Published: 1993-04-15
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0231069898
ISBN-13: 9780231069892

In the most reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the Americans of today, Wilson answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of clear, concise entries. His guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as determined by context. Wilson provides a simple chart of contexts -from oratorical speech to intimate, from formal writing to informal -and explains in which contexts a particular usage is appropriate, and in which it is not. The Columbia Guide to Standard Written American English provides the answe