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End User Searching in the Health Sciences

End User Searching in the Health Sciences

This book first published in 1986 provides a comprehensive and detailed look at online biomedical database searching by end users. Experts fully assess the numerous implications of end user searching and synthesize a wide variety of views and successful practices. By examining the types of users institutional settings products used and applications this important volume probes the specific variations among programs and provides a solid overview of end user searching in the health science field. The volume includes informative chapters on determining content and structure of online educational materials training the end user the issues in implementing end user search systems and much more. | End User Searching in the Health Sciences

GBP 32.99
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Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades

Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades

Visually enriched with over 250 photographs and drawings Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades is an essential reference guide for understanding the types and functions of double-skin façades. Author Mary Ben Bonham examines the history and continuing potential of double-skin architecture informing on the variety of approaches possible and advising a rigorous integrated design process leading to application. Featuring a wide selection of architectural examples the book will be of interest to professionals and students within the fields of architecture engineering and construction. Characterized by a buffer-like air space between two glazed building skins double-skin windows and façades aim to improve building comfort and energy performance. Double skins introduce complexity and initial costs yet significant buildings in locations around the globe continue to select this approach. In addition to exploring motivations benefits and cautions for designing with double skins the book provides a primer on fundamental façade design concepts and strategies for control of thermal luminous and acoustic environments. Chapters also address alternative types of high-performance façades and implications for each phase of façade design and construction. Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades promotes bioclimatic design that is inspired by nature measured in performance and uniquely adapted to climate and place. In-depth case studies illustrate how double-skin façades have been adapted to a range of climates and cultural settings: Marseille Library and Grenoble Courthouse in France Cambridge Public Library in Massachusetts Manitoba Hydro Place in Canada and the Pearl River Tower in China.

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End-User Training for Sci-Tech Databases

End-User Training for Sci-Tech Databases

This book first published in 1990 analyses how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies in the sciences describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user searching in a sci-tech organization examines how the scientists at a major industrial research organization have begun to do more online searching with the encouragement of the information center and explores the proactive role that medical libraries have taken in training health care professionals to search MEDLINE. | End-User Training for Sci-Tech Databases

GBP 29.99
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Double Trouble The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism

Double Trouble The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism

The double doppelgänger is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity however this book argues that the double although it mostly goes unnoticed is a widespread phenomenon that has significant influence on our lives. It is an inherent key element of human subjectivity whose functions forms and effects have not yet gained the serious consideration they merit. Drawing on literature philosophy and psychoanalysis and combining a personal story with theoretical interventions Double Trouble develops a novel understanding of the double and human subjectivity in the last two centuries. It begins with the singular and narcissistic double of Romanticism and gradually moves to the multiple doubles implicated by Postmodernism. The double is what defies unicity and opens up the subject to multiplicity. Consequently it gradually emerges as a bridge between the I and the Other identity and difference philosophy and literature theory and praxis. | Double Trouble The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism

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Social Work Practice and End-of-Life Care

Social Work Practice and End-of-Life Care

This book draws together the learning of a wide range of social workers and other professionals engaged in end of life care who recognise that dying is essentially a social experience and want to tailor a personal professional and societal response accordingly. Through a systemic lens the book explores the nature and experience of living and dying in the UK today then considers ways in which social workers and others may want to work with people who are affected by a diagnosis of a life-threatening condition. The contributors offer rich and contemporary perspectives on death dying and loss reflective of their different approaches and interests. The insights of the book are timely given the growing levels and changing nature of needs for people who are coming to the end of their life in the UK and beyond and the related requirements for compassionate personalised and holistic care within the increasingly professionalised arena of health and social care. This book will be of interest to social work practitioners students and others committed to psychosocial support of people who are dying or bereaved and who want to consider how to provide this support most effectively. Professionals who are interested in working alongside social workers to deliver high quality end of life care will also find this publication useful. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice. | Social Work Practice and End-of-Life Care

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The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

In The End of Economic Man long recognized as a cornerstone work Peter F. Drucker explains and interprets fascism and Nazism as fundamental revolutions. In some ways this book anticipated by more than a decade the existentialism that came to dominate the European political mood in the postwar period. Drucker provides a special addition to the massive literature on existentialism and alienation since World War II. The End of Economic Man is a social and political effort to explain the subjective consequences of the social upheavals caused by warfare. Drucker concentrates on one specific historical event: the breakdown of the social and political structure of Europe which culminated in the rise of Nazi totalitarianism to mastery over Europe. He explains the tragedy of Europe as the loss of political faith resulting from the political alienation of the European masses. The End of Economic Man is a book of great social import. It shows not only what might have helped the older generation avert the catastrophe of Nazism but also how today's generation can prevent another such catastrophe. This work will be of special interest to political scientists intellectual historians and sociologists. The book was singled out for praise on both sides of the Atlantic and is considered by the author to be his most prescient effort in social theory. | The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

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The Principle of Double Effect A History and Philosophical Defense

The Principle of Double Effect A History and Philosophical Defense

This book offers a comprehensive history of the principle of double effect and its applications in ethics. Written from a non-theological perspective it makes the case for the centrality of the double effect reasoning in philosophical ethics. The book is divided into two parts. The first part thoroughly examines the history of double effect reasoning. The author’s history spans from Thomas Aquinas’s opera omnia to the modern and influential understanding of the principle known as proportionalism. The second part of the book elucidates the principle and addresses various objections that have been raised against it including those that arise from an in-depth discussion of the trolley problem. Finally the author examines the role of intentions in ethical thinking and constructs a novel defense of the principle based on fine distinctions between intentions. The Principle of Double Effect: A History and Philosophical Defense will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in moral philosophy the history of ethics bioethics medical ethics and the Catholic moral tradition. | The Principle of Double Effect A History and Philosophical Defense

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The End of Tradition Country Life in Central Surrey

The End of Tradition Country Life in Central Surrey

First published in 1978 The End of Tradition is the history of four Surrey villages the Horsleys and Clandons close to London but isolated and protected from it by the Green Belt. Towards the end of the last century a period of rapid change began in rural England as a new way of life centred on the nearby towns and cities replaced a traditional rural village life. Estates were broken up agricultural life declined village schools and parish councils were set up and the pervasive influence of the village squire disappeared. But the coming of the railway and later the motor car provoked the most fundamental changes for the isolation of the village was ended. The railway linked the villages of Surrey with London. In exclusive housing estates of detached homes in culs-de-sac the exceptionally high status of the village was enhanced by the efforts of the newcomers to protect their new style of life through the most comprehensive countryside protection system in Britain. This is a must read for students and scholars interested in British history and sociology. | The End of Tradition Country Life in Central Surrey

GBP 90.00
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Why Should We Be Called ‘Coolies’? The End of Indian Indentured Labour

Why Should We Be Called ‘Coolies’? The End of Indian Indentured Labour

What are the dynamics of the abolition of the Indian indentureship system? Why was it ended? Who were the main players in the final end of the labour scheme? Were Indian labourers and/or the Indian middle classes actively involved in the processes leading towards complete abolition? This book examines the end of a labour system which lasted from 1838 until 1920 in various territories throughout the British Empire. It looks at methods of agitations which had their genesis in the territories of the Indian Ocean and compare/contrast these with those of other territories such as the British West Indies. The volume provides a comparative study of the abolition of the Indian indentureship system and shows the global interconnectedness of abolition with a strong subaltern focus. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Why Should We Be Called ‘Coolies’? The End of Indian Indentured Labour

GBP 130.00
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Freedom to Choose How to Make End-of-life Decisions on Your Own Terms

Freedom to Choose How to Make End-of-life Decisions on Your Own Terms

Freedom of Information in a Post 9-11 World is to date the first international scholarly examination of the impact of the terrorist attack on the United States in terms of how it may alter academic and corporate research as well as the sharing of information generated by that research by international colleagues in technological fields. The collection of essays brings together a widely varied panel of communications experts from different backgrounds and cultures to focus their expertise on the ramifications of this world-changing event. Drawing upon the related but separate disciplines of law interpersonal communication semiotics rhetoric management information sciences and education the collection adds new insight to the potential future challenges high-tech professionals and academics will face in a global community that now seems much less communal than it did prior to September 11 2001. In Freedom to Choose: How to Make End-of-Life Decisions on Your Own Terms young persons baby boomers and senior citizens alike will find the information they need to make intelligent informed and well-planned decisions about end-of-life care and to clearly state their wishes based on personal cultural religious and family values. In direct and simple language Dr. Burnell describes how to prepare for a smooth transition to end-of-life care and what to do to prevent family conflicts overcome death fears and anxiety and achieve peace of mind for our loved ones and ourselves. The book gives practical advice on how to make decisions about end-of-life care and how to prepare a living will and durable power of attorney for health care. Dr. Burnell provides guidelines at the end of each chapter on what to consider before preparing these important documents: how to preserve one's rights as a patient; how to choose the right doctor; the best place to be when critically ill; the laws governing advance directives; and the best alternatives for end-of-life care such as good pain control and assisted dying (where this is legal). Freedom to Choose provides a user-friendly approach to facing these difficult decisions. It includes extensive lists of resources and organizations and a glossary necessary for understanding the issues at hand. As this book makes clear preparing an advance directive and knowing all the available options at the end of life are the most important steps for achieving peace of mind. The primary audience is anyone young or old who needs to prepare a set of advance directives: healthy people for themselves or their loved ones who are seriously ill or on life support and people with a terminal illness. The secondary audience is health professionals who deal with people in end-of-life care or with decision-makers on end-of-life issues: primary care physicians; nurses; geriatricians; psychiatrists; hospice doctors nurses and volunteer staff; caregivers for the seriously ill; oncologists; interns and residents; counselors; family therapists; psychologists; social workers who work with the dying and bereaved; attorneys; thanatologists; estate planning advisors; senior citizen center staff; college teachers in death and dying courses; professionals taking courses in psychology gerontology thanatology nursing and social work. | Freedom to Choose How to Make End-of-life Decisions on Your Own Terms

GBP 39.99
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Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death – Jenny Diski Philip Gould Christopher Hitchens Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor. Analysing the key themes that emerge from a psychodynamic perspective the book describes how the memoirists respond to the first shock of receiving a terminal diagnosis how they meet the challenge of continuing an active life when the illusion of an open-ended future has gone and finally how they struggle with accepting death as it overtakes them. The author argues that the ability to accept personal death is the key to resolving the paradox of our need to survive at all costs while at the same time however much we might deny it we know that we must die. In a society where death and dying occur largely out of sight this book provides information about what it is like to die – physically psychologically and emotionally – and invites us to think about coming to terms with death. Exploring End of Life Experience is an important contribution to the interdisciplinary literature on death and dying relevant to scholars and practitioners in medicine nursing psychology and the wider medical humanities. | Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

GBP 130.00
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Older Citizens and End-of-Life Care Social Work Practice Strategies for Adults in Later Life

Older Citizens and End-of-Life Care Social Work Practice Strategies for Adults in Later Life

Older people are like younger people citizens in the communities of the nations in which they live. This book sees ageing as a life journey that incorporates a process of citizening in which people build their identity as part of their family and community. But the social experience of illness frailty disability and reaching the end of life may de-citizen older people by devaluing the social identity that comes from continuing social engagement. We de-citizen older people by emphasizing dependence on services and their cost to public expenditure instead of valuing the interdependence of participation and mutual respect. This book argues that older people retain full citizenship for the whole of their lives up to the moment of death; but what does this mean for health and social care? In this groundbreaking book Malcolm Payne argues that social work with older people must build re-citizening practice strategies to value both the common and the special aspects of the citizenship of older people. Current models of social care and social work create dependency rather than relying on values of participative interdependence. The failure to recognize the end of life as a crucial element in all social care and social work for older people means that the lessons learned in providing palliative and end-of-life care in healthcare have not been transferred to social care and the priorities of end-of-life care have not been adequately encompassed in social work with older people. | Older Citizens and End-of-Life Care Social Work Practice Strategies for Adults in Later Life

GBP 42.99
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Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk Screening the End of Tourism

Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk Screening the End of Tourism

In today’s world the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas. The management of risks such as terrorism labour strikes protests and environmental degradation has become pivotal for countries that depend on their economy’s tourist sector. Indeed there is fear that that ‘the end of tourism’ might be nigh due to inadequate institutional foresight. Yet in designing relevant policies to tackle this arts such as that of filmmaking have yet to receive due consideration. This book adopts an unorthodox approach to debates about ‘the end of tourism’. Through twenty-first century cinematic narratives of symbolically interconnected ‘risks’ it considers how art envisages the future of humanity’s well-being. These ‘risks’ include: migration as an infectious disease; alien incursions as racialized labour mobilities; cyborg rebellion as the fear of post-colonial otherness; and zombie anthropophagy as the replacement of rooted identities by nomadic lifestyles. Such filmic scenarios articulate the futuristic survival of community as the triumph of the technological human over otherness and provide a means to debate societal risks that weave identity politics into unequal mobilities. This book will appeal to researchers and students interested in mobilities theory tourism and travel theory film studies and aesthetics globalisation studies race labour and migration. | Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk Screening the End of Tourism

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A Darkening Green Notes on Harvard the 1950s and the End of Innocence

A Darkening Green Notes on Harvard the 1950s and the End of Innocence

This is a book about the end of childhood. Much of it is drawn directly from a diary the author kept while he was a bright but insecure freshman at Harvard in the 1950s. From these pages emerges a precise description of the raw half-understood experience of late adolescence-the anguish and arguments the rivalry and anxiety about sex the facile cynicism and desperate fumblings for purpose the bull sessions held late at night-just as Peter Prescott recorded them only hours after the event. These diary excerpts are contained in a narrative that examines that freshman experience from a vantage point of twenty years. Thus we are able to look at the past with a double perspective: The exact record unclouded by memory or nostalgia of what was said and done is set in a structure that reveals the form of the experience. The result is an ironic witty and often moving book. Writing with some compassion and even more asperity Peter S. Prescott not only captures the conflicts and emotions of a single year but probes beneath the surface of memory to explore certain tribal customs and rites of passage as they are played out in the classrooms and living quarters of the college. A few famous people-T. S. Eliot and Edith Sitwell among them-play brief parts in this chronicle but young Prescott's attention was primarily engaged in his struggle with his extravagant roommates and an assortment of eccentric undergraduates. | A Darkening Green Notes on Harvard the 1950s and the End of Innocence

GBP 130.00
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Double Exposure Memory and Photography

Double Exposure Memory and Photography

Over the past decade historians and sociologists have increasingly used visual materials in particular photographs in their work. This volume brings together historians sociologists anthropologists and media and visual scholars to articulate how photography as a practice and as a visual medium can provide insights into national memory collective identities and the historical imagination. This collection allows the reader to trace parallel conceptual developments occurring in the sociology and anthropology of memory and in the history and theory of photography and to illustrate the unique angles of vision these disciplines offer. Photographic images commonly accompany historical accounts from documentaries to family scrapbooks and since the early days of commercial photography pictures have been viewed as tools to capture memories. Later critical writing has challenged this equation by inverting it: photos along with other archival practices were often viewed as falling short of their supposed function as vessels of memory and at times even denounced as devices that distorted memories. How does photography participate in the formation and maintenance of collective identities and shared memory discourses from the family to the nation? Furthermore how can we begin to conceptualize photography's effects on the historical imagination of individuals and groups? Double Exposure endeavors to answer these questions by calling attention to the variety of contexts in which images circulate and to the narratives from which they spring and which they in turn shape. This is the latest volume in Transaction's Memory and Narrative series. | Double Exposure Memory and Photography

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Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with ‘iconic’ film composers who perhaps to the surprise of many fans of film music nevertheless maintained lifelong careers as composers for the concert hall. Featured composers include Erich Wolfgang Korngold Franz Waxman Miklós Rózsa Bernard Herrmann Nino Rota Leonard Rosenman and Ennio Morricone. Progressing in chronological order the chapters offer accounts of the various composers’ concert-hall careers and descriptions of their concert-hall styles. Each chapter compares the composer’s music for films with his or her music for the concert hall and speculates as to how music in one arena might have affected music in the other. For each composer discussed in the book complete filmographies and complete works lists are included as appendices. Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is accessible for scholars researchers and general readers with an interest in film music and concert music.

GBP 32.99
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Partners in Palliative Care Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life

Partners in Palliative Care Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life

The Collaborative for Palliative Care (Collaborative) is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care. It has grown from a small fledgling group to a membership of over 50 community-based organizations and volunteers dedicated to improving care of the seriously ill through education research and advocacy. The Collaborative bridges policy research and practice in its initiatives and vision for the future. Partners in Palliative Care examines specific areas of concern that the Collaborative has addressed in its education programs and advocacy as well as the collaborative processes that have been so successful in building community assets. Areas of concentration have been diverse and include advance care planning relational communication paradigms community capacity building the role of culture and spirituality in palliative care the meaning of pain and suffering for seriously ill individuals and the ethics of health care costs in palliative and end-of-life systems of care. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care. | Partners in Palliative Care Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life

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A History of Religion in America From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

A History of Religion in America From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

A History of Religion in America: From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America from the end of the American Civil War to religion in post 9/11 America. The volume explores major religious groups in the United States and examines the following topics: The aftermath of the American Civil War Immigration’s impact on American religion The rise of the social gospel The fundamentalist response Religion in Cold War America The 60’s counterculture and the backlash Religion in Post-9/11 America Chronologically arranged and integrating various religious developments into a coherent historical narrative this book also contains useful chapter summaries and review questions. Designed for undergraduate religious studies and history students A History of Religion in America provides a substantive and comprehensive introduction to the complexity of religion in American history. | A History of Religion in America From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

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The End of Physiotherapy

The End of Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy is arriving at a critical point in its history. Since World War I physiotherapy has been one of the largest allied health professions and the established provider of orthodox physical rehabilitation. But ageing populations of increasingly chronically ill people a growing scepticism towards biomedicine and the changing economy of healthcare threaten physiotherapy’s long-held status. Paradoxically physiotherapy’s affinity for treating the ‘body-as-machine’ has resulted in an almost complete inability to identify the roots of the profession’s present problems or define possible ways forward. Physiotherapists need to engage in critically informed theoretical discussion about the profession’s past present and future - to explore their practice from economic philosophical political and sociological perspectives. The End of Physiotherapy aims to explain how physiotherapy has arrived at this critical point in its history and to point to a new future for the profession. The book draws on critical analyses of the historical and social conditions that have made present-day physiotherapy possible. Nicholls examines some of the key discourses that have had a positive impact on the profession in the past but now threaten to derail it. This book makes it possible for physiotherapists to think otherwise about their profession and their day-to-day practice. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of physiotherapy interprofessional and community rehabilitation as well as appealing to those working in medical sociology the medical humanities medical history and health care policy.

GBP 46.99
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The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

The world keeps turning to apocalypticism. Time is imagined as proceeding ineluctably to a catastrophic perhaps revelatory conclusion. Even when evacuated of distinctly religious content a broadly ecclesial structure persists in conceptions of our precarious life and our collective journey to an inevitable fate—the extinction of the human species. It is commonly believed that we are propelled along this course by human turpitude myopia hubris or ignorance and by the irreparable damage we have wrought to the world we inhabit. Yet this apprehension is insidious. Such teleological convictions and crises-laden narratives lead us to undervalue contingent hesitant and provisional forms of experience and knowledge. The essays comprising this volume concern a range of writers’ engagements with apocalyptic reasoning. Extending from a reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Triumph of Life’ to critiques of contemporary American novels they examine the ways in which ‘end times’ reasoning can inhibit imaginative reflection blunt political advocacy or – more positively – provide a repertoire for the critique of complacency. By gathering essays concerning a wide range of periods and literary dispositions this volume makes an important contribution to thinking about apocalypticism in literature but also as a social and political discourse. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studia Neophilologica. | The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

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Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016 The End of the Illusion

Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016 The End of the Illusion

Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016: The End of the Illusion examines the situation in the Taiwan Strait since the election of Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party in the January 2016 general elections. Tracking the pragmatic approach taken by the Tsai administration this book positions the recent developments within a changing geopolitical context and analyzes Beijing’s reactions to an environment which has become increasingly skeptical of its intentions. It shows that despite President Tsai’s commitment to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait and pro-democracy policies which have been well received by the international community Xi Jinping continues to advocate for a unification policy which remains very unpopular in Taiwan. With in-depth on-the-ground analysis based on access to various government actors in Taiwan and abroad the author takes a deep dive into a highly complex relationship that is often misunderstood abroad with stakes that have direct implications for the future stability of the Indo-Pacific region. The first English language book to provide a full assessment of the four years of DPP rule since 2016 this book will be useful to students and scholars of Asian Studies and Taiwan Studies as well as Security Studies Politics and International Relations. | Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016 The End of the Illusion

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