China's Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China's rise to superpower status, showing that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth.  Meer

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire.  Meer

Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena.  Meer

This revised and updated second edition introduces students of violent conflict to a variety of prominent theoretical approaches, and examines the ontological stances and epistemological traditions underlying these approaches.  Meer

Covers the latest developments in PNT technologies, including integrated satellite navigation, sensor systems, and civil applications.  Meer

This innovative study of memorial architecture investigates how design can translate memories of human loss into tangible structures, creating spaces for remembering.  Meer

Soldier-robot teams will be an important component of future battle spaces, creating a complex but potentially more survivable and effective combat force.  Meer

Stringent demands on modern guided weapon systems require new approaches to guidance, control, and estimation. There are requirements for pinpoint accuracy, low cost per round, easy upgrade paths, enhanced performance in counter-measure environments, and the ability to track low-observable targets.  Meer

Having an accurate understanding of what is going on is a key commodity for teams working within military systems.  Meer

World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light.  Meer

This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of North Korea, Russian Studies, the Cold War and Communism.  Meer

For a senior/graduate-level course in corrosion.Comprehensive in approach, this text explores the scientific principles and methods that underlie the cause, detection, measurement, and prevention of many metal corrosion problems in engineering practice.  Meer

Today, more people want to know how to make a meaningful difference to what they care about. But for that, traditional approaches to learning often fall short.  Meer

This book argues that the UK, as a post-modern globalised state, will require means to have influence over events and opponents that threaten the UK's interests in the 21st century, and that its means is the Royal Navy.  Meer

This is a major reassessment of the causes of Allied victory in the Second World War in the Mediterranean region. Drawing on a unique range of multinational source material, Richard Hammond demonstrates how the Allies' ability to gain control of the key routes across the sea and sink large quantities of enemy shipping denied the Axis forces in North Africa crucial supplies and proved vital to securing ultimate victory there.  Meer