David Evans and Mark Peattie's new "Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941" represents the most comprehensive effort to date to describe the doctrinal changes the IJN went through from its inception to its ruin. The work traces the evolution of Japanese naval thought through three major wars, and clearly describes how the lessons that...(展开全部)

本书按照时间顺序，介绍了日本海军在1887—1941年间各个阶段的发展，涵盖了日本海军从开始建立正规海军到策划对美英等国发动战争这一历史时期的战略变化、战术演进及技术装备更新的具体历程，并对这些战略、战术和技术出现的背景及它们造成的影响进行了深入分析。作者参考了来自西方与日本的大量史料，站在客观中立的角度，回顾了日本海军在太平洋战争爆发前的五十余年中关于海军建设的经验与教训，并特别指出了日本海军关于现代战争的错误认识以及它在战备方面存在的缺陷与不足。

本书按照时间顺序，介绍了日本海军在1887—1941年间各个阶段的发展，涵盖了日本海军从开始建立正规海军到策划对美英等国发动战争这一历史时期的战略变化、战术演进及技术装备更新的具体历程，并对这些战略、战术和技术出现的背景及它们造成的影响进行了深入分析。作者参考了来自西方与日本的大量史料，站在客观中立的角度，回顾了日本海军在太平洋战争爆发前的五十余年中关于海军建设的经验与教训，并特别指出了日本海军关于现代战争的错误认识以及它在战备方面存在的缺陷与不足。

This book explores the political emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1868 and 1922. It fundamentally challenges the popular notion that the navy was a 'silent,' apolitical service. Politics, particularly budgetary politics, became the primary domestic focus—if not the overriding preoccupation—of Japan's admirals in the prewar period. This study convincingly demonstr...(展开全部)

This edited volume addresses the important issue of negotiating with terrorists, and offers recommendations for best practice and processes. Hostage negotiation is the process of trying to align two often completely polarised parties. Authorities view hostage taking as unacceptable demands made by unacceptable means. However terrorists view their actions as completely justified...(展开全部)

白馥兰(Francesca Bray)英国剑桥大学社会人类学博士，研究兴趣集中于农业体系、日常技术、社会性别、医疗与身体等方面，并专攻东亚及东南亚地区。曾居住在马来西亚乡村参加稻田种植。现任美国圣巴巴拉加州大学人类学系教授。其主要著作除本书外，尚有李约瑟主编《中国的科学与文明》之第六卷第二分册(农业)(1984)、《稻米经济：亚洲社会的技术与发展》(1994)、《明代中国的技术与社会，1368—1644年》(2000)。本书于1997年出版后，曾于1999年获美国技术史学会所颁发的德克斯特奖(DxterPrize)。

What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, China entered an era of technical lethargy and decline. But how are we to reconcile ...(展开全部)

白馥兰（Francesca Bray），英国皇家学术院院士、国际技术史学会主席，剑桥大学社会人类学博士，李约瑟“中国科学技术史”研究组成员。李约瑟主编的《中国科学技术史》系列《中国农业史》（上下两卷）作者。主要研究领域有科学、技术及医学人类学，性别研究以及中国和东亚研究。现任英国爱丁堡大学社会人类学教授，北京师范大学荣誉教授。 主要著作有《中国科学技术史·农业》（1984），该书获1985年法国勃丁奖（Prix Bordin）；《技术与性别》（1997），获1999年度国际技术史学会颁发的德克斯特奖（Dexter Prize）。这两部著作均有中文译本出版。她参与主编的新著Rice: Global Networks and New Histories（Cambridge University Press， 2015）被学术书评期刊Choice评为201...(展开全部)

In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of freedom and dignity, and so physically and morally deformed by footbinding and ...(展开全部)

In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of freedom and dignity, and so physically and morally deformed by footbinding and ...(展开全部)