Stepping Forward
Stepping Forward

Author: Victoria Johnson

Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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Presents the key issues and challenges involved in facilitating children and young people's participation. Essential reading for professionals, agencies and institutions working with and for children, and in development, as well as professionals involved in participatory approaches.

China’s Grand Strategy
China’s Grand Strategy

Author: Andrew Scobell

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2020-07-27

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1977404200

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To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report identified and characterized China’s grand strategy, analyzed its component national strategies (diplomacy, economics, science and technology, and military affairs), and assessed how successful China might be at implementing these over the next three decades.

Bridging Diversity
Bridging Diversity

Author: Lawrence F. Salmen

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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Today, one of the central tenets of development is the necessity for learning about and building upon stakeholders--and beneficiaries--insights, needs, culture, social organization, resources and active participation. 'Bridging Diversity' clarifies the myriad approaches to social research being used in the World Bank today. The focus is on participatory research as presently practiced and as a potential for forms of research which are not now particularly participatory. It makes a number of recommendations to enhance the utility of social research in and outside of the Bank.

Seek, Strike, and Destroy
Seek, Strike, and Destroy

Author: Christopher Richard Gabel

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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In the seventy years that have passed since the tank first appeared, antitank combat has presented one of the greatest challenges in land warfare. Dramatic improvements in tank technology and doctrine over the years have precipitated equally innovative developments in the antitank field. One cycle in this ongoing arms race occurred during the early years of World War II when the U.S. Army sought desperately to find an antidote to the vaunted German blitzkrieg. This Leavenworth Paper analyzes the origins of the tank destroyer concept, evaluates the doctrine and equipment with which tank destroyer units fought, and assesses the effectiveness of the tank destroyer in battle.

A New Direction for China's Defense Industry
A New Direction for China's Defense Industry

Author: Evan S. Medeiros

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2005-12-19

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0833040790

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Since the early 1980s, a prominent and consistent conclusion drawn from research on China's defense-industrial complex has been that China's defense-production capabilities are rife with weaknesses and limitations. This study argues for an alternative approach: From the vantage point of 2005, it is time to shift the focus of current research to the gradual improvements in and the future potential of China's defense-industrial complex. The study found that China's defense sectors are designing and producing a wide range of increasingly advanced weapons that, in the short term, are relevant to a possible conflict over Taiwan but also to China's long-term military presence in Asia. Part of a larger RAND Project AIR FORCE study on Chinese military modernization, this study examines the current and future capabilities of China's defense industry. The goals of this study are to 1.

World Atlas of Seagrasses
World Atlas of Seagrasses

Author: Frederick T. Short

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780520240476

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Seagrasses are a vital and widespread but often overlooked coastal marine habitat. This volume provides a global survey of their distribution and conservation status.