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Assessing the Presidency of Ma Ying-jiu in Taiwan - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The years of the Ma Ying-jiu presidency in Taiwan were controversial from the beginning. When he came to power in 2008, Ma was considered the strongest and most popular KMT presidential candidate since Lee Teng-hui. However, his rapprochement towards China met with increasing resistance and by the time he stepped down in 2016, he enjoyed the lowest support rates of any incumbent president. What happened in between? This book undertakes a balanced empirical assessment of the achievements and failures of the Ma Ying-jiu era. Renowned Taiwan scholars analyse the changing political environment that shaped the Ma presidency, covering important topics such as Taiwan’s evolving nationalism and rising civil societal activism, cross-strait economic integration and migration, and the factors determining its ‘international space’. As the first comprehensive scholarly work on the Ma Ying-jiu presidency, this books is a must read for students and scholars of Taiwanese politics and society, cross-strait relations and East Asian politics in general.

DKK 459.00

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The Missouri Home Guard - Petra Dewitt - Bog - University of Missouri Press - Plusbog.dk

When the US declared war on Germany in 1917, the Missouri National Guard was deployed into federal service. As did twenty-six other states during World War I, Missouri established a Home Guard to take over the functions of the absent National Guard. This volume provides a history of this entirely voluntary organisation.

DKK 475.00

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United States Coast Guard Auxiliary and Homeland Security - Daniel J. Benny - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary is the volunteer organization of the United States Coast Guard. In that role they support the United States Coast Guard in their non-law enforcement and boating safety missions to protect the homeland of the United States. In this timely publication you will explore the brief history of the United States Coast Guard and the origins of the United State Coast Guard Auxiliary as well as their homeland security missions. Through examination of the organization, membership and training requirement of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary you will have an understanding of what it takes to be a member of this patriotic organization and the important role these volunteers play in support of the United States Coast Guard and the homeland security of the nation. Through the United States Coast Guard America's Waterway Watch program that is run by the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, you will learn about the signs of criminal activity and terrorism on or near the nation's waterways and ports and role of the maritime industry in this effort.

DKK 624.00

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The Praetorian Guard - Sandra Bingham - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Conceived as a personal army for the emperor, the elite Praetorian Guard soon took over a wide range of powers in Rome, and thus from the very beginning made a much greater impact on the city''s life than just as an imperial bodyguard. The Praetorians were in fact inseparable from the whole machinery of state, in some cases even making or breaking individual emperors. Sandra Bingham here offers a timely history of the Guard from its foundation by Augustus in 27 BCE to its disbandment by Constantine in CE 312. Topics covered include arms and insignia; the size, recruitment and command structure of the Guard; duration of service; the duties of individual soldiers and officers; and their families, daily lives and religion.

DKK 528.00

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The Rash Resolve and Life's Progress - Carol Stewart - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Eliza Haywood was one of the most popular and versatile writers of the eighteenth century. The two novellas in this edition – The Rash Resolve (1724) and Life’s Progress (1748) – show her developing and adapting her ideas on the subject of passion and romance. Though superficially presented as cautionary tales, Haywood introduces a feminist slant.

DKK 542.00

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Stand on Guard for Whom? - A People's History of the Canadian Military - Yves Engler - Bog - Black Rose Books - Plusbog.dk

Stand on Guard for Whom? - A People's History of the Canadian Military

DKK 655.00

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Radical Housewives - Julie Guard - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left’s role in the origins of the food security movement.

DKK 548.00

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Grandmothers on Guard - Jennifer Johnson - Bog - University of Texas Press - Plusbog.dk

An incisive portrait of nationalism in the United States, Grandmothers on Guard tells the story of older women who found meaning and community in the Minutemen, an anti-immigrant vigilante movement.

DKK 391.00

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Efficacy of Regional Headquarters for National Guard Civil Support and Homeland Defense Missions - Steven C Moe - Bog - Biblioscholar - Plusbog.dk

Efficacy of Regional Headquarters for National Guard Civil Support and Homeland Defense Missions

DKK 463.00

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Tales of the Black Rose Guard - K L Bone - Bog - Kristin Bone - Plusbog.dk

Tales of the Black Rose Guard - K L Bone - Bog - Kristin Bone - Plusbog.dk - vi har over 400.000 produkter på webshoppen. Fri fragt og fremragende score på TP

DKK 434.00

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The Home Guard - S. P. Mackenzie - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Today we laugh at `Dad''s Army'', but in 1940 the threat of a German invasion of Britain was a very real one. S. P. MacKenzie''s detailed and readable history of the Home Guard offers a new perspective on the men who took up the challenge. Despite its popular image of old men and teenagers playing soldiers, the Home Guard, often as large as the wartime army, became an astonishingly strong political force in its own right. Quite literally the people in arms it proved able to exert a good deal of influence on policy.The threat of invasion receded and the Home Guard was never called upon to fulfil its military role, though there was a brief attempt to resurrect it in the 1950s. Since then it has been largely neglected by military historians and there have been few serious examinations of the part it played in the Home Front. This book, both entertaining and scholarly, fills that gap.

DKK 605.00

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The Fighting Coast Guard - Thad Allen - Bog - University Press of Kansas - Plusbog.dk

A collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlighting the wartime roles played by the United States’ oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century.

DKK 475.00

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Actors on Guard - Dale Anthony Girard - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Actors on Guard, Second Edition is the most comprehensive book covering the current practices in learning, rehearsing and performing safe and dynamic swordfights with the single rapier and the rapier and dagger for both stage and screen. Focusing specifically on the Elizabethan rapier and dagger – the most popular weapons used in stage fights – Actors on Guard provides actors, directors, teachers, stage managers and technicians the skills and knowledge essential to presenting safe and effective swordfights. The book takes the reader through the complex process of selecting safe stage weapons, learning the basic handling and management of the rapier and dagger, as well as how to safely move and interact in the potentially dangerous process of learning, rehearsing and performing choreographed swordplay. This new edition has been revised with current industry practices, featuring hundreds of step-by-step practical exercises in the care and handling of prop swords, footwork, guards, parries, cutting and thrusting techniques, blade taking actions, disarms, wounds and kills using the rapier and dagger, with revised diagrams and photographs. An excellent sourcebook for university stage combat classes as well as self-learners, Actors on Guard provides the reader with the historical, theoretical and practical basis for mastering the art of sword fighting for the stage and screen. The book includes access to a wealth of online resources, with additional information that expands upon specific mechanics, techniques and concepts covered in the text as well as some video demonstrations of solo and partnered techniques and exercises.

DKK 449.00

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Red Guard Factionalism And The Cultural Revolution In Guangzhou (canton) - Stanley Rosen - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This study examines the causes of factionalism within China''s Red Guard during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Professor Rosen explores the reasons behind the division of students into two large, antagonistic factions--conservative and rebel. He then analyzes internal divisions within the rebel faction, showing the social bases for membe

DKK 448.00

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How to Guard an Art Gallery and Other Discrete Mathematical Adventures - T.s. Michael - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

What is the maximum number of pizza slices one can get by making four straight cuts through a circular pizza? How does a computer determine the best set of pixels to represent a straight line on a computer screen? How many people at minimum does it take to guard an art gallery? This book answers these questions.

DKK 494.00

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F-4 Phantom IIs of the USAF Reserve and Air National Guard - Don R. Logan - Bog - Schiffer Publishing Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Don Logan''s latest book ""his tenth with Schiffer Publishing, and the first in a planned multi-volume set on F-4 Phantoms chronicles the service of the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 and RF-4 Phantom II in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. The book is organized by AFRES and ANG units and illustrates the F-4''s service, colors, and markings with over 700 color photographs and 100 unit patches.

DKK 626.00

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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps - Alma Keshavarz - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran’s IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian Revolution, and how they have skilfully transformed Iran’s defense doctrine to fight a hybrid war that challenges the US and the West.Chapters detail the birth of the IRGC, its political development and influence within Iran, its relationship to militias and terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, and involvement in Yemen and Iraq. Keshavarz brings first-hand knowledge of what government institutions are looking for with respect to the IRGC, outlining Iran’s hybrid war capabilities that the US and West often misunderstand or miss altogether, in order to provide a foreign policy analysis that identifies the challenges of Iran’s irregular capabilities and what measures are needed to combat it.

DKK 615.00

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The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China - Guobin (university Of Pennsylvania) Yang - Bog - Columbia University Press - Plusbog.dk

Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s and the Tiananmen protest of 1989. Yang's final chapter on the politics of history and memory argues that contemporary memories of the Cultural Revolution are factionalized along these lines of political division, formed fifty years before.

DKK 539.00

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United States Revenue and Coast Guard Cutters in Naval Warfare, 1790-1918 - Thomas P. Ostrom - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Covering the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790--when it was called the U.S. Revenue Marine--through World War I, this book describes the service''s national defense missions, including actions during the War of 1812, clashes with pirates, slave ships and Seminole Indians, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. During World War I the USCG supported U.S. Navy operations across the Atlantic, escorted merchant convoys and engaged in anti-submarine warfare. Original maps are included.

DKK 429.00

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Changing the Guard - David H. Bayley - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Every day the American government, the United Nations, and other international institutions send people into non-English speaking, war-torn, and often minimally democratic countries struggling to cope with rising crime and disorder under a new regime. These assistance missions attempt to promote democratic law enforcement in devastated countries. But do these missions really facilitate the creation of effective policing? Renowned criminologist David H. Bayley here examines the prospects for the reform of police forces overseas as a means of encouraging the development of democratic governments. In doing so, he assesses obstacles for promoting democratic policing in a state-of-the-art review of all efforts to promote democratic reform since 1991. Changing the Guard offers an inside look at the achievements and limits of current American foreign assistance, outlining the nature and scope of the police assistance program and the agencies that provide it. Bayley concludes with recommendations for how police assistance could be improved in volatile countries across the world. This book is required reading as an instruction manual for building democratic policing overseas.

DKK 572.00

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The Warriors Of Islam - Kenneth Katzman - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book shows that the revolutionary guard has resisted professionalization on the key aspect of war decision making. It explains how the Guard was able to resist ideological dilution despite its need to adopt a rationalized and complex organizational structure.

DKK 440.00

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Seeking the Senses in Physical Culture - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The sensory revolution in the social sciences is transforming the ways in which the senses and the sensorium are studied and understood in relation to bodies in action. This is the first book to investigate the impact, and challenges, of this revolution for those interested in physical culture. Providing vivid examples of sensory scholarship in action from sport, physical activity, leisure and recreation, this book brings together leading figures to discuss how we go about seeking the senses, how we engage in somatic work, and how we create meanings and come to understand ourselves and others as embodied beings in a variety of social settings over time. Featuring original reflections on athletics, running, cycling, sailing, kayaking, windsurfing, glow sports, jiu jitsu, mixed martial arts and yoga, this ground breaking collection showcases the latest sensory research in physical culture as well as paving the way both conceptually and methodologically for future work in this area. Seeking the Senses in Physical Culture: Sensuous scholarship in action is fascinating reading for all those interested in physical cultural and body studies; the sociology, psychology and philosophy of sport; leisure and recreation studies; and physical education.

DKK 477.00

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Risk, Failure, Play - Janet O'shea - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Risk, Failure, Play illuminates the many ways in which competitive martial arts differentiate themselves from violence. Presented from the perspective of a dancer and writer, this book takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through training in a range of martial arts practices such as jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, Filipino martial arts, and empowerment self-defense. Author Janet OâShea shows how play gives us the ability to manage difficult realities with intelligence and demonstrates that physical play, with its immediacy and heightened risk, is particularly effective at accomplishing this task. Risk, Failure, Play also demonstrates the many ways in which physical recreation allows us to manage the complexities of our current social reality. Risk, Failure, Play intertwines personal experience with phenomenology, social psychology, dance studies, performance studies, as well as theories of play and competition in order to produce insights on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, agency, individual identity, and society. Ultimately, this book suggests that play allows us to rehearse other ways to live than the ones we see before us and challenges us to reimagine our social reality.

DKK 413.00

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Citizen-Soldiers in a Time of Transition - Stephanie Sanok Kostro - Bog - Centre for Strategic & International Studies,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

Currently, U.S. armed forces are facing a rapidly shifting environment. Even as the major combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that defined the last decade are coming to an end, a wide variety of new and evolving challenges, both abroad and at home, are confronting the nation’s military. The U.S. Army National Guard faces a unique set of dynamics, given its role in domestic as well as overseas operations. As the Army National Guard considers its future, it asked the CSIS Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program to provide an independent analysis of the strategic-level issues facing the Guard, as well as its evolving roles and missions. This report provides policymakers and practitioners with objective insights and recommendations to assist in outlining potential future responsibilities for the Army National Guard.

DKK 450.00

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The Purge of the Thirtieth Division - Henry Dozier Russell - Bog - Naval Institute Press - Plusbog.dk

Written by Major General Henry Dozier Russell, this is the only known work by any of the eighteen National Guard division commanders mobilized in 1940 and 1941. It chronicles from a National Guard perspective many of the challenges and growing pains experienced by the Army in the critical months leading up to its entry into World War II.

DKK 386.00

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