Monika Chansoria, "China, Japan, and Senkaku Islands: Conflict in the East China Sea Amid an American Shadow "
English | ISBN: 9383649992 | 2016 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1261 KB
Tracing the genesis of the Senkaku Islands in the memoirs of history, and its potential future, in the backdrop of the East China Sea's brewing dispute, this book chronicles the journey of Sino-Japanese relations in the explicit context of the Senkaku Islands. The evolving power transition dynamics in East Asia render Washington the lynchpin of Tokyo's diplomatic and security strategy, and vice versa. Conversely, China is abrasively displaying an almost predictable geo-strategic pattern and strategy of enforcing territorial claims across Asia, keeping it just below the threshold of provoking conflict, whilst testing the tenacity of existential status quoist norms. Consequentially, the need to steer Asia towards a regional order that maintains stability in the power equilibrium, thereby challenging a visibly coercive Sino-centric vision of the future Asia, especially within the Indo-Pacific, has become far more manifest than ever before.

Helen Kapstein Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University New York, "Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism: Reading Real and Imagined Spaces "
English | ISBN: 1783486457 | 2017 | 226 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism examines how real and literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a postcolonial world. Through an analysis of a variety of texts ranging from literature to prison correspondence to tourist questionnaires it exposes the ways in which nationalism relies on fictions of insularity and intactness, which the island and island tourism appear to provide. The island space seems to offer the ideal replica of the nation, and tourist practices promise the liberation of leisure, the gaze, and mobility. However, the very reliance on the constantly shifting and eroding island form exposes an anxiety about boundaries and limits on the part of the postcolonial nation. In appropriating island tourism, the new nation tends to recapitulate the failures and crises of the colonial nation before it.

Language: English
473.38 MB | 00:52:35 | 2744 Kbps | V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC | 1280x720 | A_AC3, 48 Khz, 2 channels
Genre: Documentary, History

R.V. Burgin, "Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific"
English | ISBN: 0451229908 | 2010 | 320 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 513 KB + 674 KB
Watch author RV Burgin discuss Islands of the Damned and The Pacific.

Language: English
685.67 MB | 00:51:21 | 4442 Kbps | V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC | 1920x1080 | A_AC3, 48 Khz, 2 channels
Genre: Documentary, History

English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030922332 | 710 pages | True PDF EPUB | 92.43 MB
This book is intended to provide an overview for the identification and establishment of biodiversity islands. It presents examples and case studies where the biodiversity islands approach is being used in a variety of locations and contexts worldwide. It will contribute to design parameters on appropriate sizing and spatial distribution of biodiversity islands in order to be effective in conservation and regeneration across the landscape, using integrated landscape management approaches. This book is essential given the current worldwide trend of habitat destruction and the need to preserve biodiversity and its values.

Language: English
838.97 MB | 00:52:05 | 3872 Kbps | V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC | 1920x1080 | A_AAC-2, 44 Khz, 2 channels
Genre: Travel

Language: English
847.43 MB | 00:52:00 | 4077 Kbps | V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC | 1920x1080 | A_AAC-2, 44 Khz, 2 channels
Genre: Travel

Scottish Islands Explorer Issue 135-June July 2022
English | 54 Pages | PDF | 29.79 MB

Scottish Islands Explorer – Issue 135 – June-July 2022
English | 54 Pages | PDF | 29.79 MB