Tag: Adversaries

Free Download G.E.R. Lloyd, "Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science "
English | ISBN: 0521556953 | 2010 | 276 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book consists of a series of detailed studies of cosmology, natural philosophy, mathematics and medicine that suggest the answer to the first question is yes. To answer the second, the author relates the science produced in each ancient civilization first to the values of the society in question and then to the institutions within which the scientists and philosophers worked.

Free Download Useful Adversaries by Thomas J. Christensen
English | November 11, 1996 | ISBN: 0691026386 | 336 pages | MOBI | 6.20 Mb
This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino-American conflict, and why Mao shelled islands in the Taiwan Straits in 1958, thus sparking a major crisis with the United States.