1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456067803321

Autore

Myers Doris T

Titolo

C.S. Lewis in context / / Doris T. Myers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio : , : Kent State University Press, , [1994]

©1994

ISBN

1-61277-197-1

0-585-28139-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

Christian literature, English - History and criticism

Fantasy literature, English - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. The Context of Metaphor""; ""The Meaning of Meaning and Poetic Diction""; ""Two Kinds of Metaphor in The Pilgrim's Regress""; ""2. The Context of Llterary Critlcism and Genre""; ""Out of the Silent Planet""; ""Perelandra""; ""3. The Context of Language Control""; ""The Control of Language and The Abolition of Man""; ""That Hideous Strength""; ""4. The Context of Christlan Humanism""; ""Abolishing the Controllers: The First Three Chronicles""; ""Language North and South: The Middle Chronicles""

""Mutability: The Last Two Chronicles""""5. The Context of Myth and History""; ""Till We Have Faces""; ""Postscript""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786094203321

Titolo

Strategy in the second nuclear age [[electronic resource] ] : power, ambition, and the ultimate weapon / / Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-58901-929-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

YoshiharaToshi

HolmesJames R. <1965->

Disciplina

355.02/17

Soggetti

Nuclear warfare

Nuclear weapons - Government policy

Strategic forces

Security, International

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes -- After proliferation: deterrence theory and emerging nuclear powers / Joshua Rovner -- South Africa's nuclear strategy: deterring "total onslaught" and "nuclear blackmail" in three stages / Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess -- The future of Chinese nuclear strategy / Christopher T. Yeaw, Andrew S. Erickson, and Michael S. Chase -- North Korea's nuclear weapons program: motivations, strategy, and doctrine / Terence Roehrig -- Changing perceptions of extended deterrence in Japan / James L. Schoff -- Thinking about the unthinkable: Tokyo's nuclear option / James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara -- India's nuclear strategy / Anupam Srivastava and Seema Gahlaut -- The future of India's undersea nuclear deterrent / Andrew C. Winner -- Pakistan's nuclear posture: thinking about the unthinkable? / Timothy D. Hoyt -- Regime type, nuclear reversals, and nuclear strategy: the ambiguous case of Iran / Scott A. Jones and James R. Holmes -- Conclusion: thinking about strategy in the second nuclear age / Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes.

Sommario/riassunto

A "second nuclear age" has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created



by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout in North Korea, and the potential for more states to cross the nuclear-weapons threshold from Iran to Japan suggest that the second nuclear age of many competing nuclear powers has the potential to be even less stable than the first. Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age assembles a group of distinguished schola