Jane's Fighting Ships is your essential reference to the changing capabilities of modern navies and coast guards; their ships and maritime aircraft in service and under construction. There are authoritative inventories for 164 navies around the world complete with comprehensive details of: displacement and dimensions; main machinery; speed and range; weapons systems and sensors; construction and modernization programs; latest operational status and strength of fleet including sales to other navies. In addition; there is an annual executive overview of naval highlights worldwide; flags and ensigns; ranks and insignia; senior appointments and personnel numbers. It is intended for: armed forces; defense ministries; maritime SAR organizations; naval training establishments; coastguards; marine police; naval weapons manufacturers; shipbuilders; port authorities; maritime and safety agencies; defense analysts and academics; media.
#3515543 in Books Routledge 2004-02-21Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.21 x 1.21 x 6.14l; 1.81 #File Name: 0700714553536 pages
Review
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Dated? Maybe. But there's nothing else available like this.By Gary WestergrenSince this book it out of copyright; you'll find lots of versions of this. Most just call it "Soothill's" (the main author's name) or "Soothill-Hodous" (the names of both men who spent a decade of their lives compiling the data for this dictionary).Some suggest that this dictionary is out of date. Work was finished in 1934; so maybe that is their point. However Buddhism stretches back some 2500 years. How much can change in just 75 years?The more valid argument is that the dictionary may have some inaccuracies; omissions; or mistranslations. It's probably true that such issues exist; and the author warns of this possibility in his preface. If you ask seven different Buddhists from seven different sects of Buddhism; you will get seven different answers for what a certain title means. Therefore; it's impossible to create a completely accurate dictionary of such terms.While some criticize the minor shortcomings of this dictionary; you'll find a copy of Soothill-Hodous on the bookshelf of almost every professor of Easter Philosophy; Eastern Religion; or who teaches anything about Buddhism.This dictionary is worth having for anyone who is serious about the study of Chinese Buddhism (most of these terms also apply to sects of Japanese and Korean Buddhism as well). However; there is a free digitized version floating around the internet which is easier to search than the paper version.
