Japan Since 1945: The Rise of an Economic Superpower (Studies in Contemporary History)

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Its all in here!.......2000-07-05

As they say in the Ronseal advertisement, Japan Since 1945 'does exactly what it says on the tin'. Smith's brief yet accurate style affords the reader a clear understanding of the period without any over analysing. The book contains a fine balance between the political, social and economic changes which the period witnessed. This book should become the reference for all historians of the period long after it can still be labelled 'contemporary'

Japan Since 1945: The Rise of an Economic Superpower. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Japan Since 1945: The Rise of an Economic Superpower. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Contemporary Asia
Herb Thompson
Manufacturer: Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers
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Binding: Digital

Japan | Asia | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00097U99Q
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Contemporary Asia, published by Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers on August 1, 1997. The length of the article is 2046 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Japan Since 1945: The Rise of an Economic Superpower. (book reviews)
Author: Herb Thompson
Publication: Journal of Contemporary Asia (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1997
Publisher: Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers
Volume: v27 Issue: n3 Page: p392(4)

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Japan Since 1945: The Rise of an Economic Superpower. (book reviews): An article from: Southern Economic Journal

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Japan Since 1945: The Rise of an Economic Superpower. (book reviews): An article from: Southern Economic Journal
Dominique N. Khactu
Manufacturer: Southern Economic Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00097KRNY
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1432 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Japan Since 1945: The Rise of an Economic Superpower. (book reviews)
Author: Dominique N. Khactu
Publication: Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Volume: v63 Issue: n3 Page: p826(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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"Alfredo Mirandé answers the question: What happens when a Latino heart ventures into the Anglo male head that is the Stanford Law School? 'En la tierra del ciego, el tuerto es rey' [In the land of the blind, the one-eyed person is king]. " —W. Frank Newton, President, Beaumont Foundation of America; former Dean of Texas Tech School of Law and President of the State Bar of Texas

"Mirandé's story will engage readers, provoke conversations, and deepen our knowledge of legal education. It is quite a book." —Gerald López, New York University School of Law

"Ten times better than the other stories of what it is like going through law school, Mirandé's book brings a social scientist's critical eye to what goes on in the classroom, to competition for grades and law review membership, to the way white students and professors treat students of color at an elite school, and to a minority student's struggle to make his legal education a force for social change. A sobering read and real page turner!" —Richard Delgado, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Derrick Bell Fellow, University of Pittsburgh

In the midst of a long and distinguished academic career, Alfredo Mirandé left his position as professor of sociology and chair of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside, to attend law school at Stanford University. This book is both an extraordinary chronicle of the events in his life that led him to make this dramatic change and a comprehensive, first-person account of the law school experience, written by a person of color. Mirandé delivers a powerful and moving critique of the obstacles he encountered and of systematic attempts to strip him of his identity and culture. He also reflects on the implications of an increasing number of women and minority law school students for law and legal education.

Covering all three years at Stanford, Mirandé describes the elitism and rigid hierarchies he encountered in the classroom and his resulting alienation and frustration. He also discusses law review, the Immigration Clinic where he successfully represented his first client, and the alternative Lawyering for Social Change curriculum that became a haven in an otherwise hostile environment. Interspersed with his account of law school are autobiographical snapshots and experiences, including that of the death of his brother, Héctor, which was the catalyst for his decision to pursue his childhood dream of attending law school and becoming a lawyer. This controversial book is certain to spark lively debate.

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In this workshop an attempt was made to fuse the disciplines involved in the requirements, specification, design and implementation of control systems for the automation of agricultural systems.

The need to meet the demanding specifications for increasingly complex agricultural systems is being addressed by using increasingly sophisticated models and control algorithms. In parallel, the ever-decreasing profit margins in the agricultural sector no longer permit agriculture to operate in the traditional manner, but are forcing it to transform into a contemporary business with all the complexities that this implies. The work environment is changing rapidly and humans are moving to positions of supervision and management while automation and robotics are taking over many of the menial and tedious tasks. Modern technological developments in industrial management and control are entering agriculture and transforming it rapidly into an industry.

Smaller agricultural systems are being linked to produce hierarchical large-scale agricultural systems, whose management and control demands high level intelligent decision support mechanisms. Local and wide area networks provide the relevant agricultural and economic data and facts to central production management systems where decisions are made and subsequently transferred to remote locations for execution. Agriculture, which is a highly distributed operation, is taking advantage of modern communications networks, unifying remote locations into a virtual world.

Agriculture has been making significant steps in producing food and fibers of improved quality in a highly constrained economic environment. Robust control of such a largely uncertain system demands that application domain experts work closely with systems analysts and control engineers to produce systems of higher autonomy and efficiency to meet todays global challenge.

Control Applications and Ergonomics in Agriculture 1998 (IFAC Proceedings Volumes)

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Control Applications and Ergonomics in Agriculture 1998 (IFAC Proceedings Volumes)
N. Sigrimis P.P. Groumpos
Manufacturer: Pergamon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Offers comprehensive coverage of the latest developments in both biochemical and physiological approaches to fungal systematics. Incorporates recent advances in molecular biology into systematics methods that can revolutionize taxonomic schemes.

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Chemical Fungal Taxonomy
FRISVAD
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUGRYQ

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The importance of antibonding orbitals
Milton Orchin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General & Reference | Chemistry | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
General | Physical & Theoretical | Chemistry | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006BPT5O

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The Importance Of Antibonding Orbitals.
M Orchin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin 1967.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NKIIGK

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A scientist's recollection of his life as a junior member of the Manhattan Project, Rider of the Pale Horse recounts McAllister Hull's involvement in various nuclear-related enterprises during and after World War II. Fresh from a summer job working with explosives in the chemistry department of an ordnance plant, Hull was drafted in 1943, after his freshman year in college. Unlike other accounts written by scientists and historians of that era, Hull's narrative offers a realistic picture of the dangerous and messy job that GIs and civilian powder men were asked to do. Life in the workshops where bomb components were constructed was very different from life in the offices where they were designed.

Hull's description of his postwar work supporting the Bikini Atoll tests in the Pacific and the early concerns about the effects of a hydrogen bomb explosion illuminate the Dark Age of nuclear weaponry. John Hull's handsome illustrations show technicians and scientists at work and bring the story to life.

“Rider of the Pale Horse adds valuably to the total record of the most important technological development of the twentieth century.”—Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atom Bomb

“Hull gives a bottom-up view as seen by a foot-soldier. His account of the grubby details of the project is illuminated by his later view of its historical repercussions and bears new witness to a turning-point of history.”—Freeman Dyson, author of Disturbing the Universe

A recollection of life in the workshops where nuclear bomb components were constructed during the Manhattan Project.

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Memoir of a Technician at Los Alamos.......2005-12-20

McAllister Hull had a distinguished career as a nuclear physicist and university administrator but in the fall of 1944 he arrived at Los Alamos to work as an explosives technician. His story of how that happened gives a view of the Manhattan project different from the well told histories of the eminent scientists and military leaders. Hull knew who Oppenheimer and Groves were but his role was a niche producing critical chemical explosive components at the more isolated S-site. For that matter he knew Klaus Fuchs with out any idea of the Soviet connection.

That Hull was a scientist to the depths of his psyche is apparent when he describes his thoughts while careening down a hill driving a truck with failed breaks: "I knew that if even a slight misalignment occurred, the truck would translate its forward momentum into a rotation about an axis across the road."

The book is tantalizing in its brevity as when he alludes to Edward Teller during the Oppenheimer hearings: "He helped a petty man, Lewis Strauss, to harass a man better than either of them." The memoir is a quick summary by someone who had a view of the birth of atomic weaponry from the nuts and bolts up through a thorough comprehension of the underlying theory. It adds to the understanding of how the great wealth of technical talent was put together in the remote New Mexican country side and managed to achieve the unimaginable.

Illustrations by the author's son round out the mid-century feel of the narrative and the bibliography has Hull's comments on nine of the more important accounts of the development of atomic and hydrogen bombs.

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VERY ENTERTAINING.......2007-01-09

I found the overall quality to be very good. The only way I would improve it would be to have either Basil Rathbone or Nigel Bruce do the reading.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-The Red Headed League.......2000-03-30

My review for this story is that i really like this book alot.The two best things about this story is the suspense and mystery ,you can't wait to see what happens next.I also like the way the detective the hero Mr. Holmes always finds out what happens.

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This informative anthology provides convenient, inexpensive access to current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected newspapers, magazines, and journals published today. Within the pages of this volume are interesting, well-illustrated articles by historians, educators, researchers, and writers that examine Western civilization from the early modern years through the twentieth century.

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Over three decades, Richard Selzer has brought his skills as a surgeon to the page, wrestling powerful descriptions of pain and deliverance into words. This collection gathers representative writings from the whole of his career, including set pieces like the four-part "Letter to a Young Surgeon" and frequently anthologized essays on such delicate matters as delivering the news of a death to loved ones (and what happens to the corpse afterward).

Death is a constant theme in these essays, for "only in literature do the dead have a voice." Selzer has a marked talent for removing some of the mystery and fear from what is, after all, an inevitable process. He is also superb at describing such routine events of the surgical theater as the scrubbing of hands, the proper and improper functioning of blood and organs, and the instantaneous decisions that a doctor must make during a normal day. Selzer's style is often ornate--"What heartbroken psoriatic, surveying his embattled skin," he writes, "would not volunteer for an unanesthetized flaying could it but rid him of his pink sequins, his silver spangles?"--and not to every taste, but his gentle reflections on human frailty afford a revealing view of the practice of medicine, which Selzer clearly loves. "Say what you will about writing," he notes, "there is no more thrilling an achievement than the successful completion of a difficult surgical dissection." --Gregory McNamee

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Richard's Selzer's selects from his own classic essays, culled from three decades of writing.Published along with his favorites are five new essays, including "Phantom Vision" and "Braindeath," and an introduction detailing the making of this virtuoso doctor/writer.Compassionate, moving and perversely funny, Richard Selzer's essays intimately connect us with profound questions of life and death.AUTHORBIO: Richard Selzer is a former surgeon and Yale School of Medicine professor.He has received many awards for his writing, including a National Magazine Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship.His previous book The Doctor Stories was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award.He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Couldn't finish it.......2004-04-22

Preface: I am a medical student and apparently not the target audience of this book.

I simply could not force myself to continue reading this book as the experience was not unlike stabbing myself over and over again with a pair of scissors. I am by nature a pragmatist and I prefer concrete things, but here's my take. This guy may have sold millions of books. He did the standard invocation of ancient greeks, the druids, God, etc, lots of fluffy words, to make himself feel erudite. But there's no there there. I would rather read a bad romance, which is what this book strives to be.

It is very easy to explain his writing style and why I hate it so much. One example: "Touch the great artery. Feel it bound like a deer." Another: "Press your ear against the body, .... as a child holding a seashell". My second favorite: "In the canals, cilia paddle silently, like an Iroquois canoe".

The all time best, about a regular Joe patient who "miraculously" healed: "Could such a man have felt the brush of wings?"

Get it? It's a harlequin for Yalies. I have newfound disrespect for both editorial writers and book award judges.

This book is not techinical, it is not emotional, it is poetic. You can't actually relate to any characters, there are none that I saw. If you like his writing, your favorite actors are William Shatner and Charlton Heston.

This is my first review. If you like this book, great. I just wanted to warn folks of what they're getting, not make a judgment about others reading preferences. Had I received this warning, I wouldn't have wasted my time.

Simply lovely.......2003-01-03

This book is simply great. I have really enjoyed reading it--Selzer has a style unto himself, and he is a great writer. I have been reading an essay a night for a few weeks now and it is superb.

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