Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History

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Reducere. Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-al...

To make a revolution is to subvert the ancient state of our country; and no common reasons are called for to justify so violent a proceeding Burke ...

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John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of Natsume Soseki, the father of the modern novel in Japan. This biography elevates Soseki to his ri...

The Motherhood Project draws together dramatic monologues and real-life reflections by some of the UK's leading writers, artists and thinkers, and ...

This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in As...

A landmark new account of the twentieth century from one of Europe's most outstanding thinkers.

An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire...

Reducere. DescriptionThis title provides a selection of essays from one of today's foremost Southern historians exploring the past of the American South.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 208Collection: Textual Moments in the History of Political ThoughtPublication date: 2021Dimens...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 208Collection: Textual Moments in the History of Political ThoughtPublication date: 2021Dimens...

When the Viet Nam War ended, with the United States of America defeated, many wondered how a military powerhouse lost to a "raggedy-ass, little fou...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): al-Hasan al-YusiTranslator: Justin StearnsNumber of pages: 280Collection: Library of Arabic Literatu...

Brings the diverse energy histories of North and South American nations into dialogue with one another, presenting an integrated hemispheric framew...

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Reducere. The poems, happy and sad, serious and funny, express thoughts and feelings about many different aspects of life that all of us experience. These po...

A monumental contribution to the study of systemic violence and neoliberalism in Mexico.Publisher: Haymarket BooksAuthor(s): Hepzibah Munoz Martine...

Understanding the social history and urgent social implications of gendered compulsory birth control, an unbalanced and unjust approach to pregnanc...

30 brief meditations, finely illustrated, each with a prayerPublisher: Lion Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Jennifer Rees LarcombeNumber of pages: 96Publicati...

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Publisher: Brandeis University PressAuthor(s): James WrightNumber of pages: 156Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 236 x 29Cover type: Hardback...

Reducere. The fall of Singapore was the worst defeat ever suffered by the British Empire; this dramatic account emphasizes the initiative and tactics that en...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Randi GreenModern history completes and updates the previous four books, giving the remaining pieces of the puzzle to grasp...

Centuries of Meditations is a devotional manual from the English literary Thomas Traherne; undiscovered for over 200 years, this manuscript was fir...

Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd LtdAuthor(s): Ted HarrisonNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 135 x 216 x 19Cover type: Paperba...

In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Ra...

Reducere. On March 1, 1995, at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, ARTE (a French-German state-funded tel...

Publisher: Harbour PublishingAuthor(s): Adrian DorstIllustration(s): Colour photosNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 287 x 224 x...

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Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic rel...

Reducere. Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and ...

Reducere. In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether r...