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Japan Prepares for Total War

The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941

By: Michael A. Barnhart

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Japan Prepares for Total War

The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941

By: Michael A. Barnhart

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of Japan's quest for economic security, drawing on a wide array of Japanese and American sources.Barnhart focuses on the critical years from 1938 to 1941 as he investigates the development of Japan's drive for national economic self-sufficiency and independence and the way in which this drive shaped its internal and external policies. He also explores American economic pressure on Tokyo and assesses its impact on Japan's foreign policy and domestic economy. He concludes that Japan's internal political dynamics, especially the bitter rivalry between its army and navy, played a far greater role in propelling the nation into war with the United States than did its economic condition or even pressure from Washington. Japan Prepares for Total War sheds new light on prewar Japan and confirms the opinions of those in Washington who advocated economic pressure against Japan.

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Cornell University Press

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0801468450

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Can You Beat Churchill?

Teaching History through Simulations

By: Michael A. Barnhart

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Can You Beat Churchill?

Teaching History through Simulations

By: Michael A. Barnhart

How do you get students to engage in a historical episode or era? How do you bring the immediacy and contingency of history to life? Michael A. Barnhart shares the secret to his award-winning success in the classroom with Can You Beat Churchill?, which encourages role-playing for immersive teaching and learning. Combating the declining enrollment in humanities classes, this innovative approach reminds us how critical learning skills are transmitted to students: by reactivating their curiosity and problem-solving abilities. Barnhart provides advice and procedures, both for the use of off-the-shelf commercial simulations and for the instructor who wishes to custom design a simulation from scratch. These reenactments allow students to step into the past, requiring them to think and act in ways historical figures might have. Students must make crucial or dramatic decisions, though these decisions need not align with the historical record. In doing so, they learn, through action and strategic consideration, the impact of real individuals and groups of people on the course of history. There is a quiet revolution underway in how history is taught to undergraduates. Can You Beat Churchill? hopes to make it a noisy one.

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Cornell University Press

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1501755668

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Problems in Lexicography

A Critical/Historical Edition

By: Michael Adams

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Problems in Lexicography

A Critical/Historical Edition

By: Michael Adams

Problems in Lexicography is an essential, classic work of practical lexicography (the practice of writing dictionaries) and meta-lexicography. Originally published over sixty years ago, it was based on the proceedings of the Indiana University Conference on Lexicography, held November 11–12, 1960. It set a standard that still holds today, three generations later. This critical and historical edition, brilliantly researched and presented by Michael Adams, explores the enduring legacy of this classic work and promises to extend its life further into the twenty-first century. Problems in Lexicography: A Critical / Historical Edition amply demonstrates that this unique work is a book of historical significance and a worthy prologue to lexicography's present.

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Indiana University Press

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0253063302

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9780253063304

Complications in Surgery

By: Michael W. Mulholland,Gerard M. Doherty

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Complications in Surgery

By: Michael W. Mulholland,Gerard M. Doherty

Complications in Surgery, Second Edition offers authoritative recommendations for preventing and managing complications in all current general surgery procedures. The opening sections discuss institutional risk management issues and risks common to all operations, such as wound healing problems, infection, shock, and complications in immunosuppressed patients. Subsequent sections focus on complications of specific procedures in thoracic, vascular, gastric, endocrine, breast, and oncologic surgery, as well as organ transplantation and pediatric surgery. This edition includes new information on surgical quality assessment and patient safety and updated information in the organ-specific chapters.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451153694

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Arc of Empire

America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam

By: Michael H. Hunt,Steven I. Levine

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Arc of Empire

America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam

By: Michael H. Hunt,Steven I. Levine

Argues that America's wars in The Philippines, Japan, Korea and Vietnam were actually all part of a sustained U.S. bid for dominance in Asia.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807835285

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9780807835289

Japan Prepares for Total War

The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941

By: Michael A. Barnhart

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The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941

By: Michael A. Barnhart

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of Japan's quest for economic security, drawing on a wide array of Japanese and American sources. Barnhart focuses on the critical years from 1938 to 1941 as he investigates the development of Japan's drive for national economic self-sufficiency and independence and the way in which this drive shaped its internal and external policies. He also explores American economic pressure on Tokyo and assesses its impact on Japan's foreign policy and domestic economy. He concludes that Japan's internal political dynamics, especially the bitter rivalry between its army and navy, played a far greater role in propelling the nation into war with the United States than did its economic condition or even pressure from Washington. Japan Prepares for Total War sheds new light on prewar Japan and confirms the opinions of those in Washington who advocated economic pressure against Japan.

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Cornell University Press

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0801468469

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Maingot's Abdominal Operations. 13th edition

By: Michael J. Zinner,Stanley W. Ashley

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Maingot's Abdominal Operations. 13th edition

By: Michael J. Zinner,Stanley W. Ashley

The best edition yet of the cornerstone text on abdominal operations—enhanced by thousands of full-color photographs and illustrations and thoroughly updated content A Doody’s Core Title for 2021! Edition after edition, Maingot’s Abdominal Operations has been hailed as the most complete, current, and trusted resource among general, colorectal, and gastrointestinal surgeons. Presented in full color, this classic textbook carefully details common and important abdominal procedures, offering a concise, yet complete, survey of the diagnosis and management of benign and malignant digestive disorders. Bolstered by more than 650 photographs and 1,250 full color illustrations, Maingot’s 78 chapters deliver everything you need to understand congenital, acquired, and neoplastic disorders – and optimize surgical outcomes for any type of abdominal disorder. FEATURES: Contemporary focus on operative procedures, and new concepts in the diagnosis and management of abdominal disease Convenient organ/procedure presentation provides a seamless review of surgical protocols, as well as pre- and postoperative strategies and techniques Added chapters on quality metrics, ERAS, and robotic surgery; and an increased number of “Perspective” commentaries by experts in the field Disease-focused and organ/procedure presentation provides a seamless review of surgical protocols, as well as pre- and postoperative strategies and techniques More than 650 photographs and 1,250 full color illustrations, many new to this edition

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071844295

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Japan and the World Since 1868

By: Michael A. Barnhart

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Japan and the World Since 1868

By: Michael A. Barnhart

Japan's position as a major power in international affairs is recent, but the changes it has gone through during even so short a time have been immense.How to account for its progress from prudence, through folly, to present success is the enquiry at the core of Michael Barnhart's new study. He provides a masterly account of the domestic pressures that often helped shape foreign policy, as well as an evaluation of the changing world order itself.One of the book's central themes is the absence of a sustained national consensus in Japan's foreign-policy making, particularly before - but also after - 1945. The international environment for Japan from 1960 to the early 1990s was a tranquil one, in stark contrast to every prior period, but theend of the Cold War order has renewed divisions and acrimony in the debate over the country's proper role in the world. It may be that the history foreign relations before those halcyon decades will have more contemporary usefulness than is commonly suppos

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Hodder Education

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0340528575

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9780340528570

Can You Beat Churchill?

Teaching History through Simulations

By: Michael A. Barnhart

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Teaching History through Simulations

By: Michael A. Barnhart

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Japan Prepares for Total War

Japan Prepares for Total War

Can You Beat Churchill?

Can You Beat Churchill?

Problems in Lexicography

Problems in Lexicography

Complications in Surgery

Complications in Surgery

Arc of Empire

Arc of Empire

Japan Prepares for Total War

Japan Prepares for Total War

Maingot's Abdominal Operations. 13th edition

Maingot's Abdominal Operations. 13th edition

Japan and the World Since 1868

Japan and the World Since 1868

Can You Beat Churchill?

Can You Beat Churchill?

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