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Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies

The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan

By: Robert Whiting

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Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies

The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan

By: Robert Whiting

Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades—he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies…better than anyone alive." —Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice Critically acclaimed author and longtime Japan resident Robert Whiting turns his attention to the fascinating stories of foreigners who made waves and achieved notoriety in post-World War II Japan. In this rare insider's look at Japan through the eyes of foreigners, this book covers a fascinating swathe of Japanese history, from the immediate postwar period up to the 2022 assassination of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The fascinating stories of the gamblers, dreamers, and other chancers who made their mark in modern Japan include US servicemen running Vegas-style gambling dens; baseball managers Like Bobby Valentine; hostesses, bar managers and wannabe yakuza gangsters; religious fanatics such as Members of the Moonies, and businessmen like disgraced Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn. This fascinating book provides an unvarnished look at the post-war history of Japan and offers cautionary tales about how welcoming Japan really is towards outsiders. It is based on original research and reporting by the author, a 60-year resident of Tokyo.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462924549

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9781462924547

Culture, Behavior, and Personality

An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Psychosocial Adaptation

By: Robert A LeVine

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Culture, Behavior, and Personality

An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Psychosocial Adaptation

By: Robert A LeVine

This new edition of Culture, Behavior, and Personality is organized into ve parts. Part I de nes the eld of inquiry, Part II presents a critical review of existing theories and methods, Part III expounds LeVine's unique Darwinian model of culture and personality, Part IV deals with the strategies and methods with which to study individual dispositions within the sociocultural matrix, Part V concludes with two essays on cultural and personality research including new advances and avenues of research that have appeared within the last seven years.

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Routledge

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1351524224

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Mashi

The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer

By: Robert K. Fitts

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Mashi

The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer

By: Robert K. Fitts

In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan’s Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve his skills. To nearly everyone’s surprise, Murakami, known as Mashi, dominated the American hitters. With the San Francisco Giants caught in a close pennant race and desperate for a left-handed reliever, Masanori was called up to join the big league club, becoming the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues. Featuring pinpoint control, a devastating curveball, and a friendly smile, Mashi became the Giants’ top lefty reliever and one of the team’s most popular players—as well as a national hero in Japan. Not surprisingly, the Giants offered him a contract for the 1965 season. Murakami signed, announcing that he would be thrilled to stay in San Francisco. There was just one problem: the Nankai Hawks still owned his contract. The dispute over Murakami’s contract would ignite an international incident that ultimately prevented other Japanese players from joining the Majors for thirty years. Mashi is the story of an unlikely hero caught up in an American and Japanese baseball dispute and forced to choose between his dreams in the United States and his duty in Japan.

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University of Nebraska Press

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1496219511

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9781496219510

Applied Software Development With Python & Machine Learning By Wearable & Wireless Systems For Movement Disorder Treatment Via Deep Brain Stimulation

By: Robert Lemoyne,Timothy Mastroianni

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Applied Software Development With Python & Machine Learning By Wearable & Wireless Systems For Movement Disorder Treatment Via Deep Brain Stimulation

By: Robert Lemoyne,Timothy Mastroianni

The book presents the confluence of wearable and wireless inertial sensor systems, such as a smartphone, for deep brain stimulation for treating movement disorders, such as essential tremor, and machine learning. The machine learning distinguishes between distinct deep brain stimulation settings, such as 'On' and 'Off' status. This achievement demonstrates preliminary insight with respect to the concept of Network Centric Therapy, which essentially represents the Internet of Things for healthcare and the biomedical industry, inclusive of wearable and wireless inertial sensor systems, machine learning, and access to Cloud computing resources.Imperative to the realization of these objectives is the organization of the software development process. Requirements and pseudo code are derived, and software automation using Python for post-processing the inertial sensor signal data to a feature set for machine learning is progressively developed. A perspective of machine learning in terms of a conceptual basis and operational overview is provided. Subsequently, an assortment of machine learning algorithms is evaluated based on quantification of a reach and grasp task for essential tremor using a smartphone as a wearable and wireless accelerometer system.Furthermore, these skills regarding the software development process and machine learning applications with wearable and wireless inertial sensor systems enable new and novel biomedical research only bounded by the reader's creativity.Related Link(s)

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World Scientific

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981123597X

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New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy

By: Robert S. Ross

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New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy

By: Robert S. Ross

Ten outstanding specialists in Chinese foreign policy draw on new theories, methods, and sources to examine China's use of force, its response to globalization, and the role of domestic politics in its foreign policy.

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Stanford University Press

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0804753636

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9780804753630

Small But Important Riots

The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville

By: Robert F. O'Neill

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Small But Important Riots

The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville

By: Robert F. O'Neill

June 1863. The American Civil War was two years old, and the U.S. Army in Virginia was in chaos. Reeling after the recent defeat at Chancellorsville, the Federals, especially the Cavalry Corps, scrambled to regroup. Confederate general Robert E. Lee seized the moment to launch a second invasion of the North. As Lee slipped away, frantic Federal leaders asked, "Where are the Rebels?" At this critical moment, the much-maligned Federal cavalry stepped to center stage. Small but Important Riots is a tactical study of fighting from June 17 to 22, 1863, at Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville, placed within the strategic context of the Gettysburg campaign. It is based on Robert O'Neill's thirty years of research and access to previously unpublished documents, which reveal startling new information. Since the fighting in Loudoun Valley of Virginia ended in June 1863, one perspective has prevailed--that Brigadier General Alfred Pleasonton, who commanded the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, disobeyed orders. According to published records, Pleasonton's superiors, including President Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, and army commander Joseph Hooker, ordered Pleasonton to search for General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during a critical stage of the Gettysburg campaign, and Pleasonton ignored their orders. Recently discovered documents--discussed in this book--prove otherwise.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640125671

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Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry

By: Albert Brady, Robert Jr. Maxfield

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Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry

By: Albert Brady, Robert Jr. Maxfield

Reproduction of the original: Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry by Albert Maxfield, Robert Jr. Brady

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3752394633

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Frontier Crossroads

Fort Davis and the West

By: Robert Wooster

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Frontier Crossroads

Fort Davis and the West

By: Robert Wooster

The idea of the West conjures exciting images of tenacious men and women, huge expanses of unclaimed territory, and feelings of both adventure and lonesome isolation. Located astride communication lines linking San Antonio, El Paso, Presidio, and Chihuahua City, the United States Army’s post at Fort Davis commanded a strategic position at a military, cultural, and economic crossroads of nineteenth-century Texas. Using extensive research and careful scrutiny of long forgotten records, Robert Wooster brings his readers into the world of Fort Davis, a place of encounter, conquest, and community. The fort here spawned a thriving civilian settlement and served as the economic nexus for regional development Frontier Crossroads schools its readers in the daily lives of soldiers, their dependents, and civilians at the fort and in the surrounding area. The resulting history of the intriguing blend of Hispanic, African American, Anglo, and European immigrants who came to Fort Davis is a benchmark volume that will serve as the standard to which other post histories will be compared. The military garrisons of Fort Davis represented a rich mosaic of nineteenth-century American life. Each of the army’s four black regiments served there following the Civil War, and its garrisons engaged in many of the army’s grueling campaigns against Apache and Comanche Indians. Characters such as artist and officer Arthur T. Lee, William “Pecos Bill” Shafter, and Benjamin Grierson and his family come alive under Wooster’s pen. Frontier Crossroads will enrich its readers with its careful analysis of life on the frontier. This book will appeal to military and social historians, Texas history buffs, and those seeking a record of adventure.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585444758

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9781585444755

Robert Vaughn: A Fortunate Life

An Autobiography

By: Robert Vaughn

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Robert Vaughn: A Fortunate Life

An Autobiography

By: Robert Vaughn

At the height of his television fame on The Man From UNCLE, Robert Vaughn was one of HollywoodÕ s most eligible bachelors, with countless adoring female fans. His affairs with famous celebrities, including Natalie Wood, made front-page news. But Vaughn is not just a handsome face, Ð he is a talented stage, television and film actor with strong political convictions and literary interests. In this fascinating biography Vaughn recounts his memories of a golden era in Hollywood and the highs and lows of life as a successful actor, from hot dates with starlets, to having an FBI file because of his anti-Vietnam stance, to being caught up in the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968 while filming. Vaughn befriended such luminaries as Bobby Kennedy, met Presidents at parties, and had many adventures with stars such as Jack Nicholson, Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Charlton Heston, Oliver Reed, Steve McQueen and Elizabeth Taylor. Most recently, Vaughn has been working on his TV series, Hustle, airing in January 2009. This is his revealing and captivating story Robert Vaughn is an Emmy-winning actor who has portrayed five US Presidents and currently stars in Hustle on BBC 1. He has appeared in many films, including The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt and The Towering Inferno, and several classic TV series, including The Protectors and The Man From UNCLE.

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JR Books

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1907532536

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9781907532535

Maverick Republican in the Old North State

A Political Biography of Daniel L. Russell

By: Jeffrey J. Crow,Robert F. Durden

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Maverick Republican in the Old North State

A Political Biography of Daniel L. Russell

By: Jeffrey J. Crow,Robert F. Durden

Daniel Russell is a good example of what Carl Degler has termed “the other South.” The son of an aristocratic eastern North Carolina family of staunch Whig-Unionists, he entered politics when the Republican party first appeared in the state after the Civil War. For more than forty years thereafter he fought the solid South mentality of the Bourbon Democrats, first as a Radical Republican judge, then as a Greenbacker congressman, and finally as a Republican governor with Populist sympathies–the only chief executive of his party that North Carolina had between Reconstruction and the 1970s. The basic themes of Russell’s political life were racial and economic in nature. As a judge on the state superior court he ruled in the Wilmington opera house case of 1873 that blacks could not be denied accommodations on the account of their race. As a congressman he embraced the cause of currency reform and the regulation of corporate enterprise. Elected governor in 1896 by an uneasy coalition of Populists and Republicans—an alliance that Crow and Durden fully examine—he pushed reforms designed to bring nonresident corporations under stricter state supervision and challenged the ninety-nine-year lease of the state-owned North Carolina Railroad to J.P. Morgan’s Southern Railway Company. The Democrats’ triumphant white-supremacy campaigns of 1898 and 1900 and the resulting disfranchisement of black voters, however, crushed these progressive initiatives, and afterward the complex and sometimes irascible Russell kept a low profile until his tern ended in 1901. His final years were taken up by a famous interstate lawsuit that he initiated to force North Carolina to pay certain Reconstruction debts it had repudiated. The reasons for Russell’s political failure while southern Progressives of the period generally succeeded shed much new light on the reform movement in the South between 1890 and 1910. Although the reforms that he took up were no more radical than those called for by his contemporaries, Crow and Durden find in this first full account of his career that “in the last analysis, Russell’s unique blend of Old South paternalism toward blacks with New South radicalism concerning currency and railway reform challenged too many taboos of race, class, and party.”

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LSU Press

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0807125210

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9780807125212

Slovaks of Chicagoland

By: Robert M. Fasiang,Robert Magruder

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Slovaks of Chicagoland

By: Robert M. Fasiang,Robert Magruder

An engaging pictorial history of the Slovak community in Chicagoland, documenting their journeys and struggles through rare and vintage images. The story of Slovak Americans in Chicagoland is a tale of the American dream. In a few short years, emigrants from Slovakia with little to their names came to the United States and succeeded beyond their highest hopes. This fascinating story of "rags to riches" has been documented in historical photographs in Images of America: Slovaks of Chicagoland. Many Slovaks came to America with few assets, no more than a sixth-grade education, and no knowledge of the English language. They went to school and became naturalized citizens. Many took menial jobs in stockyards, steel mills, and oil refineries. They saved their money and opened grocery stores, banks, construction firms, and other businesses. Slovaks built beautiful churches, quality schools, and recreational facilities. They raised their families to be proud Americans and incorporated traditions from Slovakia into their daily lives, including the important role of religion.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439645396

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9781439645390

Chicago Made

Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis

By: Robert Lewis

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Chicago Made

Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis

By: Robert Lewis

From the lumberyards and meatpacking factories of the Southwest Side to the industrial suburbs that arose near Lake Calumet at the turn of the twentieth century, manufacturing districts shaped Chicago’s character and laid the groundwork for its transformation into a sprawling metropolis. Approaching Chicago’s story as a reflection of America’s industrial history between the Civil War and World War II, Chicago Made explores not only the well-documented workings of centrally located city factories but also the overlooked suburbanization of manufacturing and its profound effect on the metropolitan landscape. Robert Lewis documents how manufacturers, attracted to greenfield sites on the city’s outskirts, began to build factory districts there with the help of an intricate network of railroad owners, real estate developers, financiers, and wholesalers. These immense networks of social ties, organizational memberships, and financial relationships were ultimately more consequential, Lewis demonstrates, than any individual achievement. Beyond simply giving Chicago businesses competitive advantages, they transformed the economic geography of the region. Tracing these transformations across seventy-five years, Chicago Made establishes a broad new foundation for our understanding of urban industrial America.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226477045

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9780226477046

The Railroads of the Confederacy

By: Robert C. Black III

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The Railroads of the Confederacy

By: Robert C. Black III

Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war. Robert Black presents a complex and fascinating tale, with the railroads of the American South playing the part of tragic hero in the Civil War: at first vigorous though immature; then overloaded, driven unmercifully, starved for iron; and eventually worn out--struggling on to inevitable destruction in the wake of Sherman's army, carrying the Confederacy down with them. With maps of all the Confederate railroads and contemporary photographs and facsimiles of such documents as railroad tickets, timetables, and soldiers' passes, the book will captivate railroad enthusiasts as well as readers interested in the Civil War.

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1469650304

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The Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang

By: Robert Barr Smith

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The Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang

By: Robert Barr Smith

So small it had only one bank, so quiet no citizens carried guns. Hard-working, peaceful Northfield, Minnesota, was an orderly yet busy mill-town in the heart of prosperous farm country. On a serene autumn Tuesday in 1876, local shopkeepers, farmers, and citizenry went about their normal routines, little realizing that the infamous and deadly James-Younger gang had designs on tiny Northfield. The experienced robbers planned to target the single bank, which held the hard-earned money of the townsfolk. Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers had never experienced defeat. During a wild gun battle that raged between the outlaws and the bankmen up and down the town’s main street, two unarmed townsfolk were murdered. Northfield’s angered populace fought back. The townspeople killed two members of the James-Younger gang and wounded several more. The remaining bandits fled but were pursued across southwestern Minnesota by a posse that gradually grew to more than a thousand men. In Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang, Robert Barr Smith debunks the James-Younger "Robin Hood" image and shows that the real heroes of the Northfield raid were the ordinary people--the bankers who protected their depositors at their own risk, the townspeople who pitched in to chase the gang from town, and the posse members who pursued and triumphed over the retreating remnants of the gang.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806133538

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9780806133539

The Naturalist’s Library. Ichthyology. British Fishes. Part II

Vol. 37

By: William Jardine,Robert Hamilton

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The Naturalist’s Library. Ichthyology. British Fishes. Part II

Vol. 37

By: William Jardine,Robert Hamilton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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3368741624

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Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies

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Culture, Behavior, and Personality

Culture, Behavior, and Personality

Mashi

Mashi

Applied Software Development With Python & Machine Learning By Wearable & Wireless Systems For Movement Disorder Treatment Via Deep Brain Stimulation

Applied Software Development With Python & Machine Learning By Wearable & Wireless Systems For Movement Disorder Treatment Via Deep Brain Stimulation

New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy

New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy

Small But Important Riots

Small But Important Riots

Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry

Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry

Frontier Crossroads

Frontier Crossroads

Robert Vaughn: A Fortunate Life

Robert Vaughn: A Fortunate Life

Maverick Republican in the Old North State

Maverick Republican in the Old North State

Slovaks of Chicagoland

Slovaks of Chicagoland

Chicago Made

Chicago Made

The Railroads of the Confederacy

The Railroads of the Confederacy

The Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang

The Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang

The Naturalist’s Library. Ichthyology. British Fishes. Part II

The Naturalist’s Library. Ichthyology. British Fishes. Part II

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