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Prisoners of the Empire

Inside Japanese POW Camps

By: Sarah Kovner

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Prisoners of the Empire

Inside Japanese POW Camps

By: Sarah Kovner

A pathbreaking account of World War II POW camps, challenging the longstanding belief that the Japanese Empire systematically mistreated Allied prisoners. In only five months, from the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the fall of Corregidor in May 1942, the Japanese Empire took prisoner more than 140,000 Allied servicemen and 130,000 civilians from a dozen different countries. From Manchuria to Java, Burma to New Guinea, the Japanese army hastily set up over seven hundred camps to imprison these unfortunates. In the chaos, 40 percent of American POWs did not survive. More Australians died in captivity than were killed in combat. Sarah Kovner offers the first portrait of detention in the Pacific theater that explains why so many suffered. She follows Allied servicemen in Singapore and the Philippines transported to Japan on “hellships” and singled out for hard labor, but also describes the experience of guards and camp commanders, who were completely unprepared for the task. Much of the worst treatment resulted from a lack of planning, poor training, and bureaucratic incoherence rather than an established policy of debasing and tormenting prisoners. The struggle of POWs tended to be greatest where Tokyo exercised the least control, and many were killed by Allied bombs and torpedoes rather than deliberate mistreatment. By going beyond the horrific accounts of captivity to actually explain why inmates were neglected and abused, Prisoners of the Empire contributes to ongoing debates over POW treatment across myriad war zones, even to the present day.

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Harvard University Press

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067473761X

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Occupying Power

Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

By: Sarah Kovner

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Occupying Power

Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

By: Sarah Kovner

The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years following the war's end. In fact, the presence of foreign servicemen also heightened the visibility of certain others, particularly panpan—streetwalkers—who were objects of their desire. Occupying Power shows how intimate histories and international relations are interconnected in ways scholars have only begun to explore. Sex workers who catered to servicemen were integral to the postwar economic recovery, yet they were nonetheless blamed for increases in venereal disease and charged with diluting the Japanese race by producing mixed-race offspring. In 1956, Japan passed its first national law against prostitution, which produced an unanticipated effect. By ending a centuries-old tradition of sex work regulation, it made sex workers less visible and more vulnerable. This probing history reveals an important but underexplored aspect of the Japanese occupation and its effect on gender and society. It shifts the terms of debate on a number of controversies, including Japan's history of forced sexual slavery, rape accusations against U.S. servicemen, opposition to U.S. overseas bases, and sexual trafficking.

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Stanford University Press

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0804783462

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Occupying Power

Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

By: Sarah Kovner

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Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

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Asset Allocation and Private Markets

A Guide to Investing with Private Equity, Private Debt, and Private Real Assets

By: Cyril Demaria,Maurice Pedergnana,Remy He,Roger Rissi,Sarah Debrand

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Asset Allocation and Private Markets

A Guide to Investing with Private Equity, Private Debt, and Private Real Assets

By: Cyril Demaria,Maurice Pedergnana,Remy He,Roger Rissi,Sarah Debrand

The comprehensive guide to private market asset allocation Asset Allocation and Private Markets provides institutional investors, such as pension funds, insurance groups and family offices, with a single-volume authoritative resource on including private markets in strategic asset allocation. Written by four academic and practitioner specialists, this book provides the background knowledge investors need, coupled with practical advice from experts in the field. The discussion focuses on private equity, private debt and private real assets, and their correlation with other asset classes to establish optimized investment portfolios. Armed with the grounded and critical perspectives provided in this book, investors can tailor their portfolio and effectively allocate assets to traditional and private markets in their best interest. In-depth discussion of return, risks, liquidity and other factors of asset allocation takes a more practical turn with guidance on allocation construction and capital deployment, the “endowment model,” and hedging — or lack thereof. Unique in the depth and breadth of information on this increasingly attractive asset class, this book is an invaluable resource for investors seeking new strategies. Discover alternative solutions to traditional asset allocation strategies Consider attractive returns of private markets Delve into private equity, private debt and private real assets Gain expert perspectives on correlation, risk, liquidity, and portfolio construction Private markets represent a substantial proportion of global wealth. Amidst disappointing returns from stocks and bonds, investors are increasingly looking to revitalise traditional asset allocation strategies by weighting private market structures more heavily in their portfolios. Pension fund and other long-term asset managers need deeper information than is typically provided in tangential reference in broader asset allocation literature; Asset Allocation and Private Markets fills the gap, with comprehensive information and practical guidance.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119380995

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9781119380993

Neuropsychological Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

By: Sarah A. Raskin,Catherine A. Mateer

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Neuropsychological Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

By: Sarah A. Raskin,Catherine A. Mateer

Despite the importance of the problem, strikingly little has been written about effective approaches to the treatment of individuals with mild to moderate brain injury. This book is designed for neuropsychologists, counseling and rehabilitation psychologists, and other rehabilitation professionals who work with individuals who have sustained brain injuries of mild to moderate severity. It provides a context for understanding and evaluating the common consequences of such injuries and offers both theoretical perspectives and practical suggestions for helping individuals to adjust to and compensate for residual difficulties. Early chapters focus on different domains of cognitive functioning, while later chapters describe clinical approaches to helping clients manage common emotional reactions such as depression, irritability, and anxiety. While the book acknowledges and discusses the controversy about the origins of persistent symptoms following mild brain injures, it does not focus on the controversy. Rather, it adopts a "what works" approach to dealing with individuals who have persistent symptoms and perceptions that contribute to disability and to emotional distress. Many of these individuals benefit significantly from neuropsychological intervention. Case examples throughout the book illustrate the adaptation of cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches to individuals with mild to moderate brain injury. Self-regulation and self-management of both cognitive failures and emotional responses are described as appropriate and effective in this population.

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Oxford University Press

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0198024665

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9780198024668

Communities and Health Care

The Rochester, New York, Experiment

By: Sarah F. Liebschutz

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Communities and Health Care

The Rochester, New York, Experiment

By: Sarah F. Liebschutz

Analyzes the Rochester, New York, Hospital Experimental Payment program (HEP) of the 1980s and its aftermath, emphasizing the importance of local and state communities to health-care decision making and legislation.

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University Rochester Press

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1580463851

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9781580463850

Culture and Propaganda

The Progressive Origins of American Public Diplomacy, 1936-1953

By: Sarah Ellen Graham

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Culture and Propaganda

The Progressive Origins of American Public Diplomacy, 1936-1953

By: Sarah Ellen Graham

Throughout the twentieth century governments came to increasingly appreciate the value of soft power to help them achieve their foreign policy ambitions. Covering the crucial period between 1936 and 1953, this book examines the U.S. government’s adoption of diplomatic programs that were designed to persuade, inform, and attract global public opinion in support of American national interests. Cultural diplomacy and international information were deeply controversial to an American public that been bombarded with propaganda during the First World War. This book explains how new notions of propaganda as reciprocal exchange, cultural engagement, and enlightening information paved the way for innovations in U.S. diplomatic practice. Through a comparative analysis of the State Department’s Division of Cultural Relations, the government radio station Voice of America, and the multilateral cultural, educational and scientific diplomacy of Unesco, and drawing extensively on U.S. foreign policy archives, this book shows how America’s liberal traditions were reconciled with the task of influencing and attracting publics abroad.

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Routledge

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1317155920

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9781317155928

Curriculum Development and Evaluation in Nursing, Third Edition

By: Sarah B. Keating

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Curriculum Development and Evaluation in Nursing, Third Edition

By: Sarah B. Keating

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826130275

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9780826130273

Listed Private Equity: Investment Strategies and Returns

By: Sarah Kumpf

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Listed Private Equity: Investment Strategies and Returns

By: Sarah Kumpf

The increasing popularity of private equity (‘PE’), and especially leveraged buyouts in the late 1980s, established a novel area of research in these investments. First, research concentrated on the taking private of large corporations in the US. In his most significant paper, Jensen (1989) claimed that PE firms which function as activist investors incentivize the management of their portfolio companies to maximize value, and concluded that in the long run, private companies, owned by PE firms, would outperform firms under public ownership. Others argued that PE firms simply buy companies at a discount by exploiting private information about the takeover targets, or reduce tax spending by highly leveraging the portfolio companies. Today, many PE firms are publicly listed, and the greater transparency and availability of information about these listed PE firms, offers a unique basis to conduct research. Current research in the field of PE, and buyout investments leads to the question, in how far PE firms generate value by means of an investment into a portfolio company. Usually, drivers of value generation are classified into governance, financial and operational capabilities of PE firms. In addition to these direct drivers of value, investment and portfolio management strategies differ with respect to the ways of acquiring and divesting a portfolio company, and these different entry, and exit channels can in turn, offer distinct potential for value generation. Therefore, this paper first presents the investment and portfolio management strategies of PE firms. The strategies include different types of acquisitions, and exits, as well as the associated drivers of value creation. The second objective is to establish a link between different investment strategies, and the expected returns generated on the investor level. Listed PE allows analyzing the market’s reaction to the announcement of investments, and divestments within an event study, and hypotheses were derived for both of these types of events. Thereupon, subsamples of announcements are constructed, dependent on the way of entry and exit announced as well as on strategic decisions implemented in the portfolio company that is to be disposed.

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Diplomica Verlag

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3842889488

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9783842889484

The Wolves

A Play: Off-Broadway Edition

By: Sarah DeLappe

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The Wolves

A Play: Off-Broadway Edition

By: Sarah DeLappe

One of the most-talked about new plays of the 2016 Off-Broadway season, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves opened to enthusiastic acclaim, including two sold-out, extended runs at The Playwrights Realm/The Duke on 42nd Street.The Wolves follows the 9 teenage girls—members of an indoor soccer team—as they warm up, engage in banter and one-upmanship, and fight battles big and small with each other and themselves. As the teammates warm up in sync, a symphony of overlapping dialogue spills out their concerns, including menstruation (pads or tampons?), is Coach hung over?, eating disorders, sexual pressure, the new girl, and the Khmer Rouge (what it is, how to pronounce it, and do they need to know about it—“We don’t do genocides ’til senior year.†?) By season’s and play’s end, amidst the wins and losses, rivalries and tragedies, they are warriors tested and ready—they are The Wolves.

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Abrams

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1468317172

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9781468317176

Evil in the Christian Fantasy of C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling

From the White Witch to the Dark Mark

By: Sarah Fiona Winters

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Evil in the Christian Fantasy of C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling

From the White Witch to the Dark Mark

By: Sarah Fiona Winters

Evil in the Christian Fantasy of C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling: From the White Witch to the Dark Mark argues that The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter series are essential reading for anyone committed to understanding the cultural constructions of evil in twentieth-century Europe, and the strategies of resistance available to different types of readers in response to those evils. This book also suggests that while the construction of evil in both series can and should be approached through a secular lens, it cannot be fully understood without a complementary understanding of religious transcendence. Sarah Fiona Winters explores the tension between theological evil on the one hand, and naturalist and politico-historical representations of evil on the other; and the tension within both the explicitly religious and the apparently secular between dualism, the belief that good and evil both exist and are locked in combat, and the belief in orthodox Christianity that evil is nothing. She examines the developments in theories about evil that arose from the experience of the Second World War, particularly those of Hannah Arendt and Stanley Milgram in 1963, arguing that Lewis presented obedience as a strategy against evil because he wrote before their work while Rowling presents disobedience as a strategy against evil as she wrote after their work.

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Lexington Books

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1666959782

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9781666959789

Prisoners of the Empire

Inside Japanese POW Camps

By: Sarah Kovner

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Prisoners of the Empire

Inside Japanese POW Camps

By: Sarah Kovner

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Harvard University Press

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The Sarah Pekkanen Reader's Companion

A Collection of Excerpts

By: Sarah Pekkanen

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The Sarah Pekkanen Reader's Companion

A Collection of Excerpts

By: Sarah Pekkanen

In this collection of excerpts, enjoy a taste of Sarah Pekkanen’s captivating novels, including The Opposite of Me, Skipping a Beat, These Girls, and The Best of Us.

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118

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Simon and Schuster

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1476727880

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9781476727882

Who Was Rachel Carson?

By: Sarah Fabiny,Who HQ

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Who Was Rachel Carson?

By: Sarah Fabiny,Who HQ

Though she grew up in rural Pennsylvania, Rachel Carson dreamed of the sea. In 1936 she began work with the Bureau of Fisheries and soon after published Under the Sea Wind, her first of many nature books. Her 1962 bestseller, Silent Spring, sent shockwaves through the country and warned of the dangers of DDT and other pesticides. A pioneering environmentalist, Rachel Carson helped awaken the global consciousness for conservation and preservation.

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Penguin

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069818727X

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9780698187276

Sandra Day O'Connor

By: Sarah DeCapua

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Sandra Day O'Connor

By: Sarah DeCapua

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, Sandra Day O�Connor was the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court. This book celebrates the pioneering force Ms. O'Connor had during her service in the Supreme Court between 1981 - 2006. In 2009, her accomplishments were honored when President Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A native Texan, Ms. O'Connor is considered to be a tough moderate conservative. This book examines all aspects of Sandra Day O�Connor's life including her childhood, education, and early influences. A timeline of events is included along with a glossary of terms which defines history-specific terms. This bright and engaging volume includes primary source photos, quote and excerpts which round out his must-have book about this highly important and worldly individual.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1608707164

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Sarah Palin Uncut

By: Sarah Palin

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Sarah Palin Uncut

By: Sarah Palin

Take away the liberal media bias and manipulating sound bites, and what you're left with is Sarah Palin Uncut, a collection of rallies, speeches, and calls to action. The powerful yet heartfelt words, in context, leave the reader with the purest impression of the nation's trailblazer and inspiration behind the emergence of the powerful and influential Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin.

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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1456508326

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13 Minutes

By: Sarah Pinborough,Florence Moreau

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13 Minutes

By: Sarah Pinborough,Florence Moreau

« Je suis morte pendant treize minutes. Et maintenant je veux savoir pourquoi. » Natasha, seize ans et reine du lycée de Brackston, ne se souvient pas comment elle a fini dans les eaux glacées de la rivière. La seule chose qu'elle sait : ce n'était pas un accident. D'après le proverbe, il faut être proche de ses amis et encore plus de ses ennemis. Sauf que, au lycée, il est parfois difficile de les différencier. Ses amies l'aiment, Natasha en est sûre. Mais ça ne veut pas dire qu'elles n'ont pas essayé de la tuer... « Le Lolita malgré moi de l'ère Instagram » The Times « Je recommande ce roman à tous ceux qui adorent frissonner en ouvrant un livre. » The Guardian « Le roman le plus excitant de l'année. » The Express

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Castelmore

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2362314596

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9782362314599

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