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The Origins of the Grand Alliance

Anglo-American Military Collaboration from the Panay Incident to Pearl Harbor

By: William T. Johnsen

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The Origins of the Grand Alliance

Anglo-American Military Collaboration from the Panay Incident to Pearl Harbor

By: William T. Johnsen

On December 12, 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay, which was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanjing, China. Although the Japanese apologized, the attack turned American public opinion against Japan, and President Roosevelt dispatched Captain Royal Ingersoll to London to begin conversations with the British admiralty about Japanese aggression in the Far East. While few Americans remember the Panay Incident, it established the first links in the chain of Anglo-American military collaboration that eventually triumphed in World War II. In The Origins of the Grand Alliance, William T. Johnsen provides the first comprehensive analysis of military collaboration between the United States and Great Britain before the Second World War. He sets the stage by examining Anglo-French and Anglo-American coalition military planning from 1900 through World War I and the interwar years. Johnsen also considers the formulation of policy and grand strategy, operational planning, and the creation of the command structure and channels of communication. He addresses vitally important logistical and materiel issues, particularly the difficulties of war production. Military conflicts in the early twenty-first century continue to underscore the increasing importance of coalition warfare for historian and soldier alike. Drawn from extensive sources and private papers held in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, Johnsen's exhaustively researched study refutes the idea that America was the naive junior partner in the coalition and casts new light on the US-UK "special relationship.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081316835X

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9780813168357

Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945

By: William M. McBride

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Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945

By: William M. McBride

Winner, Engineer-Historian Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from those officers who, adhering to a familiar warrior ethos, have grown used to a certain style of fighting. In Technological Change and the United States Navy, William M. McBride examines how the navy dealt with technological change—from the end of the Civil War through the "age of the battleship"—as technology became more complex and the nation assumed a global role. Although steam engines generally made their mark in the maritime world by 1865, for example, and proved useful to the Union riverine navy during the Civil War, a backlash within the service later developed against both steam engines and the engineers who ran them. Early in the twentieth century the large dreadnought battleship at first met similar resistance from some officers, including the famous Alfred Thayer Mahan, and their industrial and political allies. During the first half of the twentieth century the battleship exercised a dominant influence on those who developed the nation's strategies and operational plans—at the same time that advances in submarines and fixed-wing aircraft complicated the picture and undermined the battleship's superiority. In any given period, argues McBride, some technologies initially threaten the navy's image of itself. Professional jealousies and insecurities, ignorance, and hidebound traditions arguably influenced the officer corps on matters of technology as much as concerns about national security, and McBride contends that this dynamic persists today. McBride also demonstrates the interplay between technological innovation and other influences on naval adaptability—international commitments, strategic concepts, government-industrial relations, and the constant influence of domestic politics. Challenging technological determinism, he uncovers the conflicting attitudes toward technology that guided naval policy between the end of the Civil War and the dawning of the nuclear age. The evolution and persistence of the "battleship navy," he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the aircraft-carrier paradigm after 1945 and into the twenty-first century.

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374

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JHU Press

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0801872855

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9780801872853

Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine

By: Craig M. Lilly,Richard S. Irwin,Walter A. Boyle,William F. Kelly

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Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine

By: Craig M. Lilly,Richard S. Irwin,Walter A. Boyle,William F. Kelly

Covering both the theoretical and practical aspects of critical care,Irwin & Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine, Ninth Edition, provides state-of-the-art, evidence-based knowledge for specialty physicians and non-physicians practicing in the adult intensive care environment. Drs. Craig M. Lilly, Walter A. Boyle, and Richard S. Irwin, along with a team of expert contributing authors and education expert, William F. Kelly, offer authoritative, comprehensive guidance from an interprofessional, collaborative, educational, and scholarly perspective, encompassing all adult critical care specialties.

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7955

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975181468

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9781975181468

Marsupial Frogs

Gastrotheca and Allied Genera

By: William E. Duellman

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Marsupial Frogs

Gastrotheca and Allied Genera

By: William E. Duellman

The first major synthesis of marsupial frogs, this book is the magnum opus of renowned herpetologist William E. Duellman. This scientific masterpiece reveals many aspects of the lives of marsupial frogs and closely allied genera. Native to Central and South America, these amphibians differ from other frogs in that they protect their eggs after oviposition by either adhering them to the female’s back or placing them in a specialized dorsal pouch (thus the common name, marsupial frog). During mating, the male typically collects the eggs from the female with his feet—often one at a time and always out of water—fertilizes them, and then tucks them into the female’s pouch or attaches them to her back. In some species these eggs hatch as tadpoles, but most emerge as miniatures of the adults. Even among the tadpoles there is remarkable divergence, with some behaving in the typical manner (feeding and metamorphosing), whereas others forego all feeding until they metamorphose. In Marsupial Frogs, William E. Duellman’s synthesis of all that is known about the unique family Hemiphractidae is largely based on decades of his own careful laboratory and field study. He reveals the diversity of exotic color patterns and the frogs' geographic distributions by providing more than 200 photographs, illustrations, and maps. This exceptional tome should find its way into the libraries of serious herpetologists, tropical biologists, and developmental biologists. Included in this book are • A molecular phylogeny of the family Hemiphractidae • A thorough osteological analysis • A review of external morphological features • An overview of the evolution of reproductive modes • A biogeographic synthesis • Keys to genera and species • Diagnosis and thorough description of each species of marsupial frog • Colored physiographic maps depicting species distributions

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JHU Press

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142141676X

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Victory Without Peace

The United States Navy in European Waters, 1919-1924

By: William N Still

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Victory Without Peace

The United States Navy in European Waters, 1919-1924

By: William N Still

Victory Without Peace concentrates on the U.S. Navy in European and Near Eastern waters during the post-World War I era. As participants in the Versailles peace negotiations, the Navy was charged with executing the naval terms of the Armistice as well as preserving stability and peace. U.S. warships were deploying into the Near East, Baltic, Adriatic, and Northern Europe, while simultaneously withdrawing its demobilized forces from European waters. This signifies the first time the U.S. Navy contributed to peacetime efforts, setting a precedent continues today. Conversely, Congressional appropriations handicapped this deployment by demobilization, general naval policy and postwar personnel, and operating funds reductions. Though reluctant to allocate postwar assets into seemingly unimportant European and Near Eastern waters, the Navy was pressured by the State Department and the American Relief Administration's leader, Herbert Hoover, to deploy necessary forces. Most of these were withdrawn by 1924 and the European Station assumed the traditional policy of showing the flag.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682470156

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9781682470152

Literary Life of James K. Paulding

By: William I. Paulding

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Literary Life of James K. Paulding

By: William I. Paulding

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752564342

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Computer Performance Evaluation. Modelling Techniques and Tools

13th International Conference, TOOLS 2003, Urbana, IL, USA, September 2-5, 2003, Proceedings

By: Peter Kemper

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Computer Performance Evaluation. Modelling Techniques and Tools

13th International Conference, TOOLS 2003, Urbana, IL, USA, September 2-5, 2003, Proceedings

By: Peter Kemper

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation, TOOLS 2003, held in Urbana, IL, USA, in September 2003. The 17 revised full papers presented together with a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on tools for measuring, benchmarking, and online control; tools for evaluation of stochastic models; queueing models; Markovian arrival processes and phase-type distributions; and supporting model-based design of systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540408142

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9783540408147

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine E-Book

Expert Consult - Online and Print

By: Meir H. Kryger,Thomas Roth,William C. Dement

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Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine E-Book

Expert Consult - Online and Print

By: Meir H. Kryger,Thomas Roth,William C. Dement

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 5th Edition, by Meir H. Kryger, MD, FRCPC, Thomas Roth, PhD, and William C. Dement, MD, PhD, delivers the comprehensive, dependable guidance you need to effectively diagnose and manage even the most challenging sleep disorders. Updates to genetics and circadian rhythms, occupational health, sleep in older people, memory and sleep, physical examination of the patient, comorbid insomnias, and much more keep you current on the newest areas of the field. A greater emphasis on evidence-based approaches helps you make the most well-informed clinical decisions. And, a new more user-friendly, full-color format, both in print and online, lets you find the answers you need more quickly and easily. Whether you are preparing for the new sleep medicine fellowship examination, or simply want to offer your patients today's best care, this is the one resource to use! - Make optimal use of the newest scientific discoveries and clinical approaches that are advancing the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders. - Stay on top of the hottest topics in sleep medicine with 56 new chapters, including: - Postpartum Sleep Disturbances - Fatigue Risk Management - What does Brain Imaging Reveal about Sleep Genesis and Maintenance? - Physician Examination of the Sleep Patient - Forensic Sleep Medicine - Pathophysiology and Models of Insomnia - Treatment of Insomnia: Developing Treatment Guidelines - Restrictive Lung Disorders - Sleep Medicine in the Elderly: Obstructive - Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Metabolic, and Renal Disorders - Sleep Apnea, Obesity and Bariatric Surgery - Sleep and Renal Disease - Theories of Dreaming - Why We Dream - Sleep, Stress, and Burnout - Evaluating Sleep EEG and Sleep Stage Scoring - And more - Master the newest areas in the field with 5 new sections covering: - Sleep Mechanisms and Phylogeny - Genetics of Sleep - Physiology in Sleep - Occupational Sleep Medicine - Sleep Medicine in the Elderly - Access the complete contents online, fully searchable, and follow links to abstracts for most bibliographical references. - Apply evidence-based approaches wherever available. - Find answers more easily thanks to a new user-friendly, full-color format.

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1437727735

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9781437727739

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The Origins of the Grand Alliance

The Origins of the Grand Alliance

Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945

Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945

Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine

Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine

Marsupial Frogs

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Victory Without Peace

Victory Without Peace

Literary Life of James K. Paulding

Literary Life of James K. Paulding

Computer Performance Evaluation. Modelling Techniques and Tools

Computer Performance Evaluation. Modelling Techniques and Tools

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine E-Book

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine E-Book

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