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  • Operational Risk Management in Container Terminals

    by Eric Su, Edward Tang, Kin Keung Lai, Yan Pui Lee ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Risk Management
    This book provides an overview of the operation of container terminals and the associated risks with such operations. These risks are often ignored or not properly investigated by both scholars and practitioners.Operational Risk Management in Container Terminals explores and discusses the decision rationales and the consequences for these operational risks handling process, with in-depth ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • From Confinement to Containment

    Japanese/American Arts during the Early Cold War

    by Edward Tang ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    During the early part of the Cold War, Japan emerged as a model ally, and Japanese Americans were seen as a model minority. From Confinement to Containment examines the work of four Japanese and Japanese/American artists and writers during this period: the novelist Hanama Tasaki, the actor Yamaguchi Yoshiko, the painter Henry Sugimoto, and the children’s author Yoshiko Uchida. The backgrounds of ... Read more

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  • Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

    Japan in the Wake of World War II

    by John W. Dower ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • War without Mercy

    Race and Power in the Pacific War (NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER)

    by John Dower ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.”In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • History of Modern Japan

    In Search of a Nation: 1850 to the Present

    by Christopher Harding ...
    "Lucid and lyrical…a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization." —The Daily TelegraphIn A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the untold stories of Japan's recent history—from a pop star's nuclear power protest song in 2011, to Japanese feminists who fought for an equal political voice in the 1890s.Though highly successful, and ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering

    Japan in the Modern World

    by John W. Dower ...
    "A series of astute academic essays on the forging of postwar Japan" from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Bancroft Prize ( Kirkus Reviews).Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship between the United States and Japan since the end of World War II. In this provocative and probing series of ... Read more

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  • Radicals for Capitalism

    A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

    by Brian Doherty ...
    On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism -- the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat -- has become an extremely influential strain of thought. But while many books talk about libertarian ideas, none until now has explored the history of this uniquely ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Color of Success

    Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

    by Ellen D. Wu ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Serve the People

    Making Asian America in the Long Sixties

    by Karen L. Ishizuka ...
    A narrative history of the movement that turned “Orientals” into Asian AmericansUntil the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as “Orientals.” Serve the People tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit these disparate communities into a political ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Modern Girl Around the World

    Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization

    Edited by Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Alys Eve Weinbaum, Alys Eve The Modern Girl around the World Research Group, Madeleine Yue Dong, Tani Barlow ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire and in hot pursuit of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Japan

    A Reinterpretation

    by Patrick Smith ...
    The Japanese are in the process of re-creating themselves--an endeavor they have undertaken at intervals throughout history, always prompted by a combination of domestic and global forces. In this landmark book, Patrick Smith asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence, the Cold War's end, and the death of Emperor Hirohito--are now spurring Japan once again toward a ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature

    by John Whittier Treat ...
    The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works, the non-literary as well as the literary, and pays special attention to the Japanese state's hand in shaping literature throughout the country's ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus