By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers Lexington and Yorktown to counter the move, setting the stage for the Battle of the Coral Sea.
In Scratch One Flattop: The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea, historian Robert C. Stern analyzes the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first major fleet engagement where the warships were never in sight of each other. Unlike the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Coral Sea has received remarkably little study. Stern covers not only the action of the ships and their air groups but also describes the impact of this pivotal engagement. His analysis looks at the short-term impact as well as the long-term implications, including the installation of inert gas fuel-system purging on all American aircraft carriers and the push to integrate sensor systems with fighter direction to better protect against enemy aircraft.
The essential text on the first carrier air campaign, Scratch One Flattop is a landmark study on an overlooked battle in the first months of the United States' engagement in World War II.
Автор: Stein, Alexandra (department Of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University Of London) Название: Terror, love and brainwashing ISBN: 0367467712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367467715 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in totalitarian states, terrorist groups and cults, as well as in controlling personal relationships.
Автор: Halperin Название: One Hundred Years of Homosexuality ISBN: 1138140767 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138140769 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world. Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept of "Greek love."
Автор: Ogata Yoshiharu, Miyamoto Walters Melody M. Название: In Love and War: The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple ISBN: 0806148209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806148205 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2753.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The events of December 7, 1941, rocked the lives of people around the world. The bombing of Pearl Harbor had intimate repercussions, too, especially in the territory of Hawaii. In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody M. Miyamoto Walters's grandparents, two second-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, living in Hawaii. Their love story, narrated in letters they wrote each other from July 1941 to June 1943, offers a unique view of Hawaiian Nisei and the social and cultural history of territorial Hawaii during World War II. Drawing on her grandparents' letters, Miyamoto Walters fleshes out what it meant to live and work on the islands of Kauai, Oahu, and Hawaii during the war years. Although to outsiders, twenty-somethings Yoshiharu Ogata and Naoko Tsukiyama were both -Japs, - the couple came from different socioeconomic classes and cultures. Naoko, the author's grandmother, hailed from a prosperous Honolulu merchant family, whereas Yoshiharu grew up poor, part of the laboring class on a sugar plantation on Kauai. Their courtship was riddled with challenges. He stayed on Oahu, then moved to Kauai; she moved to the Big Island. Yoshiharu faced the possibility of being drafted into the military. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, they both lived under martial law. Some Americans, operating under nativist and xenophobic beliefs, questioned Japanese Americans' loyalty to the United States. But, as the letters collected here show, the Nisei were patriots. Naoko and Yoshiharu spoke English, participated in the YMCA and the USO, and taught in public schools. They embraced American popular culture--quoting lines of pop songs in their correspondence--and celebrated both Japanese and American traditions. Through their experiences, Miyamoto Walters shows how Japanese Americans' negotiation of race, ethnicity, and cultural space in wartime indelibly shaped Hawaii's postwar economic, political, and social landscape.
Автор: Kottman Paul A. Название: Love as Human Freedom ISBN: 1503602273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503602274 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3260.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the emergence of bourgeois family life, to the struggles for abortion rights and birth control and the erosion of a gender-based division of labor. Drawing on Hegel, Paul A. Kottman argues that love generates and explains expanded possibilities for freely lived lives. Through keen interpretations of the best known philosophical and literary depictions of its topic—including Shakespeare, Plato, Nietzsche, Ovid, Flaubert, and Tolstoy—his book treats love as a fundamental way that we humans make sense of temporal change, especially the inevitability of death and the propagation of life.
Автор: Paul A. Kottman Название: Love As Human Freedom ISBN: 0804776768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804776769 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the emergence of bourgeois family life, to the struggles for abortion rights and birth control and the erosion of a gender-based division of labor. Drawing on Hegel, Paul A. Kottman argues that love generates and explains expanded possibilities for freely lived lives. Through keen interpretations of the best known philosophical and literary depictions of its topic—including Shakespeare, Plato, Nietzsche, Ovid, Flaubert, and Tolstoy—his book treats love as a fundamental way that we humans make sense of temporal change, especially the inevitability of death and the propagation of life.
Описание: "Our togetherness will be a beacon of light for others; an example to emulate in their lives," she said. Her name is Promise, and she has asked Soupy to find her... because love is dying. Before she left, she gave him some advice: "Youre going to fail at finding me over and over again. This task Ive given you, its a numbers game, a game of volume. Only by accumulated experience will you eventually figure out who I am and where to find me. Its also a game of wisdom, because you must learn at least one thing from every person you meet." And she is right. When he thought about his neighborhood, his parents, his family, friends, practically every one had divorced or dealt with troubling relationships--no one had taught us about love. "We are meant to teach them," she said, and then she disappeared. Soupy has been given the first assignment of his lifes homework, and its a grammar test: to better understand himself. Theres no cheat sheet or notes for this homework, no map to the destination, no footprints to follow down a path...no path, actually, and no mentors to lean on. He has to make his own way, and its going to suck. But the reward is Promise. When he finds her he will have found success, and that success is nothing more and nothing less than True Love-two words for the greatest connection the world has ever known, and now needs more than ever. Along the way, Soupy Heller learns a lot about himself. In fact, he learns that his last name comes from an ancient ability for his ancestors to heal. As Grandma Heller once told him, "Our ability to heal doesnt come from a magical elixir or a pill of any color. Hellers carry only what can be found on or within their person: our ears, eyes, and experience." He learns that anything good in the world must be earned; thats why we havent seen true love in hundreds of years. Anything truly great must truly be earned, but the concept of earning has been lost. As children, we can get a movie, song, or a toy instantly. No longer must we save up the money or sit poised with one finger on "Play" and one finger on "Record" waiting impatiently for our favorite song on the radio. If were hungry, we have a multitude of options that can be retrieved or delivered at a whim. When we want attention or conversation, we can find it online, twenty-four hours a day. We make "friends" in minutes through any number of social networks. But these are just a collection of nouns. Without focusing on the connections between them, the verbs, we have little to show for our pile of persons, places, and things. And its in those connections that the Universe bares itself, and the fundamental elements of understanding ones self and ones "opportunity" in the world are revealed. Soupy fails a lot before Promise returns--fights and flights, guns and games, candles and catastrophes, diamonds and disasters, sex and sacrifice--but return she does, and thats when things really spin out of control.
Автор: Mccarthy, Conor Название: Love, sex & marriage in the middle ages ISBN: 0367706555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367706555 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5358.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This updated edition collects an extensive range of evidence for how people in the European Middle Ages thought about the emotional state of love, the physical act of sex and the social institution of marriage.
Автор: de Vries Hent, Schott Nils F. Название: Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World ISBN: 023117022X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231170222 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By reorienting our perception of these enduring phenomena, the contributors to this volume inspire new applications for love and forgiveness in an increasingly globalized and no longer quite secular world. By examining how we have used--and misused--these concepts, the authors advance a better understanding of their ability to unite different individuals and emerging groups around a shared engagement for freedom and equality, peace and solidarity.
Автор: Barker Chris Название: My Dear Bessie ISBN: 1782115676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782115670 Издательство: Canongate Рейтинг: Цена: 1484.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The wartime correspondence which first warmed people`s hearts in Simon Garfield`s To the Letter, now available in a single volume for readers to follow their wonderful and life-changing journey
Автор: Harris Название: Love and Romance in Britain, 1918 - 1970 ISBN: 1137328622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137328625 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The new histories of love and romance offered within this edited collection illustrate the many changes, but also the surprising continuities in understandings of love, romance, affection, intimacy and sex from the First World War until the beginning of the Women`s Liberation movement.
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