A highly illustrated study of the battle of the Java Sea, a key Japanese victory in their advance throughout Southeast Asia.
The battle of the Java Sea, fought in February 1942, was the first major surface engagement of the Pacific War and one of the few naval battles of the entire war fought to a decisive victory. It was the culminating point of the Japanese drive to occupy the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) and, to defend the territory, the Allies assembled a striking force comprised of Dutch, American, British, and even an Australian ship, all under the command of a resolute Dutch admiral. On February 27, 1942, the Allied striking force set course to intercept the Japanese invasion force in the Java Sea. In one of the few such times during the whole of World War II a protracted surface engagement was fought unmolested by airpower. For over seven hours, the Allied force attempted to attack the Japanese invasion force, finally breaking off in the early evening. Some three hours later, the Allied force, now reduced to just four remaining cruisers and two destroyers, attempted another attack on the invasion convoy during which Japanese torpedoes scored heavily, sinking two Dutch cruisers and bringing the battle to a conclusion. Over the next two days, as the Allies attempted to flee, five more ships were sunk. From that point on, Allied naval power was eliminated from Southeast Asia. In this illustrated title, Mark Stille tells the full story of the battle of the Java Sea, explaining how and why the Japanese achieved such a resounding victory, and delving into the tremendous impact of the battle on the course of the Pacific War.
Автор: Matt Coyle Название: Last Redemption ISBN: 1608094243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781608094240 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 6004.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides the skills necessary to teach courses for classroom and online courses. Information is provided in a practical and accessible way and includes best practices for setting up a syllabus and curriculum, test item writing, grading, mentoring students, and personal advancement as a faculty member.
Описание: Questfor Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by RaresPiloiu fills animportant gap in Roth scholarship, placing Roth’s major works of fiction forthe first time in the context of a generational interest in religious redemptionamong the Jewish intellectuals of Central Europe. In it, Piloiu argues that Roth’schallenging, often contradictory and ambivalent literary output is the resultof an attempt to recast moral, political, and historical realities of anempirically observable world in a new, religiously transfigured reality throughthe medium of literature. This diegetic recasting of phenomenologicalencounters with the real is an expression of Roth’s belief that, since the selfand the world are in a continuing state of crisis, issuing from theirseparation in modernity, a restoration of their unity is necessary to redeemthe historical existence of individuals and communities alike. Piloiu notes,however, that Roth’s enterprise in this is not unique to his work, but ratheris shared by an entire generation of Central European Jewish intellectuals.This generation, disillusioned by modernity’s excessive secularism, rationalism,and nationalism, sought a radical solution in the revival of mystical religious traditions above all, in the Judaic idea of messianic redemption. Their use ofthe Chasidic notion of redemption was highly original in that it striped thenotion of its cathected theological content and applied it thus denuded tosecular experience of reality. As a result, Roth’s Quest for Redemption is a quest for a salvation of the individualnot outside, but within, history.
Автор: Brown Liane I. Название: Refuge & From Fear to Freedom: 2 books in 1 ISBN: 1683147464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781683147466 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If we could not measure then we could not observe the world around us we could not experiment, learn, and co-operate. But why did this urge to measure flourish? And when did measurement become ubiquitous?It is an incredible story that spans hunter-gatherer societies to ancient Egyptians, the French Revolution to the relentless quantification of the twenty-first century self. It is a tale that tracks humanitys search for dependable truths in a chaotic universe. Full of mavericks and visionaries, adventure and
Автор: Zane Walker Название: Redemption: The Death of Cyber Crime ISBN: 1667802194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781667802190 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago`s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly in the heart of our national identity.
Описание: Originally published in 1990, this book focuses on the challenge to Jewish identity posed by the conflicting forces of enlightenment, emancipation, modern political antisemitism, and secular ideologies like Zionism, nationalism, and socialism.
Описание: For most of the population of Europe and East and Southeast Asia, the most persistent and significant aspect of their experience of the Second World War was that of occupation by one or more of the Axis powers. In this ambitious and wide-ranging study, Aviel Roshwald brings us the first single-authored, comparative treatment of European and Asian responses to German and Japanese occupation during the war. He illustrates how patriotic, ethno-national, and internationalist identities were manipulated, exploited, reconstructed and reinvented as a result of the wholesale dismantling of states and redrawing of borders. Using eleven case studies from across the two continents, he examines how behavioral choices around collaboration and resistance were conditioned by existing identities or loyalties as well as by short-term cost–benefit calculations, opportunism, or coercion.
Автор: Morgan Laura Название: Redemption at Dead Man`s Hole, 1 ISBN: 1098359267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098359263 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Set in a remote community on a majestic and rugged island in Southeast Alaska, Rogan Chaffey and his family are thrust into a heartbreaking situation when the family's eldest son, Rogan's older brother, is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Fast forward a few years, and Rogan is a young man who loves adventure, loves his family, and tries to live how God wants him to live, all the while wrestling with the universal question of why God let this terrible thing happen when He is supposed to be a good and loving God. Rogan feels a need to step in and fill his brother's place, putting immense pressure on himself, like taking responsibility for his two younger sisters, keeping them safe when they encounter an angry bear at Thunder Falls. Everyday life in Alaska is an adventure and is experienced by the reader. Routine life in the Chaffey house on the frontier is anything but usual. Travel is often by boat, trips to the grocery store take them to thick forests, swirling ocean currents, or wild huckleberry hillsides. For a youth beginning his ninth-grade school year, life is truly a daily adventure. He must also learn to deal with a bully, Nico Vega. Rogan and his humorous best friend, nicknamed Runt, share many adventures that strengthen character and hone leadership and integrity while they struggle with greater questions about life and family. A deer hunting trip is successful but fraught with challenges, as well as danger from Crazy Hoffman, a reclusive neighbor. Mr. Chaffey takes Rogan and Runt out on the ocean to halibut fish. On the way, they make a stop at Cemetery Island to explore. Going home, the motor breaks down, putting them in danger from the elements and wildlife. Rogan and his group of close friends have fun adventures on their camping trip to Half Moon Beach. They discuss the legendary Dead Man's Hole, which perilously takes them to a location of danger and possible disaster. There is a local legend of a young man who attempted to jump Dead Man's Hole with fatal results. The town's youth, however, aren't sure if it is a myth or an actual event until Rogan is confronted with the answer in an up-close and personal way. Join Rogan and his friends as they live and survive in the Alaskan wilderness.
Between Redemption and Doom is a revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in literature, theory, and film, Noah Isenberg investigates the ways in which Jewish identity was represented in German culture from the eve of the First World War through the rise of National Socialism. He argues that various responses to modernity—particularly to its social, cultural, and aesthetic currents—converge around the discourse on community: its renaissance, its crisis, and its dissolution.
Isenberg opens with a general discussion of German modernism—its primary forms, movements, and manifestations. Subsequent chapters on Franz Kafka and Arnold Zweig deal with particular instances of the modern, and often ambivalent, search for forms of German-Jewish identity based on cultural and ethnic community. Discussions of Paul Wegener’s film Der Golem and Walter Benjamin’s childhood memoirs explore the culmination of German modernism and the modes through which Jews were identified in mass society. Throughout, Isenberg shows how Jewish authors and figures confronted the dilemma of self-understanding—the exigencies of community in the modern world—in language, culture, memory, and representation.
Описание: Thinking in Translation posits the Hebrew Bible as the fulcrum of the thought of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), underpinning a unique synthesis between systematic thinking and biblical interpretation. Addressing a lacuna in Rosenzweig scholarship, the book offers a critical evaluation of his engagement with the Bible through a comparative study of The Star of Redemption and his Bible translation with Martin Buber. The book opens with Rosenzweig's rejection of German Idealism and fascination with the sources of Judaism. It then analyzes the unique hermeneutic approach he developed to philosophy and scripture as a symbiosis of critique and cross-fertilization, facilitated by translation. An analysis of the Star exposes Rosenzweig's employment of translation in grafting biblical verses unto the philosophical discussion. It is followed by a reading that demonstrates how his Bible translation reflects an attempt to re-valorize the Tanakh as a distinctively Jewish scripture, over and against Christian appropriations. Thinking in Translation recasts Rosenzweig's life's work as a project of melding Judaism and modernity in an attempt to secure their spiritual and intellectual survival.
Описание: Closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has. This narrative centers on the 7th Armored Division for the entire length of the campaign, in so doing reconsidering the story of the whole battle through the lens of a single division.
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