Authors:Gordon Williamson,  Stephen Andrew,
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: divisions, waffen, men
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1841765899
ISBN-13: 9781841765891

Despite being disdained by the German Army?s professional officer corps, the military branch of the Nazi SS security organisation grew from an initial strength of only a handful of battalions at the outbreak of war in 1939 to hundreds of thousands of troops in dozens of divisions. The battlefield reputation of the premier armoured and mechanised divisions would become second to none; lavishly equipped and regarded as utterly reliable, they were thrown into many desperate battles on both Western and Eastern fronts, often achieving remarkable results. Illustrated with rare photographs, this firs

Authors:Andrew Carnegie,  Gordon Hutner,
Publisher: Signet Classic
Keywords: signet, classics, wealth, gospel, andrew, carnegie, autobiography
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-11-07
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0451530381
ISBN-13: 9780451530387

Here is the enlightening memoir of the industrialist as famous for his philanthropy as for his fortune.

Authors:Eacute;va Fodor,  Andrew Gordon, Daniel Jame,
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: working, comparative, international, class, history, ndash, hungary, difference, women, rsquo, lives, austria
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0822330903
ISBN-13: 9780822330905

Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women’s professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women’s inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of the twentieth century. Until the end of World War II women’s lives in the two countries, which were once part of the same empire, followed similar paths, which only began to diverge after the communist takeover in Hungary in the late 1940s. Fodor takes advantage of Austria and Hung

Authors:Chris Cook,  Andrew Powell, Andrew Simm,
Publisher: RCPsych Publicatio
Keywords: psychiatry, spirituality
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1904671713
ISBN-13: 9781904671718

Spirituality is a crucial but sometimes overlooked aspect of mental well-being.Explores the nature of spirituality, its relationship to religion, and the reasons for its importance in psychiatric clinical practice.A comprehensive and evidence-based text.Different chapters focus on the key sub-specialities of psychiatry.Contains references to up to date research and a review of the relevant academic literature. Contributors include renowned psychiatrists, four Reverends and a service user. Table Of ContentsForeword Preface Spirituality and Psychiatry SIG of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Sp

Author: Andrew Gordon
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: history, japan, postwar
Number of Pages: 563
Published: 1993-10-20
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0520074750
ISBN-13: 9780520074750

Japan’s catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe an ongoing historical process marked by unexpected changes, such as Japan’s extraordinary economic growth, and unanticipated continuities, such as the endurance of conservative rule. A provocative set of interpretative essays by eminent scholars, this book will appeal to anyone int

Author: Andrew Gordon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: times, present, tokugawa, japan, history, modern
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-11-14
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0195339223
ISBN-13: 9780195339222

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Second Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation’s first experiments with mass democracy after World War I. Author Andrew Gordon offers the finest synthesis to date of Japan̵

Author: Andrew Gordon
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: japan, emergence, world, power, century, twentieth, democracy, prewar, labor, imperial
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1992-11-04
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520080912
ISBN-13: 9780520080911

Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan’s prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can best be understood as part of an early twentieth-century movement for "imperial democracy" shaped by the nineteenth-century drive to promote capitalism and build a modern nation and empire. When the propertied, educated leaders of this movement gained a share of power in