James Scott
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Language
English
Description
Using extensive research in the United States and the Philippines, including war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, the author recounts the battles in Manila, Philippines during World War II, discussing the atrocities committed by the Japanese forces as they tried to retain command of the city.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
""Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. James Scott deftly employs sharply etched portraits of individuals of all stations and nationalities to survey the global, technological, and moral backdrop of the cataclysm, including the searing experiences of Japanese trapped in a gigantic firestorm. This riveting account illuminates an historical...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
James C. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His books include Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed; Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts; and most recently, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. He is a fellow of the American Academy...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
The "story of the submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying the nation's economy. Focusing on the unique stories of three of the wars top submarines--Silversides, Drum, and Tang--[the author] takes readers beneath the waves to experience the determination, heroism, and tragedy that defined the submarine service"--Dust jacket flap.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states,...
14) Ladyhoppers
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes to save the world, you've got to punch a few dragons... When the planet is being eaten by interdimensional parasites who literally tear holes in reality, what do you do? If you're Charlie Chase, you dive headfirst into an interdimensional adventure. Charlie knows her calling is a weighty one, but she trusts her mentor' s orders: Travel to another dimension, fix the tear, and get home to do it all over again. But when she gets stuck on an...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"N . T. Wright is well known for his view that the majority of Second Temple Jews saw themselves as living within an ongoing exile. This book engages a lively conversation with this idea, beginning with a lengthy thesis from Wright, responses from elevenNew Testament scholars, and a concluding essay from Wright responding to his interlocutors"
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