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In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military abandoned its original strategic plan to secure resources and establish a viable defensible perimeter that the Allies were able to regain the initiative and lock Japanese forces into a war of attrition they were not prepared to fight. The book per...

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New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies charts the areas of debate likely to be of relevance in the coming years. These questions are explored by examining an array of historical, philosophical and contemporary sources.

In recent decades it has become obvious that mathematics has always been a worldwide activity. But this is the first book to provide a substantial collection of English translations of key mathematical texts from the five most important ancient and medieval non-Western mathematical cultures, and to put them into full historical and mathematical context. The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam gives English readers a firs...

This book seeks to describe the rapid development in recent decades of sieve methods able to detect prime numbers. The subject began with Eratosthenes in antiquity, took on new shape with Legendre's form of the sieve, was substantially reworked by Ivan M. Vinogradov and Yuri V. Linnik, but came into its own with Robert C. Vaughan and important contributions from others, notably Roger Heath-Brown and Henryk Iwaniec. Prime-Detecting Sieves break...

This volume of original research contains specific policy reform proposals for promoting prosperity in West Virginia. The authors present the case for why state policy should focus more heavily on promoting long-run economic growth. The authors review the scientific evidence on which policies best promote growth and conclude that a policy climate consistent with capitalism, or 'economic freedom, ' is the best way to accomplish growth and highe...

A new weapon--a virus that moves from host to host until it locks onto the targeted victim's DNA--is in the hands of a man who has spent years collecting DNA from the American populace. He holds the heart of the world's only superpower in his hands--and it's time to start squeezing.

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A collection of tales of the supernatural, in which the patients of Dr Heselius are plagued by malignant apparitions and vampires, or are drugged into a state of living death.

The scope of Philosophy in Multiple Voices provides the reader with eight philosophical streams of thought-African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Asian-American, Feminist, Latin-American, Lesbian, Native-American and Queer-that introduce readers to alternative, complex philosophical questions concerning gendered, sexed, racial and ethnic identities, canon formation, and meta-philosophy. The overriding theme of the text is that philosophy is plurali...

Old Maude is a disfigured and much maligned and misunderstood Micmac medicine woman who lives in an abandoned gold mine in Nova Scotia in the 1940s. Several village children have an adventure which leads them to Maude and an eventual understanding of her healing powers.

A story of boys who went to school together from 1954 to 1971 at the Ateneo de Manila University. They are ADMU 198 (the sum of GS62, HS66, Coll70, and BSME71). Classmates who joined them for at least a year but graduated ahead, behind or not at all have also been included as part of ADMU 198. This is their composite autobiography, if there is such a genre. They contributed their respective recollections and impressions, and these were pooled ...

This book is a comprehensive guide to the Buteyko Method, written by the director of the Moscow Buteyko Clinic. With its rich and colourful illustrations, the book is the perfect do-it-yourself-resource for anybody, who seeks relief from their breathing-related problems. A must-read for all asthmatics!

From a relatively normal American life to a survival situation in moments, this story follows the Drummond family as they learn to adapt to a now, very different community...and world. Beginning on a bitter cold January night, the story begins with a series of earthquakes tearing through the Pacific Northwest....and in the following days the family--and the nation--face challenges from unexpected sources....

After a devastating break-up with her fiancé and the death of her mother, Teresa Parrish felt her life had ended. She quickly accepted a job as a forensic specialist for the CIA in order to escape her pain. For practically three years, she indulged herself into her work sacrificing all hopes of ever finding love again. Things seem to quickly change when she is introduced to Doctor Jake by her boss accidentally or so it appears. A week later he...

Behind the lead-lined doors of the Radiology Department of All Saints Hospital, most x-ray technologists toil to provide the best possible patient care and patient imaging. Most, that is, but not all. Coming from half a world away, Tesfaye Ababa feels every mile of it while he strives to fit in. But fitting in becomes secondary to just getting through a workday as a new x-ray tech. From impatient surgeons to hysterical patients, each day bring...