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Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1926
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Library Notes

Library Notes
Author: North Carolina College for Women. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 884
Release: 1922
Genre: Catalogs, Classified
ISBN:

Homecomings

Homecomings
Author: Yoshikuni Igarashi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 023154135X

Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas returned home. Heeding the call to rebuild, these veterans helped remake Japan and enjoyed popularized accounts of their service. For those who took longer to be repatriated, such as the POWs detained in labor camps in Siberia and the fighters who spent years hiding in the jungles of islands in the South Pacific, returning home was more difficult. Their nation had moved on without them and resented the reminder of a humiliating, traumatizing defeat. Homecomings tells the story of these late-returning Japanese soldiers and their struggle to adapt to a newly peaceful and prosperous society. Some were more successful than others, but they all charted a common cultural terrain, one profoundly shaped by media representations of the earlier returnees. Japan had come to redefine its nationhood through these popular images. Yoshikuni Igarashi explores what Japanese society accepted and rejected, complicating the definition of a postwar consensus and prolonging the experience of war for both Japanese soldiers and the nation. He throws the postwar narrative of Japan's recovery into question, exposing the deeper, subtler damage done to a country that only belatedly faced the implications of its loss.

The Business Year: Oman 2020

The Business Year: Oman 2020
Author: Peter Howson
Publisher: The Business Year
Total Pages: 260
Release:
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1912498561

When the experienced TBY team landed in Muscat in September 2019 to start its seventh annual research on the Sultanate's economy, it could have never imagined the uniqueness of the times ahead. Early 2020 saw the passing away of the Father of the Nation, His Majesty Late Sultan Qaboos bin Said, and the appointment of the new leader, His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tariq. This was thought to be Oman's defining event in 2020, but shortly after, the COVID-19 outbreak touched every corner of the world, and oil prices continuously sunk to record lows. No doubt it is a trying time, but we see this 2020 edition of The Business Year: Oman as ushering a new era for the Sultanate. With a refreshed, forward-looking perspective, this 260-page publication analyzes how the business community is embracing innovation and technology to create a competitive, diversified economy.

The Department of State Bulletin

The Department of State Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1988
Genre: United States
ISBN:

The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1946
Release: 1958
Genre:
ISBN:

Around the World in 80 Ways

Around the World in 80 Ways
Author: Stephen Webb
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-03-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3031024400

Around the World in 80 Ways offers a (sometimes opinionated) discussion of 80 data-driven maps of our planet. Taken together, the maps tell a story about the physical world; about the impact our species is having on the world; and about how people live in the world – or at least how we lived immediately before the emergence of Covid-19. The maps lie. All maps lie. But the origins of the deceptions are explained, the data sources are signposted and referenced, and the readers are shown how to create their own maps using freely available software. The reader is thus armed with the tools needed to explore local, national or world data – on topics ranging from science to society; environment to entertainment; wealth to wellbeing – a valuable skill in an age when certain politicians are happy to refer to “alternative facts” and media outlets deliver data visualizations that sometimes mislead as much as inform.