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Product Description: In times of rising expectations and decreasing resources for the public sector, performance management is high on the agenda. Increasingly, the value of the performance management systems themselves is under scrutiny, with more attention being paid to the effectiveness of performance management in practice...read more
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9780415738095 | 2 edition (Routledge, February 24, 2015), cover price $160.00 | also contains Performance Management in the Public Sector | About this edition: In times of rising expectations and decreasing resources for the public sector, performance management is high on the agenda.
Paperback:
9780415738101 | 2 edition (Routledge, February 13, 2015), cover price $65.95 | also contains Performance Management in the Public Sector | About this edition: In times of rising expectations and decreasing resources for the public sector, performance management is high on the agenda.
A new look at how Britainâs defence establishment learned to engage Japanâs armed forces as the Pacific War progressed. Douglas Ford reveals that, prior to Japanâs invasion of Southeast Asia in December 1941, the British held a contemptuous view of Japanese military prowess. He shows that the situation was not helped by the high level of secrecy which surrounded Japanâs war planning, as well as the absence of prior engagements with the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army. The fall of âFortress Singaporeâ in February 1942 dispelled the notion that the Japanese were incapable of challenging the West. British military officials acknowledged how their forces in the Far East were inadequate, and made a concerted effort to improve their strength and efficiency. However, because Britainâs forces were tied down in their operations in Europe, North Africa and the Mediterranean, they had to fight the Japanese with limited resources. Drawing upon the lessons obtained through Allied experiences in the Pacific theatres as well as their own encounters in Southeast Asia, the British used the available intelligence on the strategy, tactics and morale of Japanâs armed forces to make the best use of what they had, and by the closing stages of the war in 1944 to 1945, they were able to devise a war plan which paved the way for the successful war effort. This book will be of great interest to all students of the Second World War, intelligence studies, British military history and strategic studies in general.
Hardcover:
9780415358460 | Routledge, September 18, 2006, cover price $168.00
Paperback:
9780415514101 | Reprint edition (Routledge, November 15, 2011), cover price $54.95
Miscellaneous:
9780203004654 | Routledge, August 30, 2006, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: A new look at how Britainâs defence establishment learned to engage Japanâs armed forces as the Pacific War progressed.
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9780956207975 | Gardners Books, April 19, 2012, cover price $16.85
Hardcover:
9781847252371, titled "The Pacific War: Clash of Empires in World War II" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 23, 2012, cover price $29.95
9780197100608, titled "From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio De Castro" | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $86.00 | also contains From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio De Castro
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9781409772859 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2008, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
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9780877548836 | Chelsea House Pub, August 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Pacific Islanders, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America
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