Product Description: This volume examines aspects of international relations in East Asia from 1895 to the present with particular reference to the role of Japan: the principal theme pursues the antecedents, nature, and consequences of the Pacific war (1941-5)...read more

A popular motivational speaker reveals how some of the happiest people in the world enjoy 'spiritual abundance,' drawing on scientific studies and personal interviews to counsel readers on how to overcome personal stumbling blocks in order to achieve desired goals. 100,000 first printing.

Product Description: This book presents a reading of T. S. Eliot's poetry, prose, criticism, and drama, with particular reference to the nature of his response to the influence of Percy Shelley in his own work. Not just a book on literary criticism, this book is also an insightful study of Eliot's spiritual life...read more

Product Description: This is a comprehensive work concerning the basic principles of plate theory and its methodology, in which the author includes both plastic and elastic responses in his discussion. The reader is taken from relatively elementary aspects of the topic right through to the most recent research findings...read more

Product Description: This volume reassesses the origins, nature, and aftermath of the war which was fought in the Korean peninsula between 1950 and 1953. Attention is focused particularly on the extraordinary first year of the war, which witnessed profound variations in the fortune of both sides...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The conflict in Vietnam continues to attract enormous attention as one of the most divisive and traumatic events of the post-1945 period. For too long the issues have tended to revolve almost exclusively around American culpability, and this book is an attempt, using a wide range of contributors, to explain the wider meaning and effects of the Vietnam conflict...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The impressive Second Edition of this standard study incorporates important new evidence on the origins of the war from Chinese and Russian archives. It reveals that Stalin encouraged the attack on South Korea, but also confirms that the original initiative came from North Korea...read more

Product Description: Based on extensive research in British and American records, "Containing the Cold War in East Asia" is a thorough consideration of British policies towards Japan, China and Korea between 1948 and 1953. Peter Lowe examines the last stages of the allied occupation of Japan including the negotiation of a peace treaty, the effects of the Chinese Communist victory in 1949 and the origins and impact of the Korean War...read more

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