Wyniki wyszukiwania:

Reviews of the first edition

"Allinson promises a comprehensive synthesis. . . that integrates analysis of political, economic and social topics. . . . This book deserves a prominent place on any reading list in modern Japanese studies . . . and could well prove indispensable for teaching about Japan." English Historical Review

"A solid achievement in the study of postwar Japan. . . . A lucid analyses of the very complex workings of economic and political institutions and the broadest features of social change across six decades from the 1930s to the...

This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson's thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an "accident," demonstrate how concepts rule our lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, and from places as diverse as the USA, UK and New Zealand provide ample supporting evidence for the...

This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson's thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an "accident," demonstrate how concepts rule our lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, and from places as diverse as the USA, UK and New Zealand provide ample supporting evidence for the...

When Adelina is caught in the most compromising of positions, she is soon sent to a convent school for wayward adolescents in far off France.

The first part of this gem describes our female protagonist's first tastes of lust as she embarks on a torrid and forbidden love affair with her tutor. Their gradual draw to one another is wonderfully erotic, each attempting to hold back but unable to do so. The old monk, eager not to spoil Adelina's virginity, introduces her to all those forbidden pleasures that one of his proclivity are want to practice.

The next part of the book is presented...

Michelet brilliantly recreates the Europe of the Middle Ages, the centuries of fierce religious intolerance, the Inquisition and the auto-da-fe.

He depicts the feudal barons, the great manors, the fiefs and serfs... and the witches, hobgoblins and wizards of whom the masses lived in mortal fear.

Michelet draws flaming word pictures of the witch hunts, the Black Masses, the...

Fantomas having just escaped into the sewers of Paris, Juve and Fandor find themselves with few clues to go on until the great detective is approached by a Committee of Insurance Companies against Theft with a mission—to protect a secret document which details the precise location of the jewels of Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III. Knowing Fantomas will try to steal this priceless treasure map, Juve sets a trap for the Arch-Criminal in the pleasure resorts of the Parisian suburbs in this, the thirty-fourth book of the series.