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Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific War explores the
expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and
women who served in the wartime Pacific. Viewing the South Pacific
through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas, Americans and their
Allies expected to find glamorous women who resembled the famous
'sarong girl, ' Dorothy Lamour. But Dorothy was nowhere to be seen.
Despite those disappointments popular images proved resilient, and
at war's end the 'old' South Seas re-emerged almost unscathed.
Based on extensive archival research, Hollywood's South Seas and
the Pacific War explores the intersections between military
experiences and cultural history.
This book provides detailed coverage of the theory and practice of
vehicle cornering and handling. Much of the material in this book
is not available elsewhere, including unique information on
suspension analysis, understeer/oversteer, bump steer and roll
steer, roll centers, limit handling, and aerodynamics. Each chapter
ends with a wide selection of problems, providing an ideal review.
This book is an excellent resource for vehicle designers and
engineering students who want to better understand and analyze the
numerous factors affecting vehicle handling.
This book, first published in 1992, contains the proceedings of the
22nd Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, and highlights the
quantity and diversity of periglacial geomorphic research being
undertaken in Arctic and alpine environments. The articles explore
a variety of geomorphic processes and examine the potential impacts
of global change on the nature and extent of permafrost and
seasonal ice phenomena.
This book, first published in 1992, contains the proceedings of the
22nd Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, and highlights the
quantity and diversity of periglacial geomorphic research being
undertaken in Arctic and alpine environments. The articles explore
a variety of geomorphic processes and examine the potential impacts
of global change on the nature and extent of permafrost and
seasonal ice phenomena.
Weiss, Gal, Dixon, and their contributors provide the first
large-scale cross-national and cross-cultural examination of the
views and the perceptions of social workers through this analysis
of graduating social worker students on the threshold of their
careers in social work. They identify and analyze the graduating
social work students' attitudes towards the sources of social
distress, the preferred ways to deal with social problems, the
goals of social work, and their professional preferences with
regard to client groups, types of professional activity, and place
of work. Since first being practiced more than a century ago,
social work has become an international profession and is today an
integral part of the social services in many different countries.
However, as Weiss, Gal, Dixon, and their contributors make clear,
there is a distinct lack of ideological consensus over the goals,
tasks, desired technologies, major client groups, the preferred
sector in which to operate, and a variety of other issues.
Throughout its history, social work has undergone a constant
process of change; nonetheless, despite the existence of a common
professional core, social work is quite clearly socially
constructed and takes very different forms in the various national
settings throughout the world. This book provides the first
large-scale cross-national and cross-cultural examination of the
views and perceptions of social workers through an analysis of
graduating social worker students at the threshold of their careers
in social work. The country chapters identify and analyze the
graduating social work students' attitudes towards the sources of
social distress, the preferred ways to deal with social problems,
the goals of social work, and their professional preferences with
regard to client groups, types of professional activity, and place
of work. Experts on social work provide analyses on Australia,
Brazil, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, the United
Kingdom, the United States, and Zimbabawe.
Amplified climate change and ecological sensitivity of polar and
cold climate environments are key global environment issues.
Understanding how projected climate change will alter surface
environments in these regions is only possible when present day
source-to-sink fluxes can be quantified. The book provides the
first global synthesis and integrated analysis of environmental
drivers and quantitative rates of solute and sedimentary fluxes in
cold environments, and the likely impact of projected climate
change. The focus on largely undisturbed cold environments allows
ongoing climate change effects to be detected and, moreover,
distinguished from anthropogenic impacts. A novel approach for
co-ordinated and integrative process geomorphic research is
introduced to enable better comparison between studies. This highly
topical and multidisciplinary book, which includes case studies
covering Arctic, Antarctic, and alpine environments, will be of
interest to graduate students and researchers in the fields of
geomorphology, sedimentology and global environmental change.
Contesting the Reformation provides a comprehensive survey of the
most influential works in the field of Reformation studies from a
comparative, cross-national, interdisciplinary perspective. *
Represents the only English-language single-authored synthetic
study of Reformation historiography * Addresses both the English
and the Continental debates on Reformation history * Provides a
thematic approach which takes in the main trends in modern
Reformation history * Draws on the most recent publications
relating to Reformation studies * Considers the social, political,
cultural, and intellectual implications of the Reformation and the
associated literature
This book provides key essays on the most recent interpretations of
the German Reformation movement. Rather than viewing the religious
developments of the sixteenth century in isolation, modern
historiography tends to picture the Reformation as an event which
reached into all corners of society and slowly worked to transform
the course of European history. This collection comprises essays
written by the scholars who have helped bring about this shift in
understanding and includes articles translated into English for the
first time.
The book illustrates how the movement was bound and shaped by
the society in which it was broadcast, how the reformers interacted
with the trends and tensions of the period, as well as how the
forces of religious change came to influence European culture and
society over the long term.
This book provides key essays on the most recent interpretations of
the German Reformation movement. Rather than viewing the religious
developments of the sixteenth century in isolation, modern
historiography tends to picture the Reformation as an event which
reached into all corners of society and slowly worked to transform
the course of European history. This collection comprises essays
written by the scholars who have helped bring about this shift in
understanding and includes articles translated into English for the
first time.
The book illustrates how the movement was bound and shaped by
the society in which it was broadcast, how the reformers interacted
with the trends and tensions of the period, as well as how the
forces of religious change came to influence European culture and
society over the long term.
Protestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania, 1517-1740
presents a comprehensive thematic history of the rise and influence
of the branches of Christianity that emerged out of the Protestant
Reformation. * Represents the only English language single-volume
survey of the rise of early modern Protestantism from its Lutheran
beginnings in Germany to its spread to America * Offers a thematic
approach to Protestantism by tracing its development within the
social, political, and cultural context of early modern Europe *
Introduces innovative argument that the central dynamic of
Protestantism was not its struggle with Catholicism but its own
inner dynamic * Breaks from traditional scholarship by arguing that
the rise of Reformation Protestantism lasted at least two centuries
* Unites Old World and New World Protestant histories
This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of
Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and
viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South
Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the
intersections between military experiences and cultural history.
The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe provides a
comprehensive survey of the Protestant clergy in Europe during the
confessional age. Eight contributions, written by historians with
specialist research knowledge in the field, offer the reader a
wide-ranging synthesis of the main concerns of current
historiography. Themes include the origins and the evolution of the
Protestant clergy during the age of Reformation, the role and
function of the clergy in the context of early modern history, and
the contribution of the clergy to the developments of the age (the
making of confessions, education, the reform of culture, social and
political thought).
Heat pipes today find many applications, in areas such as
electronics cooling, diecasting and injection moulding, heat
recovery and energy conservation, de-icing, and manufacturing
process temperature control.
"Heat Pipe Technology: Theory, Applications and Prospects"
contains the proceedings of an important international gathering of
those at the cutting edge of research in the field, with
representatives of more than 20 countries. In addition to the
finest technical papers, a particularly valuable feature is the
inclusion of a series of regional surveys portraying the latest
developments worldwide.
The inherent characteristics of heat pipes (passiveness, absence
of moving parts, high thermal efficiency) suggest for them an
increasingly major role in the evolution of new thermal engineering
systems in the years ahead. This volume will undoubtedly be an
important resource for researchers worldwide in heat pipe
technology.
The choice of topic for the Ninth Military History Symposium was
based on the observation that comparatively little serious
historical research has been done on America's military involvement
in East and Southeast Asia. This seems surprising, since the U.S.
has fought for both Americans and Asians. Consequently, lessons of
the American involvement in Asian affairs have seldom been
considered reverent or important, at least when compared to
American preoccupation with European concerns. This dearth of
scholarly interest and paucity of understanding led naturally to
the conclusion that American military involvement in the "Far East"
would be a timely and useful symposium topic.
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