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Paperback. Condición: Fair.

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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. The format is approximately 8.625 inches by 12 inches. 255, [1] pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Index. Among the contributors are A. J. Barker, Ronald Heiferman, Ivan V. Hogg. John Grayson Kirk, William Koenig, and Antony Preston. Sydney L. Mayer was a British Publisher and historian. He was named to Chancellor's Court of Benefactors, University of Oxford, 1991; honorary fellow Oriel College, University of Oxford, 1993 and was a Fellow Royal Geography Society. Sydney L. Mayer was born on August 2, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He earned his Bachelor, University of Michigan, 1962; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1963; Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1986. He was a Lecturer in history, U. Maryland., London, England., 1966-1977; visiting assistant professor international relations, University of Southern California, London, 1969-1977; executive editor History of The Purnell's Second World War, First World War, British Printing Corporation, London, 1968-1969, 69-72; consultant editor, History of the Violent Century, Ballantine Books, London, 1969-1973; publisher, Bison Books, Ltd., London, 1974-1995; president, Brompton Books Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut, since 1982; president, Twin Books Corporation, Greenwich, since 1985; director, Twin Books (United Kingdom) Ltd., London, 1987-1995; chairman, Mayer Music Company, since 1996; managing director, Marlborough Productions, since 1997. In 1868, Japan emerged from feudalism and civil conflict as a comparatively undeveloped industrial state in an age of European imperialism in East Asia. Within a generation, Japan had risen to the ranks of the foremost industrial and military powers in the Western Pacific. A generation later, Japan had become the paramount power in East Asia, and her naval and air forces spread Japanese power across the Pacific. The formidable weapon built in the name of the Emperor swept across China and Manchuria; her air forces pummeled Pearl Harbor and Darwin; her armies marched to Singapore and the gates of India. Her navies seized some Aleutian islands and strafed the California coast. By 1942 the world had come to know the power of the most devastating force in the Pacific - the Japanese War Machine. The force and power of the Japanese War Machine is told here by some of the world's leading experts in guns, tanks, planes, and ships of World War II. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 140 p. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN 9780820303710, 0820303712 ; OCLC 1493724 ; LCCN 74021905 LC GN2 .S9243 no. 9 GN470 ; Dewey 301.2/1 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers in library binding ; ex-lib ; Contents: Introduction: the study of beliefs and behavior / Carole E. Hill -- Ideology as a cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- The prophecy and the law: symbolism and social action in seventh-day adventism / Frank E. Manning -- The case of the healthy hindu / Michael V Angrosino -- Ritual as communication and potency: An Ndembu case study / Victor W Turner -- Weberian, Southern Baptist, and Indonesian Muslim conceptions of belief and action / James L. Peacock -- Vomiting for purity: Ritual emesis in aboriginal southeastern United State / Charles Hudson -- Ethnometaphysics of Iroquois ritual / Elizabeth Tooker -- Belief in the context of rapid change: an Eastern Cree example / Richard J Ppreston -- Belief system, millenary expectations and behavior / Felicitas D. Goodman -- The contributors ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Light wwear to the dust jacket. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 229 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Dates: Volumes 1, 2, & 3: (1977); Volumes 4 thru 24: (1978). Original white pictorial covers, lightly soiled. Spines and edges a bit sunned. Edges of leaves lightly age toned. Vol. 4: Small dent to front cover; front hinge starting. Vol. 5 has small bump to foredge of front cover. Crease to front cover of Vol. 24. Illust. w/ numerous photos and diagrams. Overall, a nice set. John Batchelor (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 250 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 250 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.