Laura Hein: 5 books
Post-Fascist Japan
Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They rapidly transformed their political culture-policies, institutions, and public opinion-to create a more...
by Pat Adams, American Association of Museums, Association of Science-Technology Centers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
There has been, and continues to be, an explosion of interest in developing new small science centers that is changing the world of museums. This handbook is designed to be a one-stop source for future and current centers, and anyone interested in the important roles these institutions play in their...
Censoring History: Perspectives on Nationalism and War in the Twentieth Century
Perspectives on Nationalism and War in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy. Focusing largely on textbook treatment of lingering - and sometimes explosive - tensions originating in...
Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age
American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.
Die Australia-Saga
Goldzeit. Eukalyptusfeuer. Traumgesang.
Language: German
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Die Australia-Saga: drei Schicksale - drei große Liebesgeschichten Australia - Goldzeit Australien, 1853: Die junge Vicky Stewart kann ihrer neuen Heimat Melbourne nichts abgewinnen. Doch als sie den attraktiven Goldgräber Jonathan Boyle kennenlernt, erstrahlt der rote Kontinent plötzlich in leuchtenden...