The book focuses on the history of Zen Buddhism and Japanese militarism from the time of the Meiji Restoration through the Second World War and the post-War period. It describes the influence of state policy on Japanese Buddhism, and particularly the influence of Zen philosophy on the Japanese military. A famous quote is from Harada Daiun Sogaku: [If ordered to] march: tramp, t...(展开全部)

Nations at War provides an explanation of war in international politics grounded on data-based, empirical research. The book classifies and synthesizes the research findings of over 500 quantitative analyses of war at the analytic level of the state, dyad, region, and international system. Because wars follow from political decisions, two basic decision-making models - the rati...(展开全部)

B.L.T.のグラビアを飾った美女たちの未公開＋撮り下ろしフォトを満載した超貴重な写真集ムックです。登場するのは若槻千夏、熊田曜子、井上和香、小倉優子、森下千里、杏さゆり、MEGUMI、小野真弓、R.C.T.、磯山さやか、岩佐真悠子、石田未来、市川由衣という、今をときめくトップアイドルばかりの13組。まさに夢のラインナップを実現した、奇跡の1冊です。B.L.T.だからこそできた、文字通り「ミラクル」な写真集ムック、永久保存版です。

B.L.T.のグラビアを飾った美女たちの未公開＋撮り下ろしフォトを満載した超貴重な写真集ムックです。登場するのは若槻千夏、熊田曜子、井上和香、小倉優子、森下千里、杏さゆり、MEGUMI、小野真弓、R.C.T.、磯山さやか、岩佐真悠子、石田未来、市川由衣という、今をときめくトップアイドルばかりの13組。まさに夢のラインナップを実現した、奇跡の1冊です。B.L.T.だからこそできた、文字通り「ミラクル」な写真集ムック、永久保存版です。

The final volume in Richard J. Evans’s masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a “people’s community” to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler’s campaign of racial subjugation and genocide Already hailed as “a masterpiece” (William Grimes in The New York Times ) and “the most comprehensive history…...(展开全部)

An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. Interweaving a broad narrative of the war's progress from a wide range of people, Evans reveals the dynamics of a...(展开全部)

Why do some autocratic leaders pursue aggressive or expansionist foreign policies, while others are much more cautious in their use of military force? The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian regimes, Dictators at War and Peace breaks new ground in our understanding of the international behavior of dictators. Jessica L. P....(展开全部)

Shaun O’Dwyer is a professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University, Japan. His research focuses on philosophy and the history of ideas.

Jessica L. P. Weeks is Assistant Professor and Trice Faculty Scholar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.