Okinawa, the largest of Ryukyu Islands, was occupied by the United States following a bitterly fought battle in the early months of 1945, and remained under US administration for 27 years. This book examines the impact of the US occupation of Okinawa from the end of the US Occupation of the rest of Japan up to the reversion of Okinawa to Japan in 1972. It shows how Okinawans opposed the US presence, and how the continuing US occupation of Okinawa was a major factor in US-Japan relations in the period.

This book will fill a need among animal paleopathologists and animal forensic scientists for a text/atlas focused on lesions that commonly appear in skeletal remains. The text describes what is known about disease pathogenesis and occurrence in modern and historical settings and include evolutionary and comparative considerations. It is a stand-alone atlas on animal bone disease with images of lesions on the whole bone, which would facilitate understanding of bone disease and provide insights into disease processes. This book fills a unique niche - a text/atlases on comparative bone pathology that includes images of whole specimens.

This book presents hybrid value stream mapping tools for developing Lean and green supply chains. The tools incorporate green and Lean concepts that can assist supply chain decision makers to simultaneously minimize wastes, costs, environmental damage, and energy and material usage In addition, it provides a new integrated approach for evaluating supply chain performance from both green and Lean perspectives. As supply chain stakeholders increasingly become aware of the need to simultaneously address economic, environmental, and energy usage issues, it is essential to formulate performance objectives based on these issues. To achieve these objectives, the book provides tools and techniques for value stream mapping the supply chain. Suggested tools, such as green lean process mapping, quality filter mapping, energy value stream mapping, and supply chain response matrix can assist supply chain decision makers to simultaneously achieve green and Lean objectives centered on minimizing wastes, costs, environmental damage, as well as energy and material usage. The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents recent concepts of green and Lean paradigms, as well as green Lean performance in supply chain systems. Part II presents parallel and integrated green Lean models, based on the triple bottom line (also known as the 3E bottom line) perspective, covering aspects related to the economy, the environment, and energy and material usage. Part III presents and explains a range of tools and techniques, where Leanness and greenness are emphasized from a common view point. A compendium of Lean green value stream mapping tools are presented and illustrated using succinct procedures, flowcharts and examples.

Gazprom, one of Europe's most important energy companies, and the sole exporter of Russian gas to Europe, is often viewed simply as an agent of the Russian state, being used by the Russian state to exert political pressure on Russia's neighbours and more widely. This book presents a thorough examination of the Russian gas sector and Gazprom's place within it. It considers how the Russian gas sector has been modernized over recent decades, examines Russia's gas exports to different parts of the world, and explores how the international situation has changed, and continues to change, over time. The author concludes that the picture is complex; that Gazprom is both a commercially-oriented actor that lobbies strongly for its own interests and is at the same time subject to varying degrees of influence from the Russian government, the degree of influence depending on the policy area.

Speaking to wider debates of U.S. foreign policy and grand strategy, its interests and motivations in International Relations and International Political Economy, and processes of regionalism with regard to political-economic integration. NAFTA-land Security present a clear, important and original argument to all those struggling with how best to understand the overall policy aims that drive U.S. thinking, and how they relate to global trends and developments in U.S. foreign policy.

This book is a history book documenting the CCS-Civil Communication Section - which was created by General Douglas MacAuthur during the occupation of WWII to improve communications in Japan. However, before they could work on improving the quality of communications they found they had to train the major communications companies in American Management. Ultimately this training led to the resurgence and later dominance of the Japanese electronics industry and Japan's economic miracle. Many of the teachings laid the foundation for what we call Lean and Six Sigma today. This book documents the genesis of the CCS and how three engineers helped get the Japanese economy by teaching American management and placing an emphasis on shop-floor leadership.

Nonionizing Radiation Protection in Medical Environments describes how medical practitioners can safely use nonionizing radiation sources such as magnetic resonance imaging, lasers and ultrasound devices, for surgical, therapeutic, and diagnostic purposes. Focusing on the professional, operational, and regulatory aspects of nonionizing radiation protection, the book covers virtually all regions of the world. The theoretical background is based on current regulatory frameworks and is complemented by practical sections and professional discussions by the world's leading medical and health physics professionals.

Covering topics such as Adsense, access to information, location services, YouTube, Android, and hardware, this short student-friendly book will explore the history, business model, cultural impact, and future of the ubiquitous search engine.

This book focuses on how the interests of corporations and governments to embrace a "new economy" have served to drive the development and uptake of mobile/ubiquitous media.

Provides a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families.

Focussing on the jurisprudence of English-speaking liberal democracies - predominantly the United Kingdom, the USA and Australia - the author of this book examines the legal control of the kind of self-regarding actions that could be regarded as modes of self-expression. She distinguishes between the ways in which the law tends to regulate expressive aspects of ΓÇÖthe selfΓÇÖ when those expressions have commercial potential (and could thus be considered to be self-regarding actions with value to others) as opposed to when they are of a more personal nature. This conclusion leads to the identification of a contemporary ΓÇÖcommercialΓÇÖ form of liberalism which, it will be suggested, tends to dominate over the historical forms of liberalism in which many modern liberal democracies are notionally grounded. The reasons for, and consequences of this, are then discussed.

This book is the quintessential guide to port state control. It provides detailed information on all aspects of the topic, including the legal base for port state control, its global application, and the major practical implications for the maritime world. It also offers expert analysis of the port state control procedures as defined by the IMO, and gives extensive information on regional port state control agreements throughout the globe.

In communist Eastern Europe the churches were often a focus for opposition to communism, and in the immediate post-communist period churches played a key role in fostering national cohesion, promoting a conservative political agenda, and in rewriting national narratives to eliminate or revise communist narratives. These activities, which are implicitly conservative and nationalistic, are not naturally in step with European integration. This book explores the relationship between religion and politics in post-communist Europe, focusing especially on the degree to which religion, and religious involvement in politics, encourage Euroscepticism.

This book compares the language uses and linguistic repertoires of groups qualified by their sexuality as deviants, and commonly designated to be LGBT groups in their respective communities in Asia.

Curriculum, Knowledge and Learning in History Teaching presents a comprehensive, critical survey of the most important international research in history education at secondary level, and exemplifies how it can be put into practice for effective teaching and learning. Written by world renowned experts in history education, it demonstrates the crucial role of teachers¿ curriculum knowledge, subject knowledge and knowledge of learners in the planning, teaching and assessment of history.

This book examines the development of the Russian oil and gas industry over recent decades, showing how, in a series of in-depth case studies of previous international company involvement, international companies should in future cope with the business environment, how they should acquire local knowledge, deal with the state, and forge partnerships with domestic companies, but only to a limited extent.

Drawing on a range of social theorists from Bourdieu to Habermas, as well as his own past research, Fairclough's book presents a form of language analysis with a consistently social perspective. His approach is illustrated by and investigated through a range of real texts.

The recent rising volumes and the variety in trends and patterns of cross-national population movements impact the social, economic and political fabrics of the receiving and sending countries. This book focuses on Indians, also known as Asian Indians or East Indians, a group that is becoming noticeable outside of India because of its increasing numerical presence and intra-group diversity. The destinations considered in this study are the four classical immigration countries, comprising Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and the United States of America, and an emerging destination nation, Germany.

Addresses land law as it relates to the Commonwealth Caribbean. This title encompasses the areas covered in an undergraduate course on the law of real property in the Caribbean. It discusses statutory provisions from all States in relation to each topic, highlighting the similarities and differences.

Jonothan Neeland provides an account of what teachers need to know, understand and be able to do in order to ensure that their first experiences of drama and teaching with 11 to 14 year olds are controlled, effective and based on the best practice.

This handbook consolidates the large and growing amount of knowledge and expertise in the field in the form of targeted contributions by leading experts. It will be of great interest to energy researchers across the world in a number of disciplines, as well as to museums, arts and environmental organisations, governments, and policymakers.

In this outstanding introduction to Kierkegaard's thought Paul Muench provides a thorough and accessible way into this cryptic and multi-faceted thinker. Including chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary of technical terms this is an ideal introduction to Kierkegaard for anyone coming to his work for the first time.

Welcome to Cod's Bottom - the sleepy seaside town with a spooky secret! From the author of The Nothing to See Here Hotel comes the second in the laugh-out-loud middle-grade series.

Featuring children¿s own words along with heart-warming pictures, this book is a perfect celebration of all that is special about the forest.