A study of the historic World War II naval battle, the first involving aircraft carriers and first in which neither warship was in sight of the other.By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers Lexington and Yorktown to counter the move, setting ...

"An entertaining and informative review of the evolution of one of the most important classes of warship, from the technology of WWII into the missile age." —FiretrenchCruisers probably vary more in their characteristics than any other warship type and have certainly been subject to the most convoluted development. There was always a basic tension between quantity and quality, between numbers and unit size, but at a more detailed level every one of the naval powers ...

The author of Big Gun Battles "shows how the US Navy was slowly but surely drawn into WW2 in the Atlantic theatre of operations . . . well researched" (Warships Magazine).Although the defeat of Japan was the US Navy's greatest contribution to the Second World War, it also played a significant role in the battle against Hitler. Even before Germany declared war in 1941, US naval vessels were actively engaged in Atlantic convoy battles, and suffered their firs...

This naval history of WWII explores the advancing technology and tactics of battleships through a fascinating survey of ship-to-ship duels.While many naval battles of the Second World War were decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, there was a surprising number of traditional ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. Big Gun Battles recounts some of the most significant and technically fascinating of these gunfire due...

A World War II naval history of the Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz carrier battles that tested U.S. momentum after Midway.While the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific. In Knife‘s Edge Robert C. Stern provides an account of the Battles of the Eastern Solomons and the Santa Cruz Islands, the two pivotal carrier ai...

This compelling book explores the first four months of fighting in the Pacific between the United States and its Allies against Japan, focusing mainly on the aircraft carrier action of the respective navies in the Pacific Theater.In the chaotic months after Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War was anything but certain. The U.S. Navy, reeling from sudden loss, scrambled to slow Japanese momentum, while the Imperial Japanese Navy pressed outward, convinced that seizing Sout...

Einlagensicherung im DACHL-RaumDie Finanzkrise hat zahlreiche Regulierungen nach sich gezogen, mit denen sich Banken und Aufsichtsbehörden auseinandersetzen müssen. Dazu zählt auch eine weitreichende Reform der Einlagensicherungssysteme, welche primär dem Zweck dienen, einen Teil der finanziellen Ersparnisse und Vermögensanlagen breiter Bevölkerungsschichten zu schützen. Auch wenn sich die Idee der "Einlagensicherung" mittlerweile global durchgesetzt hat, so besteh...

Als Nell Channing die Insel der drei Schwestern das erste Mal betritt, verspürt sie nach langer Zeit endlich wieder Frieden und Geborgenheit. Doch ihre wahre Identität muss weiterhin verborgen bleiben. Unter falschem Namen beginnt sie, im Café von Mia Devlin zu arbeiten, in der sie eine treue Freundin findet. Und auch der Sheriff der Insel – Zack Todd – kann sich der charmanten jungen Frau kaum entziehen. Aber dann holt Nells Vergangenheit sie schließlich doch ein …

[T]he present groundwork is nothing more than the identification and vindication of the supreme principle of morality.' In the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Immanuel Kant makes clear his two central intentions: first, to uncover the principle that underpins morality, and secondly to defend its applicability to human beings. The result is one of the most significant texts in the history of ethics, and a masterpiece of Enlightenment thinking. Kant...

Une lettre d'amour posthume de Thomas Stern à son épouse, Catherine Laborde, présentatrice connue et aimée de tous les Français.Un témoignage sur la traversée, ensemble, de la maladie et l'accompagnement jusqu'à la fin. Un hommage aux aidants, ces héros qu'on force au mutisme par peur de la souffrance." Mais qui es-tu ? me demandé-je parfois. Que reste-t-il de toi dans tous tes moments d'absence ? Et moi ? Je ne te parle qu'avec la douceur unifor...

The Ethical Demand (1956) by K. E. Løgstrup is one of the great works of modern moral philosophy: it is presented here in a new translation with introduction and notes. Løgstrup puts forward his distinctive view concerning our vulnerability to each other and what this requires of us in response. He starts by considering Jesus's 'proclamation' to love your neighbour and how this can be understood in 'purely human terms' as relating to basic features of our existence. Reflecting on ...

The Michigan Model of World Production and Trade, developed in the 1970s by Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern, has become a valuable tool widely used in research on the economic effects of national and multilateral trade policies. Computational Analysis of Global Trading Arrangements presents the recent developments and enhancements of the Michigan Model together with the major results that it has provided in the last seven years. The book provides a detailed exposition of the model, a...