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Book Elusive Alliance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jesse Kauffman
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-08-05
  • ISBN : 0674286014
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Elusive Alliance written by Jesse Kauffman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Kauffman explains why Germany’s ambitious attempt at nation-building in Poland during WWI failed. The educational and political institutions Germany built for its satellite state could not alleviate Poland’s hostility to the plundering of its resources to fuel Germany’s war effort.

Book Elusive Alliance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jesse Kauffman
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-08-05
  • ISBN : 0674915224
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Elusive Alliance written by Jesse Kauffman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War I dragged on into 1915, German armies along the Western Front settled into stalemate with entrenched British and French forces. But in the East the picture was quite different. The Kaiser’s army routed the Russians, took possession of Polish territory, and attempted to create a Polish satellite state. Elusive Alliance delves into Germany’s three-year occupation of Poland and explains why its ambitious attempt at nation-building failed. Dubbed the Imperial Government-General of Warsaw, Germany’s occupation regime was headed by veteran Prussian commander Hans Hartwig von Beseler. In his vision for Central Europe, Poland would become Germany’s permanent ally, culturally and politically autonomous but bound to the Fatherland in foreign policy matters. To win Polish support, Beseler spearheaded the creation of new institutions including a Polish-language university in Warsaw, reformed the school system, and established democratically elected municipal governments. For Beseler and other German strategists, a secure Poland was essential to ensuring Central Europe against a threatening tide of nationalism and revolution. But as Jesse Kauffman shows, Beseler underestimated the resistance to his policies and the growing hostility to occupation as Germany plundered Polish resources to fuel its war effort. By 1918, with the war over, Poles achieved independence. Yet it would not be long before they faced a second, far more brutal German occupation at the hands of the Nazis.

Book The Embattled Northeast

Download or read book The Embattled Northeast written by Kenneth M. Morrison and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Book Britain  France and Europe  1945 1975

Download or read book Britain France and Europe 1945 1975 written by Anthony Adamthwaite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975 takes a fresh look at the international trajectories of Europe's premier democracies. The side-lining of Britain and France in the Cold War era, argues Adamthwaite, was preventable. A Franco-British Europe came within a whisker of realization. Condemning President Charles de Gaulle as an intransigent gatekeeper created a convenient alibi for self-inflicted missteps. UK bids for European Community membership ignored the elephant in the room - the need for partnership in a superpower age. A marriage powering the Community could have repositioned Western Europe as partner, not client of the United States. Although perceived as a failing power, France outperformed Britain - seizing the initiative in European construction, and winning primacy in western Europe. As well as exploring sharply contrasting national experiences in the aftermath of war, the author analyses the reasons for French success. The analysis evaluates key influences: the mental maps of decision makers; leadership styles; the post-1945 international system; policy making machinery; the 'democratic deficit' in British and French politics; and public opinion. Drawing on American, British and French official records, together with private papers and interviews, this enlightening study highlights the importance of contingency and individual actors, and will be of great interest to scholars of modern European history.

Book For the Honor of Our Fatherland

Download or read book For the Honor of Our Fatherland written by Tracey Hayes Norrell and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Honor of Our Fatherland looks at the role of German Jews on the Eastern Front during World War I. German officials believed the Jewish population in the East was vital to their success, but then, as the war began slipping away from Germany, those same officials turned on their own Jewish community and abandoned the Polish Jews.

Book Beyond Versailles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcus M. Payk
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2019-03-29
  • ISBN : 0253040949
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Beyond Versailles written by Marcus M. Payk and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The settlement of Versailles was more than a failed peace. What was debated at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919–1920 hugely influenced how nations and empires, sovereignty, and the international order were understood after the Great War—and into the present. Beyond Versailles argues that this transformation of ideas was not the work of the treaty makers alone, but emerged in interaction with nationalist groups, anti-colonial movements, and regional elites who took up the rhetoric of Paris and made it their own. In shifting the spotlight from the palace of Versailles to the peripheries of Europe, Beyond Versailles turns to the treaties' resonance on the ground and shows why the principles of the peace settlement meant different things in different locales. It was in places a long way from Paris—in Polish borderlands and in Portuguese colonies, in contested spaces like Silesia, Teschen and Danzig, and in states emerging from imperial collapse like Austria, Egypt, and Iran—that notions of nation and sovereignty, legitimacy, and citizenship were negotiated and contested.

Book Handbook of Treating Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders

Download or read book Handbook of Treating Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders written by Eric A. Storch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As prevalent as anxiety is as a diagnosis, clinically complex cases are even more so. At the same time that it is recognized as a spectrum of disorders with many possibilities for intervention, it is most often seen with variations that further complicate treatment. The Handbook of Treating Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders explains in clear detail how and why clinical factors present challenges to clinicians treating clients with these disorders. Comorbid conditions often found in children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety, including developmental disabilities and personality disorders, are analyzed in the context of treatment. Case examples and literature reviews illustrate the relative merits of integrated versus sequential treatment, the importance of prioritizing behaviors, age-related considerations, and therapist issues. This best-practices approach guides readers in choosing current evidence-based options for treatment that is tailored to the individual and effective in the short and long term. Included in the Handbook: Prognostic indicators of treatment response for children and adults with anxiety disorders. Treatment of comorbid anxiety and disruptive behavior in youth. Treatment of PTSD with comorbid borderline personality disorder. Limited motivation, patient-therapist mismatch, and the therapeutic alliance. Assessment and treatment of comorbid anorexia nervosa and obsessive compulsive disorder. Treatment of comorbid anxiety disorders across the lifespan. Developed as a companion reference to the Handbook of Assessing Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders, the Handbook of Treating Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders is of immediate relevance to researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students in clinical child, school, and developmental psychology; social work; psychiatry; psychotherapy; counseling; and pediatrics.

Book Psychotherapy Relationships That Work

Download or read book Psychotherapy Relationships That Work written by John C. Norcross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002, the landmark Psychotherapy Relationships That Work broke new ground by focusing renewed and corrective attention on the substantial research behind the crucial (but often overlooked) client-therapist relationship. This highly cited, widely adopted classic is now presented in two volumes: Evidence-based Therapist Contributions, edited by John C. Norcross and Michael J. Lambert; and Evidence-based Therapist Responsiveness, edited by John C. Norcross and Bruce E. Wampold. Each chapter in the two volumes features a specific therapist behavior that improves treatment outcome, or a transdiagnostic patient characteristic by which clinicians can effectively tailor psychotherapy. In addition to updates to existing chapters, the third edition features new chapters on the real relationship, emotional expression, immediacy, therapist self-disclosure, promoting treatment credibility, and adapting therapy to the patient's gender identity and sexual orientation. All chapters provide original meta-analyses, clinical examples, landmark studies, diversity considerations, training implications, and most importantly, research-infused therapeutic practices by distinguished contributors. Featuring expanded coverage and an enhanced practice focus, the third edition of the seminal Psychotherapy Relationships That Work offers a compelling synthesis of the best available research, clinical expertise, and patient characteristics in the tradition of evidence-based practice.

Book The Therapeutic Powers of Play

Download or read book The Therapeutic Powers of Play written by Charles E. Schaefer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical look at how play therapy can promote mental health wellness in children and adolescents Revised and expanded, The Therapeutic Powers of Play, Second Edition explores the powerful effects that play therapy has on different areas within a child or adolescent's life: communication, emotion regulation, relationship enhancement, and personal strengths. Editors Charles Schaefer and Athena Drewes—renowned experts in the field of play therapy—discuss the different interventions and components of treatment that can move clients to change. Leading play therapists contributed to this volume, supplying a wide repertoire of practical techniques and applications in each chapter for use in clinical practice, including: Direct teaching Indirect teaching Self-expression Relationship enhancement Attachment formation Catharsis Stress inoculation Creative problem solving Self-esteem Filled with clinical case vignettes from various theoretical viewpoints, the second edition is an invaluable resource for play and child therapists of all levels of experience and theoretical orientations.

Book The Social and Cognitive Impacts of E commerce on Modern Organizations

Download or read book The Social and Cognitive Impacts of E commerce on Modern Organizations written by Mehdi Khosrowpour and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes articles addressing the social, cultural, organizational, and cognitive impacts of e-commerce technologies and advances on organizations around the world. It covers the impact of e-commerce on consumer behaviour, organizational behaviour, and development.

Book Handbook of Interpersonal Psychology

Download or read book Handbook of Interpersonal Psychology written by Leonard M. Horowitz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern interpersonal psychology is now at a point where recent advances need to be organized so that researchers, practitioners, and students can understand what is new, different, and state-of-the art. This field-defining volume examines the history of interpersonal psychology and explores influential theories of normal-abnormal behaviors, widely-used assessment measures, recent methodological advances, and current interpersonal strategies for changing problematic behaviors. Featuring original contributions from field luminaries including Aaron Pincus, John Clarkin, David Buss, Louis Castonguay, and Theodore Millon, this cutting-edge volume will appeal to academicians, professionals, and students interested in the study of normal and abnormal interpersonal behavior.

Book Almighty Conceited Sovereign

Download or read book Almighty Conceited Sovereign written by Wu YueChuBa and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fang Shao Bai was betrayed by a slave and framed and dropped into the abyss. Everyone thought he was dead. He didn't except that he fell on a huge snowdrop.This is a magical snowdrop. Not only defeating two huge monsters easily for him, it but slao helped Fang Shaobai strengthen his physique, which greatly improved his cultivation. Thinking getting this snow lotus was lucky enough, he did not expect that there would be more amazing adventures waiting for him in the future ...☆About the Author☆On the eighth of May, a well-known online novelist, he has authored many novels, of which Almighty Conceited Sovereign has received more attention, and most readers have given this book a high score.

Book The Embattled Northeast

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth M. Morrison
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1984-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520051263
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Embattled Northeast written by Kenneth M. Morrison and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Embattled Northeast breaks with established wisdom concerning the dynamics of Indian-white relations. It shows that Euramericans' technological superiority did not undermine the Abenaki's self-confidence, but that trade pushed the tribes toward reaching an alliance among themselves as the first step in dealing with colonials. The study also tells how the Abenaki adapted to the post-contact world in order to secure their lives in religious terms, combining their own religious beliefs with compatible French Jesuit teachings"--Jacket.

Book Child   Adolescent Psychotherapy

Download or read book Child Adolescent Psychotherapy written by Stephen Hupp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers the evidence-based approaches for the most critical mental health issues facing youth, from infancy through adolescence.

Book Britain and the American Revolution

Download or read book Britain and the American Revolution written by H. T. Dickinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern study to focus on the British dimension of the American Revolution through its whole span from its origins to the declaration of independence in 1776 and its aftermath. It is written by nine leading British and American scholars who explore many key issues including the problems governing the American colonies, Britain's diplomatic isolation in Europe over the war, the impact of the American crisis on Ireland and the consequences for Britain of the loss of America.

Book Web weaving

Download or read book Web weaving written by Peter Lloyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on human rather than technological issues, Lloyd and Boyle illustrate the benefits and pitfalls of using technology to enhance internal and external connections. Cases include Digital, Silicon Graphics, BP and the Halifax Building Society.

Book Elizabeth I

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Loades
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2003-03-01
  • ISBN : 0826464645
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Elizabeth I written by David Loades and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth I, who reigned over Shakespeare's England and defeated the Spanish Armada, is familiar both from her portraits and as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen. Yet the reality of her character and her personal attitudes are harder to detect behind the public mask. Elizabeth I, a major biography by a leading Tudor expert to mark the 400th anniversary of her death in 1603, looks in detail behind the public life at the private woman. It treats at length her early years and examines her actions and policies as queen. David Loades's biography brings out her remarkable talents and unique achievements.