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Book The Red Cross Society of Japan

Download or read book The Red Cross Society of Japan written by Nagao Ariga and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rules and history of the Red Cross Society of Japan

Download or read book Rules and history of the Red Cross Society of Japan written by Japanese Red Cross Society and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rules and History of the Red Cross Society of Japan

Download or read book Rules and History of the Red Cross Society of Japan written by Nihon Sekijūjisha and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Buf  n Ha Perdido Su Gracia

Download or read book Buf n Ha Perdido Su Gracia written by David Saltzman and published by Jester & Pharley Phund. This book was released on 2012 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they discover that laughter is missing from their kingdom, a jester and his helpmate set out on a quest to find it.

Book The Red Cross Movement

Download or read book The Red Cross Movement written by Neville Wylie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Red Cross Movement by leading historians in the field. It re-imagines and re-evaluates the Red Cross as an institutional network and a key actor in the humanitarian space through two centuries of war and peace.

Book Making the World Safe

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  • Author : Julia F. Irwin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-03-28
  • ISBN : 0199990085
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Making the World Safe written by Julia F. Irwin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making the World Safe, historian Julia Irwin offers an insightful account of the American Red Cross, from its founding in 1881 by Clara Barton to its rise as the government's official voluntary aid agency. Equally important, Irwin shows that the story of the Red Cross is simultaneously a story of how Americans first began to see foreign aid as a key element in their relations with the world. As the American Century dawned, more and more Americans saw the need to engage in world affairs and to make the world a safer place--not by military action but through humanitarian aid. It was a time perfectly suited for the rise of the ARC. Irwin shows how the early and vigorous support of William H. Taft--who was honorary president of the ARC even as he served as President of the United States--gave the Red Cross invaluable connections with the federal government, eventually making it the official agency to administer aid both at home and abroad. Irwin describes how, during World War I, the ARC grew at an explosive rate and extended its relief work for European civilians into a humanitarian undertaking of massive proportions, an effort that was also a major propaganda coup. Irwin also shows how in the interwar years, the ARC's mission meshed well with presidential diplomatic styles, and how, with the coming of World War II, the ARC once again grew exponentially, becoming a powerful part of government efforts to bring aid to war-torn parts of the world. The belief in the value of foreign aid remains a central pillar of U.S. foreign relations. Making the World Safe reveals how this belief took hold in America and the role of the American Red Cross in promoting it.

Book The Red Cross in Peace and War

Download or read book The Red Cross in Peace and War written by Clara Barton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hiroshima

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  • Author : John Hersey
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2020-06-23
  • ISBN : 0593082362
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Hiroshima written by John Hersey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.

Book The History of the Red Cross Society of Japan

Download or read book The History of the Red Cross Society of Japan written by Keiichi Kanamata and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Wave

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  • Author : Daniel P. Aldrich
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-07-10
  • ISBN : 022663843X
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Black Wave written by Daniel P. Aldrich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tōhoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have killed far more people in nearby China and India. What accounts for the exceptionally high survival rate? And why is it that some towns and cities in the Tōhoku region have built back more quickly than others? Black Wave illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region following the 3/11 disasters and why the rebuilding process has also not moved in lockstep across the region. Individuals and communities with stronger networks and better governance, Daniel P. Aldrich shows, had higher survival rates and accelerated recoveries. Less-connected communities with fewer such ties faced harder recovery processes and lower survival rates. Beyond the individual and neighborhood levels of survival and recovery, the rebuilding process has varied greatly, as some towns and cities have sought to work independently on rebuilding plans, ignoring recommendations from the national government and moving quickly to institute their own visions, while others have followed the guidelines offered by Tokyo-based bureaucrats for economic development and rebuilding.

Book Learning from Megadisasters

Download or read book Learning from Megadisasters written by Federica Ranghieri and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While not all natural disasters can be avoided, their impact on a population can be mitigated through effective planning and preparedness. These are the lessons to be learned from Japan's own megadisaster: the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the fi rst disaster ever recorded that included an earthquake, a tsunami, a nuclear power plant accident, a power supply failure, and a large-scale disruption of supply chains. It is a sad fact that poor communities are often hardest hit and take the longest to recover from disaster. Disaster risk management (DRM) should therefore be taken into account as a major development challenge, and countries must shift from a tradition of response to a culture of prevention and resilience. Learning from Megadisasters: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake consolidates a set of 36 Knowledge Notes, research results of a joint study undertaken by the Government of Japan and the World Bank. These notes highlight key lessons learned in seven DRM thematic clusters—structural measures; nonstructural measures; emergency response; reconstruction planning; hazard and risk information and decision making; the economics of disaster risk, risk management, and risk fi nancing; and recovery and relocation. Aimed at sharing Japanese cutting-edge knowledge with practitioners and decision makers, this book provides valuable guidance to other disaster-prone countries for mainstreaming DRM in their development policies and weathering their own natural disasters.

Book Japanland

Download or read book Japanland written by Karin Muller and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a year spent in Japan on a personal quest to deepen her appreciation for such Eastern ideals as commitment and devotion, documentary filmmaker Karin Muller discovered just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese. In this book Muller invites the reader along for a uniquely American odyssey into the ancient heart of modern Japan. Broad in scope and deftly observed by an author with a rich visual sense of people and place, Japanland is as beguiling as this colorful country of contradictions.

Book Beyond Conflict

Download or read book Beyond Conflict written by Daphne A. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Japan Magazine

Download or read book The Japan Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japan Report

Download or read book Japan Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki

Download or read book Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki written by Masahiro Sasaki and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ING_08 Review quote

Book Competing Visions of World Order

Download or read book Competing Visions of World Order written by Sebastian Conrad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, so as to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.