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this book was soo good. it was a page turner. i could barely put it down i definelty recommend it

America's Japan was first published in Japanese in Japan in 1986. Although Grant Goodman is American, he wrote the book in Japanese for a Japanese audience. Now that the Bush administration has compared the attempt to democratize Iraq with the post-World War II efforts to democratize Germany and Japan, America's Japan has a new relevance and has been translated into English for an American audience.

The language in America's Japan is deceptively simple. Goodman describes his life in Cleveland. He is in high school when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. He is still seventeen when he begins his studies at Princeton, then volunteers to participate in an intensive Japanese language training course for Army officers. He does well, joins the Army, gets his lieutenant's bars, and is on the way to the Philippines in June, 1945.

As an interrogator, he doesn't see combat. There aren't many prisoners to question, because "the American soldiers usually preferred to shoot Japanese soldiers rather than take them prisoners. And really, it was probably unreasonable to ask the U.S. soldiers to take live prisoners under the extremely harsh conditions of jungle warfare."

The few prisoners they do see are pretty beaten down and don't put up much resistance. The interrogation room was "a dark room with almost no windows. The Japanese prisoners were brought into this dark room stark naked, then they would suddenly have a spotlight shone on them and interrogation would begin from a place high above them. The interrogation desk must have been elevated some ten feet above the floor."

Goodman arrives in Tokyo in October, 1945, after the surrender. One of his first assignments is to procure a desk chair for General MacArthur. He finds one in the office of the president of a Japanese company. The president is still sitting in the chair, so Goodman requisitions it from the astonished businessman by order of General MacArthur. Goodman explains that under the terms of the Occupation, the Japanese were obliged to supply the Army with whatever it needed.

Goodmans views of MacArthur, the Japanese Constitution, and the occupied Japanese are straightforward and honest. He was barely twenty-one when this took place, and there is an odd air of innocence in the narrative. But every so often, the older Goodman surfaces with an observation made with the perspective of time. He says that the American-style constitution was vital for the Japanese government to re-emerge on the world stage. He also mentions that the Japanese were not convinced of the importance of a constitution at the time, and that the Americans, who felt that time was of the essence, wrote the first draft on their own, although the Americans insisted that the Japanese had done most of the work.

America's Japan is a very short book, 147 pages, but Goodman touches on a number of subjects, serious and not so serious. On the lighter side, he talks about how the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado was received in Japan. More serious is his description of translating the diary of a Japanese civilian who participated in beheading the pilots of an American bomber that was shot down over their village.

It's interesting that America's Japan is finally available for Americans to read. It will be even more interesting to see if it is translated into Arabic for Iraqis to read.

This book is a must-have for the serious dressage trainer, rider, enthusiast. From building respect through ground work, behavior modification through reward and repetition, to lightness and harmony from training level to Grand Prix and haute ecole, Chuck teaches that dressage is good for all horses (and people, really), regardless of their breeding or their discipline.

American Gothic Cookbook in the popular recipe file-card size format, this easy-flip cookbook includes the artist's mother's recipe for stew, his housekeeper's recipe for salad dressing, and his own Cabbage Rolls. It is chock full of Grant Wood lore and illustrations, both his whimsical Farm Hill illustrations and his evocative lithographs. One recipe for old-fashioned tomato soup runs on for six pages; excuse him, but the cook is a [Pulitzer Prize-winning] writer*, just making sure the saying gets said right.

Conceived through the eye, mind and paintbrush of Iowa artist Grant Wood, the American Gothic couple uniquely reflect the cultural traditions of the Midwest. In the words of Grant Wood, "Any northern town old enough to have some buildings dating back to the Civil War is liable to have a house or church in the American Gothic style. I simply invented some American Gothic people to stand in front of a house of this type." In fact, he used his sister Nan Wood Graham and his dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby as models for the 1930 painting. Mrs. McKeeby's recipe for pie crust is included.

These are recipes for honest, hard-working, Midwestern fare. There are also lots of picnic dishes. Grant Wood loved a picnic. Penfield Press publisher Joan Liffring-Zug-Bourret has customarily had dozens of friends, family, and neighbors over for 4th of July potlucks. Favorite dishes from these fests appear in this volume.

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*Iowa's MacKinlay Kantor, author of the novel Andersonville.

"Features Grant Wood's 'American Gothic' on the front cover. ¶ Pretty on the outside, handy on the inside, Pomegranate's delightful pocket address books fit snugly into your pocket or handbag. Once there they stay safely closed, thanks to the built-in elastic band. Spiral bound to lie flat with 112 information pages providing space for over 400 names, addresses, home and business telephone numbers, cell phone/pager, and e-mail addresses, these useful books make wonderful remembrances or stocking stuffers! ¶ ISBN: 0-7649-0953-3; size: 3 1/4 x 5"."--© Pomegranate

Dr. Kenneth Dodd, zoologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, has authored an amphibian field guide that is so beautifully prepared and interesting to read that its photos and artwork alone make it nearly a "coffee table" volume! But, no doubt about it, this book was clearly written for biologists to enable them to set up and maintain an inventory and monitoring program for Appalachian Mountain amphibians (frogs/salamanders). The need for these monitoring programs stems from the desire to study the reasons behind an inexplicable decline of the world's amphibian population. To help you decide about obtaining a paper copy of this magnificent report, you can get a look at the document by "hopping onto" the internet at http://fisc.er.usgs.gov/c1258_Dodd/index.html.

Thank you for wonderfully quick shipping! I was thrilled to get this book. I had been looking for it for awhile...it's one I remember reading when I was very young, when I wanted to know everything I could about the artist I so admired. Amy Grant's music has touched me so deeply...I feel like her music is a 'tradition' in our house. For me this is a book I just wanted to have in my library as it holds such good childhood memories for me.

This book is a great value with lots of classic music. Sheet music of:
Angels
Arms of Love
Christmas Hymn
Doubly Good to You
El Shaddai
Fat baby
Father's Eyes
Find a Way
I Have Decided
I Love a Lonely Day
In a Little While
Jehovah
Love of Another Kind
Old Man's Rubble
Sing Your Praise to the Lord
Singing a Love Song
Stay for Awhile
Tennessee Christmas
Thy Word
Too Late
Where Do You Hide Your Heart
Wise Up

Here is the book that makes the classics like Beowulf and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle come alive. It gives the reader an inside look at the real conditions and circumstances behind the people of early Britain.

Anglo Saxon Britain provides a look at a side of the Anglo Saxon heritage of Britain that isn't found in other works. Through its descriptions and explanations, the reader gets to see a side of life, at an important time in history, that few books on history even attempt to deal with. The lives of the ordinary people of Britain were impacted in extraordinary ways by the migrations of the various tribal groups, more so than by many of the so-called important political events.

Although the conventional explanations of the flow of history, from the top-down perspectives are important, Grant Allen gives numerous examples of how the history of early Britain was more accurately a matter of the cumulative effects of population pressure - the wants and needs of the common people - that were the real driving forces behind the changes.

This book contains material that is important for anyone with an interest in real history - not the usual trivial gossip about famous names - but the real conditions and events that shaped the world. In this regard not only historians but many others will find a treasure trove of important concepts in this exceptional book.

Illustrated by Vana Earle, Animal Tales from Ireland has seven different stories in it. How the Mole was Left Behind, Why Fox's Tail is Red, Why Pigs are Bare, The Fairy Cuckoo, The Cow and the Leprechaun, Why the Chaffinch Watches on the High Road, and Why the Cat Stares at the Moon. All are delightful porquoi stories children will really love!