David C. Evans Bücher

Evans, David, Vavrek, Matthew

Part I: The Bottlenecks of Attention.- Chapter 1: Foveal Acuity.- Chapter 2: Task Orientation.- Chapter 3: Attentional Focus.- Chapter 4: Gestalt Perception.- Part II: The Bottlenecks of Perception.- Chapter 5: Depth Perception.- Chapter 6: Motion Perception.- Part III: The Bottlenecks of Memory.- Chapter 7: Working Memory.- Chapter 8: Signal Detection Theory.- Chapter 9: Long-term Memory.- Chapter 10: Encoding and Retrieval.- Part IV: The Bottlenecks of Disposition.- Chapter 11: Personality.- Chapter 12: Development.- Chapter 13: Needs.- Chapter 14: Fun.- Part V: The Bottlenecks of Motivation.- Chapter 15: Schedules of Reinforcement.- Chapter 16: Escalating Commitment.- Chapter 17: Approach Avoidance.- Chapter 18: Routes to Persuasion.- Part VI: The Bottlenecks of Social Influence.- Chapter 19: Social Capital.- Chapter 20: Group Polar ization.- Chapter 21: Social Influence.- Part VII: Then we will be maximally receptive to it and reward you with a viral cascade that has the potential to reach.- Chapter 22: Receptivity Thresholds.- Chapter 23: Six Degrees of Recommendation.- Chapter 24: Epilogue.-

One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources have produced this remarkable study of the navy's dizzying development, tactical triumphs, and humiliating defeat. Unrivaled in its breadth of coverage and attention to detail, this important new history explores the foreign and indigenous influences on the navy's thinking about naval warfare and how to plan for it. Focusing primarily on the much-neglected period between the world wars, two widely esteemed historians persuasively explain how the Japanese failed to prepare properly for the war in the Pacific despite an arguable advantage in capability. Maintaining the highest literary standards and supplemented by a dazzling array of charts, diagrams, drawings, and photographs, this landmark work provides much important information not available in any other English-language source. Consciously avoiding the Eurocentric bias of conventional military scholarship, David Evans and Mark Peattie make a unique contribution to naval historiography that will be prized by serious historians and casual readers alike and that promises to spark debate within the academic community.