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This Element offers an overview of themes, theories, and controversies surrounding the topic of sacrifice, from the most ancient times until the pr...

Reducere. "This book celebrates without apology the fact that indigenous spirituality lives and breathes in our Pacific person and personhood. In so doing, i...

Reducere. Huna is the ancient spiritual, psychological, and physical healing discipline of Hawai'i, a tradition that was secretly transferred from teacher to...

How do political actors in the Pacific islands region make sense of the success (or failure) of parliamentary gender quota campaigns? To answer the...

Reducere. Decolonisation begins with our mind. I recall gratefully changing a sentence in my thesis: We live in one of the most isolated land masses in the w...

Publisher: University Press of the PacificAuthor(s): Edmund GosseNumber of pages: 236Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 126 x 203 x 19Cover type: Pa...

Reducere. Like his famous stepfather and mentor Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed New York's Central Park, landscape architect John Charles Olmsted believe...

This edited collection is the first to comprehensively consider the role that litigation can play in galvanizing climate action in countries includ...

Reducere. Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific tra...

The courts can play a role in addressing issues of inequality, discrimination and gender injustice for women. The feminisation of the judiciary is ...

State-of-the-art reinterpretations of the reasons for Japan's decision to surrender, by distinguished historians of differing national perspectives...

Reducere. Road to the Stars, Paperback

Reducere. CONTENTS: Scenes of My Childhood Seeking an Education The Law and Politics In National Politics On Entering and Leaving the Presidency Some of the ...

Reducere. Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences, Paperback

An Element on the role of violence in the traditional religions of the Pacific Ilands (Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia) and on violent activity...

Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to tra...

Native identity is usually associated with a particular place. But what if that place is the ocean? Once Were Pacific explores this question as it ...

Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of C...

Reducere. In The Ocean in the School Rick Bonus tells the stories of Pacific Islander students as they and their allies struggled to transform a university t...

Including both traditional and contemporary arts, this book introduces the rich artistic traditions of the Pacific island chains of Polynesia and M...

Reducere. Who gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward "barbarous" China yielded to a fascination with all thin...

Reducere. The format of Fish Hatchery Management is functional: hatchery requirements and operations; broodstock management and spawning; nutrition and feedi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. "Company town." The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip...

If you center a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view wh...

European literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wis...

The Role of the Individual in History was first published in 1898, and occupies a very prominent place among those of Plekhanov's works in which he...

Lawyers, economists, students, businesspersons, and government officials need to understand the content and implications of the Comprehensive and P...

It is our intent to present as accurate and up-to-date an account as possible of Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) Buchh., known popularly as the g...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Robin Wagner-PacificiNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 154 x 228 x 17Cover...

As China's international influence grows, this timely collection reveals how the global movement of the country's people, culture, information, and...

Reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theatre, performance art, art ins...

DescriptionSince the mid-1990s, the European Union has defined the Asia Pacific as one of its key strategic targets on its ambitious road towards a...

Reducere. American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground no...

A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific. Yesenia Barragan rethinks the n...

Reducere. In her pathbreaking book, Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through--and travel across--the ocean mediates the construction of Asia...

Reducere. 2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Awa...

Originally published in the Soviet Union, this text is meant for students of higher schools and deals with the most important sections of mathemati...

Tracing the global circulation and consumption of Hello Kitty, Christine R. Yano analyzes the spread of Japanese "cute-cool" culture, which she see...

Publisher: University of Hawai'i PressIllustration(s): 20 illustrations, 2 mapsNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 229 x 152Cover...

In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on the corporate scene as a privat...

DescriptionCheap Meat follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called "flaps, " from the farms of New Zealand a...

Reducere. Asian/Pacific Islander American Women is the first collection devoted to the historical study of A/PI women's diverse experiences in America. Cover...

Reducere. One of the classic works of marine biology, a favorite for generations, has now been completely revised and expanded. Between Pacific Tides is a bo...

This book offers a critical appraisal of Fulbright achievements and limitations in avoiding political influence, integrating gender and racial dive...

The collection studies the interactions of the European Union and the Asia Pacific, focusing on the EU as an emerging global player in contemporary...

Reducere. In 1920 Henry Ford bought "The Dearborn Independent, " a virile and very independent journal published in his home town. He used it to publish his ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Lauren HirshbergIllustration(s): 17 figures, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 386Collection: American Cro...

Publisher: University Press of the PacificNumber of pages: 588Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 154 x 228 x 36Cover type: Paperback / softbackEdito...

Reducere. The Midewiwin is the society of the Mide or Shamans, popularly designated as the Grand Medicine Society. It is found in many Algonkin tribes. Its r...

Reducere. A new look at one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944, the ope...

Reducere. DescriptionKonstantin Tsiolkovsky is recognized throughout the world as the father of astronautics. He was largely self-educated and in later life ...

Reducere. The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of ...

The Pacific is not only the world's largest body of water; its vast expanse also includes an extraordinary number and diversity of oceanic islands,...

This book explains why the idea of the Indo-Pacific is so strategically important and concludes with a strategy designed to help the West engage wi...

Publisher: University Press of the PacificAuthor(s): J F C HeckerIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 60Publication date...

Reducere. The world's fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 eart...

Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this groundbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson e...

Reducere. In his preface the author states: “The cinema is now one of the main objects on which efforts should be concentrated in order to conduct the revolu...

Reducere. Essential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in one succinct vol...

Reducere. It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didn't do...

Reducere. Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact ...

Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with b...

DescriptionIn Postcolonial Grief Jinah Kim explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politic...

Expands the literary canon on Polynesia and Melanesia beyond the giants, such as Herman Melville and Jack London, to include travel narratives by B...

What we call a part of the world - Asia, Europe, the Middle East - seems innocuous. But the name of a region is totemic: a mental map that guides t...

Reducere. More than one hundred Indian tribes in fifteen language groups inhabited the area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana in the nineteen...

Reducere. This lavishly illustrated story of technology, people, and commerce describes the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway's hauling of vast amounts of co...

Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most imp...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Michael R. JinNumber of pages: 248Collection: Asian AmericaPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 2...