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Reducere. DescriptionThis text is intended to be a learning resource for classes at both high school and college program levels. It is written in a modular f...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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. 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 ...

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...

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

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

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. In January 2010, the Gemini was moored in the Swinomish Slough on a Native American reservation near Anacortes, Washington. Unbeknownst to almost e...

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. The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shatterin...

``This booklet, based on original materials culled from archives in the United States and in the Russian Federation, treats a little known aspect o...

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

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...

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

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. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was supposedly written in 1897 from the minutes of 24 secret meetings between Jews and Freemasons in which they...

CONTENTS The Struggle for the Creation of a Social-Democratic Labour Party in Russia (1883 - 1901) Formation of the Russian Social-Democratic Labou...

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...

Reducere. Dirty Eddie's War is the true account of the war-time experiences of Harry Andrew March, Jr., captured by way of diary entries addressed to his bel...

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...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionCovering the timely topic of militia activity in the Northwest, this book is based on interviews with Patriot extremists and gives reade...

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

DescriptionThe only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a...

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...

DescriptionSoon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and th...

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

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

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

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,...

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

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joshua SavalaIllustration(s): 12 b-w figures, 5 tablesNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 202...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Describes naval tactics and weaponry precisely, and provides information gleaned from translations of the orders from the Japanese high command to ...

Reducere. Road to the Stars, Paperback

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

Reducere. 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. 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. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jonathan MarshallNumber of pages: 298Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 19Cover type...

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

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

Reducere. Just looking at the Pacific Northwest s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region...

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

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 ...

Reducere. Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This e...