The Pacific, Paperback

Shows that the current strong economic performance in the Asia-Pacific region provides an opportune time for governments to initiate policies that ...

Viruses and plagues have constantly threatened the survival of humanity since the evolution of modern man. Medical advances thanks to the applicati...

DescriptionDuring the Pacific War between the U.S. and Imperial Japanese navies, the author's father, Francis Gelzheiser, deployed with Motor Torpe...

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

Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational ...

Provides an overview of climate change mitigation and adaptation priorities in the agriculture and land use sectors of countries in the Pacific, as...

Reducere. This publication examines the initial impact on trade, investment, finance, and peoples mobility as the coronavirus disease pandemic struck Asia an...

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

The U.S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-1945 analyzes the Pacific War with a focus on America's participation in the conflict.Publisher: Taylor &...

This book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of resilience through the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) pr...

This book examines how states in eight countries across Asia and the Pacific address internal displacement in the context of disasters and climate ...

Bringing together a team of cutting-edge researchers based in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific countries, this book focuses on the tug of war bet...

The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) is the global guiding document on population ageing, and with its round of third review a...

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

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

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

The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands, which are home to numerous human societies and...

Reducere. Under one cover, an edited collection of the best works by noted military historians on the importance of military logistics in World War II. *** P...

Focusing on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, among others, contributors assert that kinship is a lived and living...

Adopts a rigorous approach to measuring and quantifying progress in the level of inclusion and empowerment of marginalised groups across countries ...

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

Reviews the state of play in implementation of trade facilitation and paperless trade in the Asia and the Pacific region. This report also provides...

Exploring a selection of current issues in international law as they pertain to South Pacific countries and Antarctica, this volume covers diverse ...

This volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific from December 1941 until March 1942, during which air operations by both sides became a ...

Demographic transition, along with the economic and geopolitical re-emergence of Asia, are two of the largest forces shaping the twenty-first centu...

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...

Reducere. A history about those who advise, mentor, and operate behind the throne of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. From early childh...

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

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...

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...

Jonathan Ping's volume establishes a unifying theory for the concept of middle power (MP). MPs are states which have an innate form of statecraft a...

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. 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...

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...

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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. During the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the transpacific treasure galleons sailed annually from Manila to Acapulco. In Manila, the vessel...

DescriptionThis second volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific for the two crucial months of March and April 1942 when a deadly strug...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Esther WojcickiAuthor: Lance IzumiMoonshots in Education explores digital and online learning in the classroom and what it ...

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...

The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. As it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening...

Today the Asia-Pacific region stands on the verge of major change, with centuries of western dominated regional order being seriously challenged an...

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

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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. "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...

Volume One of Pacific Profiles presents detailed profiles and descriptions of Japanese Army Air Force aircraft and units operating in New Guinea an...

Conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the Solomons theatre, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate ...

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

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...

One of the most important battles of the Second World War. The four-day battle resulted in the loss of all four Japanese aircraft carriers, the US ...

Reducere. Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant model of a "homeless person" has been that of an u...

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,...

Exploring the United States through Literature describes the best of current print and nonprint materials teachers can use with their students to s...

Reducere. DescriptionThis award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combini...

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

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionFor five centuries Europeans sought a short cut across the top of the world. The quest for a passage to the riches of the Orient claimed...

Reducere. Beginning with a look at the readiness of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy and the United States armed forces, this book gives a detailed accoun...

This book places the presidency of Donald Trump as well as the brewing Sino-American Cold War within the broader historical context of American heg...

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