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Reducere. This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renais...

Reducere. A reprint of a 1920 classic surveying the world racial situation after World War I and warning of the coming non-White population explosion. "The w...

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. Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchant for the grotesque and the bizarre to explore the...

This second edition is thoroughly updated with exciting discoveries made by new spacecraft missions and in state-of-the-art terrestrial laboratorie...

Reducere. What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? Th...

Reducere. In Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ance...

Tatau is a beautifully designed and richly illustrated retelling of the unique and powerful history of Sāmoan tattooing, from 3, 000 years ago to m...

Reducere. Understanding Reality, Paperback

DescriptionKorean Composition is the first book in English for students of Korean language aimed not only at enhancing their writing skills and ove...

Reducere. The fiction of Mori Ogai, written after the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912, secured his promiment place in modern Japanese literature. This collect...

Reducere. Among Marshallese the ri-bwebwenato (storyteller) is well known and respected, a living repository and transmitter of traditional history and cultu...

Reducere. "A responsible, poetic, perceptive look at an American problem that will not go away." - James MichenerIn 1967 the Peace Corps sent P.F. Kluge to p...

Reducere. Hawaii Nei brings together three plays by one of Hawaii's finest playwrights. A compassionate portrait of early nineteenth- century Hawaii, The Con...

Reducere. Jonathan Osorio investigates the effects of Western law on the national identity of Native Hawaiians in this impressive political history of the Ki...

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 ...

Describe a pervasive way of conducting private and public affairs in which state and local office holders throughout Hawaii took their personal fin...

Reducere. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity an...

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. When author Gail Okawa was in high school in Honolulu, a neighbor mentioned that her maternal grandfather had been imprisoned in a World War II con...

For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been ...

Reducere. Nishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work has never been translated i...

The Advanced Level texts are the seventh and eighth in a five-level series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of...

Reducere. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern Ch...

Reducere. The deity Inari has been worshipped in Japan since at least the early eighth century and today is a revered presence in such varied venues as Shint...

This book is the second of two volumes designed to help students learn the meaning and writing of the 3, 000 most frequently used simplified Chines...

Reducere. This book tells of one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory, a period during which Polynesians reached and settl...

At the start of the twenty-first century challenges to the global hegemony of U.S. culture are more apparent than ever. Two of the contenders vying...

Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and l...

This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of "world renewal" (yonaoshi). In the latter half of the Tokuga...

Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major charac...

Reducere. Are the works of contemporary Japanese novelists, as Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo has observed, mere reflections of the vast consumer culture of...

Reducere. This novel, written in dialect, reveals the everyday elements and dimensions of life in Hawaii.

Reducere. For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. Th...

Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia (It's Cool to Speak Indonesian) provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners with an introduction to the basic...

Reducere. From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins ...

In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new in...

Reducere. This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 2, the fourth volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively b...

Reducere. In this study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural...

Korean is the seventh most commonly spoken language in the United States, and Korean heritage students―those with some proficiency in or a cultural...

Reducere. This book is a highly readable introduction to Korean pronunciation for students at all levels of proficiency. Beginners will find the information ...

Reducere. Intended as a companion to the popular KLEAR Textbooks in Korean Language series and designed and edited by a leading Korean linguist, this is the ...

Reducere. Vocabulary learning is the single most important component of second-language acquisition. In cases where the second language is unrelated to the l...

Reducere. Japan's monastic warriors have fared poorly in comparison to the samurai, both in terms of historical reputation and representations in popular cul...

How can I know something? How can I convince someone of the rightness of my position? How does reality function? What is artistic creativity? What ...

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...

Reducere. This study involves a fourteen-hundred-kilometer-long pilgrimage around Japan's fourth largest island, Shikoku. In traveling the circuit of the eig...

A collection of fourteen articles on connected speech of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials developers in both ESL/EFL and Japanese.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Epeli Hau'ofaIn this lively satire of contemporary South Pacific life, we meet a familiar cast of characters: multinational...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas P. KasulisPhilosophy challenges our assumptions--especially when it comes to us from another culture. In exploring J...

Contributor(s): Author: Young-Mee Yu ChoAuthor: Hyo Sang LeeAuthor: Carol SchulzThis is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Beginnin...

Reducere. Entry Into the Inconceivable is an introduction to the philosophy of the Hua-yen school of Buddhism, one of the cornerstones of East Asian Buddhist...

Reducere. Although Before the Dawn is the story of the author's family and of the Meiji restoration, it is much more than that; the aftermath of the events t...

Reducere. 'O si Manu a Ali'i is the first comprehensive guide for teachers of Samoan oratory and the Samoan language of respect. It is also an authoritative ...

Reducere. Audio files for this volume may be downloaded on the web in MP3 format at http: //www.kleartextbook.com. A CD is also available for purchase.The Ad...

Reducere. The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Tra...

Reducere. Making Sense of Japanese Grammar explains in a lively and highly informative manner basic principles that underlie a wide range of phenomena in Jap...

Reducere. When the storytellers of ancient Hawaii gathered by the light of candlenut torches, they told tales that explained the world around them. These tal...

Reducere. This root-based dictionary of the Ilocano language is the most comprehensive dictionary produced of Ilocano (Iloko), the lingua franca of Northern ...

Reducere. DescriptionLords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the ...

Reducere. This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Young-Mee Yu ChoAuthor: Hyo Sang LeeAuthor: Carol SchulzThis is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermed...

Reducere. We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challe...

Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia (It's Cool to Speak Indonesian) provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners with an introduction to the basic...

Reducere. Nishida Kitar , Japan's premier modern philosopher, was born in 1870 and grew to intellectual maturity in the final decades of the Meiji period (18...

Reducere. Japan is one of the most media-saturated societies in the world. The circulations of its big five national newspapers dwarf those of any major Amer...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Galumalemana Afeleti HunkinGagana Samoa is a modern Samoan language resource. Designed for both classroom and personal use,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mee-Jeong ParkAuthor: Sang-Suk OhAuthor: Joowon SuhThis workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised edition of Integrated K...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: James W. HeisigEditor: Thomas P. KasulisEditor: John C. MaraldoWith Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, readers of English c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Takaji AboAuthor: Byron W. BenderAuthor: Alfred CapelleThe Marshallese-English Dictionary contains almost 12, 000 entries g...