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Book SynopsisThis book aims to augment the Ashgate series by taking stock of the current state of migration law literature. It also aims to sketch out the contours of its future long-term development, in what is now by all accounts a vastly expanded research agenda.Trade Review'...provides the reader with a comprehensive review of current research spanning the national, the supranational, the global, regional and local. The chapters provide fresh and insightful analysis of applicable law, theory, policy and practice. In doing so, the contributions identify practical challenges and solutions for change and identify lacunae in the existing research, setting an agenda for future enquiry.' Asian and Pacific Migration Journal ’...this book ranges far and wide... has much to offer.’ International Journal of Refugee LawTable of ContentsPart I: The Refugee in Europe’s Free Movement Regime 1. The ‘New Europe’ and the ‘European Refugee’: The Subversion of the European Union’s Refugee Law by its Migration Policy 2. The Modern Refugee in the Post-modern Europe 3. EU Immigration and the New EU Treaty Framework 4. Are European States Accountable for Border Deaths? Part II: Safeguarding the Safety and Security of Refugees 5. Jonah and Socrates as Refugees: Repentance, Redemption and Responsibility 6. Strengthening International Refugee Rights through the Enhanced Supervision of the 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol 7. Non-refoulement Obligations in Public International Law: Towards a New Protection Status? 8. Country Information and Evidence Assessment in New Zealand Part III: The Responsibility to Protect Displaced Populations 9. The Shifting Boundaries and Content of Protection: The Internal Protection Alternative Revisited 10. Territorial Protection: Cessation of Refugee Status and Internal Flight Alternative Compared 11. Sharing Responsibility for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Asia Pacific Region 12. Disowned in their Own Land: The Courts and Protection of the Internally Displaced Person Part IV: Emerging Paradigms of Legal Protection 13. Human Trafficking, Asylum and the Problem of Protection 14. Child Migration and the Lacunae in International Protection 15. Unaccompanied Children and their Protection under International Refugee Law 16. Forced Displacement, the Law of International Armed Conflict, and State Authority Part V: Encampment, Detention and the Coercive Treatment of Asylum-Seekers 17. Asylum Seekers, Detention and the Law: Morality in Abeyance? 18. Regulation 5.35: Coerced Treatment of Detained Asylum Seekers on Hunger Strike. Legal, Ethical and Human Rights Implications 19. ‘Less Coercive Means’: The Legal Case for Alternatives to Detention for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants 20. The End of Refugee Camps? Part VI: Migrant Workers, Skilled Labour and the Control of Human Mobility 21. In Defence of the Migrant Workers Convention: Standard Setting for Contemporary Migration 22. The Movement of Skilled Labour and Knowledge across Borders 23. Migration Control and Human Security 24. Collective Remittances in Comparative Perspective: The Cases of El Salvador and Mexico Part VII: Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Modern State 25. Global Migratory Policies: Neither Closed nor Open Borders 26. Transnational Family Relations in Migration Contexts: British Variations on European Themes 27. Secret Immigration Business: Policy Transfers and the Tyranny of Deterrence Theory 28. Family Migration and New Labour 29. Elements of Movement Controls in Post-sovereign Governmentality 30. Transnational Citizenship and the Democratic State: On Modes of Membership and Rights of Political Participation

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2021‘This book will be equally as valuable for historians of anthropology and colonialism; scholars working in Melanesia; and the Islander descendants of Haddon's interlocutors' - Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteRecording Kastom brings readers into the heart of colonial Torres Strait and New Guinea through the personal journals of Cambridge zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Haddon, who visited the region in 1888 and 1898.Haddon's published reports of these trips were hugely influential on the nascent discipline of anthropology, but his private journals and sketches have never been published in full. The journals record in vivid detail Haddon's observations and relationships. They highlight his preoccupation with documentation, and the central role played by the Islanders who worked with him to record kastom. This collaboration resulted in an enormous body of materials that remain of vital interest to Torres Strait Islanders and the communities where he worked. Haddon's Journals provide unique and intimate insights into the colonial history of the region will be an important resource for scholars in history, anthropology, linguistics and musicology.This comprehensively annotated edition assembles a rich array of photographs, drawings, artefacts, film and sound recordings. An introductory essay provides historical and cultural context. The preface and epilogue provide Islander perspectives on the historical context of Haddon’s work and its significance for the future.Trade Review“This shift [materials re-conceived not as ‘data’ but as ‘cultural heritage’] has occurred in no small part due to the advocacy of source communities who continue to speak assertively about the value of such materials to their contemporary lives. Anita Herle and Jude Philp have taken up this challenge and via their engagements with the relevant communities they have made this important material widely accessible for the first time … Recording Kastom will therefore become a key text for students and scholars of Australian and Pacific history, Indigenous studies, anthropology and museology.” -- Jason Gibson * Anthropological Forum *‘[The introduction] provides a highly informative backdrop to the Haddon journals, detailing Haddon and his family, the colonial context of Haddon’s research in Torres Strait, and a critical examination of Haddon and his team’s innovative approach to fieldwork … Recording Kastom leaves us with a very strong sense that the most important legacy of Haddon and the ‘Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits’ resides with Torres Strait Islander families of today and into the future.’ -- Ian McNiven * Australian Archaeology *“Recording Kastom is an extraordinary publication that serves well the remarkable collection of arrows, masks, adornments, figures and rain charms now held at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in the University of Cambridge. The information in Haddon’s journals gives the reader a deeper sense of context for these artefacts and fascinating insights into the region of the Pacific during a time of great change just before the dawn of the 20th century.” -- Crispin Howarth * Journal of the Oceanic Art Society *'Recording Kastom is exemplary of this quieter but committed work – part of ongoing efforts by Anita Herle and Jude Philp to reconnect Torres Strait Islanders to their heritage, and to facilitate the return of collections in many different forms to Islander communities ... This book will be equally as valuable for historians of anthropology and colonialism; scholars working in Melanesia; and the Islander descendants of Haddon's interlocutors.' -- Haidy Geismar * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Preface Notes on the text Introduction The Journals of Alfred Cort Haddon Epilogue Works cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the history of the highly trained officers and men who went by the cover name Beach Jumpers. Their top-secret mission was to create and sustain the illusion that a military landing was imminent at Beach A when in fact U.S. allied troops would hit the beaches 100 miles away at Beach X. During World War II, their tactics were extremely successful in Sicily, Salerno, Southern France, and the Philippines. Beach Jumpers later served ashore and afloat in Vietnam. Their descendants, called Fleet Tactical Deception Groups, continue their important, highly classified work today. This work details the development, major operations, weapons, and leaders of this deception group.The Beach Jumpers began as a naval task group under the direct control of the fleet commander. The group consisted of specialists, officers, and men, trained to conduct tactical cover and deception missions, to include radio and radar countermeasures. The program was initiated by Douglas ETable of ContentsPreface The Actor and the Admirals The Countermeasures Program The Sounds of Deception Beach Jumper Training: Camp Bradford and Ocracoke First Assignment: Operation HUSKY Island Diversions and Special Operations Beach Jumpers in the MTO: Act Two Adriatic Interlude Ringing Down the Curtain in the MTO The RCM Picture in the Pacific Tayabas Bay Finale Beach Jumpers Redux Practicing to Deceive Electronic Warriors Ashore and Afloat in Vietnam Naval Cover and Deception in the Post-Vietnam Era Glossary Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with concepts that emerged from the "world in between" nations and cities.Table of ContentsIn the Precincts of the Global City: The Transnational Network of Municipal Affairs in Mebourne, Australia at the End of the Nineteenth Century; A. Brown-May Mediterranean Connections: The Circulation of Municipal Knowledge and Practices at the Time of the Ottoman Reforms, c. 1830-1910; N. Lafi Pacific Crossings: Transnational Urban Progressivism in the Twentieth Century; J. Hanes A City in a World of Cities: The Involvement of Lyon in the International Union of Local Authorities (1913-1940) and in Eurocities (1986-2006); R. Payre and P. Y. Saunier Selling the City-State: Planning and Housing in Singapore, 1945-1990; N. H. Kwak "Transnational Municipalism" in a Europe of Second Cities: Rebuilding Birmingham with Municipal Networks; S. Ewen Mayor Edward I. Koch and New York's Municipal Foreign Policy 1977-1990; J. Soffer The Municipal Making of Transnational Networks: A Case Study of Montreal's Twinning with Shanghai; Y. Hsu Latin American Municipalities in Transnational Networks: Reforming Municipal Government in Rosario (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay) in the 1990s; S. Robin and S. Velut Lost in Translation?: Mapping, Moulding, and Managing the "Transnational Municipal Moment"; S. Ewen The Study of Municpal Connections; M. Hietala

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Book SynopsisDirty Windshields is the long-awaited memoir from CBC host and award-winning author Grant Lawrence, baring all the salacious and hilarious details from his touring days as the lead singer of Vancouver-based rock and roll band The Smugglers. Formed when most of the members were still in high school, The Smugglers came of age during the height of the grunge explosion in the early 1990s, when Grant, working as a concert promoter, put on shows for Nirvana, Green Day and Bad Religion, among many others.In Dirty Windshields, Grant chronicles the band's booze-fueled, sweaty, broke and wayward attempts at rock and roll glory as they trekked across Canada, the United States, and eventually, Europe and the Pacific Rim. In their sixteen years of touring, the Smugglers experienced all the highs and lows the road can offer, from playing a gig at New York's legendary CBGB club to starting a riot in a Denver nightclub to having their performance tuxes stolen in Australia. Through the fights, sexual misadventures, new friendships, dance contests and mayhem, the band grew up together on the road. Told with Grant's signature self-deprecating wit, the anecdotes develop into a compelling story of the growth of an independent, do-it-yourself touring band, a community, and a musical movement. So crack open a semi-cold can of Black Label beer, stick a Smugglers tape into the cassette deck and let the good times roll.

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Book Synopsis"The International Handbook of Psychology in Education" provides researchers, practitioners and advisers working in the fields of psychology and education with an overview of cutting-edge research across a broad spectrum of work within the domain of psychology of education. The chapters in the handbook are authored by internationally recognised researchers, from across Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim. As well as covering the latest thinking within established areas of enquiry, the handbook includes chapters on recently emerging, yet important, topics within the field and explicitly considers the inter-relationship between theory and practice. A strong unifying theme is the volume's emphasis on processes of teaching and learning. The work discussed in the handbook focuses on typically developing school-age children, although issues relating to specific learning difficulties are also addressed.Trade ReviewThis fine collection of key contemporary work by renowned authors represents the state of the art in the psychology of education. The book is ground-breaking, timely and comprehensive, and indispensable reading for scholars and practitioners interested in understanding and promoting teaching and learning in diverse educational contexts.A" Professor Sylvia Rojas-Drummond, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) This book brings together an all-star cast of international experts, and should be required reading for the large community of education researchers who are studying how to improve classroom instruction by using psychological research.A" Professor Keith Sawyer, Washington University, St Louis, USA.

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Book SynopsisThe Polynesian triangle covers Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand and the many isles in between. The legends of the region are based on the creation of land, fish, sea, valleys and the volcanic outcrops scattered across the long stretches of the Pacific. The beautiful myths of the ancient Polynesians are brought together in this new collection: from Hawaii the Rainbow Maiden of Manoa undulates through the valleys and rainbow mists; the creator Maui releases his fish hooks into the sea to raise the islands to the surface; and tales of Pele the Fire Goddess, who hurls fountains of molten rock into the air creating vast flows of lava. From the Maori of New Zealand come the strange fruit of darkness, the tales of Tiki and the Great Mother from whom the gods descend, then humankind. And from Polynesia, more legends of Maui creating the ancestors, and Hina the moon goddess. Such myth-making joy creates a rare unity in diversity as the ancient Polynesians strove to explain the beauty and darkness of their lush ocean worlds, now offered in this new selection of myths and legends. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

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Book SynopsisChilling supernatural horror combining Japanese folklore with WW2 historical fiction from a multiple award-winning author. As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn't matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered a threat by the American government. Mother and daughter attempt to hold on to elements of their old life in the camp when a mysterious disease begins to spread among those interned. What starts as a minor cold quickly becomes spontaneous fits of violence and aggression, even death. And when a disconcerting team of doctors arrive, nearly more threatening than the illness itself, Meiko and her daughter team up with a newspaper reporter and widowed missionary to investigate, and it becomes clear to them that something more sinister is afoot: a demon from the stories of Meiko's childhood, hell-bent on infiltrating their already strange world. Inspired by the Japanese yokai and the jorogumo spider demon, THE FERVOR explores a supernatural threat beyond what anyone saw coming: the danger of demonization, a mysterious contagion, and the search to stop its spread before it's too late.

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Book SynopsisOffering a fresh look at Oceania that incorporates new scholarship and perspectives from Indigenous voices, this book uses art to explore histories of expression and aesthetic innovation that epitomize this vast and expansive region. The visual arts of Oceania tell a wealth of dynamic stories about origins, ancestral power, performance, and initiation. This publication explores the deeply rooted connections between Austronesian-speaking peoples, whose ancestral homelands span Island Southeast Asia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the island archipelagoes of the northern and eastern Pacific. Unlike previous books, it foregrounds Indigenous perspectives, alongside multidisciplinary research in art history, ethnography, and archaeology, to provide an intimate look at Oceania, its art, and its culture. Stunning new photography highlights more than 130 magnificent objects, ranging from elaborately carved ancestral figures in ceremonial houses, towering slit drums, and dazzling turtle-shell masks to polished whale ivory breastplates. Underscoring the powerful interplay between the ocean and its islands, and the ongoing connection with spiritual and ancestral realms, Oceania: The Shape of Time presents an art-focused approach to life and culture while guiding readers through the artistic achievements of Islanders across millennia. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule: Museum of Art Pudong, ShanghaiJune 1–August 20, 2023National Museum of Qatar, DohaOctober 16, 2023–January 15, 2024 Accompanies the reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in Spring 2025

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Book SynopsisJodi Kim examines how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era through a militarist settler imperialism that is leveraged on debt.Trade Review“Settler Garrison is a stunning, magisterial work that provides an entirely original definition of US empire as predicated on the production of its legitimation to wield power. Jodi Kim frames spaces heretofore deemed anomalous or marginal—the camptown, the POW camp, and the unincorporated territory—as the very sites where US empire establishes its authority to rule. In the process of redefining and reframing US empire, Kim offers a unique and sorely needed relational methodology for understanding the connection between its various modes, in particular between military empire and settler colonialism." -- Grace Kyungwon Hong, author of * Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference *Table of ContentsIntroduction. US Exceptionalisms, Metapolitical Authority, and the Aesthetics of Settler Imperial Failure 1 1. Perverse Temporalities: Primitive Accumulation and the Settler Colonial Foundations of Debt Imperialism 39 2. The Military Base and Camptown: Seizing Land "by Bulldozer and Bayonet" and the Transpacific Masculinist Compact 62 3. The POW Camp: Waging Psychological Warfare and a New Settler Frontier 113 4. The Unincorporated Territory: Constituting Indefinite Deferral and "No Page Is Ever Terra Nullius" 138 Epilogue. Climate Change, Climate Debt, Climate Imperialism 174 Acknowledgments 185 Notes 189 Bibliography 229 Index 249

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Book SynopsisExploring a wide range of sonic practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors reorient the field of sound studies toward the global South in order to rethink and decolonize modes of understanding and listening to sound.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Remapping Sound Studies in the Global South / Gavin Steingo and Jim Sykes 1 Part I. The Technology Problematic 1. Another Resonance: Africa and the Sound of Study / Gavin Steingo 39 2. Ululation / Louise Meintjes 61 3. How the Sea Is Sounded: Remapping Indigenous Soundings in the Marshallese Diaspora / Jessica A. Schwartz 77 Part II. Multiple Liminologies 4. Antenatal Aurality in Pacific Afro-Colombia Midwifery / Jairo Moreno 109 5. Loudness, Excess, Power: A Political Liminology of a Global City of the South / Michael Birenbaum Quintero 135 6. The Spoiled and the Salvaged: Modulations of Auditory Value in Bangalore and Bangkok / Michele Friedner and Benjamin Tausig 156 7. Remapping the Voice through Transgender-Hijra Performance / Jeff Roy 173 Part III. The Politics of Sound 8. Banlieue Sounds, or, The Right to Exist / Hervé Tchumkam 185 9. Sound Studies, Difference, and Global Concept History / Jim Sykes 203 10. "Faking It": Moans and Groans of Loving and Living in Govindpuri Slums / Tripta Chandola 228 11. Disorienting Sounds: A Sensory Ethnography of Syrian Dance Music / Shayna Silverstein 241 12. Afterword. Sonic Cartographies / Ana María Ochoa Gautier 261 Contributors 275 Index 277

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Book SynopsisA highly illustrated and detailed study of one of the most important campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, the Spanish conquest of the vast Inca Empire.On November 16, 1532, the Inca emperor Atahualpa was the most powerful man in South America, having emerged victorious from a three-year civil war. Now his authority was absolute over millions of subjects living the length of an empire that stretched 2,500 miles from the towering mountains of the Andes, to the verdant rainforest of the Amazon, to the arid plains of the Pacific Coast. However, a group of strangers, comprising just 169 men and 69 horses led by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, soon entered his empire from the north. Despite having 80,000 men at his disposal, Atahualpa was seized and imprisoned. Pizarro burned with the same ruthless ambition as his cousin, Hernán Cortés, who had taken Tenochtitlan, and understood that by seizing the autocrat at the top of the social structure, the stateTable of ContentsORIGINS OF THE CAMPAIGN - Arrival of the conquistadors - The capture of Atahualpa - Advance on Cuzco CHRONOLOGY OPPOSING COMMANDERS - Conquistador - Inca OPPOSING FORCES AND PLANS - Inca - Conquistador THE SIEGE OF CUZCO, 1536–37 - The end of the rebel Inca generals - Conquistador divisions and Manco’s uprising - The siege begins - The Inca assault, May 6, 1536 - The battle for Sacsayhuamán - Conquistador relief efforts - Quizo targets Lima - Ollantaytambo - Breaking the siege of Cuzco AFTERMATH BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisWhen the Genoese merchant, Marco Polo, first arrived in Dynastic China he was faced with a society far advanced of anything he had encountered in Europe. The ports were filled with commodities from all over the eastern world, while new technology was driving the economy forward. It would take another 400 years before European trade in the Atlantic eclipsed the Pacific markets.From China''s phenomenally successful Sung dynasty (c. AD 960-1279), Cargoes reveals the power of the Mughals merchants of Gujarat, who built an empire so powerful that, even in the 17th century, the richest man in the world was a Gujarat trader. It was not until the opening up of the spice routes and the discovery of South American gold that medieval Iberia came to the fore. It was only then that the Atlantic Empire of the west came to dominate world trade, first the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century, then the British Empire in the age of the Industrial Revolution, American supremacy in Trade ReviewEye-opening in revealing the flow of wealth through 800 years of world history -- Kim Jin Hyuk * Samsung Economics Research Lab *Shows how fundamental the exchange of commodities and the development of logistics have been to human history * Livraria da Folha *Deals with the ways commerce has changed the world in the last 800 years, opening the way to globalization * Diário do Nordeste *Recommended * Segye *

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Book SynopsisLiving on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or `irregular') migrants living in London, and their employers. It offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses.Trade Review"Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay not only show the challenges faced by those living without documentation, but also explore current legislation and policies that are shaping these experiences." LSE Review of Books"Bloch and McKay provide a thorough-going account of...the undocumented migrant." Chartist"A very welcome contribution in a context where immigrants are seen as scapegoats for unemployment and weakening social cohesion." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal"This is a fascinating and accessible account of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants. Drawing on high quality empirical research it provides a compelling narrative of their experiences and how they navigate the pressures of living on the margins of society." John Solomos, University of Warwick"Based on lengthy interviews with workers and employers from China, Turkey, and Bangladesh, the book documents in tragic detail the penalties of 'illegality' for undocumented migrants living and working in London during an era of global economic downturn. Essential and timely." Jacqueline Maria Hagan, University of North Carolina, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; Policy, law and rights; Migration: Motives, journey and status mobility; Undocumented migrants living and working in London; Ethnic enclave entrepreneurs; Social networks and social lives; The consequences of being undocumented; Grasping life on the margins.

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Book SynopsisAsian economies strengthened their monetary and currency management after the Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998, and came through the global financial crisis of 2007–2009 relatively well.Trade Review'[T]he volume is a useful read for those interested in aspects of monetary and financial issues in Asia.' --Ramkishen S. Rajan, The Developing EconomiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Monetary and Currency Policy Issues: An Overview Shinji Takagi PART I: MONETARY POLICY ISSUES 2. The Role and Effectiveness of Unconventional Monetary Policy Peter J. Morgan 3. Monetary Policy Strategies in the Asia and Pacific Region: Which Way Forward? Andrew Filardo and Hans Genberg PART II: EXCHANGE RATE POLICY AND RESERVE MANAGEMENT ISSUES 4. International Monetary Transmission and Exchange Rate Regimes: Floaters vs Non-floaters in East Asia Soyoung Kim and Doo Yong Yang 5. Macroeconomic Impacts of Foreign Exchange Reserve Accumulation: Theory and International Evidence Shin-ichi Fukuda and Yoshifumi Kon PART III: RECOMMENDATIONS RELATED TO THE ‘IMPOSSIBLE TRINITY’ 6. The Financial Crisis, Rethinking of the Global Financial Architecture, and the Trilemma Joshua Aizenman, Menzie D. Chinn and Hiro Ito 7. Asia Confronts the Impossible Trinity Ila Patnaik and Ajay Shah PART IV: IMPACTS ON ASIA OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND POLICY RESPONSES 8. Asia’s Post-global Financial Crisis Adjustment: A Model-based Dynamic Analysis Masahiro Kawai and Fan Zhai PART V: REGIONAL COOPERATION ISSUES 9. A Proposal for Exchange Rate Policy Coordination in East Asia Masahiro Kawai and Shinji Takagi Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is both an indictment of corporate greed and a snapshot of racial and social attitudes in an almost decade-by-decade examination."—David Mills, Western Historical Quarterly"Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing provides a unique and nuanced account of the intersection between gender and workplace culture during Boeing's hundred year history."—Sarah Moore, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly"Polly Reed Myers's Capitalist Family Values traces the evolution of corporate culture at one of the world's largest aerospace companies in order to elucidate the role of gender at work and the dynamics of occupational inequality. . . . Her attention to men in managerial and engineering occupations makes this a particularly welcome addition to the literature on gender and work in the twentieth-century United States."—Natalie J. Marine-Street, Pacific Historical Review“Capitalist Family Values represents a rich contribution to ongoing studies of work and labor history, women’s and gender history, history of sexuality, and the history of business.”—Amy Bix, author of Girls Coming to Tech! A History of American Engineering Education for Women Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Finding Women at Boeing Acknowledgments Introduction: The Boeing Family Chapter 1: Fraternalism and the Boeing News in the 1930s Chapter 2: Manpower versus Womanpower during World War II Chapter 3: Women’s Place in Equal Opportunity Employment Chapter 4: Jane Doe v. Boeing Company Chapter 5: Employing Teamwork Conclusion: Corporate Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe last great battle of World War II began on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, when more than 184,000 began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. The island of Okinawa was just 350 miles from mainland Japan, and the Allies planned to use it as its forward base for its invasion.On the island, nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers resisted the US-led assault with suicidal tenacity from a Gibraltar of hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, U.S. troops fought ferociously, battered the Japanese with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool. The battle also marked the apotheosis of kamikaze air attacks, which sank 36 warships, damaged 368 others and killed almost 5,000 seamen.When the brutal slugfest ended, more than 125,00 enemy had been killed--and 7,500 American ground troops had died. And tragically, at least hundred thousand Okinawa civilians died violently while trapped between the battling armies. The Japanese had succeeded in preventing invasion, but the bloody campaign had convinced US leaders that only an atomic bomb could end the war.Utilizing vivid accounts written by US combatants, along with previously unused Japanese sources, Joseph Wheelan brings a strong human dimension to this rich story of the war''s last great battle waged against an determined enemy and extreme conditions.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn excellent textbook for students and scholars in international relations, political science, and Asian studies, and even for diplomats and policy makers. -- Alon Levkowitz H-US-JapanTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1. Unbundling Asia's New Multilateralism Bates Gill and Michael J. Green Part I National Strategies for Regionalism 2. Evolving U.S. Views on Asia's Future Institutional Architecture Ralph A. Cossa 3. Chinese Perspectives on Building an East Asian Community in the Twenty-first Century Wu Xinbo 4. Regional Multilateralism in Asia and the Korean Question Lim Wonhyuk 5. Japan's Perspective on Asian Regionalism Akiko Fukushima 6. India and the Asian Security Architecture C. Raja Mohan 7. Australia's Pragmatic Approach to Asian Regionalism Greg Sheridan 8. The Strong in the World of the Weak: Southeast Asia in Asia's Regional Architecture Amitav Acharya Part II The Functional Challenges 9. Emerging Economic Architecture in Asia: Opening or Insulating the Region? Amy Searight 10. Norms and Regional Architecture: Multilateral Institution Building in Asia and Its Impact on Governance and Democracy William Cole and Erik G. Jensen 11. Defense Issues and Asia's Future Security Architecture Michael E. O'Hanlon 12. Nontraditional Security and Multilateralism in Asia: Reshaping the Contours of Regional Security Architecture Mely Caballero-Anthony 13. Challenges to Building an Effective Asia-Pacific Security Architecture Brendan Taylor and William T. Tow Appendix. Selected List of Principal Regional Institutions in Asia Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis(Edition updated in 2023) Japan is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean with dense cities, imperial palaces, mountainous national parks and thousands of shrines and temples. Shinkansen bullet trains connect the main islands of Kyushu (with Okinawa's subtropical beaches), Honshu (home to Tokyo and Hiroshimas atomic-bomb memorial) and Hokkaido (famous for skiing). Tokyo, the capital, is known for skyscrapers, shopping and pop culture. MICHELIN National Maps give you an overall picture of your journey thanks to its clear and accurate mapping scale.. Our map will help you easily plan your safe and enjoyable journey thanks to a comprehensive key, a complete name index as well a clever time & distance chart. Includes a City map of Tokyo Our National Map Series will help you easily plan your safe and enjoyable journey thanks to a comprehensive key, a complete name index as well a clever time & distance chart. Michelin's driving information will help you navigate safely in all circumstances. In addition, some MICHELIN National Maps are cross-referenced with the MICHELIN Green Guide highlighting destinations worth stopping for! With MICHELIN National Maps, find more than just your way! MICHELIN NATIONAL MAPS feature: * Up-to-date mapping * A scale adapted to the size of the country * A clear and comprehensive key * Distance and time chart * Place name index * Driving and road safety information * Tourist sights information Our maps are regularly updated even if the ISBN does not change.

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Book SynopsisThe very first Drawn and Quarterly Kitaro collection, now back in print with a lush new cover. Kitaro seems just like any other boy. Of course, he isn t what with his one eye and jet-powered geta sandals, and the fact that he can shape shift like a chameleon. It s all a part of being a 350 year-old yokai, a Japanese spirit monster. Against a backdrop of photorealistic landscapes, Kitaro and his otherworldly cartoon friends plunge into the depths of the Pacific Ocean and forge the oft-unseen wilds of Japan s countryside. The twelve stories in this special collection include more works published in the golden age of GeGeGe no Kitaro between 1967 and 1969. It is a must-have for Kitaro s most devoted fans and features one of the earliest battles of monster versus giant robot battles seen in print. In another very special episode, our titular good guy even battles vampires, werewolves, and witches alongside creepy compatriots and occasional foes. Kitaro, as seen on TV and played in video games, is now a cultural touchstone for several generations. This updated and newly released edition is a wonderful companion to the classic all-ages Kitaro series that blends the eerie with the comic. The Eisner-Award winner Shigeru Mizuki s offbeat sense of humor and genius for the macabre make for a delightful, lighthearted romp where bad guys always get what s coming to them.

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Book Synopsis'An intelligent, beautifully written story about a dysfunctional family in a sinister paradise' The TimesOceania 1879. A family of settlers from New Zealand are the sole inhabitants of a remote volcanic island.For two years they have struggled with the harsh reality of trying to make this unforgiving place a paradise they can call their own. At last, a ship appears. The six Pacific Islanders on board have travelled eight hundred miles across the ocean in search of work and new horizons. Hopes are high for all, until a vulnerable boy vanishes. In their search for the lost child, settlers and newcomers together uncover far more than they were looking for. The island's secrets force them all to question their deepest convictions.Praise for Mr Peacock's Possessions:'Syson's novel, a modern take on the literary genre known (after Robinson Crusoe) as the robinsonade, is a haunting exploration of Lizzie's disillusion with her father's dreams and their damaging consequences' The Sunday Times 'Syson's novel is richly evocative of a Pacific world in flux, as cultures clash and individuals battle to find their place amid the ensuing confusion . . . a very moving story of fathers and children, of faith and disillusion, and of the dangerous consequences of trying to take possession of people as well as land'BBC History Magazine'Lushly written, with immaculate historical detail, it worked for me on many levels' Women and Home'As compelling, mysterious and haunting as the troubled tropical paradise it portrays . . . Syson doesn't just write about the past, she transports us there. A tour de force'Piers Torday'A wonderful book full of drama, courage and aspirations. The language is rich and the characters so humanely drawn' Carol Drinkwater'A thrilling story of love and courage, brutality and hope all told with equal measures of deep humanity, imagination and élan. Lydia Syson has an amazing gift of bringing history alive through richness of language, dramatic pace and fabulous visual imagery. This is better than watching a film!'Anne Sebba'With its chorus of vivid voices, Lydia Syson's novel reminds us why we consumed The Poisonwood Bible and The Underground Railway so avidly'Michelle Lovric'What a powerful, rich and fascinating book. Dark historical events are interwoven with the mystery of a missing child on a remote Pacific island in 1879. Highly compelling' Anna Mazzola'Swiss Family Robinson meets Lord of the Flies in Lydia Syson's superb and engrossing book. This scintillating story evokes an island paradise which descends into a nightmarish hell as Mr Peacock's Possessions builds towards a shocking revelation and a thrilling climax'Wendy Moore'A tense, evocative, richly imagined novel' Emma Darwin'Lydia Syson writes very well about the natural world . . . [and] the dark tensions in family life that overwhelm the Peacocks'Miranda Miller'Dazzling . . . A vividly realised, compelling novel'Linda Newberry'Mr Peacock's Possessions - one of those rare novels which keeps you up much later than you'd planned - is everything I love in a book. What starts out as a wonderful adventure slowly reveals itself as something altogether darker. Then you realise you can't put it down until you discover the truth. Swallows and Amazons for grown-ups'Alex Monroe'That's perhaps the greatest achievement of this novel: it stays with you. I've been haunted by it since I finished reading it. I hope very much that it gets the attention and praise it deserves . . . This novel is pleasurable on so many levels'The History Girls'Syson's eye for character is immediate - her narrative voice reaching out from the page and grabbing the reader from the off. They're drawn into a small but compelling community, one full of interesting characters and complicated relationships that only becomes more intriguing as the book goes on . . . Syson brings things to a climax that's as rewarding as it is moving - and allows her to examine community, youth and family in a beautifully drawn setting'The Bookbag'This certainly is one of the most powerful, brilliantly written books'Breakaway ReviewsTrade ReviewSyson's novel, a modern take on the literary genre known (after Robinson Crusoe) as the robinsonade, is a haunting exploration of Lizzie's disillusion with her father's dreams and their damaging consequences * The Sunday Times *Syson's novel is richly evocative of a Pacific world in flux, as cultures clash and individuals battle to find their place amid the ensuing confusion . . . a very moving story of fathers and children, of faith and disillusion, and of the dangerous consequences of trying to take possession of people as well as land * BBC History Magazine *An intelligent, beautifully written story about a dysfunctional family in a sinister paradise * The Times *Lushly written, with immaculate historical detail, it worked for me on many levels * Woman and Home *Mr Peacock's Possessions is a wonderful book, full of drama, courage and aspirations. The language is rich and the characters so humanely drawn * Carol Drinkwater *A thrilling story of love and courage, brutality and hope all told with equal measures of deep humanity, imagination and élan. Lydia Syson has an amazing gift of bringing history alive through richness of language, dramatic pace and fabulous visual imagery. This is better than watching a film! -- Anne SebbaWith its chorus of vivid voices, Lydia Syson's novel reminds us why we consumed The Poisonwood Bible and The Underground Railway so avidly, but it has a (literally) breathtaking bravura and an intensity all of its own * Michelle Lovric *What a powerful, rich and fascinating book. Dark historical events are interwoven with the mystery of a missing child on a remote Pacific island in 1879. Highly compelling * Anna Mazzola *Swiss Family Robinson meets Lord of the Flies in Lydia Syson's superb and engrossing book. This scintillating story evokes an island paradise which descends into a nightmarish hell as Mr Peacock's Possessions builds towards a shocking revelation and a thrilling climax * Wendy Moore *This tense, evocative, richly-imagined novel conjures the voices of a strange time and place, and makes them universal * Emma Darwin *As compelling, mysterious and haunting as the troubled tropical paradise it portrays . . . Syson doesn't just write about the past, she transports us there. A tour de force * Piers Torday *Lydia Syson writes very well about the natural world . . . [and] the dark tensions in family life that overwhelm the Peacocks * Miranda Miller *Dazzling . . . A vividly realised, compelling novel * Linda Newbery *Mr Peacock's Possessions - one of those rare novels which keeps you up much later than you'd planned - is everything I love in a book. What starts out as a wonderful adventure slowly reveals itself as something altogether darker. Then you realise you can't put it down until you discover the truth. Swallows and Amazons for grown-ups * Alex Monroe *A gripping yarn with unexpected outcomes . . . Syson writes engagingly and evocatively * Morning Star *Syson's eye for character is immediate - her narrative voice reaching out from the page and grabbing the reader from the off. They're drawn into a small but compelling community, one full of interesting characters and complicated relationships that only becomes more intriguing as the book goes on . . . Syson brings things to a climax that's as rewarding as it is moving - and allows her to examine community, youth and family in a beautifully drawn setting * The Bookbag *That's perhaps the greatest achievement of this novel: it stays with you. I've been haunted by it since I finished reading it. I hope very much that it gets the attention and praise it deserves . . . This novel is pleasurable on so many levels * The History Girls *Powerful, intense and beautiful, this novel will stay with me for a long time * Historical Novel Society *A wonderfully written piece from Lydia Syson * A Book And Tea *Mr Peacock's Possessions is a gripping novel . . . I'm in love with Lydia Syson's writing * Globe Trove *I absolutely love this book. It was an amazing read * Novel Thief *Lydia Syson's skill as a storyteller, brings Monday Island, the place and its eccentric inhabitants so vividly to life * Jaffa Reads Too *Mr Peacock's Possessions was an enjoyable historical read which offered an intriguing family story within an unfamiliar landscape * The Owl on the Bookshelf *This certainly is one of the most powerful, brilliantly written books * Breakaway Reviews *A dazzling tale of colonisation and corruption, enterprise and abuse . . . Lord of the Flies as if written by Barbara Kingsolver, perhaps, with a dash of The Wicker Man. But I think readers will find various other parallels and echoes in this vividly realised, compelling novel * Reviews by Writers *Haunting * Sunday Times Culture *Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author . . . intense and beautiful -- Stella Magazine * Sunday Telegraph *Mr Peacock's Possessions offers an intriguing and tension-packed exploration of family dynamics, colonialism, loss of innocence, and the perilous power of both possession and obsession . . . Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined * Lancashire Evening Post *Syson succeeds splendidly . . . Her main narrator, 15-year-old Lizzie, is utterly authentic: idealistic, frightened and pitiless. The narrative counterpoint between her and Kalala is deftly balanced. Pa is a memorable creation, driving and driven * Weekend, NZ *Richly descriptive, her narrative is a history lesson, a geography lesson, a survival story, and, as it reaches its climax, disturbingly heart-pounding * Woman's Weekly Australia *A novel both expansive and intimate... a beautiful and perceptive adventure * Irish Times *Richly told in poetic prose * Western Morning News *An absorbing exploration of a daughter's disillusion with her father's dreams of freedom -- Books of the Year * Sunday Times Culture *A mesmerising portrait of a family unravelling -- Books of the Year * The Times *Atmospheric, lyrical and tense... beautiful, thoughtful writing, full of elegant turns of phrase * NZ Listener *In its characters, settings and details, Mr Peacock's Possessions tells an all-too­ human and modem tale about the dangers of untrammelled authority, heedless romanticism, phobic gender and racial archetypes and the shortcomings of power. Astutely, the author anchors this rich mix of themes to the lives of one family and their employees on one small Pacific island. This particularising of the general pays off big time, making Mr Peacock's Possessions rich and comprehensive indeed. * Dominion Post *

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Book SynopsisYear of the Pig is a personal account of one avid hunter's pursuit of wild pigs in eleven American states. Mark Hainds tied his mission to the Chinese calendar's Year of the Pig in 2007 and journeyed through longleaf forests, cypress swamps, and wiliwili forests in search of his prey. He used a range of weapons--black-powder rifle, bow and arrow, knife, and high-powered rifle--and various methods to stalk his quarry through titi, saw palmetto, privet hedge, and blue palms. Introduced pig populations have wreaked havoc on ecosystems the world over. Non-native to the Western Hemisphere, pigs originally arrived in the southeast with De Soto's entrada and in the Hawaiian Archipelago on the outriggers of South Pacific islanders. In America feral hogs are considered pests and invaders because of their omnivorous diet and rooting habits that destroy both fragile native species and agricultural cropland. Appealing to hunters and adventure readers for its sheer entertainment, Year of the Pig wTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Steven Ditchkoff Foreword by Mark Bailey Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Longleaf 2. Titi 3. Over Bait 4. Privet 5. Oak/Hickory 6. Ironwood 7. Death in the Wiliwili 8. Beaver Pond 9. Hill Country 10. Blue Palm 11. Chufas 12. Collateral Damage 13. Old Growth 14. Ozarks 15. A Long Walk 16. Food Plot 17. Slash Pine 18. Saw Palmetto 19. Dog Fennel 20. Valley Oaks 21. Inside the Fence 22. Bahia Grass 23. Peanuts 24. Eating the Pig Conclusion Epilogue Further Reading Illustrations follow page 000

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Book SynopsisHigher education is increasingly international. The issues that affect universities in one country are important globally. There are a myriad of links among academic systems worldwide. Comparative Higher Education is the first book to systematically explore many of the most important implications of the globalization of higher education. It explores the links among universities, including foreign students and scholars, the impact of the Western higher education idea on universities throughout the world, and especially the current importance of American academic ideas worldwide, and the patterns of inequality among academic systems. Teachers and students are at the heart of the academic systems. Comparative Higher Education focuses on professors and students-especially the political involvement of both professors and students-and seeks to understand their roles in a comparative framework. The book concludes with a discussion of higher education development in the newly industrializing countries. These Pacific Rim nations are examples of how higher education has been used in the process of development. Comparative Higher Education reflects more than three decades of research in the field, and places key elements in the globalization of higher education in a useful framework. Worldwide examples are used to illustrate analyses of such key topics as international exchange, future trends in university development, the complex relationships among academic systems in the industrialized and developing countries, and related issues.Table of ContentsPART I. Perspectives PART II. Teachers and Students PART III. Exchanges: People and Ideas PART IV. Peripheral Centers: The Newly Industrializing Countries

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Book SynopsisThis is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and nature, this book makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis. Turning to the contemporary production of postcolonial novelists and poets, this collection poses the literary imagination as a crucial to imagining what Eduoard Glissant calls the aesthetics of the earth. The collection is organized around thematic concerns such as the relationship between culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. The scholars collected here are at the forefront of the emergent field of postcolonial ecocriticism and this book will make a remarkable contribution to rethinking the environment andTrade Reviewa vital contribution to postcolonial ecocriticism. * Sharae Deckard, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: TOWARDS AN AESTHETICS OF THE EARTH; ELIZABETH DELOUGHREY & GEORGE HANDLEY; I.CULTIVATING PLACE; JILL DIDUR; LEGRACE BENSON; ELAINE SAVORY; II. FOREST FICTIONS; LIZABETH PARAVISINI GEBERT; ALEJO CARPENTIER'S THE LOST STEPS; GEORGE B. HANDLEY; READING THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL IN MAHASWETA DEVI'S "DHOWLI"; JENNIFER WENZEL; III. THE LIVES OF (NONHUMAN) ANIMALS; ROB NIXON; JONATHAN STEINWAND; ALLISON CARRUTH; PABLO MUKHERJEE; IV. MILITOURISM; ELIZABETH DELOUGHREY; KANAKA MAOLI AND MA'OHI WRITINGS FOR KAHO'OLAWE AND MORUROA; DINA EL DESSOUKY; DISASTER, ECOLOGY, AND POST-TSUNAMI TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SRI LANKA; ANTHONY CARRIGAN; BYRON CAMINERO-SANTANGELO

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Book Synopsis The Imperial Japanese Navy developed the submarine faster than any other country in the world. But because of rivalries between the two military hierarchies, the Army and the Navy, they never utilized the submarine to its full extent. Nevertheless, during World War II, Japan deployed a number of unique submarines. These included the Type B1 which carried a Yokosuka E14Y1 reconnaissance seaplane in a watertight capsule attached to the deck of the submarine. One of these aircraft carried out two bomb attacks on a forest in Oregon by dropping six incendiary bombs, taking the war to the American mainland. The use of aircraft from submarines as scout planes proved not to be as successful as hoped, mainly because of the difficulty after launching the aircraft of it finding the submarine again in the vast Pacific and Indian Oceans. The Japanese also developed the giant I-400 class of aircraft carrier submarines, that could launch three Seiran attack floatplanes. There were other notable actions involving IJN submarines. This included I-17 that attempted to shell, unsuccessfully, an oil refinery off the coast of Santa Barbara, causing a major panic along the West Coast of America. Also memorable are the midget submarines that attempted to attack Pearl Harbor, and the one-man human torpedo submarines (Kaiten). The submarine losses suffered by the Japanese Navy as the war progressed, when Allied, and in particular U.S. destroyers and aircraft hunted them down are all recorded in this comprehensive account of a fascinating element of the war at sea.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together research from six different countries across three continents where teacher educators and policy makers are addressing the under-preparation of content teachers to work effectively with multilingual learners. By highlighting this relatively young field of research at an international level, the book advances the research-based knowledge of the field and promotes international research relationships and partnerships to better support the education of multilingual learners and their teachers.The chapters represent high-quality empirical qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies about pre-service and in-service teachers. Comprising four sections, each represents a critical aspect of the equitable teaching of multilingual learners. All the research was conducted in countries that belong to OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) enablTable of ContentsForeword by Professor Ester de JongIntroductionPART 1: Policy1 Multilingualism and Diversity in Northern Ireland Schools and Teacher Education2 Multilingualism as a Resource: Policy Changes in Finnish EducationPART 2: Perspectives3 Finnish teachers’ perspectives about linguistic and cultural diversity4 Content Teacher Ideologies and Perspectives on Multilingual LearnersPART 3: Preparation5 Mediating Theory & Practice for Multilingual Learners in Initial Teacher Education in England6 Pre-Service Teachers´ Competency Development and Opportunities to Learn in Teaching Multilingual Learners in GermanyPART 4: Practice7 Mainstream Teachers for Successful Multilingual Classrooms: The Case of a School that Embraced a Genre-based Pedagogy to Teach Writing8 Teachers’ professional learning and practice with multilingual Pacific/Pasifikalearners in Aotearoa New ZealandConclusion

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.Trade Review'Taken together, the chapters collected here show how the Royal Navy secured the Pax Britannica of trade and diplomacy in the Victorian period, while British domination of global shipping lanes simultaneously created an international traffic in people, goods and ideas. As a result, this collection highlights the key role played by the maritime world in the Victorian British Empire.' - John McAleer, University of Southampton, UK 'Miles Taylor's excellent edited collection on the Victorian maritime world is an encouraging indication of a new level of interest in this important period of the history of the oceans.' - Jonathan Hyslop, Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Miles Taylor 1. 'Now is come a darker day': Britain, Venice and the meaning of sea power; Andrew Lambert 2. After emancipation: slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire; John Oldfield 3. Cultural, intellectual and religious networks: Britain's maritime exchanges in the 19th and 20th centuries; John Mackenzie 4. 'We never make mistakes': the empire of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company; Crosbie Smith 5. Crossing the seas: problems and possibilities for Queen Victoria's; Indian subjects Judith Brown 6. Three weeks' post apart: British children travel the empire ; Liz Buettner 7. Insularity and empire; Jan Rüger 8. The Victorian empire in its global context; Jeremy Black

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Book SynopsisBest remembered as the man who carried the United States through a civil war and emancipated four million slaves, Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of nearly seventeen thousand books. While historians have chronicled his life and presidency, they rarely go beyond his assassination by John Wilkes Booth on 14 April 1865 to look at his legacy in the American West.Abraham Lincoln: A Western Legacy reveals how the sixteenth president shaped the country beyond the Mississippi River. Having grown up on the frontier and taken part in its political development, Lincoln often turned his attention westward after becoming president. By overseeing policies such as the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railroad Act and making key political appointments, Lincoln opened American Indian lands to settlers who forever changed the landscape and laid the foundation for the region’s modern politics and identity.Author Richard W. Etulain focuses on Lincoln’s role in remaking the West while providing a concise overview of his life. He also advances Lincoln scholarship by looking at efforts to memorialize the president in the decades following his assassination. Etulain’s original research, including his use of correspondence between local figures such as Senator Peter Norbeck and historian Doane Robinson, provides unique insight into the discussions that led to Lincoln’s immortalization on a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota.Abraham Lincoln: A Western Legacy is the first book in the Mount Rushmore Subseries of the South Dakota Biography Series highlighting the presidents depicted on the national memorial and other figures connected with its history.

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Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. Dispersal, compelled by economic circumstance, political turmoil, and war, engenders personal, familial, and spiritual dislocation, and provokes a questioning of identity and belonging. This volume features original works by scholars from Asia, America, and Europe that highlight these trends and perspectives on Southeast Asian migration within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach -- with contributions from sociology, political science, anthropology, and history -- and anchored in empirical case studies from various Southeast Asian countries, it extends the scope of inquiry beyond the economic concerns of migration, and beyond a single country source or destination, and disciplinary focus. Analytic focus is placed on the forces and factors that shape migration trajectories and migrant incorporation experiences in Asia and Europe; the impact of migration and immigration status on individuals, families, and institutions, on questions of equity, inclusion, and identity; and the triangulated relationships between diasporic communities, the sending and receiving countries. Of particular importance is the scholarly attention to lesser known populations and issues such as Vietnamese in Poland, children and the 1.5 generation immigrants, health and mental consequences of state sponsored violence and protracted encampment, ethnic media, and the challenges of both transnational parenting and family reunification. In examining the complex and creative negotiations that immigrants engage locally and transnationally in their daily lives, it foregrounds immigrant resilience in the strategies they adopt not only to survive but thrive in displacement.

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Book SynopsisA history of San Francisco, this work traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families - the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others - who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons, and the mass media.Trade Review"One of the very best books I have ever read about a place is Imperial San Francisco, by Gray Brechin.... With its tales of skullduggery, brilliant enterprise, racist arrogance, environmental ruin, and ruthless competition, it will be an astonishment to anyone who knows modern San Francisco only as the gentlest of American cities." - Jan Morris, Independent (UK) "Books of the Year," November 2000" Included in the Los Angeles Times Book Review's "Best Nonfiction of 2000", Named a "Book of the Year" in the Independent (UK) San Francisco Chronicle Best-Seller List, December 1999, Honorable Mention for the Pacific Coast Branch Award, American Historical Association.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface to the 2006 Edition Preface to the First Edition: The Urban Maelstrom Introduction: New Romes for a New World Part I: Foundations of Dominion 1. The Pyramid of Mining 2. Water Mains and Bloodlines Part II: The Thought Shapers 3. The Scott Brothers: Arms and the Overland Mutiny 4. The De Youngs: Society Invents Itself 5. The Hearsts: Racial Supremacy and the Digestion of "All Mexico" Part III: Remote Control 6. Toward Limitless Energy 7. The University, the Gate, and "the Gadget" Notes A Note on Sources Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA look at Chinese filmmaking in the post-1989 American diasporaTrade Review"In her new book, Gina Marchetti expands the boundaries of Asian and Asian American media scholarship by shifting the focus from that of fixed identities to that of the concept of diaspora... Marchetti's project [is] an intriguing and important one... An added bonus to the analyses are interviews with filmmakers and authors that give another perspective to the films. This book makes an excellent addition to the slowly growing body of important scholarship on Asian and Asian American media studies in that it exemplifies, in its own methods and assumptions, the open boundaries inherent to this field."--Journal of Asian Studies, August 2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgements;; 1. Introduction: Race, Sex, and the Chinese Diaspora in American Film;; Part I In the Black Pacific; 2. Jackie Chan's Black Connections; Interview: Jeff Yang; 3. Interracial Romance in Action: Romeo Must Die; 4. Black in the Chinese Diaspora: Double-Consciousness in Yvonne Welbon's Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself; Interview: Yvonne Welbon;; Part II Sexuality, Gender and Generation in Diaspora; 5. Queering the Patriarchy: The Wedding Banquet, Toc Storee, and Dirty Laundry; Interview: Richard Fung; 6. Guests at the Wedding Banquet: The Joy Luck Club, Double Happiness, Siao Yu and Shopping for Fangs; Interview: Wayne Wang; 7. In Pursuit of Video Hapa-ness: Banana Split and Kip Fulbeck's Boyhood among Ghosts; Interview: Kip Fulbeck; Conclusion; 8. Screening the Chinese Diaspora in the New Millennium;; Endnotes; Bibliography; Filmography.

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Book SynopsisIn the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River country. Historian David Nicandri shifts the focus to an essential goal of the explorers: to discover the headwaters of the Columbia and a water route to the Pacific Ocean.Trade Review"It is a pleasant surprise to find much that is new and important in David Nicandri's River of Promise."--Oregon Historical Quarterly "[Nicandri] brings a refreshing perspective and good advice: to read the expedition journals in context, to not take them at face value, to look at the details for fresh insights."--CrosscutTable of ContentsForeword PrefacePrologue The Voice of Meriwether LewisChapter 1 The Great River of the West Chapter 2 Lessons in Continental Geography Chapter 3 Half Starved Chapter 4 Not One Stick of Timber Chapter 5 The New Sacagawea Myth Chapter 6 Forks of the Columbia Chapter 7 William Clark: Scientific Geographer Chapter 8 Commerce and Pestilence in Indian Country Chapter 9 The Illusion of Cape Disappointment Chapter 10 Marooned Chapter 11 The Solitary Hero Chapter 12 End of Voyage Chapter 13 Following Mackenzie, the Protocols of Exploration, and the Conventions of the Travel Narrative Chapter 14 The "Vote" at Station Camp Chapter 15 Winter's Delay Chapter 16 The Return Voyage and the Dissolution of Meriwether LewisEpilogue The Fidelity of William Clark Conclusion Final Reflections on Lewis, Clark, and the Promise of the Columbia River Acknowledgements Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the multiple dimensions of the limited reach, or breakdown, of central authority in border regions of Arab states, and their implications for state sovereignty and modes of governance. These include the emergence of illicit networks of exchange, the rise of new nonstate actors in border regions, including paramilitary or jihadi groups, and the transformation of border areas into areas of regional conflict. Collectively, the essays in this volume address such processes, which have been observable in conflict-stricken countries such as Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, and in fragile political or economic contexts, like the ones in Lebanon, Tunisia, and Algeria, as well as in relatively stable Emirates such as Kuwait. The contributions also shed light on how border peripheries in the Arab world have impacted the center of political and economic power in their states. Table of Contents1. Introduction, Maha Yahya2. Smuggling and State Formation: A Match Made in Algeria, Dalia Ghanem3.Cronies and Contraband: Why Integrating Tunisia’s Informal Economic Elite Has Become Necessary, Hamza Meddeb4. North Pacific: Why Lebanon’s Akkar Region Weathered the Syrian Conflict, Maha Yahya and Mohanad Hage Ali5. Transnationalization of a Borderland: Center, Periphery, and Identity in Western Iraq, Harith Hasan6. Hadramawt’s Emergence as a Center: A Confluence of Yemeni Circumstances and Hadrami Resourcefulness, Ahmed Nagi7. How Syria’s War Extended Border Policies to Much of the Country, Kheder Khaddour and Kevin Mazur8. The Center Gives: Southern Syria and the Rise of New Peripheral Powerbrokers, Armenak Tokmajyan9. On the Edge: How Risks from Iraq Have Helped Form Kuwaiti Identity, Bader Al-Saif

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Book SynopsisExplore every corner of the Emerald City, from coffee shops to mountain hikes, with Moon Seattle.*Explore the City: Navigate by neighbourhood or by activity with colour-coded maps, or follow self-guided neighbourhood walks*See the Sights: Watch the fishmongers sling the catch of the day at Pike Place Market, or grab a pick-me-up at the original Starbucks. Zig zag through the Olympic Sculpture Park, watch sharks swim above you in the Seattle Aquarium's underwater dome, admire Northwest art at the Seattle Art Museum, or watch the sunset from Space Needle observation deck*Get a Taste of the City: Find the best cup of coffee, sample fresh oysters, and indulge in the city's innovative cuisine*Bars and Nightlife: Lounge at an old-school jazz club, discover the next big indie artist, get a flight of beers at a local microbrewery, or sip craft cocktails in a swanky speakeasy*Expert Advice: Emerald City native Allison Williams shares what locals love about Seattle*Strategic Itineraries and Day Trips: Make the most of your trip with ideas for foodies, culture-seekers, families travelling with kids, and more, or explore nearby Bainbridge Island, Mount Rainier National Park, Tacoma, and Bellevue*Full-Colour Photos and Detailed Maps*Handy Tools: Background information on history and culture, plus an easy-to-read foldout map to use on the goExperience the best of the city with Moon Seattle's practical tips and local know-how.Road tripping along the coast? Test-drive Moon Pacific Northwest Road Trip. Visiting more of the state? Check out Moon Washington.

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Book SynopsisA 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE[Hitler in Los Angeles] is part thriller and all chiller, about how close the California Reich came to succeeding (Los Angeles Times). No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage the nation's military installations: Plans existed for murdering twenty-four prominent Hollywood figures, such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Louis B. Mayer; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast. U.S. law enforcement agencies were not paying close attention--preferring to monitor Reds rather than Nazis--and only attorney Leon Lewis and his daring ring of spies stood in the way. From 1933 until the end of World War II, Lewis, the man Nazis would come to call the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles, ran a spy operation comprised of military veterans and their wives who infiltrated every Nazi and fascist group in Los Angeles. Often rising to leadership positions, they uncovered and foiled the Nazi's disturbing plans for death and destruction. Featuring a large cast of Nazis, undercover agents, and colorful supporting players, the Los Angeles Times bestselling Hitler in Los Angeles, by acclaimed historian Steven J. Ross, tells the story of Lewis's daring spy network in a time when hate groups had moved from the margins to the mainstream.

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Book SynopsisBolder economic policy could have addressed the persistent bouts of deflation in post-bubble Japan, write Gene Park, Saori N. Katada, Giacomo Chiozza, and Yoshiko Kojo in Taming Japan''s Deflation. Despite warnings from economists, intense political pressure, and well-articulated unconventional policy options to address this problem, Japan''s central bank, the Bank of Japan (BOJ), resisted taking the bold actions that the authors believe would have significantly helped.With Prime Minister Abe Shinzo''s return to power, Japan finally shifted course at the start of 2013 with the launch of Abenomicsan economic agenda to reflate the economyand Abe''s appointment of new leadership at the BOJ. As Taming Japan''s Deflation shows, the BOJ''s resistance to experimenting with bolder policy stemmed from entrenched policy ideas that were hostile to activist monetary policy. The authors explain how these policy ideas evolved over the course of the BOJ''s long history and gaiTrade ReviewThis is an outstanding book on a topic of great importance... this book provides the most detailed and insightful account written in the English language of the ideational and political institutional contexts that inform the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) decisions about monetary policy in the contemporary era. * Perspectives on Politics *An informed and in-depth look at the institutional, intellectual, and political environment that allowed deflation to take root... Taming Japan's Deflation is indispensable for anyone who wants to understand why Japan lingered in deflation for so long and how it switched to different policies that may be leading to better outcomes. * Pacific Affairs *

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Book SynopsisIn this historical novel a fire nearly destroys Astoria, Oregon, in 1922. A Finnish immigrant is blackmailed into starting it, a lovesick thief gets blamed, the Ku Klux Klan pulls the strings, and the fire inspector sorts out the mess.Trade Review“Mike Stark takes us a century into the past in this gripping tale set around the 1922 Astoria fire. The Derelict Light depicts a community in conflict with the era’s prominent leftists—Wobblies and Finnish socialists—organizing to build a better future, and the notorious Klan scheming to further oppress those on society’s margins. The brutal realities of Northwest working-class life jump off the pages of The Derelict Light. Few books, fiction or nonfiction, so ably capture the everyday experiences of working people who lived in this gray, rainy land. Stark deserves praise for penning this captivating novel. A must-read book for anyone with an interest in Northwest history.”—Aaron Goings, author of The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest“The Derelict Light belongs to the tradition of John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle and The Grapes of Wrath, and the American proletarian novels of the 1930s, in highlighting the intersections among work, migration, and politics. Mike Stark does a fine job of creating the world of 1920s Astoria, firmly planting the reader’s feet in the muddy streets. He adds unique and needed detail to our nation’s ongoing conversation about its core principles. An impressive novel.”—Tracy Daugherty, author of 148 Charles Street and Snow and Straw

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Book SynopsisThe Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska were among the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives, and as a result, Yup'ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty-first century. Wise Words of the Yup'ik People documents their qanruyutait (adages, words of wisdom, and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life.Trade Review“Significant and timely. . . . Wise Words of the Yup’ik People and Yup’ik Words of Wisdom together honor the richness of oral tradition among Alaska Natives while addressing a broader audience of the next generation of Yup’ik people, scholars of various disciplines, and policymakers alike.”—Andrea D. Robertson, Pacific Northwest Quarterly “This book will prove to be an important resource for scholars in the future, as well as an excellent record of Yup’ik oral culture.”—Polar Record“Valuable. . . . These texts are important vehicles for both the preservation and use of Yup’ik traditional knowledge for self-determination.”—CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction to the New Bison Books Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Yup’ik Transcription and Translation List of Yup’ik Contributors Elders Spoke and Young People Listened A Powerful Mind Boys Are Like Puppies, Ears Are Eyes, and Women Are Death Parents and Children Men and Women Those Who Are Rich in Relatives: Extended Family Relations Tuqluucaraq: The Way of Addressing One’s Relatives The World Contains No Others, Only Persons: Yup’ik Views of Self and Other Qanrucunailnguut: Those Who Do Not Listen and Adhere Eyagyarat: Abstinence Practices Making the Past Present: The Desertion of the Qasgi Notes Glossary References Index Map. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region

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Book SynopsisHow environmental activism in youth shapes political engagement and citizenship for Laotian American womenTrade Review"Laotian Daughters convincingly argues that children of refugees embody a pivotal social location that allows for deeper, more complex insights into such pressing issues as cultural citizenship, political belonging, and national identity. Shah’s weaving together of social scientific research, cultural studies, and literary analysis is seamless. I am particularly excited by the incorporation of environmental justice literature into this mix, which is rare. The book’s greatest strength remains the young activists whose stories bring this book to life. Laotian Daughters is part of an important, growing intellectual body of research on the U.S. second generation, and this ethnographic study of Laotian teenagers fills a significant niche."—Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, and author of Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant EntrepreneursTable of Contents Acknowledgments 1 “Where We Live, Where We Work, Where We Play, Where We Learn”: The Asian Pacific Environmental Network 2 From Agent Orange to Superfund Sites to Anti-immigrant Sentiments: Multiple Voyages, Ongoing Challenges 3 New Immigration and the American Nation: A Framework for Citizenship and Belonging 4 The Politics of Race: Political Identity and the Struggle for Social Rights 5 Negotiating Racial Hierarchies: Critical Incorporation, Immigrant Ideology, and Interminority Relations 6 Family, Culture, Gender: Narratives of Ethnic Reconstruction 7 Building Community, Crafting Belonging in Multiple Homes 8 Becoming “American”: Remaking American National Identity through Environmental Justice Activism APPENDIX Socio-demographic Information on Second-Generation Laotians Who Participated in the Study NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisMaggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of the fascist organizations operating under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) in the 1920s and 1930s, showing how the GMD's rightward shift was based on a nativist discourse that emphasized Confucianism's compatibility with industrial modernism.Trade Review"Historian Clinton offers an insightful analysis of what she sees as China’s fascist movement after the ascendance of Chiang Kai-shek in the political arena. Highly recommended." -- P. F. Shan * Choice *“A thought-provoking study that raises new questions.” -- Anna Belogurova * Pacific Affairs *"Maggie Clinton has opened up an important new strand in our understanding of the political and intellectual history of 20th-century China. Revolutionary Nativism is a powerful book that will shape debates for years to come." -- Rana Mitter * The China Quarterly *"Fascinating and intriguing. . . . Revolutionary Nativism is an important contribution not only for taking fascism in East Asia seriously, but also for making us rethink the role of state led modernity via moralization of the everyday." -- Marc Andre Matten * International Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Hiding in Plain Sight: Fascist Factions during the Nanjing Decade 23 2. Spirit is Eternal: Cultural Revolution from the Right 64 3. Spiritual Offenses: The Nativist Prose of Counterinsurgency 98 4. Fixing the Everyday: The New Life Movement and Taylorized Modernity 128 5. Literature and Arts for the Nation 161 Conclusion 191 List of Characters for Selected Romanized Terms 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 239 Index 255

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Book SynopsisFocusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles weaves together the narratives of Mexican and Japanese immigrants into a single transpacific history. In this book, Yu Tokunaga moves from international relations between Japan, Mexico, and the US to the Southern California farmland, where ethnic Japanese and Mexicans played a significant role in developing local agriculture, one of the major industries of LA County before World War II. Japanese, Mexicans, and white Americans developed a unique triracial hierarchy in farmland that generated both conflict and interethnic accommodation by bringing together local issues and international concerns beyond the Pacific Ocean and the US-Mexico border. Viewing these experiences in a single narrative form, Tokunaga breaks new ground, demonstrating the close relationships between the ban on Japanese immigration, Mexican farmworkers' strikes, wartime Japanese removal, and the Bracero Program.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Exploring Japanese-Mexican Relations in Los Angeles and the US-Mexico Borderlands 1. The 1924 Immigration Act and Its Unintended Consequence in the US-Mexico Borderlands 2. The Deepening of Japanese-Mexican Relations in Triracial Los Angeles 3. Transpacific Borderlands: Japanese Farmers and Mexican Workers in the 1933 El Monte Berry Strike 4. Ethnic Solidarity or Interethnic Accommodation: The 1936 Venice Celery Strike 5. Japanese Internment as an Agricultural Labor Crisis: Wartime Debates over Food Security versus Military Necessity 6. Enduring Interethnic Trust in Rancho San Pedro Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJay Fox (18701961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor's Emancipation, historian Greg Hall traces Fox's unorthodox life to highlight the shifting dynamics in US labor radicalism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Radicalized as a teenager after witnessing the Haymarket tragedy, Fox embarked on a lifetime of union organizing, building anarchist communities (including Home, Washington), and writing. Thanks to his sharp wit, he became an influential voice, often in dialogue with fellow anarchists such as Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons. Hall both explores Fox's life and shines a light on the utopians, revolutionaries, and union men and women with whom Fox associated and debated. Hall's research provides valuable knowledge of the lived experiences of working-class Americans and reveals alternative visions for activism and social change.Trade Review"Three major contributions of Hall’s study stand out. First, it challenges the trope of the violent anarchist, and explains anarcho-syndicalism and anarchist communism, appealing to Fox and others who valued the power of organized workers. Second, it highlights activists’ logistical work to keep organizations and publications afloat. Volunteer labor, problem-solving, failure, and redirection are part of such struggle. Third, the book underscores the power of writing as a vehicle for making sense of the world, for oneself and others. Fox demonstrated that in his correspondence and articles, and Hall does so in his approach. His research is impressive, and he excels in framing a quote to integrate it into an argument." * Pacific Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Dyl’s analysis reveals the ways in which cultural, political, and economic pressures influence the nature of the built environment, even in the context of environmental hazards. . . . These narratives of survival and resistance complicate tidy Progressive-era stories of urban reform and revitalization, revealing heterogeneous experiences of disaster and remaking within the city. . . . Dyl’s work enlivens historical actors typically removed from narratives of this urban revitalization [and] asks provocative questions about how we retell narratives of past disasters, account for natural processes in our present lives, and plan for our futures in these sites." -- Shari Wilcox * Edge Effects *"Seismic City is a landmark in the relatively new field of disaster studies...It makes for a gripping read." * California History *"Seismic City offers an important contribution to the history of San Francisco by interweaving nature, human actions, and the built environment." * H-Environment *"The strength of Dyl’s work stems from her consideration of natural disasters as something very different from exceptional or singular occurrences." * Planning Perspectives *"environmental history delivers a unique portrait of the 1906 disaster." * Pacific Historical Review *"Seismic City is a superb environmental history of most well-known disasters of a popular western city." * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Paul S. Sutter Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making Land, Making a City 2. Catastrophe and Its Interpretations 3. Bread Lines and Earthquake Cottages 4. Rebuilding and the Politics of Place 5. Disaster Capitalism in the Streets 6. Plague, Rats, and Undesirable Nature 7. Symbolic Recovery and the Legacies of Disaster Conclusion Notes Manuscript Collections Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is one of the greatest sports stories ever told: How a group of young oarsmen from the Pacific Northwest who could barely afford train fare to Chicago, much less Berlin, won gold medals in the famous Hitler Olympics of 1936. There are two gripping tales here, and Michael Socolow tells them both well. First, there is the David v. Goliath saga of the University of Washington crew team upsetting every Ivy League crew in America to travel to Berlin, where the Huskies prevailed over the greatest crews the world had ever seen. The second story is the birth of modern broadcast sports journalism. What would later become the "wide world of sports" was born in Berlin, where American radio networks implemented new technologies on an almost daily basis to bring their listeners sporting events in "real time"--an amazing accomplishment that we now take for granted. Socolow successfully weaves these two fascinating tales into one enthralling book. Bravo!"--Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist"Sports, Nazism, and the glory days of radio come together seamlessly in Michael Socolow's gripping account of the hottest ticket at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the Olympic Regatta. Offering expert play-by-play and vivid color commentary, Socolow provides a fascinating look at an epochal moment in sports and media history. Six Minutes in Berlin is a crystal-clear window into the birth of global journalism and trans-national fandom, shadowed throughout by the specter of a more ominous competition on the horizon."--Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a book of superior, indeed pristine scholarship that significantly advances our knowledge on a number of fronts, historical and theoretical. What is so artful about this particular work is the way it handles multiple, sometimes abstract theoretical issues (iconography, ritual theory, colonial history, mythology, postcolonial theory, sacrifice, censorship, poster art, prostitution, environmentalism, and diaspora and immigration studies) through very concrete historical details and, most important, a single, overarching historical narrative spanning some three to four centuries. This is a truly comprehensive book, and it will become the definitive study of the subject. -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred McDermott's pioneering study is a scholarly achievement that is impressive, enlightening and enjoyable to read. -- Chris J. Fuller Pacific Affairs McDermott's Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing is a wonderful book that thoroughly presents the development of three of the most important festivals in Bengal. Journal of Hindu StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration Introduction 1. P?j? Origins and Elite Politics 2. The Goddess in Colonial and Postcolonial History 3. Durg? the Daughter: Folk and Familial Traditions 4. The Artistry of Durg? and Jagaddh?tr? 5. Durg? on the Titanic: Politics and Religion in the P?j? 6. The "Orientalist" K?l?: A Tantric Icon Comes Alive 7. Approaches to K?l? P?j? in Bengal 8. Controversies and the Goddess 9. Dev? in the Diaspora Conclusion Appendix: An Overview of the Press in Bengal up to 1947 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMyungji Yang's From Miracle to Mirage is a critical account of the trajectory of state-sponsored middle-class formation in Korea in the second half of the twentieth century. Yang's book offers a compelling story of the reality behind the myth of middle-class formation. Capturing the emergence, reproduction, and fragmentation of the Korean middle class, From Miracle to Mirage traces the historical process through which the seemingly successful state project of building a middle-class society resulted in a mirage.Yang argues that profitable speculation in skyrocketing prices for Seoul real estate led to mobility and material comforts for the new middle class. She also shows that the fragility inherent in such developments was embedded in the very formation of that socioeconomic group.Taking exception to conventional views, Yang emphasizes the role of the state in producing patterns of class structure and social inequality. She demonstrates the speculative aTrade Review...I would encourage my readers to read From Miracle to Mirage. Yang writes clearly, the book's structure is sound, and fifteen pages of references indicate mastery of an extensive literature. * Pacific Affairs *The study addresses a critical problem of housing among the Seoul middle class, and hopefully will draw others to examine the issue. It may be useful as a reference for graduate students and for researchers on urban topics. * American Historical Review *While Yang's findings have great importance as an explanation for the making and unmaking of middle-class consciousness in Korea, they have even greater value as a diagnosis of Korea's pathologies today. * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisA science-based approach for healing ailments of both body and mind through cold-water swimming. The belief that swimming in cold water can improve one's health is hardly new. For centuries, people from all over the world have reported that immersing themselves in cold water alleviates their pain and improves their overall well-being. Even Katharine Hepburn famously claimed to treat her winter colds by swimming in the icy waters of the Pacific Ocean. But until now, the practice has been treated lightly by the scientific community, the curative effects all but dismissed by doctors seeking medicine-centered solutions for their patients' illnesses. In CHILL, expert anesthetist and researcher Dr. Mark Harper delivers long-awaited evidence that cold-water swimming can, in fact, achieve powerful, tangible health benefits. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with case studies, laboratory results, and stories from the lives of patients, Dr. Harper illuminates the ways in which cold water can impacts us physiologically and mentally, alleviating conditions like: - chronic pain - dementia - arthritis - anxiety - depression - PTSD - migraines and more Dr. Harper guides us in safely establishing our own, customized practice of cold-water swimming in order to harness the therapeutic power of water for improved circulation, a strengthened immune system, cell regeneration, and everyday vitality. Eye-opening and actionable, and full of extraordinary discoveries about our minds, our bodies, and the healing powers of Earth's most plentiful resource, CHILL is a drug-free, no-cost, revolutionary approach to lasting wellness and rejuvenation.

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Book SynopsisThe forgotten story of the major naval operations conducted in the Philippines by the US and Japanese navies after Leyte Gulf up to the US invasion of Luzon in January 1945. The events that took place in the aftermath of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 are often overlooked by military historians. An impressive array of naval operations continued in the Philippines up to January 1945, which included (on the Japanese side) the largest convoys to a contested island during the war, the first kamikaze campaign, and the second largest Imperial Japanese Navy surface operation during the last nine months of the conflict. On the American side, US forces were involved in efforts to cut off Leyte from enemy reinforcement, a massive amphibious invasion off Luzon, and large-scale operations by the Fast Carrier Task Force (TF 38).Expert naval historian Mark Stille throws new light on this often forgotten phase of the Pacific naval war. Among the actions covered areTable of ContentsORIGINS OF THE CAMPAIGN CHRONOLOGY OPPOSING COMMANDERS United States Navy Imperial Japanese Navy JAPANESE COMMANDERS AND FORCES United States Navy Imperial Japanese Navy Orders of Battle OPPOSING PLANS United States Japanese THE CAMPAIGN TF 38 operations, October–November 25, 1944 The Japanese TA Operation The battles for Ormoc Bay The landing at Ormoc November 1944 TF 38 operations The invasion of Mindoro The San Jose Intrusion Force TF 38 operations, December 10, 1944–January 10, 1945 The invasion of Luzon Halsey’s rampage AFTERMATH AND ANALYSIS Analysis BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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