Author: Toshio Kawabe
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781920901189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"First published in Japanese in 2010 by University of Tokyo Press, as Human ecology of the tropical forest: life traditional culture and natural environment of Gidra."--T.p. verso.
The Gidra
Author: Toshio Kawabe
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781920901189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"First published in Japanese in 2010 by University of Tokyo Press, as Human ecology of the tropical forest: life traditional culture and natural environment of Gidra."--T.p. verso.
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781920901189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"First published in Japanese in 2010 by University of Tokyo Press, as Human ecology of the tropical forest: life traditional culture and natural environment of Gidra."--T.p. verso.
Advances in Mercury Toxicology
Author: Tsuguyoshi Suzuki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475790716
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This book is based on an international meeting organized by the University of Tokyo and the University of Rochester, and is published as one belonging to the series of Rochester International Conferences in Environmental Toxicity. The meeting on "Advances in Mercury Toxicology" was held at the University of Tokyo on August 1 to 3, 1990. The invited papers are published in this book along with an "Overview" chapter that was written by the editors at a meeting held at the University of Rochester on August 1 to 2, 1991. The purpose of the meeting was to assemble leading scientists to discuss their most recent findings on the toxicology of mercury. The time was opportune. Considerable progress has been made on the environmental fate and toxicology of mercury. Recent findings have given new insight into the global model for mercury. Transport in the atmosphere extends great distances resulting in pollution of lakes and rivers far distant from the source of mercury release. The process of methylation leads to accumulation of methylmercury in fish and thus in the human diet. New evidence indicates that acid rain and the impoundment of water for hydroelectric purposes affects the methylation and bioaccumulation processes resulting in higher levels of methylmercury in fish.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475790716
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This book is based on an international meeting organized by the University of Tokyo and the University of Rochester, and is published as one belonging to the series of Rochester International Conferences in Environmental Toxicity. The meeting on "Advances in Mercury Toxicology" was held at the University of Tokyo on August 1 to 3, 1990. The invited papers are published in this book along with an "Overview" chapter that was written by the editors at a meeting held at the University of Rochester on August 1 to 2, 1991. The purpose of the meeting was to assemble leading scientists to discuss their most recent findings on the toxicology of mercury. The time was opportune. Considerable progress has been made on the environmental fate and toxicology of mercury. Recent findings have given new insight into the global model for mercury. Transport in the atmosphere extends great distances resulting in pollution of lakes and rivers far distant from the source of mercury release. The process of methylation leads to accumulation of methylmercury in fish and thus in the human diet. New evidence indicates that acid rain and the impoundment of water for hydroelectric purposes affects the methylation and bioaccumulation processes resulting in higher levels of methylmercury in fish.
Race and Ethnicity
Author: Kathleen Odell Korgen
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1544394748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Featuring diverse authorship, Race and Ethnicity: Sociology in Action investigates topics from the most current scholarship on race. Built around thoughtful learning exercises, discussion questions, and real-world examples of sociologists in action, this innovative text helps students to learn sociology by doing sociology.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1544394748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Featuring diverse authorship, Race and Ethnicity: Sociology in Action investigates topics from the most current scholarship on race. Built around thoughtful learning exercises, discussion questions, and real-world examples of sociologists in action, this innovative text helps students to learn sociology by doing sociology.
The Global 1960s
Author: Tamara Chaplin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351780212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties. Geographically and chronologically broad, this volume scrutinizes the concept of "the sixties" as defined in both Western and non-Western contexts. It provides scope for a set of analyses that together span the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Written by a diverse and international group of contributors, chapters address topics ranging from the socialist scramble for Africa, to the Naxalite movement in West Bengal, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, global media coverage of Israel, Cold War politics in Hong Kong cinema, sexual revolution in France, and cultural imperialism in Latin America. The Global 1960s explores the contest between convention and counter-culture that shaped this iconic decade, emphasizing that while the sixties are well-known for liberation, activism, and protest against the establishment, traditional hierarchies and social norms remained remarkably entrenched. Multi-faceted and transnational in approach, this book is valuable reading for all students and scholars of twentieth-century global history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351780212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties. Geographically and chronologically broad, this volume scrutinizes the concept of "the sixties" as defined in both Western and non-Western contexts. It provides scope for a set of analyses that together span the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Written by a diverse and international group of contributors, chapters address topics ranging from the socialist scramble for Africa, to the Naxalite movement in West Bengal, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, global media coverage of Israel, Cold War politics in Hong Kong cinema, sexual revolution in France, and cultural imperialism in Latin America. The Global 1960s explores the contest between convention and counter-culture that shaped this iconic decade, emphasizing that while the sixties are well-known for liberation, activism, and protest against the establishment, traditional hierarchies and social norms remained remarkably entrenched. Multi-faceted and transnational in approach, this book is valuable reading for all students and scholars of twentieth-century global history.
Nuclear Safety
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Category : Nuclear engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Category : Nuclear engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies
Author: Yasuko Takezawa
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824867629
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together some of the most renowned scholars of the discipline in Japan and North America. It seeks to overcome past constraints of dialogues between Japan- and U.S.-based scholars by providing opportunities for candid, extended conversations among its contributors. While each contribution focuses on the field of “Japanese American” studies, approaches to the subject vary—ranging from national and village archives, community newspapers, personal letters, visual art, and personal interviews. Research papers are divided into six sections: Racializations, Communities, Intersections, Borderlands, Reorientations, and Teaching. Papers by one or two Japan-based scholar(s) are paired with a U.S.-based scholar, reflecting the book’s intention to promote dialogue and mutuality across national formations. The collection is also notable for featuring underrepresented communities in Japanese American studies, such as Okinawan “war brides,” Koreans, women, and multiracials. Essays on subject positions raise fundamental questions: Is it possible to engage in a truly equal dialogue when English is the language used in the conversation and in a field where English-language texts predominate? How can scholars foster a mutual respect when U.S.-centrism prevails in the subject matter and in the field’s scholarly hierarchy? Understanding foundational questions that are now frequently unstated assumptions will help to disrupt hierarchies in scholarship and work toward more equal engagements across national divides. Although the study of Japanese Americans has reached a stage of maturity, contributors to this volume recognize important historical and contemporary neglects in that historiography and literature. Japanese America and its scholarly representations, they declare, are much too deep, rich, and varied to contain in a singular narrative or subject position.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824867629
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together some of the most renowned scholars of the discipline in Japan and North America. It seeks to overcome past constraints of dialogues between Japan- and U.S.-based scholars by providing opportunities for candid, extended conversations among its contributors. While each contribution focuses on the field of “Japanese American” studies, approaches to the subject vary—ranging from national and village archives, community newspapers, personal letters, visual art, and personal interviews. Research papers are divided into six sections: Racializations, Communities, Intersections, Borderlands, Reorientations, and Teaching. Papers by one or two Japan-based scholar(s) are paired with a U.S.-based scholar, reflecting the book’s intention to promote dialogue and mutuality across national formations. The collection is also notable for featuring underrepresented communities in Japanese American studies, such as Okinawan “war brides,” Koreans, women, and multiracials. Essays on subject positions raise fundamental questions: Is it possible to engage in a truly equal dialogue when English is the language used in the conversation and in a field where English-language texts predominate? How can scholars foster a mutual respect when U.S.-centrism prevails in the subject matter and in the field’s scholarly hierarchy? Understanding foundational questions that are now frequently unstated assumptions will help to disrupt hierarchies in scholarship and work toward more equal engagements across national divides. Although the study of Japanese Americans has reached a stage of maturity, contributors to this volume recognize important historical and contemporary neglects in that historiography and literature. Japanese America and its scholarly representations, they declare, are much too deep, rich, and varied to contain in a singular narrative or subject position.
Writing against Racial Injury
Author: Haivan V. Hoang
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980940
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider racial tensions. Bringing together language and literacy studies, Asian American history and rhetoric, and critical race theory, Hoang uses historiography and ethnography to explore the politics of Asian American language and literacy education: the growth of Asian American student organizations and self-sponsored writing; the ways language served as thinly veiled trope for race in the influential Lau v. Nichols; the inheritance of a rhetoric of injury on college campuses; and activist rhetorical strategies that rearticulate Asian American racial identity. These fragments depict a troubling yet hopeful account of the ways language and literacy education alternately racialized Asian Americans while also enabling rearticulations of Asian American identity, culture, and history. This project, more broadly, seeks to offer educators a new perspective on racial accountability in language and literacy education.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980940
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider racial tensions. Bringing together language and literacy studies, Asian American history and rhetoric, and critical race theory, Hoang uses historiography and ethnography to explore the politics of Asian American language and literacy education: the growth of Asian American student organizations and self-sponsored writing; the ways language served as thinly veiled trope for race in the influential Lau v. Nichols; the inheritance of a rhetoric of injury on college campuses; and activist rhetorical strategies that rearticulate Asian American racial identity. These fragments depict a troubling yet hopeful account of the ways language and literacy education alternately racialized Asian Americans while also enabling rearticulations of Asian American identity, culture, and history. This project, more broadly, seeks to offer educators a new perspective on racial accountability in language and literacy education.
Set the Night on Fire
Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839761229
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
Los Angeles Times Bestseller This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). “Authoritative and impressive.” —Los Angeles Times “Monumental.” —Guardian Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis’s award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839761229
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
Los Angeles Times Bestseller This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). “Authoritative and impressive.” —Los Angeles Times “Monumental.” —Guardian Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis’s award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Of Claim and Throne
Author: Layla Harper
Publisher: Alura Press, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
When darkness falls, only faith can light the way… The last time Gauron entered the Forest of Night, he barely survived. Now he's returned to the infernal forest on a fool’s mission to the Doors of Argomar. Only this time, he’s not alone. The norns who’d orchestrate his king’s ambush ride with him, and one in particular sets his teeth on edge. Sersha. Everything about her riles him. From the long white tresses he yearns to touch, to the throaty voice she wields like a sultry blade. He knows better than to trust her kind, but when a deep betrayal puts Rogar’s life in jeopardy, Gauron must put his faith in the beautiful norn. It’s a choice that could endanger his king’s life. Or end his own. Court of Bones and Ash is a steamy romantic fantasy between one growly fae king and his fated mate. This compilation includes books five and six of the series: Fae King’s Claim and Fae King’s Throne.
Publisher: Alura Press, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
When darkness falls, only faith can light the way… The last time Gauron entered the Forest of Night, he barely survived. Now he's returned to the infernal forest on a fool’s mission to the Doors of Argomar. Only this time, he’s not alone. The norns who’d orchestrate his king’s ambush ride with him, and one in particular sets his teeth on edge. Sersha. Everything about her riles him. From the long white tresses he yearns to touch, to the throaty voice she wields like a sultry blade. He knows better than to trust her kind, but when a deep betrayal puts Rogar’s life in jeopardy, Gauron must put his faith in the beautiful norn. It’s a choice that could endanger his king’s life. Or end his own. Court of Bones and Ash is a steamy romantic fantasy between one growly fae king and his fated mate. This compilation includes books five and six of the series: Fae King’s Claim and Fae King’s Throne.