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Returns

By: James Clifford

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Returns explores homecomings--the ways people recover and renew their roots. Engaging with indigenous histories of survival and transformation, James Clifford opens fundamental questions about where we are going, separately and together, in a globalizing, but not homogenizing, world. It was once widely assumed that tribal societies were destined to disappear. Sooner or later, irresistible economic and political forces would complete the destruction begun by culture contact and colonialism. But aboriginal groups persist, a reality that complicates familiar narratives of modernization. History is a multidirectional process where the word "indigenous," long associated with primitivism and localism, takes on unexpected meanings. In these probing essays, native people in California, Alaska, and Oceania are shown to be agents, not victims, struggling within and against dominant forms of cultural identity and economic power. Their returns to the land, performances of heritage, and diasporic ties are strategies for moving forward, ways to articulate what can paradoxically be called "traditional futures." With inventiveness and pragmatism, often against the odds, indigenous people are forging original pathways in a tangled, open-ended modernity. Third in a series that includes The Predicament of Culture and Routes, this volume continues Clifford's signature exploration of intercultural representations, travels, and now returns.

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Harvard University Press

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0674726227

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9780674726222

Automated Fare Collection System & Urban Public Transportation

An Economic & Management Approach To Urban Transit Systems

By: Clifford N. Opurum

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Automated Fare Collection System & Urban Public Transportation

An Economic & Management Approach To Urban Transit Systems

By: Clifford N. Opurum

With its unique features (presented in nine chapters grouped into five major parts), Automated Fare Collection System And Urban Public Transit: An Economic & Management Approach To Urban Transit Systems provides a wealth of resourceful information to everyone with interest in mass transit: Part I: Public Transportation, Urban Economy And Automation in Fare Collection Part II: Models of Transportation Pricing Part III: Transportation Research Methods And Models Part IV: Approaches And Trends in Urban Transit Ridership Part V: Epilogue In these parts of the book, Clifford N. Opurum reveals the impact of the automated fare collection system on mass transit and particularly, on the New York City rail rapid transit system. Various effective urban public transportation pricing techniques are presented. Transportation research methods and models including the alogit model and different approaches to transportation research analysis are featured. Alternative scenarios of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) are used extensively along with other feasibility studies strategies to determine the economic and social benefits of the automated fare collection system. The author concludes that as in the case of other industrial sectors, the financial health of the transit industry is very much dependent upon the level of transit patronage, and that automation in fare collection has further encouraged the later. Furthermore, he added that automated fare collection (AFC) is preferred over the mechanical system of fare collection and will make positive impact on both transit ridership and revenue, if efficiently operated. Finally, he stressed that society would be better off financially if the benefits of automation in transit fare collection are fully utilized, and that automation in fare collection has indeed influenced the travel pattern of most mass transit patrons.

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409

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Trafford Publishing

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1466913924

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9781466913929

Yankee Twang

Country and Western Music in New England

By: Clifford R. Murphy

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Yankee Twang

Country and Western Music in New England

By: Clifford R. Murphy

Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's sense of the musical life, Yankee Twang delves into the rich tradition of country & western music that is played and loved in the mill towns and cities of the American northeast. Scholar and musician Clifford R. Murphy draws on a wealth of ethnographic material, interviews, and encounters with recorded and live music to reveal the central role of country and western in the social lives and musical activity of working-class New Englanders. As Murphy shows, an extraordinary multiculturalism sets New England country and western music apart from other regional and national forms. Once segregated at work and worship, members of different ethnic groups used the country and western popularized on the radio and by barnstorming artists to come together at social events, united by a love of the music. Musicians, meanwhile, drew from the wide variety of ethnic musical traditions to create the New England style. But the music also gave--and gives--voice to working-class feeling. Murphy explores how the Yankee love of country and western emphasizes the western, reflecting the longing of many blue collar workers for the mythical cowboy's life of rugged but fulfilling individualism. Indeed, many New Englanders use country and western to comment on economic disenfranchisement and express their resentment of a mass media, government, and Nashville music establishment that they believe neither reflects their experiences nor considers them equal participants in American life.

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233

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University of Illinois Press

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0252096614

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9780252096617

Standard Catalog of World Coins

By: Chester L. Krause,Clifford Mishler

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Standard Catalog of World Coins

By: Chester L. Krause,Clifford Mishler

Identifies and lists current prices for all of the world's coins

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1968

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Krause Publications Incorporated

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0873411501

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9780873411509

Standard Catalog of World Crowns and Talers

By: Chester L. Krause,Colin R. Bruce,Clifford Mishler

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Standard Catalog of World Crowns and Talers

By: Chester L. Krause,Colin R. Bruce,Clifford Mishler

Get combined research on European world talers and issues of the Orient, Modern Island Nations and Americas from world coin expert Colin Bruce. Historical notes provide background data.

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1360

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Krause Publications Incorporated

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0873412117

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9780873412117

2004 Standard Catalog of World Coins

1901-present

By: Chester L. Krause,Clifford Mishler

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2004 Standard Catalog of World Coins

1901-present

By: Chester L. Krause,Clifford Mishler

Shows and lists current values for modern coins minted around the world from Afghanistan to Zambia.

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0873495934

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9780873495936

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Returns

Returns

Automated Fare Collection System & Urban Public Transportation

Automated Fare Collection System & Urban Public Transportation

Yankee Twang

Yankee Twang

Standard Catalog of World Coins

Standard Catalog of World Coins

Standard Catalog of World Crowns and Talers

Standard Catalog of World Crowns and Talers

2004 Standard Catalog of World Coins

2004 Standard Catalog of World Coins

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