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Presstime in Paradise

The Life and Times of The Honolulu Advertiser, 1856-1995

By: George Chaplin

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Presstime in Paradise

The Life and Times of The Honolulu Advertiser, 1856-1995

By: George Chaplin

Since it first rolled off the presses in 1856, The Honolulu Advertiser has been an important force in reporting and shaping the news of Honolulu and, secondarily, the Hawaiian Islands. Established as The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, a four-page weekly, it was the first enduring non-government owned or subsidized newspaper published in the Hawaiian Kingdom. Under its first owner, the son of New England missionaries, the Advertiser became the most successful commercial English language newspaper in the Islands. The paper became a daily in 1882 and in 1921 changed its name to The Honolulu Advertiser. Now owned by Gannett Company, Inc., the Advertiser is one of the oldest newspapers still operating west of the Rockies. George Chaplin, editor-in-chief of the Advertiser from 1959 to 1986, has written a colorful and entertaining insider's account of nearly a century and a half of Advertiser history. He covers the legion of personalities that has worked for the Advertiser over the years: owners (from its first Island owner, Henry Whitney, to its last, the Thurston Twigg-Smith family), publishers, editors, reporters, political cartoonists, photographers, and pressroom people. He reports on issues and historical events that had a powerful impact on the Honolulu community and comments on the newspaper's position regarding each: the sensational Massie trial, the dilemma of Hawaii's Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II, the labor movement and communism in the Islands, and statehood, among others. He also recalls the many political figures who have waged their media battles within the pages of the Advertiser.Presstime in Paradise is an illuminating and informative look at the internal operations of a newspaper and its relationship with a community that has both influenced it and been influenced by it. It adds significantly to the growing body of literature on the role of the free press in Hawaii.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824820320

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9780824820329

Handbook of Mechanical Alloy Design

By: George E. Totten,Lin Xie,Kiyoshi Funatani

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Handbook of Mechanical Alloy Design

By: George E. Totten,Lin Xie,Kiyoshi Funatani

Offering one of the field's most thorough treatments of material design principles, including a concise overview of fastener design, the Handbook of Mechanical Alloy Design provides an extensive overview of the effects of alloy compositional design on expected mechanical properties. This reference highlights the design elements that must be considered in risk-based metallurgical design and covers alloy design for a broad range of materials, including the increasingly important powder metal and metal matrix alloys. It discusses the design issues associated with carbon, alloy, and tool steels, microalloyed steels, and more. The Handbook of Mechanical Alloy Design is a must-have reference.

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CRC Press

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0203913302

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9780203913307

Progress in Metabolic Syndrome Research

By: George T. Ulrig

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Progress in Metabolic Syndrome Research

By: George T. Ulrig

Since cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) disease is the leading cause of death for adults in developed countries, many medical studies focus on treating or preventing heart disease and stroke. The metabolic syndrome, a collection of unhealthy body measurements and abnormal laboratory test results, may identify persons at high risk for developing cardiovascular disease. Aggressive lifestyle modification and possible use of medications to treat the conditions that make up the metabolic syndrome may reduce a person's chances of developing heart disease or stroke. The metabolic syndrome has also been called syndrome X or insulin resistance syndrome.

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158

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Nova Publishers

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1600211798

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9781600211799

Wax Museum Movies

A Comprehensive Filmography

By: George Higham

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Wax Museum Movies

A Comprehensive Filmography

By: George Higham

Spanning over a century of cinema and comprised of 127 films, this book analyzes the cinematic incarnations of the "uncanniest place on earth"--wax museums. Nothing is as it seems at a wax museum. It is a place of wonder, horror and mystery. Will the figures come to life at night, or are they very much dead with corpses hidden beneath their waxen shells? Is the genius hand that molded them secretly scarred by a terrible tragedy, longing for revenge? Or is it a sinner's sanctum, harboring criminals with countless places to hide in plain sight? This chronological analysis includes essential behind the scenes information in addition to authoritative research comparing the creation of "real" wax figures to the "reel" ones seen onscreen. Publicly accessible or hidden away in a maniac's lair, wax museums have provided the perfect settings for films of all genres to thrillingly play out on the big screen since the dawn of cinema.

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McFarland

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1476640114

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9781476640112

Referential Communication Tasks

By: George Yule

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Referential Communication Tasks

By: George Yule

Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another. This information exchange is typically dependent on successful acts of reference, whereby entities (human and non-human) are identified (by naming or describing), are located or moved relative to other entities (by giving instructions or directions), or are followed through sequences of locations and events (by recounting an incident or a narrative). These "activities" are examples of events that are more typically described as "tasks" in the area of second language studies. These might be real world tasks encountered in everyday experience or pedagogical tasks specifically designed for second language classroom use. This volume comprehensively documents and describes the veritable explosion of task-based research in language acquisition. In a succinct, yet easily accessible fashion, it presents the origins, principles, and key distinctions of referential communication research in first and second language studies, complete with exhaustive analyses and illustrations of different types of materials. The author also describes and evaluates different choices for using or modifying these materials, provides analytic frameworks for focusing on various aspects of the data elicited by these tasks, and includes an extensive bibliography plus an appendix showing original task materials.

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Routledge

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1135450730

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9781135450731

American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands

By: George A. Gonzalez

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American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands

By: George A. Gonzalez

Throughout the US oil and gas shale are being 'hydrofracked' to produce petroleum and natural gas. Oil (or tar) sands from Canada is being 'processed' – thereby generating large amounts of crude. This book places the unconventional fossil fuels revolution that is taking place in North America within the context of great power politics.

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Springer

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1137539569

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9781137539564

The Politics of Agriculture in Japan

By: Aurelia George Mulgan

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The Politics of Agriculture in Japan

By: Aurelia George Mulgan

Agriculture is one of the most politically powerful sectors in Japanese national politics. This book provides the first comprehensive account of the political power of Japanese farmers. This definitive text analyses the organisational and electoral bais of farmers' political power, including the role of agricultural interest groups, the mobilisation of the farm vote and links between farmers and politicians in the Diet. Agrarian power has helped to produce the distinctly pro-rural, anti-urban bias of postwar Japanese governments, resulting in a general neglect of urban consumer interests and sustained opposition to market opening for farm products. This book represents a major study of Japanese agricultural organisations in their multifarious roles as interest groups, agents of agricultural administration, electoral resource providers and mammouth business groups. It describes the policy issues that engage farmers' concerns and identifies the agricultural commodities that carry the greatest political significance.

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880

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Routledge

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1134594402

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9781134594405

Science and Technology of Integrated Ferroelectrics

Selected Papers from Eleven Years of the Proceedings of the International Symposium of Integrated Ferroelectronics

By: Carlos Pazde-Araujo,Ramamoorthy Ramesh,George W Taylor

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Science and Technology of Integrated Ferroelectrics

Selected Papers from Eleven Years of the Proceedings of the International Symposium of Integrated Ferroelectronics

By: Carlos Pazde-Araujo,Ramamoorthy Ramesh,George W Taylor

The aim of this book is to present in one volume some of the most significant developments that have taken place in the field of integrated ferroelectrics during the last decade of the twentieth century. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to integrated ferroelectrics and follows with fifty-three papers selected by Carlos Paz de Arauj

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CRC Press

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1482283360

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9781482283365

Handbook of Food Processing Equipment

By: George Saravacos,Athanasios E. Kostaropoulos

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Handbook of Food Processing Equipment

By: George Saravacos,Athanasios E. Kostaropoulos

This text covers the design of food processing equipment based on key unit operations, such as heating, cooling, and drying. In addition, mechanical processing operations such as separations, transport, storage, and packaging of food materials, as well as an introduction to food processes and food processing plants are discussed. Handbook of Food Processing Equipment is an essential reference for food engineers and food technologists working in the food process industries, as well as for designers of process plants. The book also serves as a basic reference for food process engineering students.The chapters cover engineering and economic issues for all important steps in food processing. This research is based on the physical properties of food, the analytical expressions of transport phenomena, and the description of typical equipment used in food processing. Illustrations that explain the structure and operation of industrial food processing equipment are presented. style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">The materials of construction and fabrication of food processing equipment are covered here, as well as the selection of the appropriate equipment for various food processing operations. Mechanical processing equipment such as size reduction, size enlargement, homogenization, and mixing are discussed. Mechanical separations equipment such as filters, centrifuges, presses, and solids/air systems, plus equipment for industrial food processing such as heat transfer, evaporation, dehydration, refrigeration, freezing, thermal processing, and dehydration, are presented. Equipment for novel food processes such as high pressure processing, are discussed. The appendices include conversion of units, selected thermophysical properties, plant utilities, and an extensive list of manufacturers and suppliers of food equipment.

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781

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Springer

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3319250205

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9783319250205

The Artwork Caught by the Tail

Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris

By: George Baker

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The Artwork Caught by the Tail

Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris

By: George Baker

A new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada. The artist Francis Picabia—notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist—has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dada years, art historian and critic George Baker reimagines Dada through Picabia's eyes. Such reimagining involves a new account of the readymade—Marcel Duchamp's anti-art invention, which opened fine art to mass culture and the commodity. But in Picabia's hands, Baker argues, the Dada readymade aimed to reinvent art rather than destroy it. Picabia's readymade opened art not just to the commodity, but to the larger world from which the commodity stems: the fluid sea of capital and money that transforms all objects and experiences in its wake. The book thus tells the story of a set of newly transformed artistic practices, claiming them for art history—and naming them—for the first time: Dada Drawing, Dada Painting, Dada Photography, Dada Abstraction, Dada Cinema, Dada Montage. Along the way, Baker describes a series of nearly forgotten objects and events, from the almost lunatic range of the Paris Dada “manifestations” to Picabia's polemical writings; from a lost work by Picabia in the form of a hole (called, suggestively, The Young Girl) to his “painting” Cacodylic Eye, covered in autographs by luminaries ranging from Ezra Pound to Fatty Arbuckle. Baker ends with readymades in prose: a vast interweaving of citations and quotations that converge to create a heated conversation among Picabia, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, James Joyce, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and others. Art history has never looked like this before. But then again, Dada has never looked like art history.

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497

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MIT Press

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0262514869

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9780262514866

Japan’s Failed Revolution

Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform

By: Aurelia George Mulgan

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Japan’s Failed Revolution

Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform

By: Aurelia George Mulgan

This book should be read by all political scientists, journalists, economists, and students interested in contemporary Japan. Ellis S. Krauss Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies University of California, San Diego. The author takes a scalpel to dissect Japan’s dysfunctional political system. She shows with wonderful clarity and depth of knowledge why the Koizumi reforms are not succeeding, and why revolutionary political change is needed as a precondition for economic recovery. The book should be required reading for anyone involved with contemporary Japan. J.A.A. Stockwin University of Oxford -- Publisher's description.

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270

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ANU E Press

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192502105X

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9781925021059

Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime

By: Aurelia George Mulgan

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Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime

By: Aurelia George Mulgan

Written by the world’s leading expert in the field, this book examines the evolution of Japanese agricultural policy in the post-war period, focusing particularly from the 1970s onwards when both domestic and external pressures for reform began to intensify. The author explains how the MAFF has safeguarded their institutional capacity to intervene by accommodating both public interest in agricultural policy reform alongside the interests of government in maintaining agricultural support and protection. The book provides a major reinterpretation of agricultural policy, examining how the MAFF’s role as an ‘intervention maximiser’ has been redefined in the face of continued bureaucratic involvement. Making available in English for the first time Japanese policy changes in the post-war period, the book will appeal to political economy specialists and political scientists, and those with an interest in Japanese politics and bureaucratic institutions.

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Routledge

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1134211864

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Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System

By: George A. Gonzalez

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Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System

By: George A. Gonzalez

Energy and the modern state -- The political economy of energy -- Urban sprawl in the U.S. and the creation of the Hitler regime -- Urban sprawl, the Great Depression, and the start of World War II -- U.S. economic elites, nuclear power, and solar energy -- Global oil politics -- Plutonium and U.S. foreign policy -- Conclusion: energy and the global order

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198

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SUNY Press

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1438469810

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9781438469812

Lateness and Longing

On the Afterlife of Photography

By: George Baker

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Lateness and Longing

On the Afterlife of Photography

By: George Baker

How a generation of women artists is transforming photography with analogue techniques. Beginning in the 1990s, a series of major artists imagined the expansion of photography, intensifying its ideas and effects while abandoning many of its former medium constraints. Simultaneous with this development in contemporary art, however, photography was moving toward total digitalization. Lateness and Longing presents the first account of a generation of artists—focused on the work of Zoe Leonard, Tacita Dean, Sharon Lockhart, and Moyra Davey—who have collectively transformed the practice of photography, using analogue technologies in a dissident way and radicalizing signifiers of older models of feminist art. All these artists have resisted the transition to the digital in their work. Instead—in what amounts to a series of feminist polemics—they return to earlier, incomplete, or unrealized moments in photography’s history, gravitating toward the analogue basis of photographic mediums. Their work announces that photography has become—not obsolete—but “late,” opened up by the potentially critical forces of anachronism. Through a strategy of return—of refusing to let go—the work of these artists proposes an afterlife and survival of the photographic in contemporary art, a formal lateness wherein photography finds its way forward through resistance to the contemporary itself.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226821382

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9780226821382

Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systematic. With Illustrations of the Species

Vol. IV

By: George Washington Tryon,Henry Augustus Pilsbry,B. Sharp

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Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systematic. With Illustrations of the Species

Vol. IV

By: George Washington Tryon,Henry Augustus Pilsbry,B. Sharp

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385477468

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9783385477469

The Golden Bough

By: James George Frazer

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The Golden Bough

By: James George Frazer

The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108047394

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Book's by George Krauss

Presstime in Paradise

Presstime in Paradise

Handbook of Mechanical Alloy Design

Handbook of Mechanical Alloy Design

Progress in Metabolic Syndrome Research

Progress in Metabolic Syndrome Research

Wax Museum Movies

Wax Museum Movies

Referential Communication Tasks

Referential Communication Tasks

American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands

American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands

The Politics of Agriculture in Japan

The Politics of Agriculture in Japan

Science and Technology of Integrated Ferroelectrics

Science and Technology of Integrated Ferroelectrics

Handbook of Food Processing Equipment

Handbook of Food Processing Equipment

The Artwork Caught by the Tail

The Artwork Caught by the Tail

Japan’s Failed Revolution

Japan’s Failed Revolution

Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime

Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime

Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System

Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System

Lateness and Longing

Lateness and Longing

Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systematic. With Illustrations of the Species

Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systematic. With Illustrations of the Species

The Golden Bough

The Golden Bough

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