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The Origins of the Choson Dynasty

By: John B. Duncan

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The Origins of the Choson Dynasty

By: John B. Duncan

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the transition from the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and offers a new interpretation of the history of traditional Korea.

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University of Washington Press

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0295805331

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Tracks & Sign of Insects & Other Invertebrates

A Guide to North American Species

By: Charley Eiseman,Noah Charney,John Carlson

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Tracks & Sign of Insects & Other Invertebrates

A Guide to North American Species

By: Charley Eiseman,Noah Charney,John Carlson

The first-ever reference to the sign left by insects and other North American invertebrates includes descriptions and almost 1,000 color photos of tracks, egg cases, nests, feeding signs, galls, webs, burrows, and signs of predation. Identification is made to the family level, sometimes to the genus or species. It's an invaluable guide for wildlife professionals, naturalists, students, and insect specialists.

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Stackpole Books

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0811736245

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9780811736244

In Mortal Combat

Korea, 1950–1953

By: John Toland

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In Mortal Combat

Korea, 1950–1953

By: John Toland

A history of the Korean War with soldier’s-eye views from both sides, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Rising Sun and Infamy. Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland reports on the Korean War in a revolutionary way in this thoroughly researched and riveting book. Toland pored over military archives and was the first person to gain access to previously undisclosed Chinese records, which allowed him to investigate Chairman Mao’s direct involvement in the conflict. Toland supplements his captivating history with in-depth interviews with more than two hundred American soldiers, as well as North Korean, South Korean, and Chinese combatants, plus dozens of poignant photographs, bringing those who fought to vivid life and honoring the memory of those lost. In Mortal Combat is comprehensive in it discussion of events deemed controversial, such as American brutality against Korean civilians and allegations of American use of biological warfare. Toland tells the dramatic account of the Korean War from start to finish, from the appalling experience of its POWs to Mao’s prediction of MacArthur’s Inchon invasion. Toland’s account of the “forgotten war” is a must-read for any history aficionado.

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Open Road Media

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1504025652

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9781504025652

A Journey with Poppies

A Story Set in the Mid Twenty-First Century

By: David John Eagleton

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A Journey with Poppies

A Story Set in the Mid Twenty-First Century

By: David John Eagleton

While, together on several camping trips, grandfather and grandson, John Moore and David John Eagleton, respectively, wondered what life would be like when David John is as old as his grandfather...in the year 2053. Around many campfires, they speculated about that future world, how it will change, and how David Johns life would evolve. What began as whimsical speculations became more believable and from those, a story was born. It is the story of life in the mid-twenty first century, as it might exist for David John, who will then be in his sixties, and his teenage grandson, David John III. It is a story of a grandfather and grandson. But it is more than that. It is a commentary on what might come to pass in areas such as technology, politics, warfare, and human relations. If you have ever tried to imagine the future, you know its relatively easy to dream but its downright hard to be a credible visionary. However, the authors have woven a mosaic of adventure, romance, and challenge into a believable story. This book will challenge your imagination and your ability to project yourself into time, fifty years in the future. Read it. What you find may astound you.

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AuthorHouse

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1410762475

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The 10 Pounds Off Paleo Diet

The Easy Way to Drop Inches in Just 28 Days

By: John Hastings

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The 10 Pounds Off Paleo Diet

The Easy Way to Drop Inches in Just 28 Days

By: John Hastings

Paleo is the hottest diet trend right now, but for many people, the idea of giving up carbs, gluten and dairy is so overwhelming it's hard to know where to start. The revolutionary 10 Pounds Off: The Paleo Diet makes it easy to go Paleo step by step, and is geared to beginners who are looking for a simple, effective way to lose weight.

Combining guidance from trusted health experts with delicious, guaranteed-to-work recipes from COOKING LIGHT, the 10 Pounds Off: The Paleo Diet offers a foolproof path to healthy weight loss.

The book includes an easy to follow 28-day meal plan to help you lose a pound a week; more than 100 diet-specific COOKING LIGHT-approved recipes; detailed shopping lists; a do-anywhere fitness plan; stay-on-track journal; and hundreds of informative tips, charts and boxes presented in a fun, visually exciting package that will make losing weight easier and more fun than you ever thought possible. Plus, the information is reviewed by an independent expert advisory board to offer a scientifically sound approach and guarantee your weight loss is healthful and sustainable. Do the Diet with a friend or try it solo-the 10 Pounds Off Diet series will help you achieve your weight loss goals, one pound at a time.

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Time Home Entertainment

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0848746600

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9780848746605

Whitewashed

America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority

By: John Tehranian

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Whitewashed

America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority

By: John Tehranian

Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John Tehranian The Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil rights, and the debate over immigration, assimilation, and our national identity. Yet paradoxically, little attention is focused on our domestic Middle Eastern population and its place in American society. Unlike many other racial minorities in our country, Middle Eastern Americans have faced rising, rather than diminishing, degrees of discrimination over time; a fact highlighted by recent targeted immigration policies, racial profiling, a war on terrorism with a decided racialist bent, and growing rates of job discrimination and hate crime. Oddly enough, however, Middle Eastern Americans are not even considered a minority in official government data. Instead, they are deemed white by law. In Whitewashed, John Tehranian combines his own personal experiences as an Iranian American with an expert’s analysis of current events, legal trends, and critical theory to analyze this bizarre Catch-22 of Middle Eastern racial classification. He explains how American constructions of Middle Eastern racial identity have changed over the last two centuries, paying particular attention to the shift in perceptions of the Middle Easterner from friendly foreigner to enemy alien, a trend accelerated by the tragic events of 9/11. Focusing on the contemporary immigration debate, the war on terrorism, media portrayals of Middle Easterners, and the processes of creating racial stereotypes, Tehranian argues that, despite its many successes, the modern civil rights movement has not done enough to protect the liberties of Middle Eastern Americans. By following how concepts of whiteness have transformed over time, Whitewashed forces readers to rethink and question some of their most deeply held assumptions about race in American society.

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NYU Press

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0814782736

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9780814782736

K-Pop

Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea

By: John Lie

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K-Pop

Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea

By: John Lie

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization—but also a description of K-pop as a system of economic innovation and cultural production. In doing so, he delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.

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Univ of California Press

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0520283120

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The Invention of the Passport

Surveillance, Citizenship and the State

By: John Torpey

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The Invention of the Passport

Surveillance, Citizenship and the State

By: John Torpey

In order to distinguish between those who may and may not enter or leave, states everywhere have developed extensive systems of identification, central to which is the passport. This innovative book argues that documents such as passports, internal passports and related mechanisms have been crucial in making distinctions between citizens and non-citizens. It examines how the concept of citizenship has been used to delineate rights and penalties regarding property, liberty, taxes and welfare. It focuses on the US and Western Europe, moving from revolutionary France to the Napoleonic era, the American Civil War, the British industrial revolution, pre-World War I Italy, the reign of Germany's Third Reich and beyond. This innovative study combines theory and empirical data in questioning how and why states have established the exclusive right to authorize and regulate the movement of people.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521634938

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9780521634939

Handbook of Vitamins

By: Robert B. Rucker,John W. Suttie,Donald B. McCormick

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Handbook of Vitamins

By: Robert B. Rucker,John W. Suttie,Donald B. McCormick

Features a comprehensive summary of the chemical, physiological, and nutritional relationships of all recognized vitamins! Maintaining the standards of excellence set forth in the previous editions, the Handbook of Vitamins, Third Edition presents a thorough examination of the fundamental characteristics, functions, and roles of vitamins in human health. Extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest advances in analytical and separation methodologies! Offering a compendium of authoritative, current knowledge on the nature and function of each known nutrient, the Third Edition discusses.... improvements in the methodology, isolation, identification, and the synthesis of vitamins the chemistry, metabolism, and biochemical functions of vitamins vitamin interactions with environmental factors, drugs, alcohol, and smoking vitamins in disease prevention and health promotion the efficacy and hazards of high vitamin dosages and more! New sections cover... the roles vitamins play as catalysts, cellular regulators, and co-substrates biochemical markers for vitamin deficiency and groups at risk the relationship of B12 and folate metabolism to homocysteine regulation, and the possible connections of homocysteine to vascular diseases and developmental defects new roles for vitamins A, K, and D, and the role of vitamin E and flavonoids in oxidant defense Containing over 2800 literature references and 150 illustrations and tables, the Handbook of Vitamins, Third Edition serves as an indisputably valuable reference for human and animal nutritionists, dietitians, food scientists and technologists, biochemists, organic and analytical chemists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, physiologists, physicians in general practice, and makes an indispensable text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

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CRC Press

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1420029665

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Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies

Handbook on Planning, Design, Development, and Regulation

By: John R. Vacca

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Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies

Handbook on Planning, Design, Development, and Regulation

By: John R. Vacca

Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies is the most complete guide for integrating next generation smart city technologies into the very foundation of urban areas worldwide, showing how to make urban areas more efficient, more sustainable, and safer. Smart cities are complex systems of systems that encompass all aspects of modern urban life. A key component of their success is creating an ecosystem of smart infrastructures that can work together to enable dynamic, real-time interactions between urban subsystems such as transportation, energy, healthcare, housing, food, entertainment, work, social interactions, and governance. Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies is a complete reference for building a holistic, system-level perspective on smart and sustainable cities, leveraging big data analytics and strategies for planning, zoning, and public policy. It offers in-depth coverage and practical solutions for how smart cities can utilize resident's intellectual and social capital, press environmental sustainability, increase personalization, mobility, and higher quality of life. - Brings together experts from academia, government and industry to offer state-of- the-art solutions for urban system problems, showing how smart technologies can be used to improve the lives of the billions of people living in cities across the globe - Demonstrates practical implementation solutions through real-life case studies - Enhances reader comprehension with learning aid such as hands-on exercises, questions and answers, checklists, chapter summaries, chapter review questions, exercise problems, and more

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Elsevier

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012816817X

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Promises from God’s Word

Spiritual, Devotional, Inspirational & Motivational

By: Dr. John Thomas Wylie

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Promises from God’s Word

Spiritual, Devotional, Inspirational & Motivational

By: Dr. John Thomas Wylie

Some of the time it is elusive solutions (hard to find answers) to life's issues when we need them the most. "Promises From God's Word," is an assortment of promises from God's Word (The Bible) designed as an important instrument for finding what God has to say about our specific needs or circumstances. Every section contains interesting inquiries regarding the matter, answers from Scripture (with references), and a promise from God's Word in the Authorized King James Translation (unless otherwise indicated). It is Dr. Wylie's expectation that this perusing and hope makes the Bible open, helpful, and accessible for all who reference its pages. Dr. John Thomas Wylie

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1728358299

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9781728358291

Screen World 2003

By: John Willis

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Screen World 2003

By: John Willis

(Screen World). Movie fans eagerly await each year's new edition of Screen World , the definitive record of the cinema since 1949. Volume 54 provides an illustrated listing of every American and foreign film released in the United States in 2002, all documented with more than 1000 photographs. The 2003 edition of Screen World features such notable films as Chicago , the Academy Award winner for Best Picture; Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-nominated Gangs of New York ; The Pianist , featuring the surprise Academy Award winners Adrien Brody for Best Actor and Roman Polanski for Best Director; Spider-Man , the highest grossing film of 2002; The Hours with Academy Award winner for Best Actress Nicole Kidman; and About Schmidt starring Academy Award nominees Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates. As always, Screen World's outstanding features include: photographic stills and shots of the four Academy Award-winning actors as well as all acting nominees; a look at the year's most promising new screen personalities; complete filmographies cast and characters, credits, production company, date released, rating and running time; and biographical entries a priceless reference for over 2,400 living stars, including real name, school, and date and place of birth. Includes over 1,000 photos! "The enduring film classic." Variety

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557835284

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Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy

The Clinician’s Guide to Foundations and Applications

By: Phyllis S. Kosminsky,John R. Jordan

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Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy

The Clinician’s Guide to Foundations and Applications

By: Phyllis S. Kosminsky,John R. Jordan

Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy bridges the fields of attachment studies, thanatology, and interpersonal neuroscience, uniting theory, research, and practice to enrich our understanding of how we can help the bereaved. The new edition includes updated research and discussion of emotion regulation, relational trauma, epistemic trust, and much more. In these pages, clinicians and students will gain a new understanding of the etiology of problematic grief and its treatment, and will become better equipped to formulate accurate and specific case conceptualization and treatment plans. The authors also illustrate the ways in which the therapeutic relationship is crucially important – though largely unrecognized – element in grief therapy and offer guidelines for an attachment-informed view of the therapeutic relationship that can serve as the foundation of all grief therapy. Written by two highly experienced grief counselors, this volume is filled with instructive case vignettes and useful techniques that offer a universal and practical frame of reference for understanding grief therapy for clinicians of every theoretical persuasion.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003801897

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9781003801894

Culturism

A Word, a Value, Our Future

By: John Kenneth Press

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Culturism

A Word, a Value, Our Future

By: John Kenneth Press

Culturism is the opposite of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism says that western nations have no core culture; our lands are just neutral spaces where random cultures assemble. Culturism acknowledges that we have a core culture rooted in Athens and Jerusalem. Culturism defies globalism. Islamic nations and China do not believe in rights, the relative separation of church and state, democracy, or free speech. These are not universal values; they are western values. To protect them, we must protect the West. Like all other nations, we have a right to have culturist economic and immigration policies. Culturism disarms those who abuse the word "racist" in order to stop discussion. Pointing out that different ethnic groups have different levels of economic and educational achievement is not racist; it is culturist. Culturist profiling is not racist. Racism is stupid. But if cultural diversity is real, discussing cultural diversity is rational and necessary. Neither inherently conservative nor liberal, culturism argues against invading other nations to spread Western values to nations that do not want them. It also argues for the right of our schools to teach culturist, pro-western, curriculum. Stop the corrosive spread of multiculturalism and politically correct censorship. Spread the words culturism and culturist today!

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eBookIt.com

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145660421X

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9781456604219

A Fork in Asia's Road

Adventures of an Occidental Glutton

By: John Krich

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A Fork in Asia's Road

Adventures of an Occidental Glutton

By: John Krich

Asia is a delicious and unique melting pot of flavours with the diverse cuisines reflecting the various cultural and ethnic groups that call it home. Award-winning writer John Krich has lived and travelled across Asia for the last decade as the food correspondent for the Asian Wall Street Journal. The 50 amazing food stories he shares in this book are organised around eight general themes and cover the following countries: China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Macau, Taiwan, The Philippines, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam. Drawing on his culinary adventures and knowledge, Krich discusses food, ingredients and eateries — everything from strange and wacky dishes to comfort food and fine imperial dining. Foodies will appreciate his insights and even gourmands will enjoy a chuckle as they digest what is being served.

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Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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9814382930

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9789814382939

Unequal Health

Anti-Black Racism and the Threat to America's Health

By: Louis A. Penner,John F. Dovidio,Nao Hagiwara,Brian D. Smedley

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Unequal Health

Anti-Black Racism and the Threat to America's Health

By: Louis A. Penner,John F. Dovidio,Nao Hagiwara,Brian D. Smedley

Unequal Health provides a comprehensive and broadly accessible overview of persistent and substantial racial health disparities in American. Using research, first-person narratives, and historical events, this volume documents the scope of the problem, its roots in anti-Black racism, and consequences for the health and healthcare of all Americans.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009021133

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9781009021135

Global Lorentzian Geometry

By: John K. Beem

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Global Lorentzian Geometry

By: John K. Beem

Bridging the gap between modern differential geometry and the mathematical physics of general relativity, this text, in its second edition, includes new and expanded material on topics such as the instability of both geodesic completeness and geodesic incompleteness for general space-times, geodesic connectibility, the generic condition, the sectional curvature function in a neighbourhood of degenerate two-plane, and proof of the Lorentzian Splitting Theorem.;Five or more copies may be ordered by college or university stores at a special student price, available on request.

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Routledge

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1351444700

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9781351444705

Particle Deposition and Aggregation

Measurement, Modelling and Simulation

By: M. Elimelech,Xiadong Jia,John Gregory,Richard Williams

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Particle Deposition and Aggregation

Measurement, Modelling and Simulation

By: M. Elimelech,Xiadong Jia,John Gregory,Richard Williams

Deposition and aggregation of small solid particles are encountered in many natural and industrial environments. Whether it be deposition of particles onto a surface immersed in a liquid suspension or aggregateion of individual particles, these processes are of enotmous significance. They are vital to the manufacture of magnetic tape, purification of water using packed bed filters, selective capture of solids, cells and macromolecular species, and many other applications. This book presents a unified approach to the measurement, modelling and simulation of these processes, bringing together the disciplines of colliod and surface chemistry, hydrodynamics, and experimental and computational methods. It will be required reading for graduates working in process and environmental engineering, postgraduates involved in industrial R & D and for all scientists wishing to gain a more detailed and realistic understanding of process conditions in these areas.

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Elsevier

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0080513573

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9780080513577

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

By: John Soennichsen

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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

By: John Soennichsen

This in-depth examination of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 provides a chronological review of the events, ordinances, and pervasive attitudes that preceded, coincided with, and followed its enactment. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a historic act of legislation that demonstrated how the federal government of the United States once openly condoned racial discrimination. Once the Exclusion Act passed, the door was opened to further limitation of Asians in America during the late 19th century, such as the Scott Act of 1888 and the Geary Act of 1892, and increased hatred towards and violence against Chinese people based on the misguided belief they were to blame for depressed wage levels and unemployment among Caucasians. This title traces the complete evolution of the Exclusion Act, including the history of Chinese immigration to the United States, the factors that served to increase their populations here, and the subsequent efforts to limit further immigration and encourage the departure of the Chinese already in America.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313379475

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China

A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People

By: John Henry Gray

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A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People

By: John Henry Gray

This highly readable history dates from the late 19th century, starting with the earliest known legends of the "Middle Kingdom," and ranging forward to an intriguing series of portraits of the author's Chinese contemporaries.

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Courier Corporation

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0486160734

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9780486160733

Number Theory Arising From Finite Fields

Analytic And Probabilistic Theory

By: John Knopfmacher,Wen-Bin Zhang

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Number Theory Arising From Finite Fields

Analytic And Probabilistic Theory

By: John Knopfmacher,Wen-Bin Zhang

Number Theory Arising from Finite Fields: Analytic and Probabilistic Theory" offers a discussion of the advances and developments in the field of number theory arising from finite fields. It emphasizes mean-value theorems of multiplicative functions, the theory of additive formulations, and the normal distribution of values from additive functions

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CRC Press

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0203908155

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9780203908150

Convergent Flux

Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Korea

By: Jinhee Park,John Hong

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Convergent Flux

Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Korea

By: Jinhee Park,John Hong

Convergent Flux illustrates the contemporary architectural and urban planning developments in South Korea in the context of the country's considerable urban density. In recent years South Korea, which long stood in the shadow of the superpowers Japan and China, has surged in economic terms. That said, industrialization and the population explosion connected with it have created enormous challenges for the country at the interface between globalization and cultural identity. Some 10.5 million inhabitants live in the center of the capital Seoul, while the metropolitan area includes around 25 million residents making it the second largest conurbation in the world after Tokyo. The result is high urban density, which spells an enormous demand for the more efficient use of space and encourages verticalization in architecture. The publication outlines the current developments in South Korean architecture, urban development and landscape architecture by examining 32 projects in detail. An in-depth view of contemporary South Korean architecture is given by five essays that address topics such as the fusion of tradition and the modern, the re-defining of so-called "social spaces" and the country's special topographical situation. The authors are both architects, trained at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3034611293

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