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Pidgin to Da Max Hana Hou

By: Peppovision,Douglas Simonson,Pat Sasaki,Ken Sakata,Todd Kurosawa

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Pidgin to Da Max Hana Hou

By: Peppovision,Douglas Simonson,Pat Sasaki,Ken Sakata,Todd Kurosawa

The second volume in the classic series, hundreds of additional pidgin words.

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Bess Press

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0935848916

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9780935848915

Pupus to Da Max

By: Pat Sasaki,Douglas Simonson,Ken Sakata

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Pupus to Da Max

By: Pat Sasaki,Douglas Simonson,Ken Sakata

A humorous and informative introduction to the foods of Hawai'i, featuring definitions, cartoons, and recipes.

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164

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Bess Press

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093584838X

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9780935848380

Hawaii to Da Max

By: Douglas Simonson,Ken Sakata,Pat Sasaki

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Hawaii to Da Max

By: Douglas Simonson,Ken Sakata,Pat Sasaki

A local style guide for visitors and newcomers.

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Bess Press

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1880188317

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9781880188316

Eternal Remains: World Mummification and the Beliefs that make it Necessary

By: Ken Jeremiah

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Eternal Remains: World Mummification and the Beliefs that make it Necessary

By: Ken Jeremiah

Eternal Remains: World Mummification and the Beliefs that make it Necessary provides an overview of mummification, but it concentrates on the reasons behind the act. It investigates the justification for preserving dead bodies, and in so doing, probes the true nature of both life and death. Many think of these as two distinct concepts, like day and night, but they are not distinct. Day fades into night, and night then returns to day. There are realms in which night and day merge, such as dusk and dawn. Perhaps the relationship between life and death is similar. After explaining the natural processes of decay and how they are halted, various mummies in different parts of the world are introduced. In the Americas, these include snow- and ice-preserved bodies in Montana and Alaska, and some controversial finds in other states. The Guanajuato mummies in Mexico and the strangely-preserved bodies in San Bernardo, Columbia are also introduced, alongside new translations of modern reactions to such bodies. The mummification techniques of cultures in Central and South America are also delineated, including Incan sacrificial ceremonies and the preservation of Incan kings. Unusual preservations in South America include the Chancay practice of turning the deceased into drums, which were played during special ceremonies, and the Jívaro method of shrinking heads. In addition, Eternal Remains introduces to the English-speaking world the recently discovered world's smallest mummy, Ichiknuna. Chapters about European mummies cover the so-called Frankenstein mummies of Cladh Hallan and fantastically preserved bog bodies, which provide evidence of ancient murders and superstitious customs. The mummies in Ferentillo, a small town north of Rome in the region of Umbria, were strangely preserved by the soil's chemical composition. Eternal Remains contains many pictures of these mummies, which have not been previously published. It also provides new information about what happened to King Tutankhamen's body after it had been embalmed and placed into a sarcophagus, and it explains the amazing discovery of cocaine, nicotine, and hashish in nine different 7,000-year-old Egyptian mummies. Since mainstream historical understanding holds that these substances only existed in the Americas at the time, the discovery is forcing some scholars to consider the possibility of cross-oceanic trade, which would force a historical rewrite. Other controversial finds are likewise presented in this text, including the discovery of advanced, ancient Caucasian bodies in China. This book is one of few in English to cover Buddhist mummification in Tibet and China, and the amazingly self-mummified monks in Japan. Newly translated information about some of these monks, never before published in English, is included in this book, alongside pictures of the monks who engaged in this suicidal practice. Eternal Remains also explains modern methods of conservation. The reasons behind the worldwide desire to mummify are similar, and by investigating the techniques and the underlying beliefs that necessitated the practice, one can more clearly see just what makes us human. This study forces readers to reflect upon the true nature of life and death, and connections are made between the spiritual portion of each individual and other natural phenomena. They are led to ponder the ultimate significance of it all. The final conclusions formed are sure to inspire all, providing a new way to consider death and its relationship to life. Eternal Remains combines a study of mummification with comparative religions, and an analysis of worldwide beliefs about the nature of death. It will open one's eyes to new possibilities concerning human advancement, anomalous archaeological discoveries, and the greatest mysteries of both life and death.

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238

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First Edition Design Pub.

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1622874943

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9781622874941

Living Buddhas

The Self-Mummified Monks of Yamagata, Japan

By: Ken Jeremiah

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Living Buddhas

The Self-Mummified Monks of Yamagata, Japan

By: Ken Jeremiah

Northern Japan is home to an ancient, esoteric tradition of self-mummifying Buddhist monks, little known to the outside world. Long after death, these ascetics continue to be revered as Living Buddhas. This first English-language work on the subject recounts the process by which these monks starve themselves for a decade, bury themselves alive with only a small breathing tube, and meditate until death. After three years, the mummified body is exhumed and displayed. The biographies of various monks are presented within, as is an examination of the religious beliefs involved, an amalgamation of three distinct religious traditions. Also explored is the role of asceticism in religion, and beliefs about life and death shared by the Buddhist sects involved in self-mummification.

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McFarland

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0786456027

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9780786456024

Building Community Food Webs

By: Ken Meter

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Building Community Food Webs

By: Ken Meter

Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm production to astounding levels, net farm income is now lower than at the onset of the Great Depression, and one out of every eight Americans faces hunger. But a healthier and more equitable food system is possible. In Building Community Food Webs, Ken Meter shows how grassroots food and farming leaders across the U.S. are tackling these challenges by constructing civic networks. Overturning extractive economic structures, these inspired leaders are engaging low-income residents, farmers, and local organizations in their quest to build stronger communities. Community food webs strive to build health, wealth, capacity, and connection. Their essential element is building greater respect and mutual trust, so community members can more effectively empower themselves and address local challenges. Farmers and researchers may convene to improve farming practices collaboratively. Health clinics help clients grow food for themselves and attain better health. Food banks engage their customers to challenge the root causes of poverty. Municipalities invest large sums to protect farmland from development. Developers forge links among local businesses to strengthen economic trade. Leaders in communities marginalized by our current food system are charting a new path forward. Building Community Food Webs captures the essence of these efforts, underway in diverse places including Montana, Hawai‘i, Vermont, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, and Minnesota. Addressing challenges as well as opportunities, Meter offers pragmatic insights for community food leaders and other grassroots activists alike.

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306

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Island Press

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1642831476

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9781642831474

Global Environment Remote Sensing

By: Ken'ichi Okamoto

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Global Environment Remote Sensing

By: Ken'ichi Okamoto

At the beginning of the 21st century the world still faces various global environmental issues. Examples include the rise in atmosperic temperature due to the increase of atmosperic carbon dioxide, the depletion of the ozone layer and El Nino related climatic anomalies. Remote sensing technologies that use electromagnetic waves are quite useful in measuring physical parameters which describe global environments. This book covers the theory of electromagnetic remote sensing and the basic technologies used.

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328

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IOS Press

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1586031015

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9781586031015

Surface Engineering

Processes and Applications

By: Ken N. Strafford

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Surface Engineering

Processes and Applications

By: Ken N. Strafford

Surface Engineering: Processes and Applications: This volume covers both innovative and basic methods of surface engineering for improved surface properties.

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388

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Routledge

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1351412574

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9781351412575

Spies on the Mekong

CIA Clandestine Operations in Laos

By: Ken Conboy

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Spies on the Mekong

CIA Clandestine Operations in Laos

By: Ken Conboy

During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency’s biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advisors and support personnel trained and led guerrilla formations across the mountainous Laotian countryside, as well as running smaller road-watch and agent teams that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Chinese frontier. Added to this number were hundreds of contract personnel providing covert aviation services. It was dangerous work. On the Memorial Wall at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, nine stars are dedicated to officers who perished in Laos. On top of this are more than one hundred from propriety airlines killed in aviation mishaps between 1961 and 1973. Combined, this grim casualty figure is orders of magnitude larger than any other CIA paramilitary operation. But for the Foreign Intelligence officers at Langley, Laos was more than a paramilitary battleground. Because of its geographic location as a buffer state, as well as its trifurcated political structure, Laos was a unique Cold War melting pot. All three of the Lao political factions, including the communist Pathet Lao, had representation in Vientiane. The Soviet Union had an extremely active embassy in the capital, while the People’s Republic of China—though in the throes of the Cultural Revolution—had multiple diplomatic outposts across the kingdom. So, too, did both North and South Vietnam. All of this made Laos fertile ground for clandestine operations. This book comprehensively details the cloak-and-dagger side of the war in Laos for the first time, from agent recruitments to servicing dead-drops in Vientiane.

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Casemate

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1636240208

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9781636240206

Mathematical Basics of Motion and Deformation in Computer Graphics

Second Edition

By: Ken Anjyo,Hiroyuki Ochiai

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Mathematical Basics of Motion and Deformation in Computer Graphics

Second Edition

By: Ken Anjyo,Hiroyuki Ochiai

This synthesis lecture presents an intuitive introduction to the mathematics of motion and deformation in computer graphics. Starting with familiar concepts in graphics, such as Euler angles, quaternions, and affine transformations, we illustrate that a mathematical theory behind these concepts enables us to develop the techniques for efficient/effective creation of computer animation. This book, therefore, serves as a good guidepost to mathematics (differential geometry and Lie theory) for students of geometric modeling and animation in computer graphics. Experienced developers and researchers will also benefit from this book, since it gives a comprehensive overview of mathematical approaches that are particularly useful in character modeling, deformation, and animation.

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1627059849

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9781627059848

Wildlife, Landscape Use and Society

Regional Case Studies in Japan

By: Ken Sugimura

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Wildlife, Landscape Use and Society

Regional Case Studies in Japan

By: Ken Sugimura

A comprehensive analysis of the various terrestrial natural landscapes and habitats within Japan, and the efforts to sustain and conserve them and sustain landscape services. In 2011, Conservation International designated the Japanese islands collectively as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. They are rich in biodiversity, but also densely populated and so human impacts have led to many species being classed as endangered though few have become extinct during recent decades. Sugimura evaluates the effects of landscape changes, government policies and economy on the forest ecosystems and services of Japan. He then contemplates how a rich variety of wildlife species have been able to survive, albeit in limited numbers, despite the rapid expansion of Japanese economic activities in the 20th century. In addition, there appear to be correlations between uniqueness of biodiversity, types of landscape use and the attitudes of local communities towards natural landscapes. A vital introduction for international environmentalists, geographers and environmental scientists looking to understand Japan’s unique ecosystems and their experiences with human activities.

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224

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Routledge

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100031765X

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9781000317657

Others in Japanese Agriculture

Koreans, Evacuees and Migrants 1920-1950

By: Ken'ichi Yasuoka

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Others in Japanese Agriculture

Koreans, Evacuees and Migrants 1920-1950

By: Ken'ichi Yasuoka

Japan's national identity associates the 'Japanese people' with the Japanese land, making the farmer the backbone of the nation. Others in Japanese Agriculture challenges this mythology, revealing the changing faces of Japanese farmers during the colonial and post-war eras. First, it traces the tangled trail of Koreans brought into farming villages as a result of war mobilization and capitalist development. Second, it discusses the plight of those who evacuated from cities as they attempted to eke out a living on marginal land. Third, it points out that settlers repatriated from the colonies were met with hostility from villagers and indifference from authorities. Finally, it explores how those who were encouraged to emigrate for 'the good of the nation' in post-war Japan, found themselves victims of agrarian reforms, which severed their ties. In sum, despite being lauded as the 'backbone of the nation' Japanese farmers have been repeatedly marginalized and othered. (Series: Japanese Society Series) [Subject: Asian Studies, Agricultural Studies, History, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, Migration Studies, Sociology]

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378

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Trans Pacific Press

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1925608972

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9781925608977

What Do Needle and Syringe Programs Do?

An Assemblic Account of Staff-Client Relationships at Needle Syringe Programs

By: Ken Yates

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What Do Needle and Syringe Programs Do?

An Assemblic Account of Staff-Client Relationships at Needle Syringe Programs

By: Ken Yates

This book explores the lived experiences of people who interact with needle and syringe program services in Western Sydney, Australia, including participants and industry workers. It locates the research within the wider context of harm reduction and drug policies. It addresses the question "what do needle and syringe programs do?" and seeks to unpack the agency of human and non-human factors to consider the ‘more than human’ effects of these programmes. Alongside a critical materialist perspective used to interpret the empirical findings, the book demonstrates that needle and syringe programs create new possibilities for engaging with the world by changing the material conditions of illicit drug consumption. It draws on the conceptual contributions of post-humanist thinking from assemblage theory, actor-network theory, and cognate scholarship. Consideration is given to transferable findings and insights for international contexts. The book speaks to scholars and postgraduate students in the areas such as sociology, criminology, social work, critical public health, cultural studies, and related fields.

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Springer Nature

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3031459687

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9783031459689

Mathematical Basics of Motion and Deformation in Computer Graphics, Second Edition

By: Ken Anjyo,Hiroyuki Ochiai

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Mathematical Basics of Motion and Deformation in Computer Graphics, Second Edition

By: Ken Anjyo,Hiroyuki Ochiai

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Transition-Metal-Mediated Aromatic Ring Construction

By: Ken Tanaka

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Transition-Metal-Mediated Aromatic Ring Construction

By: Ken Tanaka

State-of-the-science methods, synthetic routes, and strategies to construct aromatic rings The development of new reactions for the synthesis of aromatic compounds is a highly active research area in organic synthesis, providing new functional organic materials, functional reagents, and biologically active compounds. Recently, significant advances in transition-metal-mediated reactions have enabled the efficient and practical construction of new aromatic rings with useful properties and applications. This book draws together and reviews all the latest discoveries and methods in transition-metal-mediated reactions, offering readers promising new routes to design and construct complex aromatic compounds. Integrating metal catalysis with aromatic compound synthesis, Transition-Metal-Mediated Aromatic Ring Construction offers a practical guide to the methods, synthetic routes, and strategies for constructing aromatic compounds. The book's five parts examine: [2+2+2], [2+2+1], and related cycloaddition reactions [4+2], [3+2], and related cycloaddition reactions Electrocyclization reactions Coupling and addition reactions Other important transformations, including methathesis reactions and skeletal rearrangement reactions Edited by Ken Tanaka, an internationally recognized expert in the field of transition-metal catalysis, the book features authors who are leading pioneers and researchers in synthetic reactions. Their contributions reflect a thorough review and analysis of the literature as well as their own firsthand laboratory experience developing new aromatic compounds. All chapters end with a summary and outlook, setting forth new avenues of research and forecasting new discoveries. There are also references at the end of each chapter, guiding readers to important original research reports and reviews. In summary, Transition-Metal-Mediated Aromatic Ring Construction offers synthetic chemists a promising new avenue for the development of important new aromatic compounds with a broad range of applications.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111862999X

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9781118629994

Toxic Microcystis

By: Mariyo F. Watanabe,Ken-ichi Harada,Wayne W. Carmichael,Hirota Fujiki

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Toxic Microcystis

By: Mariyo F. Watanabe,Ken-ichi Harada,Wayne W. Carmichael,Hirota Fujiki

This book discusses toxic Microcystis and the toxins from various viewpoints such as classification, cultivation, occurrences in lakes, and relations to zooplankton. The text presents new information on the chemistry, analytical chemistry, toxicology, molecular modeling, and liver tumor promotion of the toxins. Microcystis species are described in relation to morphological features, allozyme genotype, and toxin content. Seasonal changes of Microcystis population are described with special references to toxic species and composition of the toxins. Chemical characteristics of microcystins are reviewed and the process for identification of microcystins is described.

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284

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CRC Press

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1040288367

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9781040288368

The Macmillan Baseball Quiz Book

Compiled from the Baseball EncyclopediaÂ by

By: Scott Flatow,Ken Samelson

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The Macmillan Baseball Quiz Book

Compiled from the Baseball EncyclopediaÂ by

By: Scott Flatow,Ken Samelson

Featuring over 1,500 questions on all aspects of baseball, its players, and history, "The Baseball Encyclopedia Quiz Book" "touches all the bases" to test the knowledge of fans. Arranged in the same order as the content of "The Baseball Encyclopedia", this quiz book features information on award-winners, all-time leaders, winning and losing streaks, player stats, and much more.

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