Victor Kongo's Books

Establishing a catchment monitoring network through a participatory approach

A Case Study from the Potshini Catchment in the Thukela River Basin, South Africa

By: Victor M. Kongo,Graham P. W. Jewitt,Simon A. Lorentz

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Establishing a catchment monitoring network through a participatory approach

A Case Study from the Potshini Catchment in the Thukela River Basin, South Africa

By: Victor M. Kongo,Graham P. W. Jewitt,Simon A. Lorentz

Evaporation / Rain / Groundwater / Conservation tillage / Runoff / Stream flow / Flumes / Discharges / Hydrology / Surveys / Monitoring / Catchment areas / River basins

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9290906669

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Zen Sand

The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice

By: Victor Sogen Hori

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Zen Sand

The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice

By: Victor Sogen Hori

Zen Sand is a classic collection of verses aimed at aiding practitioners of kôan meditation to negotiate the difficult relationship between insight and language. As such it represents a major contribution to both Western Zen practice and English-language Zen scholarship. In Japan the traditional Rinzai Zen kôan curriculum includes the use of jakugo, or "capping phrases." Once a monk has successfully replied to a kôan, the Zen master orders the search for a classical verse to express the monk’s insight into the kôan. Special collections of these jakugo were compiled as handbooks to aid in that search. Until now, Zen students in the West, lacking this important resource, have been severely limited in carrying out this practice. Zen Sand combines and translates two standard jakugo handbooks and opens the way for incorporating this important tradition fully into Western Zen practice. For the scholar, Zen Sand provides a detailed description of the jakugo practice and its place in the overall kôan curriculum, as well as a brief history of the Zen phrase book. This volume also contributes to the understanding of East Asian culture in a broader sense.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824822846

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9780824822842

Rattan Glossary

And Compendium Glossary with Emphasis on Africa

By: Dennis Victor Johnson,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Rattan Glossary

And Compendium Glossary with Emphasis on Africa

By: Dennis Victor Johnson,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

This volume contains a glossary on terms and terminologies used in the rattan sector. The glossary is structured according to the following major sections: rattan resources (biology, management, plantations, harvesting); rattan as a raw material (transport, storage, grading and post-harvest handling, rattan trade); rattan processing (for local artisanal uses; for industrial level furniture manufacturing); and rattan trade in raw, furniture and other products. In order to give special emphasis to the emerging rattan sector in Africa, a separate compilation of terms specifically focusing on those used in Africa is added.

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Food & Agriculture Org.

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9251050953

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The School in the Bush

By: A. Victor Murray

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The School in the Bush

By: A. Victor Murray

Published in 1967: The School in the Bush is about Missionary Education in British territories in Africa.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429511574

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The African Imagination in Music

By: Victor Kofi Agawu

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The African Imagination in Music

By: Victor Kofi Agawu

The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and performative techniques that characterize the music. In sections that focus upon rhythm, melody, form, and harmony, the essential parts of African music come into relief. While traditional music, the backbone of Africa's musical thinking, receives the most attention, Agawu also supplies insights into popular and art music in order to demonstrate the breadth of the African musical imagination. Close readings of a variety of songs, including an Ewe dirge, an Aka children's song, and Fela's 'Suffering and Smiling' supplement the broader discussion. The African Imagination in Music foregrounds a hitherto under-reported legacy of recordings and insists on the necessity of experiencing music as sound in order to appreciate and understand it fully. Accordingly, a Companion Website features important examples of the music discussed in detail in the book. Accessibly and engagingly written for a general audience, The African Imagination in Music is poised to renew interest in Black African music and to engender discussion of its creative underpinnings by Africanists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists and musicologists.

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Oxford University Press

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0190263202

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9780190263201

Beneath the Spanish

By: Victor Hernandez Cruz

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Beneath the Spanish

By: Victor Hernandez Cruz

Praise for Victor Hernández Cruz: "Bilingual since childhood, Mr. Cruz writes poems about his native Puerto Rico and elsewhere which often speak to us with a forked tongue, sometimes in a highly literate Spanglish. . . . He's a funny, hard-edged poet, declining always into mother wit and pathos." —The New York Times Book Review "A fluent sensualist and rhythmic stylist." —The Washington Post "Like a salsa band leader coaxing and challenging dancers to more and more complex steps, Cruz dares readers with dizzying polyrhythms, polymetric stanzas, backstepping word structures and a sense of improvisation." —Publishers Weekly Beneath the Spanish tracks the way that languages intersect and inform each other, and how language and music shapes experience. Moving across landscapes from Puerto Rico to Manhattan to Morocco, these poems are one man's history and a song that begs to be performed. From "Ay Bendito, Que Vaina": Cuneiform tablet inside, The maracas pencil orality of remembered places, the night stars, the hammock, yucayeques like beehives, a river crab came to my feet to talk with its mouth legs, trembling like castanets. Victor Hernández Cruz is the author of several collections of poetry including, most recently, The Mountain in the Sea and In the Shadow of Al-Andalus. Featured in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series, Cruz's collection, Maraca, was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall and Griffin Poetry Prizes. He divides his time between Morocco and his native Puerto Rico.

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Coffee House Press

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1566895057

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African Security

An Introduction

By: John Siko,Jonah Victor

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African Security

An Introduction

By: John Siko,Jonah Victor

The world's fastest growing continent demographically, Africa displays nearly all the features of today's global security challenges: armed conflict, terrorism, irregular migration, organized crime, great power competition, public discontent, and economic turbulence. John Siko and Jonah Victor present their lessons from professional practice and pedagogical approach from the classroom in a concise guidebook that leads students and professionals through the most important issues, dynamics, challenges, and considerations for analysing and planning responses to security developments in Africa. This book provides issue-by-issue primers on the causes and consequences of Africa's security challenges that include: -how to anticipate security problems across current political and economic events -how to analyse African security institutions and military capabilities -how to understand historical trends across the African continent and appreciate unique variations among countries. -how to identify key drivers of future trends -how to connect security analysis to policy planning Learning is supported through the following features: - Thematic chapters which are optimized to help the reader quickly connect to the key concepts and analytic frameworks within the field. - The most relevant historical case studies, enabling students to engage in sophisticated analysis and discussion. - Connections and contrasts between the situations in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, which are traditionally studied separately. - Special sections on understanding race and ethnicity, and advice on traveling in Africa. - Chapter-end checklists of key questions to enable practical engagement with the topics covered.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786726378

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High-Power Optics

Lasers and Applications

By: Victor V. Apollonov

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High-Power Optics

Lasers and Applications

By: Victor V. Apollonov

This book covers the basics, realization and materials for high power laser systems and high power radiation interaction with matter. The physical and technical fundamentals of high intensity laser optics and adaptive optics and the related physical processes in high intensity laser systems are explained. A main question discussed is: What is power optics? In what way is it different from ordinary optics widely used in cameras, motion-picture projectors, i.e., for everyday use? An undesirable consequence of the thermal deformation of optical elements and surfaces was discovered during studies of the interaction with powerful incident laser radiation. The requirements to the fabrication, performance and quality of optical elements employed within systems for most practical applications are also covered. The high-power laser performance is generally governed by the following: (i) the absorption of incident optical radiation (governed primarily by various absorption mechanisms), (ii) followed by a temperature increase and response governed primarily by thermal properties and (iii) the thermo-optical and thermo-mechanical response of distortion, stress, fracture, etc. All this needs to be understood to design efficient, compact, reliable and useful high power systems for many applications under a variety of operating conditions, pulsed, continuous wave and burst mode of varying duty cycles. The book gives an overview of an important spectrum of related topics like laser resonator configurations, intermetallic optical coatings, heat carriers for high power optics, cellular materials, high-repetition-rate lasers and mono-module disk lasers for high power optics.

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Springer

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3319107534

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The Best Guide to Meditation

This is the Perfect Book If You Want to Reduce Stress, If You Already Meditate But Want to Learn New Techniques, Or If You're Just Curious About How it Works

By: Victor N. Davich

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The Best Guide to Meditation

This is the Perfect Book If You Want to Reduce Stress, If You Already Meditate But Want to Learn New Techniques, Or If You're Just Curious About How it Works

By: Victor N. Davich

Introduces the concept of meditation, offers advice on meditating, and describes various types of meditation and how they can influence one's life.

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Macmillan

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1580630103

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Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan

By: J. Victor Koschmann

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Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan

By: J. Victor Koschmann

After World War II, Japanese intellectuals believed that world history was moving inexorably toward bourgeois democracy and then socialism. But who would be the agents—the active "subjects"—of that revolution in Japan? Intensely debated at the time, this question of active subjectivity influenced popular ideas about nationalism and social change that still affect Japanese political culture today. In a major contribution to modern Japanese intellectual history, J. Victor Koschmann analyzes the debate over subjectivity. He traces the arguments of intellectuals from various disciplines and political viewpoints, and finds that despite their stress on individual autonomy, they all came to define subjectivity in terms of deterministic historical structures, thus ultimately deferring the possibility of radical change in Japan. Establishing a basis for historical dialogue about democratic revolution, this book will interest anyone concerned with issues of nationalism, postcolonialism, and the formation of identities.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226451216

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9780226451213

Representing African Music

Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

By: Victor Kofi Agawu

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Representing African Music

Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

By: Victor Kofi Agawu

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415943906

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9780415943901

The Institutions Curse

Natural Resources, Politics, and Development

By: Victor Menaldo

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The Institutions Curse

Natural Resources, Politics, and Development

By: Victor Menaldo

Debunks the view that natural resources lead to terrible outcomes by demonstrating that oil and minerals are actually a blessing.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107138604

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9781107138605

Cinema Illuminating Reality

Media Philosophy through Buddhism

By: Victor Fan

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Cinema Illuminating Reality

Media Philosophy through Buddhism

By: Victor Fan

A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? Cinema Illuminating Reality provides a possible way to do this by using Buddhist ideas to examine the intricate relationship between technicity and consciousness in the cinema. The resulting dialogue between Buddhism and Euro-American philosophy is the first of its kind in film and media studies. Victor Fan examines cinema’s ontology and ontogenetic formation and how such a formational process produces knowledge, political agency, and in-aesthetics. Buddhism allows Fan to deconstruct binary thinking and reimagine media as an ecology, rethinking cinema in relational terms between the human and the machine. Along the way, Fan considers a wide variety of case studies from around the globe, while paying special attention to how contemporary Tibeto-Sinophone filmmakers have adopted relational thinking to detail ways of rebuilding a world that appears to be beyond repair. From Chinese queer cinema to a reexamination of Japanese master Ozu’s work and its historical reception to Christian Petzold’s 2018 existential thriller Transit, CinemaIlluminating Reality forges a remarkable path between Buddhist studies and cinema studies, casting vital new light on both of these important subjects.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452964319

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9781452964317

State Versus Ethnic Claims

African Policy Dilemmas

By: Donald Rothchild,Victor A Olorunsola

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State Versus Ethnic Claims

African Policy Dilemmas

By: Donald Rothchild,Victor A Olorunsola

The idea for this book can be traced to an informal brainstorming session among four very good friends -- Ali Mazrui, Victor Olorunsola, Donald Rothchild and Dunstan Wai. In a real sense, then, as editors we owe a lot to Dunstan and Ali for their intellectual stimulation and for encouraging us to pursue a follow-up to ~.f.2l.i::. ,lla .Qt Cultyral ~Natignalism .in A..f'.da

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Routledge

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1000313093

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The Boys’ Adventure MEGAPACK ®

20 Classic Novels

By: Rudyard Kipling,Jack London,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Rice Burroughs,R. Sidney Bowen,Alexandre Dumas,Victor Appleton II

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The Boys’ Adventure MEGAPACK ®

20 Classic Novels

By: Rudyard Kipling,Jack London,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Rice Burroughs,R. Sidney Bowen,Alexandre Dumas,Victor Appleton II

The Boys' Adventure Megapack collects 20 great adventure stories for boys, from classics like "The Call of the Wild" to war stories like the adventures of Dave Dawson, from science fiction like Tom Swift, Jr. to historical fiction like Tarzan of the Apes and The Count of Monte Cristo. Rollicking adventure stories for the young and young at heart! Included are: THE CALL OF THE WILD, by Jack London TREASURE ISLAND, by Robert Louis Stevenson KIDNAPPED, by Robert Louis Stevenson THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, by Johann David Wyss FIVE CHILDREN AND IT, by E. Nesbit TOM SWIFT AND THE VISITOR FROM PLANET X, by Victor Appleton II TOM SWIFT AND THE ELECTRONIC HYDROLUNG, by Victor Appleton II TARZAN OF THE APES, by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE RETURN OF TARZAN, by Edgar Rice Burroughs DAVE DAWSON AT DUNKIRK, by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DAWSON WITH THE R.A.F., by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DAWSON ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT, by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DAWSON ON GUADALCANAL, by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DAWSON AT CASABLANCA, by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DAWSON AT TRUK, by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DASHAWAY AND HIS HYDROPLANE, by Roy Rockwood ADRIFT IN THE WILDS: THE ADVENTURES OF TWO SHIPWRECKED BOYS, by Edward S. Ellis AMONG MALAY PIRATES, by G. A. Henty KIM, by Rudyard Kipling THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, by Alexandre Dumas And don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for more entries in Wildside Press's Megapack series, ranging from science fiction and fantasy to westerns, mysteries, ghost stories -- and much, much more!

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1434447030

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9781434447036

On African Music

Techniques, Influences, Scholarship

By: Agawu

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On African Music

Techniques, Influences, Scholarship

By: Agawu

Written by one of the best-known academic writers on African music, On African Music is a collection of seven essays addressing various techniques, influences, and scholarly approaches to African music. After a concise introduction spelling out the rationale for the book, successive chapters develop answers to questions such as: How does a "minimalist impulse" animate creativity in Africa, and does "Western minimalism" differ from "African minimalism"? How do we explain the prevalence of iconic effects in African expressive forms? How has (European) tonality functioned as a "colonizing force" in African music? Why is the (written) art music of the continent talked about so little when it has been in existence since the middle of the nineteenth century? How might the discipline of music theory be rejuvenated by "aid" from Africa? What are the strengths and limitations of ethnotheory as a methodology? Who is who in theorizations of African rhythm, and how might we explain the shape of the existing archive? This book thus deals with analytical and interpretive issues, the politics of scholarship, and salient features of African music. Laced with provocative viewpoints on each page, On African Music should appeal not only to readers curious about the structural underpinnings of African music but also to those who wish to reflect critically and philosophically on how we study and write about the music of the continent, how we might approach its global status with a firm understanding from the inside, and what our priorities might be in promoting an empowering cosmopolitan discourse.

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Oxford University Press

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0197664067

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9780197664063

High-Conductivity Channels in Space

By: Victor Apollonov

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High-Conductivity Channels in Space

By: Victor Apollonov

This book discusses the physics of conductive channel development in space, air and vacuums and summarizes the attempts to create super-long conductive channels to study the upper atmosphere and to complete specific tasks related to energy transmission from the space to earth with high-voltage high repetition rate electrical sources. Conductive channels are produced by the laser jet engine vehicle-propulsion under the influence of powerful high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser radiation by CO2-laser, solid state Nd YAG,HF/DF laser systems generated with each pulse of the powerful laser conductive dust plasma. The book also presents the experimental and theoretical results of conductive canal modeling: the laser jet engine vehicle “Impulsar”, which can reach the lower layers of the ionosphere in several hundred seconds. Further, the book explores the development of lightning protection systems. The so-called long laser spark is generated to provide the conditions for connecting a thunderstorm cloud with a grounded metal rod, i.e. a classical lightning rod. Such conductivity channels can be used for energy transmission, overvoltage protection systems, transport of charged particle beams and plasma antennas. It provides the theoretical and experimental basis of high repetition rate P-P mode of operation for high power lasers (COIL, HF/DF, CO2,Nd YAG). It describes high efficiency and excellent beam quality disk lasers used for numerous applications, including surface treatment of dielectric materials in microelectronics, cutting, drilling, welding, polishing and cleaning of the surface and other technological operations. Lastly it investigates how megawatt mono-module disk lasers could be used to solve various problems: small satellites launched by lasers, formation of super-long conducting channels in space and atmosphere, cleaning of the near-earth space from the space debris and related applications.

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Springer

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3030029522

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Carbon Technocracy

Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

By: Victor Seow

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Carbon Technocracy

Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

By: Victor Seow

A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening maw over the ensuing decades, as various Chinese and Japanese states endeavored to unearth Fushun’s purportedly “inexhaustible” carbon resources. Today, the depleted mine that remains is a wondrous and terrifying monument to fantasies of a fossil-fueled future and the technologies mobilized in attempts to turn those developmentalist dreams into reality. In Carbon Technocracy, Victor Seow uses the remarkable story of the Fushun colliery to chart how the fossil fuel economy emerged in tandem with the rise of the modern technocratic state. Taking coal as an essential feedstock of national wealth and power, Chinese and Japanese bureaucrats, engineers, and industrialists deployed new technologies like open-pit mining and hydraulic stowage in pursuit of intensive energy extraction. But as much as these mine operators idealized the might of fossil fuel–driven machines, their extractive efforts nevertheless relied heavily on the human labor that those devices were expected to displace. Under the carbon energy regime, countless workers here and elsewhere would be subjected to invasive techniques of labor control, ever-escalating output targets, and the dangers of an increasingly exploited earth. Although Fushun is no longer the coal capital it once was, the pattern of aggressive fossil-fueled development that led to its ascent endures. As we confront a planetary crisis precipitated by our extravagant consumption of carbon, it holds urgent lessons. This is a groundbreaking exploration of how the mutual production of energy and power came to define industrial modernity and the wider world that carbon made.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226826554

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9780226826554

Law and Politics in China's Foreign Trade

By: Victor H. Li

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Law and Politics in China's Foreign Trade

By: Victor H. Li

Updated papers of a conference held at the Contemporary China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1971, and sponsored by the Subcommittee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, with the cooperation of the Contemporary China Institute.

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University of Washington Press

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0295803878

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9780295803876

The Forest of Symbols

Aspects of Ndembu Ritual

By: Victor Witter Turner

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The Forest of Symbols

Aspects of Ndembu Ritual

By: Victor Witter Turner

Collection of 10 articles previously published on various aspects of ritual symbolism among the Ndembu of Zambia; p.83-4; brief mention of C.P. Mountford on Aboriginal colour symbolism; Primarly for use in cultural comparison.

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Cornell University Press

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0801491010

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9780801491016

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