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Explores how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India. This work provides an insight into the motivations of national governments in managing nature, and deals with the different kinds of regional political conflicts that invoke nationalist sentiment through claims on nature.

From the battles and respites in the Pacific Islands, to the night clubs and call girls of mainland San Francisco and San Diego; from the relative quiet of the author's aptly named hometown, Stillwater, to the similarly quiet Montana backcountry, this memoir explores the psychological terrain of a life disturbed, and forever changed, by war.

Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became animals that needed to be killed. To contrast wolf killings before and after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, this work offers a look at the killings on the island of Hokkaido.

Offers an explanation for the durability of the kuhls of Kangra in the face of recurring environmental shocks and socioeconomic change. This book describes how farmers use and organize the kuhls and employs varied lines of theory and empirical data to account for the persistence of kuhls in the late twentieth century.

New in Paperback--A thought-provoking look at indigenous stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us about living sustainably.

Johan Adrian Jacobsen collected Yup'ik objects during his travels in Alaska. Ann Fienup-Riordan saw the collection being unpacked in 1994, and in 1997 she and Marie Meade returned to Berlin with Yup'ik elders. This book recounts fourteen days during which the elders examined objects from the collection and described how they were made and used.

The first English translation of one of the most important law codes in Chinese history.

Discussing the use of rhetoric in the royal courts of China, Europe, and Japan, this volume examines them as loci of power and as entities that establish, influence, or counter the norms of a larger society. It is organized into sections on the rhetoric of persuasion, taste, communication, gender, and natural nobility.

Describes the contributions of a remarkable group of women who dominated the Seattle public school system in the early years of the twentieth century and helped to produce well-educated citizens. This book provides portraits of educated, ambitious women making successful careers at a time when job opportunities for women were very limited.

Contains extracts from Johnson's several interviews, giving an account of Johnson's development from the late 1970s until the early years of the twenty-first century. This title brings up many elements of Johnson's life and work: his religious development from the AME Church to Buddhism and the importance of family to him.

Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. This title addresses efforts by individuals and groups within and outside the state to resolve these conflicts.

Brings McDonnell's unique vision to life through exquisite detail shots that explore the sculptures from many angles.

Examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews and the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history. These writers' attempts to portray their private and public struggles, anxieties, successes, and failures are expressions of a basic drive for selfhood which is both timeless and time-bound.

Offering history of the US Forest Service, this title provides a perspective on its administrative and policy controversies and successes. It also includes discussions of its concerns, among them the spotted owl issue; wilderness and roadless areas; new research on habitat, biodiversity, and fire prevention; below-cost timber sales; and more.

Part of the "Pacific Northwest Poetry" series, this collection of poems presents us with a spiritual paradox. The speaker remembers an earlier time of happiness, freedom, and a certain innocence. "How we live" is its major inquiry; its illustration, and the poems' major achievement.

Examines the Chinese government's administration of its ethnic minority regions, particularly border areas. This title provides an overview of government relations with key minority populations, against which one can view dialogues and disputes.

Presents stories of creative people and how they inspired, influenced, challenged, and occasionally infuriated one another.

The Holocaust continues to leave survivors and their descendants, as well as historians, philosophers, and theologians, searching for words to convey the enormity of that event. This title identifies three such 'after-words': forgiveness, reconciliation, and justice. These words, though forever altered by the Holocaust, are still spoken and heard.

Aiming to challenge Western notions of Buddhism, the author shows how Korean Americans at Sa Chal Temple in Los Angeles have applied Buddhist doctrines to the project of finding and knowing the self in everyday life. It also examines the implications of this grounding when the religious tradition is considered to be socially marginal.

Rolling out across the page like darkly luminous highways, the author's innovative, nine-line "American sonnets" promise adventure, offering a variant on the sonnet form that is both lyric and dramatic and bringing his masterful formal inventiveness to free verse.

Focuses on comparing attitudes toward private property and the persistence of Eastern forms of land ownership. This work presents an analysis of Western development that offers a perspective on private ownership of property in relation to government ownership that explains a about the evolution of socioeconomic and political systems East and West.

Describes almost all the known native and introduced fishes found in freshwater habitats of Washington State, including most of the fishes of Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. Featuring 103 colour illustrations of Washington fish, it provides ecological information related to distribution, habits, habitat, age, reproduction, and food.

Looks at political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America's transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural labourers across the country.

Chikubushima, an island north of the ancient capital of Kyoto, attracted the attention of Japan's rulers in the Momoyama period (1568-1615). This study illustrates how private belief and political ambition influenced artistic production at the intersection of institutional Buddhism and Shinto during political, social, and aesthetic changes.

Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. This work tells the story of the most vulnerable of these refugees: children alone, either orphaned or separated from their families.

Chronicles an odyssey in American art and social events beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and traveling through the Great Depression and beyond. This book reveals the life and the passion for painting of a young woman who was surrounded and supported by her community. It shows a painter whose life and fortune have delivered art work.

Shows why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically. Drawing from classical Roman and Indian to modern European traditions, this volume makes clear that to study a text is to study a culture. It also demonstrates the essential importance of heightened textual awareness for contemporary cultural studies and critical theory.

Presents an examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls, which are fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. This book presents two texts, one representing an anthology of verses well known in the Buddhist tradition, and the other a series of stories concerning previous births of the Buddha and of his disciples.

A study of the rise and fall of Chinese American supermarkets. It demonstrates how Chinese American supermarkets were able to sell American groceries at reduced prices by using the cheap labor of family members and Chinese immigrants whose entry to the United States had been sponsored by their employers.