native and newcomer making and remaking japanese city

Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bockstoce, John R. / Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, PUBLISHER: Yale University Press, This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and members of fifty native nations competed and cooperated. The desire to dominate the fur trade fed the European expansion into the most remote regions of Asia and America and was an agent of massive change in these regions. Award-winning author John R. Bockstoce fills a major gap in the historiography of the area in covering the scientific, commercial, and foreign-relations implications of the northern fur trade. In addition, the book provides rare insight into the relationship between the Western powers and the Native Americans who provided them with fur, ivory, and whalebone in exchange for manufactured goods, tobacco, tea, alcohol, and hundreds of other things. But this is also the story of the enterprising individuals who energized the Alaskan fur trade and, in doing so, forever altered the region's history.

Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Black Elk Desersa, Esther / DeSersa, Clifton / Desersa Jr, Aaron, PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, The story and teachings of Nicholas Black Elk (), first recorded by John G. Neihardt in "Black Elk Speaks," have played a critical role in shaping the way in which Native Americans and others view the past, present, and future of Native America. These conversations with the descendents of Black Elk offer an intimate look at life on the Pine Ridge Reservation and fresh perspectives on the religious, economic, and political opportunities and challenges facing the Lakota people today. In addition to revealing more about Black Elk the healer, the family also provides glimpses of Black Elk as a family man, teacher, and influential ancestor.

Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno: Tokyo Teen Fashion Subculture

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Macias, Patrick / Evers, Izumi / Nonaka, Kazumi, PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books (CA), Japanese schoolgirl fashions and subcultures have sprung up, burned out, mutated, and evolved into a pop culture phenomenon gone global from Gwen Stefani's 'Harajuku Girls' to Gothic Lolita-fueled "manga" and the deadly schoolgirl in "Kill Bill," it's no wonder that international fashion designers look to the streets of Tokyo for fresh inspiration. This playful and thoroughly researched handbook examines the key styles and subcultures past and present: sailor-suited gangsters, Pippi Longstockings risen from the dead, girls in blackface, teens sporting giant hamster costumes, and more. Each fashion profile is packed with photos and illustrations, history, ideal boyfriends, and must-have items. Also included are a gatefold evolutionary fashion chart, resources, and makeup tips. At last, an in-depth guide to what the girls are wearing and why on earth they're wearing it.

Bibliography of Japanese New Religious Movements

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Clarke Peter, B. / Clarke, Peter B., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Containing some entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership.

Midwestern Folk Humor: Jokes on Farming, Logging, Religion,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Leary, James P., PUBLISHER: August House Publishers, Jokes, anecdotes, and tall tales "Leary's book serves as an amusing smorgasbord which embraces all and spares none: Native Americans, French, Cornish, Germans, Irish, Scandinavians, Finns and Poles". -- Mount Horeb Mail

The Tales of the Heike

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shirane, Haruo / Watson, Burton, PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press, "The Tales of the Heike" is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history. "The Tales of the Heike" focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-century Japanese clans-the Heike (Taira) and the Genji (Minamoto)-and the women with whom they were intimately connected. "The Tales of the Heike" provides a dramatic window onto the emerging world of the medieval samurai and recounts in absorbing detail the chaos of the battlefield, the intrigue of the imperial court, and the gradual loss of a courtly tradition. The book is also highly religious and Buddhist in its orientation, taking up such issues as impermanence, karmic retribution, attachment, and renunciation, which dominated the Japanese imagination in the medieval period. In this new, abridged translation, Burton Watson offers a gripping rendering of the work's most memorable episodes. Particular to this translation are the introduction by Haruo Shirane, the woodblock illustrations, a glossary of characters, and an extended bibliography.

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smelser, Neil J. / Wilson, William Julius / Mitchell, Faith, PUBLISHER: National Academy Press, Leading scholars and commentators explore past and current trends among African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans in the context of a White majority. This collection of papers represents the most current literature in the field. Volume I focuses on demographic trends, immigration, racial attitudes, and the geography of opportunity.

Interior Spaces of the USA: A Pictorial Review of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Images, PUBLISHER: Books Nippan, Photographs of outstanding contemporary interior architecture and design, accompanied by comprehensive captions and biographical information on participating firms. Includes commercial spaces and atria; hospitality spaces and restaurants; leisure and arts centers; public and special purpose spaces; and retail spaces and showrooms

Worms and Other Invertebrates

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Woods, Samuel G., PUBLISHER: Blackbirch Press, Explains the characteristics and classification of: Insects Arachnids Centipedes and Millipedes Crustaceans Jellyfish Sea Anemones and Corals Sea Stars, Feather Stars, and Others Sea Cucumbers, Urchins, and Sand Dollars Octopuses, Squid, and Nautilus Clams, Snails, Slugs, and Others Sponges Segmented Worms Roundworms Flatworms

Sewing Basics: All You Need to Know to Begin Sewing Clothes

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gardiner, Wendy, PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Twelve original projects encourage even the least experienced needlecrafter to bring out the sewing machine and create attractive, professional-looking items for home and wardrobe. Starting with basics and progressing to more complex patterns, the projects include a drawstring bag, a cushion cover, a ballerina skirt, a cape, a summer sarong, a set of window curtains, a Japanese kimono, and several other items of apparel or household enhancement. The author also instructs on hand stitching, getting the most out of the standard home sewing machine, using commercial clothing patterns, making buttonholes, hemming, attaching zippers, and much more. Instructions are supplemented with more than 350 color illustrations.

The Emerald City of Oz

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Baum, L. Frank, PUBLISHER: Mundus Artium Press, The Emerald City is built all of beautiful marbles in which are set a profusion of emeralds, every one exquisitely cut and of very great size. There are other jewels used in the decorations inside the houses and palaces, such as rubies, diamonds, sapphires, amethysts and turquoises. But in the streets and upon the outside of the buildings only emeralds appear, from which circumstance the place is named the Emerald City of Oz.

Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Revell, Keith D., PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press, In , the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex urban environment in history. In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this new scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked by millions of gallons of raw sewage. Economists experimented with new approaches to financing urban infrastructure. Architects and planners wrestled with the problems of skyscraper regulation and regional growth. These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell details the ways that technical values -- distinctive civic culture of expertise -- helped reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City. Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city.

Making Magnificent Machines: Fun with Math, Science, and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McBride, Carol, PUBLISHER: Zephyr Press (AZ), Students will have fun creating whimsical animated machines while meeting national science and math standards. Students are guided through practical construction applications with projects they assemble from recycled materials. Science as inquiry becomes part of building the machines. Students will also experiment with math to determine materials and measurements that make his/her machine perform its best. Fourteen step-by-step projects are provided, emphasizing key concepts of potential, kinetic, and electrical energy; inclined plane; fulcrum, lever, and pulley; weights and balances; characteristics of moving objects; principles of flight; and action and reaction. Students will enjoy hands-on learning while making ducks that lay golden eggs, cars that really race, an extraordinary Ferris wheel, jumping bat wings, and many more magnificent machines.

Dogs, Volume 0: Prelude

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Miwa, Shirow, PUBLISHER: Viz Media, R to L (Japanese Style) Boasting furious action, switchback plotting, magnetic characters and dazzling art, Dogs tells the story of four individuals struggling to survive a dystopian urban future by gun and sword and courage and luck. Haine, the "Stray Dog": a cipher of a young man with a mysterious metal collar bolted to his neck and a disturbing talent for mayhem. Badou: a hired gun for petty jobs legal and non, whose reckless facade hides a serious intent. Naoto: a preternaturally skilled swordswoman searching for the assassin who cut down her family and mentor. Mihai: a middle-aged former hitman, trying live a quiet life but haunted by the deaths of his lover and protege. Driven by their ghosts--both dead and alive--and a desire for truth, all are inexorably drawn to the "Underground," the dark and dangerous sector below the city that holds all the secrets--but secrets that can only be had for a price.

Illustrated : Building Code Handbook

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Patterson, Terry, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, *The first book to reference the new International Building Code, making it a definitive resource for all practicing architects and engineers *The only illustrated code book in existence--dimensioned line drawings help designers and builders visualize code requirements quickly and easily, speeding along the building process *Points out differences between the newly integrated universal building code and the old Uniform, Southern, and National Building Codes

The Flowers of Venice: The Art of Creating Flowers and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marchesi, PUBLISHER: Gem Guides Book Company, The most comprehensive guide to Venetian glass beads their beaded techniques. Details the craft of flower making, introduces the history of Venetian glass, and includes all the tools and supplies necessary for each project--with over 400 stunning color photos. Make bouquets, boxes, tassels, and more.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Art History Terms::

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Michaux, J.P. Ed. / Michaux, J. P., PUBLISHER: Emerald Group Publishing, The dictionary contains terms covering the following fields and subfields of arts and antiques: painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture, architecture, dressmaking, armament, heraldry, ceramics, styles and art criticism, music, furniture, religious monuments and objects, textile, gilding, numismatics, jewels, cabinet-making etc.

Paris, Paris: Journey Into the City of Light

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Downie, David / Harris, Allison, PUBLISHER: Transatlantic Press, Like all great cities and yet unlike any other Paris is alive and fluttering, it changes with the light, buffeted by Seine-basin breezes. This place called Paris is at once the imaginary land of literature and film, a distant view through shifting, misty lenses, and a vibrant contemporary city where a kaleidoscope of millions seems bent on the grand conspiracy of enjoying life. Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light paints a portrait in thirty perennial essays of the world's favorite city.

Art of the Renaissance, the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harris, Nathaniel, PUBLISHER: Parragon Publishing, The Life and Works art series collects the world's greatest artists and art movements into a handsome set of monographs Each book features a biography of an artist or an explanation of the movement, followed by 50 magnificent, individually commentated reproductions Each is an affordable treasure, sure to please every seasoned critic and newcomer to the beauty of great art.

Chronicles of Air and Dreams

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Villarreal, Rosa Martha, PUBLISHER: Archer Books, A Mexican-American archeologist and her family are caught up in the legends and myths of their Aztec and Maya heritage. The story shifts between present day and the 16th century, and between dreams and reality.

Scott Nearing's Address to the Jury: The Speach [Sic] Before

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nearing, Scott, PUBLISHER: Gale, Making of Modern Law, The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, includes over analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School LibraryCTRG96-BCover title.New York City: Rand School of Social Science, p.; 19 cm

Flags of the World

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: DK Publishing, PUBLISHER: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), Learn about the world's flags and geography with this informative and fun sticker book, fully revised and updated with the most current information and flag imagery. More than 300 reusable full-color stickers are included, along with 11 pages of maps Each flag sticker appears twice making it perfect to use for school projects Readers are invited to interact with the book, learning world geography by placing the stickers in their correct locations on the maps Stickers are organized by region and clearly labeled, making for easy navigation

L'impero perduto

Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the Krakatoa explosion, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo and (cod. I_)

Tile: Making, Designing and Using

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Clark, Kenneth / Clarke, Kenneth, PUBLISHER: Crowood Press (UK), Tiles are a beautiful form of ceramic that lend themselves to an extraordinary diversity of uses and treatments. In this outstanding overview, Kenneth Clark, a distinguished tile designer and maker, introduces readers to their creation, ornamentation, and use. Tile making using earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, and paper clay is fully described as are the decorative techniques, like painting, screen printing, and sgraffito. The work of leading tile designers is also examined, along with their approaches and applications. To complete the book, Clark offers practical information on the uses of tile, including floors, walls, roofs, fireplaces, murals, and swimming pools; details on how to repair tiles; and advice on how to protect and care for them. Written by an expert, and with 280 color photos, "The Tile" is sure to captivate anyone interested in learning or appreciating the skills of this age-old craft.

The Core of Japanese Democracy: Latent Interparty Politics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kuroda, Yasumasa, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, The book uses an original language-based bilayer theory to throw light on the secretive structure of power in the Japanese Diet, its national parliament, and relates its findings to Japanese parliamentary democracy in historical perspective. In so doing, the book answers questions about the latent policymaking process of Japanese politics that resulted in a reduction of social alienation and disorganization while Japan industrialized. Industrialization significantly reduced poverty and increased the size of the middle class, enabling the nation to move towards democracy. The reader will see why socialists were so quixotically dogmatic toward conservatives to the point of absurdity during the Cold War period. Yet, they were able to form a coalition government following the end of Cold War era.

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