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Book Mukade Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nikki Bennett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-12-06
  • ISBN : 9781941036006
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Mukade Island written by Nikki Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare yourself for the adventure of a lifetime. Get ready to face the horrors and wonders that will ensnare you as you fight to survive your journey through THE ISLAND CHRONICLES. Begin by braving the horrific monsters and unimaginable peril on MUKADE ISLAND. Join Jack, Steffi, Rob, Steve and Keiko as they struggle to survive in this strange, alien place. Delve into deep caverns and discover incredible treasures. Join forces with the mysterious green-eyed, purple bats as you battle terrifying monsters. Fight and conquer the ferocious tribe that controls the island. And find a way to escape across the poisonous sea. MUKADE ISLAND is the start of an adventure like nothing on Earth.

Book Distant Islands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel H. Inouye
  • Publisher : University Press of Colorado
  • Release : 2018-11-15
  • ISBN : 1607327937
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Distant Islands written by Daniel H. Inouye and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distant Islands is a modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America's centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Often overshadowed in historical literature by the Japanese diaspora on the West Coast, this community, which dates back to the 1870s, has its own fascinating history. The New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using a wealth of primary sources—oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and more—Daniel H. Inouye tells the stories of the business and professional elites, mid-sized merchants, small business owners, working-class families, menial laborers, and students that made up these communities. The book presents new knowledge about the history of Japanese immigrants in the United States and makes a novel and persuasive argument about the primacy of class and status stratification and relatively weak ethnic cohesion and solidarity in New York City, compared to the pervading understanding of nikkei on the West Coast. While a few prior studies have identified social stratification in other nikkei communities, this book presents the first full exploration of the subject and additionally draws parallels to divisions in German American communities. Distant Islands is a unique and nuanced historical account of an American ethnic community that reveals the common humanity of pioneering Japanese New Yorkers despite diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and life stories. It will be of interest to general readers, students, and scholars interested in Asian American studies, immigration and ethnic studies, sociology, and history. Winner- Honorable Mention, 2018 Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award

Book Manabeshima Island Japan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Florent Chavouet
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2015-11-03
  • ISBN : 1462917224
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book Manabeshima Island Japan written by Florent Chavouet and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just a Japan travel guide, Manabeshima Island Japan paints a colorful and entertaining picture of a particular place and time in Japan. Japan is made up of thousands of sacred islands, artificial islands, industrial islands, resort islands, wild islands and exploding islands…but artist Florent Chavouet had only ever visited two of them. This graphic novel is the story of one summer when he decides to get to know one more--the tiny island of Manabeshima. This speck of dirt in the Inland Sea, off the coast of Osaka, has a total population of 300, and he sets himself the task of recording everything and everyone he meets there in quirky detail on the pages of his sketchbook. Whereas Chavouet's other best-selling book, Tokyo on Foot, focuses on the physical city, it is the local island inhabitants who form the heart of this new book. Chavouet's sensitive drawings and insightful captions create instant portraits of incredible literary depth. The cast of characters who are lovingly depicted includes Ikkyu-san, owner of the island's only bar (and the bar's three regulars--skinny guy, Day-Glo cap guy and greasy-haired guy); the young Nakamura family and their five kids; the layabout Shimura-san, a living relic from the hippie 1970s; Kurata-san the policeman; Reizo-san the island intellectual in his elegant Meiji-era home; Rock the Neanderthal fisherman; and a chorus of assorted grandmothers and cats--all of whom welcome Chavouet into their community as a kindred soul. Against a backdrop of fireworks, summer festivals, fishing expeditions, and the constant hum of the cicadas, Chavouet depicts these characters so vividly and sympathetically, and describes their rustic way of life in such simple and appealing terms that we find it as hard to finish the book as Chavouet found it to leave the island at the end of his enchanted summer holiday.

Book Hell   s Islands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stanley Coleman Jersey
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2007-12-06
  • ISBN : 9781585446162
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Hell s Islands written by Stanley Coleman Jersey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From August 1942 until February 1943, two armies faced each other amid the malarial jungles and blistering heat of Guadalcanal Island. The Imperial Japanese forces needed to protect and maintain the air base that gave them the ability to interdict enemy supply routes. The Allies were desperate to halt the advance of a foe that so far had inflicted crippling losses on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, then seized the Philippines, Wake Island, the Dutch East Indies, Guam, and other Allied territory. After months of relentless battle, the U.S. troops forced back the determined Japanese, providing what many historians believe was the decisive turning point in the Pacific theater of operations. Stanley Coleman Jersey, a medical air evacuation specialist in the South Pacific during World War II, has spent countless hours combing Australian, Japanese, and U.S. documents and interviewing more than 200 veterans of the Guadalcanal campaign, both Allied and Japanese. Beginning with the events that preceded the battle for Guadalcanal during the Australian defense of the southern Solomon Islands in late 1941, Jersey details the military preparations made in response to intelligence describing the creation of an enemy air base within striking distance of American supply lines and recounts the civilian evacuation that followed the Japanese arrival in New Guinea. With the stage set, he turns to the campaign itself, with particular emphasis on the combat during the critical period of August to December 1942. While Guadalcanal is his primary focus, Jersey also covers the roles played by forces occupying the other Solomon Islands, including the plight of construction laborers, air crews, and ground units. This book, chock-full of gripping battlefield accounts and harrowing first-person narratives, draws together for the first time Allied and Japanese perspectives on the bloody contest. It is certain to become an indispensable asset to historians of World War II.

Book Ecological Studies of Nature Conservation of the Ryukyu Islands

Download or read book Ecological Studies of Nature Conservation of the Ryukyu Islands written by Sadao Ikehara and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Records of Wind and Earth

Download or read book Records of Wind and Earth written by Michiko Yamaguchi Aoki and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coral Reef Marine Plants of Hainan Island

Download or read book Coral Reef Marine Plants of Hainan Island written by Antoninovich Eduard Titlyanov and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral Reef Marine Plants of Hainan Island summarizes the literature on the role and use of marine plants in coral reef ecosystems, especially in China and countries in the Asia-Pacific Region. The first chapter of the book focuses on the description of coral reef ecosystems, their architecture, and status of Hainan coral reefs. The second chapter focuses on common knowledge surrounding marine plants, such as their classification, identifying characteristics of different phyla, morphology, reproduction, life forms, main algal communities on coral reefs, distribution of algae on coral reefs and their roles, and the use of seaweeds in cookery, medicine, industry, and agriculture. The third chapter on the seaweed flora of Hainan Island contains species composition of the marine benthic flora, the complete list of marine plants found by researchers from all studies, and historical changes in the flora and seasonal changes. The final chapter shows how to identify common species of marine plants on coral reefs of Hainan Island. This excellent work will help readers identify relevant plants, also teaching them how to use plant resources to assess endangered states and create conservation strategies. Presents the first publication devoted to the description of marine plants of Hainan Island Describes marine plants, including the role of their communities in ecosystems of coral reef Discusses seasonal and decadal changes in biodiversity and the composition of the marine flora of the island Combines fundamental morphology with utilization and related products

Book Flora of Okinawa and the Southern Ryukyu Islands

Download or read book Flora of Okinawa and the Southern Ryukyu Islands written by Egbert Hamilton Walker and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anansi Island

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  • Author : Nikki Bennett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-10-13
  • ISBN : 9781941036280
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Anansi Island written by Nikki Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Anansi Island. An island with a horrendous terror and a hidden secret...Jack and his friends escape Mukade Island, only to land on an island where the only chance of survival is to solve the island's riddles and vanquish a horrible evil. If they succeed, they will be one step closer to escape.And one island closer to finding their way home...

Book Seaweeds and their Uses

    Book Details:
  • Author : Valentine Chapman
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 9400958064
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Seaweeds and their Uses written by Valentine Chapman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1939-45 war forced the Allied countries to seek alternative sources of raw materials and, as in the First World War, attention was paid by all belligerents to the marine algae or seaweeds. These occur in considerable quantities in various parts of the world, and attempts to make use of this cheap and readily accessible, though not so readily harvestable, raw material have been made almost from time immemorial. Much of the work on the economic utilization of seaweeds has been published only in scientific journals and has never been collected within the compass of a single book. Tressler's work on The Marine Products of Commerce contains three useful chapters on this subject, whilst Sauvageau's book, Les utilisations des Algues Marines, is a mine of valuable information, especially as regards the use of seaweeds in France. Both these volumes are, however, somewhat out of date, Tressler's being published in 1923 and Sauvageau's in 1920. Furthermore there is no book wholly on this subject in the English language, and so the present volume has been undertaken in order to fill this gap. The opportunity has also been taken to incorporate the results of researches carried out since 1920. In certain aspects of the subject it will be found that considerable advances have been made, and in the present volume particular reference to such advances will be found in the chapters on agar and alginic acid.

Book Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell Bearing Mollusca of Japan

Download or read book Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell Bearing Mollusca of Japan written by Shun'ichi Higo and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes polyplacophora, gastropoda (excluding nudibranchia), bivalvia, and scaphopoda, but not cephalopoda; geographic coverage is the coastal waters of Japan and immediately adjacent sea areas not separated by trenches or island chains.

Book NBS Special Publication

Download or read book NBS Special Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Handbook for Travellers in Japan

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Japan written by Basil Hall Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wind and Seismic Effects

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  • Author : United States-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources. Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 744 pages

Download or read book Wind and Seismic Effects written by United States-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources. Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kanky   to S  z

Download or read book Kanky to S z written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Handbook for Travellers in Japan

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Japan written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: