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Book Choice

Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book At the Edge of the Nation

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  • Author : Paul B. Richardson
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2020-08-31
  • ISBN : 9780824888879
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book At the Edge of the Nation written by Paul B. Richardson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates over the remote and beguiling Southern Kuril Islands have revealed a kaleidoscope of divergent and contradictory ideas, convictions, and beliefs on what constitutes the “national” identity of post-Soviet Russia. Forming part of an archipelago stretching from Kamchatka to Hokkaido, administered by Russia but claimed by Japan, these disputed islands offer new perspectives on the ways in which territorial visions of the nation are refracted, inverted, and remade in a myriad of different ways. At the Edge of the Nation provides a unique account of how the Southern Kurils have shaped the parameters of the Russian state and framed debates on the politics of identity in the post-Soviet era. By shifting the debate beyond a proliferation of Eurocentric and Moscow-focused writings, Paul B. Richardson reveals broad alternatives and possibilities for Russian identity in Asia. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, when Russia was suffering the fragmentation of empire and a sudden decline in its international standing, these disputed islands became symbolic of a much larger debate on self-image, nationalism, national space, and Russia’s place in world politics. When viewed through the prism of the Southern Kurils, ideas associated with the “border,” “state,” and “nation” become destabilized, uncovering new insights into state-society relations in modern Russia. At the Edge of the Nation explores how disparate groups of political elites have attempted to use these islands to negotiate enduring tensions within Russia’s identity, and traces how the destiny of these isolated yet evocative islands became irrecoverably bound to the destiny of Russia itself.

Book Peace and Disputed Sovereignty

Download or read book Peace and Disputed Sovereignty written by Friedrich V. Kratochwil and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the different types of border disputes by going beyond the traditional questions of 'titles of territory' and issues of the location of the boundary.

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forest Vegetation of Northeast Asia

Download or read book Forest Vegetation of Northeast Asia written by Jirí Kolbek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-08-31 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two of us (Jifi Kolbek, Miroslav Sriltek) were working in North Korea on the Czech Slovak field expeditions of the early 1990s, we did not think initially of comparing our results with the vegetation of surrounding areas or of writing a book. Our efforts mainly involved observing and documenting the vegetation as completely as possible and initial recognition of vegetation units. At first we focused on the most obvious vegetation types, but eventually also any important types that we could discern. Later we focused more on forests, since almost ali of northeastern Asia has forest potential and forests stiH do form the landscape matrix in most areas. First we studied suburban woods and forests, most of which are strongly affected by human activities. Later, though, we also had chances to visit and study lovely mountain regions, including Myohyang-san, Kumgang-san, Su jang-san, and the high, especially beautiful Changbai-shan on the border between North Korea and China. The Changbai-shan is the highest mountain system in the Korean Peninsula, including the highest peak Paektu-san. We gradually changed our goal from an evaluation of forest data from North Korea to comparison with available field data and literature sources from comparable surrounding areas. These include South Korea, the Russian Far East, northeastern China (Manchuria), and northem Japan, including the Kuril Islands. Finally we decided to prepare a preliminary survey of the forest vegetation of the Russian Far East and eventually of aII of northeastem Asia, which would be published in English.

Book The Times Index

Download or read book The Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.

Book Jellyfish Blooms  Ecological and Societal Importance

Download or read book Jellyfish Blooms Ecological and Societal Importance written by J. E. Purcell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jellyfish', a group that includes scyphomedusae, hydromedusae, siphonophores and ctenophores, are important zooplankton predatorsthroughout the world's estuaries and oceans. These beautiful creatureshave come to public attention as featured exhibits in aquaria and innews headlines as invaders and as providers of genes used inbiomedical research. Nevertheless, jellyfish are generally consideredto be nuisances because they interfere with human activities bystinging swimmers, clogging power plant intakes and nets of fishermenand fish farms, and competing with fish and eating fish eggs andlarvae. There is concern that environmental changes such as globalwarming, eutrophication, and over-fishing may result in increasedjellyfish populations.The literature reviews and research papers in this volume explore theinteractions between jellyfish and humans. Papers cover the medicalaspects of jellyfish stings, jellyfish as human food and jellyfishfisheries, interactions of jellyfish and fish, effects ofenvironmental changes on jellyfish, effects of introduced ctenophoreson the Black Sea ecosystem, factors causing increases orconcentrations of jellyfish, and others aspects of jellyfish ecology.This is an important reference for students and professional marinebiologists, oceanographers, fishery scientists, and aquarists.

Book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Painful Choices

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  • Author : David A. Welch
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2005-09-04
  • ISBN : 9780691123400
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Painful Choices written by David A. Welch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's endless patience with diplomacy in its conflict with Russia over the Northern Territories; America's decision to commit large-scale military force to Vietnam vs. its ultimate decision to withdraw; and Canada's two abortive flirtations with free trade with the United States in 1911 and 1948 vs. its embrace of free trade in the late 1980s."--Jacket.

Book The English Catalogue of Books  annual

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books annual written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Book The Annual American Catalogue 1886 1900

Download or read book The Annual American Catalogue 1886 1900 written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book AccessAsia

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  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 580 pages

Download or read book AccessAsia written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athen  um

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  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 864 pages

Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

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  • Author : Joseph Pedlosky
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-12-01
  • ISBN : 1461246504
  • Pages : 723 pages

Download or read book Geophysical Fluid Dynamics written by Joseph Pedlosky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the widely acclaimed Geophysical Fluid Dynamics by Joseph Pedlosky offers the reader a high-level, unified treatment of the theory of the dynamics of large-scale motions of the oceans and atmosphere. Revised and updated, it includes expanded discussions of * the fundamentals of geostrophic turbulence * the theory of wave-mean flow interaction * thermocline theory * finite amplitude barocline instability.

Book Historical Abstracts

Download or read book Historical Abstracts written by Eric H. Boehm and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 864 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: