Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)

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Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays are indispensable reading for anyone interested in Japan's remarkable history.

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"Provides a new and needed approach to understanding the development and current status of Puerto Rico."
—Choice

“ America's Colony incisively analyzes the legal treatment of Puerto Rico as a U.S. territory and the second class treatment of Puerto Ricans. This important book is sure to become an influential critical analysis of the subordination of Puerto Ricans, who contrary to popular opinion are U.S. citizens by birth. Denied representation in the U.S. Congress and the right to vote for President, it is no surprise that Puerto Ricans on the island are denied the education, public benefits, and basic rights that other U.S. citizens enjoy. Importantly, America's Colony traces the legal justification for such treatment, including the amazing U.S. Supreme Court cases from the early twentieth century — decisions that have remained law to this day — that the U.S. Constitution simply does not fully apply to the territory of Puerto Rico. For anyone interested in one of the last American colonies, and modern Puerto Rico, including the controversy over bomb testing on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, Malavet's book is essential reading.”
—Kevin R. Johnson, University of California at Davis School of Law

“In an era increasingly concerned with democracy around the world, Malavet reminds us of the forgotten colony in our own backyard — Puerto Rico. Utilizing a Critical Race/Latino Theory perspective, Malavet make the legal case for a post-colonial future in which reparations will be owed.”
—Adrien K. Wing, University of Iowa College of Law

The precise legal nature of the relationship between the United States and the people of Puerto Rico was not explicitly determined in 1898 when the Treaty of Paris transferred sovereignty over Puerto Rico from Spain to the United States. Since then, many court cases, beginning in 1901, have been instrumental in defining this delicate relationship.

While the legislation has clearly established the non-existence of Puerto Rican nationhood and lack of independent Puerto Rican citizenship, the debate over Puerto Rico's status continues to this day.

Malavet offers a critique of Puerto Rico's current status as well as of its treatment by the U.S. legal and political systems. Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States, and Puerto Ricans living on this geographically separate island are subject to the United States's legal and political authority. They are the largest group of U.S. citizens currently living under territorial status. Malavet argues that the Puerto Rican cultural nation experiences U.S. imperialism, which compromises both the island's sovereignty and Puerto Ricans' citizenship rights. He analyzes the three alternatives to Puerto Rico's continued territorial status, examining the challenges manifest in each possibility, as well as illuminating what he believes to be the best course of action.

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Timely challenge to America's international democratic image.......2004-11-30

In a season when the 2004 election placed emphasis on counting every vote and Americans valued our political system by contrast to the rampant election fraud in Ukraine, law professor Pedro Malavet has exposed one of the gaping cracks in our national and international political leadership--the U.S. occupation of Puerto Rico that has denied political participation to its residents for over a century without resolution. Observing correctly that few U.S. citizens understand or appreciate the second-class citizenship status of the people of Puerto Rico, Malavet charts a concise but potent history of occupation of Puerto Rico by Spain and then the United States, and proposes a strategy to enable Puerto Ricans to determine their desired status. Most heartening in his analysis is that despite their political second-class citizenship coupled with efforts to Americanize them, Malavet demonstrates that the people of Puerto Rico have managed to forge an independent cultural identity. Their sparkling cultural nationhood heightens the need to change the legal status of "America's colony." Called by one commentator a forgotten colony, Malavet addresses his birthplace with cultural reverence while exposing this underside of American democracy and demanding recognition of the flaws in the U.S.-Puerto Rico colonial relationship.

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This third volume on In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants consists of 20 chapters. Each chapter contains some introductory material on the selected plant, the techniques used most successfully for haploid production (anther culture, microspore culture, and ovary culture), the factors that influence the success of these techniques, the identification and genetic characterization of haploid regenerants, the applications of haploids in breeding, and a brief conclusion on the potential of haploid breeding for the crop. The plants covered include vegetable crops ( Allium spp., Capsicum, Chicorium, Cucumis, Solanum melongena, Solanum tuberosum); fruit crops ( Malus, Fragaria, Vitis); and other miscellaneous crops ( Beta, Coffea, Ginkgo, Glycine, Medicago, Saccarum, Sinocalamus latiflora, forest trees). Some chapters also cover protoplast manipulation and genetic transformation.

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Research on the nuclear matrix has grown enormously since Bereney and Coffey first reported its isolation and initial characterization in 1974. Since then, more than 1000 papers have been published on the subject by numerous workers around the world. This is the first book devoted to reviewing the major developments in this growing field.

Key Features
* The chapters cover a variety of topics, including:
* Isolation of the nuclear matrix
* Nuclear structure morphology in situ
* Structural domains of the nuclear matrix and its components
* Biochemistry and molecular biology of the matrix proteins and associated DNA and RNA
* Functional properties associated with the nuclear matrix

* DNA replication
* Transcription
* RNA splicing
* Transcription regulation
* Intranuclear and nucleocytoplasmic transport and targeting
* Cell cycle regulation

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I highly recommend this excellent review........1999-03-07

This book is the authority on nuclear matrix structure and function. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the various fields of gene expression, cell structure, nuclear metabolism and genome organization. With individual chapters contributed by many of the leaders of these fields, this book is the most current review available. It would be a valuable asset to any lab , researcher or student interested in nuclear structure/function questions.

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This book surveys the use, abuse and misuse of chemicals in our society. The disaster at Bhopal, the use of Agent Orange and chemical warfare in the Gulf all provide sobering, if sensational, examples of the potential dangers of chemicals, whilst the invidious accumulation of a wide range of chemicals in the environment is attracting increased publicity if not informed debate. Hugh Crone redresses this balance by providing a scientific yet accessible account of the benefits and risks of the increasing use of chemicals in society, whether they are used as drugs, food additives, herbicides or simply enter the environment as by-products of an industrial society. He describes how chemicals gain entry to the body and how their toxicity is assessed; particular examples are studied in detail to illustrate the complexities of the issues involved; other chapters consider chemical warfare and disarmament, the safe handling of chemicals and the problems of legislation and compensation.

Chemicals & Society: A Guide to the New Chemical Age

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Chemicals & Society: A Guide to the New Chemical Age
Hugh D. Crone
Manufacturer: Cambridge University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KX5JMQ

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Authoritative yet accessible, The Physics of Sailing is the perfect work for those sailors who want to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of life at sea. It will enable readers to better grasp how sails, keels, and hulls work together to keep seafarers afloat, and will sharpen their skills with a more subtle and thorough appreciation of why various boat design features are present and why certain tactics work in certain situations. Anderson, a professor of physics at Kent State University and an avid sailor, outlines the science behind seagoing in such a way that anyone can understand and benefit from without having to trudge through a physics text or become a naval architect. With the help of this invaluable book, sailors will be better prepared to handle any situations that might arise on the water.

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physics of sailing.......2007-01-19

The book doesn't go into alot of detail, but for the novice sailor it's more than sufficient for a good starting point.

Clear words.......2006-03-09

Clear and easy to understand words. I've found it very useful. The book covers the main physical phenomenas of sailing without complicated mathematical derivations and with interesting real life examples.
I really enjoyed reading it.

David Papp - Turbine Blade Designer

Very goog as a light introduction.......2005-10-25

Excelent small book for an introduction.
Easy to read, it gives a good overview of the main topics involved in the physics of sailing.

The Physics of Sailing Explained: an Introduction

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The Physics of Sailing Explained: an Introduction
Bryon D. Anderson
Manufacturer: Sheridan House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6ZVCI

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An den Randern des Lesbaren: Dekonstruktive Lekturen zu Franz Kafka : Die Verwandlung, In der Strafkolonie und Das Urteil (Passagen Literaturtheorie)
Axel Hecker
Manufacturer: Passagen
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Perfect Paperback

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ASIN: 3851653009

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His Word, Settled Forever Mathematically!

Mathematics of God in Word & Phrase Spelling

Theomatics : God's Best Kept Secret Revealed
Jerry Lucas , and Del Washburn
Manufacturer: Stein & Day Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0812860179

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His Word, Settled Forever Mathematically!.......2005-02-27

Statistics can be lots of fun. Sports fans especially agree, citing various records professional luminaries as Jerry Lucas still hold, decades following their retirement from competition. Yet, statistics are not the essence of the ball player, but simply an outline, or at best, a suggestion of their talents.

Per example, watching Michael Jordan make a play renders the statistics meaningful. And when the game is over, the season ended, in the years that ensue, conversations sparkle with the memories. Remembrances sweeten with age at how many times 'so-and-so' stepped to the foul line to drill how many buckets in how many games against what teams in how many seasons.

Accordingly, all that are so blessed to be enamored of the Word of God never tire in describing the wonders and riches of Holy Writ, and still in the end resort to quoting it to adequately conclude their remarks. Numbers, like in Theomatics and sports statistics, merely outline the glory of the subject, whetting the appetite for more.

Intriguingly, Del Washburn's introduction of Theomatics, with a game-winning assist enjoyed by Jerry Lucas, begins the search for pefection in God's Word with the mathematical equation. 'Theomatics' is in fact a manufactured term the authors agreed upon when no term existed that defined the discipline upon which they were embarking.

To reduce Mr. Washburn's work to numerology is to reveal a woefully obvious lack of understanding. Likewise, to equate Theomatics with the discipline of ELS is to compare apples with oranges.

Theomatics displays more facets of perfections in God's Word. ELS discovers the substantively prophetic fibres only eternity's realms will afford the space to plumb.

Now that is a fruit salad to yearn for. If Mr. Washburn's work is true to his expectations, the aligning of those two disciplines would expose to the world, greater depths of His Law 'settled forever in Heaven'! {Psalm 119:89.}{TNKJV}

"Your Word is very pure; therefore Your servant loves it." {Ps. 119:140.}{Ibid.}

TL Farley,
author,

When Now Becomes Too Late {prophecy}

Distant Reaches {adventure}

Mathematics of God in Word & Phrase Spelling.......1998-10-22

Each letter of the Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament) alphabets have a standard numeric value assigned them. By taking the spelling of a word or phrase from the scriptures and then taking the sum of the numeric values, astonishing correlations can be seen. Many key phrases, for example are multiples of 111, which is the number of God. Jesus, spelled in Greek, for example, totals 888.

ANOTHER CODE has been discovered.In this code, the numeric value of a word is taken and then that number is looked up in the Old or New Testament lexicon, revealing amazing correlations, further evidencing God's hand in the authorship of the Bible.

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