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Considering the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India, this book shows the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process.

Offers a the history of Native peoples, presenting the glory, endurance, and renewal of the life ways of Plains peoples. This book traces the story of the Plains peoples through adversity to the renewal of their cultures in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It illustrates their life in over 250 colour images.

Presents an essay by and about French composer Joel-Francois Durand, in which Durand speaks about how and why he became a composer and about the ways in which this choice has shaped his musical and intellectual development. This title comprises four essays on Durand's music. It offers the portrait of this composer.

In 1978, Dr Chu-Tsing Li became the first Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Kansas. With essays by friends and former students, this book commemorates Dr Li's achievements as educator and scholar, marking his teaching career at the University of Kansas, and his contribution to Asian studies.

Explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. With illustrations from newspapers, novels, travel guides, and postcards, as well as written descriptions of life in Shanghai, this study traces the influences among courtesans, intellectuals, and the city itself in creating a market-oriented leisure culture in China.

Explores how inquiry about the Holocaust challenges understanding, especially its religious and ethical dimensions. This book investigates differences and disagreements between religious traditions and philosophical perspectives - represents an effort to advance meaningful conversation between Jews and Christians.

Shows how readers not only experience authors but produce them by shaping texts to their interpretation. This book examines the mechanics and history of textual transmission in China by focusing on the evolution over the centuries of the reclusive poet Tao Yuanming into a figure of epic stature.

Examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha in political contexts. Drawing on anthropological debates on the state in Southeast Asia, this book shows how people live in a state of negotiated boundaries - political, social, and ecological.

Discusses land-use issues by examining how resources were used in Sabah from 1881 to 1996 and rights of access to land and resources enjoyed by local people. This book looks at how control over and access to resources have been defined, negotiated, and contested by colonial state agents, the postcolonial Malaysian state, and local people.

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.