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Focuses on comparing attitudes toward private property and the persistence of Eastern forms of land ownership. This work presents an analysis of Western development that offers a perspective on private ownership of property in relation to government ownership that explains a about the evolution of socioeconomic and political systems East and West.

Describes almost all the known native and introduced fishes found in freshwater habitats of Washington State, including most of the fishes of Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. Featuring 103 colour illustrations of Washington fish, it provides ecological information related to distribution, habits, habitat, age, reproduction, and food.

Looks at political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America's transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural labourers across the country.

Chikubushima, an island north of the ancient capital of Kyoto, attracted the attention of Japan's rulers in the Momoyama period (1568-1615). This study illustrates how private belief and political ambition influenced artistic production at the intersection of institutional Buddhism and Shinto during political, social, and aesthetic changes.

Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. This work tells the story of the most vulnerable of these refugees: children alone, either orphaned or separated from their families.

Chronicles an odyssey in American art and social events beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and traveling through the Great Depression and beyond. This book reveals the life and the passion for painting of a young woman who was surrounded and supported by her community. It shows a painter whose life and fortune have delivered art work.

Shows why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically. Drawing from classical Roman and Indian to modern European traditions, this volume makes clear that to study a text is to study a culture. It also demonstrates the essential importance of heightened textual awareness for contemporary cultural studies and critical theory.

Presents an examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls, which are fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. This book presents two texts, one representing an anthology of verses well known in the Buddhist tradition, and the other a series of stories concerning previous births of the Buddha and of his disciples.

A study of the rise and fall of Chinese American supermarkets. It demonstrates how Chinese American supermarkets were able to sell American groceries at reduced prices by using the cheap labor of family members and Chinese immigrants whose entry to the United States had been sponsored by their employers.

Presents the complete text of thirty-four treaties that have effectively contained the spread of nuclear, biological, and conventional weapons during the Cold War and beyond. This title is suitable for diplomats, international lawyers, and arms control specialists.

Presents a portrait of the cultures and trends that shape Washington State. From the role of Native American tribal governments to the administration of Governor Gary Locke, this book examines changes in the political arena including the events of the 2000 elections. It addresses issues such as: environmental controversies and multiculturalism.

The art of William Ingham demonstrates how the modernist tradition, specifically Abstract Expressionism, has flourished in the Pacific Northwest. This volume brings to a wider audience the Seattle-born artist's highly gestural and vividly colored abstract paintings.

The lives of the saints take place all around us, under us, so much of the earth they seethe in it. This book brings the author's voice to the meditative tradition. It presents poems that trace the spiritual inquiries of a series of linked personae adrift in bodies and a world made toxic by the residues of scientific experimentation.

A contribution to Alaska's history and to the history of the American environmental movement

Based on papers presented at the Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (the first ICHO meeting following the cessation of the Cold War), this title undertakes the interdisciplinary task of telling the story of oceanography's past, drawing on diverse methodologies.

A historical study of the debate over income taxes in Washington State.

A contribution to the field of American architectural history focusing on Seattle in the 1880s and 1890s.

Describes the early stages of the tribe's (Makah Indians of Washington State) implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). This book explores how NAGPRA implementation has been working at the tribal level, from the perspective of a tribe struggling to fit the provisions of the law.

This is volume two of 'Gandharan Buddhist Texts', a series that presents editions and studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection.

A fascinating study of the popular culture of religious storytelling in the medieval Near East

Chinese foreign economic policy before 1978 has been considered isolationist and centered on Maoist self-reliance. This title describes the contradictory strategies used by Mao Zedong and other leaders to assert China's absolute self-sufficiency while also striving to modernize the economy and achieve maximum prosperity as rapidly as possible.

Governed by a constitutional monarchy that offered the numerous nobility extensive civil and political rights, Polish-Lithuanian state enjoyed unusual domestic tranquillity, for its military strength kept most enemies at bay until the mid-seventeenth century. This title presents an account that deals with this important era.

Examining land reform and agricultural development in Russia, Central Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East, this work emphasizes the need to understand the political, historical, and geographic contexts of rural development. It is for regional specialists, historians, economists, and those working on rural development issues in Eurasia.

Prominent in several Buddhist traditions, the Rhinoceros Sutra espouses the virtues of solitude, explaining the dangers of attachments, prescribing a solitary spiritual life, and discussing the nature of friends and friendship. This book examines the literary and textual background of the sutra and presents a literal English translation.

Presents a biography of Reverend Mark Allison Matthews, a Presbyterian minister who played a significant public role in Seattle from 1900 to 1940. This book discusses Matthew's multiple facets - a Southern-born, fundamentalist proponent of the Social Gospel, and a national leader during the years of schism within the American Presbyterian church.

An innovative, comparative study of the origins, development, and enforcement of antitrust law in Germany and Japan over the course of 50 years.

A landmark study offering an interpretation of the history of traditional Korea.

A memoir that threads a man's search for the truth about his grandfather into a call for reconciliation between individuals and generations, between history and our own lives, between the men who fought the Vietnam war and all the rest of us for whose sins they suffered.

Presents a collection of short stories. This book features stories that cover a geography that spans hemispheres, and an emotional landscape that is wider still: life and death, desire and repulsion, freedom and humiliation, the body and the spirit.

Reflects on questions that have troubled Chinese scholars of jurisprudence since classical times. This book covers a wide range of topics like interpreting the rationale for and legacy of Qing practices of collective punishment, and assessing the political forces that continue to limit the authority of formal legal institutions in China.