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Japan : An Illustrated Encyclopedia
Kodansha International Manufacturer: Kodansha, Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 4069310983 |
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A current and comprehensive source of information on contemporary Japanese society, history, and culture. This monumental work is packed with data on the economy, government, and politics of Japan, as well as articles on Japanese art, culture, and history. In addition to the main entries and over 4,000 fullcolor illustrations, nearly 100 feature articles and pictorial essays expand on subjects of particular interest 4,000 color photos and illustrations 2 million words in 12,000 entries Easy-to-use reader's guide to entries 20 pages of maps 14 page bibliography of major works on Japan Japanese-English bilingual title entries and indexCustomer Reviews:
The definitive resource on Japan, wrapped like a candy........1996-10-19
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Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of the Nikkei
Kikumura-Yano Akemi Manufacturer: AltaMira Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0759101493 |
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The Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive guide to the history of Japanese immigrants in the western hemisphere. It is the story of the Nikkei (people of Japanese descent and their descendants) from early immigration to the present, as they settle
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Japanese History (Kodansha Bilingual Books)
Japanese Illustrated Encyclopedia Manufacturer: Kodansha Europe ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 4770020244 |
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Keys to the Japanese Heart and Soul (Kodansha Bilingual Books)
Japan Illustrated Encyclopedia Manufacturer: Kodansha Europe ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 4770020821 |
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Great Civilizations of the East: Discover the Remarkable History of Asia and the Far East : Mesopotamia, Ancient India, the Chinese Empire, Ancient Japan (Illustrated History Encyclopedia)
Daud Ali , Fiona MacDonald , Lorna Oakes , and Philip Steele Manufacturer: Southwater Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1842153641 |
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This insight into ancient Asian and Oriental culture is packed with information and projects.
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Illustrated Encyclopedia Of World War II: Japan At High Tide
Collins Manufacturer: Marshall Cavendish ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JF5AIS |
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The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War II: Hiroshima/Japan Surrenders, vol. 22
James L., Jr. Collins Manufacturer: New York: Marchall Cavendish Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MPGA3E |
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Japan:an Illustrated Encyclopedia: Japan Edition
Manufacturer: Kodansha International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 406205938X |
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A current and comprehensive source of information on contemporary Japanese society, history, and culture. This monumental work is packed with data on the economy, government, and politics of Japan, as well as articles on Japanese art, culture, and history. In addition to the main entries and over 4,000 fullcolor illustrations, nearly 100 feature articles and pictorial essays expand on subjects of particular interest. Features 4,000 color photos and illustrations 2 million words in 12,000 entries Easy-to-use reader's guide to entries 20 pages of maps 14 page bibliography of major works on Japan Japanese-English bilingual title entries and index
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An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Japanese Family Crests
Manufacturer: Japan Publications Trading ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 4889960708 |
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INTRODUCTIONCustomer Reviews:
A Wonderful Resource...with one Fault.......2006-11-03
Excellent Reference Book.......2006-03-25
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Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
Ltd. Staff Kodansha Manufacturer: Macmillan Library Reference ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 002897204X |
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2 Volumes : Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22 : Third Edition
John Franklin Manufacturer: John Murray ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KF67HA |
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Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea: In the Years 1819-20-21-22
John Franklin Manufacturer: Brassey's Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1574883143 |
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JOHN FRANKLIN, born in 1786. Many naval experiences, including Trafalgar, before heading an expedition across northern Canada in 1819. Elected F.R.S. and knighted after a second expedition. Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen;s Land, 1836 to 1843. Last expedition, 1845, was lost, and Franklin died in 1847 near the Arctic. Subsequent investigations have established him as the discoverer of the North-West Passage.Customer Reviews:
Journey to the Polar Sea.......2001-04-23
Anyone interested in the Arctic exploration and early Native Americans will enjoy this book. The author, Sir John Franklin, was a fearless explorer who died on a subsequent Arctic mission. He descibes his meetings with the traders and local inhabitants in great detail. He relied in large part on local Native Americans as guides and hunters. It was his intention to meet with the Eskimo people, who avoided all contact with his group. The Native Americans refused to accompany the group all the way north due to their fear of the Eskimos. I highly recommend this book.
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Narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22
John Franklin Manufacturer: C. E. Tuttle Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0804807221 |
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-20-21-22 (Large Print Edition): Volume 1
John Franklin Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 142649906X Release Date: 2007-02-28 |
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My instructions in substance informed me that the main object of the Expedition was that of determining the latitudes and longitudes of the Northern Coast of North America.
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1819-20-21-22 Volume 2
John Franklin Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1426495285 Release Date: 2007-02-28 |
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During our little expedition to the Copper-Mine River Mr. Wentzel had made great progress in the erection of our winter-house having nearly roofed it in.
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22, with an appendix containing geognostical observations, and remarks on the aurora borealis. Illustrated by a frontispiece and a map.
John Franklin Manufacturer: SeeDescription ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WW7KB8 |
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Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-20-21 and 22
John Franklin , Robert Hood , and George Back Manufacturer: CD-Academia Book Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: CD-ROM ASIN: 1894127013 |
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-20-21-22
John Franklin Manufacturer: J.M. Dent & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NKL5TC |
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Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22: With an appendix on various subjects relating to science and natural history
John Franklin Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006BWM54 |
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Zoological appendix to the Narrative of Captain Franklin's journey to the shores of the polar sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22: Being notices of ... specimens were collected during the journey
Joseph Sabine Manufacturer: W. Clowes ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008AMFXW |
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Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science
Michael Friedman Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0691072396 |
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A masterpiece.......2004-03-18
In an impressive effort, Friedman has found his way through the intricate and tangled maze--or mess--that spacetime physics and philosophy has become. The most important revelation to be learnt is in what sense theoretical spacetime remains an absolute and literal reality despite its unobservability: on the one hand, general relativity did not achieve a relativization of all motion (or Mach's programme), and in it acceleration remains an absolute concept; on the other, spacetime can be granted physical reality (rather than it being a mere mathematical representation) due to its theoretical unifying power.
Friedman's book exceeded my already high expectations. In a time in which lousy scientific writing has become commonplace, it is an utmost pleasure to stumble upon a book such as this one. To put it in a nutshell, this book is enlightening in an extraordinary way. Superb!
Comfort food for the scientific scrounger.......2001-05-27
Friedman does an admirable job of investigating the currents of early twentieth century thought that led Einstein down the particular road he chose, via a number of useful visualizations made by clear and surprisingly elegant prose and clean math, without dumbing down the science involved in the name of science 'popularization.'
In short, Friedman does an excellent job of presenting the 'why' of relativity, rather than just the 'how'.
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Economics of Space and Time: The Measure-Theoretic Foundations of Social Science
Arnold M. Faden Manufacturer: Iowa State Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0813805007 |
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Foundations of Space Time Theories (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, V. 8)
John Earman , Clark N. Glymour , and John J. Stachel Manufacturer: Univ of Minnesota Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0816608075 |
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Independent Axioms For Minkowski Space-time (PITMAN RESEARCH NOTES IN MATHEMATICS)
J. Schutz Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0582317606 |
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The primary aim of this monograph is to clarify the undefined primitive concepts and the axioms which form the basis of Einstein's theory of special relativity. Minkowski space-time is developed from a set of independent axioms, stated in terms of a single relation of betweenness. It is shown that all models are isomorphic to the usual coordinate model, and the axioms are consistent relative to the reals.
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Logical Foundation of Theoretical Physics: Logicheskie Osnovaniia Teoreticheskoi Fiziki
G. Quznetsov Manufacturer: Nova Science Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1594549486 |
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Reflections on Spacetime: Foundations, Philosophy, History
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792337123 |
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This book presents a collection of research papers, written by physicists, philosophers and historians of science who had participated in the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) during the academic year 1992/93 in order to discuss the nature and structure of spacetime as it is used in general relativity. All contributions focus on unsolved questions, such as the possibility of time machines, referential indeterminacy, the hole problem, and the conventional vs. empirical character of spacetime. These papers having a more historical colour deal with Einstein's view of general covariance and with the epistemological status of space(time) in the works of Carnap, Weyl and Hilbert, all of whom relate their position to Husserl's phenomenology, yet in fundamentally different ways.
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Space and Time, Matter and Mind: The Relationship Between Reality and Space-Time (Series on the Foundations of Natural Science and Technology)
W. Schommers Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9810218516 |
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Space, Time and Ethical Foundations
Robert E. Allinson Manufacturer: Ashgate Pub Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1840149272 |
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Stability of Dynamical Systems: Continuous, Discontinuous, and Discrete Systems (Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications)
Anthony N. Michel , Ling Hou , and Derong Liu Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Boston ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0817644865 |
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In the analysis and synthesis of contemporary systems, engineers and scientists are frequently confronted with increasingly complex models that may simultaneously include components whose states evolve along continuous time and discrete instants; components whose descriptions may exhibit nonlinearities, time lags, transportation delays, hysteresis effects, and uncertainties in parameters; and components that cannot be described by various classical equations, as in the case of discrete-event systems, logic commands, and Petri nets. The qualitative analysis of such systems requires results for finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional systems; continuous-time and discrete-time systems; continuous continuous-time and discontinuous continuous-time systems; and hybrid systems involving a mixture of continuous and discrete dynamics.
Filling a gap in the literature, this textbook presents the first comprehensive stability analysis of all the major types of system models described above. Throughout the book, the applicability of the developed theory is demonstrated by means of many specific examples and applications to important classes of systems, including digital control systems, nonlinear regulator systems, pulse-width-modulated feedback control systems, artificial neural networks (with and without time delays), digital signal processing, a class of discrete-event systems (with applications to manufacturing and computer load balancing problems) and a multicore nuclear reactor model.
The book covers the following four general topics:
* Representation and modeling of dynamical systems of the types described above
* Presentation of Lyapunov and Lagrange stability theory for dynamical systems defined on general metric spaces
* Specialization of this stability theory to finite-dimensional dynamical systems
* Specialization of this stability theory to infinite-dimensional dynamical systems
Replete with exercises and requiring basic knowledge of linear algebra, analysis, and differential equations, the work may be used as a textbook for graduate courses in stability theory of dynamical systems. The book may also serve as a self-study reference for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in applied mathematics, engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, biology, and economics.
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STUDIES IN LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS A Deductive Theory of Space and Time
Saul A. Basri Manufacturer: North-Holland Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RRQ5V4 |
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Who Owns the Water?
Manufacturer: Lars Müller Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 3037780185 |
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âThe shortage of fresh, clean water,â states a report by the Human Rights Commission, âis the greatest danger to which mankind has ever been exposed.â It is only thanks to water and its mysterious qualities that life on earth is possible at all. Without water there would be no food, no clothing, there would not even be the ink the Bill of Rights was written with.
Who owns the Water? discusses the phenomenon of water, marvels at its uniqueness and addresses the dangers and opportunities water offers to life. The book looks at the most important questions about providing drinking water and producing food, but also deals with water as a destructive force, and investigates the chemical qualities of the molecule. Who owns the Water? points out the risks of unlimited privatization of water, and records how dependence on water is exploited. Committed picture sequences and detailed texts explain how water can belong to no one, but has to be treated responsibly and held in appropriate esteem by the whole of mankind.
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The book was fine.......2007-03-21
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Us specialists;: Copied from privy walls for those still on the water wagon or those who have neglected their own walls
Hugh Stuart Manufacturer: The Caxton printers] ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00088X5ZG |
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Who owns your water? Private companies are turning water into a for-profit commodity--let the drinker beware!: An article from: Sojourners
Rose Marie Berger Manufacturer: Sojourners ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FZKQ6 Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Sojourners, published by Sojourners on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 493 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Access and wharfage rights and the territorial extent of Indian reservation bordering on navigable water: Who owns the bed of Flathead Lake?
Sam E Haddon Manufacturer: s.n ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007KAEUE |
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Who owns the water powers?
Rome G Brown Manufacturer: Lawyers Co-Operative Pub. Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00088VTS6 |
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