2003-2004 Annual Supplement to The Piano Book

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Supplying list prices for most piano brands and models, as well as advice on how to estimate actual street prices, this annual supplement to the bestselling The Piano Book offers honest and unbiased price information. For those in the market for a new piano, this supplement will pay for itself many times over by offering greater peace of mind and convenience while shopping for one of the most expensive consumer purchases they will make.

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This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaid, Japan's northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in recent centuries by advancing Japanese. Based on the author's own experiences and on stories passed down from generation to generation, the book chronicles the disappearing world-and courageous rebirth-of this little-understood people.

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"The Vanishing Ainu" are still there !.......2002-09-05

Sometimes the way things repeat themselves is uncanny. Just as the American literature of the early 20th century reflected the idea that the Native Americans would soon vanish, and writers in Australia and New Zealand pontificated on similar lines on their aboriginal neighbors, so in Japan, the aboriginal Ainu have long since been labelled "mysterious, but vanishing". To tell the truth, I thought they had already gone by the 1980s. I was wrong. Here is an autobiography, written by Kayano Shigeru, an Ainu of around 60 when he originally wrote, that informs us that the Ainu are far from gone. Kayano is personally responsible for building up a collection of Ainu artifacts, for preserving a great number of `yukar' or epic poems, for writing an Ainu-Japanese dictionary, for helping establish Ainu language primary schools in Hokkaido, and working in the political sphere to improve the lot of Japan's only aboriginal people. This memoir tells in very simple, matter-of-fact style about his early years of grinding poverty, the hardships suffered by all his fellow villagers, about being a draft laborer, about life hunting, fishing, and logging in the deep forests of Japan's northernmost island. Kayano's life is not specifically "Ainu", it is life in a mixed world of changing conditions. Japanese, Ainu, and even Western cultural strands mingle, but the author never tries to separate them. Whatever Ainu people of his generation faced, that, for him, is Ainu life. This is very effective in a way, though foreigners without much knowledge of Japan will be hard-pressed to figure out what is unique here. Kayano tells a straightforward tale, but natural reticence and perhaps lack of higher education mean that he does not delve much into psychology, he seldom develops other characters. A few sentences at most suffice. He often reports events with little comment. His feeling for his land and for his people's condition come straight from the heart, though. Nobody can remain unmoved by that.

OUR LAND WAS A FOREST reminds me very much of Native American memoirs, though in this case there is no attempt whatsoever to play up "mystical" aspects or try to be a "wise, traditional guru". The Ainu experience has been close to that of other aboriginal peoples from Siberia to Sydney, from Boston to Buenos Aires. The harmony of their life in nature was disrupted by the coming of greater numbers of more organized, materialistic peoples. The book is easily read and contains a number of useful black and white photographs. If you need much background knowledge on the Ainu, this might not be the place to begin, but if you are looking for an interesting book on a little heard-from people, choose this one.

Toward Understanding of Aboriginal People.......2001-03-16

Shigeru Kayano gives candid and passionate voice to an aboriginal people. The breath of the Ainu pour from each page as he narrates his life ...from the snow on his skin as small boy playing in his native homeland of Ainu Mosir (lit: Peaceful Land of the Ainu), to his grandmother's lessons and father's disillusionment, through naive comments of tourists at bear-sending ceremonies, and finally to his political ascent as the first Ainu elected to the Japanese Diet.

More then a memoir, Kayano records Ainu traditions, language and sentiment along side of the oppression that sucked the lives of able bodied Ainu into 'draft labor' and almost drove the Ainu culture into forgotten unwritten history.

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Modern focus on the Asia Pacific has centered on its rapid transformation in the span of a mere two decades. Since 1997 economic crisis, attention has now turned to transition issues as the region faces the challenges of global structural transformations that have and will affect the direction of the region's long-term development. Drawing from a range of contributors from several disciplines, this book seeks to capture some of the multifaceted dimensions of these transitions as the region adjusts to new global realities.

The Challenges of Globalization: Cultures in Transition in the Pacific-Asia Region

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The Challenges of Globalization: Cultures in Transition in the Pacific-Asia Region
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The Challenges of Globalization: Cultures in Transition in the Pacific-Asia Region defines globalization as supra-national ideas and processes that cross national borders with impunity. Such ideas and processes may appear to possess a will of their own, fostering closer links between cultures, societies, and economies. But, do they? How do individuals, communities, and nation-states actually respond to the forces of globalization? This book explores globalization within the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and education.

China's Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition (Asia and the Pacific (Armonk, N.Y.).)

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This digital document is an article from Scandinavian Studies, published by Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study on March 22, 1995. The length of the article is 1322 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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Title: Norway and the European Community: The Political Economy of Integration. (book reviews)
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Identify 45 weeds prevalent throughout the United States — Queen Anne's lace, buckhorn, oxeye daisy, poison ivy, many others. Remarkable adaptability, frequent medicinal or nutritional uses. Introduction, captions by E. F. Bleiler. "...may take its place on the garden book shelf for reference." — Tulsa Daily World.

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It is a good source of weed pictures.......1997-09-12

I needed a book of pictures of weeds for a talk to a garden club. This book has good pictures and small discriptions also. My daughter can color them after the speech too

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