Overthrow

Overthrow

Author: Stephen Kinzer

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-02-06

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0805082409

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An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences.


The Story of James Dole

The Story of James Dole

Author: Richard Dole

Publisher: Island Heritage

Published: 1999-04

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780896101623

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The story of James Dole the pineapple harvester.


Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia

Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia

Author: Janet Tai Landa

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-30

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 3642540198

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This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’ success. The author’s theory - and various extensions, with emphasis on kinship and other trust relationships - draws on economics and the other social sciences, and beyond to evolutionary biology. Empirical material from her fieldwork forms the basis for developing her unique, integrative and transdisciplinary theoretical framework, with important policy implications for understanding ethnic conflict in multiethnic societies where minority groups dominate merchant roles.


America's Forgotten Colony

America's Forgotten Colony

Author: Michael Neagle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-12-24

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1107136857

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Analysis of the American presence on the Isle of Pines illustrates how US influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba.


The Tree and the Canoe

The Tree and the Canoe

Author: Joël Bonnemaison

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780824815257

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This personal observation of Tanna, an island in the southern part of the Vanuatu archipelago, presents an extraordinary case study of cultural resistance. Based on interviews, myths and stories collected in the field, and archival research, The Tree and the Canoe analyzes the resilience of the people of Tanna, who, when faced with an intense form of cultural contact that threatened to engulf them, liberated themselves by re-creating, and sometimes reinventing, their own kastom. Following a lengthy history of Tanna from European contact, the author discusses in detail original creation myths and how Tanna people revived them in response to changes brought by missionaries and foreign governments. The final chapters of the book deal with the violent opposition of part of the island population to the newly established National Unity government.


Cuisine and Culture

Cuisine and Culture

Author: Linda Civitello

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0470403713

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Cuisine and Culture presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies. Witty and engaging, Civitello shows how history has shaped our diet--and how food has affected history. Prehistoric societies are explored all the way to present day issues such as genetically modified foods and the rise of celebrity chefs. Civitello's humorous tone and deep knowledge are the perfect antidote to the usual scholarly and academic treatment of this universally important subject.


Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics

Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics

Author: Douglas A. Lind

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 830

ISBN-13: 9780072874167

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Why make statistics harder than it has to be? Lind/Marchal/Mason: STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, 11/e is a perennial market best seller due to its comprehensive coverage of statistical tools and methods delivered in a student friendly, step-by-step format. The text is non-threatening and presents concepts clearly and succinctly with a conversational writing style. All statistical concepts are illustrated with solved applied examples immediately upon introduction. Modern computing tools and applications are introduced, but the text maintains a focus on presenting statistics content as oppose to technology or programming methods, and the eleventh edition continues as a ‘students’ text with increased emphasis on interpretation of data and results.lts.


The Bible & War in America

The Bible & War in America

Author: Joel McDurmon

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9781693566424

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A long line of movies, video games, and enlistment promos betray the final transformation of the American perspective on war-what was once considered a specter is now a spectacle. The war machine, driven by power-hungry corporate and political interests, glamorizes the American military as the epitome of freedom-fighting gallantry while branding peace-loving Americans as cowardly or even unpatriotic. "Support our troops" is often sufficient to silence any opposition to American imperialism. No one, including the majority of well-meaning Christians, seems to consider that the best way to support American soldiers consists in returning to a biblical doctrine of war.In The Bible & War in America, Joel McDurmon issues a blistering indictment of the current American war ethos, tracing its roots back to the Constitution, and showing, through rigorous biblical exegesis, how far we have strayed from God's standards for national defense. This book does not end at critique, however. It provides practical measures for returning America to decentralized ideals of local militia, just war, and non-intervention. All Christians and all Americans who love this country and her troops should read this book and follow its advice. Our blood-purchased freedoms hang in the balance.