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Many North American plants have characteristics that are especially promising as candidates for expanding our food supply and generating new economically competitive crops. This book is an informati……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Ollett
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2017年10月10日
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In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their i……続きを見る
著者:Hill Gates
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2018年03月15日
Taiwan’s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty ……続きを見る
著者:Danna Agmon
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2017年08月14日
Danna Agmon's gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the "Nayiniyappa Affair" in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the ……続きを見る
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2017年10月03日
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"You are too afraid of death. If all Taiwanese were as afraid of death as you, then what would we do?" The second Taiwanese to receive a doctorate in medicine, Dr. Shih Jiangnan dedicated himself to……続きを見る
When released into independence from Great Britain in 1948, the stunningly beautiful island of Ceylon, renamed Sri Lanka in 1972, was expected to become a sort of ‘South Asian Singapore.' However, s……続きを見る
著者:Tom Cooper
出版社: Helion and Company
発売日: 2017年11月21日
Since September 1962, hardly a week passed without a major armed confrontation or an outright war in Yemen. The number of long-lasting insurgencies, mutinies, rebellions, or terrorism-related activi……続きを見る
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Musaicum Books presents to you a unique George Rawlinson collection, meticulously edited and adjusted for readability on all devices. George Rawlinson (1812 – 1902) was a 19th-century English schola……続きを見る
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In the next decade China's actions on the world stage will affect us all. A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on the globe, there are now fears that China is becoming more assertiv……続きを見る
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