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Pacific Legacy

Author : Gerald A. Meehi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789213338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Legacy written by Gerald A. Meehi and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic photo book about the battlegrounds of the Pacific Theater then and now—updated with new information about the preservation and accessibility of these historic sites. Pacific Legacy offers an unprecedented record of the relics of World War II that have survived on the islands of the Pacific: American landing craft rusting on the reefs where they were stopped by enemy fire; shell-pocked Japanese fortifications; fallen aircraft overgrown by jungle; packed-coral landing strips still as good as new. These evocative color images are paired with archival photographs that show the same tropical battlegrounds as they appeared in wartime. The text covers the entire war in the Pacific, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to Japan’s surrender in Tokyo Bay. The principal battles are recounted hour-by-hour, drawing heavily on firsthand accounts. This vivid narrative helps the reader visualize what it was really like to be at war in the Pacific, doggedly island-hopping to victory.

A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY BACK TO MARINELAND OF THE PACIFIC

Author : Jim Patryla
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411671309
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY BACK TO MARINELAND OF THE PACIFIC written by Jim Patryla and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book chronicles the history of world famous Marineland of the Pacific and features over 200 rare color and black & white photographs. A number of these historic Marineland images were selected from the author's own personal archive of original photographs, including the only known full color photographs taken of the actual birth of the world's very first killer whale ever to be conceived and born in captivity. Marineland of the Pacific opened in 1954 and during its reign as one of the premier tourist attractions in Southern California it managed to educate and entertain millions. 33 years later Marineland's controversial closing outraged a community and the world lost a truly remarkable institution. This one-of-a-kind collector's edition of facts and photographs will help to preserve Marineland's legacy of compassion, education and discovery.

Pacific Legacy

Author : Rex Alan Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Legacy written by Rex Alan Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating, richly illustrated survey of all aspects of the Pacific war, from Pearl Harbor to Japan's surrender in Tokyo Bay, offers something unique among World War II histories: an extensive color portfolio of dramatic wartime relics that have survived decades on most of the Pacific island battlefields. Rusting American landing craft and tanks still can be found on the treacherous reefs and beaches where they were tragically stopped by enemy fire so long ago; aircraft of both sides lie hidden in the jungles where they crashed; battle-scarred Japanese pillboxes and artillery emplacements still stand sentinel; and packed-coral landing strips remain as good as new. Such evocative memento mori have been beautifully captured on film by Jerry Meehl, probably the only photographer to have sought out these far-flung battle sites, many of them still dangerous underfoot and now off-limits to travelers. The authors also searched official archives for pictures that show the real terrors of combat and often found images displaying the very tanks and amtracs now decomposing on distant invasion beaches. They also found captured prewar photos of newly built Japanese pillboxes and gun emplacements, which they contrast with images of their current war-torn condition. But Pacific Legacy is far from just a "then" and "now" picture book. Each of the more than twenty photo essays of particular battles features a lively narrative that relies heavily on the firsthand accounts of men who were there, archival pictures shot during the actual fighting, and color photographs of the remaining Japanese bunkers and gun emplacements, all of which help the reader visualize what hand-to-hand combat in the Pacific war must have been like.

Sierra Pacific, a Family History

Author : J. Tomascheski
Publisher : Bud Tomascheski
ISBN 13 : 9780963094711
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Sierra Pacific, a Family History written by J. Tomascheski and published by Bud Tomascheski. This book was released on 1991 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poisoning the Pacific

Author : Jon Mitchell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538130343
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Poisoning the Pacific written by Jon Mitchell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this devastating exposé, investigative journalist Jon Mitchell reveals the shocking toxic contamination of the Pacific Ocean and millions of victims by the US military. For decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the United States has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. After World War II, the United States granted immunity to Japanese military scientists in exchange for their data on biological weapons tests conducted in China; in the following years, nuclear detonations in the Pacific obliterated entire islands and exposed Americans, Marshallese, Chamorros, and Japanese fishing crews to radioactive fallout. At the same time, the United States experimented with biological weapons on Okinawa and stockpiled the island with nuclear and chemical munitions, causing numerous accidents. Meanwhile, the CIA orchestrated a campaign to introduce nuclear power to Japan—the folly of which became horrifyingly clear in the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture. Caught in a geopolitical grey zone, US territories have been among the worst affected by military contamination, including Guam, Saipan, and Johnston Island, the final disposal site of apocalyptic volumes of chemical weapons and Agent Orange. Accompanying this damage, US authorities have waged a campaign of cover-ups, lies, and attacks on the media, which the author has experienced firsthand in the form of military surveillance and attempts by the State Department to impede his work. Now, for the first time, this explosive book reveals the horrific extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.

Pacific on the Rise

Author : Philip N Gilbertson Ph D
Publisher : University of the Pacific
ISBN 13 : 9780997685404
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Pacific on the Rise written by Philip N Gilbertson Ph D and published by University of the Pacific. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific on the Rise: The Story of California's First University tells the story of University of the Pacific from its earliest days in Santa Clara through the years in San Jose, the move to Stockton and the gradual expansion into a major comprehensive university. Drawing on primary sources and interviews with more than 150 members of the Pacific community, Philip N. Gilbertson provides a record of the past for Pacificans to learn of Pacific's rich heritage and its lessons for the future, and to engage alumni and members of the Pacific community in this fascinating experience called Pacific. "It is a great story I think you will enjoy," says Gilbertson. "A history should enrich knowledge, add understanding, revive memories, and intensify the bond with a particular past, the life and legacy of University of the Pacific. I hope that this history will do that for you."

Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures

Author : Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824893514
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures written by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches. Within these pages, the reader will encounter a wild garden of genres, including poetry, chant, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, visual texts, and even a dramatic play—all written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages, pidgin, and translation. Seven main themes emerge: “Creation Stories and Genealogies,” “Ocean and Waterscapes,” “Land and Islands,” “Flowers, Plants, and Trees,” “Animals and More-than-Human Species,” “Climate Change,” and “Environmental Justice.” This aesthetic diversity embodies the beautiful bio-diversity of the Pacific itself. The urgent voices in this book call us to attention—to action!—at a time of great need. Pacific ecologies and the lives of Pacific Islanders are currently under existential threat due to the legacy of environmental imperialism and the ongoing impacts of climate change. While Pacific writers celebrate the beauty and cultural symbolism of the ocean, islands, trees, and flowers, they also bravely address the frightening realities of rising sea levels, animal extinction, nuclear radiation, military contamination, and pandemics. Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures reminds us that we are not alone; we are always in relation and always ecological. Humans, other species, and nature are interrelated; land and water are central concepts of identity and genealogy; and Earth is the sacred source of all life, and thus should be treated with love and care. With this book as a trusted companion, we are inspired and empowered to reconnect with the world as we navigate towards a precarious yet hopeful future.

On the Road of the Winds

Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234618
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book On the Road of the Winds written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human ecology and island adaptations.

The United States in the Indo-Pacific

Author : Oliver Turner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526135027
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The United States in the Indo-Pacific written by Oliver Turner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This edited collection examines the political, economic and security legacies of former US President Barack Obama in Asia and the Pacific, following two terms in office between 2009 and 2017. In a region that has only become more vivid in the American political imagination since Obama left office, this volume interrogates the endurance of Obama’s legacies in what is increasingly reimagined in Washington as the Indo-Pacific. Advancing our understanding of Obama’s style, influence and impact throughout the region, this volume explores dimensions of US relations and interactions with key Indo-Pacific states including China, India, Japan, North Korea and Australia; multilateral institutions and organisations such the East Asia Summit and ASEAN; and salient issue areas such as regional security, politics and diplomacy, and the economy. How far has the Trump administration progressed in challenging or disrupting Obama’s Pivot to Asia? What differences can we discern in the declared or effective US strategy towards Asia and to what extent has it radically shifted or displaced Obama-era legacies? Including contributions from high-profile scholars and policy practitioners such as Michael Mastanduno, Bruce Cumings, Maryanne Kelton, Robert Sutter and Sumit Ganguly, contributors examine these questions at the halfway point of the 2017–21 Presidency of Donald Trump, as his administration opens a new and potentially divergent chapter of American internationalism.

Legacy to Liberation

Author : Fred Wei-han Ho
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Legacy to Liberation written by Fred Wei-han Ho and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Panther Party and the Brown Berets live on in our historical memory, but what of the revolutionary groups which came out of Asian America in the late 60s and early 70s? Compiled by veteran and younger Asian Pacific American activist-fighters, from across the US and ideological and political spectrum, Legacy to Liberation is a groundbreaking anthology that documents and analyzes three decades of radical and revolutionary movement building. Penetrating essays are interwoven with archival photos, artwork, poetry, and an appendix of rare manifestos, position papers, and other documents. Over 30 contributors are featured, including: Ninotchka Rosca, Helen Toribio, Richard Aoki, Yuri Kochiyama, Merle Woo, Nellie Wong, Fred Ho, Steve Yip, Diane Fujino, Dolly Veale, and Kent Wong.

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

Author : Alan J. Stein
Publisher : Historylink
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition written by Alan J. Stein and published by Historylink. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated and well-researched volume recounts in detail the history of the fair that brought Seattle and Washington into the national spotlight. The A-Y-P Exposition, held in Seattle in 1909 on the future site of the University of Washington, welcomed 3.7 million visitors and was the first world's fair to make a profit.

A Mighty Fine Road

Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304989X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book A Mighty Fine Road written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island's final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the "Mighty Fine Road" has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad.

Pacific War Stories

Author : Rex Alan Smith
Publisher : Abbeville Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pacific War Stories written by Rex Alan Smith and published by Abbeville Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These are not the stories of sweeping military strategies or bold tactical moves by generals and admirals. Instead, we hear mainly from those on the lower rungs of the military ladder, from ordinary seamen on vessels that encountered Japanese warships and planes and sometimes came out second-best, from rank-and-file Marines who in amtracs churning toward bullet-swept tropical beaches saw buddies killed right next to them, and from startled eyewitnesses to the war's sudden beginning on December 7, 1941.".

The Songmaker's Chair

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : Huia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781869690311
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Songmaker's Chair written by Albert Wendt and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Songmaker's Chair tells of a Samoan family, the Aiga Sa Peseola, who have been in Auckland since the 1950s. Over three generations the family have intermarried with M ori and Pakeha to develop what they refer to as the Peseola Way. Central to that Way is the magnificent Polynesian exploration and settlement of the Pacific, and a songmaking tradition which Peseola Olaga, the family patriarch has inherited from his father. At the heart of the play is the love between Peseola Olaga and Malaga, his wife, and how they've struggled to give their children a good life in Aotearoa. For theirs is the Peseola Way: defiant, honest and unflinching even in the face of death.

Not Just for Show

Author : Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785706950
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Not Just for Show written by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field of personal ornaments in humanities’ past. Recent studies are based on a variety of analytical procedures that highlight humankind’s technological advances, exchange networks, mortuary practices, and symbol-laden beliefs. Papers discuss the social narratives behind bead and beadwork manufacture, use and disposal; the way beads work visually, audibly and even tactilely to cue wearers and audience to their social message(s). Understanding the entangled social and technical aspects of beads require a broad spectrum of technical and methodological approaches including the identification of the sources for the raw material of beads. These scientific approaches are also combined in some instances with experimentation to clarify the manner in which beads were produced and used in past societies.

Railroads and Clearcuts

Author : Derrick Jensen
Publisher : Keokee Company Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railroads and Clearcuts written by Derrick Jensen and published by Keokee Company Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pacific Histories

Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 113700164X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Histories written by David Armitage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history. A distinguished international team of historians provides a multidimensional account of the Pacific, its inhabitants and the lands within and around it over 50,000 years, with special attention to the peoples of Oceania. It providing chronological coverage along with analyses of themes such as the environment, migration and the economy; religion, law and science; race, gender and politics.