The story of Ni'ihau has been told many times by many people, but Ni'ihau Place Names adds new information to the island's history from a unique source: Hawaiian-language newspapers. From 1834 to 1948, approximately 125, 000 pages of Native Hawaiian expression were printed in more than 100 different newspapers. John R. K. Clark has gathered and edited a large collection of invaluable articles that recorded daily life on Niʻihau, events and top...
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Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - For the use of Students is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894.
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This book describes a strategy for a comprehensive coastal resources planning and management and provides a set of working tools along with a detailed information base for the practitioner. It presents mini-case histories of coastal zone situations along with management techniques and their trials.
Excerpt from New England Haddock Fishery Biostatistics, 1956Length composition of scrod and large haddock landed from SY North and South, summer 1956, in hundreds of fish Length composition of scrod and large haddock landed from 5y North and South, fall 1956, in hundreds of fish..About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an imp...
Excerpt from Development and Operation of Television for Studying Fish Behavior in Otter TrawlsTo meet these requirements, an Image Orthicon camera was chosen because it can produce a picture of adequate quality with as little as one-half foot-candle Of illu mination. Other types, such as Vidicon or C. P. S. Emitron, require considerably more illumination. The disadvantages of Image Orthicon equipment are greater bulk, more complex circuitry, ...
Presents a unique history of the leprosy settlement on Moloka'i, based on his meticulous research of more than three hundred Hawaiian-language newspaper articles. John Clark discovered articles that show a community of Hawaiians from every island except uninhabited Kaho'olawe. Their stories reveal an active community with its members trying to live their lives as normally as possible.
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Excerpt from New England Haddock Fishery Biostatistics, 1956Extensive studies of the New England haddock fishery and of the biology and habits of the species have been carried out since 1931. The biostatistical data resulting from these studies have been utilized in many publications and in forming the basis for international regulation of the haddock fishery through control of mesh size (graham, The world-wide interest in the effect of the re...
Historically, the conservation of forests and wildlife has focused on the creation of national parks and reserves. However, only 9% of protected areas are larger than 14, 000 hectares, likely making them too small to conserve ecosystem services and prevent loss of wide-ranging keystone species such as elephant and leopard. New approaches are needed that extend conservation beyond protected area boundaries into areas where economic consideratio...
Offers a manual on coastal resource planning and management technology. This book shows a global perspective on the natural resources, sensitivities, economics, development, productivity, and diversity of coastal zones. It describes the strategic basis for coastal management, and provides a set of tools for management and planning activities.
Hawaiian Surfing is a history of the traditional sport narrated primarily by native Hawaiians who wrote for the Hawaiian-language newspapers of the 1800s. An introductory section covers traditional surfing, including descriptions of the six Hawaiian surf-riding sports (surfing, bodysurfing, canoe surfing, body boarding, skimming, and river surfing). This is followed by an exhaustive Hawaiian-English dictionary of surfing terms and references f...
This primer is intended to satisfy the demand for a succinct, technical reference on coastal zone resources management, and is aimed at both students taking courses in coastal management and/or marine conservation, and practitioners in these fields.
Thomas Mann predicted that no manner or mode in literature would be so typical or so pervasive in the twentieth century as the grotesque. Assuredly he was correct. The subjects and methods of our comic literature (and much of our other literature) are regularly disturbing and often repulsive - no laughing matter. In this ambitious study, John R. Clark seeks to elucidate the major tactics and topics deployed in modern literary dark humor. In Pa...
This book provides an up-to-date theologically balanced introduction to the Bible and its study, which takes biblical scholarship seriously and takes an affirming stance on faith.
