U.S. Government Scientific & Technical Periodicals

U.S. Government Scientific & Technical Periodicals
Author: Rao Aluri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1976
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Annotated bibliography of science and technology periodicals and related regular official publications issued by the government of the USA or federal contractors - provides details about primary and secondary journals concerning scientific and technical information, and includes a brief guide to information sources.

Hiligaynon Dictionary

Hiligaynon Dictionary
Author: Cecile L. Motus
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-03-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0824881990

The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.

Placing the Academy

Placing the Academy
Author: Jennifer Sinor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2007-03-31
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Twenty-one writers answer the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are--where, for each of them, being in some way part of academia. In personal essays, they imaginatively delineate and engage the diverse, occasionally unexpected play of place in shaping them, writers and teachers in varied environments, with unique experiences and distinctive world views, and reconfiguring for them conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between. Contents I Introduction Writing Place, Jennifer Sinor II Here Six Kinds of Rain: Searching for a Place in the Academy, Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore The Work the Landscape Calls Us To, Michael Sowder Valley Language, Diana Garcia What I Learned from the Campus Plumber, Charles Bergman M-I-Crooked Letter-Crooked Letter, Katherine Fischer On Frogs, Poems, and Teaching at a Rural Community College, Sean W. Henne III There Levittown Breeds Anarchists Film at 11:00, Kathryn T. Flannery Living in a Transformed Desert, Mitsuye Yamada A More Fortunate Destiny, Jayne Brim Box Imagined Vietnams, Charles Waugh IV Everywhere Teaching on Stolen Ground, Deborah A. Miranda The Blind Teaching the Blind: The Academic as Naturalist, or Not, Robert Michael Pyle Where Are You From? Lee Torda V In Between Going Away to Think, Scott Slovic Fronteriza Consciousness: The Site and Language of the Academy and of Life, Norma Elia Cantu Bones of Summer, Mary Clearman Blew Singing, Speaking, and Seeing a World, Janice M. Gould Making Places Work: Felt Sense, Identity, and Teaching, Jeffrey M. Buchanan VI Coda Running in Place: The Personal at Work, in Motion, on Campus, and in the Neighborhood, Rona Kaufman

Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle

Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle
Author: Thomas Borstelmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1993
Genre: Apartheid
ISBN: 0195079426

Borstelmann (history, Cornell U.) brings to light the neglected history of Washington's strong, but hushed, backing for the white supremacist National Party government that won power in South Africa in 1948, and for its formal establishment of apartheid. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Interrogation

Interrogation
Author: James A. Stone
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1437934935

Contents: (1) Interrogation of Japanese POWs in WW2: U.S. Response to a Formidable Challenge. Military leaders, often working with civilian counterparts, created and implemented successful strategies, building on cultural and linguistic skills that substantially aided the war effort for the U.S. and its Allies. (2) Unveiling Charlie: U.S. Interrogators¿ Creative Successes Against Insurgents. Highlights the importance of a deep understanding of the language, psychol., and culture of adversaries and potential allies in other countries. (3) The Accidental Interrogator: A Case Study and Review of U.S. Army Special Forces Interrogations in Iraq. Offers recommendations that are likely to increase the effectiveness of U.S. interrogation practices in the field. Illus.