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In the book " Perspectives On The Caribbean: A Reader In Culture, History, and Representation ," by Philip W. Scher, Scher cites figures by respected Professor of Anthropology, Steven Vertovec ; Of 94, 135 Indian immigrants to Trinidad, between 1874-1917, 50. 7 percent were from the NW / United Provinces ( an area, which today, is largely encompassed by Uttar Pradesh ), 24. 4 percent hailed from the historic region of Oudh ( Awadh ), 13. 5 percent were from Bihar, and lesser numbers from various other states and regions of the Indian Subcontinent, such as Punjab, West Bengal, and South India Madras ( Chennai ) ( as cited in Vertovec, 1992 ).
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With the modern foundations for a general theory of systems following the World Wars, Ervin Laszlo, in the preface for Bertalanffy's book Perspectives on General System Theory, maintains that the translation of " general system theory " from German into English has " wrought a certain amount of havoc ".
Mary Shaw and David Garlan of Carnegie Mellon wrote a book titled Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline in 1996, which brought forward the concepts in Software Architecture, such as components, connectors, styles and so on.
* Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, a book of contemporary painters, written by Barry Schwabsky in 2004
Bruce Trigger considered this book to be " a postprocessual showcase and counterpart to New Perspectives in Archaeology ", the 1968 book written by American archaeologist Lewis Binford ( 1931-2011 ) that helped to launch the processual movement.
* Glossary of Kant's Technical Terms, from Stephen Palmquist's book, Kant's System of Perspectives: An architectonic interpretation of the Critical philosophy ( University Press of America, 1993 ).
* WITS, an acronym for " Wise Information Technology Systems ", used in the book " Unusual Perspectives " by Peter G Kinnon
She also contributed a chapter about William Samuel Johnson to the 1979 book, The American Revolution: Changing Perspectives by William Fowler and Wallace Coyle.
" The Art and Politics of Science ( book review )" Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 52. 1 ( 2009 ): 637 – 642.
Ergodic literature is a term coined by Espen J. Aarseth in his book Cybertext — Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, and is derived from the Greek words ergon, meaning " work ", and hodos, meaning " path ".
Aarseth's works include groundbreaking Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature ( Johns Hopkins UP 1997 ) book, which was originally his doctoral thesis.
Nine Perspectives from the Edge of Hell ," cites from " Tour of Duty " that he " found of interest ... the specific criticism the book offers of the officers to whom Kerry and his fellow Swift boat skippers reported.
Both phrases are mentioned in Donald Norman's 1986 book User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-computer Interaction.
For his simultaneous contribution to art and science, he was acclaimed as " the Renaissance Man of our time " in the book Voices of Colorado: Perspectives of Asian Americans ( ISBN 0615202136 ) by Nestor Mercado, Elnora Minoza-Mercado, and Alok Sarwal.
This book of essays ( Perspectives in Politics: Public and Foreign, UST Press, 2005 ) has long been overdue, but this result is certainly well worth the wait.
His equally celebrated and criticized 1954 book The Christian View of Science and Scripture was the theme of a 1979 issue of the Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, while a 1990 issue of Baylor University's Perspectives in Religious Studies was devoted to Ramm's views on theology.
Traditions of intolerance: Historical Perspectives on Fascism and Race Discourse in Britain is a book edited by Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn.
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On the way they tried to discover all they could about Burma, and they were disturbed to find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an altogether true picture.
On the whole this is an interesting and exceptionally well-written book.
However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.
On the debate of what it means to be disabled, American poet Joan Aleshire stated in the book Voices From the Edge:
A second book is known as the Supplement to On the Soul ( Mantissa ).
His principal sources are the Physics ( book 7 ), Metaphysics ( book 12 ), and the Pseudo-Aristotelian On the Universe.
The numeral system came to be known to both the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, whose book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals written about 825 in Arabic, and the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi, who wrote four volumes, " On the Use of the Indian Numerals " ( Ketab fi Isti ' mal al -' Adad al-Hindi ) about 830.
" On the first lines of the book is the line " My old man would sit there like a feudal lord.
On 19 March 2012 The Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history.
On Elizabeth's death in 1603, the 1559 book, substantially that of 1552 which had been regarded as offensive by the likes of Bishop Stephen Gardiner as being a break with the tradition of the Western church, had come to be regarded in some quarters as unduly Catholic.
In Canto XI of the same book a hermit named Māṇḍakarṇi is mentioned: " For he, great votarist, intent -- On strictest rule his stern life spent -- ... -- Ten thousand years on air he fed ..." ( English quotations are from Ralph T. H. Griffith's translation ).
Heuvelmans ' 1955 book On the Track of Unknown Animals traces the scholarly origins of the discipline to Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans and his 1892 study, The Great Sea Serpent.
On the whole the book contains nothing that is not to be found in previous publications, particularly in the investigations of Bohr.
The company's effort to regain its footing is the subject of Tom Barbash's 2003 book On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9 / 11: A Story of Loss and Renewal.
On 17 September 2010 Coronation Street entered the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap opera As the World Turns had its final episode.
On some occasions, new gag cartoons have been created for book publication, as was the case with Think Small, a 1967 promotional book distributed as a giveaway by Volkswagen dealers.
On the third line a capital Y indicates a work about the author or book represented by the first two lines, and a capital E ( for English — other letters are used for other languages ) indicates a translation into English.
St John Damascene, writing in the 8th century AD, also notes of an earlier sect called the " Cathari ", in his book On Heresies, taken from the epitome provided by Epiphanius of Salamis in his Panarion.
On 3 September 2008, however, publisher Harper Collins issued a public apology for its book " The Daring Book for Girls " which openly encouraged girls to play the instrument.
Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury ( d. 1648 ) is generally considered the " father of English deism ", and his book De Veritate ( On Truth, as It Is Distinguished from Revelation, the Probable, the Possible, and the False ) ( 1624 ) the first major statement of deism.
While he is a confirmed compatibilist on free will, in " On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want " – Chapter 15 of his 1978 book Brainstorms, Dennett articulated the case for a two-stage model of decision making in contrast to libertarian views.
On February 22, 2010, a copy of Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ) sold at auction from an anonymous seller to an anonymous buyer for $ 1 million, besting the $ 317, 000 record for a comic book set by a different copy, in lesser condition, the previous year.
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Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.
The book is a fictionalised account of Caribbean history, but according to the publisher, "... everything said about Nelson and his frantic search for a wealthy life is based on fact.
His short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony, followed by his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures, was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Row, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.
This type of packaging is popular today and can be seen being used by McFarlane Toys for their Movie Maniacs line of action figures beginning with Series V. Other companies that utilize this type of packaging are NECA / Reel Toys ( National Entertainment Collectibles Association ) with their Cult Classics and Pirates of the Caribbean line of figures, and Toy Biz with its Marvel Legends action figures, which included a comic book placed between the two PVC segments.
* Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics, a 1972 book by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o
* Audio recording of Tariq Ali speaking on his book Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
These modifications garnered criticism from longtime fans and some of the attraction's original Imagineers ; in Jason Surrell's book Pirates of the Caribbean: From The Magic Kingdom to the Movies, showwriter Francis Xavier " X " Atencio referred to these " softening " touches as " Boy Scouts of the Caribbean ".
Jack Sparrow is also the subject of a children's book series, Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow, which chronicles his teenage years and the character has also appeared in numerous video games.
Rob Kidd wrote an ongoing book series entitled Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow, following a teenage Sparrow and his crew on the Barnacle as they battle sirens, mermaids and adult pirates while looking for various treasures.
* Samuel Bellamy is the main subject of two non-fiction books, " The Pirate Prince " and " Expedition Whydah ," by explorer Barry Clifpraised, and a non-fiction book, " The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down ," by Colin Woodard, published by Harvest Book / Harcourt, Orlando FL, 2007.
He was an expert in Caribbean birds and wrote the definitive book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies, first published in 1936.
These riots, which started on October 16, 1968, are now known as the Rodney Riots, and they triggered an increase in political awareness across the Caribbean, especially among the Afrocentric Rastafarian sector of Jamaica, documented in his book, The Groundings With My Brothers.
The book is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of the infinite power held by the archetypical Caribbean tyrant.
His MA thesis in ethnomusicology, Music in The Bahamas: its Roots, Rhyme and Personality, studied the development of Bahamian music from the slave era to the 20th century, and one chapter of that thesis was expanded into the book Junkanoo: Festival of The Bahamas ( Macmillan Caribbean 1992, ISBN 0-333-55469-8 ).
She is also the editor and expander of her father's book on the festival: E. Clement Bethel ; Junkanoo: Festival of The Bahamas ( Macmillan Caribbean 1992, ISBN 0-333-55469-8 ).
The book is a children's story about a boy's Caribbean adventure with his grandfather, reworded from the original folk lyric of the song " Sloop John B ".
It is explained in the book Liberties Lost: Caribbean Indigenous Societies and Slave Systems ( 2004 ), " The most popular view now is that the Ciboney were from pre-farming cultures that entered the Antilles from South America, not as one ethnic group, but as waves of different migrants over a very long period of time.
In 1788, Isert published his famous book Reise nach Guinea und den Caribäischen Inseln in Columbia ( Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia ), wherein he described his experiences with, and his views on, the slave trade.
In the book Finding a Place, author, journalist, editor, journalist and academic, Kris Rampersad challenges and rejects the notion of East Indians to describe people in Indian heritage in the Caribbean and traces their migration and adaptation from hypenated isolation inherent in the description Indo-Trinidadian or Indo-Caribbean for the unhypehnated integration into their societies as IndoTrinidadian and IndoCaribbean that embraces both their ancestral and their national identities.
In the book Latin America and the Caribbean, historian Olwyn Blouet and political geographer Brian Blouet describe the development of vineyards in early Colonial Peru and how " in the second half of the sixteenth century " a market for the liquor formed owing to the demand from growing mining settlements in the Andes.
First published in 1989, the book traces Bolívar's final journey from Bogotá to the Caribbean coastline of Colombia in his attempt to leave South America for exile in Europe.
The award will allow a Caribbean writer living in the Anglphone region and writing in English, and who has not yet published a full-length book, to devote time to advancing a work in progress.
* Caribbean Contact Article " Rasta, Christ and Marx " ( 1978 ) by Joseph Owens briefly presenting the themes in his Rastafari book
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