Search Results: Authors starting with I from Masalai Press

U.S. Geological Survey. 1989. Trade paperback. Very good.. 16 p. Includes: maps, bibliography.

Colorado Geological Survey. 2000. Trade paperback. Fine.. 36 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, bibliography.

1947. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. cover wear and discoloration, minor discoloration to outside edges, owner's name inside front cover. 393 p.

Reprint.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 605 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index. . The Religion of the Tempasuk Dusuns of North Borneo, which was first published in 1953, is one of the most important books written about the Dusun of the Tempasuk district, one of the numerous ethnic groups in Sabah (formerly called North Borneo). It is based on the author's fieldwork in the early 20th century and in the pre-and post-World War II periods when he lived amongst these people. The book gives a very comprehensive account of the Dusun's general beliefs, beginning with their creation myth, as well as their ceremonies (agricultural, communal and personal). These are not mere text accounts of what the author witnessed at these ceremonies. More than 50 fascinating photographs of these ceremonies are included in the book, an appendix gives the texts of some of the rites. The third section of the book has 65 folktales of the Tempasuk Dusun, covering a wide variety of themes. Several are creation tales,… Read More

Mandaluyong City, Philippines: FLAME Ministries. 2004. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 163 p. Includes illustrations. . In 1947 Ta'amire Bedouins made an amazing discovery in a cave on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in Palestine. In clay jars were manuscripts and portions of manuscripts. These were what eventually came to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls Unknown to the world however was the discovery in a nearby cave of another scroll, found in a container that could have been an ancient waste basket. The female archaeologist who was consulted about it dismissed it outright and proposed to destroy it. But those who found it held on to it and for many years the scroll was lost to the world as it was passed from one person to another. Until now. Now here it is. Wisdom from the ages (or from the aged). Translated from the ancient language, this book plumbs the depths of the male-female relationship, probes into the female psyche, examines the roots of the age-old conflict… Read More

San Francisco State University. 1985. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 61 p. Includes: diagrams, bibliography. . Master's Thesis

Peavine Publications. 2001. Trade paperback. New.. 680 p. Includes: diagrams, index, bibliography.

Peavine Publications. 1989. Trade paperback. Fine.. 310 p. Includes: diagrams, index, bibliography.

The National Research Institute. 1992. Trade paperback. Very good.. 17 p. Includes: illustrations, bibliography.

[Boroko, Papua New Guinea]: National Research Institute. 1992. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. xiv, 145 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. . "Based on a report to the Highlands Premiers' Council, commissioned by the Highlands Regional Secretariat Inc. " Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]-145).

University of Papua New Guinea Press. 2010. Hard cover. Very good.. 470 p.

Verlag Kessel. 2003. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 194 p. Includes: diagrams, maps, bibliography. . Costa Rica is a country well know for its relatively advanced forest policy, but also fro the rampant deforestation that--during the past decades--has been a major source of national and international concern. This research addresses the issue of why Costa Rica, despite its innovative policy approaches to forest use, still shows only partial achievement of its formal policy goals (forest protection, sustainable logging and reforestation) among private landowners. The theory of the New Institutional Economics is the bedrock on which the analysis is performed and conclusions are drawn. Thus, institutional emergence, path dependence, bargaining power and the relationship between formal and informal institutions are some of the subjects considered. Recent institutional changes in Costa Rican forest sector are closely analyzed. The interests of the Costa Rican government and private… Read More

Tennessee Folklore Society. 1970. Trade paperback. Very good. light cover wear & minor cover discoloration. 30 p. (pp. 53-82) . Contents: The legendary background in Faulkner's work / Boswell; Notes on the surnames of Faulner's characters / Boswell; Folktales in Carleton's "The Three Tasks" / Ibarra; Announcements; Record reviews; Book reviews

Opus Publications. 2018. Hard cover. New in new dust jacket.. 536 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index, bibliography. . Both the North Borneo Railway and the town of Jesselton owe their existence to the ambitions of William Clark Cowie, who was elected to the Court of the British North Borneo Company in 1894, became managing director in 1897 and later elected Chairman shortly before his death in 1910. Appropriately, the first two chapters in this book cover Cowie s early adventures in the Far East and his rise to power in the British North Borneo Company. Cowie s ambitions to build a railway were tantamount to an obsession and this book records how Cowie completely ignored any criticism or advice from his staff in Borneo and ruthlessly removed anybody who stood in his way. The North Borneo Railway and the town of Jesselton have been inextricably linked since their inception in the final years of the 19 Century. Realising that the West Coast terminus of the railway at Weston was totally unsuitable… Read More

Sabah: Opus Publications. 2007. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 199 p., illustrations, bibliography, index. . In the early 20th century, the Silimpopon Coal Mine--the only such mine in Sabah (then known as North Borneo)--operated for more than 25 years in a remote location a few miles upriver from Tawau. Owned by the London-based Cowie Harbour Coal Company, the mine was staffed with European managers and engineers. While some locals were also employed, the majority of the mine labourers were Chinese coolies imported directly from China. At its height the mine housed a community of more than 3000, greater than the population of Tawau at that time. It was a self-contained community, with its own shops, hospital and police as well as the necessary workshops. A railway with Andrew Barclay locomotives provided the only means of transport to the Silimpopon River--for both coal and people. This book provides a detailed look at the Silimpopon Coal Mine. It not only includes many technical… Read More

Lund University. 2019. Trade paperback. Very good.. 312 p. Includes: illustrations, bibliography.

North-Holland Publishing Company. 1962. Trade paperback. Good. ex-library, label on front cover, tear at top of spine, stamps on outside edges, text overprinting on pp. 98-99, 102-103, 106-107, 110-111 (text is legible), stamp on p. 101 margin, stamp & labels on last blank page. 203 p. Includes: diagrams, index, bibliography. In English. Includes 2-page summary in Arabic.

The Institute of East Asian Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. 2001. Trade paperback. Very good.. 139 p., illustrations, maps. . Voices of the Crocker Range Indigenous Communities Sabah is a monograph which attempts to capture the "peoplespeak" dimension of the people-environment relationship of the Sabah Crocker Range society. Whilst the main social actors are those from the KadazanDusun community of Tabunan, voices of the KadazanDusun of Ranua and the Muruts of Tenom are also present. These are "social narratives" of transition of indigenous people and communities caught between tradition and modernity representing a journey of identity in the making. As opposed to the normal anthropological and authored form of "writing culture", the ethnography presented here articulates both centred and decentring voices of authority juxtaposed in differentiated ways in the evolving Sabah society of the Malaysian nation-state. The monograph is based on research conducted as part and parcel of the UNIMAS led… Read More

Pandanus Books. 2004. Illustrated.. Fine.. 380 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. . The Upper Mangrove Creek catchment was an ideal locality in which to undertake field investigation into Aboriginal use of the coastal hinterland. The area, 101 square kilometres in size, is rich in sites that provided significant archaeological evidence of Aboriginal use of the coastal hinterland. The catchment became the focus of major archaeological salvage work in the late 1970s, prior to the construction of the Mangrove Creek Dam. Further research, undertaken by Val Attenbrow, on the total catchment expanded upon the results of earlier work. This monograph describes the later research project and summarises the salvage program results. This evidence is used by the author to explore current research issues relating to the interpretation of the mid-to late-Holocene archaeological record in Australia, particularly quantitative changes relating to population numbers and aspects of human behaviour,… Read More

Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1999. Trade paperback. Fine.. 8 p. Includes illustrations.