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  • FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROANALYTICAL ENTOMOLOGY
    ALAN R. OLSEN / THOMAS H. SIDEBOTTOM / SHERRY A. KNIGHT
    This text offers insight into the practical applications of microanalytical entomology in the laboratory and in the field of consumer protection. This is the only guide that gives an overview of the subject from initial analysis of a product to interpreting significance of final results. Complete insect illustrations throughout and an insect fragment identification discussion c...

    $5,100.00

  • THE ARMED FORCES IN CONTEMPORARY ASIAN SOCIETIES
    EDWARD A OLSEN / STEPHEN JURIKA
    First published in 1986. This book integrates current knowledge about the military, political, economic, and cultural roles of the armed forces in sixteen Asian countries, examining the interplay of these factors and their bearing on each society's civil-military relations. The authors explore the history, current status, and potential future course of each country. Analyzing a...

    $1,160.00

  • JAPAN: ECONOMIC GROWTH, RESOURCE SCARCITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS
    EDWARD A. OLSEN
    This study evaluates, from a neo-Malthusian perspective, Japan's current status and its prognosis in the context of the country's economic vulnerabilities. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of Malthus, N. Georgescu-Roegen, H. and M. Sprout, and assorted environmental-ecological doomsayers, the author reaches pessimistic conclusions about Japan's very long term prospects,...

    $1,200.00

  • THE GARLAND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD MUSIC
    DALE A. OLSEN AND DANIEL E. SHEEHY
    The Encyclopedia's coverage ranges from the Bahamas to Tierra del Fuego and from Baja California to Uruguay as it describes the extraordinarily rich and varied music of people from all the countries south of the Rio Grande river. ...

    $14,700.00

  • US NATIONAL DEFENSE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    EDWARD A. OLSEN
    This provocative critique of Washington's current security policies, draws on the arguments made by an array of non-interventionist and conservative-nationalist scholars. It provides a blueprint for a more restrained and unilateral US role in global affairs. ...

    $980.00

  • WOMEN IN MYCENAEAN GREECE
    BARBARA A. OLSEN
    Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece - Pylos on the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete. The book offers a systematic analysis of women’s tasks, holdings...

    $1,800.00

  • POPULAR MUSIC OF VIETNAM
    DALE A. OLSEN
    Based on the author’s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict between the politics of remembering, nurtured by the Vietnamese Communist government, and...

    $1,420.00

  • THE GARLAND HANDBOOK OF LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
    DALE A. OLSEN AND DANIEL E. SHEEHY
    The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Latin America and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this ...

    $2,120.00

  • TRACING THE INDO-EUROPEANS
    BIRGIT A. OLSEN
    Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia con...

    $306.92

  • SYSTEMS ENGINEERING USING SDL-92
    OLSEN, A.
    CCITT (now ITU-T) Specification and Description Language (SDL) and systems engineering (formal and informal) in SDL are considered in this publication. The latest version of the language, SDL-92 [ITU Z.100 SDL-92] is introduced. The book has been written for existing and potential users of SDL - technologists involved in the specification and engineering of systems. It offers e...

    $928.00

  • THE EUROPEAN UNION
    JONATHAN OLSEN / MICHAEL A. HANSEN
    Thoroughly revised, the eighth edition of this accessible and highly respected text provides a rigorous yet digestible introduction to the European Union. It authoritatively explains developments that continue to bring challenges to this powerful institution in times of great political change. Key features include: Clearly covers the history, governing institutions, and policie...

    $1,160.00

  • ROUTE 66, LOST & FOUND
    RUSSELL A. OLSEN
    "[The] text and photos make this . . . more than a pretty coffee-table book, Route 66 aficionados will want to add this descriptive tome to their collections." — Ruidoso News (New Mexico) Much more than a ribbon of crumbling asphalt, Route 66 is a cultural icon revered the world over for its nostalgic value—an east-west artery pointing America toward all the promise that the gr...

    $382.00