Avoidant by Jeb Kinnison

Avoidant by Jeb Kinnison

How did Hawaiian and Polynesian culture come to dramatically alter American music, fashion and decor, as well as ideas about race, in less than a century? It began with mainland hula and musical performances in the late 19th century, rose dramatically as millions shipped to Hawaii during the Pacific War, then made big leap with the advent of low-cost air travel. By the end of the 1950s, mainlanders were hosting tiki parties, listening to exotic music, lazing on rattan furniture in Hawaiian shirts and, of course, surfing. Increasingly, they were marrying people outside of their own racial groups as well. The author describes how this cultural conquest came about and the people and events that led to it.

Jeb Kinnison grew up in the Midwest. He discovered science fiction in second grade, starting with Tom Swift books and quickly moving to Heinlein juveniles and adult science fiction. When he was twelve, he discovered the collection of city telephone books in his local library, pretended he was doing a paper and called Isaac Asimov. They spoke for a long time, and Asimov sent him a postcard encouraging him to write. He studied computer and cognitive science at MIT, and wrote programs modeling the behavior of simulated stock traders and the population dynamics of economic agents. Later he did supercomputer work at a think tank that developed parts of the early Internet (where the engineer who decided on '@' as the separator for email addresses worked down the hall.) Since then, he has had several careers-real estate development, financial advising, and counselling. He retired from financial advising a few years ago and has done some work in energy conservation and relationship issues. He is known for his popular books on attachment types and began writing science fiction with the Substrate Wars series. Visit his web site at JebKinnison.com for more: rail guns, Nazi scientists, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the 1980s AI bubble, and current research in relationships, attachment types, diet, and health. Visit the Substrate Wars website at SubstrateWars.com for more on upcoming books, physics, and the politics of the future.

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ISBN 13	9780991663668
ISBN 10	0991663667
Title	Avoidant
Author	Jeb Kinnison
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Jeb Kinnison
Year published	2014-10-02
Number of pages	228
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