Modern Girls on the Go. Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, Paperback - ***

This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan-including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses...

A tongue-in-cheek book with some seriously good advice for women with any form of anxiety who are considering travelPublisher: Explore AustraliaAut...

Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green-a former Bell ...

Addresses the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. This book shows how, as technology changed from a manual proce...

Reducere. Why aren't more women at the top of the ivory tower?The academy claims to be a meritocracy, in which the best and brightest graduate students gain ...

Reducere. Lively little girls, a fanciful train, and one charming camel conductor make their way through the first picture book ever to specifically address ...

Reducere. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist. Jake Adelstein is the only Amer...

While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Bront 's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nea...

This collection of essays by leading American historians explains how and why the fight against unionism has long been central to the meaning of co...

Gabriella Lukacs traces how young Japanese women's unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, "girly" photographers, online traders, and cell phone novel...

"The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age was first published in a different form in the original Portuguese as Arquitetura na e...

This ambitious volume delves into the fraught nexus of mobility and work, drawing timely and far-reaching conclusions.Publisher: Haymarket BooksNum...

Reducere. Vasilii Golovnin (1776-1818) was already a celebrity when, in the spring of 1811, twenty years into his career in the Russian Imperial navy, he was...

Reducere. Contributing to the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of contracts in Japan covers ever...

This fascinating book-part ethnography, part memoir-traces Japan's vibrant caf society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan'...

Providing an overview of Japanese media theory from the 1910s to the present, this volume introduces English-language readers to Japan's rich body ...

This interdisciplinary edited collection draws early modern art and material culture into the discussion of the "oceanic turn" in cultural studies,...

This book synthesises current theory and research on L2 motivation in the EFL Japanese context covering topics such as the issues of cultural ident...

Reducere. A Diplomat In Japan: The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, record...

Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand the contradictions that defin...

Reducere. Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music c...

Looking at Japanese gardens will quickly reveal that they cannot be viewed as isolated from other art forms or social processes. Concepts of variou...

Reducere. "You see, Japan does not actually rest atop an infinite pile of turtles, but on the back of a giant carp . . ."In his mid-thirties, Australian free...

A young girl traces her mother's steps all the way from London to Japan to search for the father she never knew.

Mobility in the research on the Black Sea region - Victor Cojocaru

Reducere. ​Chapter 1 - Always On VPN Overviewo This chapter will introduce Always On VPN as a technology and cover the concepts and underlying technologies u...

How do teachers, who have chosen to settle down in one country, manage the difficulties of living and teaching English in that country? This book a...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Brooke Erin DuffyNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 140 x 30Cover type: Paperba...

This volume will expand the inquiry of tourism mobilities comprehensively and clearly in the fields of the humanities and social sciences.Publisher...

This book explores censorship, particularly film and video censorship, in Japan in modern times. It shows how most censorship has been the film and...

Description100 Japanese Gardens is an ambitious attempt to profile the finest gardens in Japan, while also highlighting lesser known, but equally a...

Analyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferenc...

Reducere. In present-day Japan, Ainu women create spaces of cultural vitalization in which they can move between "being Ainu" through their natal and affinal...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women's mobility, social relations, identities, and the power st...

Andie dreams of being an artist. Her best paintings are inspired by the moon, and she's excited to watch the first moon landing. She loves staying ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dr Greg StoryIllustrator: Tim WilkinsonAre you selling to Japanese buyers? Do you want to be more successful? To sell to Ja...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a substantial revision and update of "Hachi: The Truth of the Life and Legend of the Most Famous Dog in Japan" (2013), and ...

Reducere. Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011, Japan has seen a significant revival in its s...

In this last two decades, Japan has experienced slow economic growth, changed employment practices, population decline, an aging society, and an in...

DescriptionThe Business of Beauty is a unique exploration of the history of beauty, consumption, and business in Victorian and Edwardian London. Il...

Description"An invaluable resource for both new and veteran allies...obvious and necessary" (Library Journal, starred review) information for every...

Patrick Galbraith examines Japanese "otaku, " their relationships with fictional girl characters, the Japanese public's interpretations of them as ...

Reducere. Sherlock Holmes fans know about the "missing years" - the time when Holmes traveled in Asia after his epic battle with Professor Moriarity. Now, th...

DescriptionHistory of Art in Japan is a fully illustrated overview of Japanese art, written by one of Japan's most distinguished art historians. Th...

Reducere. Watsuji's Rinrigaku (literally, the principles that allow us to live in friendly community) has been regarded as the definitive study of Japanese e...

Reducere. In 1959 journalist John Roderick joined the Tokyo bureau of the Associated Press. There, he befriended a Japanese family, the Takishitas. After mus...

If you love the taste of Japanese food and would love to make your own homemade Japanese dishes from the comfort of your own home, you don't have t...