Precarious Japan, Paperback - Anne Allison

Reducere. In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japan...

Reducere. On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20, 000 people, displaced 600, 000, and c...

In researching this book, the author took on the role of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs". The resulting text critically examines h...

Reducere. Precarious Asia assesses the role of global and domestic factors in shaping precarious work and its outcomes in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia a...

In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision--the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two peo...

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Jean Watkins' second collection, celebrates the diversity of wildlife, landscape, art and human experience.

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...

Reducere. This companion volume teaches the basics of katakana, the script for writing loanwords borrowed from English and other languages. The book introduc...

Reducere. Ruined The 1920s Fleeing a dangerous, untenable situation in England, Eliza Gilbert sails to New York City, where she finds herself in circumstance...

After strong growth in 2017 and early 2018, global economic activity slowed notably in the second half of last year, reflecting a confluence of fac...

Nonfiction. Criticism and Theory. Political Science. An infinite series of bifurcations: this is how we can tell the story of our life, of our love...

Responding to the US's perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...

Providing a radical new approach to labour migration, this book challenges the prevailing legal and political construction of the figure of the irr...

Melissa Brough explores how youth-centered forms of civic and cultural engagement in Medellin, Colombia, create networks of change that have the po...

Reducere. A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a m...

Reducere. My concern in this book, The Precarious Center, is the degree to which Africans have become enamored through Greek, English, French, German, Spanis...

A contemporary interrogation of Marx's masterwork Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 5 bw illusNumber of pages: 272Collection: Methuen Drama EngagePublication date: 2021Dimensions...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Corporal Muse, poet Allison E. Joseph pulls back the curtain on her writing process, searching for (and finding) The Muse in unexpect...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Engaging with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, this ground ...

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Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering At the same time that rig...

The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemp...

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...

Reducere. Upon arrival in Japan, one inevitably undergoes culture shock. The Japanese way of life is so unique that it appears incomprehensible. Foreigners, ...

DescriptionNo strings attached is all Oliver can offer. He's hiding a broken heart that holds him back from diving into a new relationship, but he'...

Doug is a cheese pizza kind of guy. A honeymoon cruise around the Caribbean is the most adventurous thing he's ever done. Going on that honeymoon a...

Unites literature written by members of the far-flung black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels as 'African American', 'black Cana...

DescriptionEasy Japanese Cooking Get your copy of the best and most unique Japanese recipes from BookSumo Press Come take a journey with us into th...

Reducere. When Bailey's new boss turns out to be his childhood bully, a.k.a. Jake the Jerk, it's time to call in backup for the annual corporate retreat in V...

Reducere. The most useful terms and phrases in Japanese--right at your fingertips (no Internet connection required) When you need a word in Japanese, you jus...

Human rights and detente inextricably intertwined during Carter's years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic c...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): David PedullaIllustration(s): 21 b/w illus. 5 tables.Number of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dime...

This book is about the ways in which western spectators are bombarded with 'emergencies' by our press and political institutions. It examines the e...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Josef NguyenIllustration(s): 33 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date...