The Anatomy of Loneliness. Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan, Paperback - Chikako Ozawa-de Silva

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Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence policy.

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A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or...

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Looks at the War of 1812 in part through the lens of today's America. This provocative book asks: What did Americans learn - and not learn - from t...

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