In "Nightwork", Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen who came there on company expense accounts. Her ...
From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese 'cool' is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to ...
This study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes - or obentos - that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons.
This long established best-selling text meets the needs of a wide range of health care professionals including nurses, nursing students, students of allied health professions and complementary therapies, paramedics and ambulance technicians. The purpose of the book is reflected in its title," Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness". The text ...
A stellar trio of authors provides the first complete guide to rearing African-American children, from infancy through the preschool years, featuring the latest information on health care, cultural issues, and child development. Photos & illustrations.
Anne Conway was an extraordinary figure in a remarkable age. Her mastery of the intricate doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah, her authorship of a treatise criticising the philosophy of Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza, and her scandalous conversion to the despised sect of Quakers indicate a strength of character and independence of mind wholly ...
This popular workbook is based on the best-selling text "Ross and Wilson: Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness 10/e", a favourite with an array of students including nurses, nursing students, students of the professions allied to medicine, paramedics, ambulance technicians and complementary therapists whose course includes study of anatomy ...
Get the strategic insights and tools you need to make your next advertising or marketing communications program more productive and profitable. Eight concise chapters, updated to include the newest approaches, show you how to: -- Understand your customer better -- Integrate promotion and communications strategies into an effective marketing plan ...
The central place of "text" as a means of organising language in order to construct what people come to think of as "knowledge" is a phenomenon affecting all educators, students, and citizens of modern societies. This volume offers various voices and perspectives including that of Ron Carter and Michael Halliday on the role of text in education ...
Anne Conway was an extraordinary figure in a remarkable age. Her mastery of the intricate doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah, her authorship of a treatise criticising the philosophy of Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza, and her scandalous conversion to the despised sect of Quakers indicate a strength of character and independence of mind wholly ...
Citing examples of bodies, clothed and unclothed, situated in scenes of nurturance, duplicity and violation, this book examines multiple images and understandings of gender and sexuality from television, comic books and other mass media in Japan. These examples include sexually-explicit scenes of rape and brutality mass-marketed in comic books for ...
This book is based on the same layout and artwork of the best-selling main textbook, "Ross and Wilson - Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness Ninth Edition" a favourite with an array of students including nurses, nursing students, students of the professions allied to medicine, paramedics, ambulance technicians and complementary therapists ...
A student demands to know what authority you have to judge his writing.Another student sits in your office reading her essay aloud and crying.What you hoped would be a stimulating classroom discussion falls flat.
Shows how traditional rhymes can be used to stimulate a wealth of activities and investigations for children aged four to seven. The book provides quick and easy ideas for the busy teacher and enjoyable experiences for the child.
Description: Fair. Nd (circa 1855). Hardcover. 3-1/2" x 5-1/2". Fair, bound in marbled boards with cloth spine. Boards are worn around edges, 1/2" chip to spine foot, foxing to pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gramercy Publishing Co.
Date Published: 1950
Description: Very Good in Fair jacket. 1st edition, vintage Romance. Book in VG, dustjacket fair with major tears across front/spine. However, dj still attached. Two girls find adventure and love on a trip from their humdrum lives when they visit Buenos Aires. They find themselves in adventures more thrilling than their wildest dreams. read more
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