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  • Oceanic Japan

    The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History

    par Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, David R. Armitage, Gregory Clancey, Bathsheba Demuth, Alexis Dudden, Martin Dusinberre0, Kjell Ericson1, Gerald Figal2, Toshihiro Higuchi3, David L. Howell4, Julia Markio Jacoby5, Jakobina Arch6, Ryan Tucker Jones7, Paul Kreitman8, Manako Ogawa9, Katherine Matsuura0, Jonas M. Rüegg1, Hannah Shepherd2, Satsuki Takahashi3, Takehiro Watanabe4, Kären Wigen5, Marcia Yonemoto6, Brett L. Walker7, Mary Carmel Finley8, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu9, Sujit Sivasundaram0 ...
    Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds with the importance of the sea. This ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Civilization and Monsters

    Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan

    par Gerald Figal ...
    Collections series Asia-Pacific
    Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal asserts that discourse ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Beachheads

    War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa

    par Gerald Figal ...
    Collections series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This original and fresh book explores Okinawa’s makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War’s most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious current political affairs has reshaped itself into a resort ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

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  • Cartographic Japan

    A History in Maps

    Modifié par Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Cary Karacas ...
    This "deeply rewarding compilation of maps" offers a gorgeously illustrated tour through the evolution of Japan from the Edo Period to the Digital Age ( Los Angeles Review of Books).Japanese society underwent a cartographic renaissance in the late sixteenth century that would eventually turn maps and mapmaking into a central part of daily life. Since that time, the nation's society and landscape ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Footprints in Paradise

    Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa

    par Andrea E. Murray ...
    Collections Livre 40 - New Directions in Anthropology
    The economic imperative of sustainable tourism development frequently shapes life on small subtropical islands. In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores the transformation in community and sense of place as Okinawans come to view themselves ... En savoir plus

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  • Japan Copes with Calamity

    Modifié par Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, David H. Slater ...
    Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an update on the affected communities, this volume brings together studies by experienced researchers of Japan from field sites ... En savoir plus

    $45.79 CAD

  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    par Amitav Ghosh ...
    Collections series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • On Time and Water

    par Andri Snaer Magnason ...
    Traduit par Lytton Smith ...
    Collections Livre 34 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    **“Eco-lit needs more attention, and devotees will be pleased to discover a new addition from the Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason, who writes with a Seussian mix of wonder, wit and gravitas ... immensely satisfying.”—**New York TimesLonglisted for the 2022 National Translation Award • Finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize • A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021Asked by a ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Arctic

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Klaus Dodds, Jamie Woodward ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. For communities that call the Arctic 'home' this is unwelcome. A warming Arctic brings with it the spectre of costly disruption and interference in indigenous lives and communal welfare. For others, the ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Captain Paul Watson

    Interview With a Pirate

    par Lamya Essemlali, Paul Watson ...
    The behind-the-scenes true story of Paul Watson, the world's most famous eco-pirate and marine animal rights activist.Paul Watson became an animal rights activist at the young age of eleven, in 1962. When trappers killed a beaver that Paul had befriended, he systematically and efficiently located and destroyed their traps. This was the beginning of fifty years of animal rights activism. Among the ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • When Half Is Whole

    Multiethnic Asian American Identities

    par Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu ...
    Collections series Asian America
    "I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making my mark, leaving something behind . . . not that I'm planning on going anywhere right now."So explains ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Tigers of the World

    The Science, Politics and Conservation of Panthera tigris

    Modifié par Ronald Tilson, Philip J. Nyhus ...
    Collections series Noyes Series in Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
    Tigers of the World, Second Edition explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and the science and technology that make this possible. In 1988, when the first edition was published, tiger conservation was still in its infancy, and two decades later there has been a revolution not only in what is known, but how information about tigers is obtained and disseminated. In the fast ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD