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  • Beyond the Classroom Walls

    Ethnographic Inquiry as Pedagogy

    par June A. Gordon ...
    This book integrates ethnographic research with teacher education strategies, with the aim of preparing teachers to work with urban and low-income youth in schools and other social service agencies. Through various case studies, Gordon provides insight into how educators in diverse settings can engage students-be they preservice or veteran teachers-in the process of discovering the complexity of ... En savoir plus

    $38.46 CAD

  • Japan's Outcaste Youth

    Education for Liberation

    par June A. Gordon ...
    Japan's attempt to project to the world an image of solid middle-class national identity is challenged by the Burakumin, an outcaste group of indigenous Japanese citizens who have been subjugated for centuries to political, economic, and religious discrimination. In the 1960s the efforts of this group and its supporters led to a 40-year national program of economic aid and educational programs ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • Challenges to Japanese Education

    Economics, Reform, and Human Rights

    In this volume, eight leading Japanese scholars present their research on profound and sensitive issues facing Japanese society, much of which has not been available to the English-speaking world. Traveling from Japan to engage in a unique forum at University of California, they joined eminent Professors Befu, DeVos, and Rohlen to bring over 50 leading scholars up to date on the global challenges ... En savoir plus

    $52.99 CAD

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  • Shutting Out the Sun

    How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation

    Collections series Vintage Departures
    The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Equally as ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • The Wisdom of Sustainability

    Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century

    par Sulak Sivaraksa ...
    The Wisdom of Sustainability continues E. F. Schumacher s groundbreaking work on Buddhist economics in Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Emphasizing small-scale, indigenous, sustainable alternatives to globalization, Sulak offers hope and alternatives for restructuring our economies based on Buddhist principles and personal development. ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Transforming Japan

    How Feminism and Diversity Are Making a Difference

    Modifié par Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow ...
    A volume of essays by Japan's leading female scholars and activists exploring their country's recent progressive cultural shift.When the feminist movement finally arrived in Japan in the 1990s, no one could have foreseen the wide-ranging changes it would bring to the country. Nearly every aspect of contemporary life has been impacted, from marital status to workplace equality, education, politics, ... En savoir plus

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  • Life in the Universe

    For thousands of years, humanity has looked into the night sky and wondered: who is out there?Now you have a chance to travel into that night sky, to go beyond wondering and experience for yourself the reality and spirituality of life beyond our world.Life in the Universe is a window into the living story of our universe; the realities of trade, travel and conflict in space; the birth and death of ... En savoir plus

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  • Healing Labor

    Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy

    par Gabriele Koch ...
    Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy—but whose work remains stigmatized and unmentionable. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese women in Tokyo's sex ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Buddha on Wall Street

    par Vaddhaka Linn ...
    'An original, insightful, and provocative evaluation of our economic situation today. If you wonder about the social implications of Buddhist teachings, this is an essential book.' David Loy, author Money, Sex, War, Karma. 'Lays bare the pernicious consequences of corporate capitalism and draws forth from Buddhism suggestions for creating benign alternatives conducive to true human flourishing.' ... En savoir plus

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  • Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society

    The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant phenomena, institutions, and directions in Japan today, on issues ranging from gender and family, ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

  • Mindfulness in the Marketplace

    Compassionate Responses to Consumerism

    Modifié par Allan Hunt Badiner ...
    Mindfulness in the Marketplace suggests a reorientation of consumers from passive purchasers to aware, responsible citizens who see the dynamic connection between their purchases and their values. The Middle Path of Buddhism is not to avoid all consumption, but to consume mindfully in a manner that protects ourselves and all living systems. This anthology outlines a path of compassionate ... En savoir plus

    $18.39 CAD

  • Making Japanese Citizens

    Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan

    Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD