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  • Precarious Japan

    by Anne Allison ...
    In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Permitted And Prohibited Desires

    Mothers, Comics, And Censorship In Japan

    by Anne Allison ...
    Desire is both of and beyond the everyday. In an ad for running shoes, for example, the figure of a man jogging at dawn on the Serengeti Plain both evokes a fantasyof escape and invokes a disciplinary norm to stay fit. The bottom line for thead, of course, is to create a desire to consume, the promise being that with thepurchase of these shoes, the consumer can realize yet also transcend the daily ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Nightwork

    Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

    by Anne Allison ...
    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 book critically examines how such establishments create ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Being Dead Otherwise

    by Anne Allison ...
    With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many dead are no longer buried in traditional ancestral graves where descendants would tend their spirits, and individuals are increasingly taking on mortuary preparation for themselves. In Being Dead Otherwise Anne Allison examines the emergence of new ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • The Adventures of Dragons Den

    by Ann Allison ...
    Dragons Den is a wonderful home where dragons can come to play. There are lots of dragons at Dragons Den and some even come to stay. They wear a disguise so they can blend in Hoping no one will notice their beautiful green skin. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Millennial Monsters

    Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

    by Anne Allison ...
    Series Book 13 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
    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 Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Our Mob Served

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories of War and Defending Australia

    Edited by Allison Cadzow, Mary Anne Jebb ...
    Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander war time and defence service, told through the vivid oral histories and treasured family images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.This unique book shares lively and compelling stories of war, defence service and the impact on individuals, families and communities, sometimes for the ... Read more

    $26.19 USD

  • New Media, Communication, and Society

    A Fast, Straightforward Examination of Key Topics

    by Mary Ann Allison, Cheryl A. Casey ...
    New Media, Communication, and Society is a fast, straightforward examination of key topics which will be useful and engaging for both students and professors. It connects students to wide-ranging resources and challenges them to develop their own opinions. Moreover, it encourages students to develop media literacy so they can speak up and make a difference in the world. Short chapters with lots of ... Read more

    $50.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Swamp Angel

    by Anne Isaacs ...
    Narrated by Allison Moorer ...

    Unabridged

    11 min

    "This delightful production deserves a place in all tale tale collections." - School Library JournalSwamp Angel can lasso a tornado, and drink an entire lake dry. She single-handedly defeats the fearsome bear known as Thundering Tarnation, wrestling him from the top of the Great Smoky Mountains to the bottom of a deep lake. A humorous, original tall tale set on the American frontier. ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Ross & Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness - E-Book

    Ross & Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness - E-Book

    by Anne Waugh, Allison Grant ...
    Now in its fourteenth edition, this best-selling textbook has been honed over many years to provide a clear, straightforward introduction to the human body for students of nursing, allied health or biomedical and paramedical science.The book covers the core essentials of anatomy and physiology, including basic pathology and pathophysiology of important diseases and disorders. This new edition ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Japan

    The Precarious Future

    Edited by Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison ...
    Series Book 1 - Possible Futures
    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 caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Pikachu s Global Adventure

    The Rise and Fall of Pokémon

    by David Buckingham, Julian Sefton-Green, Anne Allison, Koichi Iwabuchi ...
    Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including comic books, a TV show, movies, trading cards, stickers, toys, and clothing. Pokémon eventually became ... Read more

    $25.19 USD