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Exporting Japan examines the domestic origins of the Japanese government's policies to promote the emigration of approximately three hundred thousand native Japanese citizens to Latin America between the 1890s and the 1960s. This imperialist policy,...

This title was first published in 2001: Focusing on human resource management practices in the multinational multi-service providers, this text presents some complex academic research in an accessible form. This book collates and reviews, in a manner...

This edited collection seeks to enrich the dialogue about the expansive possibilities of visual sociological research facilitation. Although facilitating ethical research has long been identified within medical research literatures, there is a dearth of...

This book examines the origins and basic concepts of sociology in China and traces the discipline's evolutionary trajectory. Building on the premise that qunxue, which goes back to Xunzi, is essentially the Chinese antecedent of modern/Western sociology,...

This book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process. The book dynamically describes a recent sociotechnical study of a number of energy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780356167Author Wayne ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 5mm

Even seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the commemorative cultures surrounding the War and the Holocaust in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe are anything but fixed. The fierce debates on how to deal with the past among the newly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784562663Author Suzanne Perrin & Jeremy HoareFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

This title was first published in 2000. Most of the papers in this volume were given at a day conference held at Heythrop College, aimed at discussing challenging women's orthodoxies in the context of faith. The book acts as an indication that gender...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783849167714Author W H PeelFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Tredition GmbhPublisher Tredition GmbhWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

In the millennial transition the prefix 'post' had come to signify more and more not just the realisation of a 'coming after' but also of the impossibility of not seeing the present as still very much working through the wounds of the past. Yet with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788197223198Author Vamsee JuluriPage Count 268Imprint BluOne InkPublisher BluOne Ink

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039105168Author Ezequiel AdamovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 500g

Why are people in some countries much more satisfied with their lives than people in others? In fact, the national mean life satisfaction scores of 72 countries in this study range from 3.7 to 8.5 on a 10 point scale. This book examines the importance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765717646Author James JakubowFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S...

This book has won the "O.L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award" 2015 from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum (AATC) Curriculum as Spaces: Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place can be viewed as a holistic approach to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798211832145Author G K ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798211389144Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433962409Author Rafael RojasFormat PaperbackPage Count 505Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 143mm * 27mm

This book reviews the presentation of conjugal relationships in Chinese culture and their perception in the West. It explores the ways in which the act of marriage is represented/misrepresented in different literary genres, as well as in cultural...

This title was first published in 2000. In this multidisciplinary volume, contributors critically assess the different measures designed and implemented by western European democratic governments since the late 1960s in order to counter the challenge of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986876962Author Suzanne HanchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Deelopment Resources PressPublisher Deelopment Resources PressWeight(grams)...

Rediscovering Kurdistan's Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket offers insight into little-known aspects of the social and cultural activity and changes taking place in different parts of Kurdistan (Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran), linking...

Women workers and the revolutionary origins of the modern welfare state In May 1790, the French National Assembly created spinning workshops (ateliers de filature) for thousands of unemployed women in Paris. These ateliers disclose new aspects of the...

This study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolf's now-canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification. It argues that, in their work during and after the...

This title was first published in 2001: An edited collection of essays from experts in the field of quality assurance in higher education. Each contributor provides a summary of recent developments in the respective countries centred on specific themes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784563561Author Tru RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786256629141Author Sigmund FreudFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 524gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

This book investigates the relationship between the dominant ideologies of British public life in the second half of the twentieth century and the quality of the social housing built during this period. The author compares award-winning housing projects...

This book is the first to focus on the role of European television crime drama on the international market. As a genre, the television crime drama has enjoyed a long and successful career, routinely serving as a prism from which to observe the local,...

This title was first published in 2002: Pamela Hammons' study contributes to the booming field of early modern women writers by contextualizing and analyzing a unique configuration of underexamined women's texts. By examining how 17th-century English...

This title was first published in 2002: This volume explores conceptual debates and provides contemporary research in the field of informal criminal justice, including chapters on paramilitary "punishment" and post-cease-fire restorative justice schemes...

This title was first published in 2002: What is the relationship between religion and politics? How are they associated in the developing world? When does the interface between them result in violence? This volume attempts to answer these questions. In...

This title was first published in 2000: Souvenirs, broadly conceived, are generally thought to be the material counterpart of travels, events, relationships and memories of all kinds. The material items classed as souvenirs discussed in this text have...

This book describes the main characteristics that define the emotion of fear, its dimensions, functions, types, and social and individual meanings. It also shows that fear represents a desire to eliminate the Other and that horror films have their origin...

This was first published in 2000: Drawing on a variety of research, including two surveys of councillors undertaken in Scotland, England and Wales, qualitative interviews and the re-analysis of existing data, this book aims to contribute towards...

This title was first published in 2001. This volume of essays studies the problem of transition in economics from a historical perspective. It uses historical ideas and theories in a modern context to examine economic thought. It aims to show that social...

This title was first published in 2000: An examination of the way in which post-communist political actors have persisted in exploiting, controlling and manipulating the media, in spite of rhetorical commitments to freer and more independent media.Book...

This title was first published in 2002. This study, undertaken with the support of the Ford Foundation under the scientific leadership of Khadija Mohsen-Finan, Remy Leveau and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden considers the new forms of citizenship and identity...

This title was first published in 2000: Many works published on the topic of negotiating have dealt with techniques of and preparation for negotiation from a psychological standpoint, but this book contends that in the commercial world, hard commercial...