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Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century.The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nightmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, Aki...

The seventh volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The sixth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The fourth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

In the last two decades, object relations theory has crossed the Atlantic and taken America by storm. The enthusiasm among American clinicians for the British School, however, has led to a host of problems related to the need to master a new terminology.

For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the river Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of the peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians.

A superb book. . . . A scintillating, continuously rewarding reflection on authorship and its place in the modern world. This is a study in the great tradition of Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel: both a brilliant work of literary scholarship and an invigorating report on modernity itself."—Terry Castle, author of The Apparitional Lesbian"An exemplary instance of what many have been clamoring for: a rigorous cultural study of literature."—Will...

Easy, intermediate, or challenging---you choose. From start to finish, Nancy J. Martin provides step-by-step instructions and teaching diagrams that eliminate any possibility for confusion. Pick from 21 Scrappy Quilt Plans. Simply Scrappy Quilts shows you how to use your fat quarters, fat eighths, and leftovers!

Rose Rosengard Subotnik is professor in the Department of Music at Brown University.

This book explains the extent to which economic, geopolitical, and human rights considerations influenced U.S. foreign aid during the Reagan and Bush administrations. It is the first study to include domestic determinants of foreign aid in its model. It is also the first study to employ longitudinal, pooled cross-section item-series analyses.

This book discusses public education reform in the United States. The author focuses on the relationship between education and a dynamic culture. He proposes three metaphors which reveal the cultural breaks in the educational system. The metaphors are: mind as muscle, mind as machine, and mind as a technological system.

In this original and compelling exploration of the meaning of the term 'fine' and the phenomenon of refinement, noted scholar Michael Gelven reflects on the relationship between refinement and existence. Beginning with a study of perceptual refinement, Gelven shows how in some cases this refinement discloses an existential essence--as an architect shows us what it means to dwell. Gelven then moves to a refinement of self, not equating it with ...

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Advances in telecommunications are currently involved in the economic, social, cultural, environmental and physical transformation of advanced industrial cities. Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Through its analysis of the links between urban places and electronic spaces, the book provides a pat...

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This is a history of Poland's post-World War II Communist era, that approaches the transition from Communism to democracy through an analysis of Poland's political crises, beginning with the 1956 uprising and culminating in the 1990 collapse of the former Communist regime.

This is the first comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetics. It includes contributions from many of the writers at the forefront of contemporary debate, including Raymond Williams, Roger Scruton and Tony Bennett.

A practical guide for structural engineers on methods of analyzing existing and planned structures subject to earthquake, wind and thermal loads. It combines much practical experience with sound engineering.

Looking at women in the Asian labour market, this book produces some surprising results and dispels some common myths regarding the position of female workers in the region.