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  • Japan's Outcaste Youth

    Education for Liberation

    by 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 ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Beyond the Classroom Walls

    Ethnographic Inquiry as Pedagogy

    by 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 ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Challenges to Japanese Education

    Economics, Reform, and Human Rights

    by June A. Gordon, Hidenori Fujita, Takehiko Kariya, Gerald LeTendre ...
    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 ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Color of Teaching

    by June Gordon ...
    One of the major concerns in education at present is how to recruit and attract more teachers from ethnic minorities. In an attempt to move beyond the superficial and simplistic responses as to why these students are not entering teaching this book presents in-depth interviews with over two hundred people from four ethnic groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Convergence

    the meeting place of eight poets

    by Andie Lewenstein, John Wilks, Eilidh Thomas, Anthony Watts, June Wentland, Mick Evans, Rata Gordon, Angela Arnold ...
    Convergence, n, the act or point of converging; the movement of eyes focusing on an object; the meeting place of eight poets.Many forces converge in this anthology, not least the eight finalists from the Earlyworks Press Poetry Collection Competition: Andie Lewenstein, John Wilks, Eilidh Thomas, Anthony Watts, June Wentland, Mick Evans, Rata Gordon and Angela Arnold.Walk through a wood with Andie ... Read more

    $8.04 USD

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    How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation

    by Michael Zielenziger ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

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  • The Wisdom of Sustainability

    Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century

    by 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. ... Read more

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  • Transforming Japan

    How Feminism and Diversity Are Making a Difference

    Edited by 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, ... Read more

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  • Life in the Universe

    by Marshall Vian Summers ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Healing Labor

    Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Buddha on Wall Street

    by 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.' ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society

    Edited by Victoria Bestor, Theodore C. Bestor, Akiko Yamagata ...
    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, ... Read more

    $84.99 USD