Introducing Japanese Popular Culture (Freedman Alisa)(Paperback)

Introducing Japanese Popular Culture (Freedman Alisa)(Paperback)

Specifically designed for use on a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese

Introducing Japanese Religion (Ellwood Robert)(Paperback)

Now in its Second Edition, 'Introducing Japanese Religion 'is the ideal resource for undergraduate students. This edition features new material on folk and popular religion, including shamanism, festivals, and practices surrounding death and funerals. Robert Ellwood also updates the text to discuss

Introducing Maori Culture (Stafford Don)(Paperback / softback)

Gender and Popular Culture (Milestone Katie)(Paperback)

This fully updated second edition of Gender and Popular Culture examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of cultural forms - including popular music, social media, television and magazines - to illustrate how

Japanese Culture: 4th Pa (Varley Paul)(Paperback)

For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous

Zen and Japanese Culture (Suzuki Daisetz Teitaro)(Paperback)

Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic language, Daisetz Suzuki describes Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture (Schilling Mark)(Paperback)

In the West, Japanese culture comes in the form of Power Rangers, Godzilla movies, and Sanrio products, but of course the indigenous pop culture is much richer. Rather than focus on what the rest of the world has already encountered, Mark Schilling provides an encyclopedic compendium of books,

An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture (Strinati Dominic)(Paperback)

An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture is widely recognized as an immensely useful textbook for students taking courses in the major theories of popular culture. Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture

Advertising and Popular Culture (Fowles Jib)(Paperback)

Advertising has permeated our popular culture as much as any other aspect of the media. This comprehensive text provides a balanced analysis of advertising - as a business practice and as a creator of symbolic environments. The critique reflects current theories on advertising by illustrating how

Everyday Japanese (Ezawa Reiko)(Paperback)

Beginners will find that this complete Japanese language and culture program offers insights into subtle nuances of Japanese as it is used in casual conversations or successful business

The Japanese Art of War: Understanding the Culture of Strategy (Cleary Thomas)(Paperback)

Military rule and the martial tradition of the samurai dominated Japanese culture for more than eight hundred years. According to Thomas Cleary--translator of more than thirty-five classics of Asian philosophy--the Japanese people have been so steeped in the way of the warrior that some of the

Japanese Art (Stanley-Baker Joan)(Paperback)

The uniqueness of Japanese culture rests on the fact that, throughout its history, Japan has continually taken, adapted, and transformed diverse influences--whether from Korea, China, and the South Seas, or Europe and America--into distinct traditions of its own. This book, an authoritative and

Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture (Brown T.)(Paperback)

Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to

Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture (Caputi Jane)(Paperback)

The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons, and archetypes. Together, they take on the patriarchal myth, where serial killers are heroes, where goddesses--in the form of great white

The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture (Davies Roger J.)(Paperback)

In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored: aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others'

Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change (Jenkins Henry)(Paperback)

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions;

A Student's Guide to Culture (Stonestreet John)(Paperback)

The student edition of the popular A Practical Guide to Culture by John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle delivers a hopeful message to readers ages 15-25 who live every day with increasing cultural pressure. These young people struggle to navigate contemporary challenges to their Christian faith and

Japan - Culture Smart!, 114: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart!)(Paperback)

The Japanese people have always seen themselves as a nation uniquely apart. Their exquisite art forms, elegant culture, military prowess, and technological precision have long been the envy of friend and foe alike. Today, even as Japan adapts to a rapidly changing world, its traditional culture and

The Honjin Murders (Yokomizo Seishi)(Paperback)

One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over

The Comedy Studies Reader (Marx Nick)(Paperback)

Winner, MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association, 2020From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for

The Scrum Culture: Introducing Agile Methods in Organizations (Maximini Dominik)(Pevná vazba)

Part I: the Scrum Culture.- Part II: The Theory of Introducing Scrum.- Part III: The Practical Appication of Kotter's Principles.- Part IV: Case Study.- Part V: The Scientific Part of the Scrum Culture.- Part VI: Additional Information

Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Magazine Shaped Gay Popular Culture 1965-1999 (Fritscher Jack)(Paperback)

Monstersaurus! (Freedman Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Children of the Great Depression (Freedman Russell)(Paperback)

As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose