wyszukanych pozycji: 17
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Airborne Dreams: "nisei" Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
ISBN: 9780822348504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well. Based in Honolulu, these women were informally known as Pan Am s Nisei second-generation Japanese Americans even though not all of them were Japanese American or second-generation. They were ostensibly hired for their Japanese-language skills, but few spoke Japanese fluently. This absorbing account of Pan Am s Nisei stewardess program suggests that the Japanese American (and later other Asian and Asian American)...
In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its roun...
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120,90 |
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Airborne Dreams: "Nisei" Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
ISBN: 9780822348368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well. Based in Honolulu, these women were informally known as Pan Am s Nisei second-generation Japanese Americans even though not all of them were Japanese American or second-generation. They were ostensibly hired for their Japanese-language skills, but few spoke Japanese fluently. This absorbing account of Pan Am s Nisei stewardess program suggests that the Japanese American (and later other Asian and Asian American)...
In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its roun...
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454,77 |
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Crowning the Nice Girl: Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawai'i's Cherry Blossom Festival
ISBN: 9780824830595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953 members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce and their wives created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival (CBF) Queen Pageant, which quickly became an annual spectacle for the growing urban population of Honolulu. Crowning the Nice Girl analyzes the pageant through its decades of development to the present within multiple frameworks of gender, class, and race/ethnicity. Drawing on extensive archival research; interviews with CBF queens,... After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953 members of the H... |
cena:
101,55 |
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Crowning the Nice Girl: Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawai'i's Cherry Blossom Festival
ISBN: 9780824830076 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953 members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce and their wives created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival (CBF) Queen Pageant, which quickly became an annual spectacle for the growing urban population of Honolulu. Crowning the Nice Girl analyzes the pageant through its decades of development to the present within multiple frameworks of gender, class, and race/ethnicity. Drawing on extensive archival research; interviews with CBF queens,... After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953 members of the H... |
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232,22 |
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Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific
ISBN: 9780822353515 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization the spread of goods and images labeled cute (kawaii) from Japan to other parts of the industrial world. The concept of pink globalization connects the expansion of Japanese companies to overseas markets, the enhanced distribution of Japanese products, and the rise of Japan's national cool as suggested by the spread of manga and anime. Yano...
In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues tha...
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435,41 |
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Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities
ISBN: 9780824881481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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120,90 |
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Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song
ISBN: 9780674012769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese), and to older members of the Japanese public this music evokes a direct connection to the traditional roots of Japaneseness.
Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese), and to older members of the Japanese public thi...
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106,69 |
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Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific
ISBN: 9780822353638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization the spread of goods and images labeled cute (kawaii) from Japan to other parts of the industrial world. The concept of pink globalization connects the expansion of Japanese companies to overseas markets, the enhanced distribution of Japanese products, and the rise of Japan's national cool as suggested by the spread of manga and anime. Yano...
In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues tha...
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111,23 |
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Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Hawai'i, Asia, and the Pacific
ISBN: 9780824873769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This volume attempts to position music as at once ritual and entertainment, esoteric and exoteric, tradition and creativity, within the cultural geographies of Hawai`i, Asia, and the Pacific. In doing so, it situates music at the very core of global human endeavours.
This volume attempts to position music as at once ritual and entertainment, esoteric and exoteric, tradition and creativity, within the cultural geogr...
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324,14 |
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Straight A's: Asian American College Students in Their Own Words
ISBN: 9781478000105 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Straight A's features personal narratives of Asian American undergraduate students at Harvard University in which they reflect on their shared experiences with discrimination, stereotypes, immigrant communities, their relationship to their Asian heritage, and the difficulties that come with being expected to reach high levels of achievement.
Straight A's features personal narratives of Asian American undergraduate students at Harvard University in which they reflect on their shared experie...
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512,82 |
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Straight A's: Asian American College Students in Their Own Words
ISBN: 9781478000242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Straight A's features personal narratives of Asian American undergraduate students at Harvard University in which they reflect on their shared experiences with discrimination, stereotypes, immigrant communities, their relationship to their Asian heritage, and the difficulties that come with being expected to reach high levels of achievement.
Straight A's features personal narratives of Asian American undergraduate students at Harvard University in which they reflect on their shared experie...
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120,90 |
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Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Hawai'i, Asia, and the Pacific
ISBN: 9780824892555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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106,39 |
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Branding Japanese Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku
ISBN: 9780824889722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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116,06 |
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Branding Japanese Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku
ISBN: 9780824881221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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324,14 |
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Food and Power in Hawai'i: Visions of Food Democracy
ISBN: 9780824876784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Discusses new ways of looking at food policy and practices in terms of social justice and sustainability. Each of the nine essays describes Hawai`i's foodscapes and collectively makes the case that food is a focal point for public policy making, social activism, and cultural mobilization. With its rich case studies, the volume aims to further debate on the agrofood system.
Discusses new ways of looking at food policy and practices in terms of social justice and sustainability. Each of the nine essays describes Hawai`i's ...
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106,39 |
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Hawai'i Regional Cuisine: The Food Movement That Changed the Way Hawai'i Eats
ISBN: 9780824877453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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275,76 |
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Hawai'i Regional Cuisine: The Food Movement That Changed the Way Hawai'i Eats
ISBN: 9780824879723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
77,35 |