wyszukanych pozycji: 15
The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America
ISBN: 9780520089402 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As she describes the youth culture of Japan, Merry White draws comparisons with the interests and activities pursued by teenagers in the United States and the contrasting attitudes of adults in Japan and the U.S. towards adolescence. The result is both engrossing and enlightening.
As she describes the youth culture of Japan, Merry White draws comparisons with the interests and activities pursued by teenagers in the United States...
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148,27 zł |
Coffee Life in Japan: Volume 36
ISBN: 9780520271159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This fascinating book--part ethnography, part memoir--traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and...
This fascinating book--part ethnography, part memoir--traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan'...
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137,29 zł |
Coffee Life in Japan: Volume 36
ISBN: 9780520259331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This fascinating book--part ethnography, part memoir--traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and...
This fascinating book--part ethnography, part memoir--traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan'...
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389,90 zł |
The Cultural Transition: Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan
ISBN: 9780415853620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfilment in widely differing cultures. The contributors examine the concept of the self that underlies the idea of virtue which facilitates learning in Japan, the Confucian-style bonding between generations in Chinese society and the authority of the traditional teacher with the modern Quaranic School. They study phenomena as diverse as...
This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. Contributors focus on three main...
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229,49 zł |
The Japanese Overseas: Can They Go Home Again?
ISBN: 9780691606132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The astonishing success of Japanese corporations throughout the world has transplanted millions of Japanese into foreign lands, but returning families face a crisis--a problematic, sometimes traumatic reunion with an inward-looking culture. Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews, Merry White explores the personal and social consequences of a problem that is fully recognized as a national issue in Japan. She pays particular attention to the plight of the returnee Japanese child--a stranger in his or her own land. "In this knowledgeable and perceptive book, Merry White] describes how... The astonishing success of Japanese corporations throughout the world has transplanted millions of Japanese into foreign lands, but returning famil... |
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164,75 zł |
The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children
ISBN: 9780029338018 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Examines the Japanese commitment to education, discusses the position of teachers and the structure of the school system, and looks at the cultural background of students.
Examines the Japanese commitment to education, discusses the position of teachers and the structure of the school system, and looks at the cultural ba...
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73,32 zł |
Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture
ISBN: 9783034318303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Assembling Japan focuses on Japan s modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation s full engagement with the global system. This process forms a complex field of tensions, full of interesting dynamisms and synergies that can be best understood through the book s methodology: anthropological analysis combined with historical contextualization.
The approaches in this collection are manifold. Some chapters examine the themes of modernity, technology and Japan s global experience though popular culture, from reggae to... Assembling Japan focuses on Japan s modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation ...
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367,82 zł |
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
ISBN: 9780520235052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the past hundred years--the Meiji era and postwar period--to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with families of their eras and even less to do with families today, she finds. She vividly portrays the everyday reality of a range of families: young married couples who experience fleeting togetherness until the first child is born; a family separated by job shifts; a family with a grandmother as...
Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the pas...
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199,80 zł |
Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture
ISBN: 9780520392984 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food. From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to understand food in relation to its natural and cultural histories and the social rules that shape our meals. Wurgaft and White use vivid storytelling to bring food practices to life, weaving stories of Panamanian coffee growers, medieval women...
What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food. From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authe...
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126,96 zł |
Cooking for Crowds
ISBN: 9780691160368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When Cooking for Crowds was first published in 1974, home cooks in America were just waking up to the great foods the rest of the world was eating, from pesto and curries to Ukrainian pork and baklava. Now Merry White's indispensable classic is back in print for a new generation of readers to savor, and her international recipes are as crowd-pleasing as ever--whether you are hosting a large party numbering in the dozens, or a more intimate gathering of family and friends. In this delightful cookbook, White shares all the ingenious tricks she learned as a young Harvard... When Cooking for Crowds was first published in 1974, home cooks in America were just waking up to the great foods the rest of the world was ... |
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164,75 zł |
The Japanese Overseas: Can They Go Home Again?
ISBN: 9780691634951 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The astonishing success of Japanese corporations throughout the world has transplanted millions of Japanese into foreign lands, but returning families face a crisis--a problematic, sometimes traumatic reunion with an inward-looking culture. Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews, Merry White explores the personal and social consequences of a problem that is fully recognized as a national issue in Japan. She pays particular attention to the plight of the returnee Japanese child--a stranger in his or her own land. "In this knowledgeable and perceptive book, Merry White] describes how... The astonishing success of Japanese corporations throughout the world has transplanted millions of Japanese into foreign lands, but returning famil... |
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523,57 zł |
Special Karma: A Zen Novel of Love and Folly
ISBN: 9781453887219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Novice seeker meets frisky Zen master. Danger danger. Find out more and join the conversation at: SpecialKarma.WordPress.com.
Novice seeker meets frisky Zen master. Danger danger. Find out more and join the conversation at: SpecialKarma.WordPress.com.
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49,92 zł |
The Cultural Transition : Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan
ISBN: 9780415588263 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfilment in widely differing cultures.
This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. Contributors focus on three main...
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912,96 zł |
Human Conditions: The Cultural Basis of Educational Developments
ISBN: 9780415790147 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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573,87 zł |
Human Conditions: The Cultural Basis of Educational Developments
ISBN: 9780415790161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1986, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy, based on anthropological and historical inquiry. It reviews the transitions of Western countries, Japan, and the People's Republic of China and in doing so investigates cultural ideas of human potential and how they inform social and economic goals of education. An analysis of the problems and emerging patterns in developing countries reveals how and why the meanings of life for the majority of their populations were still influenced by agrarian cultural models, even...
First published in 1986, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy, based on anthropological...
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166,89 zł |