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  • Nightwork

    Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

    by Anne Allison ...
    In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen who came there on company expense accounts. Her book critically examines how such establishments create ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Pikachu s Global Adventure

    The Rise and Fall of Pokémon

    by David Buckingham, Julian Sefton-Green, Anne Allison, Koichi Iwabuchi ...
    Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including comic books, a TV show, movies, trading cards, stickers, toys, and clothing. Pokémon eventually became ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Precarious Japan

    by Anne Allison ...
    In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Being Dead Otherwise

    by Anne Allison ...
    With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many dead are no longer buried in traditional ancestral graves where descendants would tend their spirits, and individuals are increasingly taking on mortuary preparation for themselves. In Being Dead Otherwise Anne Allison examines the emergence of new ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Japan

    The Precarious Future

    Edited by Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison ...
    Series Book 1 - Possible Futures
    On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.99 USD

  • Permitted And Prohibited Desires

    Mothers, Comics, And Censorship In Japan

    by Anne Allison ...
    Desire is both of and beyond the everyday. In an ad for running shoes, for example, the figure of a man jogging at dawn on the Serengeti Plain both evokes a fantasyof escape and invokes a disciplinary norm to stay fit. The bottom line for thead, of course, is to create a desire to consume, the promise being that with thepurchase of these shoes, the consumer can realize yet also transcend the daily ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Augmented Reality of Pokémon Go

    Chronotopes, Moral Panic, and Other Complexities

    by Neriko Musha Doerr, Debra J. Occhi, Anne Allison, Paul Manning, Elle Santry, Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine and author of My Life as Nig ...
    What happens when a group of people see things that others do not and begin acting accordingly? The Augmented Reality of Pokémon GO: Chronotopes, Moral Panic, and Other Complexities explores this question by examining what happened after Pokémon GO, a smartphone augmented reality game, was released in July, 2016. The game overlaid the world of Pokémon onto the “real” physical world, drawing 30 ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Millennial Monsters

    Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

    by Anne Allison ...
    Series Book 13 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
    From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese “cool” is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1

    From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World

    by Steven L. Kent ...
    Series Book 1 - Ultimate History of Video Games
    The definitive behind-the-scenes history of the dawn of video games and their rise into a multibillion-dollar business“For industry insiders and game players alike, this book is a must-have.”—Mark Turmell, designer for Midway Games and creator of NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, and WrestleManiaWith all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade, volume 1 of The Ultimate History of Video Games ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Complete Pokemon Pokedex

    by Aqua Apps ...
    Need a handy guide for all the Pokemon out there? This guide will help you identify all of 'em WITH pictures! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Big Nate: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    by Lincoln Peirce ...
    Illustrated by Lincoln Peirce ...
    Series Book 1 - Big Nate Comix
    Now an animated series from Paramount + & Nickelodeon!Big Nate, the star of the New York Times bestselling book series, is also the star of his own comic strip! This comic collection includes over 300 black-and-white Big Nate comic strips, and bonus Big Nate activities in the back!Will Nate get away with his master plan? Or will Mrs. Godfrey catch him in the act? Find out what happens next!The ... Read more

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