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  • Oceanic Japan

    The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History

    by Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, David R. Armitage, Gregory Clancey, Bathsheba Demuth, Alexis Dudden, Martin Dusinberre0, Kjell Ericson1, Gerald Figal2, Toshihiro Higuchi3, David L. Howell4, Julia Markio Jacoby5, Jakobina Arch6, Ryan Tucker Jones7, Paul Kreitman8, Manako Ogawa9, Katherine Matsuura0, Jonas M. Rüegg1, Hannah Shepherd2, Satsuki Takahashi3, Takehiro Watanabe4, Kären Wigen5, Marcia Yonemoto6, Brett L. Walker7, Mary Carmel Finley8, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu9, Sujit Sivasundaram0 ...
    Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds with the importance of the sea. This ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Civilization and Monsters

    Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan

    by Gerald Figal ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific
    Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal asserts that discourse ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Beachheads

    War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa

    by Gerald Figal ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This original and fresh book explores Okinawa’s makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War’s most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious current political affairs has reshaped itself into a resort ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Cartographic Japan

    A History in Maps

    Edited by Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Cary Karacas ...
    This "deeply rewarding compilation of maps" offers a gorgeously illustrated tour through the evolution of Japan from the Edo Period to the Digital Age ( Los Angeles Review of Books).Japanese society underwent a cartographic renaissance in the late sixteenth century that would eventually turn maps and mapmaking into a central part of daily life. Since that time, the nation's society and landscape ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Footprints in Paradise

    Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa

    by Andrea E. Murray ...
    Series Book 40 - New Directions in Anthropology
    The economic imperative of sustainable tourism development frequently shapes life on small subtropical islands. In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores the transformation in community and sense of place as Okinawans come to view themselves ... Read more

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  • Japan Copes with Calamity

    Edited by Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, David H. Slater ...
    Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an update on the affected communities, this volume brings together studies by experienced researchers of Japan from field sites ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Captain Paul Watson

    Interview With a Pirate

    by Lamya Essemlali, Paul Watson ...
    The behind-the-scenes true story of Paul Watson, the world's most famous eco-pirate and marine animal rights activist.Paul Watson became an animal rights activist at the young age of eleven, in 1962. When trappers killed a beaver that Paul had befriended, he systematically and efficiently located and destroyed their traps. This was the beginning of fifty years of animal rights activism. Among the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Arctic

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Klaus Dodds, Jamie Woodward ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. For communities that call the Arctic 'home' this is unwelcome. A warming Arctic brings with it the spectre of costly disruption and interference in indigenous lives and communal welfare. For others, the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • When Half Is Whole

    Multiethnic Asian American Identities

    by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu ...
    Series series Asian America
    "I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making my mark, leaving something behind . . . not that I'm planning on going anywhere right now."So explains ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Tigers of the World

    The Science, Politics and Conservation of Panthera tigris

    Edited by Ronald Tilson, Philip J. Nyhus ...
    Series series Noyes Series in Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
    Tigers of the World, Second Edition explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and the science and technology that make this possible. In 1988, when the first edition was published, tiger conservation was still in its infancy, and two decades later there has been a revolution not only in what is known, but how information about tigers is obtained and disseminated. In the fast ... Read more

    $96.29 USD

  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest

    Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

    by Jerry K. Jacka ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD