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  • The Global Environmental Crisis

    The Limitations of Scientific Knowledge and the Necessity of Utopian Imagination

    by John Lie ...
    The Global Environmental Crisis presents a new perspective on our inattention and inaction in the face of a major crisis.We cannot proceed without scientific knowledge, but we cannot exclusively rely on it. What we need, in addition to scientific knowledge, is utopian imagination to make us understand the nature of the crisis and to suggest an alternative vision of a viable future.This book is an ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Essentials of Excel VBA, Python, and R

    Volume II: Financial Derivatives, Risk Management and Machine Learning

    by John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Lie-Jane Kao, Cheng-Few Lee ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This advanced textbook for business statistics teaches, statistical analyses and research methods utilizing business case studies and financial data with the applications of Excel VBA, Python and R. Each chapter engages the reader with sample data drawn from individual stocks, stock indices, options, and futures. Now in its second edition, it has been expanded into two volumes, each of which is ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Social Voices

    The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe

    by Jeff Todd Titon, Ruth Hellier, Anthony Seeger, Treva B. Lindsey, Nancy Guy, Carol Muller, Elijah Wald, Andrew Simon, John Lie0, Eric Lott1, Christina D Abreu2, Carol Silverman3, Michael K Bourdaghs4, Kwame Dawes5, Natalie Sarrazin6, Katherine Meizel7 ...
    Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly SillsAround the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Science, Politics And The Pharmaceutical Industry

    Controversy And Bias In Drug Regulation

    by John Abraham, 0 John Abraham University of Reading., ...
    Drug disasters from Thalidomide to Opren, and other less dramatic cases of drug injury, raise questions about whether the testing and control of medicines provides satisfactory protection for the public. In this revealing study, John Abrahan develops a theoretically challenging realist approach, in order to probe deeply into the work of scientists in the pharmaceutical industry and governmental ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Japan, the Sustainable Society

    The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits

    by John Lie ...
    By the late twentieth century, Japan had gained worldwide attention as an economic powerhouse. Having miraculously risen from the ashes of World War II, it was seen by many as a country to be admired if not emulated. But by the early 1990s, that bubble burst in spectacular fashion. The Japanese economic miracle was over. In this book, John Lie argues that in many ways the Japan of today has the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Multiethnic Japan

    by John Lie ...
    Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society.Lie casts light on a wide range of minority groups in modern Japanese society, including the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Blue Dreams

    Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots

    by Nancy Abelmann, John Lie ...
    No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them? Blue Dreams is the first book to make sense of these questions, to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • K-Pop

    Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea

    by John Lie ...
    K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Robotics and automation for improving agriculture

    by Prof John Billingsley, Prof Stefano Carpin, Dr Ken Goldberg, Dr Stavros Vougioukas, Dr Josh Viers, Prof Brian Steward, Dr Jingyao Gai, Dr Lie Tang, Dr Qin Zhang, Dr Manoj Karkee0, Dr Amy Tabb1, Dr Jose Blasco2, Dr María Gyomar González González3, Dr Patricia Chueca4, Dr Sergio Cubero5, Dr Nuria Aleixos6, Prof Ola Lindroos7, Dr Omar Mendoza-Trejo8, Dr Pedro La Hera9, Dr Daniel Ortiz Morales0, Prof Marcia Endres1, Prof Pål Johan From2, Dr Jim Salfer3, Dr Ai-Ping Hu4, Dr Lars Grimstad5, Dr Christopher Wiegman6, Dr Santosh Pitla7, Prof Scott Shearer8, Professor Yael Edan9, Dr Ron Berenstein0 ...
    Series Book 44 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Primary focus on developing fully autonomous robotic systems in agricultureComprehensive review of advances in the key technologies underpinning agricultural roboticsParticularly strong coverage of the applications of agricultural robotics in different aspects of crop management from planting to harvesting ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Two Dreams in One Bed

    Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria

    by Hyun Ok Park, Ph.D. ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Rethinking a key epoch in East Asian history, Hyun Ok Park formulates a new understanding of early-twentieth-century Manchuria. Most studies of the history of modern Manchuria examine the turbulent relations of the Chinese state and imperialist Japan in political, military, and economic terms. Park presents a compelling analysis of the constitutive effects of capitalist expansion on the social ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Japan

    A Reinterpretation

    by Patrick Smith ...
    The Japanese are in the process of re-creating themselves--an endeavor they have undertaken at intervals throughout history, always prompted by a combination of domestic and global forces. In this landmark book, Patrick Smith asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence, the Cold War's end, and the death of Emperor Hirohito--are now spurring Japan once again toward a ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • A History of Popular Culture in Japan

    From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    by Dr. E. Taylor Atkins ...
    A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power, identity and ... Read more

    $28.39 USD