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“ryan moran”

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  • Getting into University: How to Complete your UCAS Application 2027 Entry

    Create a standout UCAS application and secure your university place

    by Ryan Moran, UCAS ...
    Win your place at university with an outstanding UCAS application.Every year, students are rejected from their first-choice university simply because they have submitted a UCAS application that fails to make the right impression on admissions tutors.Written in association with UCAS, this annually updated guide has been helping students stay off the reject pile for over 30 years. Packed with ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

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  • Selling the Future

    Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance

    by Ryan Moran ...
    In Selling the Future**, Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives.** Covering the years from the start of the industry in 1881 through the end of World War II, Moran describes insurance companies and government officials working together to create a picture of the future as precarious and ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Getting into University: Business and Economics Courses

    Create a standout UCAS application and secure your university place

    by Ryan Moran ...
    The ultimate guide to securing your place at university to study business or finance.Now in its 16th edition, Getting into Business & Economics Courses is packed with detailed advice and up-to-date information to guide you through the decision-making process and help you prepare a strong university application.This practical and comprehensive book will lead you through every stage of the process, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Japanese Mind

    Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

    by Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno ...
    In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an insightful guide to understanding the unique aspects of Japanese culture.Readers of this book will develop a comprehensive grasp of Japanese society and the core values that remain at its foundation.Among the topics explored are:aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others' benevolence), and amakudari (the nation's descent from heave... ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • A Short History of Japan

    From samurai to Sony

    by Curtis Andressen ...
    New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a comprehensive, readable history of the land of the Rising Sun, from its ancient origins to its fascinating present.Japan is a country of contradictions and extremes. It is a country of age-old practices and cutting edge technology, strong martial traditions and refined artistic accomplishments. Few countries have been the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tumultuous Decade

    Empire, Society, and Diplomacy in 1930s Japan

    by Tosh Minohara, Masato Kimura ...
    Series series Japan and Global Society
    The 1930s was a dark period in international affairs. The Great Depression affected the economic and social circumstances of the world’s major powers, contributing to armed conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. This volume focuses exclusively on Japan, which witnessed a flurry of progressive activities in this period, activities which served both domestic and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Japan's China Policy

    A Relational Power Analysis

    by Linus Hagström ...
    Series series European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series
    Japan's China Policy understands Japan's foreign policy in terms of power - one of the most central concepts of political analysis. It contributes a fresh understanding to the subject by developing relational power as an analytical framework and by applying it to significant issues in Japan's China policy: the negotiations for a bilateral investment protection treaty and the disputed Pinnacle ... Read more

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  • Transforming Japan

    How Feminism and Diversity Are Making a Difference

    Edited by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow ...
    A volume of essays by Japan's leading female scholars and activists exploring their country's recent progressive cultural shift.When the feminist movement finally arrived in Japan in the 1990s, no one could have foreseen the wide-ranging changes it would bring to the country. Nearly every aspect of contemporary life has been impacted, from marital status to workplace equality, education, politics, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Securing Japan

    Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia

    by Richard J. Samuels ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded strategic review in Tokyo just as these matters have in Washington. What is the next step for Japan's ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • A History of Japan

    From Stone Age to Superpower

    by K. Henshall ...
    In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan's progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower. A key factor is a pragmatic determination to succeed. Little-known facts are also brought to light, and the latest findings used. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Labour Contracts and Labour Relations in Early Modern Central Japan

    by Mary Louise Nagata ...
    Series series Changing Labour Relations in Asia
    Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in the commercial enterprises of Tokugawa Japan. The urban focus is Kyoto, the cultural capital and smallest of the three great cities of the Tokugawa period, but the data comes from a wider region of commercial and castle towns and rural villages ... Read more

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  • Contested Governance in Japan

    Sites and Issues

    Edited by Glenn D. Hook ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes ... Read more

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