Shonen Knife-an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan-cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the band's charming fusion of cuteness with punk rock cool. Tracing histories of food and josei rock in Japan, McCorkle Okazaki outlines the ways Shonen Knife has, over the last forty years, consistently used seemingly straightforward songs about food to comment on gender stereotypes in popular culture.
In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and other monsters, such as Mothra and Gamera, have gained cult status around the world. This book provides a new interpretation of these monsters, or kaiju-ū, and their respective movies. Analyzing Japanese history, society and film, the authors show the ways in which this monster cinema take on environmental and ecological issues--from nuclear power and industrial pollution to biodiversity and climate change.
failure. debuts the work of one of America's brightest, young new writers. Comprised of two novellas and sixteen shorts, this first glimpse of Brooke L. Swenson's work deeply exhibits the personal anxieties and vices of a nation: cowardice, alcoholism, gluttony, fear, jealousy. His characters not only show us the most raw and vulnerable parts of themselves, they force readers to confront quelled feelings of their own. Honestly and sternly written, this collection celebrates small victories over oneself, transcending the meaning of self entirely.
In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and other monsters, such as Mothra and Gamera, have gained cult status around the world. This book provides a new interpretation of these monsters, or kaiju-ū, and their respective movies. Analyzing Japanese history, society and film, the authors show the ways in which this monster cinema take on environmental and ecological issues--from nuclear power and industrial pollution to biodiversity and climate change.
Shonen Knife-an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan-cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the band's charming fusion of cuteness with punk rock cool. Tracing histories of food and josei rock in Japan, McCorkle Okazaki outlines the ways Shonen Knife has, over the last forty years, consistently used seemingly straightforward songs about food to comment on gender stereotypes in popular culture.
His copious correspondence about military and personal matters from the war yields detailed and often unexpected insights into the Confederacy's naval operations."--BOOK JACKET.
Christopher Townsend was walking down the street when he saw a woman that lived in his apartment building crying hysterically. As she walked things fell from her purse. Chris picked up her items one by one intending on giving them back to her. He thought that she really needed someone to talk to and hoped he could help her out. Marissa Sinclair couldn't believe the nerve of some egotistical man butting into her business. She had enough problems to worry about and didn't want to deal with whatever he wanted from her. All she wanted to do was go home and drink herself into a stupor before she ended her misery.
This book should be included in the education curriculum, from the age of 14 and upwards. Youths would get so much more out of reading this than they would the like of The Merchant of Venice or Macbeth. We live in the 21st century, and yet books like this are still not included. Well detailed, it tells a powerful story of teen travel and naivety along the often trod back packing trail through Asia. The characters spring to life as do the events as to how the book begins. Nick Alexander Silk FM radio
Brooke Horvath surveys the literary contributions of a writer known as the voice of America’s dispossessed. Horvath offers an introduction to the life and work of the Chicagoan who wrote about the underclass in the Windy City and beyond, bringing to the fore their humanity and aspirations. Examining Algren’s eleven major works, Horvath sets Algren’s evolution as a writer against the backdrop of the nation’s shifting social, political, and economic landscape.
This issue covers topics central to the management of the patient with a chronic disease by taking a comprehenisve look at: Successful/Innovative Models in Chronic Disease Management, The Patient-Centered Medical Home, Self-Management Education and Support, Major Pharmacologic Issues in Chronic Disease Management, Health Information Technology, Community-Based Partnerships for Improving Chronic Disease Management, and Effective Strategies for Behavioral Change, Diabetes Management, CHF Management, Asthma Management, and Depression Management.
Standing on the kitchen counter is the four-inch figure of Gregory's favorite cartoon character, and two other characters. On TV they are the Blasterz from Space, peace-loving warriors who protect the Earth from the evil Oxymorons. But this isn't TV, and these Blasterz are up to no good. They have their own evil plan for Earth, and unless Gregory can outsmart them and thousands more on the way, it may mean disaster!
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