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Shutting Out the Sun

How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation

By: Michael Zielenziger

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Shutting Out the Sun

How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation

By: Michael Zielenziger

The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Equally as troubling are the more than one million young men who shut themselves in their rooms, withdrawing from society, and the growing numbers of “parasite singles,” the name given to single women who refuse to leave home, marry, or bear children. In Shutting Out the Sun, Michael Zielenziger argues that Japan’s rigid, tradition-steeped society, its aversion to change, and its distrust of individuality and the expression of self are stifling economic revival, political reform, and social evolution. Giving a human face to the country’s malaise, Zielenziger explains how these constraints have driven intelligent, creative young men to become modern-day hermits. At the same time, young women, better educated than their mothers and earning high salaries, are rejecting the traditional path to marriage and motherhood, preferring to spend their money on luxury goods and travel. Smart, unconventional, and politically controversial, Shutting Out the Sun is a bold explanation of Japan’s stagnation and its implications for the rest of the world.

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0307490904

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Shutting Out the Sun

How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation

By: Michael Zielenziger

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How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation

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Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War

Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain

By: Michael Yahuda

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Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War

Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain

By: Michael Yahuda

Since the end of the Cold War China and Japan have faced each other as powers of relatively equal strength for the first time in their long history. As the two great powers of East Asia the way they both compete and cooperate with each other and the way they conduct their relations in the new era will play a big part in the evolution of the region as a whole. This textbook will explore in detail the ways in which politics has shaped the thinking about history and identity in both China and Japan and explain the role political leadership in each country has played in shaping their respective nationalisms. Michael Yahuda traces the evolution of the relationship over the two decades against the framework of a rising China gaining ground on a stagnant Japan and analyzes the politics of the economic interdependence between the two countries and their cooperation and competition in Southeast Asia and in its regional institutions. Concluding with an examination of the complexities of their strategic relations and an evaluation of the potentialities for conflict and co-existence between the two countries, this is an essential text for students and scholars of Sino-Japanese and East Asian International Relations

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157

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Routledge

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1135009090

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Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity

Research and public policy

By: Thomas F. Babor,Sally Casswell,Kathryn Graham,Taisia Huckle,Michael Livingston,Esa Österberg,Jürgen Rehm,Robin Room,Ingeborg Rossow,Bundit Sornpaisarn

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Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity

Research and public policy

By: Thomas F. Babor,Sally Casswell,Kathryn Graham,Taisia Huckle,Michael Livingston,Esa Österberg,Jürgen Rehm,Robin Room,Ingeborg Rossow,Bundit Sornpaisarn

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents, in a comprehensive, practical, and readily accessible form, the accumulated scientific knowledge on alcohol research that has a direct relevance to the development of alcohol policy on local, national, and international levels. It provides an objective basis on which to build relevant policies globally and informs policy makers who have direct responsibility for public health and social welfare. By locating alcohol policy primarily within the realm of public health, this book draws attention to the growing tendency for governments, both national and local, to consider alcohol misuse as a major determinant of ill health, and to organize societal responses accordingly. The scope of the book is comprehensive and global. The authors describe the conceptual basis for a rational alcohol policy and present new epidemiological data on the global dimensions of alcohol misuse. The core of the book is a critical review of the cumulative scientific evidence in seven general areas of alcohol policy: pricing and taxation, regulating the physical availability of alcohol, modifying the environment in which drinking occurs, drinking-driving countermeasures, marketing restrictions, primary prevention programs in schools and other settings, and treatment and early intervention services. The final chapters discuss the current state of alcohol policy in different parts of the world and describe the need for a new approach to alcohol policy that is evidence-based, global, and coordinated. A valuable resource for those involved in addiction science and drug policy, as well as those in the wider fields of public health, health policy, epidemiology, and practising clinicians.

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Oxford University Press

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0192658786

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PACIFIC COSMOPOLITANS

By: Michael R. Auslin

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PACIFIC COSMOPOLITANS

By: Michael R. Auslin

Beginning with the first Japanese and Americans to make contact in the early 1800s, Michael Auslin traces a unique cultural relationship. He focuses on organizations devoted to cultural exchange, such as the American Friends’ Association in Tokyo and the Japan Society of New York, as well as key individuals who promoted mutual understanding.

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Harvard University Press

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0674060806

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International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific

By: G. John Ikenberry,Michael Mastanduno

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International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific

By: G. John Ikenberry,Michael Mastanduno

What tools will international relations theorists need to understand the complex relationship among China, Japan, and the United States as the three powers shape the economic and political future of this crucial region? Some of the best and most innovative scholars in international relations and Asian area studies gather here with the working premise that stability in the broader Asia-Pacific region is in large part a function of the behavior of, and relationships among, these three major powers.

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Columbia University Press

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0231125909

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9780231125901

The Invisible Wall

Germans and Jews: A Personal Exploration

By: W. Michael Blumenthal

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The Invisible Wall

Germans and Jews: A Personal Exploration

By: W. Michael Blumenthal

The Invisible Wall is one man's quest to understand the failure of the German-Jewish relationship and to explain the character and attitudes of Germany's assimilated Jews over a three hundred-year period. He found rich and remarkable stories in the lives of six Blumenthal ancestors--all of whom happened to be major figures in German-Jewish history. Jost Liebmann, an itinerant peddler of trinkets and cheap jewels who became court jeweler to the Brandenburg nobility; Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, whose Berlin salon was the meeting place of Prussia's intellectual elite; Giacomo Meyerbeer, a celebrated composer of grand opera who dealt with the antisemitism he encountered by ceaselessly striving for success; Louis Blumenthal, a respected businessman and founder of his town's bank; Arthur Eloesser, a scholar and literary critic in the heyday of Weimar; and Ewald Blumenthal, the author's father. Once a decorated soldier in the Kaiser's elite guards, he was later a prisoner at Buchenwald. By recounting the stories of these individuals within the historical context of three centuries, Blumenthal presents a portrait of German Jews from the birth of Christianity to the eve of the Holocaust, revealing how Jews of various generations tried but failed to pierce the prejudice that separated them from other Germans.

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Catapult

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1582430128

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9781582430126

Commandments and Concerns

Jewish Religious Education in Secular Society

By: Michael Rosenak

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Commandments and Concerns

Jewish Religious Education in Secular Society

By: Michael Rosenak

In this cutting-edge study, Michael Rosenack provides a new understanding of the challenges inherent in teaching Judaism today. His ground-breaking theories are based on close examination of religious experience in individual's lives, consulting sources from all Jewish denominations, from Israel and the Diaspora, and from the non-Jewish world. Rosenak uses his research and a wealth of academic theories to formulate and present proposals for an honest, new approach to teaching religion in our contemporary, secular world.

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Jewish Publication Society

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0827611080

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9780827611085

Stock Market Rules: The 50 Most Widely Held Investment Axioms Explained, Examined, and Exposed, Fourth Edition

By: Michael Sheimo

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Stock Market Rules: The 50 Most Widely Held Investment Axioms Explained, Examined, and Exposed, Fourth Edition

By: Michael Sheimo

50 RULES FOR BEATING THE STREET IN ANY MARKET CONDITIONS INVESTING The go-to stock-investing guide for more than a decade, Stock Market Rules gives you the knowledge and clarity you need to invest like the wizards of Wall Street. This proven guide reveals the unwritten rules on which Wall Street investors have long relied to help you draw outsized profits even in volatile markets. Stock Market Rules, Fourth Edition, analyzes 50 maxims to show you which ones work, which ones used to work but don't anymore, and which ones are, and always have been, dangerously wrong. Examples include: RULE #6: It's Always a Bull Market--"There will always be a long-term buying bias to the stock market because if there isn't, the market will cease to exist," Sheimo writes. RULE #22: Buy the Stock That Splits--After explaining the mechanics of a stock split and reviewing post-split behavior of specific stocks, Sheimo determines that a split alone is no reason to buy a stock. RULE #48: There's Always a Santa Claus Rally--"There is a repetitive tendency of the stock market to rally between the months of November and December," Sheimo says. "An investor can take advantage of such rallies." Stock Market Rules provides market-proven techniques and insights that will dramatically improve your investing knowledge, confidence, and results.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071803254

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9780071803250

Sociology

Cultural Diversity in a Changing World

By: George J. Bryjak,Michael P. Soroka

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Sociology

Cultural Diversity in a Changing World

By: George J. Bryjak,Michael P. Soroka

This text provides a balanced, thorough, and lively presentation of materials that capture student interest in their own society as well as others. The strong multicultural component of the book is developed through the extensive use of examples in every chapter, end-of-chapter inserts on Mexico and Japan, a set of boxed inserts, Ourselves and Others, effective use of maps, a CNN video connected to the book, and a reader of multicultural selections from the Washington Post. The authors carry the theme of modernization and social change throughout. Students will leave this text with a broad, multicultural, historical framework for making better sense out of their world, and an appreciation of the role of sociology in promoting an intelligent world view.

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Allyn & Bacon

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020519155X

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9780205191550

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Shutting Out the Sun

Shutting Out the Sun

Shutting Out the Sun

Shutting Out the Sun

Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War

Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity

PACIFIC COSMOPOLITANS

PACIFIC COSMOPOLITANS

International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific

International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific

The Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall

Commandments and Concerns

Commandments and Concerns

Stock Market Rules: The 50 Most Widely Held Investment Axioms Explained, Examined, and Exposed, Fourth Edition

Stock Market Rules: The 50 Most Widely Held Investment Axioms Explained, Examined, and Exposed, Fourth Edition

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Sociology

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