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Japanese Ink Painting

The Art of Sumi-E

By: Naomi Okamoto

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Japanese Ink Painting

The Art of Sumi-E

By: Naomi Okamoto

A guide to Japanese ink painting provides information on techniques and materials needed, along with step-by-step exercises.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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0806908335

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Discourse and Politeness

Ambivalent Face in Japanese

By: Naomi Geyer

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Discourse and Politeness

Ambivalent Face in Japanese

By: Naomi Geyer

Discourse and Politeness examines Japanese institutional discourse and attempts to clarify the relationship between politeness, facework and speaker identity. The book seeks to establish an empirically grounded analysis of facework as the basis for evaluating politeness, and describes facework in delicate situations such as disagreement, teasing and talking about troubles, which have rarely been discussed in politeness studies. Insightful and cutting-edge, this research monograph will be of interest to researchers in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and Japanese language.

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226

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A&C Black

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1441150730

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9781441150738

Rightlessness

Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II

By: A. Naomi Paik

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Rightlessness

Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II

By: A. Naomi Paik

In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively rightless, stripped of the right even to have rights. Rightless people thus expose an essential paradox: while the United States purports to champion inalienable rights at home and internationally, it has built its global power in part by creating a regime of imprisonment that places certain populations perceived as threats beyond rights. The United States' status as the guardian of rights coincides with, indeed depends on, its creation of rightlessness. Yet rightless people are not silent. Drawing from an expansive testimonial archive of legal proceedings, truth commission records, poetry, and experimental video, Paik shows how rightless people use their imprisonment to protest U.S. state violence. She examines demands for redress by Japanese Americans interned during World War II, testimonies of HIV-positive Haitian refugees detained at Guantanamo in the early 1990s, and appeals by Guantanamo's enemy combatants from the War on Terror. In doing so, she reveals a powerful ongoing contest over the nature and meaning of the law, over civil liberties and global human rights, and over the power of the state in people's lives.

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332

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UNC Press Books

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1469626322

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9781469626321

Life After Manzanar

By: Naomi Hirahara,Heather C. Lindquist

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Life After Manzanar

By: Naomi Hirahara,Heather C. Lindquist

“A compelling account of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II . . . instructive and moving.”—Nippon.com From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement”: the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start over, while others returned to Southern California only to face discrimination and an alarming scarcity of housing and jobs. Hirahara and Lindquist weave new and archival oral histories into an engaging narrative that illuminates the lives of former internees in the postwar era, both in struggle and unlikely triumph. Readers will appreciate the painstaking efforts that rebuilding required and will feel inspired by the activism that led to redress and restitution—and that built a community that even now speaks out against other racist agendas. “Through this thoughtful story, we see how the harsh realities of the incarceration experience follow real lives, and how Manzanar will sway generations to come. When you finish the last chapter you will demand to read more.”—Gary Mayeda, national president of the Japanese American Citizens League “An engaging, well-written telling of how former Manzanar detainees played key roles in remembering and righting the wrong of the World War II incarceration.”—Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho

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302

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Heyday.ORIM

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ISBN 10

1597144460

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9781597144469

Modern Japanese Grammar Workbook

By: Naomi McGloin,M. Endo Hudson,Fumiko Nazikian,Tomomi Kakegawa

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Modern Japanese Grammar Workbook

By: Naomi McGloin,M. Endo Hudson,Fumiko Nazikian,Tomomi Kakegawa

The Modern Japanese Grammar Workbook is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Japanese. The book is divided into two parts: Section A provides exercises based on essential grammatical structures Section B practises everyday functions (e.g. making introductions, apologizing, expressing needs). All sentences are written both in Romanization and in the Japanese script and a comprehensive answer key at the back enables the learner to check on their progress. Key features of the book include: Exercises graded on a 3-point scale according to their level of difficulty Cross-referencing to the related Modern Japanese Grammar Topical exercises drawn from realistic scenarios to help learners develop their vocabulary and practical communication skills Opportunities to practise both written and spoken Japanese. Modern Japanese Grammar Workbook is an ideal practice tool for learners of Japanese at all levels. No prior knowledge of grammatical terminology is assumed and it can be used both independently and alongside the Modern Japanese Grammar (ISBN 978-0-415-57201-9), which is also published by Routledge.

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355

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Routledge

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1317626761

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9781317626763

The Handy Technology Answer Book

By: Naomi Balaban,James Bobick

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The Handy Technology Answer Book

By: Naomi Balaban,James Bobick

Exploring technology and how it made—and continues to change—the modern world! Technology pervades our daily lives and modern society, and not just when it comes to computers and smart phones. Before there was the computer, there was the abacus. Before the smart phone, there was the telegraph and ball point pen. Electricity, penicillin, and the compass have all led to revolutionary changes in how we live. From the relationship between science and technology to the four major branches of engineering to nanotechnology, robots, and predictions for future technology, The Handy Technology Answer Book is an ideal introduction to technology in everyday life. The newsworthy, the practical, the latest and historical, are all detailed in this entertaining and informative book. It brings the vast changes and major innovations into focus through well-researched answers to more than 1,100 common questions on technology, such as ... What are the major time periods of technology? Who is considered to be the first engineer? Which individual was granted the most U.S. patents? Who is the only U.S. president to receive a patent? How do copyrights differ from patents and trademarks? What is the Turing Award? What are the tasks of an operating system? How did the term “glitch” originate? What was the first computer game? What is "phishing"? What is a Uniform Resource Locator, or URL? How many time zones are there in the world? What is the world population of robots? What is the most destructive non-lethal weapon? Why is mining an important technology? Why are the rare earth elements important? What is “green building”? Who built the Brooklyn Bridge? How are U.S. highways numbered? How popular are electric vehicles in the United States? Why is the right side of a ship called “starboard”? What is the largest aircraft? How long will fossil fuel reserves last? What are the different types of newer, energy-efficient light bulbs? What is the carbon cycle? What products are made from recycled plastic? Who was the first person to receive gene therapy? Can human beings be cloned? What is the future of wearable technology in health care? Providing the facts, stats, science, and a little bit of history, The Handy Technology Answer Book answers important questions about the most important inventions, key breakthroughs, and the towering personalities behind them. It spotlights the tallest, smallest, fastest, longest, and the wide range of human firsts and current bests. This informative and fun book also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness.

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643

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Visible Ink Press

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ISBN 10

1578595959

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9781578595952

Organization Design

The Practitioner’s Guide

By: Naomi Stanford

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Organization Design

The Practitioner’s Guide

By: Naomi Stanford

Organization Design looks at how to (re)design an organizational system in order to increase productivity, performance and value, and provides the knowledge and methodology to design an adaptive, agile organization capable of handling the kind of continuous organizational change that all businesses face. The book clarifies why and how organizations need to be in a state of readiness to design or redesign, and emphasizes that people as well as business processes must be part of design considerations. With an enhanced international focus, this third edition includes new material on: organization design theories designing ethical, diverse and inclusive organizations the role of leaders in organization design work organization design in public sector organizations and evaluating the success of an organization design project This book is a must-read for students or practitioners involved in organizational design, development and change.

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Routledge

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1351867059

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9781351867054

Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse

Interactive markers

By: Naomi Ogi

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Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse

Interactive markers

By: Naomi Ogi

This book addresses the long discussed issue of Japanese interactive markers (traditionally called sentence-final particles) in a new light, and provides the comprehensive linguistic documentation of the interactional functions of seven interactive markers: ne, na, yo, sa, wa, zo and ze. By adopting three key notions, ‘involvement’, ‘formality’ and ‘gender’, the study not only reveals the functions and pragmatic effects of each marker, but also sheds light on some fundamental issues of the nature of spoken discourse in general, including how speakers collaborate with each other to create and sustain their conversations and how linguistic functions of verbal forms interface with sociocultural norms. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of linguistic fields such as Japanese linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and applied linguistics and to teachers and learners of Japanese and of a second/foreign language.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027266077

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9789027266071

Japanese Ink Painting

The Art of Sumi-E

By: Naomi Okamoto

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Japanese Ink Painting

The Art of Sumi-E

By: Naomi Okamoto

A guide to Japanese ink painting provides information on techniques and materials needed, along with step-by-step exercises.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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0806908335

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Pathology of the Human Embryo and Previable Fetus

An Atlas

By: Dagmar K. Kalousek,Naomi Fitch,Barbara A. Paradice

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Pathology of the Human Embryo and Previable Fetus

An Atlas

By: Dagmar K. Kalousek,Naomi Fitch,Barbara A. Paradice

This book is designed primarily for anatomic pathologists to facilitate their task of accurately diagnosing embryos and fetuses. A detailed examination of the products of spontaneous and induced abortions is necessary for accurate genetic counseling and for establishing the risk for specific abnormalities or another spontaneous pregnancy loss in the future. The growing interest in the defects of early development reflects the profound change in general life-style. In the past, spontaneous abortions were considered a common, usually sporadic event in a patient's reproductive history. Only reassurance and encour agement were given to the patient and scant attention was paid to the detailed pathology of the abortus. Nowadays, however, as a result of reliable methods of contraception and of the availability of reliable prenatal diagnosis for chromosome abnormalities more frequent in advanced maternal age, significant numbers of parents plan to have pregnan cies later in their reproductive life. Consequently, in a case of spontaneous abortion, the question of "cause" and of "future risk" of recurrence of abortion or an abnormal infant is particularly important. In the era of more elaborate and accurate prenatal diagnostic tests, the pathologist examining products of conception has a primary responsibility to detect, in both spontaneous and induced abortions, any developmental abnormality that would indicate an increased risk of multifactorial, chromosomal, and single gene disorders in a subsequent child.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475721110

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9781475721119

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Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese Ink Painting

Discourse and Politeness

Discourse and Politeness

Rightlessness

Rightlessness

Life After Manzanar

Life After Manzanar

Modern Japanese Grammar Workbook

Modern Japanese Grammar Workbook

The Handy Technology Answer Book

The Handy Technology Answer Book

Organization Design

Organization Design

Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse

Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse

Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese Ink Painting

Pathology of the Human Embryo and Previable Fetus

Pathology of the Human Embryo and Previable Fetus

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