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People Who Eat Darkness

The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

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People Who Eat Darkness

The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

In 2000, a tall, blonde, 21-year-old went missing in Tokyo, and her remains were found several months later. Questions arose about her friendships, her career, and her intentions.

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0374230595

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In the Time of Madness

Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

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In the Time of Madness

Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

From the acclaimed author of People Who Eat Darkness comes this “deeply felt” account of Indonesia at the crossroads of freedom and terror (Time, Asia). In the last years of the twentieth century, foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious, and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years, it had been paralyzed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General Suharto, but now the age of Suharto was coming to an end. Would freedom prevail, or was the “time of madness” predicted centuries before now at hand? On the island of Borneo, tribesmen embarked on a rampage of headhunting and cannibalism. Vast jungles burned uncontrollably; money lost its value; there were plane crashes and volcanic eruptions. Then, after Suharto’s tumultuous fall, came the vote on East Timor’s independence from Indonesia. And it was here, trapped in the besieged compound of the United Nations, that Richard reached his own breaking point. A book of hair-raising immediacy and psychological unravelling, In the Time of Madness is an accomplishment in the great tradition of Conrad, Orwell, and Ryszard Kapuściński.

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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155584863X

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Ghosts of the Tsunami

Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

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Ghosts of the Tsunami

Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness

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In the Time of Madness

Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

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Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos

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People Who Eat Darkness

The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

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The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

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In 2000, a tall, blonde, 21-year-old went missing in Tokyo, and her remains were found several months later. Questions arose about her friendships, her career, and her intentions.

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A Brief History of Doom

Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises

By: Richard Vague

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A Brief History of Doom

Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises

By: Richard Vague

Financial crises happen time and again in post-industrial economies—and they are extraordinarily damaging. Building on insights gleaned from many years of work in the banking industry and drawing on a vast trove of data, Richard Vague argues that such crises follow a pattern that makes them both predictable and avoidable. A Brief History of Doom examines a series of major crises over the past 200 years in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, and China—including the Great Depression and the economic meltdown of 2008. Vague demonstrates that the over-accumulation of private debt does a better job than any other variable of explaining and predicting financial crises. In a series of clear and gripping chapters, he shows that in each case the rapid growth of loans produced widespread overcapacity, which then led to the spread of bad loans and bank failures. This cycle, according to Vague, is the essence of financial crises and the script they invariably follow. The story of financial crisis is fundamentally the story of private debt and runaway lending. Convinced that we have it within our power to break the cycle, Vague provides the tools to enable politicians, bankers, and private citizens to recognize and respond to the danger signs before it begins again.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812251776

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Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport

By: Richard Shipway,Lee Miles,Richard Gordon

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Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport

By: Richard Shipway,Lee Miles,Richard Gordon

Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport is the first book to introduce key concepts and best practice in crisis and disaster management in sport and international sports events. The book draws from multiple disciplines to provide insight into the issues and challenges involved in planning for, and managing, crises and disasters in the context of sport. With an initial focus on sports event and venue resilience, the book also explores social, community and individual resilience within sport and examines concepts and issues such as fandom, risk perception, crowd control and management, crisis communication and reputational risk and the growing challenges posed by climate change. The book includes real-world case studies as well as disaster management-related simulation and scenario-building exercises and looks ahead to what might be the most significant threats in future to the safe and sustainable management of sport. With the devastating impacts of COVID-19 illustrating the central importance of resilience and proper preparation for crises and disasters, this book is an essential read for all researchers, students, practitioners and policy-makers working in sport, tourism, entertainment, leisure and critical event studies.

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Routledge

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0429775490

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Snapping and Wrapping: Personal Photography in Japan

By: Richard Chalfen

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Snapping and Wrapping: Personal Photography in Japan

By: Richard Chalfen

Snapping and Wrapping' represents an original study in Japanese visual culture, pictorial communication, and photographic studies. Vernacular visual culture is highlighted, stressing ordinary people and everyday life to explore photographic expressions of Japanese family life. The theme of “how people looked” is described from two closely related perspectives: how people appeared in their own photographs, and how people looked at specific features of their own lives with analog camera technology. The book includes unexamined material based on a qualitative study involving personal fieldwork undertaken between 1993 and 2009. The metaphor of “wrapping culture” (Hendry) is suggested for ways of interpreting relationships of personal family photographs in conjunction with acknowledged cultural influences and values of Japanese culture. Across an introduction and six chapters, the book covers a series of research topics evoked by efforts to recover, repair, and return millions of photographs to survivors following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Memory, privacy and kinds of information control are reviewed as parts of strategies of sharing pictures, “presence” and the use of photographs for interpersonal interaction and communication. Throughout the monograph, emphasis is placed on understanding details of analog personal photography for potential comparisons to the intensely popular digitalization of photographic recordings and, in turn, facilitate making informed speculations for future photographic practice. This book will be of interest to upper-level students, graduate students and scholars in the fields of media and culture, Asian Studies (especially Japanese visual culture), as well as those working on sensitive relationships of family, memory and representation.

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Vernon Press

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1648892590

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9781648892592

Democratic Crossroads

Transformations in Twenty First-Century Politics

By: Richard Youngs

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Democratic Crossroads

Transformations in Twenty First-Century Politics

By: Richard Youngs

After more than a decade of democratic regression, three major crises have acted to reshape global politics in recent years: climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic legacy, and geopolitical conflict. In Democratic Crossroads, Richard Youngs argues these crises are altering the balance between democratic and authoritarian dynamics around the world. Yet while they add to the strains on democracy, they are also awakening a momentum of democratic resilience and renewal. He argues that to deal with the era's momentous challenges, democratic politics need a major boost and reboot. Without stronger commitments to uphold and improve democratic norms and practices, democracy may not weather these challenges. As Youngs shows, far-reaching democratic innovation that gives citizens effective influence over epoch-defining matters will help ensure that democratic values are more vigorously defended. In a moment of pivotal change, this book explains how democracies can retain their resiliency and highlights the key factors that will determine democracy's fortunes in the future.

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Oxford University Press

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0197762441

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Mammoth Books presents That Haunted Feeling

Six short stories by Barbara Roden, Reggie Oliver & M.R. James, Chris Bell, Richard Christian Matheson, John Gaskin and Michael Kelly

By: Barbara Roden,Chris Bell,John Gaskin,M.R. James,Michael Kelly,Reggie Oliver,Richard Christian Matheson

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Mammoth Books presents That Haunted Feeling

Six short stories by Barbara Roden, Reggie Oliver & M.R. James, Chris Bell, Richard Christian Matheson, John Gaskin and Michael Kelly

By: Barbara Roden,Chris Bell,John Gaskin,M.R. James,Michael Kelly,Reggie Oliver,Richard Christian Matheson

Six short stories to shake you to your core. Out and Back by Barbara Roden An abandoned amusement park attracts unwary thrill seekers The Game of Bear - Reggie Oliver & M. R. James Reggie Oliver completes M. R. James' unfinished classic. Shem-el-Nessim: An Inspiration in Perfume - Chris Bell Venturi - Richard Christian Matheson Party Talk - John Gaskin Princess of the Night - Michael Kelly

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Robinson

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1472102479

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Islam, Christianity and Tradition

A Comparative Exploration

By: Ian Richard Netton

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Islam, Christianity and Tradition

A Comparative Exploration

By: Ian Richard Netton

Offers a unique comparative exploration of the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity. The idea of 'tradition' has enjoyed a variety of senses and definitions in Islam and Christianity, but both have cleaved at certain times to a supposedly 'golden age' of tradition from the past. The author suggests there has been a chain of thinkers from classical Islam to the twentieth century who share a common interest in ijtihad (or independent thinking). Drawing on past and present evidence, and using Christian tradition as a focus for contrast and comparison, the author highlights the seemingly paradoxical harmony between tradition and itjihad in Islam.The author draws on a variety of primary and secondary sources including contemporary newspaper and journal

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748630252

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Ghosts of the Tsunami

Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

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Ghosts of the Tsunami

Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Guardian, NPR, GQ, The Economist, Bookforum, and Lit Hub The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than eighteen thousand people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings, and met a priest who exorcised the spirits of the dead. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own. What really happened to the local children as they waited in the schoolyard in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up? Ghosts of the Tsunami is a soon-to-be classic intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the accounts of those who lived through it. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the struggle to find consolation in the ruins.

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0374710937

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Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers

East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community

By: Richard Tanter,Mark Selden,Stephen Rosskamm Shalom

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Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers

East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community

By: Richard Tanter,Mark Selden,Stephen Rosskamm Shalom

The contributors - a mix of scholars and activists - explore the dynamics of East Timor's long struggle for independence and show how the case of East Timor, both during and after the Cold War, provides a litmus test for issues of international responsibility and reconciliation.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742509680

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Book's by Richard Lloyd Parry

People Who Eat Darkness

People Who Eat Darkness

In the Time of Madness

In the Time of Madness

Ghosts of the Tsunami

Ghosts of the Tsunami

In the Time of Madness

In the Time of Madness

People Who Eat Darkness

People Who Eat Darkness

A Brief History of Doom

A Brief History of Doom

Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport

Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport

Snapping and Wrapping: Personal Photography in Japan

Snapping and Wrapping: Personal Photography in Japan

Democratic Crossroads

Democratic Crossroads

Mammoth Books presents That Haunted Feeling

Mammoth Books presents That Haunted Feeling

Islam, Christianity and Tradition

Islam, Christianity and Tradition

Ghosts of the Tsunami

Ghosts of the Tsunami

Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers

Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers

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