Chie - Social & Cultural Studies 1

Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow an……続きを見る

In InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism**, Chie Ikeya asks how interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma under British colonial rule became the subject of p……続きを見る

Why do the Japanese almost always go for holidays in groups? Do Japanese families experience our sort of 'family life'? Why do conversations with Japanese friends and acquaintances often seem to com……続きを見る

Did Oscar Pistorius knowingly kill Reeva Steenkamp? And what does Shanda Vander Ark, Joan of Arc, The Odyssey, and the apostle Paul have to do with it? Explore these interesting themes from a Christ……続きを見る

Digitale Medien sind fester Bestandteil der Lebenswelt von Kindern und der frühpädagogischen Arbeit. Das frühe Erlernen von Medienkompetenzen, die Professionalisierung pädagogischer Fachkräfte und q……続きを見る

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Millions of children throughout Africa undertake many forms of farm and domestic work. Some of this work is for wages, some is on their……続きを見る

Social isolation has serious repercussions for people and communities across the globe, yet knowledge about this phenomenon has remained rather limited – until now. The first multidisciplinary study……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politicsーfrom the award-winning author of Americanah "A call to action, for all people in the world, to un……続きを見る

The Pope has betrayed his people by giving in to the felonious communist regime. Read about these sad developments. 続きを見る

In "Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar," J. Ewing Ritchie articulates a compelling critique of the sociopolitical and moral implications of slavery within the era of burgeoning sugar production in ……続きを見る

A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world’s preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned about how hum……続きを見る

Donald Trump's popularity and moral indiscretions have redefined conservatism. This essay considers the disturbing trends of the new norm from a Biblical outlook. 続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism todayーwritten as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, C……続きを見る

Une analyse détaillée, argumentée et offensive de toutes les facettes de l'activisme policier et de ses nouveaux boucs émissaires. Une frénésie qui ne répond en rien aux besoins réels de la populati……続きを見る

This booklet reviews the controversial book by Detective Amaral, the Portuguese investigator at the heart of the Madeleine McCann case. The details of this crime are discussed at length, as are thou……続きを見る

Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired……続きを見る

Focusing on the experiences of foreign employees working in Japanese firms, this book identifies the trends and realities facing both expatriates and firms in the current landscape of the Japanese l……続きを見る

Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use o……続きを見る

Scandals and failures in some of the best known international Japanese-owned companies have shown that there is sometimes a considerable difference between the public and internal narratives of Japa……続きを見る

Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma presents the first study of one of the most prevalent and critical topics of public discourse in colonial Burma: the woman of the khit kalaー"th……続きを見る

Although multilingualism is the norm in the day-to-day lives of most sub-Saharan Africans, multilingualism in settings outside of cities has so far been under-explored. This gap is striking when con……続きを見る

Fastest, Highest, Strongest presents a comprehensive challenge to the dominant orthodoxy concerning the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport. Examining the political and economic transformati……続きを見る

In Dante’s Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a sour……続きを見る

This is a groundbreaking analysis of China's territorial disputes, exploring the successes and failures of negotiations that have taken place between its three neighbours, namely India, Japan and Ru……続きを見る

The Face the Nation commentator delivers ?a fitting companion to his career memoir, This Just In? (Texas Monthly). Bob Schieffer?s America brings together 171 of his smart, humorous, and pitch-perfe……続きを見る

This volume explores in close detail the events and factors leading up to the second Gulf War in 2003 and considers whether war with Iraq was inevitable. Nick Ritchie and Paul Rogers argue that afte……続きを見る

A radical and exciting history of a city – its culture, its people and its politics – that refreshes our image of Europe’s past and of the writing of history itself. In Berlin, history is tangible. ……続きを見る

He was a pillar of the community, serving on local committees, donating prizes to the rugby club, organising charity collections. His patients thought the world of him: he was attentive, kind, never……続きを見る

The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study revea……続きを見る

Illuminates the threats Black women face and the lack of substantive public policy towards gendered violence Black women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual h……続きを見る