KAZU - Social & Cultural Studies 1

What does Karl Marx’s Capital mean for our lives today? Disposable Time and Capital: Learning from Marx by Shii Kazuo offers a compelling and highly accessible answer. This book presents Capital not……続きを見る

En Angleterre, dans les années trente, Christopher Banks, qui a consacré sa vie à combattre le mal, est devenu un détective prestigieux. Cependant, un crime n'a jamais cessé de le hanter : l'énigmat……続きを見る

The Heisei era saw gradual yet far-reaching transformations in Japanese society and culture. Globalization, shifting identities, evolving family structures, and changes in education and public disco……続きを見る

An expert in the field offers a mindfulness-based approach to nonviolent action, demonstrating how nonviolence is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation Nonviolence was once consider……続きを見る

The coauthors of this book draw on their decades of research and innovation to describe an inexpensive and easy-to-interpret early warning system for rainfall-induced landslides. This system will en……続きを見る

Tábata não se sente entusiasmada com a ideia de passar as férias na casa dos avós, longe da cidade e sem acesso à internet. Porém, tudo muda quando o avô revela que coisas estranhas estão acontecend……続きを見る

This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West ……続きを見る

In Anbetracht des anhaltenden Fachkräftemangels in Deutschland rückt die gezielte Zuwanderung qualifizierter Arbeitskräfte, insbesondere im IT-Sektor, zunehmend in den Fokus migrationspolitischer St……続きを見る

The world was stunned when Putin’s Russia invaded Ukraineーhow could war erupt in Central Europe in the 21st century? Yet it did. Why? One key to understanding this atrocity lies in Vladimir Putin’s……続きを見る

An examination of the transformation of the Japanese diet from subsistence to abundance and an assessment of the consequences for health, longevity, and the environment. In a little more than a cent……続きを見る

World War II forced extensive and comprehensive social and political changes on nations across the globe. This comparative examination of health insurance in the United States and Japan during and a……続きを見る

Cooperatives have often been viewed as organizations that are fundamentally different from conventional companies. This book redefines cooperatives as business organizations comparable to companies ……続きを見る

This Open Access book is the first book to share in-depth narratives outlining the lived experiences of Japanese and Latin American Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Brazil, Mexico and Japan. It focuses in ……続きを見る

The Bhagalpur riots occurred in the Indian state of Bihar during the 1989 Lok Sabha election campaign. In the lead-up, political actors and parties exploited religious identities for their own elect……続きを見る

This book is the second edition of Behavioral Decision Theory, published in 2014. The main approach and structure of this book have been retained in the new edition. However, this second edition pro……続きを見る

This book focuses on the official regional population projections of Japan and examines its methodologies and results, written in English, by Japanese pioneers in this field for readers who are non-……続きを見る

The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “……続きを見る

This innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenge……続きを見る

That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It was the social sciences that gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theorie……続きを見る

In People's Diplomacy**, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 ……続きを見る

Religion and tourism seem to be an unlikely pair, but in fact, taking a look at these two human behaviors provides invaluable insight into modern society. In the past, holy sites were of immense imp……続きを見る

In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans……続きを見る

Parfois traité explicitement, parfois intrinsèque au propos (Les Liaisons dangereuses, Don Juan), parfois présent, sans être évoqué, dans les impasses que révèle la réflexion sur le désir et la joui……続きを見る

**Mobilizing the Power to Stop Harm, Cultivating the Love to Heal In times of collapse, we need a movement that recognizes injustice as a reflection of collective trauma and embraces its role as a c……続きを見る

For many financial market professionals worldwide, the era of high finance is over. The times in which bankers and financiers were the primary movers and shakers of both economy and society have com……続きを見る

Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality: Knowledge and Governance in a Non-ideal World provides an account of the fundamental design of an institutional system that can reliably solve prob……続きを見る

This book is a collection of updated and enhanced versions of the author's articles published in English over the past 30 years. It covers a wide range of areas and deals with many practical problem……続きを見る

A work written by a government official who was involved in Japan's accession to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention. Valuable content published for the first time a quarter of a century after it……続きを見る

This book looks at Chester I. Barnard’s theoretical and practical contributions to organization theory by examining his life, career, experience, intellectual relationships, philosophy, method, and ……続きを見る

This book provides historical, theoretical, and biographical perspectives on two giants of contemporary economics, Jacques Rueff (1896-1978) and John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). The former French bu……続きを見る