AKIKO - Social & Cultural Studies 1

Across every civilization, humans have told stories about gods, fear, death, fate, and meaning. But why? Quiet History of World Mythologies: On Fear, Gods, and Being Human is not simply a collection……続きを見る

Long before philosophy. Before written law. Before temples rose in stone. There were nights when human beings looked up ー and did not yet know what they were seeing. When the Sun and Moon Were Gods……続きを見る

I. Origins ー A Quiet History of Power Long before Rome, long before Greece, power already had a shape. In the river valleys of Mesopotamia, in the temple complexes of southeastern Anatolia, in the ……続きを見る

Power did not become stable when kings grew stronger. It became stable when others accepted them. Quiet History of Power IV: Parallel Thrones explores the world in which authority depended on recogn……続きを見る

Eleven thousand years ago, on a limestone plateau in southeastern Türkiye, communities of hunter-gatherers raised monumental stone pillars, carved animal scenes into rock, buried their buildings ali……続きを見る

Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume w……続きを見る

The popularity of pornography is predicated on the idea that those participating have given their consent. That is what allows the porn industry to dominate the media economy today, generating stagg……続きを見る

In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums……続きを見る

Yoshida addresses the common misconceptions of single, never-married women and aims to uncover the major social and cultural factors contributing to this phenomenon in Japan. Based on interviews wit……続きを見る

Examining language support practices in both formal and nonformal education, ranging from public night school to community-based language classes, this volume encourages the development of systems i……続きを見る

Les années 1958-1981 montent en épingle des exceptions françaises variées et ponctuelles : l’indifférence française au fascisme, Jacques Mesrine et Albertine Sarrazin, la figure de l’énarque, les mo……続きを見る

**CODES Committee Essential Cookbook of 2026** and Booklist's Top Ten Food Books of 2025** "Maki Itoh has succeeded in creating a treasure trove in her exploration of Japanese recipes and culinary t……続きを見る

The extent of urban air pollution in PakistanーSouth Asia's most urbanized countryーis among the world's most severe, significantly damaging human health, quality of life, and the economy and enviro……続きを見る

Mothers Against War examines the shifting relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women’s rights in the decades following Japan’s defeat in 1945. With a focus on the concept of bosei, ge……続きを見る

UNION FOR THE HEADLINES, A TRIAL FOR THE TIME Celebrity romances have always captured the public’s imagination, playing out like soap operas seized upon by fans and tabloids alike. By the same token……続きを見る

**An explosive new book on the infamous trial *Depp v. Heard,***Hollywood Vampires paints an intimate picture of what was really going on behind the viral headlines between Johnny Depp and Amber Hea……続きを見る

Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the condition……続きを見る

This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England, placing the……続きを見る

Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. ……続きを見る

Augustine and Ethics examines the topic of ethics in the life and works of Augustine of Hippo. Adopting a global perspective on ethics as a field of philosophical and theological investigation, this……続きを見る

A search for a radio-tagged Indiana bat roosting in the woods behind her house in New York’s Hudson Valley led Akiko Busch to assorted other encounters with the natural world—local ecological mo……続きを見る

Gustavo Dudamel, the musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, a visiting conductor of top world orchestras such as Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic, is the shining star……続きを見る

In The Long Defeat, Akiko Hashimoto explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its catastrophic defeat in World War II, showing how and why defeat has become an indelible part of national coll……続きを見る

La CSU a pour objectifs de s’assurer que tous peuvent avoir accès à des services de santé de qualité, de préserver l’ensemble des individus contre les risques à la santé publique et de protéger tout……続きを見る

The relationship between Islamic law and society is an important issue in Iran under the Islamic Republic. Although Islamic law was a pivotal element in the traditional Iranian society, no comprehen……続きを見る

Heralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals. This book critically e……続きを見る

In the 1830s, missionaries in French Polynesia sought to suppress the traditional art of tattooing, because they believed it to be a barbaric practice. More than 150 years later, tattooing is once a……続きを見る

This book explores the need for deep-seated social change in Myanmar if the country’s democratic transition and peace process is to deliver tangible benefits for those that have long faced profound ……続きを見る

In this innovative account of the origins of the idea of the League of Nations, Sakiko Kaiga casts new light on the pro-League of Nations movement in Britain in the era of the First World War, revea……続きを見る

Many advanced countries are facing a shared problem that democracy is not functioning as well as it should. Malfunctioning Democracy in Japan: Quantitative Analysis in a Civil Society, by Yoshiaki K……続きを見る