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  • Precarious Japan

    by Anne Allison ...
    In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Nightwork

    Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

    by Anne Allison ...
    In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen who came there on company expense accounts. Her book critically examines how such establishments create ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Being Dead Otherwise

    by Anne Allison ...
    With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many dead are no longer buried in traditional ancestral graves where descendants would tend their spirits, and individuals are increasingly taking on mortuary preparation for themselves. In Being Dead Otherwise Anne Allison examines the emergence of new ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Adventures of Dragons Den

    by Ann Allison ...
    Dragons Den is a wonderful home where dragons can come to play. There are lots of dragons at Dragons Den and some even come to stay. They wear a disguise so they can blend in Hoping no one will notice their beautiful green skin. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Permitted And Prohibited Desires

    Mothers, Comics, And Censorship In Japan

    by Anne Allison ...
    Desire is both of and beyond the everyday. In an ad for running shoes, for example, the figure of a man jogging at dawn on the Serengeti Plain both evokes a fantasyof escape and invokes a disciplinary norm to stay fit. The bottom line for thead, of course, is to create a desire to consume, the promise being that with thepurchase of these shoes, the consumer can realize yet also transcend the daily ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Millennial Monsters

    Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

    by Anne Allison ...
    Series Book 13 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
    From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese “cool” is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • New Media, Communication, and Society

    A Fast, Straightforward Examination of Key Topics

    by Mary Ann Allison, Cheryl A. Casey ...
    New Media, Communication, and Society is a fast, straightforward examination of key topics which will be useful and engaging for both students and professors. It connects students to wide-ranging resources and challenges them to develop their own opinions. Moreover, it encourages students to develop media literacy so they can speak up and make a difference in the world. Short chapters with lots of ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Ross & Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness - E-Book

    Ross & Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness - E-Book

    by Anne Waugh, Allison Grant ...
    Now in its fourteenth edition, this best-selling textbook has been honed over many years to provide a clear, straightforward introduction to the human body for students of nursing, allied health or biomedical and paramedical science.The book covers the core essentials of anatomy and physiology, including basic pathology and pathophysiology of important diseases and disorders. This new edition ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Pikachu s Global Adventure

    The Rise and Fall of Pokémon

    by David Buckingham, Julian Sefton-Green, Anne Allison, Koichi Iwabuchi ...
    Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including comic books, a TV show, movies, trading cards, stickers, toys, and clothing. Pokémon eventually became ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    If Tomorrow Never Comes

    by Allison Ashley ...
    Narrated by Ann Marie Gideon ...

    Unabridged

    Fate connects two people in life-changing ways in a deeply romantic and emotional novel about hope and second chances by the author of Would You Rather and The Roommate Pact.Uncertain of what tomorrow brings, Elliott Holland decides to live it up—on the eve of a stem cell transplant to treat her leukemia. It’s destiny when she crosses paths with handsome and charming Jamie Sullivan. The chemistry ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Love Me to Death

    A Novel of Suspense

    by Allison Brennan ...
    Narrated by Ann Marie Lee ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Lucy Kincaid

    Unabridged

    14 hours 56 min

    “World-class nail-biter . . . [Allison] Brennan is in the groove with this one.”—Lee ChildSix years ago, Lucy Kincaid was attacked and nearly killed by an online predator. She survived. Her attacker did not. Now Lucy’s goal is to join the FBI and fight cyber-crime, but in the meantime, she’s volunteering with a victim’s rights group, surfing the Web undercover to lure sex offenders into the hands ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Julian, Secret Agent

    by Ann Cameron ...
    Illustrated by Diane Worfolk Allison ...
    Series series Julian's World
    Bestselling classic The Stories Julian Tells is just the beginning! Get ready for more of Julian's wonderful family and imagination in the Julian's World chapter book series!Secret agents Julian, Huey, and Gloria are already heroes. They have rescued a dog and saved a toddler from drowning. But what they really want is to nab a real-live bank robber. Just when it looks like they might catch the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD