Martinez Dolores P. Martinez & Kirsch Griseldis Kirsch 
Assembling Japan [EPUB ebook] 
Modernity, Technology and Global Culture

First Published in 1987. Japan’s surrender on 15 August 1945 was an unprecedented event in Japanese history. The shift from the life of hunger to the life of saturation that took place between 1945 a …

The world”s poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn”t improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. If experien …

The Horn of Africa has long been one of the most dynamic and politically turbulent sub-regions on the African continent.　 Host to great ancient civilizations, diverse peoples, and expansive states, t …

This book examines the development and issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the document that set the stage for the creation of the state of Israel, within its global setting. The heart of the book d …

What makes Darjeeling tea, Pashmina shawl, Monsooned Malabar Arabica coffee and Chanderi saree special? Why is it that some goods derive their uniqueness through their inherent linkage to a place? In …

This book, first published in 1982, collects together ten studies from the journal Middle Eastern Studies. They tackle a variety of issues stemming from the conflict between Arabism and Zionism, befo …

First published in 1999. This study starts with the reasons underlying that apparent bias of loan agreements to which developing country borrowers were parties and then develops to look at the issue …

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and …

After impressive growth of about 10% per annum for three decades, China”s visible signs of economic slowdown since 2008 have been subject to much contention. What causes the deceleration? What shoul …

Designing Web-Based Applications for 21st Century Writing Classrooms brings together, for the first time, a group of scholars and teachers who have been developing, on their own initiative, web-based …