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This book explores how the relationship between child and parent develops in Japan, from the earliest point in a child’s life, through the transition from family to the wider world, first to playscho …

One of the most important current debates within and about Islam concerns its relation with power. Can Muslims be fundamentally content without power or as a minority? This book considers the voice o …

This volume argues the case that public health communication has affected health behavior. It brings together 16 studies of large-scale communication in a variety of substantive health areas–tobacco …

This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language spoken by approximately 25, 000 people in China”s northwestern Qinghai Province. Mangghuer is virtually unknown outside China, and no grammar …

The civil war in 1989 promised freedom from ten years of vicious dictatorship; instead the seeds of Liberia”s devastation were sown. Mark Huband”s account of the conflict is a portrayal of the war …

Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emp …

Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances. There have been concerns that the relationship between sustainability, accounting and orga …

Early Buddhist Metaphysics provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhis …

Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the Japanese media. This book, based on extensiv …

A clear and concise introduction to contemporary Slovenia. It examines the country”s rapid transition from a collection of provinces in the southern part of the Habsburg Empire, to a republic within …