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  • Consumer Culture Theory in Asia

    History and Contemporary Issues

    Edited by Yuko Minowa, Russell Belk ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers in the Development of International Business, Management and Marketing
    We live in times of increasing world uncertainty. Consumer culture in Asia has embodied such precariousness, with their unprecedented states of both prosperity and vulnerability.Works in this volume examine the consumer cultures that exist in today’s precarious Asia. They do this through culturally oriented, critical consumer research. How deeply has the consumer precariousness in Asia been ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Gifts, Romance, and Consumer Culture

    Edited by Yuko Minowa, Russell W. Belk ...
    Series series Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research
    How do people communicate their romantic feelings? Gift giving is one way. Giving and receiving of gifts is a characteristic of intimate relationships. Gifts are a message, a form of communication with a tangible material object, about love, affection, or concern for the recipient. The "romantic gift" evokes a multitude of intertwined meanings: passion, intimacy, affection, persuasion, care, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias

    Toward a New Dialogue across Boundaries

    by Jooyeon Rhee, Eric Ping Hung Li, Russell Belk, Shelley W. Chan, Su Young Choi, Jonathan Deschenes, Dandan Fang, Guojun (Sawyer) He, Nathan Hopson0, Matt M. Husain1, Olga Khomenko2, Somin Lee3, Maria Osetrova4, Chien-wei Pan5, Violetta Ravagnoli6, Gabriel F. Y. Tsang7, Ame´lie Keyser-Verreault8, Yuko Minowa9, Chikako Nagayama0 ...
    Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias illustrates how the production and consumption of food impacts the changing social positions of individuals and their relationships with their families, the state, and their work, as well as shapes their gender, sexual, ethnic, and national identities. The transnational movement of food and people between East Asia and the rest of the world is ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • The All-or-Nothing Marriage

    How the Best Marriages Work

    by Eli J Finkel ...
    “After years of debate and inquiry, the key to a great marriage remained shrouded in mystery. Until now...”—Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of SuccessEli J. Finkel's insightful and ground-breaking investigation of marriage clearly shows that the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras. Indeed, they are the best marriages the world has ever known. ... Read more

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  • Geek Heresy

    Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

    by Kentaro Toyama ...
    After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can't deliver.Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone ... Read more

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  • The High Price of Materialism

    by Tim Kasser ...
    A psychologist explores how materialism and consumerism undermine our quality of life—and offers ideas for how we can change.In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and ... Read more

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  • Healing Labor

    Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy

    by Gabriele Koch ...
    Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy—but whose work remains stigmatized and unmentionable. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese women in Tokyo's sex ... Read more

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    Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

    by Maggie Berg, Barbara K. Seeber ...
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    $23.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture

    Edited by Yoshio Sugimoto ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture traces the cultural ... Read more

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    And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies

    by Alfie Kohn ...
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  • Intimate Disconnections

    Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan

    by Allison Alexy ...
    In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision—the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of breaking up, from intense shame and societal criticism to friends’ and relatives’ unsolicited advice. In Intimate Disconnections, Allison Alexy tells the ... Read more

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