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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

    $19.49 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

    $18.69 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

    $59.99 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

    $21.59 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

    $31.49 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

    $25.19 USD

  • The Augmented Reality of Pokémon Go

    Chronotopes, Moral Panic, and Other Complexities

    by Neriko Musha Doerr, Debra J. Occhi, Anne Allison, Paul Manning, Elle Santry, Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine and author of My Life as Nig ...
    What happens when a group of people see things that others do not and begin acting accordingly? The Augmented Reality of Pokémon GO: Chronotopes, Moral Panic, and Other Complexities explores this question by examining what happened after Pokémon GO, a smartphone augmented reality game, was released in July, 2016. The game overlaid the world of Pokémon onto the “real” physical world, drawing 30 ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Ross & Wilson Self-Assessment in Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness

    by Anne Waugh, Allison Grant ...
    This handy self-assessment paperback contains over 500 multiple-choice-questions to help readers evaluate their understanding of introductory level human biology. Fully indexed, with helpful explanations given throughout the answer section, the book will be ideal for students of nursing and allied health professions, biomedical and paramedical science, operating department practice, and ... Read more

    $14.29 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

    $36.89 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Roommate Pact

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

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    All of the fun, none of the heartache…as long as they stick to the agreement.The proposition is simple: if ER nurse Claire Harper and her roommate, firefighter Graham Scott, are still single by the time they’re forty, they’ll take the proverbial plunge together…as friends with benefits. Maybe it’s the wine, but in the moment, Claire figures the pact is a safe-enough deal, considering she hasn’t ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Sudden Death

    A Novel of Suspense

    by Allison Brennan ...
    Narrated by Ann Marie Lee ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - FBI Trilogy

    Unabridged

    12 hours 40 min

    Fast, furious and fatal . . . a pair of killers seek brutal revenge.When a homeless veteran is found dead in a squalid Sacramento alley, FBI special agent Megan Elliott vows to find the murdered hero’s killer. Her investigation gets complicated fast, for the victim, a former Delta Force soldier, is just one link in a nationwide spree of torture and murder.Straight off a job rescuing medical ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Ross & Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness

    by Anne Waugh, Allison Grant ...
    The new edition of the hugely successful Ross and Wilson Anatomy & Physiology in Health and Illness continues to bring its readers the core essentials of human biology presented in a clear and straightforward manner. Fully updated throughout, the book now comes with enhanced learning features including helpful revision questions and an all new art programme to help make learning even easier. The ... Read more

    $36.89 USD