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319,95 kr. Shimazaki's 1906 classic of modern Japanese literature portrays a young man born into the Burakumin outcaste class and his struggle against both social discrimination and his own hypocrisy.
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948,95 kr. The UN's International Initiative of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has enabled wide comparative research on forestry in global climate change. In this book, an international team of authors who are deeply committed to this initiative provide the first comprehensive account of the mutual influence of deforestation and climate change in various areas throughout the countries of Asia. The authors also report on the policies and programs embarked on by local governments and inhabitants to maintain sustainable forest usage and their implications for fair trade, biological diversity, and environmental preservation.
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1.128,95 kr. South Korea is noted for the hard-fought competition in university admission exams, which are widely believed to determine one's prospects and shape their takers' entire lives. In this book, Shin Arita validates this belief with vast amounts of sociological data. He traces the mechanisms that show the test's role in the formation of social strata.
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623,95 kr. This book presents a beautiful photo collection of the Konso stone tools, the Acheulean artifacts. These artifacts include the world's oldest stone tools shaped to preconceived form. The volume illustrates early stone tool technology and its development from 1.75 to fewer than 1 million years ago.
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1.408,95 kr. Japan was compelled to open its doors to Western commerce in the 1850s and 1860s. Yet because the treaties signed at that time reflected the Western powers' dominant position, Japanese foreign policy's prime imperative in the initial decades afterward was to rectify these unequal treaties. This book, appearing in English for the first time, explains the political process of the negotiations attempting revision of the treaties in the context of events both inside and outside Japan.
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1.128,95 kr. The leading authority on Japanese art history tells the story of how the country has nurtured unique aesthetics, prominent artists, and distinctive movements. Nobuo Tsuji sheds light on works ranging from the Jomon period to contemporary art, from earthenware figurines in 13,000 B.C. to manga and modern subcultures.
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478,95 kr. Toyoichi Tanaka's pioneering work in biophysics made major contributions to the science of gels and polymers. His research centered on the physics of gels, their fundamental structures and characteristics, their dynamics, and their roles in living organisms. This volume collects twenty-five major research papers originally published in Science, Nature, Physical Review Letters, and other leading journals between 1973 and 2000. The English texts are supplemented with Japanese summaries and critiques written by a group of Dr. Tanaka's colleagues and students.
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