Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits [1 ed.] 0520383516, 9780520383517

Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits 9780520383531

By the late twentieth century, Japan had gained worldwide attention as an economic powerhouse. Having miraculously risen

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The Excellent Mind: Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life 019009625X, 9780190096250

Nathan L. King's The Excellent Mind considers the importance of the intellectual virtues: the character traits of e

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The Extraordinary in The Ordinary. The Aesthetics of Everyday Life 9781551114781

This book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the

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The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World 9780674981683

During a 3-year, 8-nation journey, Michael Ignatieff found that while human rights is the language of states and liberal

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Limits of Life Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience 9781805395195, 2024934283, 9781805395683, 9781805395201

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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s 0195050010, 9780195050011

How did people live during Stalin's reign? This book does a fairly good job of explaining. Hardly an apologetic pie

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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s 9780198021698, 0198021690

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Fo

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Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society 0316257974, 9780316257978

Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent, "mon

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Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan 9780520964198

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing

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Everyday Life in the German Book Trade: Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of Enlightenment 9780271031156

In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the

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