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Oregon Health & Science University seemed stuck in the backwaters of the nation's academic health...
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Originally published by the University of Hawaii in 1936, this book combines fascinating Hawaiian...
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This book is intended for property owners whose land is located on sheltered waters protected fro...
Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain ...
This is the first English version of Tadao Umesao's classic, published first in Japanese in 1957,...
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Brazilian born, French educated, Alberto Santos-Dumont was probably one of only a few aviation pi...
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This book presents a wide-ranging study of widows in Japan, filtered through the dramatic and com...
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Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persu...
This book is a comprehensive account of the nativist movement in Japan today. Naoto Higuchi uses ...
In Pursuit of Composite Beauty is a study of the life and thought of Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961), k...
This book overviews the present situation of foreign migrants in Japan, based on the latest and m...
In this study of the formation of modern Thai radical culture, Tejapira reveals a process of cult...
This book is an important reference for those concerned with the continuing sustainability of wet...
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The artifice of gender performance - sometimes playful, mostly conscientious - has enthralled and...
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