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This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literature, film, and performance studies. These scholars analyze complex questions about how the body is lived and imagined as a locus of meaning-making in contemporary Japan. Exploring such topics as mind-body dualism, aging and illness, spirit possession, beauty, performance, and gender, this collection addresses the wide array of socio-cultural and literary contexts in which the body is interpreted in Japanese culture and thought.
Anton, Bivens & Davis latest issue of Calculus Early Transcendentals Single Variable continues to build upon previous editions to fulfill the needs of a changing market by providing flexible solutions to teaching and learning needs of all kinds. The text continues to focus on and incorporate new ideas that have withstood the objective scrutiny of many skilled and thoughtful instructors and their students. This 10th edition retains Anton's trademark clarity of exposition, sound mathematics, excellent exercises and examples, and appropriate level.
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Shortly before his death, Anton Chekov wrote to Diaghilev: 'I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.' Tamas Pataki shares that bewilderment.The idea that the world's main religions - particularly Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have been fatally undermined since the Enlightenment has been proved spectacularly wrong. Statistics show that traditional faith retains strong support: in the USA, 85 per cent of people claim to believe in God; in Nigeria, 98 per cent; in Indonesia, at least 90 per cent; in Ireland, 87 per cent. The revival of Orthodoxy in Russia and Eastern Europe, religious stirrings in atheistic China, the growth of extreme Hindu nationalism in...