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No One's Perfect
A boy born with neither arms nor legs tells his own amazing and inspiring story in a style purposefully meant to reach all ages. "No One's Perfect", Ototake's true account of how he has met and beat one challenge after another, has sold over four million copies in Japan, where he has utterly changed the way people view the disabled. "Ototake's style could not be more refreshing".--"Los Angeles Times". 8 photos.
DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT
This book examines how the concept of disability is starting to take root in the Japanese school system, and what the implications are for parents, teachers, policy makers, and other stakeholders.
Introduction to the Real World 101
Kaz Nagai shares what he considers 101 of the most important life lessons for the years following graduation, covering everything from your career, to love, and to self-improvement.
Embodying Culture
Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures—Japan and Israel—both of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry focuses on "low-risk" or "normal" pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, local reproductive politics, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency. The ethnography pieces together the voices of pregnant Japanese and Israeli women, their doctors, their partners, the literature they read, and depicts various clinical encounters such as ultrasound scans, explanatory classes for amniocentesis, birthing classes, and special pregnancy events. The emergent pictures suggest that athough experiences of pregnancy in Japan and Israel differ, pregnancy in both cultures is an energy-consuming project of meaning-making— suggesting that the sense of biomedical technologies are not only in the technologies themselves but are assigned by those who practice and experience them.
Robo Sapiens Japanicus
Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in mass and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots—humanoids, androids, and animaloids—are “imagineered” in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether “civil rights” should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the “normal” body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley.
Enjoyvity, Your Full Spectrum of Life
EnjoyVity is intended for those who want to enhance their life and safe-guard that of their beloved ones. The author addresses the subject of natural remedies, they don't want you to know about or don't have time to talk about, in this revolutionary book, a one-of-a-kind program with a 21-chapter easy to read lay-out. Discover your path to true self- healing. Learn how to easily and healthy live extra years. Find the missing link in your healthy life puzzle.Understand how to live your dreams not those of others.Think and act towards your life enhancement.Successfully adapt and change with 'the 7 basic life. rules'
From Mindfulness to Heartfulness
Explaining how mindfulness can be so much more than a practice for reducing stress, enhancing attention, and instilling tranquility, this book describes eight heartfulness principles that help us realize that the deepest expression of an enlightened mind is found in our relation to others. --
Woman Running in the Mountains
Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers and hers alone, a challenge that she also hopes will free her. Takiko’s first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn. At first she seeks refuge in the company of other women—in the hospital, in her son’s nursery—but as the baby grows, her life becomes less circumscribed as she explores Tokyo, then ventures beyond the city into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and desire for a wilder freedom.
Dwarfism
"A great leap forward for the social and cultural condition of dwarfism." -- Andrew Solomon, Newsday This landmark volume is the first to trace the exciting developments in the field of dwarfism research and treatment over the past century -- particularly during the past fifty years. Dr. Betty M. Adelson, a psychologist, has unearthed and synthesized the most significant information about dwarfing conditions, from articles written a century ago to current books and specialized databases.
