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Uncovers the deeply embedded cultural traditions of homosexuality in Japanese society, suggesting that they are as fundamental to an understanding of Japan's traditional civilization as a knowledge of paiderastia is to an appreciation of Greek art.
"A Sense of Place examines the vast Kantō region as a locus of cultural identity and an object of familial attachment during the political and military turmoil of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Japan. Through analysis of memoirs, letters, chronicles, poetry, travelogues, lawsuits, land registers, and archeological reports, David Spafford explores the relationships of the eastern elites to the space they inhabited: he considers the region both as a whole, in its literary representations and political and administrative dimensions, and as an aggregation of discrete locales, where struggles over land rights played out alongside debates about the meaning of ties between fam...
A pioneering look at same-sex desire in Japanese modernist writing.
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"A remarkable and sorely needed synthesis of the best of traditional historiographical documentation and critically astute analysis and contextualization. Cartographies complements and, frankly, exceeds any of the English language monographs on similar topics that precede it, and it represents significant contributions to several fields outside of East Asian history, including literature, gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, and cultural studies."—Earl Jackson Jr., author of Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay male Representation and Fantastic Living: The Speculative Autobiographies of Samuel R. Delany
Genetic factors have been proved to be involved in almost all dental and craniomaxillofacial diseases. Typical dental and craniomaxillofacial hereditary diseases refer to hereditary diseases which occurs in the oral and maxillofacial area, as well as systemic or other system hereditary diseases accompanied by oral abnormality. The former includes enamel hypoplasia, dentin hypoplasia and cleft lip and palate, which mainly occur in the oral cavity. While the latter commonly includes cranial clavicle hypoplasia, congenital ectodermal hypoplasia, osteogenesis imperfecta, and osteosclerosis. In addition, common diseases that appear locally in the oral cavity, including caries, periodontitis, oral...
Covers such subjects as: Ab initio and Density functional theory calculations of electric polarizability and hyperpolarizability, intermolecular forces, aromaticity, electric properties of solvated molecules, NLO materials, Raman intensities, polarizability of metal and semiconductor clusters, relativistic effects on electric properties, and more.