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Preparing Professionals for Geriatric Practice in Social Welfare Settings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Preparing Professionals for Geriatric Practice in Social Welfare Settings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Acquisition List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

Acquisition List

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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American Doctoral Dissertations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

American Doctoral Dissertations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Dissertation Abstracts International
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

Dissertation Abstracts International

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Foreign Aid
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Foreign Aid

A twentieth-century innovation, foreign aid has become a familiar and even expected element in international relations. But scholars and government officials continue to debate why countries provide it: some claim that it is primarily a tool of diplomacy, some argue that it is largely intended to support development in poor countries, and still others point out its myriad newer uses. Carol Lancaster effectively puts this dispute to rest here by providing the most comprehensive answer yet to the question of why governments give foreign aid. She argues that because of domestic politics in aid-giving countries, it has always been—and will continue to be—used to achieve a mixture of differen...

Mizoguchi and Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Mizoguchi and Japan

For a majority of filmgoers, the names most usually associated with classic Japanese cinema are those of Kurosawa and Ozu. Yet during the early 1950s, at the same time that Kurosawa was becoming known to the public through the release of classics like Rashomon and The Seven Samurai, another Japanese director, Kenji Mizoguchi, quietly came out with a trilogy of films - The Life of Oharu, Ugetsu Monogatari and Sansho the Bailiff - that are the equal of Kurosawa's in mastery, and which by any account rank among the greatest and most enduring masterpieces of world cinema. As a storyteller, Mizoguchi was drawn to the plight and oppression of women throughout the ages - it was, for him, the 'subje...

Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema

  • Categories: Art

Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the three acclaimed masters--together with Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa--of Japanese cinema. Ten years in the making, Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema is the definitive guide to the life and work of one of the greatest film-makers of the 20th century. Born at the end of the 19th Century into a wealthy family, Mizoguchi's early life influenced the themes he would take up in his work. His father's ambitious business ventures failed and the family fell into poverty. His mother died and his beloved sister was sold into a geisha house. Her earnings paid for Mizoguchi's education. Weak and deluded men, and strong, self-sacrificing women--these were to bec...

Comprehensive Dissertation Index
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 780

Comprehensive Dissertation Index

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Shots in the Dark
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Shots in the Dark

In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery and the Ryoanji dry-landscape rock garden. Yamada shows how both became facile conduits for exporting and importing Japanese culture. First published in German in 1948 and translated into Japanese in 1956, Herrigel’s book popularized ideas of Zen both in the West and in Japan. Yamada traces the prewar history of Japanese archery, reveals how Herrigel mistakenly came to understand it as a traditional practice...

The Book of Urushi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

The Book of Urushi

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Urushi, Japanese lacquerware, is perhaps the oldest and most sublime of all the Japanese arts and crafts. Its history goes back more than 7,000 years and it is still vibrantly alive in the twenty-first century. It is practiced by craftsmen working in time-honored techniques and by modern artists forging the future. Valued for its utilitarian durability, Urushi developed into an incomparable art, adorning a objects from luxurious palaces, to lavish murals, to exquisitely crafted fountain pens. This book includes some fifty full-color illustrations of masterpieces honored by history and works by the author himself.--adapted from publisher's description.