Shelley Marshall: 11 books

Learn a few kanji and a lot of words...Begin to master Japanese kanji. Learn all 80 kanji studied by first graders in Japan plus 100 more learned by second graders.Efficiently learn multiple kanji by learning just one word.Learn how to read and write these kanji. With this small number of kanji, you...

Pirates! Shipwreck! Hunger! Wild Animal Attacks! After pirates sink a steamship on route from Italy to Japan, a young boy and a young man land on a not-so-desert island in the Indian Ocean. When electric lights and submarines were high-tech, Oshikawa Shunro, a father of Japanese science fiction, wrote...

Read real Japanese today.Four short stories in Japanese for beginners.Help is provided.Read four short stories in real, not textbook, Japanese.First, a few Japanese sentences are shown. Next, there is a short glossary of the Japanese and the English meanings. Finally, the...

This unfinished but classic story of friendship, loss, and the search for true happiness has inspired the creation of dozens of movies, plays, manga, anime, television shows, musical pieces, and even research papers.

The machinations of a man who must part from his ten or so lovers.Surprise ending!

As trade and production have increasingly crossed international boundaries, private bodies and governments alike have sought new ways to regulate labour standards and advance goals of fairness and social justice. Governments are harnessing social and market forces to advance corporate accountability,...

This book examines how businesses manage their labour systems, and particularly how they manage the complex interaction of factors which give rise to instances of 'partnership' style relations between businesses and their employees. The book draws from the literature concerning 'Varieties of Capitalism'...

This book is driven by a quest to re-regulate work to reduce informality and inequality, and promote a living wage for more people across the world. It presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study in four countries of varying wealth and development, exploring why people become trapped in precarious...

Homework; work that is categorised as informal employment, performed in the home, mainly for subcontractors and mostly undertaken by women. The inequities and injustices inherent in homework conditions maintain women’s weak bargaining position, preventing them from making any improvements to their...

Do you face well-intentioned dragons? Every church has them--sincere, well-meaning Christians who leave ulcers, strained relationships, and hard feelings in their wake. They don't intend to be hostile; they don't consciously plot destruction or breed discontent. But they often do undermine...

Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre. Over 40 years, Clean Break has commissioned some of the most progressive and...