Anne Allison: 17 books

Book cover of Nightwork

Nightwork

Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

by Anne Allison
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009

In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen...
Book cover of Pikachu s Global Adventure

Pikachu s Global Adventure

The Rise and Fall of Pokémon

by David Buckingham, Julian Sefton-Green, Anne Allison
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004

Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including...
Book cover of Precarious Japan
by Anne Allison
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic...
Book cover of Millennial Monsters

Millennial Monsters

Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

by Anne Allison
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006

From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese “cool” is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters...
Book cover of Potty Party
by Anne Baird, Cary Beare, Allison McCready
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014

It's potty time. Help! Mom wants her toddler to poop in the potty. He prefers to do it in his pull-ups. But this time, something different happens! A band of happy animals, playing and singing the POTTY PARTY song, pours out of the bathroom shower! Encouraged to think of going to the potty...
Book cover of Le secret de Tara - Le bal du désir (Harlequin Passions)
by Allison Leigh, Anne Oliver
Language: French
Release Date: February 1, 2010

Le secret de Tara, Alison Leigh Depuis la merveilleuse nuit qu'ils ont passée ensemble, Tara n'a aucune nouvelle d'Axel Clay. D'abord profondément blessée par ce silence, elle décide de reprendre le cours de sa vie et d'élever seule l'enfant qu'elle attend de lui. Jusqu'au jour où elle...
Book cover of Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
by Walter Allen, Angela E. Arzubiaga, Miguel Ceja
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
Book cover of Research Skills for Students
by Brian Allison, Anne Hilton, Tim O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016

This fully photocopiable teaching resource provides tutors with a varied and lively range of learning activities and exercises to use with students to help equip them with the skills needed to plan for a research project in higher education.
Book cover of Health Humanities Reader
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Book cover of The Congress of Rough Writers

The Congress of Rough Writers

Flash Fiction Anthology Vol. 1

by Charli Mills, Anthony Amore, Georgia Bell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017

Witness great feats of literary art from daring writers around the world: stories crafted in 99 words. Flash fiction is a literary prompt, form, and tool that unites writers in word play. This creative craft hones a writer’s skills to write tight stories and explore longer works. It’s literary...
Book cover of Teaching with Joy

Teaching with Joy

Educational Practices for the Twenty-First Century

by Detine Bowers, Susan Caulfield, Kevin Cole
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006

This edited collection addresses the growing need for ideas and methods conducive to holistic educational practices and aims to encourage more personal growth in students too often distracted by the background noise of war, violence, racism, and environmental deterioration. The contributors are working...
Book cover of Ross & Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness E-Book
by Anne Waugh, BSc(Hons) MSc CertEd SRN RNT PFHEA, Allison Grant
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018

The new edition of the hugely successful Ross and Wilson Anatomy & Physiology in Health and Illness continues to bring its readers the core essentials of human biology presented in a clear and straightforward manner. Fully updated throughout, the book now comes with enhanced learning features...
Book cover of Toward a 21st-Century School Library Media Program
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007

This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
Book cover of A Restorative Approach to Family Violence
by Anne Hayden, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Allison Morris
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

This volume provides an essential update on current thinking, practice and research into the use of restorative justice in the area of family violence. It contains contemporary empirical, theoretical and practical perspectives on the use of restorative justice for intimate partner and family violence,...
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