Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. In a nation that has traditionally been uncomfortable addressing mental illness, what factors have allowed for the rising medicalization of depression and suicide? Investigating these profound changes from historical, clinical, and s...(展开全部)

Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. In a nation that has traditionally been uncomfortable addressing mental illness, what factors have allowed for the rising medicalization of depression and suicide? Investigating these profound changes from historical, clinical, and s...(展开全部)

For all the obstacles that remain, civil society is burgeoning in Japan, and the idea of civil society is at the core of the current debate about how to reinvigorate the country. The only volume of its kind, this book gathers the insights of American and Japanese scholars from the fields of political science, sociology, social psychology, and history to investigate the nature o...(展开全部)

This is a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the place of science in democratic societies. In this successor to his pioneering "Science, Truth, and Democracy", renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher explores the challenges of integrating science, the most successful knowledge-generating system of all time, with the problems of democracy. Kitcher considers a variety of exa...(展开全部)

关于作者 亨利·A.吉鲁（Henry A Giroux）出生于1943年9月18日，著名社会批评家。美国批判教育学的创始理论家之一，以在公共教学法、文化研究、青年研究、高等教育、媒体研究和批判理论等方面的杰出成果而举世闻名。曾担任中学老师6年，先后在波士顿大学、迈阿密大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学任教。2005年起担任加拿大麦克马斯特大学英语和文化研究系全球电视网讲座教授和 “挖掘真相”董事会成员。吉鲁著述甚丰，有著作50多部，发表学术文章300多篇。著作有：《怀疑社会中的青年》(Palgrave, 2009)、《希望之后的政治：奥巴马及青年、种族和民主的危机》(Paradigm, 2010)、《黑暗之心：反恐战争中的虐童事件》(Paradigm, 2010)、《喧嚣的老鼠：迪斯尼和天真的终结》(与格蕾斯·帕洛克［Grace Pollock］合著, Row...(展开全部)

No study in the philosophy of science created such controversy in the seventies as Paul Feyerabend s Against Method. In this work, Feyerabend reviews that controversy, and extends his critique beyond the problem of scientific rules and methods, to the social function and direction of science today. In the first part of the book, he launches a sustained and irreverent attack on...(展开全部)

An authoritative guide to understanding and treating depression in the medically ill Depression in Medical Illness is based on the fact that depression and medical illness are inextricably bound together and must be viewed through a single lens in order to truly understand, diagnose, and treat them. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize not simply a critical distillation a...(展开全部)

An authoritative guide to understanding and treating depression in the medically ill Depression in Medical Illness is based on the fact that depression and medical illness are inextricably bound together and must be viewed through a single lens in order to truly understand, diagnose, and treat them. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize not simply a critical distillation a...(展开全部)

Made in Japan -- Made in Japan—these three simple words conjure playful wit, a delight in detail, formal elegance, and graphic energy. Author of Made in China, Reed Darmon has collected hundreds of images of everyday Japanese design and pop culture ephemera from the past century. Including perfume ads, art deco matchboxes, robot toys, action movie posters, Noh masks, kimono pat...(展开全部)