Every foreign traveler in Japan is delighted by the verdant forest-shrouded mountains that thrust skyward from one end of the island chain to the other. The Japanese themselves are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they sometimes refer to as "the green archipelago." Yet, based on its fragile geography and centuries of extremely dense human occupation, Japan t...(展开全部)

This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman’s widely acclaimed study of Japan’s environmental policies over the centuries. Professor Totman raises the critical question of how Japan’s steeply mountainous woodland has remained biologically healthy despite centuries of intensive exploitation by a dense...(展开全部)

Every foreign traveler in Japan is delighted by the verdant forest-shrouded mountains that thrust skyward from one end of the island chain to the other. The Japanese themselves are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they sometimes refer to as 'the green archipelago'. Yet, based on its fragile geography and centuries of extremely dense human occupation, Japan t...(展开全部)

In the manifesto The City in the City - Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. In contrast to the reconstruction of the European city that was popular at the time, they developed the figure of a polycentric urban landscape. However, t...(展开全部)

The Earth's environment is interlaced with complex, constructed ecological pathways that link industrial facilities and human consumers. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human who was transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxin...(展开全部)

The Earth's environment is interlaced with complex, constructed ecological pathways that link industrial facilities and human consumers. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human who was transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxin...(展开全部)

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest – both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world – from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea – and as the record of a great mind. As Wallace, often under conditions of terrible hardship and sicknes...(展开全部)

* * Winner of the 2005 Ruth Benedict Prize, Society for Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association * * The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay ...(展开全部)

Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to the opposite sex; Nanook, a Greenlander who once worked as a sushi chef; Nora, the German woman who loves Nanook but is equally concerned with social justice and the environment; ...(展开全部)

著：多和田　葉子（タワダ　ヨウコ） 多和田葉子（たわだ・ようこ） 小説家、詩人。1960年東京都生まれ。早稲田大学第一文学部卒業。ハンブルク大学大学院修士課程修了。文学博士(チューリッヒ大学)。1982年よりドイツに在住し、日本語とドイツ語で作品を手がける。1991年『かかとを失くして』で群像新人文学賞、1993年『犬婿入り』で芥川賞、2000年『ヒナギクのお茶の場合』で泉鏡花文学賞、2002年『球形時間』でBunkamuraドゥマゴ文学賞、2003年『容疑者の夜行列車』で伊藤整文学賞、谷崎潤一郎賞、2005年にゲーテ・メダル、2009年に早稲田大学坪内逍遙大賞、2011年『尼僧とキューピッドの弓』で紫式部文学賞、『雪の練習生』で野間文芸賞、2013年『雲をつかむ話』で読売文学賞、芸術選奨文部科学大臣賞を受賞。2016年にドイツのクライスト賞を日本人...(展开全部)