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A Mother's Love Was Always There

Autor: Cerise Harris-watkins

Número de Páginas: 62

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Lovesick Japan

Autor: Mark D. West

Número de Páginas: 273

In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence—2,700 court opinions—describes a society characterized by a presupposed absence of physical and emotional intimacy, affection, and personal connections. In compelling, poignant, and sometimes horrifying court cases, West finds that Japanese judges frequently opine on whether a person is in love, what other emotions a person is feeling, and whether those emotions are appropriate for the situation. Sometimes judges’ views about love, sex, and marriage emerge from their presentation of the facts of cases. Among the recurring elements are abortions forced by men, compensated dating, late-life divorces, termination fees to end affairs, sexless couples, Valentine’s Day heartbreak, "soapland" bath-brothels, and home-wrecking hostesses. Sometimes the judges’ analysis, decisions, and commentary are as revealing as the facts. Sex in the cases is a choice among private "normal" sex, which is male-dominated, conservative, dispassionate, or nonexistent; commercial sex, which caters to every fetish but is said to lead to rape, murder, and...

The Maya World

Autor: Scott R. Hutson , Traci Ardren

Número de Páginas: 995

The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system, towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies, complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an invaluable reference volume for scholars of the...

Catalogue of Music

Autor: British Museum

Número de Páginas: 960

Poems

Autor: William Wordsworth

Número de Páginas: 652

The Nation

Número de Páginas: 724

The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Maid Marian. Misfortunes of Elphin. Crotchet castle. Gryll grange

Autor: Thomas Love Peacock

Número de Páginas: 492

The Works of Thomas Love Peacock Including His Novels, Poems, Fugutive, Pieces, Criticism, Etc

Autor: Peacock

Número de Páginas: 488

The National Review

Número de Páginas: 880

Pennsylvania Archives

Autor: Samuel Hazard , John Blair Linn , William Henry Egle , George Edward Reed , Thomas Lynch Montgomery , Gertrude Mackinney , Charles Francis Hoban

Número de Páginas: 846

A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.