693 results for 'jun'ichiro task'

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for...

"Tanizaki writes with an unabashed sensuality. Even his lighter-hearted fictions...make us hold our breath, and the endings don't let us quite exhale." --John Updike in The New Yorker "Tanizaki's...

Today's critic must be something of a philosopher as well as a poet. Yet her workremains above all that of the close reader, and the emergence of the valuesembodied by the close reader to stand...

"Why is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can your child expertly fix the...

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra...

In this study, Teresa L. Ebert makes a spirited, pioneering case for a new cultural critique committed to the struggles for human freedom and global equality. Demonstrating the implosion of the...

Hans Reiss. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [208]-216.

This is a comprehensive guide to the themes, origins, symbolism, variations and distribution of medieval church art in the British Isles. The book includes a short biography of all the saints along...

Seven years' residence in Japan has provided the author with the bases for a descriptive study of the values and behavior of contemporary Japan's various individual types, groups, and classes

This provocative, challenging, and controversial look at the balance between human activity and the environment takes traditional environmental ethics to task.

Annabeth has been away from Percy for six months, but at last they are about to be reunited. However, Annabeth fears Percy's time at Camp Jupiter may have turned him to the Roman ways instead of the...

Examining Athenian democracy as an object lesson for democracy in general, and invoking Freud as his guide in this task, Eli Sagan explores the startling contradictions in the society of Athens: its...

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.   After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the...

"A searing indictment of Western media that lays bare how a so-called free press, long tasked with speaking truth to power, instead became a vital part of the machinery that enabled the genocide in...

Reading Nietzsche's works as the "political biography of his soul," Leslie Thiele presents an original and accessible essay on the great thinker's attempt to lead a heroic life as a philosopher,...

Engineer Jean-Baptiste Baratte is tasked with emptying an overflowing cemetery in Paris in 1785, work he considers noble until he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery parallels his...

Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank...

"Few have set themselves to the formidable task of reconstructing and analyzing a whole human environment; fewer still have succeeded. Bloch dared to do this and was successful; therein lies the...

"Adolph L. Reed Jr.-- New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation"-- takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular...