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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON MEN, MASCULINITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
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    ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON MEN, MASCULINITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
    JEFF HEARN
    This Handbook provides new theoretical and empirical insights into men, men’s practices and masculinities across many kinds of organizations and forms of organizing. Most mainstream studies of organizations, leadership and management do not seem to notice they are often talking a lot about men and masculinities. The Handbook challenges this general tendency to avoid gendering m...

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  • KWAIDAN, STORIES AND STUDIES OF STRANGE THINGS
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    KWAIDAN, STORIES AND STUDIES OF STRANGE THINGS
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief study on insects. Hearn declares in his introduction, that most of these stories were translated from old Japanese texts (probably with the help of his wife, Setsu Koizumi). He also states that one of the stories - Yuki-onna - was told to him by a farmer in Mus...

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  • KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND YOUNG SEXUALITIES
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    KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND YOUNG SEXUALITIES
    TAMARA SHEFER / JEFF HEARN
    This book troubles the ways young people have been constructed as ‘trouble’ through critical readings of the effects and impacts, politically and ideologically, globally and locally, of scholarship and practice directed at South African young people’s sexualities over the last three decades of addressing HIV, GBV and other sexual and gender justice challenges. Located primarily...

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  • KOKORO
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    KOKORO
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Auszug: "Er war in einer Stadt im Innern des Landes geboren, der Residenz eines Daimyo mit einem Territoriumbesitz von hunderttausend Koko (altes japanisches Maß). Kein Fremder hatte die Gegend jemals betreten. Die Yashiki Residenz eines Daimyo. seines Vaters, eines Samurai von hohem Rang, lag innerhalb der äußern Festungsmauern, von denen der fürstliche Palast umgeben war. Es ...

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  • GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS: STUDIES OF HAND AND SOUL IN THE FAR EAST
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    GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS: STUDIES OF HAND AND SOUL IN THE FAR EAST
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Lafcadio Hearn's books have charmed and captivated readers, just as the exotic subjects about which he has written have captivated him. "Gleanings in the Buddha-Fields" presents more Hearn magic as he enters into the spirit of Buddhism as though he were born into it. This collection of stories, subtitled "Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East," takes the reader on a journey ...

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  • TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES
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    TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    An often referred to and well-respected account, mainly on Martinique, but also on Trinidad, St. Pierre, St. Kitt's, St. Lucia, Granada, etc. The author is most well-known for his works on Japan. A series of light, amusing and evocative sketches of Martinique at the end of the 19th century. This tells of the two years the author lived in the West Indies in the late 1880's. An a...

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  • SOME CHINESE GHOSTS
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    SOME CHINESE GHOSTS
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Dragons, artists, aristocrats, deities. Ghosts, demons. Beautiful women and brave young men. A tapestry of Chinese ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a writer of Greek and Irish blood, influenced by the Chinese and Japanese culture with a distinctive sensitivity and clarity in his writing. These stories take us to the heart of an early medieval society populated with heroes and w...

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  • THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY, AND OTHER STUDIES & STORIES
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    THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY, AND OTHER STUDIES & STORIES
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Lafcadio Hearn was a writer particularly gifted at translating a foreign aesthetic for a Western audience. Hearn's writing is always lyrical and passionate, and in this collection of essays and tales-not all of which are on subjects Japanese, unlike his most popular works-we see also his most refined workmanship and most intellectual discourse. Whether an extrapolation on Gobli...

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  • CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND
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    CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Lafcadio Hearn was an English writer who was born in Greece, lived in Ireland, and then moved to the United States. He later moved to Japan, which had a great influence on his writing. Hearn is best known for his stories about Japan, especially his ghost stories and legends. Chita a Memory of Last Island was written while Hearn was living in New Orleans. Chita was a young white...

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  • JAPAN: AN ATTEMPT AT INTERPRETATION
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    JAPAN: AN ATTEMPT AT INTERPRETATION
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Scholar and travel writer Lafcadio Hearn spent decades in Japan, eventually adopting it as his home country. Perhaps more than any other single writer, Hearn is responsible for documenting and interpreting Japan for Western audiences. In this engrossing volume, Hearn undertakes his most comprehensive comparative analysis of Japanese culture. (Goodreads) ...

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  • KIMIKO, AND OTHER JAPANESE SKETCHES
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    KIMIKO, AND OTHER JAPANESE SKETCHES
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    A brief but delightful insight into Japanese culture by an author who (from my experience) has consistently captured the ways of the Japanese people of the time. (Goodreads) ...

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  • BOOKS AND HABITS, FROM LECTURES OF LAFCADIO HEARN
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    BOOKS AND HABITS, FROM LECTURES OF LAFCADIO HEARN
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn These chapters, for the most part, are reprinted from Lafcadio Hearn's "Interpretations of Literature," 1915, from his "Life and Literature," 1916, and from his "Appreciations of Poetry," 1917. Three chapters appear here for the first time. They are all taken from the student notes of Hearn's lectures at the...

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  • STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE, AND, FANTASTICS AND OTHER FANCIES
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    STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE, AND, FANTASTICS AND OTHER FANCIES
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Excerpt: "While engaged upon this little mosaic work of legend and fable, I felt much like one of those merchants told of in Sindbad's Second Voyage, who were obliged to content themselves with gathering the small jewels adhering to certain meat which eagles brought up from the Valley of Diamonds. I have had to depend altogether upon the labor of translators for my acquisitions...

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    "OUT OF THE EAST": REVERIES AND STUDIES IN NEW JAPAN
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Lafcadio Hearn was probably as responsible as anyone for opening the Western mind to the ways of the Japanese, having lived and worked there, marrying a Japanese woman and becoming a naturalized citizen. He made his fame through translating Japanese ghost stories, but he also wrote a vast amount of essays and articles, with this being a collection of short, thoughtful pieces. (...

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    "GOMBO ZHÈBES" LITTLE DICTIONARY OF CREOLE PROVERBS
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Originally published in 1885, Gombo Zhebes is a collection of 352 Creole proverbs selected from 6 dialects. Included are selections from the Creole of French Guyana, the Creole of Haiti, the Creole of New Orleans, the Creole of Martinique, the Creole of Mauritius, and the Creole of Trinidad. The proverbs are translated into French and into English. (Goodreads) ...

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  • KOTTO: BEING JAPANESE CURIOS, WITH SUNDRY COBWEBS
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    KOTTO: BEING JAPANESE CURIOS, WITH SUNDRY COBWEBS
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Journalist-by-trade Lafcadio Hearn used his wanderer's eye and guileless, graceful style to provide elegant chronicles for an English-speaking world fascinated by the exotic sensibilities of Japan. He set himself apart from others who attempted to translate the life and culture of this island country through his ability to reveal the truth of his subjects artfully-flawlessly ex...

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  • GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN FIRST AND SECOND SERIES
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    GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN FIRST AND SECOND SERIES
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a bewitching look into a world that few Westerners saw in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a world that still endures in many ways in spite of the changes that have taken place during the modernization of Japan. (Goodreads) ...

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  • IN GHOSTLY JAPAN
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    IN GHOSTLY JAPAN
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    In Ghostly Japan collects twelve ghostly stories from Lafcadio Hearn, deathless images of ghosts and goblins, touches of folklore and superstition, salted with traditions of the nation. While some of these stories contain nightmare imagery worthy of a midnight creature feature, others are not ghostly or ghastly at all. "Bits of Poetry" offers an engaging study on verse, and "Ja...

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  • JAPANISCHE GEISTERGESCHICHTEN - ILLUSTRIERTE FASSUNG
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    JAPANISCHE GEISTERGESCHICHTEN - ILLUSTRIERTE FASSUNG
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Der Band Japanische Geistergeschichten enthält zwölf Geschichten aus der japanischen Folklore die sowohl die Geister der Toten als auch die Geister der Lebenden kennt. ...

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  • AGE AT WORK
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    AGE AT WORK
    JEFF HEARN / WENDY PARKIN
    Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which ‘age’ is at ‘work’ across society, organizations and workplaces, with special focus on organizations, their boundaries, and marginalizing processes around age and ageism in and across these spaces.  The book examines: how society operates in and through age, and how this informs the very existence of organizations; age-organization ...

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  • REASON AND FREEDOM IN SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
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    REASON AND FREEDOM IN SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    FRANK HEARN
    How has reason, believed since the Enlightenment to be the ally of freedom in the search for a better, more humanly satisfying world, been reduced to a technical rationality that has actually impoverished the bases of human freedom? What might be the options and obligations for sociologists who wish to restore reason to its proper status? Working within the tradition of C. Wrig...

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  • MORAL ORDER AND SOCIAL DISORDER
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    MORAL ORDER AND SOCIAL DISORDER
    FRANK HEARN
    Drawing upon both classical insights and more recent writings, Hearn provides a compelling account of social breakdown in the United States. The book examines the conditions most responsible for the deterioration of social institutions, notably the family, and of communitarian interdependencies, such as those that support neighborhoods. More specifically, Hearn analyzes the def...

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  • ON BECOMING A MANAGER IN SOCIAL WORK
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    ON BECOMING A MANAGER IN SOCIAL WORK
    BARBARA HEARN / GILES DARVILL
    Too often professional staff are thrust into the role of manager without preparation or subsequent guidance over what becoming a manager entails. On Becoming a Manager is written by managers from a range of personal social services settings. It describes the transition from practice into this new world of management and includes advice, guidance and tips on a range of issues,...

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  • REVENGE PORNOGRAPHY
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    REVENGE PORNOGRAPHY
    MATTHEW HALL / JEFF HEARN
    Facilitated by developments in technologies, the non-consensual posting of sexually explicit images of someone else for revenge, entertainment or political motive – so-called revenge porn – has become a global phenomenon. This groundbreaking book argues that fundamental and recurring issues about how victims are violated can be understood in terms of gender and sexual dynamics ...

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  • OUT OF THE EAST (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    OUT OF THE EAST (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    This book, first published in 1903, is an account of Lafcadio Hearn’s insights and experiences of Japan. Hearn, known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was an international writer who was best known for his books about Japan and Japanese culture. This book will be of interest to students of history and Asian Studies. ...

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  • MEN OF THE WORLD
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    MEN OF THE WORLD
    JEFF HEARN
    Men of the World will be seized upon by academics and activists facing up to the persistence, proliferation and transnationalization of patriarchies. - Cynthia Cockburn, City University, London and University of Warwick "This is an important, thought-provoking and incredibly timely book from one of the leading scholars in the field of men and masculinities. I cannot praise this...

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  • MEN, MASCULINITIES AND SOCIAL THEORY (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
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    MEN, MASCULINITIES AND SOCIAL THEORY (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    JEFF HEARN
    This volume presents a series of illustrative and critical perspectives upon the developing study of men and masculinities and its importance for sociological theory. The contributions, by women and men from Britain and the United States, are organized around the unifying themes of Power and Domination; Sexuality; Identity and Perception. Feminism has raised profound questions ...

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  • LA CUISINE CREOLE
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    LA CUISINE CREOLE
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Published in New Orleans in 1885, one of the great classics of Creole cuisine, believed to be the first Creole cookbook in print. Although La Cuisine Creole was printed anonymously in 1885, Lafcadio Hearn is generally accepted as the author of this Creole culinary classic. In his introduction, Hearn describes the intriguing origin of this unique cuisine, explaining that, “it pa...

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  • MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
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    MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
    E. J. HEARN
    Mechanics of Materials, Second Edition, Volume 2 presents discussions and worked examples of the behavior of solid bodies under load. The book covers the components and their respective mechanical behavior. The coverage of the text includes components such cylinders, struts, and diaphragms. The book covers the methods for analyzing experimental stress; torsion of non-circular ...

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  • PROBLEMS OF PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
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    PROBLEMS OF PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
    C. HEARN BUCK
    Problems of Product Design and Development provides an elementary introduction to product design and development. Some of the topics discussed include an introduction to the kinds of design and production; initiation of a new product; function and use of designed products; design for production and maintenance; coordination of design; job description of a designer; and researc...

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