"Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity s struggle through modernity. In "Death by Water, " his recurring protagonist and literary alter ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his father s death during World War II: details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel ..."
"If you read mysteries for insights into other cultures and different periods, this excellent translation of the first novel by Akimitsu Takagi, who became one of Japan's leading crime writers, is an eye-opener. In 1947 Toyko, the limbs of a murdered woman are discovered in a locked bathroom. Her torso--covered with intricately beautiful tattoos by her late father, a highly controversial artist--is missing. A doctor finds the body, and ..."
Returned(1st Edition) Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation (Volume 39) (California Series in Public Anthropology) by Deborah A. Boehm Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-28708-2, ISBN: 0-520-28708-8
Intimate Migrations(Reprint) Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans by Deborah A. Boehm Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2013 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-8555-8, ISBN: 1-4798-8555-X
"“With an ethnographer’s eye for detail, Boehm shows us the hopes, dreams, frustrations, tensions, divisions, and enduring qualities of lives among families connected and split by the U.S.-Mexico border. Intimate Migrations puts a human face on the reasons why people migrate, changing gender relations, and how children experience these dynamic and fluid processes, all of which are subject to increasingly restrictionist U.S. immigration ..."
"series. in. public. anthropology. The California Series in Public Anthropology
emphasizes the anthropologist's role as an engaged intellectual. It continues
anthropology's commitment to being an ethnographic witness, to describing, in
human terms, how life is lived beyond the borders of many readers' experiences.
But it also adds a commitment, through ethnography, ... Twice Dead: Organ
Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, by M ..."
"Jomy Marcus Shin has led the telepathic Mu race into hiding on Naska, a planet abandoned long before by human colonists. Naska provides a temporary home, but it is no substitute for Terra. The first Mu children in hundreds of years to be conceived naturally are born there, giving the Mu the promise of a bright future. Their fragile peace, however, may soon be shattered..."
"Carefully wrought and passionate, Stephan Torre's poetry considers life and work on the edge of wild lands, wrestling with one of the central paradoxes of the human condition: the drive to change and conquer the very wilderness that is the source of sanctuary and spiritual renewal. Wilderness settings permeate Torre's work, from Wyoming's flathead Lake to the south-central coast of California to the spruce forests and subsistence farms ..."
To Terra 2(Reprint) by Keiko Takemiya, DeborahBoehm Library, Published 2008 by Paw Prints 2008-03-01 ISBN-13: 978-1-4352-2946-4, ISBN: 1-4352-2946-0
"The Mu, a group of outcast humans with extrasensory powers, have tried to broker peace with the human race, but the humans' fears of telepathy and the Mu's fears of human social engineering have frustrated all hopes of peaceful coexistence."
"Oe introduces Kogito Choko, a writer in his early sixties, as he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law, the renowned filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro sends Kogito a trunk of tapes he has recorded of reflections about their friendship, but as Kogito is listening one night, he hears something odd. "I'm going to head over to the Other Side now," Goro says, and then Kogito hears a loud thud. After a moment of silence ..."
"The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth In the United States, millions of children are undocumented migrants or have family members who came to the country without authorization. The unique challenges with which these children and youth must cope demand special attention. Illegal Encounters considers illegality, deportability, and deportation in the lives of young people—those who migrate as well as t ..."
Returned Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation (Hardcover) by Deborah A. Boehm Hardcover, 182 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-28706-8, ISBN: 0-520-28706-1
"Returned follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.S. immigration policies and state removals affect families. Deportation--an emergent global order of social injustice--reaches far beyond the individual deportee, as family members with diverse U.S. immigration statuses, including U.S. citizens, also return after deportation or migrate for the ..."
Intimate Migrations(Updated) Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans by Deborah A. Boehm, Pem Davidson Buck Hardcover, 188 Pages, Published 2012 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-8983-4, ISBN: 0-8147-8983-8
"The future. Having driven Terra to the brink of environmental collapse, humanity decides to reform itself by ushering in the age of Superior Domination (S.D.), a system of social control in which children are no longer the offspring of parents but progeny of a universal computer. The new social order, however, results in an unexpected byproduct: the Mu, a mutant race with extrasensory powers who are forced in exile by The System.The sag ..."