Where There Are Asians, There Are Rice Cookers

Where There Are Asians, There Are Rice CookersThis is the first English language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker's globalization aims to move away from Japan centric perspectives on how "Made in Japan" products made it big in the global marketplace, instead choosing to emphasize the collaborative approach adopted by one Japanese manufacturing giant and a Hong Kong entrepreneur. The book also

Picart explores ballroom dancing and its more "sporty" equivalent

When he died at just thirty-three years of age

He claimed

medieval Hispanic dream poetry to Italian Renaissance dream theory

Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba

Revisits fiction by the three major Yiddish authors who wrote between 1864 and 1916

Some were high profile

Personality disorder

famous and notorious British women wrote about their sex in the 1790s

and goes beyond merely presenting information to analyze the question of whether the practice of public health achieves its promise

Some of the essays in this collection extend pragmatist and process insights about the important place aesthetics has in molding and assessing experience

to be seen by some as a story for children