With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy and its political system is healthier than at any time in its history. Japan Transformed explores the historical, political, and economic forces that led to the country's recent evolution, and looks at the consequences for Japan's citizens and global neighbors.

The book examines Japanese history, illustrating the country's multiple transformations over the centuries, and then focuses on the critical and inexorable advance of economic globalization. It describes how global economic integration and urbanization destabilized Japan's postwar policy coalition, undercut the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's ability to buy votes, and paved the way for new electoral rules that emphasized competing visions of the public good. In contrast to the previous system that pitted candidates from the same party against each other, the new rules tether policymaking to the vast swath of voters in the middle of the political spectrum. Regardless of ruling party, Japan's politics, economics, and foreign policy are on a neoliberal path.

Japan Transformed combines broad context and comparative analysis to provide an accurate understanding of Japan's past, present, and future.

Edited by Uta Grosenick, Daniel Marzona. Text by Rainer Fuchs, Eva Meyer-Hermann.

Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, by Theodore A. Stern, Gregory L. Fricchione, Ned H. Cassem, Michael Jellinek, and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, is your ideal source of guidance on consultation-liaison psychiatry! Experts from the Massachusetts General Hospital-widely respected as one of the world's premier psychiatric institutions-provide practical advice on the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric issues experienced by in-hospital, medically ill adults and children. This compact resource reads like a handbook, but delivers all the details you'd expect from a textbook.

• Understand and manage the psychological impact of chronic medical problems, life-threatening diseases, disfigurement, and more.
• Effectively manage difficult patients, including those with hypochondriacal and conversion disorders.

• Find information quickly thanks to an improved chapter organization, and get just the answers you need with concise yet complete coverage appropriate for psychiatrists and generalists alike.
• Implement the most current, effective pharmaceutical therapies as well as cognitive-behavioral approaches.
• Access the complete contents online, fully searchable, at expertconsult.com.

MGH-the leader in consultative liaison psychiatry-presents the latest edition of the handbook that has the comprehensive coverage of a textbook.

Come si scrivono le note? Quanti tasti ha un pianoforte? Chi era Bach? La musica, si sa, è un universo affascinante e misterioso che suscita infinite domande, ma di solito si teme che le risposte siano troppo astruse e complicate. Niente di più falso, come dimostra il libro di Michaël Rosenfeld, che soddisfa ogni curiosità attraverso spiegazioni semplici, piacevoli e divertenti. Arricchite dalle coloratissime illustrazioni di Aurélia Fronty e Christine Destours, queste pagine permettono di scoprire davvero "tutto sulla musica". Si comincia con la scrittura e il linguaggio dei suoni: le chiavi, i pentagrammi, le note, i timbri, le melodie, i modi maggiore e minore, le tonalità e gli accordi. Poi si può prendere confidenza con gli strumenti musicali: dal violino al pianoforte, dalla chitarra alle percussioni. Infine non mancano i ritratti dei più grandi compositori, come Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Chopin, Debussy, le stelle del jazz Bessie Smith e Miles Davis, e tanti altri ancora. Il percorso è reso ancora più avvincente dal CD audio allegato. Contiene i brani musicali di cui si parla nel volume, introdotti in modo accattivante dalla voce di Marco Golinelli: dal Volo del calabrone di Rimsky Korsakov ai Capricci di Paganini, dalle Quattro Stagioni di Vivaldi alla Cavalcata delle Valchirie di Wagner. Sfogliando il libro e ascoltando il cd, le nozioni musicali di base si trasformano così in emozioni, finalmente alla portata di tutti. Età di lettura: da 6 anni.

Are you prepared to serve and teach all students? The second edition of Special Education for Today's Teachers: An Introduction not only will provide a solid foundation for being a teacher in today's classroom, but also will help you to truthfully answer this question. The challenges we face today in special education require highly qualified, reflective practitioners who use research-based strategies in the classroom and who are excited about the success and future of students. This book will help prepare you to meet these requirements and find the solutions that will lead you to that success.

L'intento degli autori, nel proporre questa quarta edizione italiana, la sesta americana, di Microbiologia medica, è quello di presentare i concetti fondamentali della microbiologia in modo chiaro e conciso e con uno stile adatto a diverse tipologie di Studenti. Le conoscenze in materia di microbiologia e immunologia sono in rapida e continua evoluzione grazie a nuove e stimolanti scoperte in tutti i campi, ogni capitolo è stato quindi accuratamente aggiornato e ampliato.

How do you deal with a bully? A stellar author-illustrator team shows that a touch of playfulness can go a long way.

Little wind-up soldier A-One is in charge. At least that's what he tells the other toys: Sally, Maddy, and Sid. When he tells them to turn his key, they do it. When he tells them they're no good, they feel bad. He calls them all kinds of things: no good, hopeless, the worst. Or was that hope-use, good-no, and less-less? Somehow, stringing all those mean words together makes them start to sound, well, silly — and even though A-One doesn't mean to, he finds himself smiling too. From the incomparable Michael Rosen and Bob Graham comes an insightful, child-friendly tale about learning how to be one of the gang.

An award-winning classic--now available in a 20th anniversary keepsake edition!

We're going on a bear hunt. We're going to catch a big one.

Will you come too? For twenty years, readers have been swishy swashing and splash sploshing through this award-winning favorite. Now fans of this classic story from Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury can celebrate with this special edition anniversary board book featuring a padded voer with refreshed cover art and gold foil page edges.

Have you ever gone on a bear hunt? Come along on this one with a brave young family -- four children (including the baby) and their father. They're not scared. With them you will cross a field of tall, wavy grass ("Swishy swashy!"), wade through a deep, cold river ("Splash splosh!"), struggle through swampy mud ("Squelch squerch!"), find your way through a big, dark forest ("Stumble trip!"), fight through a whirling snowstorm ("Hoooo woooo!"), and enter a narrow, gloomy cave. WHAT'S THAT? You'll soon learn just what to do to escape from a big, furry bear!

With tremendous pace, humor, and verve, Michael Rosen has retold a favorite tractional story. The pictures by Helen Oxenbury, one of the most widely loved contemporary artists, are full of masterly characterizations, delightful comedy, and high drama, set in lovely sweeping landscapes. This is a book not to be missed, one to be chanted aloud and acted out, to be enjoyed over and over again. It is a picture book on the grand scale.

Michael Rosenfeld offers a new theory of family dynamics to account for the interesting and startling changes in marriage and family composition in the United States in recent years. His argument revolves around the independent life stage that emerged around 1960. This stage is experienced by young adults after they leave their parents' homes but before they settle down to start their own families. During this time, young men and women go away to college, travel abroad, begin careers, and enjoy social independence. This independent life stage has reduced parental control over the dating practices and mate selection of their children and has resulted in a sharp rise in interracial and same-sex unions--unions that were more easily averted by previous generations of parents.

Complementing analysis of newly available census data from the entire twentieth century with in-depth interviews that explore the histories of families and couples, Rosenfeld proposes a conceptual model to explain many social changes that may seem unrelated but that flow from the same underlying logic. He shows, for example, that the more a relationship is transgressive of conventional morality, the more likely it is for the individuals to live away from their family and area of origin.

The definitive oral history of the Woodstock rock festival.

A joyful primer on the pleasures of bird-watching merges haiku, notes for identifying species, and exquisite watercolor illustrations.

In spare and graceful words, poet and birder Michael J. Rosen captures
the forecasting call of the mysterious cuckoo as well as essential characteristics of more than twenty commonly seen North American birds. This artfully compiled fi eld notebook — enriched by the evocative artwork of watercolorist Stan Fellows — captures the excitement of recognizing a bird, whether a darting kingfi sher, a wandering wild turkey, or a chirpy house sparrow.

"Few anthologies for this age group include such a fi ne selection of works, introduce the poets so vividly, or provide such a rich collection of haunting illustrations." — Booklist

Poetry provides the best introduction to the marvels of the English language. This volume, collected by award-winning author Michael Rosen, presents a glorious selection of classic poetry, chronologically arranged from the seventeenth century to modern day—poems by such celebrated poets as William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, and Langston Hughes— complete with biographical sketches of the poets, information on individual poems, and notes on poetic forms. Paul Howard's full-color illustrations illuminate some of the most brilliant poems of the English-speaking world with stunning breadth and beauty. A book to be treasured, Classic Poetry belongs on every shelf—every child should know these poems and keep this book with them as they grow.

With unmitigated honesty, a touch of humor, and sensitive illustrations by Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen explores the experience of sadness in a way that resonates with us all.

Sometimes I'm sad and I don't know why.
It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me up.

Sad things happen to everyone, and sometimes people feel sad for no reason at all. What makes Michael Rosen sad is thinking about his son, Eddie, who died suddenly at the age of eighteen. In this book the author writes about his sadness, how it affects him, and some of the things he does to cope with it—like telling himself that everyone has sad stuff (not just him) and trying every day to do something he can be proud of. Expressively illustrated by the extraordinary Quentin Blake, this is a very personal story that speaks to everyone, from children to parents to grandparents, teachers to grief counselors. Whether or not you have known what it's like to feel deeply sad, the truth of this book will surely touch you.

Collections of nonsense rhymes, poems, wordplay and limericks from Michael Rosen, matched by Clare Mackie's zany illustrations, and now reissued. Ages: 5-8yrs.

A warm and happy picture book about a bear who decides to go exploring - perfect for reading aloud (Michael Rosen does just that on the accompanying CD) and with the vibrant illustrations of Adrian Reynolds. 'Feels more like jazz than prose...A

The Przysucha (Yiddish Pshiskha, pronounced Pe-shis-kha) school of Hasidism believed in a service of God that demanded both passion and analytical study. There was little or no study of kabbalah in Przysucha, and the emphasis was not on trying to understand God, but on trying to understand the human being. It was clear to them that one could not stand with any sense of integrity before the Divine Presence unless one first had some clarity of who one really was. Directly or indirectly, Przysucha had declared an internal war upon the hasidic leadership of its time. It simply refused to accept anything that smelled of falseness and self-deception, be it the honor due to a zaddik or a particular religious practice. Przysucha equated pretension and self-deceit with idol worship. During the early part of the nineteenth century, when the center of the hasidic world was in Poland, R. Simhah Bunim transformed Przysucha Hasidism into a movement and thus rose to become a, if not the, dominant personality in the Hasidic community.

Climb in for the perfect road trip! Farm visits and foraging in the fields, car games and silly songs — what better way for a family to spend the day?

The car has been stocked with drinks and snacks, maps and joke books, treats for horses and ducks — and now it's time for three kids, two parents, and one excited dog to set off on that most favorite day trip, a drive in the country. The destination? Oh, here, there, and home again, with a fresh appreciation of family togetherness. Michael J. Rosen's lyrical, nostalgic text and Marc Burckhardt's whimsical illustrations are sure to encourage armchair travelers to come along for the ride.