This book studies communication in institutional eldercare. It is based on audio-recorded interactions between residents and staff in a Japanese care facility. The focus is on the morning care routine
Estranged from the husband who cloistered himself in his bedroom three years earlier after a devastating tragedy, Silke hires a young Japanese woman attuned to the hikikomori isolated individual pheno
Thomas Tessler, devastated by a tragedy, has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut out the world for the past three years. His wife, Silke, lives in the next room, but Thomas no longer shares his
Thomas Tessler has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut out the world for the past three years. His wife, Silke, lives right in the next room, but Thomas no longer shares his life with her, leav
Most studies of multilingualism in Tokyo have focused on the spoken language, but Backhaus (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo) looks at written language, specifically at the language of the
This volume collects contributions from the last four annual conferences on fiscal sociology held at Erfurt U., Germany. The contributions don't appear to have much to do with any "encyclopedia" beyon
In his 1918 paper "Die Krise des Steuerstaates," Joseph Schumpeter argued that the rise of the modern taxation state was rooted in the need to finance the standing army. This collection of essays revi
The Reformation is generally discussed as a spiritual or cultural phenomenon. Recently, religious reform has surfaced in the context of integration policy, but the lack of a reformation in Islam has c
