| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910457752003321 |
|
|
Autore |
Ritchie Malcolm |
|
|
Titolo |
Village Japan [[electronic resource] ] : everyday life in a rural Japanese community / / Malcolm Ritchie |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Rutland, Vt., : Charles E. Tuttle, 1999 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-283-30152-0 |
9786613301529 |
1-4629-0205-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (241 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Villages - Japan |
Electronic books. |
Japan Rural conditions Case studies |
Noto Peninsula (Japan) Social life and customs 20th century |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Village Japan; Afterword; Glossary |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast. Ritchie weaves together anecdotes, conversations, lyrical verses, and unforgettable character studies to vividly and hauntingly evoke the rhythms of life in a traditional rural Japanese community. Underlying this portrait is the author's growing awareness that the aged inhabitants of Sora and the surrounding villages are the custodians of a fragile, barely sur |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910968323203321 |
|
|
Autore |
Flanagan Thomas <1944-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Harper's team : behind the scenes in the Conservative rise to power / / Tom Flanagan |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
0-7735-7872-2 |
1-282-86590-0 |
9786612865909 |
0-7735-7538-3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Political campaigns - Canada |
Political leadership - Canada |
Canada Politics and government 1980- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
1. Prelude, 1991-2001 -- 2. The Canadian Alliance Leadership Campaign, 2001-2002 -- 3. Intermission, 2002-2003 -- 4. The conservative leadership race, 2003-2004 -- 5. Getting ready, 2004 -- 6. National election, 2004 -- 7. Getting ready again, 2004-2005 -- 8. Winning the race, 2005-2006 -- 9. The ten commandments of conservative campaigning -- App. Political terminology and acronyms. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Harper's team fought four campaigns in five years: two leadership races and two national elections. Through trial and error - and determination - they learned to combine the Reform Party's strength in grassroots politics with the Progressive Conservative expertise in advertising and media relations, while simultaneously adopting the latest advances in information and communications technology. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |