With this outstanding analysis of child-rearing, one of the most influential books on education in the 1980s, White has received major attention from federal policy makers, education experts, and the national media.

The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children

Education & Teaching

White, Merry

Schools & Teaching

The Free Press

Japanese corporate success has transplanted millions of Japanese in foreign lands, but upon return, their children face extreme difficulty in re-entering their peer group. Merry White's study investigates the causes and effects of the trauma and forearms parents to effectively deal with the problem.

The Japanese Overseas: Can They Go Home Again?

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Free Pr

Pasta and Noodles (Penguin Handbooks)

Pasta and Noodles

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Penguin??Books

As she describes the youth culture of Japan, Merry White draws comparisons with the interests and activities pursued by teenagers in the United States and the contrasting attitudes of adults in Japan and the U.S. towards adolescence. The result is both engrossing and enlightening.

The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America

History

Asia

University of California Press

Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval

Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the past hundred years—the Meiji era and postwar period—to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with families of their eras and even less to do with families today, she finds. She vividly portrays the everyday reality of a range of families: young married couples who experience fleeting togetherness until the first child is born; a family separated by job shifts; a family with a grandmother as babysitter; a marriage without children.

Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)

This fascinating book―part ethnography, part memoir―traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White’s book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality , dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public.

Beverages & Wine

What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.\nFrom the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to understand food in relation to its natural and cultural histories and the social rules that shape our meals.\nWurgaft and White use vivid storytelling to bring food practices to life, weaving stories of Panamanian coffee growers, medieval women beer makers, and Japanese knife forgers. From the Venetian spice trade to the Columbian Exchange, from Roman garum to Vietnamese nớc chấm, Ways of Eating provides an absorbing account of world food history and anthropology. Migration, politics, and the dynamics of group identity all shape what we eat, and we can learn to trace these social forces from the plate to the kitchen, the factory, and the field.

Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture (Volume 81) (California Studies in Food and Culture)

Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes

World

The Japanese Educational Challenge: a Commitment To Children

Kodansha International

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The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children

The Japanese Overseas: Can They Go Home Again?

Pasta and Noodles

The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America

Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval

Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval

Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)

Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)

Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture (Volume 81) (California Studies in Food and Culture)

The Japanese Educational Challenge: a Commitment To Children