Shutting Out the Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shutting Out the Sun write by Michael Zielenziger. This book was released on 2009-05-06. Shutting Out the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Equally as troubling are the more than one million young men who shut themselves in their rooms, withdrawing from society, and the growing numbers of “parasite singles,” the name given to single women who refuse to leave home, marry, or bear children. In Shutting Out the Sun, Michael Zielenziger argues that Japan’s rigid, tradition-steeped society, its aversion to change, and its distrust of individuality and the expression of self are stifling economic revival, political reform, and social evolution. Giving a human face to the country’s malaise, Zielenziger explains how these constraints have driven intelligent, creative young men to become modern-day hermits. At the same time, young women, better educated than their mothers and earning high salaries, are rejecting the traditional path to marriage and motherhood, preferring to spend their money on luxury goods and travel. Smart, unconventional, and politically controversial, Shutting Out the Sun is a bold explanation of Japan’s stagnation and its implications for the rest of the world.
Will the Last Person To Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun?
Will the Last Person To Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Will the Last Person To Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun? write by Mike Resnick. This book was released on 1994-07-15. Will the Last Person To Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first collection of short fiction from Resnick ( Second Contact ) features several of his most popular stories and an array of less distinguished work. Standouts include "Kirinyaga" and "For I Have Touched the Sky," two installments from Resnick's well-regarded Kirinyaga series, set on an orbital space habitat modeled on a pre-colonial African culture
A Moment in the Sun
A Moment in the Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Moment in the Sun write by John Sayles. This book was released on 2011-10-18. A Moment in the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights—from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women—Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepcíon, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country’s new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley’s assassin among them—this is a story as big as its subject: history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.
Against the Sun
Against the Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against the Sun write by Kat Martin. This book was released on 2019-05-13. Against the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin comes another thrilling story in The Raines of Wind Canyon series. It’s not in bodyguard Jake Cantrell’s job description to share his suspicions with his assignments. Beautiful executive Sage Dumont may be in charge, but Jake’s not on her payroll. As a former Special Forces marine, Jake trusts his gut, and it’s telling him there’s something off about a shipment arriving at Marine Drilling International. His instinct is aroused…in more ways than one. Drawn into a terrifying web of lies and deceit—and into feelings they can’t afford to explore—what Jake and Sage uncover may be frighteningly worse than they ever imagined. Originally published in 2012.
Shadows of the Rising Sun
Shadows of the Rising Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadows of the Rising Sun write by Jared Taylor. This book was released on 1985. Shadows of the Rising Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
