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Waste : consuming postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2018Description: x, 398p. Photo; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781501725852 (pdf)
  • 9781501725869 (epub/mobi)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.7280952 23 S61788w
Contents:
Introduction : meaning and value in the everyday -- Imperatives of waste -- Better living through consumption -- Wars against waste -- A bright stinginess -- Consuming desires -- Living the good life? -- Battling the time thieves -- Greening consciousness -- We are all waste conscious now -- Sorting things out -- Afterword : waste and well-being.
Summary: "A history of the many and changing ideas of waste in Japan from the mid-1940s to the present"--
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Item type Current library Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Read Japan Project 363.7280952 S61788w (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2018 01 Available G000504
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : meaning and value in the everyday -- Imperatives of waste -- Better living through consumption -- Wars against waste -- A bright stinginess -- Consuming desires -- Living the good life? -- Battling the time thieves -- Greening consciousness -- We are all waste conscious now -- Sorting things out -- Afterword : waste and well-being.

"A history of the many and changing ideas of waste in Japan from the mid-1940s to the present"--

Library Read Japan Project

Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh