Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular p…
Pokemón broke the mould. As the first Japanese cultural product to enjoy worldwide success, it was also the first to break the Western monopoly on the export of popular culture. This book looks at how, & why, it happened, & also why Pokémon has now faded as a cultural force.
Kindergarten kissing games ... four-year-olds playing doctor ... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these - spontaneous and pleasurable - are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are fo…
Kindergarten kissing games ... four-year-olds playing doctor ... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these - spontaneous and pleasurable - are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are fo…
Kindergarten kissing games ... four-year-olds playing doctor ... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these - spontaneous and pleasurable - are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are fo…
Kindergarten kissing games ... four-year-olds playing doctor ... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these - spontaneous and pleasurable - are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are fo…
Kindergarten kissing games ... four-year-olds playing doctor ... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these - spontaneous and pleasurable - are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are fo…