Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases / Robert W. Fogel -- Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past / Richard H. Steckel -- Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / George R. Boyer -- The evolution of schooling in the...

"Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a review of Japan's economic developmentover the last 150 years,and seeks to clarify Japanese priorities in domestic and foreign policy for the coming decades"--