- The Blood of Gutoku: A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan
- The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan (Carolina Academic Press Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anth) (Carolina Academic Press Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anth)
- Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society (Suny Series in Japan in Transition and Suny Series in Aging and Culture)
- Science, Culture and the Search for Life on Other Worlds
- Embracing Uncertainty: Future Jazz, That 13th Century Buddhist Monk, and the Invention of Cultures