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All Japan: The Catalogue of Everything Japaneseby Liza DalbyISBN 0688025285 (0-688-02528-5)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Almost Japaneseby Sarah SheardISBN 0684188058 (0-684-18805-8)
Hardcover, Scribner's
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Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayby Michael ChabonISBN 0679450041 (0-679-45004-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'Book summary:Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their cousin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague. It's the beginning, however unlikely, of a beautiful friendship. In short order, Sam's talent for pulp plotting meets Joe's faultless, academy-trained line, and a comic-book superhero is born. A sort of lantern-jawed equalizer clad in dark blue long underwear, the Escapist "roams the globe, performing amazing feats and coming to the aid of those who languish in tyranny's chains!" Before they know it, Kavalier and Clay (as Sam Klayman has come to be known) find themselves at the epicenter of comics' golden age.
But Joe Kavalier is driven by motives far more complex than your average hack. In fact, his first act as a comic-book artist is to deal Hitler a very literal blow. (The cover of the first issue shows the Escapist delivering "an immortal haymaker" onto the Führer's realistically bloody jaw.) In subsequent years, the Escapist and his superhero allies take on the evil Iron Chain and their leader Attila Haxoff--their battles drawn with an intensity that grows more disturbing as Joe's efforts to rescue his family fail. He's fighting their war with brush and ink, Joe thinks, and the idea sustains him long enough to meet the beautiful Rosa Saks, a surrealist artist and surprisingly retrograde muse. But when even that fiction fails him, Joe performs an escape of his own, leaving Rosa and Sammy to pick up the pieces in some increasingly wrong-headed ways.
More amazing adventures follow--but reader, why spoil the fun? Suffice to say, Michael Chabon writes novels like the Escapist busts locks. Previous books such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys have prose of equal shimmer and wit, and yet here he seems to have finally found a canvas big enough for his gifts. The whole enterprise seems animated by love: for his alternately deluded, damaged, and painfully sincere characters; for the quirks and curious innocence of tough-talking wartime New York; and, above all, for comics themselves, "the inspirations and lucubrations of five hundred aging boys dreaming as hard as they could." Far from negating such pleasures, the Holocaust's presence in the novel only makes them more pressing. Art, if not capable of actually fighting evil, can at least offer a gesture of defiance and hope--a way out, in other words, of a world gone completely mad. Comic-book critics, Joe notices, dwell on "the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life." Indeed. --Mary Park [via]
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The Analects of Confuciusby Arthur Waley, ConfuciusISBN 0679722963 (0-679-72296-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway Breaking the Secretsby Roger Pineau, John Costello, Edwin T. LaytonISBN 0688069681 (0-688-06968-1)
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The Art of Oriental Embroideryby Young Y. ChungISBN 0684162482 (0-684-16248-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Art of Oriental Embroidery: History, Aesthetics, and Techniquesby Young Yang ChungISBN 0684180405 (0-684-18040-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Beyond Paradiseby Jane HertensteinISBN 0688163815 (0-688-16381-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Book Of Flameby Carrie AsaiISBN 0689867131 (0-689-86713-1)
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The Book of the Heartby Carrie AsaiISBN 0689867123 (0-689-86712-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Areby Alan WattsISBN 0679723005 (0-679-72300-5)
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Boy at Warby Harry MazerISBN 0689841604 (0-689-84160-4)
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The Brothers: The Hidden World of Japan's Richest Familyby Lesley DownerISBN 0679425543 (0-679-42554-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Bruce Cost's Asian Ingredients: Buying and Cooking the Staple Foods of China, Japan and Southwest Asiaby Bruce CostISBN 0688058779 (0-688-05877-9)
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsby W. B. Yeats, Richard J. FinneranISBN 0684807319 (0-684-80731-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Combined Fleet Decoded : The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War IIby John PradosISBN 0679437010 (0-679-43701-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literatureby Earl Roy MinerISBN 0691014906 (0-691-01490-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Confucianism and Tokugawa Cultureby Peter NoscoISBN 0691008396 (0-691-00839-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Crystal Pool: Myths and Legends of the Worldby Geraldine McCaughrean, Bee WilleyISBN 0689822669 (0-689-82266-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshiby Eugene Soviak, Kiyoshi Kiyosawa, Kamiyama TamieISBN 069100143X (0-691-00143-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Empire's End : A History of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kongby John KeayISBN 0684815923 (0-684-81592-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Even Withered Trees Give Prosperity to the Mountainby Guy A. ZonaISBN 0684824019 (0-684-82401-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the Uss Indianapolisby Dan KurzmanISBN 0689120079 (0-689-12007-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Japanby Virginia Haviland, Carol InouyeISBN 0688126014 (0-688-12601-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Feather Fall: An Anthologyby Laurens Van Der Post, Jean-Marc Pottiez, Jane BedfordISBN 0688137393 (0-688-13739-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Fodor's Citypack Tokyoby Fodor'sISBN 0679002464 (0-679-00246-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fodor's Citypack Tokyoby Martin Gostelow, Karen CureISBN 067900694X (0-679-00694-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fodor's Exploring Japanby David Scott, Karen CureISBN 0679006842 (0-679-00684-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fodor's Exploring Japan'Book summary:Fodor's Exploring Japan 3rd ed."Authoritatively written and superbly presented...Worthy reading before, during, or after a trip." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
"Absolutely gorgeous. Fun, colorful, and sophisticated." -- Chicago Tribune
Fodor's Exploring Guides are the most up-to-date, full-color guidebooks available.
Covering destinations around the world, these guides are loaded with photos, essays on culture and history, descriptions of sights, and practical information. Full-color photos make these great guides to buy if you're still planning your itinerary (let the photos help you choose!), and they are perfect companions to general guidebooks, like Fodor's Gold Guides.
What to SeeExtraordinary coverage of history and cultureItineraries, walks and excursions, on and off the beaten pathArchitecture and art
Where to StayQuick tips in every price range
Where to EatSavvy picks for all budgets
The BasicsGetting there and getting aroundWhen to go & what to pack [via]More editions of Fodor's Exploring Japan:
Fodor's Japanby Fodor'sISBN 0679034072 (0-679-03407-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fodor's Japanby Lisa LeventerISBN 0679030352 (0-679-03035-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fodor's Japan: The Guide for All Budgetsby Fodor'sISBN 067900890X (0-679-00890-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fodor's Tokyo: The Complete Guide With the Best Day Trips to Nikko, Kamakura, Yokohama, and Mt. FujiISBN 0679023496 (0-679-02349-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Grass Sandals: The Travels of Bashoby Dawnine Spivak, DemiISBN 0689807767 (0-689-80776-7)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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A Haiku for Hanaeby James MelvilleISBN 0684191318 (0-684-19131-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Hiroshima No Pikaby Toshi MarukiISBN 0688012973 (0-688-01297-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Hiroshima: Three Witnessesby Richard H. MinearISBN 069100837X (0-691-00837-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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In Search of the Spirit: The Living National Treasures of Japanby Sheila Hamanaka, Ayano OhmiISBN 0688146074 (0-688-14607-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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In the Realm of a Dying Emperorby Norma FieldISBN 0679405046 (0-679-40504-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Jade Palace Vendetta: A Samurai Mysteryby Dale FurutaniISBN 0688158188 (0-688-15818-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Japanese Challenge: The Success and Failure of Economic Successby Thomas Pepper, Herman KahnISBN 0688087108 (0-688-08710-8)
Softcover, Morrow
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Japanese Linked Poetry: An Account With Translations of Renega and Haikai Sequencesby Earl MinerISBN 0691013683 (0-691-01368-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Jenny Kimuraby Betty CavannaISBN 0688217370 (0-688-21737-0)
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Kill the Shogunby Dale FurutaniISBN 0688158196 (0-688-15819-6)
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Kira-kiraby Cynthia KadohataISBN 0689856407 (0-689-85640-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Kitchen God's Wifeby Amy TanISBN 0679748083 (0-679-74808-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Knife Thrower and Other Storiesby Steven MillhauserISBN 0679781633 (0-679-78163-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Knife Thrower and Other Stories'Book summary:The Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself. Flying carpets; subterranean amusement parks; a band of teenage girls who meet secretly in the night in order to do "nothing at all"; a store with departments of Moorish courtyards, volcanoes, and Aztec temples: these are Millhauser's stock-in-trade as a storyteller, and he employs them to characteristically magical effect. As in Millhauser's other books, including Edwin Mullhouse and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Dressler, his subject is nothing less than the faculty of imagination itself. Here, however, the flights of fancy are unencumbered by Martin Dressler's wealth of period detail, and the result is fun-house prose whose pleasures and terrors are equally gossamer. Millhauser possesses the unique ability to render the quotidian strange, so that, emerging from his stories, the reader often feels the world itself an unfamiliar place--as do the shoppers at his department store, that marketplace of skillful illusion: "As we hurry along the sidewalk, we have the absurd sensation that we have entered still another department, composed of ingeniously lifelike streets with artful shadows and reflections--that our destinations lie in a far corner of the same department--that we are condemned to hurry forever through these artificial halls, bright with late afternoon light, in search of the way out." [via]
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Kokology: The Game of Self-Discoveryby Tadahiko Nagao, Isamu SaitoISBN 0684871483 (0-684-87148-3)
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Innocuous questions make Kokology a perfect conversation starter. Find out how magazine reading corresponds with the way a check book is managed; learn what bringing an address book, hairspray, lucky charm, or gum to work may say about a personality trait; or discover your true feelings about sex by answering a few simple questions about an ideal amusement park ride. Kokology's creators have produced questions that will help you gain insight into yourself, but they add that Kokology is just a game and it's OK if you disagree with the results. However, the minds behind this game also believe that you'll find "more often than not you're surprised at how accurately the answers reflect people's true personalities, including your own."
Play Kokology at a dinner party, bring it on a road trip, or tote it along on your next date to begin unveiling new and exciting things about yourself and others. --Jenny Burritt [via]
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Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japanby Helen HardacreISBN 0691020485 (0-691-02048-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Little Ohby Laura Krauss Melmed, Jim LamarcheISBN 0688142087 (0-688-14208-7)
Hardcover, Lothrop Lee & Shepard
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The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-45by Richard HoughISBN 0688043100 (0-688-04310-0)
Hardcover, Morrow
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The Longest Battle: The War at Sea, 1939-1945by Richard HoughISBN 0688079539 (0-688-07953-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lotus Seeds and Lucky Stars: Asian Myths and Traditions on Pregnancy and Birthingby Shu Shu CostaISBN 0684843978 (0-684-84397-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Man from Japanby Clive JamesISBN 0679411720 (0-679-41172-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Lifeby Sheldon GaronISBN 069100191X (0-691-00191-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Mona in the Promised Landby Gish JenISBN 0679776508 (0-679-77650-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Mr. Biddle and the Birds,by John Lonzo Anderson, Adrienne AdamsISBN 0684123150 (0-684-12315-0)
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Murasaki Shikibu, Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs: A Translation and Studyby Murasaki Shikibu, Richard BowringISBN 0691014167 (0-691-01416-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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My Brother, My Sister, and Iby Yoko Kawashima WatkinsISBN 0689806566 (0-689-80656-6)
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Norito: A Translation of the Ancient Japanese Ritual Prayersby Donald L. PhilippiISBN 0691014892 (0-691-01489-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Nurtured by Loveby Shinichi SuzukiISBN 0682499307 (0-682-49930-7)
Softcover, Exposition Pr of Florida
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0679444653 (0-679-44465-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Pacific Warby John CostelloISBN 0688016200 (0-688-01620-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Poemsby W. B. Yeats, Richard J. FinneranISBN 0684839350 (0-684-83935-0)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind.
Though this edition has been reset and revised, the changes are not as shocking as the 1984 edition, which included 100 extra pages of notes, changes in language and punctuation, and, most significantly, a redefinition of the Last Poems. Richard Finneran has had the courage to reorder the poems according to notes that Yeats made shortly before his death. Readers may be surprised to find that "Under Ben Bulben," the poet's powerful and self-mythologizing epitaph, no longer ends the collection, as it has for more than 30 years. In its place they will discover the wistful "Politics": "How can I, that girl standing there, / My attention fix / On Roman or on Russian / Or on Spanish politics..." Yet devotees of either ending will agree that this is a truly necessary volume--indeed, one of the few. As Seamus Heaney writes, "All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster." [via]
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Political Change in Japan: Response to Postindustrial Challengeby Taketsugu TsurutaniISBN 0679303405 (0-679-30340-5)
Hardcover, D. McKay Co
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Random House Webster's Pocket Japanese Dictionary: Japanese, English, English, JapaneseISBN 0679773738 (0-679-77373-8)
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The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Motherby Junichiro TanizakiISBN 0679757910 (0-679-75791-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in 18th Century Japanby Peter NoscoISBN 0674760077 (0-674-76007-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Familyby Elisabeth BumillerISBN 0679772626 (0-679-77262-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sex and Zen and a Bullet in the Head : The Essential Guide to Hong Kong's Mind-Bending Filmsby Stefan Hammond, Mike Wilkins, Jackie ChanISBN 0684803410 (0-684-80341-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Shadow Shoguns : The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machineby Jacob M. SchlesingerISBN 0684811588 (0-684-81158-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Shoguns : The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine'Book summary:Jacob M. Schlesinger's Shadow Shoguns is an arresting profile of an element of modern Japanese life little understood in the West: the relationship between economic superpowerdom and political corruption. In an astute and provocative piece of political reporting, Schlesinger, formerly of the Wall Street Journal's Tokyo bureau, paints a vivid portrait of state as corporation. This "Japan Inc." is a nation that has subverted democratic ideals to Capitalist opportunities, a country ruled by "shadow shoguns"--corrupt officials who have created a political machine for their personal profit. Schlesinger begins his tale with Kakuei Tanaka, a poor country boy who clawed his way through the construction business into politics and up through the ranks to become prime minister. This rags-to-riches story illustrates two points: the personal tenacity and ruthlessness of Tanaka and the fierce divisions between "Front" Japan--the glittering, urban economic miracle the country presents to the world--and "Back" Japan, the underdeveloped rural world from which Tanaka rose.
In many ways, the story of Tanaka is the story of modern Japan, a nation in which government corruption was tolerated in the interests of continuing economic growth. The past few years have seen both the bursting of Japan's economic bubble and the exposure of repeated government scandals. For anyone who has watched and wondered at the state of Japanese politics, Jacob M. Schlesinger's Shadow Shoguns offers a cogent explanation of how business, bureaucracy, and politics made such unholy bedfellows. [via]
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Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boyby Rhoda BlumbergISBN 068817485X (0-688-17485-X)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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will be put to death.This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help support his family, was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland, he was heartbroken to think that he would never again be able to go home. So when an American whaling boat rescued him, Manjiro decided to do what no other Japanese person had ever done: He went to America, where he received an education and took part in events that eventually made him a hero in the Land of the Rising Sun.
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Snow Falling on Cedarsby David GutersonISBN 067976402X (0-679-76402-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Falling on Cedars'Book summary:Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries--memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken and changed. "Haunting.... A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper."--Los Angeles Times "Compelling...heartstopping. Finely wrought, flawlessly written."--The New York Times Book Review [via]
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Sons of Heaven: A Portrait of the Japanese Monarchyby Jerrold M. PackardISBN 0684186330 (0-684-18633-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fictionby Joel R. CohnISBN 0674847113 (0-674-84711-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Council on East Asian
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Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japanby Mikiso Hane, Masao MaruyamaISBN 0691008329 (0-691-00832-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroomby James W. Stigler, James HiebertISBN 0684852748 (0-684-85274-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Tokyo '89by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. StaffISBN 0679017070 (0-679-01707-0)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
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Total War: Causes and Courses of the Second World Warby Peter CalvocoressiISBN 0679730990 (0-679-73099-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919by Frederick R. DickinsonISBN 0674946553 (0-674-94655-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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War at Sea: A Naval History of World War IIby Nathan MillerISBN 0684803801 (0-684-80380-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Warrior and the Wise Manby David WisniewskiISBN 0688161596 (0-688-16159-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Weedflowerby Cynthia KadohataISBN 0689865740 (0-689-86574-0)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Whirlwindby James ClavellISBN 0688066631 (0-688-06663-1)
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White Serpent Castleby Lensey NamiokaISBN 0679203621 (0-679-20362-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Women Warriors: Myths and Legends of Heroic Womenby Marianna Mayer, Julek HellerISBN 0688155227 (0-688-15522-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanceby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0688032079 (0-688-03207-9)
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Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Valuesby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0688002307 (0-688-00230-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Magic Pocket : Selected Poemsby Michio Mado, U. Michiko, Empress Michiko, Mitsumasa AnnoISBN 0689821379 (0-689-82137-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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