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Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalismby Ayako KanoISBN 0312292910 (0-312-29291-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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American Caesar, Douglas Macarthur, 1880-1964by William Raymond ManchesterISBN 0316544981 (0-316-54498-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Caesar, Douglas Macarthur, 1880-1964'Book summary:MacArthur, the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend, portrayed in a brilliant biography that will challenge the cherished myths of admirers and critics alike. [via]
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Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animationby Susan Jolliffe NapierISBN 0312238630 (0-312-23863-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawaby Yukichi Fukuzawa, Albert CraigISBN 023113987X (0-231-13987-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Beginning Japaneseby Hamako I. Chaplin, Eleanor Harz JordenISBN 0300001363 (0-300-00136-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beginning Japanese'Book summary:Japanese is the language of approximately 125 million people. This course, developed by Eleanor Harz Jorden of Cornell University, is concerned only with spoken Japanese in the "standard" dialect of educated inhabitants of Tokyo. Learning to speak the languageat normal speed is emphasized next since the aim of the course is to teach the learner to understand and speak the everyday language just as it is spoken by the Japanese [via]
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Behold the Manyby Lois-Ann YamanakaISBN 0312426542 (0-312-42654-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Book of Lossby Julith JedamusISBN 0312349076 (0-312-34907-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Loss'Book summary:[via]Set in the perfectly realized world of imperial tenth-century Japan, The Book of Loss is a gripping novel of sexual jealousy at court.
A renowned storyteller and lady-in-waiting to the Empress, the narrator is locked in a bitter rivalry with another woman for the love of a banished nobleman. Forced to observe the complex rules and social hierarchies of court life, she finds herself caught in a trap of her own making. Her machinations reach such a pitch that they threaten to undermine the rule of the Emperor himself. She records her plight, and her acidulous observations of courtly life, in her diary. Her voice is unforgettable--both foreign and utterly modern. Her sense of loss is unbearable, her love is all-consuming, and it will push her to the extremes of rivalry.
Offering the intimate seductions and betrayals of Dangerous Liaisons and The Memoirs of a Geisha, The Book of Loss takes the reader into the farthest reaches of desire, where passion rules and jealousy leads to unthinkable acts.More editions of The Book of Loss:
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The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Editionby Grant HardyISBN 025207341X (0-252-07341-X)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition'Book summary:[via]Regarded as sacred scripture by millions, the Book of Mormon -- first published in 1830 -- is one of the most significant documents in American religious history. This new reader-friendly version reformats the complete, unchanged 1920 text in the manner of modern translations of the Bible, with paragraphs, quotations marks, poetic forms, topical headings, multichapter headings, indention of quoted documents, italicized reworkings of biblical prophecies, and minimized verse numbers. It also features a hypothetical map based on internal references, an essay on Book of Mormon poetry, a full glossary of names, genealogical charts, a basic bibliography of Mormon and non-Mormon scholarship, a chronology of the translation, eyewitness accounts of the gold plates, and information regarding the lost 116 pages and significant changes in the text.The Book of Mormon claims to be the product of three historical interactions: the writings of the original ancient American authors, the editing of the fourth-century prophet Mormon, and the translation of Joseph Smith. The editorial aids and footnotes in this edition integrate all three perspectives and provide readers with a clear guide through this complicated text. New readers will find the story accessible and intelligible; Mormons will gain fresh insights from familiar verses seen in a broader narrative context. This is the first time the Book of Mormon has been published with quotation marks, select variant readings, and the testimonies of women involved in the translation process. It is also the first return to a paragraphed format since versification was added in 1879.More editions of The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition:
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Bridget Jones's Diaryby Helen FieldingISBN 0330332767 (0-330-33276-7)
Hardcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridget Jones's Diary'Book summary:In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.
At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, "We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'"
This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Character of Rainby Amelie Nothomb, Timothy BentISBN 0312302487 (0-312-30248-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Character of Rain'Book summary:The Japanese believe that until the age of three children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amélie Nothomb's new novel The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover. [via]
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Chronicle of a Death Foretoldby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0345310020 (0-345-31002-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'Book summary:"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry. [via]More editions of Chronicle of a Death Foretold:
The Chrysanthemum Chainby James MelvilleISBN 0312134630 (0-312-13463-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Classical Japanese: A Grammarby Haruo ShiraneISBN 0231135246 (0-231-13524-6)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War IIby Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Suzanne O'BrienISBN 0231120338 (0-231-12033-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II'Book summary:Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands of women, who were euphemistically called "comfort women" by the Japanese military, first seized public attention in 1991 when three Korean women filed suit in a Toyko District Court stating that they had been forced into sexual servitude and demanding compensation. Since then the comfort stations and their significance have been the subject of ongoing debate and intense activism in Japan, much if it inspired by Yoshimi's investigations. How large a role did the military, and by extension the government, play in setting up and administering these camps? What type of compensation, if any, are the victimized women due? These issues figure prominently in the current Japanese focus on public memory and arguments about the teaching and writing of history and are central to efforts to transform Japanese ways of remembering the war.
Yoshimi Yoshiaki provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 centers where as many as 200,000 Korean, Filipina, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Burmese, Dutch, Australian, and some Japanese women were restrained for months and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. Many of the women were teenagers, some as young as fourteen. To date, the Japanese government has neither admitted responsibility for creating the comfort station system nor given compensation directly to former comfort women.
This English edition updates the Japanese edition originally published in 1995 and includes introductions by both the author and the translator placing the story in context for American readers.
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Complete Origami/an A-Z of Facts and Folds, With Step-By-Step Instructions for over 100 Projectsby Eric KennewayISBN 0312008988 (0-312-00898-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Concubine's Tattooby Laura Joh RowlandISBN 0312969228 (0-312-96922-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Dawn to the Westby Donald KeeneISBN 0231114354 (0-231-11435-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dawn to the West'Book summary:This is the third book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by the world's authoritative translator and scholar of Japanese culture and literature. The Columbia paperback edition, with Donald Keene's new preface, includes an introduction, an appendix, glossary, index, and a selected list of translations into English.
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Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era Poetry, Drama, Criticismby Donald KeeneISBN 0231114397 (0-231-11439-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Death in Little Tokyoby Dale FurutaniISBN 0312963238 (0-312-96323-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Little Tokyo'Book summary:A femme fatale asks mystery buff and amateur sleuth Ken Tanaka to take on a case for her--which he does on a lark--but he soon finds himself involved in a murder in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo. [via]
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Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900by Haruo ShiraneISBN 0231109911 (0-231-10991-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912by Donald KeeneISBN 0231123418 (0-231-12341-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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From Ming to Ch'Ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century Chinaby John E. Wills, Spence, Jonathan D. & Wills, John E.ISBN 0300026722 (0-300-02672-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Genpeiby Kara DalkeyISBN 0312890710 (0-312-89071-0)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genpei'Book summary:Throughout the twelfth century, two rival clans, the Minomoto and the Taira, struggled for supremacy in Imperial Japan. Each attempted a rebellion and, for a time, the Taira gained ascendancy. But their rule turned despotic and at last, during the Genpei War of 1179-1185, the Minomoto drove the Taira out of the capital and took control for themselves.[via]
At the final battle of Dan-no-ura, the Taira-born child-emperor and his family all jumped into the Inland Sea to avoid capture and drowned. With them was lost the Imperial Sword, never to be seen again. The Minomoto leader took control, moved the capital, and became the first Shogun of Japan.
That much is history.
But wherefore come the tales of superhuman strength, the incredible insight, the clandestine knowledge of the Genpei War's heroes? There has been much speculation throughout the generations. Some have called the Minomoto's rise to power destiny, others call it a deal between humans and spirits--since even in death, the eternal Japanese warrior's spirit cannot be laid to rest. How much is truth, how much legend? One can never tell, for there are older, stranger tales as well....More editions of Genpei:
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Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific Warby William ManchesterISBN 0316501115 (0-316-50111-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War'Book summary:The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese, and in this book examines his experiences in the line with his fellow soldiers (his "brothers"). He gives us an honest and unabashedly emotional account of his part in the war in the Pacific. "The most moving memoir of combat on WW II that I have ever read. A testimony to the fortitude of man...a gripping, haunting, book." --William L. Shirer [via]
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Grass for My Pillowby Dennis Keene, Saiichi MaruyaISBN 0231126581 (0-231-12658-1)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Han Fei Tzu Basic Writingsby WatsonISBN 0231086091 (0-231-08609-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. TolkienISBN 0261102664 (0-261-10266-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit'Book summary:Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry- footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit.
This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the later novels is foreshadowed here. A word of caution, however: as Bilbo discovers early on, travel and adventure are addictive things; embark on this journey to the Lonely Mountain with Tolkien's reluctant hero, and you might not be able to stop there. And the road taken to the distant mountains of Mordor in the ensuing trilogy is an even more perilous one. [via]
Hsun Tzu: Basic Writingsby Hsun TzuISBN 0231086075 (0-231-08607-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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An Inquiry into the Goodby Kitaro Nishida, Masao Abe, Christopher IvesISBN 0300052332 (0-300-05233-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inquiry into the Good'Book summary:A translation of Nishida's earliest book which represented the foundation of his philosophy - reflecting both his study of Zen Buddhism and his thorough analysis of Western philosophy. The book provides an account of this 20th-century Japanese philosopher's ideas. [via]
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The Jade Enchantressby E. Hoffmann PriceISBN 0345298357 (0-345-29835-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Japanese Cookingby Peter Martin, Joan MartinISBN 0233961674 (0-233-96167-4)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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The Japanese Corpseby Janwillem Van de WeteringISBN 0345331281 (0-345-33128-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Japanese Corpse'Book summary:A beautiful Eurasian waitress employed at Amsterdam's most elegant Japanese restaurant reports that her boyfriend, a Japanese art dealer, is missing. The police search throughout The Netherlands and finally locate a corpse. But to find the killer, the commissaris and de Geir must go to Japan and match wits with a yakuza chieftain in his lair. This is the fifth novel in the Amsterdam Cops series. [via]
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Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief Biography With Documentsby Peter DuusISBN 0312116810 (0-312-11681-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Japanese High Seas Fleetby Richard HumbleISBN 034523426X (0-345-23426-X)
Hardcover, B[allantine] B[ooks
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The Japanese Language Through Timeby Samuel E. MartinISBN 0300037295 (0-300-03729-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Japanese Morphophonemics: Markedness and Word Structureby Junko Ito, Armin MesterISBN 0262590239 (0-262-59023-9)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Japanese Morphophonemics: Markedness and Word Structure'Book summary:The sound pattern of Japanese, with its characteristic pitch accent system and rich segmental alternations, has played an important role in modern phonology, from structuralist phonemics to current constraint-based theories. In Japanese Morphophonemics Junko Ito and Armin Mester provide the first book-length treatment of central issues in Japanese phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory.In Optimality Theory (OT), a generative grammar (including its phonological component) is built directly on the often conflicting demands of different grammatical principles and incorporates a specific kind of optimization as the means of resolving these conflicts. OT offers a new perspective from which to view many of the processes, alternations, and generalizations that are the traditional subject matter of phonology. Using the phonology of compounds as an analytical thread, Ito and Mester revisit central aspects of the sound pattern of Japanese and submit them to the rigor of OT. In pursuing both well-known and less-explored issues in this area, they show that an optimality-theoretic approach not only provides new solutions to old puzzles but also suggests interesting new questions for both descriptive work and theoretical research.
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Japanese Tone Structureby Janet Pierrehumbert, Mary BeckmanISBN 0262660636 (0-262-66063-6)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Last Lieutenantby John J. GobbellISBN 0312958382 (0-312-95838-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Little Boy: The Arts Of Japan's Exploding Subcultureby Takashi MurakamiISBN 0300102852 (0-300-10285-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Lord of the Rings Trilogyby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345247868 (0-345-24786-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Rings Trilogy'Book summary:Let's face it--even some adults find Tolkien's mammoth fantasy a daunting mouthful but children now have this special seven-book box set of The Lord of The Rings to make the epic tale just that bit easier to chew on. Split into its seven constituent parts, these slim volumes tell the ageless tale of young Frodo's quest to destroy The Ring and defeat the forces of evil. It's beautifully presented in a black presentation box with the movie logo and an illustration on the side and the spines of the books also form the movie logo. A contemporary look and plenty of "cool appeal" will grab kids' interest and ensure they don't miss out on reading this classic of the genre. --Jonathan Weir [via]
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Major Plays of Chikamatsuby Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Donald KeeneISBN 0231074158 (0-231-07415-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Mishima: A Biographyby John NathanISBN 030680977X (0-306-80977-X)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mishima: A Biography'Book summary:At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. In 1970 he startled the world by stepping out onto a balcony in Tokyo before an assembly of troops and plunging a sword into his abdomen; a disciple then beheaded him, completing the ritual of hara-kiri. John Nathan's riveting biography traces the life of this tortured, nearly superhuman personality. Mishima survived a grotesque childhood, and subsequently his sadomasochistic impulses became manifestas did an increasing obsession with death as the supreme beauty. Nathan, who knew Mishima professionally and personally, interviewed family, colleagues, and friends to unmask the variousoften seemingly contradictorypersonae of the genius who felt called by "a glittering destiny no ordinary man would be permitted."[via]More editions of Mishima: A Biography:
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Mo Tzu: Basic Writingsby Burton WatsonISBN 0231086083 (0-231-08608-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Mozi: Basic Writingsby Burton Watson, XunziISBN 0231129653 (0-231-12965-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Xunzi: Basic Writings'Book summary:Xunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical system of his day, Xunzi advocated the counteraction of man's evil through self-improvement, the pursuit of learning, the avoidance of obsession, and observance of ritual in life. Readers familiar with Xunzi's work will find that Burton Watson's lucid translation breathes new life into this classic. Those new to Xunzi will find his ideas on government, language, and order and safety in society surprisingly close to concerns of our own age.
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Murder at Mt. Fujiby Shizuko NatsukiISBN 0312552874 (0-312-55287-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Nobu Nowby Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, Eiichi TakahashiISBN 0307236730 (0-307-23673-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nobu Now'Book summary:Even for those who have never eaten in one of his restaurants, the name Nobu conjures up a magical world where diners enjoy luxurious food in a chic and glamorous setting.
As one of the most celebrated chefs today, Nobu Matsuhisa is also one of the most international. His ever-expanding worldwide empire of fashionable restaurants now numbers thirteen, and they remain very much the places to eat and to be seen in each city.
His first book, Nobu: The Cookbook, a collection of his favorite seafood recipes, was an international bestseller. Nobu Now presents an exhilarating taste of how Nobus repertoire has continued to develop, enriched by his travels and experience in South America, the United States, and Europe, and by the cuisines of the nations in which his restaurants operate. Reflecting a new emphasis on fewer ingredients and a more home-cook-friendly sensibility, the dishes in Nobu Now are more inviting than ever to make.
You will find unique delights such as King Crab White Soufflé and Octopus Carpaccio, with nods to Western haute cuisine in dishes like Baby Turban Shells with Escargot Butter Sauce. A Mediterranean flair is evident in White Fish Somen with Pomodoro Sauce and in Black and Red Rice Risotto. Recipes such as Coriander Soba and Sea Eel Fish and Chips give expression to his ingenious brand of fusion cuisine.
For the first time Nobu ventures beyond seafood and shares the exquisite meat and poultry dishes he has crafted, including Kobe Beef New-Style Sashimi and Lamb Chop with Miso Anti-Cucho Sauce. For the vegetarian, there are treats like Fruit Tomato and Vegetable Ceviche, Mushroom Toban Yaki, and Avocado Egg Pudding.
Nobus inspired desserts also encompass a broad reach of intriguing flavors and textures. Bamboo Jello and Banana Egg Roll lie alongside Passion Fruit Pasta, while Yuzu Soup with Apricot Ice Cream and Fruit Sake remind us of the basic Japanese sensibility underpinning all his food.
Indeed, the essence of Japanese cuisineusing simple techniques to bring out the flavors in the best of ingredientsis still at the heart of Nobus cooking. In Nobu Now he demonstrates how widely and how beautifully this tenet can be applied, resulting in the food that his admirers adorelight, modern, clean, and fresh. [via]More editions of Nobu Now:
Orphan of Asiaby Ioannis Mentzas, Zhuoliu WuISBN 0231137273 (0-231-13727-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Lifeby Mizuko Ito, Misa Matsuda, Daisuke OkabeISBN 0262090392 (0-262-09039-2)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life'Book summary:The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as "something you carry with you"), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant social connection. Japan's enthusiastic engagement with mobile technology has become -- along with anime, manga, and sushi -- part of its trendsetting popular culture. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian, the first book-length English-language treatment of mobile communication use in Japan, covers the transformation of keitai from business tool to personal device for communication and play.The essays in this groundbreaking collection document the emergence, incorporation, and domestication of mobile communications in a wide range of social practices and institutions. The book first considers the social, cultural, and historical context of keitai development, including its beginnings in youth pager use in the early 1990s. It then discusses the virtually seamless integration of keitai use into everyday life, contrasting it to the more escapist character of Internet use on the PC. Other essays suggest that the use of mobile communication reinforces ties between close friends and family, producing "tele-cocooning" by tight-knit social groups. The book also discusses mobile phone manners and examines keitai use by copier technicians, multitasking housewives, and school children. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian describes a mobile universe in which networked relations are a pervasive and persistent fixture of everyday life.
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Pictures from the Water Trade: Adventures of a Westerner in Japanby John David MorleyISBN 0316583723 (0-316-58372-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Pictures from the Water Trade: An Englishman in Japanby John David MorleyISBN 0312135874 (0-312-13587-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteriaby Laura Joh RowlandISBN 0312983786 (0-312-98378-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria'Book summary:Samurai sleuth Sano Ichiro has a very personal motive in determining who killed the shogun's heir apparent with a hairpin: he's trying to save himself from being executed for the crime.
The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria introduces readers into Yoshiwara, the well-ordered but cruel pleasure quarter of 17th-century Edo (Tokyo), where the corpse of Lord Mitsuyoshi is found sprawled on a bed. The woman with whom he'd spent his final hours, a top-ranking courtesan known as Lady Wisteria, has disappeared, along with her private journal, which might supply clues to her complicity in this slaying. In the absence of both, and with the capricious old shogun ordering that Mitsuyoshi's family not be quizzed about his death, Sano is left to look for assassins among the courtesan's attendants and prominent clients. Meanwhile, Sano's enemies vie for credit in solving the murder (even if they must pin it on Sano), a woman's headless body is found wearing Wisteria's kimono, and Sano's amateur investigator wife, Reiko, threatens to discover the link between her samurai and the enigmatic prostitute.
Laura Joh Rowland cooks up wonderfully knotty plots. Yet it's her renderings of Sano's world--with its Machiavellian politics, exotic fashions, and hierarchical communities--that make her series particularly interesting. Although this seventh installment lacks the cinematic violence of its immediate predecessor, Black Lotus, it still makes you glad to be observing shogunate Japan from afar. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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Poems of a Mountain Homeby Saigyo, Burton WatsonISBN 023107493X (0-231-07493-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Rake's Progressby Marion ChesneyISBN 0312910363 (0-312-91036-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Red Chrysanthemumby Laura Joh RowlandISBN 0312355327 (0-312-35532-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Chrysanthemum'Book summary:[via]July 1698. Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to become the shogun's second-in-command, is investigating rumors of a plot to overthrow the ruling regime. When the investigation brings Sano's deputy Hirata to Lord Mori's estate, he is shocked to find Lord Mori murdered and grotesquely mutilated in his own bed, and Sano's pregnant wife, Reiko, lying beside him. The only solid clue is a chrysanthemum soaked in blood.
Reiko's account of her actions is anything but solid. She insists that she went undercover to Lord Mori's estate in order to investigate claims that he molested and murdered young boys. But when Sano inspects the crime scene, he finds no trace of what Reiko described. And every other witness tells a different story: Lady Mori alleges that Reiko was Lord Mori's scorned mistress and murdered him for revenge. And Lord Mori himself, speaking through a medium, claims his murder was part of Sano's plot to overthrow the shogun!
Unless Sano can prove his wife's unlikely claims, both he and Reiko--and their unborn child--face execution for treason. Sano fights desperately to save his family and his honor, as Laura Joh Rowland draws on the tradition of the classic film Rashomon to bring us a masterful tale of intrigue and treachery.More editions of Red Chrysanthemum:
Requiem for Battleship Yamatoby Yoshida MitsuruISBN 029596216X (0-295-96216-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Rise of Modern Japanby W. G. BeasleyISBN 0312233736 (0-312-23373-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Rise of Modern Japan: Political, Economic and Social Change Since 1850by W. G. BeasleyISBN 0312127510 (0-312-12751-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Centuryby Donald KeeneISBN 0231114419 (0-231-11441-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century'Book summary:Donald Keene employs his prodigious wealth of knowledge, critical insight, and narrative aplomb to guide readers through the first nine hundred years of Japanese literature -- a period that not only defined the unique properties of Japanese prosody and prose but also produced some of its greatest works. Covering courtly fiction, Buddhist writings, war tales, diaries, poems, and more, Seeds in the Heart explores a vast and variegated treasury of writings. Detailed textual examinations of classic texts -- from the Kojiki to The Tale of Genji, from The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon to Zeami's Nô plays -- allow students, lay readers, and scholars a new understanding and enjoyment of this great literature.
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Shibumiby TrevanianISBN 0345311809 (0-345-31180-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Silkby Alessandro Baricco, Ann GoldsteinISBN 0307277976 (0-307-27797-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silk'Book summary:The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.
There Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed. [via]More editions of Silk:
So Far from the Bamboo Groveby Watkins Yoko KaISBN 0317622722 (0-317-62272-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Sort of Samuraiby James MelvilleISBN 0312745591 (0-312-74559-1)
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Strangers from a Different Shoreby Ronald TakakiISBN 0316831301 (0-316-83130-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strangers from a Different Shore'Book summary:In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate & culture, & Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This is a powerful & moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores. [via]
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The Tales of the Heikeby Burton Watson, Haruo ShiraneISBN 0231138024 (0-231-13802-4)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tales of the Heike'Book summary:The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history. The Tales of the Heike focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-century Japanese clans-the Heike (Taira) and the Genji (Minamoto)-and the women with whom they were intimately connected.
The Tales of the Heike provides a dramatic window onto the emerging world of the medieval samurai and recounts in absorbing detail the chaos of the battlefield, the intrigue of the imperial court, and the gradual loss of a courtly tradition. The book is also highly religious and Buddhist in its orientation, taking up such issues as impermanence, karmic retribution, attachment, and renunciation, which dominated the Japanese imagination in the medieval period.
In this new, abridged translation, Burton Watson offers a gripping rendering of the work's most memorable episodes. Particular to this translation are the introduction by Haruo Shirane, the woodblock illustrations, a glossary of characters, and an extended bibliography.
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Tallgrassby Sandra DallasISBN 0312360193 (0-312-36019-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tallgrass'Book summary:[via]An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions...
During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers.
This is Tallgrass as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But now the winds of change are coming and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things.
Part thriller, part historical novel, Tallgrass is a riveting exploration of the darkest--and best--parts of the human heart.
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Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Playsby James T. Araki, Karen BrazellISBN 0231108729 (0-231-10872-9)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays'Book summary:This is a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance -- noh, kyogen, kabuki, and bamrili puppet theater -- in one comprehensive, authoritative volume. Organized by genre, each section features a rich selection of representative plays and explorations into each theatrical style and is prefaced by an illustrative essay covering a wide range of subjects, from stage direction to musical accompaniment. With classic and new translations of more than thirty plays and scenes -- along with Brazell's detailed, historically rich supplementary material and copious illustrations -- no better anthology exists for students of this most fascinating and diverse dramatic tradition.
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Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Playsby Karen BrazellISBN 0231108737 (0-231-10873-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Two Faces of Tomorrowby James Patrick HoganISBN 0345323874 (0-345-32387-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextaulity in Traditional Japanese Poetryby Edward KamensISBN 0300068085 (0-300-06808-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Zen in the Art of the Tea Ceremonyby Horst HammitzschISBN 0312898592 (0-312-89859-2)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Harry Potter Et Le Prisonnier D'azkaban / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. RowlingISBN 0320037797 (0-320-03779-7)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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