Speculative Japan 2: The Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy, Paperback - Yasumi Kobayashi

Reducere. A selection of outstanding works of fantasy and science fiction from Japan, published here in English for the first time to reveal new and very dif...

Reducere. The time is long overdue to present the work of Japanese science fiction and fantasy writers to the world in English. The first book in a planned s...

"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his br...

Reducere. The third book of our well-received Speculative Japan series, this volume brings more outstanding authors from the Japanese archipelago to English,...

Reducere. Japan has long fascinated with its unique culture and elaborate folklore. This anthology collects fantasy stories inspired by the culture and liter...

Eerie traditional Japanese ghost stories retold in a graphic novel format. Over one hundred years ago, the writer Lafcadio Hearn gathered and trans...

A collection of fine Japanese tales and legends passed down through generations. The 28 tales in this collection reflect the breadth of Japanese wi...

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the...

Reducere. This book examines the haunting, sad, and lively depths of the Japanese soul by interpreting some of major themes in fairy tales. A Japanese Jungia...

A special two volume set on the Russian navy at war in the early 20th century Vladimir Semenoff's account of the famous naval Battle of Tsushima is...

Reducere. A NewYork Times Bestseller Have you ever heard of KINTSUGI Before?Do you ever feel like something is not right in your lives or relationship?Are go...

As a heatwave blazes in Stockholm, a series of women are found brutally murdered and the Criminal Investigation Department is getting nowhere.

Reducere. After fleeing a disastrous teaching job (and a bad gambling habit) in Boston, Lindsey starts teaching English in Hime, a small fishing town in Japa...

Reducere. The third and final volume of our Kaiki series returns us to the Capital City: Tokyo. While Japan has modernized, renaming old Edo as new-born Toky...

Reducere. Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night, the dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day. In this book, famed author La...

Reducere. DescriptionTable of Contents: - Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ...

Bring a mini Japanese garden into your home--whether as a stress-reducing desk accessory, interesting centerpiece or beautiful addition to any spac...

Reducere. Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a household name in Japan, became the prime catalyst behind the incredible success of Japanese industry. In fact, since 1951...

Reducere. Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Jap...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Introduction by: Masao HigashiPreface by: Robert WeinbergJapan has a long history of weird and supernatural literature, but it has ...

This collection of newly translated tales is selected from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature--the Konjaku Monogatari Shu...

In his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of Awakenings and poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) recounts the case historie...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Peter D. ShapinskyNumber of pages: 344Collection: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studi...

Reducere. Prepare to be spooked by these chilling Japanese short stories! Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons,...

A new edition of the Fantasy Tales that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft A pioneer in the realm of imaginative literature, Lord Dunsany h...

Reducere. Recommended by American Library Association (Booklist), Library Journal, and Locus (Gardner Dozois)2018 Alberta Book Publishing Award Winner (Specu...

The member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European coun...

The secret history of our most vital organ--the human heart The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the hea...

Japan's postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors The devastation of the Second ...

Japan has always had its own vampire tradition, and has eagerly naturalized Western vampires and vampire literature to produce exotic new hybrids a...

DescriptionDrink your way through Japan (even from home) with the help of this book Japan is home to some of the world's most interesting alcoholic...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Jonathan ClementsIllustration(s): over 75 color and b&w photographs and mapsNumber of pages: 320Publication ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Japan, then keep reading...Japan, the country of the rising sun, is today known as one o...

"Five charming novellas ... which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." -- The New Yorker First published in 1686, this collection of fiv...

This new collection presents seventeen classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writ...

From the creation myth of Izanagi and Izanami designed to explain the origins of the island of Japan, to the hundreds of kami (gods or spirits) and...

John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Ita...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Lafcadio HearnIllustration(s): over 20 full-color woodblock printsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. Opening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that lef...