Reducere. "I lived in a haunted apartment." Davisson opens this definitive work on Japan's ghosts, or yurei, with a personal tale about the spirit world. Shi...
chin music, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, myth & legend told as fiction
Reducere. Two previously unpublished collections by an important Chinese American poet depict daily life inside New York's Chinatown and across the Chinese d...
wesleyan university press, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. The lute, ch'in or guqin is one of China's oldest and most revered musical instruments. Records indicate that it has been a favourite of the litera...
orchid press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, ...
cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, the arts, music
Reducere. During a period of political and social upheaval in China, the unconventional insights of the great Daoist Zhuangzi (369?-286? B.C.) pointed to a w...
princeton university press, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, religion & beliefs
Reducere. In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. ...
duke university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. This is the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In nine richly illustrated chapters Chiang Yee explores the aesthetics and the technique o...
harvard university press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle
Reducere. In Shangyang Fang's debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants an...
copper canyon press, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. The unique sounds of the biwa, shamisen, and other traditional instruments from Japan are heard more and more often in works for the concert hall a...
university of rochester press, carti, carte straina, the arts
Reducere. Building forts, excursions to the park, enduring art and music lessons with his buddies formed the fabric of Jim Ling's early childhood in the glit...
outskirts press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. This is the compelling story of the life of internationally acclaimed cello virtuoso, Yo-Yo Ma, from the cradle to his entering Harvard University ...
chinese university of hong kong press, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Bay Area Book of the Year A book unlike anything ever written by a comp...
st. martins press-3pl, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. A lot of rock bands are wild. Many of them cultivate that sex, drugs, and rock and roll image. But Guns N' Roses is the real thing, so hedonistic a...
Reducere. A very special collection of short biographies offers insightful sketches of the lives and accomplishments of 150 of history's most influential and...
brick tower press, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock 'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe...
da capo press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taois...
oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, earth sciences
Reducere. Well over a century has passed since two cadets of the Ole War Skule decided to create a brass band for their university, beginning a tradition tha...
lsu press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. DescriptionThis classic book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996), one of the most influential black activists of the gener...
university of north carolina press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, society & culture: general