Haikyo: The Modern Ruins of Japan, Hardcover - Shane Thoms

Stepping away from the lights and into the shadows, one adventurous photographer embarks on an underground voyeuristic journey, documenting a curio...

DescriptionBarren red deserts dotted with post-colonial ghost towns, dilapidated inner city factories, discarded country homesteads and a successio...

Japan, the world s third largest economy and its largest creditor nation, has been in crisis for more than two decades. Its economy has been depres...

A century ago, when Japan was transforming itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern nation, a Japanese educator queried about the ethos...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. As its title suggests, this book captures the essence of Japanese life and culture in 100 words. From well-known concepts like zen, kawaii and anim...

Reducere. A secret buried in the Antarctic.A puzzle unsolved for thousands of years.And a Brooklyn-born Master Gunnery Sergeant who's royally pissed that he ...

Reducere. The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan's rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twe...

The New Revised and Expanded Edition reviews over 25 new films including Shin Godzilla (2016), Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Godzilla: Planet of th...

Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the hi...

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins ...

Reducere. Rosco the rascally German shepherd has never seen snow before. Now he'll get the chance to romp around in a snow-covered world high in the mountain...

See the dawn of modern Japan through the lens of the power players who helped shape it -- as well as those who fought against it -- in this explora...

Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have ...

DescriptionThis significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a "parallel modernism" that was visually similar to Euroamerican modern...

Preserving the Japanese Way, nominated for a 2016 James Beard Award in the International Cookbook category, introduces Japanese methods of salting,...

Reducere. Following a period of strict isolationism from the West, Japan began a series of modernization efforts, starting in the Meiji Restoration, that tra...

Reducere. Years after stumbling across her first Dignity Vessel, Boss now leads a team of people searching for "loose" stealth technology. She takes a team t...

Reducere. The Samurai Series brings together three of the most important books dealing with the Samurai path and philosophy into one deluxe, illustrated hard...

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...

An inspirational how-to course on Japanese woodblock printing's history and techniques, with guidance on materials and studio practices, step-by-st...

Reducere. Emperor Diocletian's palace is a historic marvel - this book and its sketches, published by architect Robert Adam in the 1760s, aided the rediscove...

Reducere. Cinci persoane sunt in pericol de moarte: un vagon pe care nimeni nu-l poate opri se indreapta catre ele. Singura posibilitate de a le salva este c...

To secure lasting peace for the Earth Kingdom, Korra must trust an unlikely ally On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom's future is e...

Reducere. DescriptionBrother and sister, ten-year-old James and seven-year-old Mandy, are excited to explore a pumpkin patch with their lively German shepher...

Reducere. The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist pra...

Reducere. An indispensable guide to the colors and combinations of contemporary Japanese design--by one of Japan's leading colorists! Color consultant Teruko...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose mem...

Reducere. This stunning, substantial volume documents William Frej's forty-five year search for remote Maya sites primarily in Guatemala and Mexico, inspired...

Reducere. At times a thrilling ghost story, at times an action-packed adventure Will a search-and-rescue mission for a lost cat spell trouble for Rosco and t...

Reducere. Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. I...

The modern era of Japanese swords began with the Meiji restoration in 1868. The demand for new swords fell drastically, and by 1876, there was almo...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile Rosco is usually the troublemaker in the series, this time it's not Rosco who's been making mischief, it's the leprechauns. When R...

DescriptionBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline...

Reducere. No one wants to see a church die. And yet, far too many churches are dying. For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Thom Rainer has helped churches gr...

DescriptionForeword by Janet YellenWeijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books ...

With unique and playful illustrations this multicultural children's book is a classic Japanese fairy tale that young children and parents alike wil...

How to make a fairer, more just city From the grandiose histories of monumental state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner ...

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...

This book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed within such spaces. Following th...

Reducere. Ruins is the newest monograph by acclaimed Magnum photographer and bestselling author, Josef Koudelka. For more than twenty years, Koudelka has tra...