Japan's New Middle Class. The Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb, Paperback - Ezra F. Vogel

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ezra F. VogelNumber of pages: 318Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 22Cover type: Pa...

Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of his life....

Reducere. Japan and the four little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--constitute less than 1 percent of the world's land mass and less ...

This engaging and highly readable family history follows ten generations of a mainstream middle-class family through three and a half centuries of ...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Rob BeckettNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 35Cover type: HardbackRe...

Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married...

Reducere. In the early 1900s Ezra A. Carman wrote a sweeping and detailed manuscript chronicling the Maryland Campaign of 1862. As the colonel of the 13th Ne...

Reducere. DescriptionOften overshadowed by the Ancestral Pueblo centers at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, the Middle San Juan is one of the most dynamic territ...

Reducere. If you thought your parenting responsibilities ended after eighteen years per child, you thought wrong. Instead, it's your privilege to lead your f...

For half a century, Michael Jackson's music has been an indelible part of our cultural consciousness. Landmark albums such as Off the Wall and Thri...

Reducere. Rummaging through his papers in 1958, Ezra Pound came across a cache of notebooks dating back to the summer of 1912, when as a young man he had wal...

Reducere. The Paris Bureau tells the story of the storytellers. Drawing on the lively dispatches of a forgotten American correspondent and his family in Pari...

Reducere. Our children mean the world to us. They are so central to our hopes and dreams that we will do almost anything to keep them healthy, happy, and saf...

Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White Ho...

Reducere. Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dro...

Reducere. The surprising and illuminating look at how Tolkien's love of science and natural history shaped the creation of his Middle Earth, from its flora a...

Reducere. Over 900, 000 copies sold in the series This easy-to-read adventure is number 20 in this long-running, successful series and is now available in so...

Reducere. DescriptionJapan was a physical and psychological wasteland at the end of World War II. With over 3 million dead, 39 percent of city populations ho...

DescriptionJapan was a physical and psychological wasteland at the end of World War II. With over 3 million dead, 39 percent of city populations ho...

A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.Publisher: Haymarket Boo...

Reducere. DescriptionMichelle Kennedy had a typical middle class American childhood in Vermont. She attended college, interned in the U.S. Senate, married he...

This book describes how the author, faced with 'incurable' and 'progressive' type 2 diabetes but inspired by research from Newcastle University, UK...

For more than fifty years, J. Krishnamurti gave public talks to audiences around the world in which he expressed a revolutionary new understanding ...

DescriptionA gathering of Ezra Pound's writing, criticism, and reviews on art.

Reducere. Ezra Pound and Music: The Complete Criticism, Paperback

Reducere. The Wealth Secrets of the Ancients: Updated for Today's Challenges George S. Clason's classic guide to financial health, The Richest Man in Babylon...

DescriptionThe Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos. ...

A family to change the nurse's life!Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Karin BaineNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

With a new foreword by Mark Cuban and a new preface by the author.

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Geoffrey HughesIllustration(s): 170ill.Number of pages: 216Collection: Oakwood Library of Railway HistoryP...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Hagen KooIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 13 ChartsNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 ...

Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous--the worst of postwar modernist ar...

Reducere. Kit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family l...

Reducere. From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic "Medieval Life" series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readab...

Reducere. "Behold your King, before Him lowly bend." The words of this Christmas carol are familiar to most of us, but how well have we understood the scope ...

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmo...

This book analyzes experiences of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro. The author investigates what it means to ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James Scott BellA powerful secret and a fresh approach to writing bestselling fictionWhat's the best way to write a "next l...

These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing social cha...

Reducere. Ezra Pound's book on the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was first published in 1916. An enlarged edition, including thirty pages of illustra...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shannon SullivanWinner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education Building on h...