Japanese Chronicles, Paperback

Nicolas Bouvier was an image merchant and photographer as well as a writer. This book is accompanied by several of his images of Japan. It is a dis...

Reducere. The Nihon Shoki, translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. The book is also called the Nihong...

Honored and Dishonored Guests chronicles Western communities in wartime Japan, using this body of experiences to reconsider allegations of Japanese...

Reducere. From its early stories of gods, monsters, and mischievous mythical creatures to its more grounded recountings of historical events, this classic co...

While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Bront 's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nea...

Reducere. In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japan...

Reducere. After the fall of the Philippines in 1942 - and after leading the last horse cavalry charge in U.S. history - Ed Ramsey refused to surrender. Inste...

DescriptionThis book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a num...

Reducere. DescriptionUnbeaten Tracks in Japan. An Account of Travels in the Interior including visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko. By I...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller: A "virtually faultless" account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (T...

Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, educati...

DescriptionDuring the Pacific War between the U.S. and Imperial Japanese navies, the author's father, Francis Gelzheiser, deployed with Motor Torpe...

Reducere. DescriptionCan the sands of time bury the pain of the past? Reads R to L (Japanese Style). Can the sands of time bury the pain of the past? What we...

Reducere. A Japanese tale - not about daring ninja or battling samurai - but a hero with a very different penchant. Based on an actual historical figure, the...

Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over ?6.5 billion a year, linked to everything from manga to compu...

This epic story recounts the exceptional valor and endurance of American troops that battled Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II...

Ninjutsu is the most renowned and misunderstood of all martial arts. The long history of ninjutstu is often murky; surrounded by mystery and legend...

Reducere. For more than 40, 000 years, Asian farmers worked the same fields repeatedly without sapping the land's fertility and without applying artificial f...

Reducere. With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-a...

The landmark work in its field, this book chronicles the use of bicycles in warfare from the Boer War to Afganistan today. Heavily illustrated, it ...

DescriptionIn 1919, against a backdrop of a long history of anti-Asian nativism, a handful of Japanese families established Cortez Colony in a blea...

Reducere. 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, ...

This volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific from December 1941 until March 1942, during which air operations by both sides became a ...

DescriptionSamurai warriors and heroes illustrated by the greatest ukiyo-e masters.This book full of great samurai warriors and heroes in Ukiyo-e m...

Reducere. The Gunpowder Chronicles continue as a woman left adrift by a dynasty in decline attempts to reclaim her family's honor... Appointed to the Court o...

Reducere. A Daughter of the Samurai offers an elegant account of a world that had all but vanished by the time Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto put pen to paper. In her...

The continuing adventure of little rich girl Yaya and her street urchin friend Tuduo as they cross war-torn Shanghai in the wake of the Japanese in...

Reducere. A comedy that explores the ins-and-outs of working in the adult film industry! Kaeruno is jobless, freshly divorced, and all out of dating prospect...

Reducere. This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how -the good life- in America came to be equated with the a home ...

Reducere. Born under an evil moon harboring dark secrets, Earl Cain C. Hargreves, the youthful heir of the aristocratic Hargreves family, is a man on a quest...

Reducere. Born under an evil moon harboring dark secrets, Earl Cain C. Hargreves, the youthful heir of the aristocratic Hargreves family, is a man on a quest...

Reducere. Born under an evil moon harboring dark secrets, Earl Cain C. Hargreves, the youthful heir of the aristocratic Hargreves family, is a man on a quest...

Reducere. With over fifty graphic novels in print, the samurai rabbit is more popular than ever This is the seminal Usagi book collecting all the classic ori...

Reducere. Through the centuries, the Virgin Mary has appeared to ordinary people of every race and culture, bringing forth her messages of love, peace, and c...

Reducere. Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history ...

Reducere. Atillo Balintawak Eskrima-Original Saavedra Style is an in-depth account of the history of Crispulo "Ising" Atillo and the Atillo Balintawak Eskrim...

Reducere. Black Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that chronicles one woman's struggle for justice, calling for changes to an industry--and in society at la...

Reducere. Through her poems, letters and journal excerpts, author Carol Nordman tells the true story of living abroad as she steps into God's calling and giv...

Reducere. "Divine Invasions" is the first full-scale biography of Philip K. Dick, a brilliant writer who, working inside the science fiction field, created s...

Reducere. "Do No Harm" is a revealing memoir by an imminent physician. It is educational as he reflects on his youthful athletics and the sexual abuse of oth...

Now available in paperback, this is the gripping story of Task Force 77, the US Navy carrier commitment to the Korean War that was vital to the suc...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as t...

DescriptionThis second volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific for the two crucial months of March and April 1942 when a deadly strug...

Nearly three-quarters of a century following the reprehensible cover-up of the worst US naval disaster at sea emerges an unparalleled account of su...

Reducere. DescriptionTwo months prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a young man from the rural farming community of Henley, Missouri received his d...

DescriptionInto the Abyss, the first volume in The Diving Trilogy, is a fascinating collection of true life diving adventures from Rod's long and v...

Reducere. Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than ...