When the Earth Roars. Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan, Hardback - Gregory Smits

Japan, which is among the most earthquake-prone regions in the world, has a long history of responding to seismic disasters. However, despite advan...

A distillation of the life lessons learned by one woman through the ancient art of the Japanese tea ceremony.

In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid an...

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...

Andy Couturier captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these ten profiles of ordinary--yet exceptional--men and women who left behi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jay FeldmanFrom Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America un...

362The Era of Great Disasters examines modern disaster response in Japan, from the changing earthquake preparations and regulations, to immediate e...

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

This book focuses on the diverse impact of forest history in general, and of forest continuity, fragmentation and past management in particular, on...

Volcanoes & Earthquakes features the earth sciences at their most spectacular. It reveals the massive internal forces that create and change the Ea...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dr Greg StoryIllustrator: Tim WilkinsonAre you selling to Japanese buyers? Do you want to be more successful? To sell to Ja...

A distillation of the life lessons learned by one woman through the ancient art of the Japanese tea ceremony.Illustrations: 1 x 8-pp photo section ...

Reducere. Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambig...

Reducere. BOOM! CRASH! ROAAAR! What in the WORLD is going on up there?! Those loud, booming roars coming from the sky are so scary! But have you ever wondere...

Reducere. DescriptionUnlike previous works that focus on the relationships of the Chippewa with the colonial governments of France, Great Britain, and the Un...

This colorful narrative of French history in the sixth century is a dramatic and detailed portrait of a period of political and religious turmoil. ...

Publisher: West Virginia University PressIllustration(s): 7 tables, 8 graphsNumber of pages: 336Collection: Energy and SocietyPublication date: 202...

Imagine a former French major getting vocabulary tips from her young children That was the experience of Kristin Espinasse, an American who fell in...

Publisher: Edition ReussAuthor(s): Eberhard J WormerIllustration(s): 460 photos & illusNumber of pages: 492Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 297 x ...

Lessons from History is a joyful romp through the obscurest parts of the past, scouring the annals for overlooked figures and events that nonethele...

A dive into salty and artful language, invective and off-colour jokes the world over.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Rik SmitsIllustration(s): ...

A superb example of the ever-popular Japanese POW genre. First hand and contemporaneous account of survival on the notorious Burma Railway.

The story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who brought about the American space programme proves to be eccentric, occultist and rife with unus...

Reducere. DescriptionAssembled over the last four decades and still growing, the Mary and Cheney Cowles collection of Japanese art is one of the finest in pr...

Reducere. Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear s...

Reducere. DYSLEXIA FONT EDITION - BOOM! CRASH! ROAAAR! What in the WORLD is going on up there?! Those loud, booming roars coming from the sky are so scary! B...

Reducere. The commander, or chief of staff, of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is a prominent public figure in Israel. His decisions, advice, and persona exe...

Reducere. Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth th...

Publisher: Practical Action PublishingIllustration(s): 21 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 224Publicati...

The fate of the world's coasts rests on a knife edge as global warming melts ice sheets and glaciers from the Alps to the Andes. The choices we mak...

Reducere. In late November 1864, the last Southern army east of the Mississippi that was still free to maneuver started out from northern Alabama on the Conf...

At heart his book is not a call for panic, but a demonstration that - even with the crisis so severe, and the political scope so limited - the acti...

DescriptionJapan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool provides a historical account of Japan's elite and popular cultures from premodern to ...

The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Prof. Peter (Ostasieninstitut, Germany) WetzlerNumber of pages: 256Collection: SOAS Studies in Moder...

30 architectural and urban development projects by Atelier M Architects + Planners with clear project descriptions and elaborate imagery and plans.

Reducere. Hayder's met his mate, there's just one little problem, she's allergic to cats. How degrading. Stuck babysitting a woman because his alpha said so....

DescriptionJapan's ancient age was a period of radical and political change during which a Chinese-style empire emerged. This volume of The Cambrid...

The story of how one small nation responded to global climate issues by radically rethinking public policy for future generations

In Close Association is the first English-language study of the local networks of women and men who built modern Japan in the Meiji period (1868-19...