Japanese Art (World of Art)
By: Joan Stanley-Baker
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"A long-needed presentation of Japanese art that concisely offers inclusive coverage from prehistor…
Want to Read"The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda carried little weight with an idle aristocracy."-Joan Stanley-Baker, Japanese Art (World of Art)
"The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda carried little weight with an idle aristocracy."-Joan Stanley-Baker, Japanese Art (World of Art)
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1. After the Quake
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.77
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。そして2月、流木が燃える冬の海岸で、あるいは、小箱を携えた男が向かった釧路で、かえるくんが地底でみみずくんと闘う東京で、世界はしずかに共振をはじ… read more
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"Are you prepared to die?"-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
"This life is nothing but a short, painful dream."-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
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2. The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee
4.09
Format: 625 pages, Paperback
First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more
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"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
3. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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4. The Sunset Limited
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement wher… read more
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5. Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami , None
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more
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6. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
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"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
7. In the Miso Soup
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more
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8. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting… read more
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9. Moshi moshi
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Gala Maria Follaco
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Dopo aver perso il padre in quello che ha tutta l'aria di essere stato un doppio suicidio d'amore, … read more
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10. The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
By: Roger J. Davies , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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12. Atlas Shrugged
By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a des… read more
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13. The Setting Sun
By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
4.36
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the s… read more
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14. Piercing
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup A renaissance man for the… read more
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15. Coin Locker Babies
By: Ryū Murakami , Stephen Snyder
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A surreal coming-of-age tale that establishes Ryu Murakami as one of the most inventive young write… read more
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16. The Housekeeper and the Professor
By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he ha… read more
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17. People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
By: Richard Lloyd Parry
4.24
Format: 376 pages,
An incisive and compelling account of the case of Lucie Blackman. Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, an… read more
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18. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel , Alfred Birnbaum
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition . In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only… read more
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19. Strange Weather in Tokyo
By: Hiromi Kawakami
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school… read more
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20. Snow Country
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.59
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more
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"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
21. The Duchess Deal (Girl Meets Duke, #1)
By: Tessa Dare
3.99
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
When girl meets Duke, their marriage breaks all the rules… Since his return from war, the Duke o… read more
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"Are you—"-Tessa Dare, The Duchess Deal (Girl Meets Duke, #1)
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22. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
23. A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun (Brief History of Asia Series)
By: Jonathan Clements
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens… read more
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24. Mimi's Tales of Terror
By: Hirokatsu Kihara
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Experience real-life chills as Junji Ito brings these “true” horror series to life! University s… read more
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25. Tokyo Ueno Station
By: Yū Miri
3.47
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more
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"There’s that sound again."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
26. Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
By: Michael Booth
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China,… read more
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27. The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime
By: Michael H. Stone
4.17
Format: 607 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF EVILRevisiting Dr. Michael Stone… read more
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28. Until I Meet My Husband (Memoir)
By: Ryousuke Nanasaki
4.34
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
This historic memoir by activist Ryousuke Nanasaki recounts his first experiences as a gay man whil… read more
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"On my thirtieth birthday, Asami gave me the Sailor Moon toy I had secretly wanted as a child. It was the same one she herself had played with as a little girl, and though it's missing its battery cov…"-Ryousuke Nanasaki, Until I Meet My Husband (Memoir)
29. Japanese Art (World of Art)
By: Joan Stanley-Baker
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"A long-needed presentation of Japanese art that concisely offers inclusive coverage from prehistor… read more
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- art
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- history
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- reference
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- japanese literature
- japan
- textbooks
"The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda ca…"-Joan Stanley-Baker, Japanese Art (World of Art)
30. Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
By: Andrew Ross
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing… read more
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31. The Works of Hayao Miyazaki: The Master of Japanese Animation
By: Gael Berton
3.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Un voyage vers le monde poétique de Miyazaki.Avec sa mise en scène poétique et ses thématiques univ… read more
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