Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan
By: Patrick W. Galbraith
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationshi…
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1. Beautiful Fighting Girl
By: None , Hiroki Azuma , J. Keith Vincent , None , Saito , Saito Tamaki
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind , the worlds of Japanese ani… read more
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"If there is a certain sincerity and ethics in a dissociated life lived with self-awareness, it is because hypocrisy and deception dwell in the falsely coherent life."-None, Beautiful Fighting Girl
2. L'Écume des jours
By: Boris Vian
3.93
Format: 351 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Chick, Alise, Chloé et Colin passent leur temps à dire des choses rigolotes, à écouter Duke Ellingt… read more
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"Per me, ciccino mio"-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir."-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Те се умълчаха за миг. Една кана използва настъпилата тишина, за да издаде сребрист звук, който отекна о стените."-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Le ciel bleu-vert pendait presque jusqu'au pavé et de grandes taches blanches marquaient sur le sol la place où des nuages venaient de se fracasser. (p. 220)"-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
3. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
By: Art Spiegelman
4.42
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's… read more
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"But here God didn't come. We were all on our own."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
"No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
"Samuel Beckett já disse: "Toda palavra é uma mancha desnecessária no silêncio e no vazio". Por outro lado, ele DISSE isso."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
"Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
4. El caballero de la armadura oxidada
By: Robert Fisher , Verónica d'Ornellas Radziwill
3.97
Format: 570 pages,
El caballero de la armadura oxidadatrata de una fantasia adulta que simboliza nuestra ascension por… read more
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5. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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6. Next
By: Michael Crichton
3.53
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future … read more
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"A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time."-Michael Crichton, Next
"Only assholes put a nickname on their business card."-Michael Crichton, Next
"Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other."-Michael Crichton, Next
"Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego."-Michael Crichton, Next
7. Ghost in the Shell (Ghost in the Shell, #1)
By: Masamune Shirow
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the rapidly converging landscape of the 21st century Major Kusanagi is charged to track down the… read more
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- japan
8. The Categories
By: Aristotle
1.00
Format: None pages,
Categories (Lat. Categoriae, Greek Kategoriai Kategoriai) is a text from Aristotle's Organon that e… read more
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9. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan
3.85
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more
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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
10. 美少女戦士セーラームーン新装版 11 [Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon Shinsōban 11]
By: Naoko Takeuchi , 武内直子
4.06
Format: None pages,
nazonochibichibiZhan Shi serachibichibimunCan Shang !? KCderatsukusu nakayoshi read more
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11. 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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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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13. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
14. Otaku: Japan's Database Animals
By: Hiroki Azuma , None , None
4.22
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. Hiroki Azuma's… read more
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15. No Longer Human
By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more
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"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
16. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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17. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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18. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner
3.89
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more
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"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
19. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
20. All the Lovers in the Night
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more
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"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
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21. 葬送のフリーレン 2 [Sōsō no Frieren 2]
By: Kanehito Yamada
4.42
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
魔王を倒した勇者の死後、魔法使いが歩む旅 長生きなエルフの魔法使い・フリーレン。 弟子の魔法使い・フェルンと歩む旅の目的地は、 再び魔王城。勇者たちの魂が眠るとされる地。 … read more
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"They speak not to understand, but to deceive."-Kanehito Yamada, 葬送のフリーレン 2 [Sōsō no Frieren 2]
22. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
23. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 1 (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. #1)
By: Kanehito Yamada
4.35
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought pea… read more
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24. Frankenstein
By: Junji Ito
4.01
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the a… read more
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25. Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
By: Matt Alt
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that ca… read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
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26. My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1
By: Kabi Nagata
4.18
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The sequel to the viral sensation My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness! In this follow-up to th… read more
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"The energy that, until now, had swelled up in the space between life and death turned toward a thirst for love."-Kabi Nagata, My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1
27. The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 1
By: Natsu Hyuuga
4.47
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling com… read more
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28. Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality
By: Federico Campagna
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
We take for granted that only a certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports … read more
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29. The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation
By: Thomas Lamarre
3.96
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorist… read more
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- japan
30. Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan
By: Patrick W. Galbraith
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationshi… read more
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31. 33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically
By: Harry Cleaver
4.08
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
This book provides an up-to-date reading of Capital Volume I, emphasizing the relevance of Marx's a… read more
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