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  • A Concise History of Japan

    by Brett L. Walker ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. The book begins by ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Yukikaze's War

    The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific

    by Brett L. Walker ...
    Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination, illustrating the daily realities of war for Yukikaze and her crew. By shifting our perspective of the Pacific War away from grand Imperial ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • A Family History of Illness

    Memory as Medicine

    by Brett L. Walker ...
    While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, “Do you have a family history of illness?”—a standard and deceptively simple question that for Walker, a professional historian, took on additional meaning and spurred him to investigate his family’s medical past. In this deeply personal narrative, he constructs a history of his body to understand his diagnosis with a ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Lost Wolves of Japan

    by Brett L. Walker ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Toxic Archipelago

    A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

    by Brett L. Walker ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago.During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Concise History of Japan

    by Brett L. Walker ...
    Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. The book begins by ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Oceanic Japan

    The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History

    by Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, David R. Armitage, Gregory Clancey, Bathsheba Demuth, Alexis Dudden, Martin Dusinberre0, Kjell Ericson1, Gerald Figal2, Toshihiro Higuchi3, David L. Howell4, Julia Markio Jacoby5, Jakobina Arch6, Ryan Tucker Jones7, Paul Kreitman8, Manako Ogawa9, Katherine Matsuura0, Jonas M. Rüegg1, Hannah Shepherd2, Satsuki Takahashi3, Takehiro Watanabe4, Kären Wigen5, Marcia Yonemoto6, Brett L. Walker7, Mary Carmel Finley8, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu9, Sujit Sivasundaram0 ...
    Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds with the importance of the sea. This ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Perfect The Awesome & The Terrific

    by BRETT WALKER ...
    Spruce Springsteen, Raheem Booming and Mike Checker take back "That One Town" back from bandits. ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

  • Rocky Shallover

    by BRETT WALKER ...
    Rocky Shallover defends his city against some of the most sadistic mouth boxers with a fine tuned ear. ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

  • The Testament Of Spruce Springsteen

    by BRETT WALKER ...
    A soldier's story for the underdog that details overcoming obstacles for you to fail. Spruce Springsteen and two friends agree on a win against a common enemy that wants all with a purpose to lose and be defeated. See why they call him Spruce Springsteen. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Servant And The Slave

    by BRETT WALKER ...
    There are those that take and those that Serve. Spruce Springsteen, Raheem Booming, and Mike Checker ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

  • The Fists Of All Fists

    by BRETT WALKER ...
    Spruce Springsteen is at it again in this epic action-filled journey overcoming doubt with " Raheem Booming " as " The Wired Up Shifu " and " Mike Checker "as " Master Chin ". " Mantle Son " Played by Springsteen is sought out by " The Champions of Doubt "to be overcome and overrun, but a Spoken Word Fist of an ancient martial art is Mantle sons destiny and God-given right. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD