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“edwin reischauer”

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  • Meaning of Internationalization

    Practical Advice for a Connected Planet

    Translated by Masao Kunihiro ...
    by Edwin Reischauer ...
    In The Meaning of Internationalization, Edwin O. Reischauer—former American Ambassador to Japan and one of the world's most acclaimed scholars of Japanese life and culture—delivers a heartfelt message to the Japanese people on the need to look beyond their borders at the changing nature of the world. Reischauer stresses the need to adapt in order to survive these changes and thrive in the new ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $8.69 USD

  • Japan

    The Story of a Nation

    by Edwin O. Reischauer ...
    In this major revision of his classic history of Japan—from the tribally divided state under the leadership of Yamato in the fifth century through centuries of dynastic rule to the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989—the eminent Harvard historian and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer incorporates nearly a decade's worth of new scholarship.His book is divided into three parts: the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Musashi

    by Eiji Yoshikawa ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...

    Unabridged

    53 hours 25 min

    The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsmanMiyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai—without really knowing what it meant—he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed, and wounded among thousands ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

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    Casa desolata

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    Narrated by Silvia Cecchini ...

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    Casa Desolata è il nono romanzo di Dickens. Non è uno dei romanzi più noti di Dickens, certamente è uno dei più complessi, con una grandissima quantità di personaggi, che vengono presentati dettagliatamente nella prima parte del romanzo, per poi ritrovarne le vite intrecciate in trame insospettabili. Inoltre, più che in altri romanzi, lo scrittore coglie l’occasione per denunciare l’indifferenza ... Read more

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    Baudolino

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Narrated by George Guidall ...

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    The author of the international sensation The Name of the Rose returns to the Middle Ages in this beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention.It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death ... Read more

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  • Japan Restored

    How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World

    by Clyde Prestowitz ...
    In Japan Restored, New York Times bestselling author Clyde Prestowitz envisions post-bubble Japan in the year 2050, when the country's economic prosperity will have made it a world leader in every area.In 1979, the book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America by Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel caused a sensation in the United States by pointing out that Japan was surpassing America as ... Read more

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    Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa. Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland inform this analysis of the challenges faced by non-governmental organizations in relating both to the attendant inequality ... Read more

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