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  • Hardboiled & Hard Luck

    by Banana Yoshimoto ...
    Translated by Michael Emmerich ...
    A pair of thematically linked novellas from the acclaimed author of Lizard, Amrita, and Goodbye Tsugumi.In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto's warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and bestseller status. Her insightful, spare vision returns in two novellas possessed by the ghosts of love found ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goodbye Tsugumi

    by Banana Yoshimoto ...
    Translated by Michael Emmerich ...
    In this "witty, perceptive novel", a young woman moves to Tokyo and encounters the world of university enrollment and impending adulthood ( Elle).Banana Yoshimoto's novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 Things Michigan State Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

    by Michael Emmerich ...
    Series series 100 Things...Fans Should Know
    100 Things Michigan State Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of Michigan State football and men's basketball. Whether a die-hard booster from the days of Jumpin' Johnny Green or a new supporter of football coach Mark Dantonio, fans will value these essential pieces of Michigan State football and basketball knowledge and trivia, as well as all the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 Things Mariners Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

    by Michael Emmerich ...
    Series series 100 Things...Fans Should Know
    This fan book to the Mariners covers the team's history in Seattle since its enfranchisement in 1977, including the Ichiro Suzuki years, memories from the Kingdome, and the brief existence of the Seattle Pilots. Author Mike Emmerich has collected every essential piece of Mariners knowledge and trivia, including King's Court, Felix Hernandez's perfect game, the 116-win 2001 team, Randy Johnson, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manazuru

    A Novel

    by Hiromi Kawakami ...
    Translated by Michael Emmerich ...
    Startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future.Twelve years have passed since Kei’s husband, Rei, disappeared and she was left alone with her three–year–old daughter. Her new relationship with a married man—the antithesis of Rei—has brought her life to a numbing stasis, and her relationships with her mother and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mysterious Setting

    by Kazushige Abe ...
    Translated by Michael Emmerich ...
    Series series Japanese Novellas
    **A madcap, darkly comic novel about the strange fate of a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing, from a Japanese literary star“Abe's superpower is to transform everything he touches into exciting literature.” — Kotaru Isaka, author of Bullet Train**This surreal, twisty novel presents a provocative portrayal of sibling competition and the exploitation of social outcasts.Shiori knows at heart that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XVI

    16th International Conference, PPSN 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 5-9, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

    Edited by Thomas Bäck, Mike Preuss, André Deutz, Hao Wang, Carola Doerr, Michael Emmerich, Heike Trautmann ...
    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This two-volume set LNCS 12269 and LNCS 12270 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in September 2020.The 99 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 268 submissions. The topics cover classical subjects such as automated algorithm selection and configuration ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Dandelions

    Translated by Michael Emmerich ...
    by Yasunari Kawabata ...
    A fascinating discovery, Kawabata’s unfinished final novel Dandelions is a great master’s last wordA fascinating discovery, Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972.Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions explores love and madness and consists almost entirely conversations between a woman identified only as Ineko's mother, and Kuno, a young ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Hunting Gun

    by Yasushi Inoue ...
    Translated by Michael Emmerich ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A tragedy in three letters: THE masterpiece of one of Japan's greatest writersThe Hunting Gun follows the consequences of a tragic love affair. Told from the viewpoints of three different women, this is a story of the psychological impact of illicit love. First viewed through the eyes of Shoko, who learns of the affair through reading her mother's diary, then through the eyes of Midori, who had ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Many-Criteria Optimization and Decision Analysis

    State-of-the-Art, Present Challenges, and Future Perspectives

    Edited by Dimo Brockhoff, Michael Emmerich, Boris Naujoks, Robin Purshouse ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book presents the state-of-the-art, current challenges, and future perspectives for the field of many-criteria optimization and decision analysis. The field recognizes that real-life problems often involve trying to balance a multiplicity of considerations simultaneously – such as performance, cost, risk, sustainability, and quality. The field develops theory, methods and tools that can ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • The Tale of Genji

    Translation, Canonization, and World Literature

    by Michael Emmerich ...
    Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s, he demonstrates how translations and the global circulation of discourse they inspired turned The Tale of Genji into a widely read classic, reframing our understanding of its significance and influence and of the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Ten Nights Dreaming

    and The Cat's Grave

    by Natsume Soseki ...
    Translated by Treyvaud Matt ...
    Series series Dover Literature: Science Fiction/Fantasy Short Stories
    A murderer discovers his true nature from a talking infant, a samurai is frustrated in his attempts to meditate, and a dying man bestows his hat on a friend in these surrealistic short stories. The dream-like, open-ended tales by the father of Japanese modernist literature offer thought-provoking reflections on fear, death, and loneliness. Their settings range from the Meiji period of the late ... Read more

    $8.99 USD