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“naoki inose”

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  • Persona

    A Biography of Yukio Mishima

    by Naoki Inose ...
    A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide.Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing self-disembowelment and decapitation in downtown Tokyo in 1970. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Mishima was the best-known ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Everything You Need to Know to Understand Chinese Customs and Culture

    by Winberg Chai, May-lee Chai ...
    A practical and accessible guide to an ancient but rapidly changing culture—now revised and updatedPerfect for business, pleasure, or armchair travelers, China A to Z explains the customs, culture, and etiquette essential for any trip or for anyone wanting to understand this complex country. In one hundred brief, reader-friendly essays alphabetized by subject, this fully revised and updated ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Good Talk

    The Story and Skill of Conversation

    by Daniel Menaker ...
    A stylish, funny and surprising guide to the art of conversation, from one of New York's foremost literary wits.A GOOD TALK is an analysis of and guide to that most exclusively human of all activities-- conversation.Drawing on over forty years of experience in American letters, Menaker pinpoints the factors that drive and enliven every good conversation: the vagaries (and joys) of subtext; the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • La Place de la Concorde Suisse

    by John McPhee ...
    La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Israelis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model. ... Read more

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  • The Long, Long Life of Trees

    by Fiona Stafford ...
    A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own ... Read more

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  • The Curious World of Christmas

    Celebrating All That Is Weird, Wonderful, and Festive

    by Niall Edworthy ...
    A fascinating miscellany that celebrates all things Christmas from the author of The Curious Gardener?s Almanac.Drawing from more than two thousand years of history and culture, this collection of anecdotes, customs, tips, and recipes features more than 1,000 entries honoring one of the world?s most celebrated holidays. This unpredictable, addictive gem weaves in famous quotations, traditional ... Read more

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  • Telling Our Stories

    Omushkego Legends and Histories from Hudson Bay

    by Louis Bird ...
    Since the 1970s, Louis Bird, a distinguished Aboriginal storyteller and historian, has been recording the stories and memories of Omushkego (Swampy Cree) communities along western Hudson and James Bays. In nine chapters, he presents some of the most vivid legends and historical stories from his collection, casting new light on his people’s history, culture, and values. Working with the editors and ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Savages and Civilization

    Who Will Survive?

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    A “provocative [and] vivid” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) look at the primitive cultures that have given many gifts to the modern world, and how their very existence is now threatened“This book should serve as a ‘wake-up’ call to people everywhere.”—Library JournalIn Indian Givers and Native Roots, renowned anthropologist Jack Weatherford explored the clash between Native American and European ... Read more

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  • Appetites

    Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China

    by Judith Farquhar, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing—Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Islam Is a Foreign Country

    American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority

    by Zareena Grewal ...
    Series Book 22 - Nation of Nations
    "A moving and incisive account of Muslim immigrant experiences in the United States. It reveals a dimension of American life seldom genuinely understood." —Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of PietyIn Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: What does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the authority to speak for ... Read more

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  • Eskimo Life

    by Fridtjof Nansen ...
    For one whole winter we were cut off from the world and immured among the Greenlanders. I dwelt in their huts, took part in their hunting, and tried, as well as I could, to live their life and learn their language. But one winter, unfortunately, is far too short a time in which to attain a thorough knowledge of so peculiar a people, its civilisation, and its ways of thought—that would require ... Read more

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  • Malaysia: Portrait of a Nation

    by Wendy Khadijah Moore ...
    Featuring beautiful photographs of Malaysia along with insightful historical commentary, this visual guide to Malaysia is a wonderful exploration of Asia's tropical peninsula.Lying at the heart of Southeast Asia, Malaysia offers a panoply of Asian colors, impressions, smells, noises, tastes and experiences-all in one country! This beautifully illustrated volume captures the many faces and facets ... Read more

    $17.99 USD