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A clerk in a Tokyo of the near future works in an organization that controls the flow of information to society--employing electronic brainwashing and other insidious techniques--a job that contributes to his increasing sense of dehumanization

Hardcover:

9784770015440 | Italian edition edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, September 1, 1991), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A clerk in a Tokyo of the near future works in an organization that controls the flow of information to society--employing electronic brainwashing and other insidious techniques--a job that contributes to his increasing sense of dehumanization

CD/Spoken Word:

9781522633549, titled "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" | Mp3 una edition (Naxos Audiobooks Ltd, May 17, 2016), cover price $12.99
9789626343388, titled "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: The Complete Text" | Unabridged edition (Naxos Audio Books, April 6, 2010), cover price $62.98

Product Description: Here is a deftly written thriller that is also a "deep and moody" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) journey through the dark side of Japan's consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable personal debt and fall prey to dangerous webs of underground creditors-so dangerous, in fact, that murder may be the only way out...read more
By Alfred Birnbaum (trans)

Paperback:

9780395966587 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, May 12, 1999), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: On leave after the death of his wife and a job-related injury, a police inspector returns to the force when his banker nephew's fiancee suddenly vanishes, and his investigation into her disappearance reveals troubling puzzles about the woman and her background.

Prebinding:

9781435236745 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 3, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Here is a deftly written thriller that is also a "deep and moody" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) journey through the dark side of Japan's consumer-crazed society.

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Product Description: Cyberpunk, sci-fi and erotica all meld together in this collection of cutting-edge short stories. The authors tend towards near-zero emotional chill, stunned urbanity and a shiny kind of violence.
By Alfred Birnbaum (editor)

Hardcover:

9784770015433 | Kodansha Amer Inc, May 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of contemporary Japanese fiction features themes ranging from media images and workaday madness to sex and scandal, and includes works that experiment with language, offbeat humor, science fiction, and cartoon graphics

Paperback:

9784770028907 | Kodansha Amer Inc, December 1, 2002, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Cyberpunk, sci-fi and erotica all meld together in this collection of cutting-edge short stories.
9784770016881 | Reprint edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, September 1, 1993), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: "Monkey Brain Sushi" features 11 stories which introduce the brightest and boldest voices in Japanese fiction.

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Product Description: Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and the result is the remarkable story, Dance Dance Dance: high-class call girls billed to Mastercard, a psychic 13-year-old dropout has a passion for talking heads, and meet a hunky matinee idol, doomed to play dentists and teachers...read more
By Alfred Birnbaum (trans)

Paperback:

9781860469534 | New edition (Gardners Books, February 7, 2002), cover price $12.55 | About this edition: Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and the result is the remarkable story, Dance Dance Dance: high-class call girls billed to Mastercard, a psychic 13-year-old dropout has a passion for talking heads, and meet a hunky matinee idol, doomed to play dentists and teachers.

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Product Description: From the acclaimed author of "Still Lives", this novel charts the bitter struggle for justice against the might of the pan-Asian drugs cartels and a nation's cancerous political corruption.

Hardcover:

9784770026866 | Kodansha Amer Inc, February 1, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: From the acclaimed author of "Still Lives", this novel charts the bitter struggle for justice against the might of the pan-Asian drugs cartels and a nation's cancerous political corruption.

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Covers the 1995 Tokyo Gas Attack, during which agents of a Japanese cult released a gas deadlier than cyanide into the subway system, as documented in interviews with its survivors, perpetrators, and victim family members. Original. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780375725807 | Vintage Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Covers the 1995 Tokyo Gas Attack, during which agents of a Japanese cult released sarin gas into the subway system, as documented in interviews with its survivors, perpetrators, and victims's family members.

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Product Description: This work encapsulates diversity of architecture, design, arts and crafts in Myanmar. Ranging from the monumental pagodas of Bagan (Pagan) to contemporary Yangon (Rangoon), both religious and secular buildings are presented in detail...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9789625933979 | Periplus Editions, November 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This work encapsulates diversity of architecture, design, arts and crafts in Myanmar.

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Haunted by the sound of someone weeping softly for him, a man in his mid-thirties returns to northern Hokkaido to find her. By the author of A Wild Sheep Chase. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9784770016836, titled "Dance Dance Dance: A Novel" | Kodansha Amer Inc, January 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Haunted by the sound of someone weeping softly for him, a man in his mid-thirties returns to northern Hokkaido to find her

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Product Description: Book by Sen, Soshitsu, Birnbaum, Alfred

Paperback:

9784473012944 | Books Nippan, November 1, 1993, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Book by Sen, Soshitsu, Birnbaum, Alfred

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Product Description: Short aphorisms and drawings—with cats—bring out the humor in Zen.

Paperback:

9780834802940 | Weatherhill, September 1, 1993, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Short aphorisms and drawings—with cats—bring out the humor in Zen.

Short aphorisms and drawings—with cats—bring out the humor in Zen.

Hardcover:

9780834802926 | Shambhala Pubns, May 1, 1993, cover price $12.95

Paperback:

9780834802759 | Shambhala Pubns, May 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Short aphorisms and drawings—with cats—bring out the humor in Zen.

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A clerk in a Tokyo of the near future works in an organization that controls the flow of information to society--employing electronic brainwashing and other insidious techniques--a job that contributes to his increasing sense of dehumanization

Paperback:

9780679743460 | Rep tra edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1993), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A clerk in a Tokyo of the near future works in an organization that controls the flow of information to society--employing electronic brainwashing and other insidious techniques--a job that contributes to his increasing sense of dehumanization

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Product Description: Book by Makiguchi, Tsunesaburo, Bethel, Dayle M.

Hardcover:

9780813803920 | 1 edition (Iowa State Pr, November 30, 1989), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Book by Makiguchi, Tsunesaburo, Bethel, Dayle M.

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By Alfred Birnbaum (trans) and Soshitsu Sen (editor)

Hardcover:

9780834802124 | 1 edition (Weatherhill, June 1, 1989), cover price $60.00

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