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Product Description: A sweeping, gorgeously written debut novel of duty to family and country, passion, and blood ties unraveling in the charged political climate of Berlin between the wars.âEmpire of the Senses is lush, smart, sexy, affecting, interesting, beautifully researched and well made...read more
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9781501219719 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, February 2, 2016), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A sweeping, gorgeously written debut novel of duty to family and country, passion, and blood ties unraveling in the charged political climate of Berlin between the wars.
9781501219726 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, February 2, 2016), cover price $14.99
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9780521304047, titled "The Urbanization of Rural Dialect Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Study in Brazil" | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1985, cover price $65.00 | also contains The Urbanization of Rural Dialect Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Study in Brazil
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9781840683196, titled "Dream Spectres: Kabuki Nightmares: Ukiyo-E Ghosts, Magic & Mayhem" | Scb Distributors, November 30, 2015, cover price $39.95
Hardcover:
9780395691809, titled "Lifespan Development" | Houghton Mifflin College Div, October 1, 1996, cover price $11.96 | also contains Lifespan Development
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9781840683042 | Scb Distributors, September 30, 2012, cover price $34.95
Product Description: As the creation of Japanese woodblock prints grew in popularity in the late Edo period, tigers could be found in the designs of many important ukiyo-e artists, either alone or shown in conflict with legendary Japanese warriors and tiger-hunters such as Kato Kiyomasa, âconquerorâ of Korea...read more
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9781840683189 | Scb Distributors, October 31, 2014, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: As the creation of Japanese woodblock prints grew in popularity in the late Edo period, tigers could be found in the designs of many important ukiyo-e artists, either alone or shown in conflict with legendary Japanese warriors and tiger-hunters such as Kato Kiyomasa, âconquerorâ of Korea.
Product Description: The first Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was Japan's first modern war, and their first military action overseas for over 300 years. One notable result of this conflict was a huge burst in popularity for senso-e ("war picturesâ), a genre of ukiyo-e which first evolved as a mutation of musha-e ("warrior picturesâ) with the need in the 1870s to document the contemporary conflicts which had raged in Japan as a result of the Meiji Restoration, in particular the Seinan War of 1877...read more
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9781840683172 | Scb Distributors, July 31, 2014, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The first Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was Japan's first modern war, and their first military action overseas for over 300 years.
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9781840683141 | Scb Distributors, June 30, 2014, cover price $39.95
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9781840683127 | Shinbaku Books, November 30, 2013, cover price $29.95
Product Description: MUSHA-E ("warrior picturesâ) constitute one of the major and most dynamic sub-genres of ukiyo-e, the populist art of 19th century Japan. From Hokusai to Kyosai, virtually all of ukiyo-e's greatest artists created musha-e, in particular Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi...read more
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9781840683110 | Scb Distributors, October 31, 2013, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: MUSHA-E ("warrior picturesâ) constitute one of the major and most dynamic sub-genres of ukiyo-e, the populist art of 19th century Japan.
Product Description: An illustrated document of the films of Jess Franco, the European cult director best known for his lurid depictions of sex, obsession, and horror. His most notorious films include Exorcism, Female Vampire, Vampyros Lesbos, and Succubus, and feature many of Europe's leading sex stars, most notably Soledad Miranda, Lina Romay, and Alice Arno...read more
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9781902588292 | Glitter Books, September 30, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An illustrated document of the films of Jess Franco, the European cult director best known for his lurid depictions of sex, obsession, and horror.
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9781840683103 | Scb Distributors, July 31, 2013, cover price $39.95
Product Description: Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-89) was only 6 years old when he joined the school of the great ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi, along with such fellow pupils as Yoshitoshi, who followed him in 1850. Later Kyosai studied traditional Japanese painting at the Kano school...read more
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9781840683097 | Scb Distributors, July 31, 2013, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-89) was only 6 years old when he joined the school of the great ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi, along with such fellow pupils as Yoshitoshi, who followed him in 1850.
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9781840683073 | Reprint edition (Scb Distributors, July 1, 2013), cover price $39.95
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9781840683080 | Scb Distributors, June 30, 2013, cover price $34.95
Product Description: Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) was one of the last great masters of ukiyo-e, the Japanese art of woodblock-printing which peaked in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. Inspired by the plays, actors and customs of kabuki theatre, and using vibrant new chemical dyes imported from Europe, Kunichika created a visually dazzling pictorial record of this long-lost, decadent underworld of old Edo...read more
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9781840683035, titled "Decadence & Dissolution: Tattoo & Kabuki Art by Kunichika" | Scb Distributors, May 30, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) was one of the last great masters of ukiyo-e, the Japanese art of woodblock-printing which peaked in the late Edo and early Meiji periods.
Product Description: FRACTURED EYE is new large-format annual film journal, edited by well-known authors Stephen Barber and Jack Hunter, who between them have produced around 50 books on global cinema and cultural history. FRACTURED EYE does not concern itself with either "mainstreamâ or "cultâ cinema, but rather takes its cue from Amos Vogel's seminal 1974 study Film As A Subversive Art...read more
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9781840681895 | Creation Books, January 31, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: FRACTURED EYE is new large-format annual film journal, edited by well-known authors Stephen Barber and Jack Hunter, who between them have produced around 50 books on global cinema and cultural history.
Product Description: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, a student of ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi, showed a predilection towards two types of subject in his early work: exceptionally bloody musha-e (âwarror printsâ), and supernatural images of demons and ghosts...read more
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9781840683066, titled "Demons from the Haunted World: Supernatural Art by Yoshitoshi" | Scb Distributors, November 30, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, a student of ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi, showed a predilection towards two types of subject in his early work: exceptionally bloody musha-e (âwarror printsâ), and supernatural images of demons and ghosts.
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9781902588247 | Glitter Books, November 30, 2012, cover price $16.95
Product Description: ADULT MOVIE SUPERSTARS looks back at the so-called "Golden Ageâ of European sex movies - roughly from 1972 until 1980 and the advent of video technology - and focuses on 4 legendary actresses/models from that era, presenting photographic profiles of each of them, with over 130 rarely-seen images...read more
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9781902588865 | Wet Angel Books, October 31, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: ADULT MOVIE SUPERSTARS looks back at the so-called "Golden Ageâ of European sex movies - roughly from 1972 until 1980 and the advent of video technology - and focuses on 4 legendary actresses/models from that era, presenting photographic profiles of each of them, with over 130 rarely-seen images.
Product Description: The Jivaro Indians of the Peru-Ecuador interior have long been renowned for their ferocity and cruelty in warfare; they are also shamanistic, communing with ancient spectres through the ingestion of poisonous hallucinogens. But above all, the Jivaro are known for their unique and macabre brand of death magic - the severing and shrinking of human heads...read more
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9781840681888 | Creation Books, October 31, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Jivaro Indians of the Peru-Ecuador interior have long been renowned for their ferocity and cruelty in warfare; they are also shamanistic, communing with ancient spectres through the ingestion of poisonous hallucinogens.
Product Description: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, apprenticed to ukiyo-e master Kuniyoshi since his adolescence, was twenty years old when he first began to make sketches of severed heads and dismembered corpses. Soon he would start to incorporate this imagery into his work, and his vivid and bloody battle scenes quickly caught the public eye...read more
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9781840683059 | Scb Distributors, October 31, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, apprenticed to ukiyo-e master Kuniyoshi since his adolescence, was twenty years old when he first began to make sketches of severed heads and dismembered corpses.
Product Description: Kenneth Anger: author of Hollywood Babylon, true disciple of Aleister Crowley, former mentor to both Bobby Beausoleil and Mick Jagger, amongst others - and one of the most original and talented film-makers of the 20th Century. BLACK LEATHER LUCIFER presents revelatory texts on the occult, mind-altering, homo-erotic, synaesthetic and pop-culture tropes to be found within such classic underground films as Anger's Fireworks, Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome, Scorpio Rising, Kustom Kar Kommandos, Invocation Of My Demon Brother, and Lucifer Rising...read more
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9781902588278 | Glitter Books, September 30, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Kenneth Anger: author of Hollywood Babylon, true disciple of Aleister Crowley, former mentor to both Bobby Beausoleil and Mick Jagger, amongst others - and one of the most original and talented film-makers of the 20th Century.
Product Description: An illustrated appreciation of the films of Jean Rollin, the cult French film director best-known for his surrealistic depictions of vampires, sex, and horror. With 140 photographs and poster images, including 40 pages in full colour; an interview with Jean Rollin; an introductory essay on his films; a complete illustrated filmography; and a foreword by noted film writer Ado Kyrou...read more
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9781902588285 | Glitter Books, September 30, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An illustrated appreciation of the films of Jean Rollin, the cult French film director best-known for his surrealistic depictions of vampires, sex, and horror.
Product Description: The Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris, founded by Oscar Metenier in 1897, soon became world-renowned for staging wild and bizarre spectacles of madness, mutilation, horror and death. The theatre's dark prince was André de Lorde, whose gore-drenched psychodramas of medical and surgical horror included A Crime In The Madhouse, The Horrible Experiment, and The System Of Dr...read more
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9781840681871 | Creation Books, September 30, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris, founded by Oscar Metenier in 1897, soon became world-renowned for staging wild and bizarre spectacles of madness, mutilation, horror and death.
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9781902588230, titled "A Complex of Carnage: Dario Argento: Beneath the Surface" | Glitter Books, July 31, 2012, cover price $16.95
Product Description: Between 1970 and 1974, numerous Japanese film companies - in particular Nikkatsu and Toei - produced dozens of films in a new sub-genre which combined action, sex, violence and crime, and was dominated by ruthless and deadly delinquent females...read more
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9781902588193 | Glitter Books, July 31, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Between 1970 and 1974, numerous Japanese film companies - in particular Nikkatsu and Toei - produced dozens of films in a new sub-genre which combined action, sex, violence and crime, and was dominated by ruthless and deadly delinquent females.
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