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Product Description: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sweeping historical narrative examines the personalities, events, and political maneuvers which shaped Japan's destiny during the years of World War II

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The Japanese second lieutenant records his thirty-year ordeal as a guerrilla fighter in the Philippine jungle, refusing to believe that World War II had ended

The classical novel of court life in tenth and eleventh-century Japan centers on the life and loves of a nobleman known as the shining Genji, son of an emperor, and those of Kaoru, grandson of Genji's best friend

Product Description: In about 1307 a remarkable woman in Japan sat down to complete the story of her life. The result was an autobiographical narrative, a tale of thirty-six years (1271-1306) in the life of Lady Nijo, starting when she became the concubine of a retired emperor in Kyoto at the age of fourteen and ending, several love affairs later, with an account of her new life as a wandering Buddhist nun...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shuichi Kato's two-volume history of Japanese literature is impressive for its critical and comparative grasp as well as for its historical scholarship. It is also a unique contribution to the subject insofar as it incorporates the vast spread of kambun (classic Chinese) literature written by Japanese authors...read more

A guide to making traditional Japanese pottery describes basic tools and equipment, kilns, forming processes, types of decoration, and the techniques for creating pots, bowls, cups, and serving dishes

Product Description: This text, by using five key concepts (social structure, culture, power, functional integration and social action), aims to show students the diversity of sociology, while avoiding the pitfall of presenting sociology as though it were divided by competing perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, an historical talc that mirrors a man's life and the times in which he lived. Dating from the late eleventh or early twelfth century, it focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading political figure in the great family that dominated the court during most of the Helan period...read more

Product Description: These papers by leading specialists on sixteenth-century Japan explore Japan's transition from medieval (Chusei) to early modern (Kinsei) society. During this time, regional lords (daimyo) first battled for local autonomy and then for national supremacy...read more

First published in 1980, and now substantially revised and enlarged, this panoramic survey of philosophic and religious thought, both ancient and modern, provides access to a wide array of ideas. More than just a dictionary, this well-designed reference work contains analytical commentary and historical accounts on a vast range of topics, select bibliographies attached to many of the entries, and considerable cross-referencing. The cross-references run from philosophic movements, to technical terms, to the positions of individual philosophers, thus encouraging a personal exploration of the themes, movements, and thinkers of any particular school of thought. The end result is a reasonably compact single volume with many of the features of a multivolume encyclopedia.Reese covers both analytic and Continental philosophy, and includes a good deal of the history of philosophy. There are biographical entries for more than 900 ancient, medieval, and modern philosophers, for a total number of entries of over 4000. This new edition expands on the original treatment of religion and Asian philosophy and includes enlarged perspectives on Continental philosophy.Named "Outstanding Reference Work" by the American Library Association, the first edition was a Book-of-the-Month science pick and a selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club. Authoritative, comprehensive, clear, and interesting, The Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion will benefit the nonspecialist and specialist alike. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: An annotated bibliography, with a foreword and an index, of a collection of 500 Japanese works, contributed to the Cornell library in the early twentieth century by W.E. Griffis, who taught Western science in Japan between 1871 and 1874 as one of the first foreigners hired by the new Meiji government...read more

Product Description: This volume covers the 17th through mid-19th centuries and the development of new gneres including Haiku, Bunraku, Kabuki, the popular novel, and Senryu.

Lovely Julia yearns to return to America from the exotic but savage land of Brazil until she falls in love with the passionate, dashing Andrew Langdon

Product Description: The distribution of capital and income in general and its re­ lation to wealth and economic growth in particular have attrac­ ted economists' interest for a long time already. Especially the, at least partially, conflicting nature of the two politi­ cal objectives, namely to obtain substantially large economic growth and a "just" income distribution at the same time, has caused the topic to become a subject of political discussions...read more