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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
- ASIN: 1101912375
- ISBN: 1101912375
- Brand: VINTAGE
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South ... [Read More]
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History of Japan: Revised Edition
- ASIN: B005LPUEPK
- Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Jap... [Read More]
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A Concise History of Japan (Cambridge Concise Histories)
- ASIN: 052117872X
- ISBN: 052117872X
- Brand: Cambridge University Press
- Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the use... [Read More]
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A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower
- ASIN: B007PZV4XK
- Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan's progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower. A key factor is a pragmatic determination to succeed. Little-known facts are also brought to light, and the latest findings used.... [Read More]
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My Awesome Japan Adventure: A Diary about the Best 4 Months Ever!
- ASIN: 4805312165
- ISBN: 4805312165
- Brand: Rebecca Otowa
- Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
*Picked as one of the best books of 2013 by the Association of Booksellers for Children*A perfect introduction to Japanese culture for kids, My Awesome Japan Adventure is the diary of an American fifth grader who travels to Japan to spend four exciting months with a Japanese family as an exchange student. He records all his adventures in this diary... [Read More]
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A History of Japan
- ASIN: 1405123591
- ISBN: 1405123591
- Brand: Brand: Wiley-Blackwell
- Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman’s authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, government and politics, culture, literature, media, foreign relations, im... [Read More]
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
- ASIN: 0199930155
- ISBN: 0199930155
- Brand: Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Third Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the... [Read More]
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
- ASIN: B01MQVT9TG
- Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“[A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining.”—Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times “A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company Heroes are often defined as ordinary c... [Read More]
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All About Japan: Stories, Songs, Crafts and Games for Kids (All About...countries)
- ASIN: 4805314400
- ISBN: 4805314400
- Brand: Kazumi Wilds Willamarie Moore
- Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
**2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner!**A cultural adventure for kids, All About Japan offers a journey to a new place—and ways to bring it to life! Dive into stories, play some games from Japan, and learn some Japanese songs. Two friends, a boy from the country and a girl from the city, take us on a tour of their beloved l... [Read More]
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Japan: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene Illustrated Histories)
- ASIN: 0781809894
- ISBN: 0781809894
- Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
How did the inhabitants of several small islands in the Pacific become the world's first non-Western industrialised nation? The answer is found in the fascinating story of Japan's political and social history. This narrative chronicles Japanese history from earliest settlement to the present. It details the establishment of imperial rule under the ... [Read More]
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Japan: A Documentary History: v. 1: The Dawn of History to the Late Eighteenth Century
- ASIN: 1563249073
- ISBN: 9781563249075
- Brand: Brand: M E Sharpe Inc
- Manufacturer: Routledge
An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this two volume book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers... [Read More]
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Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
- ASIN: B01GZY28JA
- Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 2: Heian Japan
- ASIN: 0521223539
- ISBN: 0521223539
- Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
- Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of the Heian period, the golden age of the Japanese imperial court, in any Western language. From 794 to 1185, the Japanese emperor ruled over an elaborate government modeled on China's. Native Japanese elements blended with Chinese influences in religion and the courtly arts. The world's first ... [Read More]
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, 2nd Edition
- ASIN: 0195339223
- ISBN: 0195339223
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Second Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in th... [Read More]
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Japan at War: An Oral History
- ASIN: 1565840399
- ISBN: 1565840399
- Brand: Brand: New Press, The
- Manufacturer: New Press
Following the release of Clint Eastwood’s epic film Letters from Iwo Jima, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, there has been a renewed fascination and interest in the Japanese perspective on World War II. This pathbreaking work of oral history is the first book ever to capture—in either Japanese or English—the experience of o... [Read More]
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Japan: Its History and Culture
- ASIN: 0071412808
- ISBN: 0071412808
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education
Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods,Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces inrecent years. Social changes and departures from tradition arebecoming more common in this conservative country. Therevised edition of the popular work, Japan: Its History andCulture, Fourth Edition, documents and explains thesechange... [Read More]
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up)
- ASIN: B00KK0PICK
- Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
The #1 New York Times bestselling guide to decluttering your home and the inspiration for the hit Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whol... [Read More]
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United States of Japan
- ASIN: 0857665332
- ISBN: 0857665332
- Brand: Angry Robot
- Manufacturer: Angry Robot
Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan's conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons - a shadowy group of rebels fighting for freedom. Their latest subversive tactic is to distribute an illegal video game that asks play... [Read More]
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Kyoto, 29 Walks in Japan's Ancient Capital: The Definitive Guide to Kyoto's Temples, Shrines, Gardens and Palaces
- ASIN: 4805309180
- ISBN: 4805309180
- Brand: Tuttle Publishing
- Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
The only Japan travel guide you'll need for getting around Kyoto! Everything you need is in this one convenient package—including extensive area maps!Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital and modern-day center of tourism and traditional culture, is one of the world's most beautiful and historic cities. Founded nearly 1,300 years ago and undamaged by the... [Read More]
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The Reckoning
- ASIN: B00AG8FZ4C
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
New York Times Bestseller: “A historical overview of the auto industry in the United States and Japan [and] the gradual decline of U.S. manufacturing” (Library Journal). After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the Japanese auto industry in the decades after World War II. D... [Read More]
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