The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
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From Winston Groom, the best-selling author of Forrest Gump; Shiloh, 1862; and Vicksburg, 1863,...
Japanese Inns and Hot Springs: A Guide to Japan's Best Ryokan and Onsen
Rob Goss and Akihiko Seki
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Richly illustrated and exhaustively researched, Japanese Inns and Hot Springs is the definitive...
Small Apartments of the World
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A showcase of 30 world-class apartments for modern life in smaller spaces. Small in size but big on...
Samurai Weapons: Tools of the Warrior
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Unlock the secrets of the legendary weapons of the samurai . While the samurai is well known as the...
The Face of the Buddha
William Empson, Rupert Arrowsmith and Partha Mitter
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Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William...
The Storyteller's Secret: From Ted Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch on and Others Don't
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How did an American immigrant without a college education go from Venice Beach t-shirt vendor to...
Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
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In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores...
Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan
Shigeru Mizuki and Zack Davidson
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Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan concludes Shigeru Mizuki's dazzling autobiographical and...
The Woman in the Dunes
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Dazzlingly original, Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the...
Lurid & Cute
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This yarn takes place in the suburbs of a giant city. In Brasilia they're coming off their night...