This political history of Germany assesses Bismarck's role in the events which paved the way for the catastrophes of the twentieth century, showing how Bismarck first established the...
This beautiful notebook makes studying a pleasure Each double page spread has squared paper on the right-hand side for practicing formation of the Chinese characters, and lined paper on the...
The divine live among us...in a flat in western Tokyo! After centuries of hard work, Jesus and Buddha take a break from their heavenly duties to relax among the people of Japan, and their...
David A. Hall, one of today's foremost experts on Japanese combative culture, combines hands-on experience in a wide variety of martial traditions with an academic and religious background to...
For the Greeks and Romans the earth's furthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these "edges of the earth"...
Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their...
This is an essential study tool for students seeking to learn Japanese and dramatically improve their ability to read and write kanji and kana. Students have been reading and writing the Japanese...
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of experimental approaches to the study of media histories and their cultures. Doing media archaeological experiments, such as...
Tea culture in Europe?! - Yes, indeed! This book is the first presenting hospitality embraced żeby tea culture: fascinating tea ceremonies, impressive tea china and, comfortable tea houses as well...
A textbook that lays down the foundational principles for understanding social neuroscienceHumans, like many other animals, are a highly social species. But how do our biological systems implement...
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century,...
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth...
Vietnamese in a Flash: Volume I is an excellent new Vietnamese language learning resource for beginning students. With a full range of features to help beginners and intermediate learners, these...
This history of a single town in Bohemia casts new light on nationalism in Central Europe between the Springtime of Nations in 1848 and the Cold War. Jeremy King tells the story of both German and...
"A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy" is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding aby Westerners of the Asian peoples and a monumental contribution to...
Why did Greece reach such heights in the classical period--and why only then? And how, after "the Greek miracle" had endured for centuries, did the Macedonians defeat the Greeks, seemingly...
Despite the relevance of astrology in Graeco-Roman mentality, our information about the early period of Hellenistic astrology is marred by the scarcity of original sources. Personal astrology did...
A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired żeby Japanese folk tales and written żeby renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the...
Opening with Japan's top ten favorite comfort foods--from Deep Fried Crunchy Chicken to Japanese-Style Meat and Potato Hotpot--this cookbook is packed with authentic versions of the dishes that...
First published in 1979, Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare has established itself as a seminal work in ecology. Now with a new foreword aby ecologist and writer Cristina Eisenberg, this penetrating...
A sweeping exploration of animals in Japanese art and culture across sixteen centuriesFew countries have devoted as much artistic energy to the depiction of animal life as Japan. Drawing upon the...
The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor...