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Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
ISBN: 9780060750442 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea -- from its southern tip to the North Korean border -- in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land. Fascinating for its vivid presentation of historical and geographic detail, Korea is that rare book that actually defines a nation and its people. Winchester's gift for capturing engaging characters in true, compelling stories provides us with a treasury of enchanting and informed insight on the culture, language, history, and... In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea -- from its southe... |
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72,98 zł |
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In the Wake of the Jomon: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific
ISBN: 9780071474658 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An extraordinary adventure." In 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton unearthed beside the Columbia River galvanized anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from northern Japan by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In In the Wake of the Jomon, world-class kayaker and science writer Jon Turk relates his successful attempt to re-create this perilous migration, a voyage that Paddler magazine named one of the ten greatest sea kayak expeditions of all time. "An extraordinary adventure." In 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton unearthed beside the Columbia River galvanize... |
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92,23 zł |
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Sources of Japanese Tradition: 1600 to 2000
ISBN: 9780231086059 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period. Now greatly expanded to include the entire twentieth century, and beginning in 1600, Sources of Japanese Tradition presents writings by modern Japan's most important philosophers, religious figures, writers and political leaders. The volume also offers extensive introductory essays and commentary to assist in understanding the...
Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebo...
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302,21 zł |
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Letters Home: Musings of an American Expatriate Living in Japan
ISBN: 9780595283095 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,61 zł |
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31 Months in Japan: The Building of a Theme Park
ISBN: 9780595345847 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 31 Months in Japan the Building of a Theme Park is the story of two Southern Californians embarking on the adventure of a lifetime moving to Japan to participate in the construction of the Universal Studios Japan(r) theme park. Join authors Larry K. & Lorna Collins on an odyssey into a foreign culture where they are often misunderstood and frequently confused. Discover the challenges and frustrations of building a world-class entertainment venue outside the United States. Enjoy the adventure as they discover the beauty and the people of Japan. Share their laughter, tears, surprise and final...
31 Months in Japan the Building of a Theme Park is the story of two Southern Californians embarking on the adventure of a lifetime moving to Japan to ...
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72,83 zł |
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Kayak and Land Journeys in Ainu Mosir: Among the Ainu of Hokkaido
ISBN: 9780595346448 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Kayak and Land Journeys in Ainu Mosir" takes the reader into Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido. The native inhabitants called this island Ainu Mosir, which means People of the Quiet Land. Guy de la Rupelle after having been to Hokkaido several times by motorcycle and meeting furtively these Ainu decides to take a longer look at who they are exactly and their current situation.
To give a sense of purpose to his journey he packs two folding kayaks in his car, all his camping gear and spends six weeks meeting as many Ainu as he can, camps and paddles in the lakes, rivers and along the... "Kayak and Land Journeys in Ainu Mosir" takes the reader into Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido. The native inhabitants called this island Ainu Mo...
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65,14 zł |
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Schizophrenic in Japan: An American Ex-Pat's Guide to Japanese and American Society/Politics & Humor
ISBN: 9780595346622 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Mike Rogers is a one-man United Nations. With a wickedly astute sense of humor he successfully cross-pollinates two seemingly divergent worlds with daring insight and aplomb. He's a fearless David in a land of Goliaths; his perfectly aimed slings and arrows hit the bullseye every time."--Pamela DesBarres, author of "I'm With The Band," "Rock Bottom," and "Let's Spend the Night Together" "American ambassadors are enforcers of the imperial will rather than negotiators of peace and friendship. Thank goodness those of us who love freedom have our own ambassador to Japan, Mike Rogers. With great...
"Mike Rogers is a one-man United Nations. With a wickedly astute sense of humor he successfully cross-pollinates two seemingly divergent worlds with d...
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84,36 zł |
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The Japanese Disease: Sex and Sleaze in Modern Japan
ISBN: 9780595370153 / Angielski / Miękka / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do Japanese mothers put their babies into coin lockers? And why is Japan the world's biggest brothel of teenybopper hookers. Read "The Japanese Disease: Sex and Sleaze in Modern Japan" to find out.
"The Japanese Disease" unlocks modern Japan's sleaziest secrets -- from Japan's gang rapists, child prostitutes and serial killers to the computer nerds, who meet online to commit collective suicide. Sex, sleaze, crime and corruption thread their way through every chapter of this path breaking book which details cannibalistic serial killers who have sex with the dead bodies of their victims,... Why do Japanese mothers put their babies into coin lockers? And why is Japan the world's biggest brothel of teenybopper hookers. Read "The Japanese Di...
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138,16 zł |
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Kumamoto Sojourn
ISBN: 9780595374960 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'Inaba Ladies"-ten American women spanning three family generations on a whirlwind tour of Japan.
With good-natured chiding and humor, these shop-till-you-drop women amaze, frustrate, and charm their Japanese guides, family and friends as they trek from Mt. Fuji to Kumamoto. Middle-aged sansei Leslee Inaba Wong balances the demands of travel with her newly diagnosed diabetes, while maintaining her New York brashness, tenacity, and perspective throughout. Her journey begins as a tourist, and becomes an odyssey as she uncovers her links to the land of her ancestry, in this honest... The 'Inaba Ladies"-ten American women spanning three family generations on a whirlwind tour of Japan.
With good-natured chiding and humor, these sh... |
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45,93 zł |
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Letters Home: Musings of an American Expatriate Living in Japan
ISBN: 9780595748433 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What types of holidays do Japanese people celebrate? What is the educational system like in Japan? What are Japanese festivals like? What are some of the customs and traditions of the Japanese people? Professor Todd Jay Leonard, writing from the perspective of living and working in Japan, provides in this fascinating book the answers to these and many other questions. "Letters Home: Musings of an American Expatriate Living in Japan" delivers a firsthand account of daily Japanese life through the eyes and personal experiences of Professor Leonard who has enjoyed an ongoing relationship with...
What types of holidays do Japanese people celebrate? What is the educational system like in Japan? What are Japanese festivals like? What are some of ...
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92,04 zł |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko
ISBN: 9780710308849 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a narrative of travels in Japan undertaken in 1878 by someone who is probably the most famous female traveller and writer of the Victorian era. Travelling alone as a woman, she was the first to enter parts of Japan which had had no cultural contact whatsoever with a European, let alone a woman on her own. The letters which make up this work give a real picture of Japan and Japanese life at the time.
This is a narrative of travels in Japan undertaken in 1878 by someone who is probably the most famous female traveller and writer of the Victorian era...
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926,78 zł |
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Traveller From Tokyo
ISBN: 9780710308863 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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438,95 zł |
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Tokyo
ISBN: 9780791088555 / Angielski / Twarda / 61 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tokyo, officially "Tokyo Metropolis," is the capital of Japan and the island nation's hub of business, government, education, and mass media. Though Tokyo boasts the largest metropolitan economy in the world, its residents must contend with having the highest cost of living in the world, and one of the most crowded cities. Despite its problems, Tokyo is one of the planet's most important economic centers, and it retains a strong cultural identity.
Tokyo, officially "Tokyo Metropolis," is the capital of Japan and the island nation's hub of business, government, education, and mass media. Though T...
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121,89 zł |
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36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
ISBN: 9780822338604 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make up a panoramic view of Japan. With wit, candor, and a lover s keen eye, she tells captivating stories from that of a Buddhist funeral laden with ritual to an exhilarating evening spent touring the Floating World, the sensual demimonde in which salaryman meets geisha and the normal rules are...
In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning ...
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565,82 zł |
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36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
ISBN: 9780822339137 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make up a panoramic view of Japan. With wit, candor, and a lover s keen eye, she tells captivating stories from that of a Buddhist funeral laden with ritual to an exhilarating evening spent touring the Floating World, the sensual demimonde in which salaryman meets geisha and the normal rules are...
In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning ...
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134,32 zł |
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Japanese Popular Culture: Studies in Mass Communication and Cultural Change Made at the Institute of Science of Thought, Japan
ISBN: 9780837167923 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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231,05 zł |
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Report from Hokkaido: The Remains of Russian Culture in Northern Japan
ISBN: 9780837168180 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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231,05 zł |
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Year of the Wild Boar: An American Woman in Japan
ISBN: 9780837169361 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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297,80 zł |
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A Reader in EDO Period Travel
ISBN: 9781901903232 / Angielski / Twarda / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow's Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period's most notable travellers, some of whom are well known in other fields - as intellectuals, artists, poets, folklorists and natural scientists, for example - but rarely, if at all, as travellers. The first traveller put in the spotlight is the celebrated intellectual and botanist Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) and the last is the explorer of Ezo (now Hokkaido) and government official Matsuura Takeshiro (1818-88). Such was the...
Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow's Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred o...
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421,67 zł |
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Travelers' Tales Japan: True Stories
ISBN: 9781932361254 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diverse tales in this book reveal the nation in all its contradictions: a place of tranquil temples and high-tech toilets, exquisite ancient inns and lurid love hotels. Gathered in this collection are pieces by several notable authors, each offering anecdotes that tell of encounters to be had or avoided.
The diverse tales in this book reveal the nation in all its contradictions: a place of tranquil temples and high-tech toilets, exquisite ancient inns ...
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72,83 zł |
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