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  • The World of the Shining Prince

    Court Life in Ancient Japan

    by Ivan Morris ...
    Ivan Morris’s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan. • "A book which should delight anyone interested in Japan.” —The New York Times Book ReviewUsing The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan’s Heian period as a frame of reference, The World of the Shining Prince recreates an era when women set the cultural tone. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

  • The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shonagon so ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Modern Japanese Short Stories

    An Anthology of 25 Short Stories by Japan's Leading Writers

    Edited by Ivan Morris ...
    Modern Japanese Short Stories is a remarkable collection of Japanese stories from the pioneers of contemporary Japanese literature. This volume's twenty-five stories by as many authors display a wide range of style and subject matter—offering a revealing picture of modern Japanese culture and society.The stories in this anthology include:"Tattoo" by Junichiro Tanizaki—a large spider tattooed on ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Fires on the Plain

    A Novel

    by Shohei Ooka, Ivan morris ...
    "Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is outstanding." —The New York TimesThis haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. Fires on the Plain is set on the island of Leyte in the Philippines during World War II, where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the hammer blows of the American landings. Within ... Read more

    $9.97 USD

  • The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shonagon so ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Pillow Book

    by Sei Shonagon, Meredith McKinney ...
    Translated by Meredith McKinney ...
    A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the TALE OF GENJI, this is one of the major Japanese Classics. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Tale of Genji

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Murasaki Shikibu ...
    Translated by Royall Tyler ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **The world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal)A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper**Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Thirst

    by Marina Yuszczuk ...
    Translated by Heather Cleary ...
    “Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIt is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city. She adapts, intermingles with ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Hiroshima

    The Last Witnesses

    by M. G. Sheftall ...
    Series Book 1 - Embers
    **One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience**In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha—the Japanese word for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Stalin Affair

    The Impossible Alliance That Won the War

    by Giles Milton ...
    From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motley group of Allied men and women who worked to manage Stalin’s mercurial, explosive approach to diplomacy during four turbulent years of World War II.In the summer of 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, shattering what Stalin had considered an ironclad partnership. There were real fears that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fascism

    The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)

    by Ian Dunt, Dorian Lynskey ...
    Series series An Origin Story Book
    AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam SangheraWhy is 'fascist' used to describe everyone from dictators to parking wardens? Does the word 'fascism' describe a historical movement or an enduring ideology? And could we see it rise again today, in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Ruin Their Crops on the Ground

    The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

    by Andrea Freeman ...
    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and AdvocacyThe first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter eraIn 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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