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  • Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere

    A Memoir

    by John Nathan ...
    John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no prospects, and little else to recommend him but stoic, unflappable pluck. Japan at that time was still in the shadow of the Occupation, and only a handful of foreigners were studying the country seriously. Two years later, Nathan became the first American ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Disability in Mission

    The Church's Hidden Treasure

    Edited by David Deuel, Nathan John ...
    Disability in Mission: The Church's Hidden Treasure outlines a radical change in approaches to missiology, missions, and praxis for the twenty-first-century global cultural context. It explores a pattern whereby God works powerfully in missions through disability and not in spite of it. No matter what our disability or vulnerability may be, God can use us; and if the body of Christ is supportive, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radio’s Digital Dilemma

    Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century

    by John Nathan Anderson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the United States’ digital radio transition, chronicling the technological and policy development of the HD Radio broadcast standard. A story laced with anxiety, ignorance, and hubris, the evolution of HD Radio pitted the nation’s largest commercial and public broadcasters against the rest of the radio industry and the listening public ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sōseki

    Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist

    by John Nathan ...
    Series series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
    Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to memorize passages from his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese writer in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Decision Point

    The First Book You Read If You Want to Succeed

    by Nathan John ...
    Decision Point is an exciting new approach to personal development and motivation. With a saturated generalist market for personal development, self-help and motivation decision point focuses the wide and general narrative to a single point, the point in which a person makes a decision to make a change, and what to do immediately after. Decision Point shows it’s reader how to introduce small ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Personal Matter

    by Kenzaburo Oe ...
    Translated by John Nathan ...
    From the Nobel Prize–winning author: "One of the great short novels of the 20th century" ( The Wall Street Journal).Internationally acclaimed as one of the world's most influential writers, Kenzaburō Ōe brings to the fore the post-WWII rage and anxiety of a decorous society in this "deathly black comedy . . . dripping with nuclear terror" ( The Japan Times).Bird is an antisocial twenty-seven-year ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Regulating the Web

    Network Neutrality and the Fate of the Open Internet

    by John Nathan Anderson, Jeremy Carp, Benjamin Cline, Michael Daubs, Brian Dolber, Daniel Faltesek, Michael Felczak, Mark Grabowski, Pallavi Guniganti, Danny Kimball, Isabella Kulkarni, Patrick Schmidt, Tina Sikka, Daniel Sprumont ...
    Since its popularization in the mid 1990s, the Internet has impacted nearly every aspect of our cultural and personal lives. Over the course of two decades, the Internet remained an unregulated medium whose characteristic openness allowed numerous applications, services, and websites to flourish. By 2005, Internet Service Providers began to explore alternative methods of network management that ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Sōseki

    Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist

    by John Nathan ...
    Series series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
    Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to memorize passages from his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese writer in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

    4 Short Novels

    by Kenzaburo Oe ...
    Translated by John Nathan ...
    The Nobel Prize–winning "master of the bizarre plunges the reader into a world of tortured imagination" in this four-novella collection ( Library Journal).In this startling quartet of his most provocative stories, the multiple prize-winning author of A Personal Matter reaffirms his reputation as "a supremely gifted writer" ( The Washington Post).In The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices of the Fallen Heroes

    And Other Stories

    by Yukio Mishima ...
    A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s—his final decade—Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers.In the title story, "Voices of the Fallen Heroes," a séance brings forth the spirits of young officers in the Imperial Army and the kamikaze pilots ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

    A Novel

    by Kenzaburo Oe ...
    Translated by John Nathan ...
    Series series Oe, Kenzaburo
    Wise and illuminating, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts him with the information that this child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing things -- behaving ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Light and Dark

    A Novel

    Translated by John Nathan ...
    by Sōseki Natsume ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and exactitude of character revelation that had no precedent in Japan at the time of its publication and has not been equaled since. With Light and Dark, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD