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  • Saving Orchids

    Stories of Species Survival in a Changing World

    by Philip Seaton, Lawrence W. Zettler ...
    A gorgeously illustrated ode to the beauty and significance of orchids—and to those fighting to save these unique plants across the globe.Until recently, a myriad of lifeforms enriched our lives. In some places, listening to a nighttime chorus of frogs in the neighborhood marsh was an archetypal touchstone of childhood. Children would search for tadpoles, just steps away from native Lady's Tresses ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Orchids

    The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Orchids

    by Philip Seaton, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew ...
    Series series Kew Experts
    This inspirational book from Kew's orchid experts reveals the easiest, most attractive and most popular plants to grow today.Orchids come from the second largest plant family (with 28,000 members) and have a reputation for diversity and trickiness - but expert Philip Seaton chooses 60 of the best species to become permanent and happy members of your home.Through a combination of 12 projects and ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • New Frontiers in Japanese Studies

    Edited by Akihiro Ogawa, Philip Seaton ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond.Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border

    Karafuto / Sakhalin

    Edited by Svetlana Paichadze, Philip Seaton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    In the nineteenth century, as the Russian empire expanded eastwards and the Japanese empire expanded onto the Asian continent, the Russo-Japanese border became contested on and around the island of Sakhalin, its Russian name, or Karafuto, as it is known in Japanese. Then in the wake of the Second World War, Russia seized control of the island and the Japanese inhabitants were deported. Sakhalin’s ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism

    Edited by Takayoshi Yamamura, Philip Seaton ...
    Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture. Amidst the boom in global interest in Japanese popular culture, the utilization of popular culture to induce tourism domestically and internationally has been central to the "Cool Japan" ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom

    Transnational Tourist Experiences

    Edited by Takayoshi Yamamura, Philip Seaton ...
    Series Book 88 - Aspects of Tourism
    This is the first book to apply the concept of ‘contents tourism’ in a global context and to establish an international and interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research. The term ‘contents tourism’ gained official recognition in Japan when it was defined by the Japanese government in 2005, and it has been characterised as ‘travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan

    Edited by Takayoshi Yamamura, Philip Seaton ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Asia
    This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare.It tackles two crucial questions: first, how does war transition from being traumatic to entertaining in the public imagination and works of popular culture; and second, how does ... Read more

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  • Kansai Cool

    A Journey into the Cultural Heartland of Japan

    by Christal Whelan ...
    In Kansai Cool anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers profound insights in the only collection of essays to focus on Kansai, Japan's ancient heartland.Kansai—the region in Western Japan that boasts the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, the bustling commercial city of Osaka and the cosmopolitan port city of Kobe—has a character all its own, right down to its dialect, ... Read more

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  • Tokyo in Transit

    Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

    by Alisa Freedman ...
    Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Tokyo Megacity

    by Donald Richie ...
    This photographic Tokyo travel guide explores the dynamic Japanese culture, art and architecture that make Tokyo a world-class city.It has been said that "every city has its high points, but Tokyo is all exclamation points!" The largest and most populous city in the world, Tokyo must be experienced in person to be understood truly. The next best thing? Tokyo Megacity—a visual and descriptive ... Read more

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  • Frames of Anime

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the “language-medium” of this remarkable expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. Her work, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD