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From ancient Egyptian archery and medieval Japanese football to contemporary American baseball, every sport has been shaped by--and in turn...

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Declared obscene in Japan, where it has never been shown in its entirety, Oshima Nagisa's In the Realm of the...

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Drawing on primary sources, a renowned authority investigates the events thatled up to the dropping of the first atomic bomb...

In a lively question-and-answer format, Everything You Need to Know About Asian-American History provides a complete understanding of the traditions...

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Upon its US release in the mid-1990s Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the...

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In around 1,000 images (paintings, engravings and archival photographs) this book traces Malaysia's history through successive eras: the Malay world,...

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The idea that personal cultivation leads to social and material well-being became wide spread in late Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868). Practical...

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From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing...

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In this exceptionally innovative work, Walter McDougall projects on a large screen four hundred years of exciting voyages of discovery,...

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This book makes no pretense of furnishing a mirror of contemporary Japanese religion. Since 1868, Japan has been breaking the...

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This book examines the complex relationship between the temporal order of linguistic narrative and the spatiality of visual spectacle. In...

This study chronicles the success of the Japanese car in America. Starting with Japan's first gasoline-powered car, the Takuri, it...

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Kenneth Chase traces the history of firearms from their invention in China in the 1100s to the 1700s, when European...

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Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems, Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. These...

First published in hardback in 1994 and selected by the American Library Association as an Outstanding Academic Book, the revised...

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'This book, historically dense and conceptually rich, is a complex analysis of what Calder calls Japan's 'bifurcated' political economy, in...

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