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An insightful exploration of the role of Zimbabwean liberation musicーChimurenga musicーin shaping the history and politics of postcolonial Zimbabwe. The Military Entertainment Complex by Mhoze Chik……続きを見る

本書は、衣服を静的な対象として捉えるのではなく、それを着用する人間に焦点を当て、特定の衣服を選択して着用する行為がどのように情報交換を可能にし、社会的関係を形成してきたかを探究するものである。古来、……続きを見る

Now available in the US, the FULL COLOR bestselling Samurai book by Daichi Kobayashi, author of Japanese Spirit, including 50 stunning pictures!!! BONUS: Download the brand-new book about the black ……続きを見る

Once My Name Was Sara is a true story of survival, displacement and the search for homeーwritten by Betty Grebenschikoff, who lived it. Born a Jewish child in Berlin, Betty's life changed forever wh……続きを見る

Winner, 2026 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize This book examines the history of the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) and through it offers a new account of the humanitarian movement in modern Japan. ……続きを見る

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assi……続きを見る

In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published what became the most famous book in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we tend to think of dissectio……続きを見る

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth ‘A profoundly inspi……続きを見る

Longlisted for the 2024 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, this prize-winning historical-lyrical poem of 1985, on the unequal power-relations between Russia and Ukraine, darkly resonates in 2023. ……続きを見る

Actueel werk van Michiko Kakutani over de groeiende invloed van buitenstaanders in de 21e eeuw Financiële crises, sociale ongelijkheid, oorlogen: we leven in een tijd van chaos en onzekerheid, waari……続きを見る

For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of mod……続きを見る

Often considered an exotic garment of “traditional Japan,” the kimono is in fact a vibrant part of Japanese modernity, playing an integral role in literature and film throughout the twentieth centur……続きを見る

Les processus démocratiques initiés au cours des années 1980 sur le continent africain s’étiolent désormais sur l’autel de la mal-gouvernance, du népotisme et de la corruption. Aussi suivant les con……続きを見る

Klaus Schikore, geb. 1929 in Stralsund, überlebte zwei deutsche Diktaturen: als Zögling einer Elite-Schule des "Dritten Reiches" (1942-45) und als Gefangener des sowjetischen MWD und der späteren DD……続きを見る

Introduction to Japanese Architecture provides an overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. It begins with a discussion of prehistoric dwellings and concludes with a ……続きを見る

As a result of the Aigun (1858) and Beijing Treaties (1860) Russia had become a participant in international relations of Northeast Asia, but historiography has underestimated the presence of Russia……続きを見る

This Japanese travel guide provides goes beyond the typical guidebook, revealing the underlying cultural and historical reasons for the behavior and attitudes of The Japanese. Authors Michiko and Ja……続きを見る

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was the first extensive printed text which discussed the ……続きを見る

This volume offers an important re-evaluation of early modern philosophy. It takes issue with the received notion of a ’revolution’ in philosophical thought in the 17th-century, making the case for ……続きを見る

Este libro presenta, a grandes rasgos, el extraordindario desarrollo político, económico, social y cultural de Japón desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días. Se trata, también, de una caracterización……続きを見る

Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover ……続きを見る

Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from……続きを見る

SURVIVOR The personal story of a young girl, pulled from her innocent life as a senior high school student during World War II; suddenly thrust into enforced servitude as a wartime factory worker a ……続きを見る

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a c……続きを見る

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West’s retreat from reason. ‘The Death of Truth is destined to become the defining treatise of our age’ David Grann ‘The fir……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked an……続きを見る

Building from the Rubble is the latest volume to trace the history of Zimbabweís labour movement, following Keep on Knocking (1997) and Striking Back (2001). Even though it focuses on the period bet……続きを見る

Setenta anos após o término da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a Boitempo publica o relato testemunhal mais próximo e mais completo sobre a preparação, o fracasso e o desenlace trágico do atentado contra Ad……続きを見る

Mentre per più di trent’anni decideva sulle colonne del New York Times le sorti di autori del calibro di Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, Norman Mailer, Michiko Kakutani non ha mai smesso di riflettere……続きを見る

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assi……続きを見る