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  • Valley of the Damned

    Modern Tales of Old Valhalla

    de Douglas Laurent ...
    Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Arts/Allegorical Life PoemClose ranks and join in Battle Royal far beyond all human sensibilities with Valley of the Damned as the tenacious tome engages the worldwide Forces of Evil for all of humanities sake!Valley is an action-adventure martial-arts story and is designed as an interactive karate kata, a mirror, a Zen meditative rock garden, a mandala, a guide ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Academic Approaches to Martial Arts Research, Vol. 1

    de John Donohue, Kimberly Taylor, David Lowry, Willy Pieter, Sally Harrison-Pepper, Douglas Laurent ...
    This two-volume anthology conveniently contains useful academic tools for studying the combative arts. Each chapter will prove special to all interested in the intellectual side to the martial arts. Some chapters provide fine details for categorizing the variety of what we commonly refer to as "martial arts." Other chapters focus on the martial arts as living culture and social implications. The ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Where China Meets India

    Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia

    de Thant Myint-U ...
    Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world.From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • M48 Patton vs Centurion

    Indo-Pakistani War 1965

    de David R. Higgins ...
    Series Libro 71 - Duel
    The British Centurion and the American M48 Patton, two leading tanks of the Cold War era, clashed in the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War. Expert author David P. Higgins assesses the strengths and limitations of the two tanks and explores their clashes in the largest tank battles seen since 1945.The two countries' tank regiments, many of which shared a proud legacy in the British Indian Army, fought one ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Japan's Total Empire

    Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism

    de Louise Young ...
    Series Libro 8 - Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
    In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Anime Machine

    A Media Theory of Animation

    de Thomas Lamarre ...
    Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that the history, techniques, and complex visual language of animation, particularly Japanese animation, demands serious and sustained engagement, and in The Anime ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Asia’s Unknown Uprisings Volume 2

    People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947–2009

    de George Katsiaficas ...
    Ten years in the making, this magisterial work—the second of a two-volume study—provides a unique perspective on uprisings in nine Asian nations in the past five decades. While the 2011 Arab Spring is well known, the wave of uprisings that swept Asia in the 1980s remain hardly visible. Through a critique of Samuel Huntington’s notion of a “Third Wave” of democratization, the author relates Asian ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol

    An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha

    Edición de Donald S. Lopez Jr. ...
    Series series Buddhism and Modernity
    We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Russian Culture in Uzbekistan

    One Language in the Middle of Nowhere

    de David MacFadyen ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    Recent political changes in Central Asia, where the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers in the region. These people, formerly perceived as progressive and engaging with Europe, are now confronted by the erasure of their literary, musical, cinematic and journalistic culture, as local ethnic and American cultures become much ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Martial Arts in the Arts

    An Appreciation of Artifacts

    de Michael DeMarco, Anne Manyak, Jim Silvan, Joel Stein, Joseph Svinth, Richard Pegg, Manouchehr Khorasani, Nicolae Bialokur, Suien Wada, Ruel Macaraeg, Anthony DiCristofano ...
    Combative forms of movement meet all the criteria required to be called “arts”. Additionally, items associated with martial art theory and practice can be shown in a variety media and appreciated as objets d’art in their own right. This anthology presents the aesthetic side of the martial arts as they are found in numerous examples of material culture and items of fine art.An often neglected but ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The City in Which I Love You

    de Li-Young Lee ...
    ContentsI.Furious VersionisII.The InterrogationThis Hour And What Is DeadArise, Go DownMy Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out LoudFor A New Citizen Of These United StatesWith RuinsIII.This Room And Everything In ItThe City In Which I Love YouIV.The WaitingA StoryGoodnightYou Must SingHere I AmA Final ThingV.The Cleaving ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Japan and the Wider World

    From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

    de Akira Iriye ...
    Akira Iriye assesses Japan's international relations, from a Japanese perspective, in the century and a half since she ended her self-imposed isolation and resumed her place in the international community. The book is the author's own adaptation of two highly successful short studies, up to and after 1945, that he wrote for Japan. It ends with a consideration of Japan's international relations ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD