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  • You Gotta Have Wa

    When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond

    From the author of Tokyo Junkie, "the definitive book on Japanese baseball and one of the best-written sports books ever" ( San Francisco Chronicle).One might expect the sport of baseball in Japan to be a culture clash—a collision of American individualism with the Japanese focus on wa, or harmony. Instead, it has turned into a winning symbiosis. Imported American sluggers—some past their primes ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Tokyo Underworld

    The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan

    Series series Vintage Departures
    A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945.In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed ever-shifting but ever-profitable alliances with warring Japanese and Korean gangsters. At the center of this world ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $5.99 USD

  • Tokyo Junkie

    60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball

    60 years of observation: an American journalist’s memoir about Tokyo’s modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball.Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world.Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies

    The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan

    "Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades—he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies…better than anyone alive." —Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo ViceCritically acclaimed author and longtime Japan resident Robert Whiting turns his attention to the fascinating ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Death at the Bridge Table

    A Brogdale Murders Mystery

    Beautiful and conceited Alicia Matcham leads us through an intriguing web of deceit in search of a killer who is, bizarrely, welcomed by her family. This exciting, gripping crime novel is full of suspense and delivers a thrilling final twist.Saturday 10 June 1933, and one of Charles’s Whitten’s bridge players collapses at the table, apparently from natural causes. Charles’s youngest daughter Patty ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Tokyo Junkie

    60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball

    Narrado por Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Completo

    11 hora 50 minutos

    Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic sixty-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world.Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • From the Bedside to the Hmo

    A Doctor's Journey

    This is the story of how a young high school student, through a quirk of fate, begins walking down a path that leads him to become a rural family doctor in Montana.Having served a close-knit community for fifty years Dr. Robert Whiting recounts a story of a diphtheria outbreak, some interesting cancer outcomes, and several cases requiring difficult decision making.In this personal account, youll ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Reformation of the English Parish Church

    In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This is the first ever full-scale investigation of the dramatic changes experienced by the English parish church during the English Reformation. By drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence, including court records, wills and church wardens' accounts, and ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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    Tokyo Underworld

    The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan

    Narrado por Oliver Wyman ...

    Completo

    12 hora 14 minutos

    A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945.In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed ever-shifting but ever-profitable alliances with warring Japanese and Korean gangsters. At the center of this world ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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    Real World

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    7 hora 2 minutos

    In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her next-door neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor’s son. But when he flees, taking Toshi’s bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as well ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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    The Latecomer

    A Novel

    Narrado por Julia Whelan ...

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    16 hora 19 minutos

    "Golden Voice Julia Whelan expertly narrates the unhappy story of the wealthy Oppenheimer family of New York. Whelan narrates as though she were acting out the Oppenheimers' history on stage, playing each character part." -AudioFile on The LatecomerThis program is masterfully narrated by award-winning "Golden Voice" narrator Julia Whelan.From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Tales from the Cafe

    A Novel

    Narrado por Kevin Shen ...
    Series Audiolibro 2 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series

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    5 hora 32 minutos

    From the author of the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café.In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD