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American Sweetheart: Still Not Making the Team
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1999, Chiufang Hwang tried out for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on a whim, and the experience was an epiphany. “That day in Texas Stadium, I finally understood what I had missed out on in high s
- Author: Hwang, Chiufang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0997722452
- Language: English
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The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other… [more below]
- Author: Waley, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 1996
- ISBN10: 0802134777
- Language: English
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Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China
$35.00 Add to cartThe lower Yangtze region, or Jiangnan, with its modern capital Shanghai, has been known since ancient times as a “land of fish and rice.” For centuries, local cooks have harvested the bounty of its la
- Author: Dunlop, Fuchsia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0393254380
- Language: English
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Oriental Mythology (the Masks of God, Volume 2)
$29.95 Add to cartThe second volume in Joseph Campbell’s monumental four-volume Masks of God series explores Asian mythology and its evolution into the distinctive religions of Egypt, India, China, and Japan. This Coll… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1608687287
- Language: English
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Yokai Museum: The Art of Japanese Supernatural Beings from Yumoto Koichi Collection
$39.95 Add to cartYokai are a class of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore. Yokai have attracted the artists and have been a common theme in art works until these days because of their unique forms and their mys… [more below]
- Series: Yokai
- Author: Yumoto, Koichi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 4756243371
- Language: English
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Monkey: A Journey to the West
$21.95 Read moreA classic of Chinese literature, this beloved folktale is part adventure story, part spiritual allegory–now reimagined by a National Book Award nominee
Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic- Author: Kherdian, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1590302583
- Language: English
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Dreaming the Mountain
$18.00 Add to cartThe North American debut of Tuệ Sỹ-poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam–and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series.
In addition t… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Sỹ, Tuệ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1639550186
- Language: English
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A Fire in the Hills
$22.00 Add to cartIn A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the wo… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Afaa M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 163628082X
- Language: English
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Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China
$22.95 Add to cartThe earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China’s tradition of “rivers-and-mountains” poetry … [more below]
- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 17 2005
- ISBN10: 811216241
- Language: English
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In a Japanese Garden Coloring Book: With Reflections from Lafcadio Hearn’s ‘in a Japanese Garden’
$16.95 Add to cartFeaturing elegant designs, In a Japanese Garden Coloring Book is the perfect stress-reliever for fans of classical Japanese art and literature.
For centuries, Japanese artists have honored simple beau- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 4805314036
- Language: English
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
$24.99 Add to cartComrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with genius, creatively and comprehensively, and has brought it to a higher … [more below]
- Author: Tse-Tung, Mao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 1638231869
- Language: English
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On Haiku
$19.95 Read moreWho doesn’t love haiku? It is not only America’s most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, loved for its simplic
- Author: Sato, Hiroaki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 30, 2018
- ISBN10: 0811227413
- Language: English
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Zen in Japanese Culture: A Visual Journey Through Art, Design, and Life
$35.00 Read moreFormed by a convergence of the Buddha’s teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a philosophy, Zen promotes a recognition of emptine… [more below]
- Author: Blair, Gavin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0789213451
- Language: English
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Five Modern No Plays
$22.00 Add to cartFive No plays–one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world–from one of Japan’s outstanding post-war writers. – “Mishima’s is a wonderful, astonishing, and frightening c… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0307473112
- Language: English
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Gossamer Years: Love, Passion and Marriage in Old Japan – The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier
$14.99 Add to cart“A self-portrait devastating in its honesty…written passionately and without a thought to how readers might judge her actions.”–Donald Keene
Gossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an- Author: Seidensticker, Edward G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 4805316861
- Language: English
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Easy Asian Cookbook: 100+ Takeout Favorites Made Simple
$17.99 Add to cart100+ Asian dishes so tasty and easy, you’ll never need takeout again
Your favorite Asian-American restaurants combine traditional cooking styles with everyday supermarket ingredients. Now you can rec
- Author: Fang, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1646116704
- Language: English
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Taste of Persia: A Cook’s Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan
$40.00 Add to cartWinner, James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year, International (2017)
Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by The Boston G
Winner, IACP Award for Best Cookbook of the Year in Culinary Travel (2017)- Author: Duguid, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1579655483
- Language: English
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Hindu Art and Architecture
$26.95 Add to cartThe art of Hinduism constitutes one of the world’s great traditions, as alive today as when the first images of Hindu gods were fashioned out of stone more than two thousand years ago. George Michell’… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Michell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0500203377
- Language: English
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Quarter Life Crisis
$16.00 Add to cartQuarter Life Crisis dives headfirst into brutally reexamining the period in one’s life often plagued by uncertainty, insecurity, and doubt for the future.
- Author: Bawany, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: October 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1953447104
- Language: English
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Modern India: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIndia is widely recognized as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world’s emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jeffrey, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198769342
- Language: English
