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An inspiring, interactive guide for drawing people, places, food, and things you come across in your travels.
This book offers aspiring urban sketchers a series of 40 step-by-step lessons showing you how to draw everything from the meal you ordered at a cafe to a map of highlights from your latest road trip. You'll get all the tips and advice you need for drawing what you see during your day and while out and about.
Learn to sketch interesting subjects...
742) The Hunting Gun
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The Hunting Gun, set in the period immediately after the Second World War, is the story of a tragic love affair and its psychological impact - not only on the lovers themselves but on all those close to them. The narrative is related from three points of view: Saiko, the guilt-ridden mistress; Shoko, her pathetic, disillusioned daughter; and Midori, the sophisticated but unhappy wife of Shoko's lover. This triangle is focused on Josuke, the husband-lover...
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Fresh out of college, Gesshin Claire Greenwood found her way to a Buddhist monastery in Japan and was ordained as a Buddhist nun. Zen appealed to Greenwood because of its all-encompassing approach to life and how to live it, its willingness to face life's big questions, and its radically simple yet profound emphasis on presence, reality, the now. At the monastery, she also discovered an affinity for working in the kitchen, especially the practice...
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Andrei Codrescu is a poet, novelist, essayist, and NPR commentator. His many books include Whatever Gets You through the Night, The Postmodern Dada Guide, and The Poetry Lesson (all Princeton). Twitter @acodrescu. Jack Zipes is the editor of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Princeton) and The Great Fairy Tale Tradition (Norton).
A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and...
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Confesiones de una máscara, el primer éxito editorial del escritor japonés Yukio Mishima. En esta novela con elementos autobiográficos, el autor cuenta la historia de un chico obsesionado con la muerte y el sexo, que tendrá que esconder su homosexualidad en un Japón marcado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el libro, nosotros lo hemos hecho por...
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Set in rural Japan as the height of the bubble economy, Distant Thunder tells of a farming village gradually effaced by urbanization, corruption, and greed. After Matsuzo Wada has sold off the family's land and left his wife for another woman, his son Mitsuo is determined to support himself and his mother in the traditional manner, farming. All that remains of his ancestors' lands is a hothouse, in which he grows tomatoes to sell to the housewives...
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Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation's views of its ancient past. Gustav Heldt's engaging new translation of this revered classic aims to make the Kojiki accessible to contemporary readers while staying true to the distinctively dramatic and evocative...
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This is an introductory guide and workbook to writing Japanese Katakana. Anybody who is able to master English, with its irregular spellings and idiosyncratic pronunciations, is more than equipped to master written Japanese. The hiragana and katakana syllabaries are purely phonetic characters, which function much like the letters of the English alphabet. In this respect, kana are quite different from kanji characters, which are based on Chinese ideographs...
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This is a concise and effective Japanese phrase book and study guide with color picture and accompanying exercises for each section. This book has several exercises for each lesson. And, to get acquainted with Japanese culture, the student may enjoy the photos which the author has provided as a visual aid. Complicated grammatical explanations are omitted, since detailed explanations sometimes discourage people from actually speaking. Only the essential...
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Nominated for the Glenfiddich Food Book of the Year Award, this timeless volume is the first and only book of its kind on the subject. A Dictionary of Japanese Food helps food lovers around the world decipher the intricacies and nuances of Japanese cooking and its ingredients. Definitions in ordinary cookbooks and standard dictionaries-such as Akebia for Akebi, sea cucumber for Namako, plum for Ume-can be inadequate, misleading, or just plain wrong....
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Put simply, practice is the most effective method of mastering written Japanese. The large, open format of Writing Japanese Hiragana invites the student to pick up a pencil and get started! Two phonetic syllabaries, hiragana and katakana, and a set of kanji characters based on Chinese ideographs are what comprises written Japanese. This workbook has been carefully designed to facilitate the quick and easy mastery of the forty-six character hiragana...
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Authentic Japanese food has never been this quick or easy! Quick & Easy Japanese contains everything you need to create over 30 healthy and authentic Japanese meals. This wonderful Japanese cookbook contains instructions to make all kinds of Japanese desserts, seafood, meat, fish, poultry, noodles, pickles, rice, salads, vegetables, and tofu. Recipes include: o Sweet potato cakes o Pepper seared tuna with wasabi o Mild Japanese beef curry o Udon noodle...
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Japanese flower arranging has attracted a worldwide following, and this book is a simple and clear introduction to the art. The first section illustrates thirty-six suggested flower arrangements with diagrams and full how-to-do-it instructions. The second part of the book explains the theory and technique of Japanese flower arrangement. The result is a book which gives an astonishing range of flower arrangements, clear explanations of how to make...
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The Samurai Mind is a collection of five seminal Japanese texts that convey the essence of traditional samurai philosophy and ethic from very different, but complementary points of view. These texts range from the ferocious to the esoteric-with their common thread being the importance of mastering one's own mind as the key to overcoming opponents. Written from the mid-18th to early 19th century, the authors were acknowledged master samurai warriors...
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From the creators of the website Japanese Cooking 101, Bento (a newly reformatted edition of Simply Bento) is a complete collection of over 50 delicious and healthy box lunch ideas for everyone in the family.
Ready to make lunch quick, easy, and tasty? Japanese bento boxes are single-portion packed lunches, perfect for anyone looking to save money and eat a balanced, satisfying meal for lunch every single day.
Bento features over 100 healthy and...
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This portable, user–friendly Japanese language guide and phrasebook is the cheapest and easiest way to learn Japanese before and during your trip. If you only want to purchase one Japanese language book-Essential Japanese is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Series, it is a great first introduction and beginner guide to the language of Japan and is also designed as a Japanese phrasebook, making it the most versatile Japanese language...
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In her follow-up to “Chibi Art Class”, renowned Instagram artist Yoai is back to teach you how to draw the popular Japanese style of anime and manga like a pro.
In “Anime Art Class”, you will learn how to draw Yoai's signature cute characters, from their bodies and facial features to their dreamy eyes, trendy clothes and accessories, and fun hair.
The 20 tutorials, with simple step-by-step illustrations and instructions, guide you from drawing...
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A must-have pocket-sized Travel Japan Guide that helps you easily plan your dream vacation!
Are you in the beginning stages of travel planning for your "Once In A Lifetime" trip to Japan?
Do you have Japan travel questions you can't find answers to?
Are you tired of the dictionary-sized travel books that aren't convenient to travel with?
This pocket-sized guidebook has your answers!
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