Renaissance Books imprint: 38 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Published in association with the Japan Society and containing 57 essays, this ninth volume in the series continues to celebrate the life and work of the men and women, both British and Japanese, who over time played an interesting and significant role in a wide variety of different spheres relating...
An Image of the Times
An Irreverent companion to Ben Jonson's Four Humours and The Art of Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed inter alia by the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding – leading in the second half to some glorious insights and observations provided by author’s life experience...
The Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972
Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
John Pilcher’s appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the widely acclaimed Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious and enlightened. His role was to be that of a bridge-builder between Japan and Britain following the early post-war years of disenchantment, distrust and detachment...
Anjin - The Life & Times of Samurai William Adams, 1564-1620
As Seen Through Japanese Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The year is 1600. It is April and Japan’s iconic cherry trees are in full flower. A battered ship drifts on the tide into Usuki Bay in southern Japan. On board, barely able to stand, are twenty-three Dutchmen and one Englishman, the remnants of a fleet of five ships and 500 men that had set out...
Across the Three Pagodas Pass
The Story of the Thai-Burma Railway
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction. The author, Yoshihiko Futamatsu, provides an invaluable new source of historical and technical...
My Korea
40 Years Without a Horsehair Hat
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and contemporary culture through a series of essays, stories, anecdotes and poems. The book seeks to tell the reader all that he or she needs to know for...
My Shanghai, 1942-1946
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
It is 1942. Shanghai after Pearl Harbor. Newly-arrived Eiko Kishimoto, a twenty-year-old, London-educated Japanese housewife, settles into a privileged existence in the French Concession as a member of the community of the Occupying Power. Initially, her days are filled with high society lunches and...
Olonkho
Nurgun Botur the Swift
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic that consists of many long legends – one of the longest being ‘Nurgun Botur the Swift’ consisting of some 36,000 lines of verse, published here. Like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Finnish Kalevala, the Buryat Geser, and the Kirghiz...
Rhythms, Rites and Rituals
My Life in Japan in Two-step and Waltz-time
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Including her survival of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake, this book is an enthralling account of Dorothy Britton’s life, loves and discoveries in an amazingly varied life and career. Bilingual from birth, she found the immense joy of blending in with peoples of different cultures simply by getting...
Magnolia
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
South Korea 1957. Sukey, an intelligent graduate with much promise, falls in love with a man, Kwon, who confesses to her that he has been a North Korean spy. It is four years since the Korean War ended in a cease-fire (having started on 25 June 1950). Even though fighting is suspended, hostility and...
by Bill Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2000
Bill Crawford follows up his hit books Rock Stars do the Dumbest Things and Movie Stars do the Dumbest Things with a volume that reinforces what we've known all along - Republicans do the Dumbest Things. From George Bush barfing on the Japanese prime minister to Ronald Reagan's announcement of nuclear...
Be Loved for Who You Really Are
How the Differences Between Men and Women Can Be Turned into the Source of the Very Best Romance You'll Ever Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Based on their 14 years together as relationship trainers working with over 100,000 singles and couples, Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski have developed a truly new and original way to approach relationships. Be Loved for Who You Really Are describes how differences between partners can be a source...
by Margaret Moser, Bill Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Aerosmith. Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson. Nine Inch Nails. Ozzy Osbourne. U2. What do all of these artists have in common? They're rich and rowdy rock 'n' roll renegades whose wild stunts, dumb quotes, and out-of-control lifestyles are featured in Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things.
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The Unofficial Patricia Cornwell Companion
A Guide to the Bestselling Author's Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Unofficial Patricia Cornwell Companion is the first and only book devoted to this bestselling author and her beloved heroine, forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta. It's the definitive work on Cornwell--encompassing all the details of her life, her body of work, and the deep and intriguing relationship...