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Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude Saigyo Saigyo 9781611809428
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809428Author Saigyo SaigyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora by Anindya Raychaudhuri 9781783482634
RRP: $73.50$68.23Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the... -
A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic by Roy T. Cook
RRP: $189.00$154.73This dictionary introduces undergraduate and post-graduate students in philosophy, mathematics, and computer science to the main problems and positions in philosophical logic. Coverage includes not only key figures, positions, terminology, and debates... -
One Robe, One Bowl by John Stevens
RRP: $37.78$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834805705Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)... -
Managing Scotland's Environment by Charles Warren
RRP: $81.90$77.28Scotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset and the subject of its most vociferous debates. In this book Charles Warren tackles the hottest current debates - land reform, the future of farming, public access, conservation of moorland and... -
Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology by Steven D. Carter 9780804722124
RRP: $105.00$81.90This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of... -
Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming by Tao Yuanming 9781556596728
RRP: $33.58$23.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596728Author Tao YuanmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
The Miner by Natsume Soseki
RRP: $23.08$15.50From the great Meiji writer Natsume Soseki, The Miner is an absurdist tale about the indeterminate nature of human personality. 'It makes me very happy that I can read this novel written over a hundred years ago as if it were contemporary and be... -
The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound by Maud Ellmann
RRP: $60.88$56.51This book features original readings of Pound and Eliot from a major literary critic. In this classic work, Maud Ellmann examines T. S. Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what she calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. She convincingly shows... -
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai 9780231139410
RRP: $79.80$65.12In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,... -
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko by Donald Keene
RRP: $58.80$45.78Despite the turbulent times in which he lived, the Buddhist priest Kenko met the world with a measured eye. As Emperor Go-Daigo fended off a challenge from the usurping Hojo family, and Japan stood at the brink of a dark political era, Kenko held fast to... -
The Literary Mind And The Carving Of Dragons by Liu Hsieh 9789629965853
RRP: $37.78$27.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629965853Author Liu HsiehFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint The Chinese University PressPublisher The Chinese University PressWeight(grams)... -
Grotesque Weather and Good People Solah Lim 9781939568434
RRP: $25.18$16.80A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple... -
Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism by Tani E. Barlow
RRP: $48.28$42.86Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China.Ranging from interviews with... -
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi 9780231143431
RRP: $52.50$39.27Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of... -
Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language by Wilt L. Idema 9781624665233
RRP: $39.88$32.91The saga of the Three Kingdoms-which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180-220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states-remains as popular as ever in China, having served as the basis of not only traditional... -
Yi Sang: Selected Works by Choi Mee Don
RRP: $46.18$31.14Winner of the Big Other Award in TranslationWinner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkFormally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of... -
The History of MDMA by Prof Torsten Passie
RRP: $94.50$85.83As recent statistics show, more than 100 million people on the planet have used MDMA. After cannabis, it is the second most used drug worldwide. Yet there are many misconceptions surrounding the drug, which have affected attempts to use it as a... -
East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. Lewis by Archaeologist Warwick Ball
RRP: $52.48$44.48A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of... -
Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943 by Katerina Clark
RRP: $90.20$72.18A long-awaited corrective to the controversial idea of world literature, from a major voice in the field.Katerina Clark charts interwar efforts by Soviet, European, and Asian leftist writers to create a Eurasian commons: a single cultural space that... -
Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women by Makoto Ueda
RRP: $63.00$48.91Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has... -
New Selected Poems: Shuntaro Tanikawa by Shuntaro Tanikawa
RRP: $27.28$18.77Shuntaro Tanikawa has been the most inventive modern Japanese poet, ever since he published Alone in Two Billion Light Years (1952), his first book, aged twentyone. Undamaged by Japan's post-War trauma, he took up the language and ran with it. He has... -
The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China by Su Shi 9780197585603
RRP: $48.28$41.08The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book... -
Her Majesty's Swarm: Volume 1 by 616th Special Information Battalion
RRP: $23.08$22.95Our protagonist is a college student who enjoys playing as the evil-aligned faction Arachnea in her favorite real-time strategy game. One day, she finds herself in a world similar to the one in the game; additionally, her body is now that of a... -
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Light Novel): Volume 1 by Yu Okano
RRP: $23.08$17.70Rentt Faina, a twenty-five-year-old adventurer, has been hacking away at monsters for a decade. Without much talent for the job, Rentt finds himself stuck hunting slimes and goblins for meager amounts of coin every day. Little does he know, all this is... -
For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka by Taneda Santoka 9780231125178
RRP: $46.20$36.46In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist... -
Sylvia Plath's Fiction: A Critical Study by Luke Ferretter 9780748625109
RRP: $52.48$42.61While criticism has focused almost entirely upon Sylvia Plath's poetry. she spent her entire writing life working at some form of fiction. Focusing on The Bell Jar, on Plath's twenty or so published stories, and on her fifty or so unpublished stories,... -
Humboldt, Worldview and Language by James W. Underhill
RRP: $46.18$37.74This title is a study of the linguistic philosophy of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Prussian philologist and politician. From linguists such as Sapir, Whorf and Chomsky to philosophers such as Heidegger and sociologists such as Bourdieu, the idea that a language... -
Pillar of Books by Bo Young Moon
RRP: $25.18$16.80This debut collection in English from Korean poet Moon Bo Young insists that you, as a reader, put down your expectations of what should be important or serious. While these poems are about god, death, love, and literature, they are also just as much... -
The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics by Edward Hetzel Schafer
RRP: $73.50$67.47In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but... -
The World's Lightest Motorcycle by Won Yi
RRP: $23.08$15.50A successor to Korean feminist poets like Kim Hyesoon, Yi Won frequently writes about the perilousness of maintaining one's human identity in a high-tech, digital environment. In this debut book in English, her poems range from avant-garde prose poems to... -
The Short Story: An Introduction by Paul March-Russell
RRP: $46.18$42.23This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction. In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics... -
Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Texts by Shiamin Kwa
RRP: $39.88$32.91The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the most popular Chinese folktales despite (or because of) its lack of supernatural demonstrations or... -
The Handbook of Business Discourse by Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini
RRP: $262.50$240.03The Handbook of Business Discourse is the most comprehensive overview of the field to date. It offers an accessible and authoritative introduction to a range of historical, disciplinary, methodological and cultural perspectives on business discourse and... -
Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia by Miya Qiong Xie
RRP: $115.40$91.69Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kobo, and Zhong Lihe-these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all described Manchuria extensively in their literary works. Now China's Northeast but a contested frontier in the first half of the... -
Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter H. Lee 9780824807566
RRP: $62.90$60.65This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century. The book contains a dazzling array of myths and legends, essays and biographies, love poems and Zen... -
The Great Mirror of Male Love by Saikaku Ihara
RRP: $52.48$45.51A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."-Journal of Japanese StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780804718950Author Paul... -
Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya by Paul Gifford
RRP: $104.98$92.63Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007's stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also said to be 80 percent... -
Tree Spirits Grass Spirits by Hiromi Ito 9781643621920
RRP: $31.48$20.75A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito-part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear... -
The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue 9780822323419
RRP: $54.58$48.07The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality...