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Kawaii Doodle Class: Sketching Super-Cute Tacos, Sushi, Clouds, Flowers, Monsters, Cosmetics, and More by Zainab Khan
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.99Create your own kawaii world with Pic Candle and Kawaii Doodle Class! The Japanese word kawaiitranslates to "cute," and this how-to book is chock-full of super-adorable images of tacos, sushi, smoothies, clouds, rainbows, cacti, doodle monsters,... -
Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography by Jill Beaulieu
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $47.33Until now, Orientalist art-exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars-has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's... -
The Art & Science of Geometric Origami: Create Spectacular Paper Polyhedra, Waves, Spirals, Fractals and More! (More than 60 Models!) Jun Maekawa 9784805316856
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.27A magnificent new collection of 60 sculptural paper models from a mathematical origami master!Master origami folder and author Jun Maekawa is known for developing innovative new methods of folding origami based on fundamental mathematical principles. In... -
Precious Indian Weapons: and other Princely Accoutrements by Salam Kaoukji
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $65.52This spectacular collection of nearly 200 jewelled weapons and priceless accoutrements from the Indian subcontinent was assembled over many decades by Sheikh Nasser and Sheikha Hussah al-Sabah for The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait. Produced for... -
How To Do Chi Sao: Wing Chun Sticky Hands by Sam Fury 9781925979220
Booksplease Price: $13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925979220Author Sam FuryFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint SF Nonfiction BooksPublisher SF Nonfiction BooksWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Southeast Asia: A History in Objects by Alexandra Green
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $37.26A new take on Southeast Asia's complex history, expertly told through art objects and cultural artefacts dating from the Neolithic Age to the present. Southeast Asia is home to numerous world heritage sites. Through engaging texts and expertly curated... -
Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk by Anna Jackson
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $61.72Shortlisted for the Textile Society of America's R.L. Shep Award 2020. The kimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exotic fascination. The iconic... -
Japanese Paper Yarn: Using Washi and Kami-ito to Knit, Crochet, Weave, and More Andra F. Stanton 9780764368301
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $34.34Teaches crafters how to make and use a gorgeous material for extra enjoyment in knitting, crocheting, and weaving: paper yarn. Explore Japanese paper yarn to add new dimensions to your favorite fiber crafts like knitting, crocheting, macrame,... -
Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense by Bruce Lee 9780897501125
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.76Originally published in 1963, this book includes personal testimonies regarding the author and his art from James Y. Lee, the legendary Ed Parker, and jujutsu icon Wally Jay. Through hand-drawn diagrams and captioned photo sequences, Lee's text comes to... -
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life by Michael M. J. Fischer
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.62In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian... -
Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.38Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... -
Cats in Spring Rain: A Celebration of Feline Charm in Japanese Art and Haiku by Aya Kusch
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.17No one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa period, many artists turned their gaze toward an unlikely subject: their small feline companions. Closely... -
Stormin' Normans (newspaper edition) by Terry Deary 9780702322938
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.76Discover all the foul facts about the Stormin' Normans with history's most horrible headlines. All the foul facts about the Stormin' Normans are ready to uncover, including: why Norman knights... -
Cambridge IGCSE (R) & O Level Complete Chemistry: Student Book: Fourth Edition by RoseMarie Gallagher 9781382005852
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $56.65The Cambridge IGCSE (R) & O Level Complete Chemistry Student Book is at the heart of delivering the course. It has been fully updated and matched to the latest Cambridge IGCSE (0620) & O Level (5070) Chemistry syllabuses, ensuring it covers all the... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny by Ai Weiwei
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.13A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet... -
Diy Henna Tattoos: Learn Decorative Patterns, Draw Modern Designs and Create Everyday Body Art by Aroosa Shahid
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $44.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612438009Author Aroosa ShahidFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 330g -
YOKAI Koichi Yumoto 9784756254641
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $81.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756254641Author Koichi YumotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Modern Chinese Painting & Europe: New Perceptions, Artists Encounters and the Formation of Collections by Yin Hwang 9783496015635
RRP: $103.35Booksplease Price: $86.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496015635Author Yin HwangFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 170mm *... -
The Peranakan Chinese Home: Art and Culture in Daily Life Ronald G. Knapp 9780804848909
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.83Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today highly sought-after for their beauty: distinctive furniture and ceramics, textiles and jewelry, and many other art objects. Peranakan Chinese Home displays... -
Japanese Coloring Book: An Adult Coloring Book of Japanese Designs by Creative Coloring 9781947243613
Booksplease Price: $18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947243613Author Creative ColoringFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Creative ColoringPublisher Creative ColoringWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 279mm... -
In Praise of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition Junichiro Tanizaki 9781784875572
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.60A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another... -
Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence - Understanding the Zen Philosophy of Beauty in Simplicity Andrew Juniper 9780804834827
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.38Developed out of the aesthetic philosophy of cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony) in fifteenth-century Japan, wabi sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to... -
Anime Through the Looking Glass: Treasures of Japanese Animation by Nathalie Bittinger 9783791380148
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $47.58The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than one hundred and fifty full-color frames. A uniquely powerful form of artistic expression, anime has embraced complex and provocative ideas... -
Gardens of Awakening: A Guide to the Aesthetics, History, and Spirituality of Kyoto's Zen Landscapes by Kazuaki Tanahashi 9781645472056
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645472056Author Kazuaki TanahashiFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Japanese Bookbinding: Instructions From A Master Craftsman Kojiro Ikegami 9780834801967
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $44.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834801967Author Kojiro IkegamiFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 720gDimensions(mm)... -
Zen and the Birds of Appetite Thomas Merton 9780811201049
RRP: $22.43Booksplease Price: $19.48"Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite-one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while..... -
Japan on a Glass Plate: The Adventure of Photography in Yokohama and Beyond, 1853-1912 Christoph Ruys 9789493039995
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $54.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493039995Author Christoph RuysFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint LudionPublisher LudionWeight(grams) 1460g -
The Spirit of the Brush: Chinese Brush Painting Techniques: Simplicity, Spirit, and Personal Journey Sungsook Hong Setton 9781631592904
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.82Sungsook Setton learned ink painting techniques from Chinese and Korean masters in her native South Korea; now she brings them to you in The Spirit of the Brush. Chinese ink painting is one of the oldest continually practiced art forms in the world... -
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit Chaudhuri
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.25**WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE**'A splendid book.' Literary Review'A modern masterpiece.' New York Journal of BooksFinding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's revelatory exploration of North Indian classical music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose... -
Flexible: The Art of Yo Shimizu Yo Shimizu 9784756255396
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $39.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756255396Author Yo ShimizuFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
The Tall Tale of the Giant's Causeway: Finn McCool, Benandonner and the road between Ireland and Scotland by Lari Don 9781782508151
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.83"Long ago, when giants lived in Scotland and Ireland, they stood so tall they could see clearly across the wide water between the two lands."One day, Irish giant Finn McCool spots Scottish giant Benandonner across the sea and they immediately begin... -
Rosarita Anita Desai 9781035044436
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.13'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie'Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai's enduring genius as a writer' - The Guardian'Tantalising' - Financial TimesFrom three times... -
Making Japanese Woodblock Prints by Laura Boswell
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $22.52Japanese woodblock printing is a beautiful art that traces its roots back to the eighth century. It uses a unique system of registration, cutting and printing. This practical book explains the process from design drawing to finished print, and then... -
Chetna's Healthy Indian: Everyday family meals effortlessly good for you by Chetna Makan
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.66We all know there is more to Indian food than just curries; it can also be really healthy, fresh and super delicious. Chetna's Healthy Indian contains home cooking at its best - straightforward methods, very few ingredients, crowd pleasing flavours,... -
Textiles of Indonesia by The Thomas Murray Collection
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $97.31Gathered over the course of four decades, the Thomas Murray collection of Indonesian textiles is one of the most important in the world. The objects comprise ritual clothing and ceremonial cloths that tell us much about the traditions of pre-Islamic... -
Japanese Family Crests and Designs Nobuyoshi Hamada 9784756257260
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $54.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756257260Author Nobuyoshi HamadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Hell in Japanese Art by Kazuya Takaoka 9784756249234
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $79.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756249234Author Kazuya TakaokaFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books -
Never Pop a Dinosaur! by Rosie Greening 9781803374727
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803374727Author Rosie GreeningFormat HardbackPage Count 12Imprint Make Believe IdeasPublisher Make Believe IdeasDimensions(mm) 233mm * 193mm * 16mm -
Chinese Architecture by Yanxin Cai 9780521186445
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $39.18Ancient Chinese architecture is not only a source of reference for modern Chinese design, it has also had an international influence and attracted global attention. Moreover, architectural remains in China reveal much about the history of this ancient... -
Hokusai's Great Wave Timothy Clark 9780714124674
RRP: $11.70Booksplease Price: $10.24'The Great Wave' is a colour woodblock print designed by Japanese artist Hokusai in around 1830. The print, of which numerous multiples were made, shows a monster of a wave rearing up and about to come crashing down on three fishing boats and their crews...