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Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books by William W. E. Slights 9780472112296
Booksplease Price: $102.62Managing Readers explores the fascinating interchange between text and margin, authorship and readership in early modern England. Printed marginalia did more than any other material feature of book... -
An Image of the Times: An Irreverent Companion to Ben Jonson's Four Humours and the Art of Diplomacy by Nils-Johan Jorgensen
Booksplease Price: $59.97Here 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 -... -
British Foreign Secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990: Aspects of the Evolution of British Foreign Policy by Antony Best
Booksplease Price: $142.79This book reviews the role of British Foreign Secretaries in the formulation of British policy towards Japan from the re-opening of Japan in the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the... -
Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment by Kiyonori Kanasaka
Booksplease Price: $95.06This book places Bird's visit to Japan in the context of her worldwide life of travel and gives an introduction to the woman herself. Supported by detailed maps, it also offers a highly illuminating... -
Japanese Studies in Britain: A Survey and History by Hugh Cortazzi 9781898823582
Booksplease Price: $142.79This book takes an in-depth look at the study of Japan in contemporary Britain, highlighting the many strengths but also pointing out some weaknesses, while at the same time offering a valuable... -
Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927 Andrew Hillier 9781912961023
Booksplease Price: $142.40As part of the growing scholarship on family and empire, this study examines Britain's presence in China through the lens of one family, arguing that, as the physical embodiment of the imperial... -
The Rise and Evolution of Meiji Japan by James Huffman
Booksplease Price: $142.40Considered a doyen of Meiji studies, particularly in the field of the newspaper press in Japan, former journalist Jim Huffman and H. Orth Hirt Professor of History [Emeritus] at Wittenberg... -
Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits by Hugh Cortazzi
Booksplease Price: $143.44This tenth volume in the series, comprising some fifty essays, offers a further wide-ranging selection of essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically, from portraits of key... -
The Beginning of the Renaissance - History Book for Kids 9-12 Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9798869433725
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869433725Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Richard Sorge, the GRU and the Pacific War by John Chapman 9781912961092
Booksplease Price: $142.40Sorge's activities between 1930 and 1942 have tended to be lauded as those of a superlative human intelligence operator and the Soviet Union's GRU (Soviet military intelligence unit) as the optimum... -
The State of the Japanese State: Contested Identity, Direction and Role by Gavan McCormack
Booksplease Price: $142.40In this his latest work, Gavan McCormack argues that Abe Shinzo's efforts to re-engineer the Japanese state may fail, but his radicalism continues to shake the country and will have consequences not... -
The Beginning of the Renaissance - History Book for Kids 9-12 Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9781541914124
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541914124Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Life of Nobuko: Words, Works and Pictures of an Ordinary but Remarkable Japanese Woman, 1946-2015 by Kiyonori Kanasaka
Booksplease Price: $59.97Kiyonori Kanasaka, a distinguished geographer at Kyoto University, is widely recognized as Japan's leading researcher on the Victorian traveller Isabella Bird. He has published extensively in... -
My Korea: 40 Years Without a Horsehair Hat, by Kevin O'Rourke
Booksplease Price: $77.89My 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,... -
Early Photography in Vietnam Terry Bennett 9781912961047
Booksplease Price: $144.47Early Photography in Vietnam is a fascinating and outstanding pictorial record of photography in Vietnam during the century of French rule. In more than 500 photographs, many published here for the... -
The Beginning of the Renaissance - History Book for Kids 9-12 Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9798869415509
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869415509Author Baby ProfessorFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint -
British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018: 150 Years of Association, Engagement and Celebration by Peter Kornicki
Booksplease Price: $142.40This new scholarly study examines the history of the relations between the British and Japanese monarchies over the past 150 years. Complemented by a significant plate section which includes a number... -
The Glory of the Renaissance through Its Paintings History 5th Grade Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9798869433749
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869433749Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
The Glory of the Renaissance through Its Paintings: History 5th Grade - Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9781541914148
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541914148Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Who Became Famous during the Renaissance? History Books for Kids Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9798869433763
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869433763Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Who Became Famous during the Renaissance? History Books for Kids Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9781541914162
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541914162Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
The Glory of the Renaissance through Its Paintings: History 5th Grade Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9798869415516
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869415516Author Baby ProfessorFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Consul in Japan, 1903-1941: Oswald White's Memoir `All Ambition Spent' by Hugo Read
Booksplease Price: $142.40A rare account by a foreigner working in Japan in the 20th century; a unique insight into this important period of Japan's history; complements existing material. First a student interpreter, then an... -
The Renaissance: Book 4 of the Bloodmoon Wars (a Paranormal Shifter Series Prequel to Luna Rising) by Sara Snow 9781956513103
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956513103Author Sara SnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint -
A Unique Banchado: The Documentary Painting of King Jeongjo's Royal Procession to Hwaseong in 1795 by Han Young-Woo
Booksplease Price: $142.79Fully illustrated in colour, here is the first introduction in English to one of Korea's outstanding cultural assets - the banchado ('painting of the order of guests at a royal event') - relating to... -
Who Became Famous during the Renaissance? History Books for Kids Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9798869416261
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869416261Author Baby ProfessorFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings by Anthony Hobson 9780521651295
Booksplease Price: $129.30This book, first published in 1999, studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic 'cabinet' of fine books; Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and... -
Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings by Anthony Hobson 9780521126175
Booksplease Price: $58.84This book, first published in 1999, studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic 'cabinet' of fine books; Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and... -
A History of Discriminated Buraku Communities in Japan by Teraki Nobuaki
Booksplease Price: $142.40At the heart of modern Japan there remains an intractable and divisive social problem with its roots in pre-history, namely the ongoing social discrimination against the D?wa communities, otherwise... -
The History of the Fujiwara House: A Study and Annotated Translation of the Toshi Kaden by Mikael Bauer
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $47.91With the addition of a contextualized introduction, here is the first annotated translation of the eighth- century clan history T?shi Kaden or the History of the Fujiwara House. Hitherto, scholars... -
Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits by Hugh Cortazzi 9781898823117
Booksplease Price: $143.44Published 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... -
Magnolia: A Novel by Agnita Tennant
Booksplease Price: $60.36South 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... -
The History of the Fujiwara House: An Introduction to the Translation of the Toshi Kaden by Mikael Bauer
Booksplease Price: $142.40With the addition of a contextualized introduction, here is the first annotated translation of the eighth- century clan history T?shi Kaden or the History of the Fujiwara House. Hitherto, scholars... -
What Can We Take Away from the Renaissance Period? History Book for Kids 9-12 Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9798869416254
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869416254Author Baby ProfessorFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint -
What Can We Take Away from the Renaissance Period? History Book for Kids 9-12 Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9781541914131
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What Can We Take Away from the Renaissance Period? History Book for Kids 9-12 Children's Renaissance Books by Baby Professor 9798869433732
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869433732Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
A.B. Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State: Letters Home by Robert Morton
Booksplease Price: $142.40Mitford (later to become the first Lord Redesdale) was an urbane aristocrat, had charm, looks and excellent manners. He was always in the right place at the right time, almost drowned, could have... -
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Revisiting Isabella Bird by Kiyonori Kanasaka
Booksplease Price: $95.45Isabella Bird's best-selling book on Japan is republished here, but with a difference: for the first time, it is now fully annotated with supporting commentaries, providing the twenty-first century... -
Cantankerous Essays:: Musings of a Disillusioned Japanophile by Ronald Dore
Booksplease Price: $59.97Prompted by increasing evidence of the world's shift to the right, not least among the industrialised nations, here is a cri de coeur from almost the last survivor from the post-war crop of European... -
Naked Came the Leaf Peeper by Brian Lee Knopp 9780965865777
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965865777Author Brian Lee KnoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint