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Haiku Handbook -25th Anniversary Edition, The: How To Write, Teach, And Appreciate Haiku by Penny Harter
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.26The Haiku Handbook is the first book to give readers everything they need to begin appreciating, writing, or teaching haiku. In this groundbreaking and now-classic volume, the authors present haiku... -
Zen Poetry Art Of Stryk by Susan Porterfield 9780804009751
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.20Lucien Stryk has been a presence in American letters for almost fifty years. Those who know his poetry well will find this collection particularly gratifying. Like journeying again to places visited... -
Michael Kenna: Forms of Japan by Michael Kenna
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85A rocky coast along the Sea of Japan; an immense plain of rice fields in the snow; Mount Fuji towering over misty wooded hills; silent temples devoid of people but brimming with Buddhist deities; a... -
Zen Wisdom by Abbie Headon 9781838865115
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78"Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself." - Zen... -
Nothing in Particular by Graham Priest (Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York) 9780197844083
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £104.87Nothing in Particular is about nothing(ness), a highly vexed notion, quickly leading to contradiction: that it is both something and nothing. Graham Priest argues that nothingness is a dialetheic... -
Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing by Tabish Khair
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68". . . brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period." -Simon GikandiOther Routes collects important primary... -
PN Review 256 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £7.81The November-December 2020 issue. Vahni Capildeo's Letter from Quarantine and Andrew Fitzsimons' poetry from 'Basho in Lockdown'. Essays by David Rosenberg and Ricardo Nirnberg on the effect and... -
Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac 9781904634003
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.71Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.' Jack Kerouac. Renowned for his... -
How to Read a Japanese Poem by Steven D. Carter
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of... -
Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology by Steven D. Carter 9780804722124
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.25This 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,... -
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh by John Elder 9780813925769
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £26.77The pivotal figure in John Elder's latest book - itself a combination of environmental history, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoir - is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George... -
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Helen Cooper
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.74'The finest translation in and for our time' (Kevin Crossley-Holland) Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told... -
Places by Setouchi Jakucho 9780824888831
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Few writers have led as storied a life as Setouchi Jakucho. Writer, translator, feminist, peace activist, Buddhist nun . . . even this list cannot contain the impressive sweep of her career. Along... -
Double-Check for Sleeping Children: Stories Kirstin Allio 9781573662062
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.58The winner of the FC2 Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Double-Check for Sleeping Children is the newest work by award-winning writer Kirstin Allio At once formal and tidal, damning and... -
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition) by Haruo Shirane
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.60This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book... -
Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws by Hiroko Yoda
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Ninja Attack! introduces dozens of unforgettable real-life ninja straight out of the annals of Japanese history--many of whom are all but unknown outside their home country.Ninja masters. Solo... -
Summer Snow: New Poems by Robert Hass 9780062950031
Booksplease Price: £12.52A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is... -
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Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws by Hiroko Yoda 9784805312186 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.60Ninja Attack! introduces dozens of unforgettable real-life ninja straight out of the annals of Japanese history--many of whom are all but unknown outside their home country.Ninja masters. Solo... -
Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP: Implementing Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems by Francesco Cesarini 9781449320737
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.53If you need to build a scalable, fault tolerant system with requirements for high availability, discover why the Erlang/OTP platform stands out for the breadth, depth, and consistency of its features... -
Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Artistic Expression as Motor-Perceptual Faith by Adam Loughnane 9781438476124
Booksplease Price: £48.00Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers' meditations on artistic expression.Winner for the... -
My First Book of Haiku Poems: A Picture, a Poem and a Dream; Classic Poems by Japanese Haiku Masters: Bilingual English and Japanese text by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.62**Chosen for 2020 NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List****Winner of 2020 Northern Lights Book Award for Poetry****Winner of 2019 Skipping Stones Honor Awards**Escape into a dreamy world of... -
Material Choices: Refashioning Bast and Leaf Fibers in Asia and the Pacific by Roy W. Hamilton
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.02Winner of the R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Award sponsored by the Textile Society of AmericaAsia is renowned for the production of fine handwoven cottons and luxurious silks -- important items of trade... -
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World by Robert Hass 9780061923913
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Renowned for his magisterial verse, Robert Hass is also a brilliant essayist. The New York Times hailed him as a writer who is so intelligent that to read his poetry or prose, or to hear him speak,... -
Cold Mountain Zen by Hanshan 9780811240284
Booksplease Price: £12.35The Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan ("cold mountain") and his friend Shide ("foundling") are among the most iconic figures in the history of Zen Buddhism. Variously described as Buddhists, mystics, crazy... -
Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese by Eliot Weinberger 9780811218375
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47I go out of the darkness Onto a road of darkness Lit only by the far off Moon on the edge of the mountains. -Izumi Shikobu Over the years, thousands of readers have discovered the beauty of classic... -
Totto Chan: The Little Girl At The Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £7.81This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars... -
Intercultural Phenomenology: Playing with Reality by Yuko Ishihara 9781350298293
Booksplease Price: £56.67Intercultural Phenomenology explores the nature of reality by engaging in a cross-cultural dialogue between two of the most influential philosophical traditions of the 20th century. Drawing on... -
The Noetics of Nature: Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible by Bruce V. Foltz 9780823254651
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Contemplative or "noetic" knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where... -
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac 9781573225052
Booksplease Price: £15.91The classic autobiographical novel, "one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature" (Time), from acclaimed author Jack Kerouac "If the Pulitzer Prize were given for the... -
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 9781568366494
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.50This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars... -
On Haiku by Hiroaki Sato 9780811227414
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, loved for its... -
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 by Haruo Shirane 9780231109918
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £50.39This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa, one of the most creative epochs of... -
Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good by Fred Hebert 9781593274351
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £37.22Erlang is the language of choice for programmers who want to write robust, concurrent applications, but its strange syntax and functional design can intimidate the uninitiated. Luckily, there s a new... -
The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary by Philip Connors 9780826368348
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24A poignant and ruminative work of creative nonfiction by the bestselling, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of Fire Season. The Mountain Knows the Mountain tells the story of the writer's... -
Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium by Thomas L. Harper 9780231166584
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £50.39The Tale of Genji, written one thousand years ago, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, is often regarded as the best prose fiction in the language. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets,... -
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. 'Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a backdrop of modern Japanese culture'... -
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami 9781803510170
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. 'Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a backdrop of modern Japanese culture'... -
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts by Haruo Shirane 9780231152815
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.10Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media-from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual...