An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nut
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The realities of Japanese-U.S. trade and investment relations are clouded by mistrust, misinformation, and myth. In what
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Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer
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The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright
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The first impression of W. Reginald Bray (1879-1939) was one of an ordinary middle-class Englishman quietly living out h
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Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic a
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On a battered ship, drifting into Usuki Bay, barely standing, are 23 Dutchmen and 1 Englishman, the remnants of a fleet
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From the tenth century onwards the emperors of Japan gradually lost power. The local lords or clan chiefs waged ceaseles
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