Blending history, science, and gripping storytelling, Strong in the Rain br ings the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and its immedia te aftermath to life through the eyes of the men and women who experienced it. Following the narratives of six individuals, the book traces the shape of a disaster and the heroics it prompted, including that of David Chumreon lert, a Texan with Thai roots, trapped in his school's gymnasium with hundr eds of students and teachers as it begins to flood, and Taro Watanabe, who thought nothing of returning to the Fukushima plant to fight the nuclea... View More...
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted f rom their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 ot her Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Man zanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirl ing lessons and a dance band called the Jive Bombers who would play any pop ular song except the nation's #1 hit: "Don't Fence Me In." Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American fa mily's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention . . . and of a native-b... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A highly collectible first edition/printing,signed by the author,a tight cl ean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped du stjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Another Bridge over the Pacific. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
An account of the author's two grandfathers--a provincial samurai and found er of the Meiji government and an enterprising developer of the silk trade with America. View More...
On November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima, easily the most famous writer of his g eneration in Japan, committed seppuku at a military headquarters in Tokyo. At the age of forty-five, Mishima brushed away wealth and an international literary reputation - Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata had proclaimed that "a writer of Mishima's caliber appears only once every two or three hundred years" - in a highly public and gruesome suicide for which, it seemed, he had been preparing for much of his life. Henry Scott Stokes's The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima is an accomplished account of Mishima's life, descr... View More...
