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  • Audiobook

    The Complete Philosophy Collection

    Meditations, The Republic, The Art of War, Beyond Good and Evil, Self-Reliance, Letters from a Stoic, The Enchiridion & More

    by Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Seneca, Epictetus, Aristotle, Confucius, Søren Kierkegaard, Lucretius, James Allen, Miyamoto Musashi, Tim Zengerink ...
    Narrated by Zeek Ring ...

    Unabridged

    93 hours 25 min

    What do Stoics, strategists, and poets have in common?They asked better questions—and lived bolder answers.The Complete Philosophy Collection brings together 15+ of the most influential philosophical texts in human history—newly translated for clarity and narrated to inspire.Spanning thousands of years and many traditions, this audiobook will help you cultivate resilience, sharpen your thinking, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geisha in Rivalry

    by Kafu Nagai ...
    Translated by Kurt Meissner, Ralph Friedrich ...
    Geisha in Rivalry, first published as Udekurabe in 1918, has a secure place among Kafu Nagai's masterpieces.Set against the backdrop of Tokyo's Shimbashi geisha district, a company of vivid characters play out their drama of illicit love, shady intrigue, and unrelenting rivalry. In the forefront are the geisha: some powerful and spiteful like the imperious Rikiji, some crude and obvious like the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    400 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Søren Kierkegaard, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer ...
    Narrated by Brad Carty ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 55 min

    While we tend to think of the great thinkers as hailing from Ancient Greece, the 19th century has had more than its fair share of sharp minds.'400 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century' is a collection of reflections, insights, and observations from some of the best brains of that era.A superb book for dipping in and out of, this makes a great gift for anyone with an interest ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Søren Kierkegaard, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry David Thoreau, Arthur Schopenhauer ...
    Narrated by Brad Carty ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 27 min

    While we tend to think of the great thinkers as hailing from Ancient Greece, the 19th century has had more than its fair share of sharp minds.'500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century' is a collection of reflections, insights, and observations from some of the best brains of that era.A superb book for dipping in and out of, this makes a great gift for anyone with an interest ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Geisha for the American Consul (a short story)

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Two cultures. One man and one woman. One moment in time.Cultures collide when Okichi, a beautiful geisha, is sent to work for the American envoy in Japan. Age and pride meet youth and grace. How will she survive in a home where no one speaks her language, where she understands nothing and she must submit to a strange barbarian's will? ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Nightless City

    Or the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku

    by J.E. De Becker ...
    Organized sex in Japan has always been big business, and nowhere was it more politely offered than in the Yoshiwara Yukwaku (red light district) of Tokyo.The appeal of the Yoshiwara was its women, all the surroundings being a frame for display of their charms. The Nightless City provides us with a fascinating picture of a "floating world" that was as transient as a butterfly. Today its teahouses, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Narrow Road to the Interior

    And Other Writings

    by Matsuo Basho ...
    Translated by Sam Hamill ...
    Series series Shambhala Classics
    A masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature—part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakeningBashō (1644–1694)—a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is renowned in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Courtesan and the Samurai

    The Shogun Quartet, Book 3

    by Lesley Downer ...
    1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ...Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure-quarters.There she is forced to become a courtesan.Yozo, brave, loyal ... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Geisha

    A Life

    by Mineko Iwasaki ...
    A powerful and intimate memoir of a real-life geisha, Geisha, A Life reveals the hidden world of Kyoto’s traditional arts, Japanese tea ceremonies, and cultural secrets through the eyes of Japan’s most renowned and pioneering geisha.“No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Red Chamber

    by Pauline A. Chen ...
    In this lyrical reimagining of the Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber, set against the breathtaking backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing, the lives of three unforgettable women collide in the inner chambers of the Jia mansion. When orphaned Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to take shelter with her cousins in the Capital, she is drawn into a world of opulent splendor, presided over by ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Last Concubine

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Growing up deep in the mountains of rural Japan in 1861, Sachi has always felt different. Her life is turned upside down at 11 when she is taken to the women’s palace in the great city of Edo. There she is chosen to be the young shogun’s concubine. Set in one of the most tumultuous eras in Japanese history, The Last Concubine is an epic evocation of a country in revolution, and of a young woman’s ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Concubine's Daughter

    A Novel

    by Pai Kit Fai ...
    An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughter's journey to their destiny.L otus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running away…When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD