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  • The Real Musashi III: A Miscellany

    by William de Lange ...
    Series series The Real Musashi: Origins of a Legend
    Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645) is the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history; unfortunately, our modern portrait of this folk hero is derived mainly from popular books, comics, and film, with little heed paid to the early records by men who knew Musashi, practiced with Musashi, and went into battle with Musashi.Spanning a period of more than a decade, the author set out to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Remarkable History of the Yagyu Clan

    by William De Lange ...
    This is the true story of the eventful history of the famous Yagyū clan—a story that began during the early heady days of the Genkō Rebellion (1331–33), when emperor Go-Daigo sought to restore power to the throne with the support of the Yagyū and other loyal clans. It follows their campaigns on behalf of Go-Daigo's southern court during the Northern and Southern Courts period (1334–1392), and ... Read more

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  • Miyamoto Musashi: A Life in Arms

    by William de Lange ...
    Miyamoto Musashi is the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history. Yet few of the many works on the enigmatic warrior have hewn to the original sources. Fewer still have explored the emotional turmoil that drove him on to be the very best in his field. This is the first biography to fulfill those aims, and to take advantage of a wealth of neglected or newly uncovered material ... Read more

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  • Famous Samurai: Ono Tadaaki

    by William de Lange ...
    Series series Famous Samurai
    After more than two centuries of civil strife Japan was finding its way back to peace and order during the Period of Unification (1573-1615). The final drive came in the fall of 1600, when the massed eastern and western warlords faced each other in the decisive Battle of Sekigahara, in which every man who called himself a warrior faced the stark choice between the forces of division and those of ... Read more

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  • Famous Samurai: Kamiizumi Nobutsuna

    by William de Lange ...
    Series series Famous Samurai
    The medieval era of Japan was marked by a century of civil strife known as the Warring States period (1469-1573). The century prior had seen the sword replace the bow and arrow as the chief weapon of the samurai, thus setting the stage for this golden age of Japanese swordsmanship. Every man who called himself a warrior pledged his allegiance and life to a warlord and honed his martial skills to ... Read more

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  • Famous Samurai: Yagyu Munenori

    by William de Lange ...
    Series series Famous Samurai
    Yagyu Munenori was a great swordsman from the Nara Basin of Japan. During the great wars of the medieval era, his clan had first lost its castle, then its lands, until finally it was thrown upon the mercy of a local temple. Munenori was forced to become a ronin, a masterless samurai, destined to lead the life of a wanderer.The Period of Unification in which Munenori lived was one of the great ... Read more

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  • The Country for Me

    Joel Palmer and the Shaping of Oregon

    by William L. Lang ...
    The Country for Me is the first full biography of Joel Palmer (1810–81), born in Canada to American parents, who played a central role in the political and economic shaping of Oregon. Having traveled on the Oregon Trail three times, he wrote a popular trail guidebook used by later emigrants. Palmer’s experience in public life and government service during his first five years in Oregon led to his ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Fool's Journey

    Walking Japan's Inland Route in Search of a Notion

    by William De Lange ...
    “I had been here before: I was going from being a mere ‘interpreter’ to being a ‘cultural interpreter.’ It was a dangerous path to tread.”Walking Japan's ancient inland route in search of a vague romantic notion, the author encounters a string of idiosyncratic characters, locals with a story to tell. Recording their stories, the author braids a travelogue deftly interwoven with his own experiences ... Read more

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  • River of Blood

    American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans

    Edited by Richard Cahan, Michael Williams ...
    In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and during the Civil War. The workers asked them probing questions about slave life. What did they think about their slaveholders? What songs did they ... Read more

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  • The Movement for Global Mental Health

    Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia

    Edited by William Sax, Claudia Lang ...
    Series series Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia
    In The Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH). They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that mental disorders can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Through the Eye of the Needle

    The First Dutch Expedition to Reach Japan

    by William de Lange ...
    This is the harrowing account of arguably the most ill-fated expedition in the long maritime history of the Low Countries. At the end of the 16th century five heavily armed ships sailed from the port of Rotterdam under the command of men who had never set foot on a seagoing ship. Their plan was to sail through the treacherous Strait of Magellan and raid the western coast of Latin America as had ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Book of Poetry

    Latin Verse, English Verse, Book of Ballads & Modern Poetry, With Oxford Lectures on Poetry

    by Walt Whitman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, George MacDonald, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Brontë, William Wordsworth, George Meredith, Andrew Lang, Edmund Spenser, Julius Caesar, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christopher Marlowe, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, Thomas Love Peacock, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gilbert Parker, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, John Milton, Virgil, William Blake, Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, John Keats, T. W. Rolleston, William Butler Yeats, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Walter Scott, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Claudius, Porcius Licinius, Gaius Maecenas, Numa Pompilius, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Walter Raleigh ...
    The Oxford Book of Poetry masterfully curates a rich tapestry of poetic voices and styles, spanning centuries and cultures, to encapsulate the evolving landscape of verse. This anthology showcases the grandeur of classical epics, the intricacies of Romantic meditations, and the quintessential charm of Victorian sentimentality. Within its pages, readers will uncover stirring sonnets, haunting ... Read more

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