Shiraishi - Böcker

Elaina continues her journey around the world, and on this leg of her trip she'll come across a suspiciously laid-back woman with money on the brain, a young man who lost his will to live, an impossibly dandy gentleman, a troubled slaver and ...

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A gentle and beguiling tale of a young witch’s travels, based on a best-selling light novel series. In this volume full of tales of journeys taken by the girls Elaina has encountered on her travels, Amnesia and Avilia wander in search of the...

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Riviere and MacMiliathe veritable comedy duoand the ashen witch Elaina take on another mysterious case! This time I, MacMilia, and Riviere have some serious challenges on our hands: tracking down a serial killer, helping a man with insomnia, sneak...

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It's a wonder one witch can see so many fantastic places, yet never settledown. Then again, when your average encounter can include poisonous apples,meeting a spy, a rendezvous with a flying dragon, finding a sunken city,exploring an ice town...

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Once upon a time there was a witch named Elaina who traveled with neitheraim nor purpose. On this leg of her journey, she encounters an old woman whoruns a secondhand bookstore, a stylish witch and a group of bandits, a manand woman on the run fro...

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On this stretch of her journey, Elaina encounters an immortal witch, peoplewho claim theyre from an advanced nation, an ink witch, a fake witch witha knack for sewing, a spy who hates coffee, and a pair of feline sisters whoonce served as knights ...

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Elaina, now alongside her mentor, Stardust Witch Fran, continues herleisurely journey. On this leg of her travels, she encounters a commander anda record keeper living in a mysterious restaurant, two college girlssearching for a historical scoop, ...

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On this leg of her travels, Elaina encounters a puppet detectiic, a suspicious manor housing two witches, a theater troupe subject to unsavory rumors, a country that practices strict vegetarianism, a highly intelligent magical beast and a band of ...

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As Elaina continues on her solo journey, there are some quirky individuals anticipating her arrival. This part of her journey includes an elf hunting group and roaming dark elves, trying to bring back someone's daughter's smile and journ...

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A gentle and beguiling tale of a young witch's travels, based on a best-selling light novel series. As the wandering witch Elaina continues on her travels, she meets a boy who collects happiness in a bottle to give to someone he loves, a bedridden...

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Return to the world of the Wandering Witch in a brand-new spinoff! The stage is set for two girls in a land where prayers have become curses. On a small island nation, there is a mysterious town where people's prayers are answered by a myster...

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A gentle and beguiling tale of a young witch's travels, based on a best-selling light novel series. Ever since she was a little girl reading books of magic and adventure, Elaina has dreamed of following in the footsteps of her childhood idol, the ...

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A gentle and beguiling tale of a young witch's travels, based on a best-selling light novel series. The wandering witch Elaina sets out on the road again, hoping to see new places and meet new people. After encountering a princess who has fled fro...

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A gentle and beguiling tale of a young witch's travels, based on a best-selling light novel series. As the wandering witch Elaina makes her way along her travels, she crosses paths with a girl named Amnesia. Afflicted with a mysterious curse that ...

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From Ashima Shiraishi, one of the world's youngest and most skilled climbers, comes a true story of strength and perseverence--in rock-climbing and in life . To a rock climber, a boulder is called a "problem," and you solve it by climbin...

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This book highlights strategies for poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the power of the market mechanism and vigor of the private sector, focusing ODA on a few longer term challenges and leveraging advances in technology t...

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This book highlights strategies for poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the power of the market mechanism and vigor of the private sector, focusing ODA on a few longer term challenges and leveraging advances in technology t...

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This is a compilation of the proceedings and papers presented at an international conference on the organization of economic institutions in a dynamic society which includes detailed comment and discussion sections following each lecture.

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Why does a huge income gap still exist between developed and developing countries? Plausible causes on the surface may be the difference in technology, the quality of human resources, and economic institutions, but on the deeper level the gap refl...

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Have Japan's relative economic decline and China's rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power, one of the most comprehensive volumes on East Asian regiona...

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This book examines regional dynamics in contemporary east and southeast Asia, scrutinizing the effects of Japanese dominance on the politics, economics, and cultures of the area. The contributors ask whether Japan has now attained, through sheer e...

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Seasons of Sacred Lust is Kazuko Shiraishis challenge to the conventions of Japanese erotic poetry. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Shiraishi was taken to Japan by her family just prior to World War II, and her first poetry (written at age seventeen, p...

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Over twenty-five years ago New Directions, at the urging of Kenneth Rexroth, published Seasons of Sacred Lust, a selection of poems by a young Japanese writer, Kazuko Shiraishi. Since then the book has gone through several printings and toured aro...

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This exciting new collection, My Floating Mother, City, contains poems from Kazuko Shiraishi's most recent books published in Japan, including The Running of the Full Moon (2004) and My Floating Mother, City (2003), which received the Bansui Poetr...

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the people, the boats completely gone with the tsunami / tonight you would not be able to sleep from Sea, Land, Shadow Sea, Land, Shadow, the fourth collection by Kazuko Shiraishi to be published by New Directions, comprises work written over sixt...

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This text details the principal concepts and developments in wood science, chemistry and technology. It includes new chapters on the chemical synthesis of cellulose and its technology, preservation of wood resources and the conservation of waterlo...

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A chronological overview from the end of World War II to 1990. This work gives a broad analysis of the major changes, strategies, and situations that helped shape diplomatic and economic relations between the two nations.

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In this collection, Japanese scholars examine the literature of and about Southeast Asia and its relationship to culture, history, and politics.

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