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25 produkter
Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies
The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan
Häftad, 2024
187 kr
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"Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades—he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies…better than anyone alive." —Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo ViceCritically …
Tokyo Underworld
The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
E-bok, 2010
151 kr
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A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945. In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo''s freewheeling underworld, they formed ever-shifting …
Local Responses to the English Reformation
Häftad, 1998
643 kr
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This major new study re-examines one of the most controversial issues of early modern history: the impact of the English Reformation upon the English people. It represents an advance from the conventional reign-by-reign narrative to a more incisively thematic approach. Drawing on the author's own …
The Meaning of Ichiro: The New Wave from Japan and the Transformation of Our National Pastime
Inbunden, 2004
467 kr
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The Samurai Way of Baseball: The Impact of Ichiro and the New Wave from Japan
Häftad, 2005
309 kr
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The Blind Devotion of the People
Popular Religion and the English Reformation
Av Robert Whiting, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
921 kr
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The religious revolution known as the 'Reformation' must rank among the most crucial and transforming events in English history. Yet its original reception by the English people remains largely obscure. Did they welcome the innovations - or did they resist? By what internal motivations were their …
The Reformation of the English Parish Church
Häftad, 2014
586 kr
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In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This is the first ever full-scale investigation of the dramatic changes experienced by the English parish church during the English Reformation. By drawing on …
Local Responses to the English Reformation
E-bok, 1998
722 kr
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This major new study re-examines one of the most controversial issues of early modern history: the impact of the English Reformation upon the English people. It represents an advance from the conventional reign-by-reign narrative to a more incisively thematic approach. Drawing on the author''s own …
Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies
The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan
E-bok, 2024
267 kr
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Photography in Japan 1853-1912 is a fascinating visual record of Japanese culture during its metamorphosis from a feudal society to a modern, industrial nation at a time when the art of photography was still in its infancy. The 350 rare and antique photos in this book, most of them published here …
You Gotta Have Wa
When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond
E-bok, 2022
154 kr
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From the author of Tokyo Junkie, "the definitive book on Japanese baseball and one of the best-written sports books ever" (San Francisco Chronicle). One might expect the sport of baseball in Japan to be a culture clash—a collision of American individualism with the Japanese focus on wa, or harmony. …
Tokyo Junkie
60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball
Inbunden, 2021
450 kr
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60 years of observation: an American journalist’s memoir about Tokyo’s modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball.Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, …
Tokyo Junkie
60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball
E-bok, 2021
137 kr
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60 years of observation: an American journalist’s memoir about Tokyo’s modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball. Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, …
Tokyo Underworld
The fast times and hard life of an American Gangster in Japan
Häftad, 2012
156 kr
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In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian East Harlem, entered a world as strange as any he had ever know, In postwar Tokyo, however, he realised there were certain opportunities. He had a failed stint as a professional wrestler, and …
Tokyo Underworld
The fast times and hard life of an American Gangster in Japan
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian East Harlem, entered a world as strange as any he had ever know, In postwar Tokyo, however, he realised there were certain opportunities. He had a failed stint as a professional wrestler, and …
Death at the Bridge Table
A Brogdale Murders Mystery
Häftad, 2021
145 kr
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Beautiful and conceited Alicia Matcham leads us through an intriguing web of deceit in search of a killer who is, bizarrely, welcomed by her family. This exciting, gripping crime novel is full of suspense and delivers a thrilling final twist. Saturday 10 June 1933, and one of Charles's Whitten's …
Tokyo Junkie
60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball
Ljudbok, 2021
343 kr
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Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic sixty-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo …
Reformation of the English Parish Church
Inbunden, 2010
1227 kr
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In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This is the first ever full-scale investigation of the dramatic changes experienced by the English parish church during the English Reformation. By drawing on …
Tokyo Junkie
60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball
Häftad, 2021
201 kr
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60 years of observation: an American journalist’s memoir about Tokyo’s modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball.Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, …
Assyria 1995
Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki, September 7 - 11, 1995
Av Simo Parpola, Robert Whiting
Inbunden, 1997
950 kr
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Heirs of Assyria
Proceedings of the Opening Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project Held in Tvarminne, Finland, October 8–11, 1998
Inbunden, 2000
714 kr
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Mythology and Mythologies
Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences: Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage
Häftad, 2001
1304 kr
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Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary
Av Simo Parpola, Robert Whiting
Häftad, 2007
479 kr
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