My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and contemporary culture through a series of essays, stories, anecdotes and poems. The book seeks to tell the reader all that he or she needs to know for a full and rewarding life in Korea or as a visitor passing through. Confucianism, Buddhism, relationships, everyday living, language and literature ar ...
This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction. The author, Yoshihiko Futamatsu, provides an invaluable new source of historical and technical reference that complements the existing large body of literature in English on this subject. Futamatsu’s memoir also includes wide-ranging reflecti ...
Published in association with the Japan Society and containing 57 essays, this ninth volume in the series continues to celebrate the life and work of the men and women, both British and Japanese, who over time played an interesting and significant role in a wide variety of different spheres relating to the history of Anglo-Japanese relations and deserve to be recorded and remembered. Read together they give a picture, even if inevitably a partia ...
Including her survival of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake, this book is an enthralling account of Dorothy Britton’s life, loves and discoveries in an amazingly varied life and career. Bilingual from birth, she found the immense joy of blending in with peoples of different cultures simply by getting the sound right when speaking their languages to the extent that she herself sounds Japanese. While interviewing Talent Education’s Shinichi Suzuki, s ...
The late Michael Foot, once leader of the Labour party, lives on as a major figure in British political history, although he is best remembered as a fiery and eloquent standard-bearer for socialist beliefs and policies. But what of the man behind the politics? In this new biography, Carl Rollyson chronicles the intricacies and intimacies of the life Michael Foot led away from the public eye. Fashioned from transcripts of more than two hundred c ...
Das Leben des «King of Rock'n'Roll» zum ersten Mal als lebendiges Feature! Vor 60 Jahren betrat ELVIS PRESLEY zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben ein Aufnahmestudio. Drei Jahre spater lag ihm die Welt zu Fu?en. DIE AUDIOSTORY beschreibt seine einzigartige Karriere – von Elvis' Anfangen, seiner Militarzeit in Deutschland und den Hollywood-Jahren bis hin zu seinem grandiosen Buhnen-Comeback. Viele O-Tone von Zeitzeugen (z.B. Elvis' ...
Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his friends, we also get Josh’s classic observations about the central artifacts from his life: the bas ...
В работе, предлагаемой вниманию читателей, рассказывается о великом русском поэте Сергее Есенине. При этом основное внимание уделяется не его творческой деятельности, а его бытовой жизни в суровых условиях двух войн (Первой мировой и Гражданской), двух революций (Февральской и Октябрьской) и НЭПа – новой экономической политики молодого Советского государства. Книга носит научно-популярный характер и обращена к широкому кругу читателей.
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In a world torn by hatred, injustice, and war, is there an answer to humanity’s quest for the good? Here is the true story of one man for whom this question was personal. Josef Ben-Eliezer was born in Germany to a Jewish family under the shadow of the Nazis. As a child he witnessed Hitler’s assault on Poland and then was forced into exile in Siberia, barely escaping with his life from starvation and disease as he made his way across southern A ...
