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Unequal Equities: Power and Risk in Japan's Stock Market
Robert Zielinski, Nigel Holloway
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
The key to success in Japanese Investment
I owe my success in the Japanese equity market to the author of this book. Thank you very much.
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The Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets
Jim Northrup
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1997
Good Writing Too
I picked this book up at random while browsing the "Native American studies" shelf at my local book megastore, and I was quickly drawn in, reading it cover-to-cover in a day. Jim Northrop is an Anishinaabe who lives on the Fond du Lac Reservation in Northern ...
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An Enemy Among Friends
Kiyoaki Murata
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991
The life of a Japanese teenager who went to San Francisco to study is changed drastically with the attack on Pearl Harbor. This memoir recalls a time of vanished innocence and endless possibilities.
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Click-Clack Mountain (Kodansha Children's Classics)
Ralph F. McCarthy
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1994
The tricky badger is a fixture in Japanese fables, but this time it's the badger that gets tricked when a clever rabbit punishes him for his mistreatment of a farmer and his wife. This is one of a series of classic Japanese folktales retold in modern verse.
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Simple Traditional Origami
Tomoko Fuse
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1998
Charming, Easy, Gratifying Beginner's Folds
I began folding origami 2 years ago, and purchased book after book looking for simple traditional folds with no cuts or gluing. Some of the early books in English on origami have complicated diagrams, omitting steps. Tomoko Fuse's folds are elegant and gratifying, with ...
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Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues (Kodansha Globe)
Donn Rogosin
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995
The Negro baseball leagues were a thriving sporting and cultural institution for African Americans from their founding in 1920 until Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. Rogosin's narrative pulls the veil off these "invisible men" and gives us a glorious chapter in American history.
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A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong
Frank Welsh
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1996
One with Nineveh and Tyre Redux
One is old enough to remember the British Empire during the period between 1945 and the devaluation of sterling in 1967, as a young, inquisitive, American, and when I visited London in 1973, I was duly impressed, as was Henry James in 1880, by the sooty *gravitas* of ...
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T-Shirt Japanese Versus Necktie Japanese: Two Levels of Politeness (Power Japanese)
Hiroko Fukuda
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995
Paired dialogues expressing the same thoughts demonstrate polite and colloguial language, with down-to-earth commentary. The Power Japanese series presents a selection of guides to difficult or confusing aspects of the Japanese language. The student can find a quick reference to particles, a guide to the myriad levels of politeness, books of ...
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How to Sound Intelligent in Japanese: A Vocabulary Builder (Power Japanese)
Charles De Wolf
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1993
For professional users of Japanese
As a longtime student and translator of the Japanese language, I would like to see more books like this on the market, in contrast to the sea of books that focus on Japanese slang, foreign loanwords, and profanity. Japanese academics and professionals who operate in an ...
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In Celebration of Winter: A Book of Seasonal Indulgences
Helen Thompson
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1997
In Celebration of Winter offers a wide selection of traditional crafts and warm comforts for the holiday season. Here are instructions on how to roast a goose or build the most perfect, fragrant fire; stitch a velvet bedcover or grow a winter window garden; trim a tree or start a quilt.
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Kodansha globe)
Barack Obama
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1996
A True American Story
This was a very enjoyable read. I could not put it down. Not often are top political figures this transparent and offer such a naked glimpse into their personal thoughts and experiences.
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Jerusalem: Battlegrounds of Memory (Kodansha Globe)
Amos Elon
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995
Wonderful Jerusalem
I just visited Jerusalem in March 2000. After I returned I read this book. Oh, do I wish I had read the book before I left or had the book to read in Jerusalem. We had a guide at $200 a day and he was not as good as this book. It is excellent to understand the ...
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Online Seductions: Falling in Love With Strangers on the Internet
Esther, M.D. Gwinnell
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1998
This book is a must-have for anyone that deals with others o
This book is a must-have for anyone that deals with others online, whether it is romantic or platonic. Dr. Gwinnell offers valuable insight on how to pick up subtle clues about the real person that we're chatting with. She reminds us about often overlooked online ...
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Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
Kenji Miyazawa
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1998
Japan's most psychotic author's best short stories...
Finally, this is Kenji Miyazawa put into English in all his psychotic glory. The translation is faithful, and the stories are spellbinding, and at times simply wierd. Just perfect.
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Moscow Days: Life and Hard Times in the New Russia
Galina Dutkina
Kodansha Amer Inc, 1996
Through a Glass darkly
A fantastic eloquently written account of contemporary Moscow that also manages to convey the psyche of ordinary muscovites far more perceptively than anything that I have ever read. It's like being hit by a brick. Breathtaking and achingly painful in its delivery it ...
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