Japanese Landscapes: Where Land and Culture Merge
 japan's landscapes: When i first bought this book for a gardening friend i thought i wouldn't like but it turned out i did. the next day iwent back and got one for myself.it was stimulating and inspiring and i thought it was excelent! The Landscape [... more]
$35.00
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Gardens of Gravel and Sand
A conceptual tour de force: Everything I thought I knew about Japanese gardens, especially so-called "Zen Gardens," was turned on its head by this enlightening gem. I will never look at, or think about, Japanese rock gardens in the same way. [... more]
$19.95
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The Japanese Way of the Flower: Ikebana as Moving ...
An impressive, authoritative, and comprehensive introduction: In The Japanese Way Of The Flower, Davey and Kameoka successfully collaborate to instruct the reader in the Japanese art of flower arranging and how it differs from Western floral art. The [... more]
$16.95
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What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
Amazon.com Review: Bernard Lewis is the West's greatest historian and interpreter of the Near East. Books such as The Middle East and The Arabs in History are required reading for anybody who hopes to understand the region and its people. Now Lewis [... more]
$34.95
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Japan : An Illustrated Encyclopedia
The definitive resource on Japan, wrapped like a candy.: Japan: An llustrated Encyclopedia is a condensed two-volume offspring of a venerable predecessor. Kodansha first published its 10-volume Encyclopedia of Japan in 1985. It was a landmark reference [... more]
$250.00
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Searching for Hassan: An American Family's Journey Home ...
When in Iran, "expect to suffer from excessive hospitality": Amazon's "Better Together" recommender worked well here: I read "Searching for Hassan" after reading Firoozeh Dumas' charming memoir "Funny in Farsi." [... more]
$25.00
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in ...
Amazon.com Review: This is the single best book available on the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Afghanistan responsible for harboring the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has spent most of his career [... more]
$14.95
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Chinese Clothing: An Illustrated Guide
Good reference material: This is a good book for someone interested in historical research on Chinese costume. I personally find photos even more informative than text. Unfortunatly for me this book is heavy on text. Although there are a number of good [... more]
$99.00
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Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan
War children, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away: Michael Griffin has stitched together a narrative on the Taliban movement from literally hundreds of local and international news reports. Much of his material consists of ýcomments on [... more]
$35.95
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In Focus: Carleton Watkins: Photographs from the J. Paul ...
Amazon.com Review: Victorian landscape photographer Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) described his lifelong project in simple terms: to find "the best spot with the best view." However, this self-trained but precocious man, who seemed to delight in [... more]
$17.50
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Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other ...
False Advertising: What's labeled "A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War..." is actually a wierd guy's dark ramblings about life as a marine. In fact, through the first 180 out of 250 pages the Gulf War hasn't even started yet. We hear much more [... more]
$24.00
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The Gardens of Japan
Author: HARADA Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 712.0952 EAN: 9780710307491 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0710307497 Number Of Pages: 180 Publication Date: 2002-06-15 [... more]
$390.00
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