Complete Catalog of Stone Bridge Press Titles 2008

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ANIME / MANGA / ANIMATION / FILM / MUSIC
Anime Classics ZETTAI!: 100 Must-See Japanese Animation Masterpieces
The Anime Companion: What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?
The Anime Companion 2: More . . . What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?
The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised and Expanded Edition
Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know
Anime Explosion: The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation
The Art of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
Asia Shock: Horror and Dark Cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand
The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution
Cosplay: Catgirls and Other Critters
A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day
Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo
The Dorama Encyclopedia: A guide to Japanese TV Drama Since 1953
Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear
The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904–1922
Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation
jrock, ink.: a concise report on 40 of the biggest rock acts in japan
The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film
Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation
POP Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture
Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist
Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook
Tokyo Story: The Ozu/Noda Screenplay
Warring Clans, Flashing Blades: A Samurai Film Companion
Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews
The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films
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BUSINESS / CAREERS
13 Books: (notes on the design, construction & marketing of my last . . .)
Business Passport to Japan: Revised and Updated Edition
Doing Business with Japanese Men: A Woman's Handbook
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A CODY'S BOOK
The Berkeley Book of College Essays: Personal Statements for Californians Universities and Other Selective Schools
Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again!: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution
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CHINA
China Fever: Fascination, Fear, and the World's Next Superpower
China for Businesswomen: A Strategic Guide to Travel, Negotiating, and Cultural Differences
China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps
Chinese 24/7: Everyday Strategies for Speaking and Understanding Mandarin
Chinese Business Etiquette: The Practical Pocket Guide
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
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CULTURE / DESIGN
Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement
The Art of Setting Stones: & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden
Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebookf for Nikkei, Hapa . . . & Their Friends
Care and Use of Japanese Woodworking Tools: Saws, Planes, Chisels, Marking Gauges, Stones
Democracy with a Gun: America and the Policy of Force
Design Japan: 50 Creative Years with the Good Design Awards
The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan
Family Crests of Japan
The Flower Shop: Charm, Grace, Beauty, Tenderness in a Commercial Context
Gardens of Gravel and Sand
The Heart Sutra in Calligraphy: A Visual Appreciation of the Perfection of Wisdom
How to Take a Japanese Bath
The Japan Journals: 1947-2004
The Japanese Art of Sex: How to Tease, Seduce, and Pleasure the Samurai in Your Bedroom
The Japanese Home Stylebook: Architectural Details and Motifs
The Japanese Tea Garden
The Japanese Way of the Artist: Living the Japanese Arts & Ways, Brush Meditation, The Japanese Kyoto: The Forest within the Gate
A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan
Light from the East: A Gathering of Asian Wisdom
Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, and the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San
Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden
Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection
Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan
Sacred Sanskrit Words: for Yoga, Chant, and Meditation
Shikosha Design Library
Shinto Meditations for Revering the Earth
Subway Love
A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
Undesigning the Bath
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets, & Philosophers
The Way of Taiko
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REFERENCE
Japan Style Sheet: The SWET Guide for Writers, Editors, and Translators
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LANGUAGE
70 Japanese Gestures: No Language Communication
A Homestay in Japan: Nihon to no Deai
Crazy for Kanji: A Student's Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters
Designing with Kanji: Japanese Character Motifs for Surface, Skin & Spirit
A Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist Terms
Japanese Beyond Words: The Gaujin's Guide to Verbal Skills and Cultural Clues
Japanese the Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide to Grammar and Structure
Kana Pict-o-Graphix: Mnemonics for Japanese Hiragana and Katakana
Kanji Pict-o-Graphix: Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics
Kanji Starter 1
Kanji Starter 2
The Stone Bridge Book of Everyday Kanji: Japanese Character Reference and Writing Guide
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TRAVEL
Exploring Kyoto: On Foot in the Ancient Capital
The Inland Sea
Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer
A Practical Guide to Living in Japan: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Settle In
Travels in the East
The Little Tokyo Subway Guidebook: Everything You Need to Know to Get Around the City and Beyond
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LITERATURE
Ash: A Novel
Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages
The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan
Erotic Haiku
Evening Clouds
The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan
The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World
Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World (Kamo no Chomei)
In the Pool
Life in the Cul-de-Sac
A Long Rainy Season: Haiku and Tanka
The Name of the Flower
Other Side River: Free Verse
One Hot Summer in Kyoto
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
Ravine and Other Stories
Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat
A String of Flowers, Untied: Love Poems from "The Tale of Genji"
Still Life and Other Stories
Tokyo Fragments: Short Stories of Modern Tokyo by Five of Japan’s Leading Contemporary Writers
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders: Detective Mitarai’s Casebook
Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa
A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World
Wind and Stone
Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By
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Stone Bridge Classics
The Book of Tea
A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner Histor of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan when the Ports were Opened and the Monarchy Restored
Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design
Ideals from the East: With a Special Reference to the Art of Japan
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
The Mikado's Empire: A History of Japan from the Age of Gods to the Meiji Era (660 BC – AD 1872)
Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine Nikko
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Stone Bridge Fiction
The Cape: and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
Death March on Mount Hakkoda
The Inugami Clan
Milky Way Railroad
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