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 RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
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 RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
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 RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
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 RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
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 RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
REFERENCE Japan Style Sheet: The SWET Guide for Writers, Editors, and Translators RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
LANGUAGE 70 Japanese Gestures: No Language Communication A Homestay in Japan: Nihon to no Deai Chinese 24/7: Everyday Strategies for Speaking and Understanding Mandarin 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 RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
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 RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
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 RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
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 RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
Stone Bridge Fiction The Cape: and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto Death March on Mount Hakkoda The Inugami Clan Milky Way Railroad RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
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