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Baldwin, Hanson W.: Sea Fights and Shipwrecks
Softcover, Doubleday Dolphin, Garden City, NY, 1955
Very Good-, Minor edge wear, front corner of cover and bottom corner of several pages are creased. Former owner's name and address inside cover. Text clean and unmarked. "True sea stories of mutiny, mystery, shipwreck, and battle from 1816 to 1945."
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Chol-Hwan, Kang; Rigoulot, Pierre: The Aquariums of Pyongyang : Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Softcover, Basic Books, New York, NY, 2005 0465011047 / 9780465011049
Good+, Minor edge wear, last few pages and back cover slightly rippled from water damage. Text has a handful of check marks and one page has highlighted paragraph. The rest of text is clean and unmarked. "North Korea is among the most opaque nations on earth, its regime noted for repression and for the personality cult of its father and son leaders, the late Kim Il Sung and his successor, Kim Jong Il. Kang Chol-hwan draws from firsthand experience in explaining the repression. After the division of North and South Korea, Kang's family returned to North Korea from Japan, where his grandparents had emigrated in the 1930s and where his grandfather had amassed a fortune and his grandmother became a committed Communist. They were fired with idealism and committed to building an edenic nation. Instead, the family was removed without trial to a remote concentration camp, apparently because the grandfather was suspected of counter-revolutionary tendencies. Kang Chol-hwan was nine years old when imprisoned at the Yodok camp in 1977. Over the next ten years, he endured inhumane conditions and deprivations, including an inadequate diet (supplemented by frogs and rats), regular beatings, humiliations and hard labor. Inexplicably released in 1987, the author states that the only lesson his imprisonment had "pounded into me was about man's limitless capacity to be vicious." Kang's memoir is notable not for its literary qualities, but for the immediacy and drama of the personal testimony."
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Chomsky, Noam: A New Generation Draws the Line : Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West
Softcover, Verso, London, England, 2000 1859843808 / 9781859843802
Very Good+, 0.5 x 7.5 x 5.35 Inches; 160 pages; Slight edge wear, two tiny spots on cover. Text clean and unmarked. "1999 saw two major international crises which, looked at side-by-side by Noam Chomsky, starkly illuminate the strategies of the Western powers in the new century. In this volume Chomsky convincingly argues that humanitarianism was not the moving force behind NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia, and that there, as in East Timor, strategic concerns were dominant and the fate of civilian populations incidental."
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Crossette, Barbara: The Great Hill Stations of Asia
Hardcover, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1999 0813333261 / 9780813333267
Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket, Small red remainder mark at bottom of page ends. Inner front jacket corner is price-clipped. Text clean and unmarked. "Upon arriving in India, the first English settlers found the humid, unforgiving climate almost unbearable. Malaria, cholera, and dysentery ravaged their beleaguered ranks, making the average life span for both men and women no more than 30 years. To escape these epidemics, they found refuge in the temperate climate of the hills. Above the clouds, Europeans built numerous hill stations, not just in India, but also in Burma, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia. From the luxury of these curious establishments, they ruled their colonies with imperial aplomb. Colonialism lapsed and the foreigners were eventually expelled from these countries, yet the hill stations still remain. In early 1997, Barbara Crossette, the United Nations bureau chief for the New York Times, embarked upon an ambitious journey through Asia to visit the hill stations that still function as tourist attractions. Part travel narrative, part historical retrospective, Crossette's book eloquently depicts each region's history, politics, religion, and economics in a series of thoughtful reports."
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Downer, Lesley: Madame Sadayakko : The Geisha Who Bewitched the West
Softcover, Gotham Books, New York, NY, 2004 1592400507 / 9781592400508
Very Good-, Edges slightly worn, short red mark on spine and small sticker. Text clean and unmarked. Includes many b&w photos. "The enthralling true story of the real Madame Butterfly, a woman who became the most celebrated geisha in Japan and the first to tour the West."
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French, Paul: Midnight in Peking : How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Hardcover, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 2012 0143121006 / 978-0143121008
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket, Hardcover with small tear at bottom of spine and some edge wear to jacket. Text clean and unmarked. "This book is captivating, a wild rickshaw ride into the lost world of 1930s Peking—one that plunges down the dark alleys of a murder mystery and into a murky underworld. Paul French's rediscovery of long-hidden leads and witnesses has done justice to this extraordinary case."
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6.00 USD
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Gray, Peter: The Art of Drawing and Creating Manga Women
Softcover, Arcturus Barnes & Noble, New York, NY, 2004 0572030207 / 9780572030209
Very Good+, 96 pages; Tall softcover, very slight edge wear. Looks almost new. Light crease near bottom of front cover. Text clean and unmarked. "Welcome to the super-cool world of manga women! Using Daisy and some of the rest of the crew as models, you'll soon learn how to draw in the style that's sweeping the world- manga."
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Guterson, David: Snow Falling on Cedars : A Novel
Softcover, Vintage Books, New York, NY, 1995 067976402X / 9780679764021
Very Good+, 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 460 pages; Tall softcover, very slight edge wear. Looks almost new. Movie tie-in cover art. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award. "San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric- a masterpiece of suspense."
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Hope, Jane: The Secret Language of the Soul A Visual Guide to the Spiritual World
Softcover, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997 0811818616 / 9780811818612
Very Good-, 0.5 x 8.9 x 8.3 Inches; 176 pages; Very slight edge wear. Book has a faint cigarette odor. Includes many color illustrations. "A visual exploration of the sacred beliefs and ritual practices from around the world, from the Siberian shaman to the Christian saint to the Zen Buddhist monk."
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Jesse, F. Tennyson: The Lacquer Lady
Softcover, Virago Press Dial Press, New York, NY, 1979 0803747047 / 9780803747043
Very Good, Tall softcover with some edge wear. Bottom corner bent. Bottom of page ends lightly speckled with purple paint (remainder marking by former bookstore owner). "A prodigious novel of romance and adventure, set in the 1880s in the city of Mandalay during the last years of the opulent, decaying Kingdom of Burma."
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer: East Into Upper East : Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi
Softcover, Counterpoint, Washington, D. C., 1999 1582430349 / 978-1582430348
Very Good+, 0.87 x 8.23 x 5.51 Inches; 320 pages; Slight edge wear, last page corner is creased. Text clean and unmarked. "The subtitle of Jhabvala's collection is Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi, and plain they are--if by that you mean stories that are straightforward in the telling. This is not to say, however, that they are not subtle. Jhabvala's characters are multifaceted and the situations in which they find themselves complex. In East into Upper East she proves once again that a complicated story can be plainly told, yet resonate all the more powerfully for its simple elegance and economy."
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Kushi, Michio; Esko, Edward: The Macrobiotic Approach to Cancer : Towards Preventing and Controlling Cancer with Diet and Lifestyle
Softcover, Avery Penguin, New York, NY, 1991 0895294869 / 9780895294869
Very Good, 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 Inches; 192 pages; Slight edge wear, page ends are slightly age-darkened. "It is not an exaggeration to call the rise in the incidence of cancer an epidemic, and modern diet and lifestyle seem like two of the more obvious possible culprits. Author Michio Kushi, founder of Macrobiotics in America, reviews what 25 years of scientific research into the links between diet and cancer has taught us, and then proposes some fairly simple, if stringent, dietary goals. Michio suggests general guidelines, rather than specific diets, allowing the reader to understand the principles of macrobiotics, and create a personalized nutritional program."
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Lewis, David: We, the Navigators : The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
Softcover, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI, 1986 0824803949 / 9780824803940
Very Good-, 0.9 x 8.9 x 5.8 Inches; 345 pages; Large softcover with some edge wear, a few small spots on bottom edge of pages (visible when book is closed). A few very light pencil underlinings. "The peopling of the Pacific Islands is one of the world's greatest maritime achievements. David Lewis discovered that the ancient arts of navigation, passed by word of mouth from generation to generation, are still known to men who have put them into practice. In this firsthand account, Lewis travels 13,000 nautical miles- sailing entirely without benefit of modern navigational methods- under the guidance and instruction of island navigators."
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Nelles Maps: Indian Subcontinent Map : 1:4,000,000
Map, Nelles Verlag, Munchen, Germany, N.D. 3886186326 / 9783886186327
Very Good, Nelles Maps; This is a sturdy, folded map of India (1:4,000,000 scale) which includes more detailed maps of Mumbai (Bombay), Calcutta, and New Delhi as well as the entire subcontinent. The paper map is protected by a thin cardboard cover. Minor edge wear and minor wear at folds but no tears. No date, but this was bought new in 1999.
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Rinpoche, Khenchen Thrangu: Essential Practice : Lectures on Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation in the Middle Way School
Softcover, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, NY, 2002 1559391812 / 9781559391818
Very Good, 0.63 x 8.92 x 5.98 Inches; 216 pages; Minor edge wear, a few light dents in front cover edge and small remnant of price sticker. Text clean and unmarked. "Centuries ago, the Indian master Kamalalshila taught Tibetans the essential points of Mahayana practice in a clear, step-by-step, and easy-to-follow way. Now, the great scholar and meditation master Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche makes these profound teachings readily accessible to Western students."
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See, Lisa: Peony in Love : A Novel
Softcover, Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York, NY, 2008 0812975227 / 9780812975222
Very Good+, 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 297 pages; Tall paperback, very slight edge wear. Looks almost new. "In seventeenth-century China, in an elaborate villa on the shores of Hangzhou's West Lake, Peony lives a sheltered life. One night, during a theatrical performance in her family's garden, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man and is immediately overcome with emotion. So begins an unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow, in the living world and the afterworld."
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