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  • Tan Hou and the Double Sixth FestivalQuick View
    • Tan Hou and the Double Sixth FestivalQuick View
    • Picture Books
    • Tan Hou and the Double Sixth Festival

    • GBP 10.99
    • Illustrations by Cai Gao   When Tan Hou is born with three dragon marks on his body, his parents know he is special. But the dragon is the emperor’s symbol. The emperor’s men come looking for Tan Hou, but he is determined to honour his parents and stand up for his people. This is the story behind the Double Sixth…
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  • The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn: a novel, with an introduction (The Life of Lafcadio Hearn)Quick View
    • The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn: a novel, with an introduction (The Life of Lafcadio Hearn)Quick View
    • World Literature
    • The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn: a novel, with an introduction (The Life of Lafcadio Hearn)

    • GBP 13.99
    • by Roger Pulvers This fascinating fictional account of the life and times of Lafcadio Hearn probes the question: "What was the nature of this man, born wanderer, informant of the fiendish details of Japanese lore ... a man who chose to live his life 'in defiance of the season'?" Still considered by the Japanese to be the foreigner with the…
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  • My Japan: a cultural memoirQuick View
    • My Japan: a cultural memoirQuick View
    • Memoir
    • My Japan: a cultural memoir

    • GBP 13.99
    • by Roger Pulvers Originally published in Japanese under the title If There Were No Japan: A Cultural Memoir, this book was acclaimed for its insights into Japanese life, bringing together aspects of history, culture and everyday life to paint an original and revealing portrait of the Japanese people and the pressing issues facing them today. During his decades of passionate…
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  • Native American Knowledge SystemsQuick View
    • Native American Knowledge SystemsQuick View
    • Hearing Others' Voices, Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Native American Knowledge Systems

    • GBP 10.99
    • by Clara Sue Kidwell   Every culture has some system of knowledge to explain its place in the world. Some of these systems are more complex than others, but each has an internal consistency based on what people have experienced. Some cultures have been characterized as “savage,” or “primitive” and have been considered as inferior by other cultures. Some cultures…
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  • The Unmaking of an AmericanQuick View
    • The Unmaking of an AmericanQuick View
    • Memoir
    • The Unmaking of an American

    • GBP 13.99
    • —A Memoir of Life in the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia by Roger Pulvers “Roger has fearlessly thrown himself into the whirlpool of cross-culturalism.  His life reads like an adventure story.”—Ryuichi Sakamoto The Unmaking of an American is an engaging and entertaining cross-cultural memoir spanning decades of dramatic history on four continents. Author, playwright, translator, journalist, theater and film…
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  • Paihuazi and the Clever GirlQuick View
    • Paihuazi and the Clever GirlQuick View
    • Graphic Novels, Picture Books
    • Paihuazi and the Clever Girl

    • by  Zhang Xinxin   Translated by Helen Wang   ISBN:  978-1-911221-20-3 Published: July 2021
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  • Taking a Bite out of the Apple: A graphic designer’s taleQuick View
    • Taking a Bite out of the Apple: A graphic designer’s taleQuick View
    • Hearing Others' Voices, Memoir
    • Taking a Bite out of the Apple: A graphic designer’s tale

    • GBP 9.99
    • by Rob Janoff How do you brand a revolution? In his engaging new book, Taking a Bite out of the Apple: A Graphic Designer’s Tale, Rob Janoff – designer of the world-famous Apple logo – shares what it was like to live through the heady days of the home computer revolution. From his fateful meeting with Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley…
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  • The Game HuntersQuick View
    • The Game HuntersQuick View
    • Young-Adult Fiction
    • The Game Hunters

    • GBP 11.99
    • by Anupa Roy   A climate crisis in the Ice Age. A cold snap leads to an unrelenting glacial. For our prehistoric ancestors survival is threatened. Food gets harder to find in the frigid lands of Central Asia. Yet the tribes living near the Altai Mountains have found a refuge. A river and a lake allows some plants and trees…
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  • Time for the World to Learn from AfricaQuick View
    • Time for the World to Learn from AfricaQuick View
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    • Time for the World to Learn from Africa

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    • by Ruth Finnegan FBA It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This is not wrong; all cultures rightly learn from each other. But less is said of what there is to learn from Africa: from her stories, myths, music, proverbs, insights - and more. Here an acclaimed African scholar steps…
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  • The Illegal Immigrant 非法移民Quick View
    • The Illegal Immigrant 非法移民Quick View
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    • The Illegal Immigrant 非法移民

    • a novel by Mohammed Umar Who is Mustapha? A respected Nigerian journalist and an aspiring filmmaker or an illegal immigrant wanted by the Home Office? Is he even Mustapha, or is he Michael, Kimani, or any one of the other identities he takes on to survive? This is not just Mustapha's story. It is a social saga with a glittering…
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  • Again I See the GaillardiasQuick View
    • Again I See the GaillardiasQuick View
    • World Literature, Young-Adult Fiction
    • Again I See the Gaillardias

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    • by Li Tong Winner of the 1986 Hong Chien-Chuan Children's Literature Award and the 1989 Yang Huan Literature Award   Through misunderstanding, sympathy, reconciliation and love, seven schoolchildren forged an abiding friendship in their hometown Penghu, a cluster of islands in the Taiwan Strait. Brought together by their Arts and Crafts teacher, the children learned to cherish their friendship and…
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  • Black FlameQuick View
    • Black FlameQuick View
    • World Literature, Young-Adult Fiction
    • Black Flame

    • by Gerelchimeg Blackcrane   A compelling novel set in Tibet, Mongolia, and China, about the adventures of a fiercely powerful yet lovable Tibetan mastiff. Translated from the Chinese by Anna Holmwood ISBN: 978-1-911221-31-9 Publication date: 25 April 2020 Format: Paperback (B-format) 203mm x 133mm Pages: 200 pp  
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