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Author : Shizuko Natsuki
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780749302283
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Murder at Mount Fuji written by Shizuko Natsuki and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shizuko Natsuki
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345337610
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Murder at Mt. Fuji written by Shizuko Natsuki and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visiting American and a clever police detective attempt to unravel an intricate web of intrigue, deceit, and subterfuge to uncover the truth concerning a family murder
Author : Shizuko Natsuki
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312552879
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (528 download)
Download or read book Murder at Mt. Fuji written by Shizuko Natsuki and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visiting American and a clever police detective attempt to unravel an intricate web of intrigue, deceit, and subterfuge to uncover the truth concerning a family murder
Author : H. Byron Earhart
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611171113
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Mount Fuji written by H. Byron Earhart and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive overview of the evolving imagery of Mount Fuji from ancient times to the present day. Included in the book is a link to his twenty-eight minute streaming video documentary of Fuji pilgrimage and practice, Fuji: Sacred Mountain of Japan. Beginning with early reflections on the beauty and power associated with the mountain in medieval Japanese literature, Earhart examines how these qualities fostered spiritual practices such as Shugendo, which established rituals and a temple complex at the mountain as a portal to an ascetic otherworld. As a focus of worship, the mountain became a source of spiritual insight, rebirth, and prophecy through the practitioners Kakugyo and Jikigyo, whose teachings led to social movements such as Fujido (the way of Fuji) and to a variety of pilgrimage confraternities making images and replicas of the mountain for use in local rituals. Earhart shows how the seventeenth-century commodification of Mount Fuji inspired powerful interpretive renderings of the "peerless" mountain of Japan, such as those of the nineteenth-century print masters Hiroshige and Hokusai, which were largely responsible for creating the international reputation of Mount Fuji. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, images of Fuji served as an expression of a unique and superior Japanese culture. With its distinctive shape firmly embedded in Japanese culture but its ethical, ritual, and spiritual associations made malleable over time, Mount Fuji came to symbolize ultranationalistic ambitions in the 1930s and early 1940s, peacetime democracy as early as 1946, and a host of artistic, naturalistic, and commercial causes, even the exotic and erotic, in the decades since.
Author : Dennis Washburn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231511159
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Translating Mount Fuji written by Dennis Washburn and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume S?seki, Mori ?gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, ?oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia. Washburn begins with Ueda's Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) and its preoccupation with the distant past, a sense of loss, and the connection between values and identity. He then considers the use of narrative realism and the metaphor of translation in Soseki's Sanshiro; the relationship between ideology and selfhood in Ogai's Seinen; Yokomitsu Riichi's attempt to synthesize the national and the cosmopolitan; Ooka Shohei's post-World War II representations of the ethical and spiritual crises confronting his age; and Mishima's innovative play with the aesthetics of the inauthentic and the artistry of kitsch. Washburn's brilliant analysis teases out common themes concerning the illustration of moral and aesthetic values, the crucial role of autonomy and authenticity in defining notions of culture, the impact of cultural translation on ideas of nation and subjectivity, the ethics of identity, and the hybrid quality of modern Japanese society. He pinpoints the persistent anxiety that influenced these authors' writings, a struggle to translate rhetorical forms of Western literature while preserving elements of the pre-Meiji tradition. A unique combination of intellectual history and critical literary analysis, Translating Mount Fuji recounts the evolution of a conflict that inspired remarkable literary experimentation and achievement.
Author : Nicolas Obregon
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250110483
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Blue Light Yokohama written by Nicolas Obregon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Inspired by a real-life unsolved murder---Front jacket flap.
Author : Hokusai Katsushika
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji written by Hokusai Katsushika and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered Hokusai's masterpiece, this series of images -- which first appeared in the 1830s in three small volumes -- captures the simple, elegant shape of Mount Fuji from every angle and in every context.
Author : Rachel Delahaye
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848125887
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Jim Reaper: The Glove of Death written by Rachel Delahaye and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mum asks Jim to rid their garden of snails, he has an idea. Using the white glove from Dad's study, Jim is going to give each snail a swift and painless death. But can he go through with it? When Mr Darcy the cat gets involved, Jim loses the glove and trouble breaks loose. The third story in the deadly funny JIM REAPER series, perfect for fans of Dahl, Walliams and Lemony Snicket.
Author : S. Katsumata
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136654224
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Gleams From Japan (Routledge Revivals) written by S. Katsumata and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1937 this is a collection of articles written by the author under the pseudonym 'Waseda Eisaku' for the Japan Tourist Bureau's magazine over twenty five years. Intended to satisfy the intellectual curiosity of cultivated tourists from abroad by giving the insider's view of all things Japanese, it was published as a book just before the outbreak of World War II. Writing in the first person, Katsumata becomes both guide and confidante, writing about his own travel experiences in Japan and about Japanese customs and practices that interest him, such as traditional incense ceremonies, or fishing with rod and creel. This personal approach results in an unusual selection of topics and itineraries including tray landscapes, old Japanese clocks, hot springs, Japanese humour, sumo wrestling, pines in Japanese scenery, the Japanese sun flag and Buddhist temple bells. The author not only describes, but draws the reader into his own experiences - his joy on buying an antiquarian book he cannot really afford, the monotony he feels when travelling too long through snowy landscapes, the delight he takes in telling you that the best bait for carp fishing is sweet potato. Katsumata's unconventional choice of subjects and his informal and individualistic writing style make this a refreshingly different guide to Japan, and a valuable record of the period in which it was written.
Author : Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788772892689
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century written by Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A few translations of writings by Japanese women have appeared lately, yet the West remains largely ignorant of this wide field. In this book Sachiko Schierbeck profiles the 104 female winners of prestigious literary prizes in Japan since the beginning of the century. It contains summaries of their selected works, and a bibliography of works translated into Western languages from 1900 to 1993. These works give insight into the minds and hearts of Japanese women and draw a truer picture of the conditions of Japanese community life than any sociological study would present. Schierbeck's 104 biographies constitute a useful reference work not only to students of literature but to anyone with an interest in women's studies, history or sociology.
Author : Shinya Arai
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520910516
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Shoshaman written by Shinya Arai and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-04-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledging no god but the corporate good, the shoshamen—high-powered professionals within Japan's integrated trading companies—serve as the unrelenting cogs of an economic machine. Or do they? Shoshaman takes us inside the world of Japan Inc. to explore the daily lives of the people who inhabit it. Written by a senior executive in a major sogo shosha, this absorbing novel reveals, as no textbook can, the strategies required to win the race to the top. It also makes painfully clear the ethical and psychological choices that such a race demands. The cast of characters is as varied as the corporate world itself, from the devoted Ojima, who has been passed over by the company, to the spirited Masako, who strikes out on her own. The hero, Nakasato Michio, finds that the road to success is long and perilous, as he tries to satisfy his ambitions while remaining faithful to his values. First published as Kigyoka sarariman in 1986 and made into a prize-winning television miniseries in 1988, the book has been acclaimed in Japan for the verisimilitude of its characters and situations. It offers a clear understanding of what it is like—in human terms—to survive and perhaps succeed within the confines of the Japanese corporation.
Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 139909081X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Bioterrorism and Biological Warfare written by Paul Chrystal and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important, disturbing and timely book focuses on on the use of disease and germs as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) and the threat bioterrorism poses in an increasingly unpredictable and volatile future for the world. For context it traces developments from the earliest primitive but effective days of infectious rams, poison-tipped arrows and plague-infected corpses used as toxic, disease-spreading projectiles, to the twenty-first-century industrial scale weaponization of biomedicine. Paul Chrystal shows how biological weapons and acts of bioterrorism are especially effective at instilling terror, panic, death, famine and economic ruin on a large scale, shredding public confidence in governments and civilization itself. For the disaffected, lethal biological agents are comparatively easy to manufacture and obtain, and they have the benefit of being almost invisible and easy and quick to administer in lethal quantities through a variety of discreet delivery systems. Just what the terrorist wants. We explore the sinister connection between the industrial-scale proliferation of biological weaponry by state actors and the greater opportunities these growing bio-arsenals give to the increasingly scientific-minded and determined terrorist to manufacture his or her weapon of choice, taking advantage also of the state of the art sophisticated delivery systems. The epilogue analyzes the concerted but groundless 2022-2023 disinformation campaign conducted by Russia, with support from China, relating to the claim that public health facilities in Ukraine are 'secret U.S.-funded biolabs', purportedly developing biological weapons.
Author : Christopher Berry-Dee
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782195653
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Murder.com written by Christopher Berry-Dee and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil roams the internet just as it does even the most quiet of streets in the real world. World-renowned criminologist (and the U.K.'s number 1 true crime writer) Christopher Berry-Dee takes an unflinching look into the darkest recesses of the world wide web and what he has unearthed will make you switch off your computer - for good. From cannibals ordering a human meal by email to mail-order brides whose quest for better lives end in grisly murder, this is the only guide you need to avoid the perils of the online world. With years of experience in understanding the criminal mind, Berry-Dee rigorously analyses how the ease of access to the most depraved of materials on the net has fed the imagination of the world's sickest fiends. From the bondage festishist who killed an innocent acquaintance, to the girl who learned how to commit suicide from the web, these all-true stories will shock you to your core.
Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1629149381
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Evil written by Colin Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the most shocking, horrifying accounts of true crime ever. Evil knows no boundaries. In 1614, Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory died, sealed in a tiny closet in her castle. Her crimes? She was rumored to have bathed in the blood of her victims, which may have numbered in the hundreds. More recently, Russia’s Andrei Chikatilo, the United States’ Ted Bundy, and Great Britain’s Peter Sutcliffe added to the horrors humans inflict upon their fellow man. Featuring maps, callouts, and facts that follow these criminals’ trails of crime, Evil is a groundbreaking volume. It explores some of the most famous crime cases of real-life murder and mayhem. In this epic account of history’s most infamous murder cases, leading true-crime researcher and writer Colin Wilson teams up with his son Damon Wilson to masterfully recount the shocking details of more than sixty cases of murder and mayhem. Illustrated with hundreds of color and black-and-white photos, Evil features images of criminals, forensic evidence, and key personalities and places that put each crime in historical context. In a continuing search for the meaning in murder, the Wilsons create one of the definitive books in the field of criminology.
Author : James Alan Fox
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506349137
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Extreme Killing written by James Alan Fox and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme Killing offers you a comprehensive overview of multiple homicide, including both serial and mass murder. Filled with classic and contemporary case studies, this fully updated Fourth Edition reflects a growing concern for specific types of multiple homicides—indiscriminate public massacres, terrorist attacks, hate crimes, and school shootings—as well as largely debated issues such as gun control and mental illness. Renowned experts and authors in the field, James Alan Fox, Jack Levin, and Emma Fridel bring their years of research and experience to create distinctions between serial and mass murders, address characteristics of both killers and their victims, and recognize the special concerns around multiple murder victims and their survivors. You will examine the latest theories of criminal behavior and apply them to mass and serial murderers from around the world, such as the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, the Grim Sleeper in Los Angeles, the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, the shooting of nine African Americans by a white supremacist in a Charleston church, and more.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Armchair Detective written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith Maxwell
Publisher : Beyond The Page
ISBN 13 : 1950461688
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Murder on the Bluffs written by Edith Maxwell and published by Beyond The Page. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second Lauren Rousseau Mystery by Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, a grisly murder stirs up long-buried secrets surrounding the disappearance and death of Lauren’s father . . . As a bitter controversy rages over a secretive local land trust in her small New England town, linguistics professor Lauren Rousseau is not wholly surprised when she stumbles upon the dead body of one of the trust’s key members, his throat neatly slit from ear to ear. The only question is which of the many potential suspects is capable of so violent an act. But then the bluffs where she discovered the victim yield a shocking clue, one that may lead to the killer—and may be tied to her own father’s mysterious disappearance more than a decade before. As Lauren begins looking for answers to both mysteries among her fellow townspeople and even members of her own family, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge about the victim’s volatile sister, corruption at the heart of the land trust, and even about her father’s life. And as surprising revelations begin to mount, along with threats to her own life, Lauren knows she must pursue the cases to the very end—no matter how disturbing the solutions may be . . . This book was originally published as Bluffing Is Murder under the name Tace Baker. Praise for Murder on the Bluffs: “[Maxwell] has a genuine knack for spinning a deftly crafted mystery that will keep the reader’s total attention from beginning to end.” —Julie Simmons, Midwest Book Review “In this page-turner of a mystery, linguistics professor Lauren Rousseau uses her smarts, her Quaker faith, and her summer vacation to bring a vicious murderer—and a secret from her own past—into the light.” —Barbara Ross, Agatha-nominated author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries “Starts with a bang and doesn’t let up!” —Philip Gulley, author of the Harmony and Hope series “This is a smooth read with a lovely setting, appealing characters, lots of satisfying plot tangles, and a deep secret from Lauren’s past to keep you turning these pages.” — Agatha Award-nominated author Kaye George
