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A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun by Jonathan Clements
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of Asia Ser.
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. Stretching for nearly 2000 miles and encompassing almost ...Show more
A Brief History of the Samurai by Jonathan Clements
$21.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerged as a warrior caste in Medieval Japan and would have a powerful influence on the history and culture of the country from the next 500 years. Clements also ...Show more
A History of the Silk Road by Jonathan Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Silk Road is not a place, but a journey, a route from the edges of the Mediterranean to the central plains of China, through high mountains and inhospitable deserts. For thousands of years its history has been a traveler's history, of brief encounters in desert towns, snowbound passes and nameless f ...Show more
Japan at War in the Pacific - The Rise and Fall of an Empire, 1869-1945 by Jonathan Clements
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
By the time of Japan's surrender in 1945, an entire generation had grown up knowing nothing but conflict; but the transformation of Japan into a militarist power began decades earlier, with the toppling of the old samurai regime, and the rush of the formerly isolated nation onto the world stage. Jap ...Show more
Manga A Visual History by Frederik L. Schodt; Rachel Thorn; Zack Davisson; Erica Friedman; Jonathan Clements
$65.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels - Adult & YA
Manga has taken the world by storm. A richly diverse medium, the Japanese comics phenomenon has something for everyone--fantasy, horror, thrillers, romance, history, biography, sport, business, and even school textbooks. Manga A Visual History chronicles the evolution of manga from its samurai-era b ...Show more
Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller tha ...Show more
The Art of War: A New Translation by Jonathan Clements
$16.99 AUD
Category: Business & Finance
A new translation for the 21st century "The Art of War by Sun Tzu" is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This gateway edition for the 21st century reader rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited by generals from a dozen Chinese dynasties, inte ...Show more
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