Asian Reads
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Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Twenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with furthe...
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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre...
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Just Enough Design: Reflections on the Japanese Philosophy of Hodo-Hodo
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history, our environment, and each other. The Japanese ...
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My Life: Growing Up Asian in America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces "that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American" (Kirkus R...
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Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward...
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People, Places, Things - Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous...
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Lunch with a Bigot: The Writer in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch with a Bigot are Kumar's observations of the world put int...
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A Tooth in My Popsicle: And Other Ebullient Essays on Becoming Filipino
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Ever felt like chucking it all and moving to an island paradise? Award-winning journalist David Haldane and his Filipino wife, Ivy, met on an inter...
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Hyderabad ke bade Log: (Khaake)
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This book presents the sketches of those renowned personalities who have rendered selfless service for the awareness and all-round development of t...
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In Sensorium: Notes for My People
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The 2022 Kirkus Prize Winner for Nonfiction Fragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is pol...
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The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A riotous collection of "witty and captivating" essays by a gay Filipino immigrant in America who is learning that everything is about sex (Bitch...
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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be ou...
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Written on Water
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Now back in print, these witty, insightful ssays on fashion, cinema, wartime, and everyday life demonstrate why Eileen Chang was and is a major i...
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In Light of India
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"One of the most brilliant and original essayists in any language" (Washington Post Book World) reflects on the six years he spent in India as Mexi...
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Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part nature writing, part travelogue, part existenti...
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The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame No Uzume
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Shunsuke Tsurumi (1922-2015), the author, was a Japanese-leading philosopher, cultural and intellectual historian, sociologist, critic, editor and ...
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Kenya Hara: Designing Japan: A Future Built on Aesthetics
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The story of Japan's design ethos, by Muji's celebrated art directorAs Art Director for Muji since 2002, Japanese graphic designer Kenya Hara (born...
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Put It on Record: A Memoir-Archive
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Cambodian Author and Opera Librettist Releases Memoir.Groundbreaking memoir by Cambodian author Sokunthary Svay. An unconventional collection of es...
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Auroville Reflected
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /On 28 February 1968, on an impoverished plateau on the Coromandel Coast of south India, about 4,000 people from around the world gathered for a mos...
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A Luminous Uplift, Landscape & Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"They are a form of language on landscape, a form of inscape, that, intimate and moving, are also arresting and revelatory."-- Arthur Sze A Luminou...
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The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame No Uzume
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume is the first complete English translation of Ame no Uzume den (1991) by one ...
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The Indians: Histories of a Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Indians is one of the most ambitious projects yet undertaken to map the origins, evolution, and present-day reality of India's civilization an...
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Bloody Shovel: Volume 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This second print edition of Bloody Shovel's first volume contains a number of updates and formatting changes to improve readability and enhance co...
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Bloody Shovel: Volume 2
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This second print edition of Bloody Shovel's second volume contains many of updates and formatting changes to improve readability and enhance conte...
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