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  • Japanese Portraits

    Pictures of Different People

    de Donald Richie ...
    Series series Tuttle Classics
    Longtime resident of Japan and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie shares his private recollections, capturing the personalities of the Japanese people with insight and humor.Informed by Richie's background in film, this extensive collection of brief written "portraits" expertly captures the personalities of 54 different Japanese people —some of whom are famous, some notorious, and some unknown. ... Leer más

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  • Nightless City

    Or the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku

    Organized sex in Japan has always been big business, and nowhere was it more politely offered than in the Yoshiwara Yukwaku (red light district) of Tokyo.The appeal of the Yoshiwara was its women, all the surroundings being a frame for display of their charms. The Nightless City provides us with a fascinating picture of a "floating world" that was as transient as a butterfly. Today its teahouses, ... Leer más

    $183 MXN

  • Good Chinese Wife

    A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong

    A stunning memoir of an intercultural marriage gone wrongWhen Susan, a shy Midwesterner in love with Chinese culture, started graduate school in Hong Kong, she quickly fell for Cai, the Chinese man of her dreams. As they exchanged vows, Susan thought she'd stumbled into an exotic fairy tale, until she realized Cai—and his culture—where not what she thought.In her riveting memoir, Susan recounts ... Leer más

    $219 MXN

  • Between Two Worlds

    Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam

    Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. Saying yes. Burying in boxes in her mind the horrors she glimpsed around her. "Learn to erase your memories," she instructed. "He can read eyes."In this ... Leer más

    $202 MXN

  • An American Son

    A Memoir

    de Marco Rubio ...
    Few politicians have risen to national prominence as quickly as Marco Rubio. Here is the full story of his unlikely journey.Florida Senator Marco Rubio electrified the 2012 Republican National Convention by telling the story of his parents, who were struggling immigrants from Cuba. They embraced their new country and taught their children to appreciate its unique opportunities. Every sacrifice ... Leer más

    $140 MXN

  • The Family

    A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century

    de David Laskin ...
    The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish familyIn tracing the roots of this family—his own family—Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, ... Leer más

    $202 MXN

  • Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak

    Dictated by Himself

    A rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publicationUpon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished Sauk leader Black Hawk was the first thoroughly adversarial account of frontier hostilities between white settlers and Native Americans. Black Hawk, a complex, contradictory figure, relates his life ... Leer más

    $109 MXN

  • Jackson, 1964

    And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America

    From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the presentIn the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of reporting, he often returned to scenes of racial tension. Now, for the first ... Leer más

    $182 MXN

  • Street Poison

    The Biography of Iceberg Slim

    The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, né Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow. From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest ... Leer más

    $202 MXN

  • Somebody's Someone

    A Memoir

    de Regina Louise ...
    In this poignant and heart wrenching true story, Regina Louise recounts her childhood search for connection in the face of abuse, neglect, and rejection.What happens to a child when her own parents reject her and sit idly by as others abuse her? In this poignant, heart wrenching debut work, Regina Louise recounts her childhood search for someone to feel connected to. A mother she has never known- ... Leer más

    $170 MXN

  • On Jordan's Stormy Banks

    Personal Accounts of Slavery in Georgia

    Edición de Andrew Waters ...
    During the Great Depression, the Federal Writers’ Project engaged jobless writers and researchers to interview former slaves about their experiences in bondage. Most of the interviewees were by then in their eighties and nineties, and their memories were soon to be lost to history. The effort was a huge success, eventually encompassing more than two thousand interviews and ten thousand pages of ... Leer más

    $150 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Eddie Stobart Story

    de Hunter Davies ...
    The world’s greatest haulier – a rags-to-riches tale of British entrepreneurialsim.If you’ve never seen an Eddie Stobart truck, you’ve never driven down a British motorway.This is the extraordinary story of a multi-million pound business that spawned a middle-class motorway game. Of dynastic struggles that ended in a merchandising shop opposite Carlisle cathedral.A quintessentially British tale – ... Leer más

    $164 MXN