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A useful guide to English-language reference materials on Japan and the Japanese, this selective annotated bibliography is designed for use by information seekers at all levels. Part I covers general reference works, while Part II covers materials on specific subject areas.

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From Ethan Hawke, Sid Vicious, and Madonna to Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, and Sarah Bernhardt, renowned New York City blogger Ed Hamilton chronicles the past and present artistic, eccentric, and insane inhabitants of the most famous bohemian building in the world, the Chelsea Hotel

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Living and working in Paris and Lyon with her husband Michael, the author navigates local customs, language and baffling social niceties, uncovering a country that is charming, sometimes maddening and more than a little contradictory.

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A voyage of discovery into the life of a remote aboriginal community in the Siberian Arctic, where the reindeer has been a part of daily life since Palaeolithic times.

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With a novelist's eye for detail and colour, Gita Mehta writes of the continent of contradictions that is host to one-sixth of the world's population. It has the world's largest film industry, and the world's oldest religions. Now as never before, the world wants to know what contemporary India is all about.

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A brilliant and ground-breaking exploration of the crucial role of nature in shaping and inspiring our most enduring artists and writers including Monet, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Georgia O'Keeffe, Picasso and Emily Kame Kngwarreye.

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Alphabetically organized and thoroughly cross-referenced entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth in North and South America.

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What makes us uniquely Australian An essential, comprehensive guide for every Aussie packed with fascinating and humorous facts, figures and quotations about our politics, our icons, literature and language, sport, flora and fauna, key dates and events.

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From the worst airport layout to the most confusing subway system to the mostoverrated tourist attraction, Lansky looks at flawed travel destinations witha gimlet eye and a sense of the absurd.

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An updated version of Jackie French's journal of a year in the life of the Araluen Valley in the beautiful Southern Tablelands of NSW. It's a combination of many stories - foxes in the autumn and the first of the asparagus, dashes to the school bus in the mornings and sleepy lizard nibbling Christmas pudding leftovers on hot rocks.

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Japan opened its doors to the outside world in 1868, ending more than 200 years of seclusion and bringing the country into the modern age. Sebastian Dobson and Sabine Arqu have compiled old, hand-colored photographs and colorful photochromes to reveal Japan in the 1900s, from Beppu's hot springs to the new capital of Tokyo.

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Wander the halls of Italy's Renaissance libraries, revel in the Sahara's imposing silence as described by Paul Bowles, or stroll the streets of Josephine Baker's Paris. The writers and photographers of The New York Times are your guides to the history, literature, art, and cuisine of 100 fascinating destinations from the Cultured Traveler column.

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Discover the nations capital from behind the scenes in this photographic portrait of London that documents our rapidly changing society from the funeral of King Edward VII at the start of the 20th century, through to the celebrations accompanying the new millennium at its end.

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Washington, D.C. Then and Now presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution and history of America's capital city, from the dawn of photography in the mid-nineteenth century through to the present day.

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These are the memoirs of Frederick Rea, a teacher from England who became headmaster of Garrynemonie School in South Uist in the 1890s. They show how he strove to meet the difficulties presented by life in one of the poorest districts in the Outer Hebrides.

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Takes the reader on a charming, informative, and quietly humorous meander around the streets, history and characters of the famous port-city of Fremantle. Writer and historian, Ron Davidson, provides a real sense of the texture and richness of one of Australia's most attractive and popular destinations.

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"Photographs, text, and design by Kevin Kelly"--Copyright page.

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Portraits and biographical sketches of people representative of American life, one from each state.

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Images of the 'old' Albania marked by communism are juxtaposed with photographs from the Albania of today.