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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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It is also a classic in the art of story-telling.'A real achievement, personal as well as literary.' David Pryce-Jones, The Times'A parable of the reality behind a vast amount of modern social and political fantasy, even in the most developed of countries.' David Holden, Sunday Times

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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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Tick Bite Fever is the unconventional memoir of a very unconventional childhood.

In the early Seventies, Dave Bennun's family transplanted themselves from Swindon to the wilds of Kenya. On the way home from school, closed because a pair of lions are padding around the playground, Dave is mugged by baboons.

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In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu.

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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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Discover the world's most remote and mysterious islands in this beautifully designed book. Spanning continents and cultures, it explores exotic, hard-to-reach locations with an international appeal. Divided into four sections-Strange, Scary, Remote, and Naturally Odd-it unveils the haunting beauty and enigmatic allure of these isolated and extraordinary places.

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A whimsical, gorgeously illustrated guide to Jane Austen's England

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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.