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This book, first published in 1908, is a result of Helen Barrett Montgomery’s visits to Japan, and the way in which she experienced Japanese life and culture. This book thoroughly examines aspects such as religion, language, trade and education in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century. This book will be of interest to students of Asian Studies.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Endearing World of a Maverick, a first-person narrative, is a collection of three true stories. The first story, The ‘Up Train’ The ‘Down Train’ is about a charming couple from Chennai. The Midsummer Chase is the second story and it’s about the author’s friend and his amiable wife.These...

When Lt.-General Thomas Picton fell during a furious bayonet charge he left behind a legacy of hard fighting, high courage, volatile temper and much military glory accrued at the head of his fighting 3rd Division. In this excellent and very detailed biography, based on the Generals own private letters,...

Edendale is a picture of a vivid Los Angeles neighborhood on the far side of Hollywood, and the tale of a colorful extended family tangled up in love and revolution on the red hills of Echo Park at the most dangerous hour of the 1950s when love could mean disaster, and disaster could lead to fame.

With a modern introduction by Clarence Weems, originally published in Seoul in 1905 to wide acclaim as the only authentic history of Korea from prehistory to the Twentieth Century, this two volume work remains required reading for students of Western historiography of Korea.

Baron Witherspoon, facially scarred WWI veteran turned beat cop in Arkansas City, KS, finds himself immersed in two different murder investigations that span the course of three years. Each case is heinous and filled with twists and turns. To catch the killers, he must go deep into their demented...

Baron Witherspoon, a disfigured WWI vet, now a beat cop in a small Kansas burg, is on a collision course with Jake Hickey, a volatile Chicago gangster. While Baron wants merely to provide residents with a safe place to live and escape the memory of the horrors of war, Jake is looking to recapture...

A sequel to The Honeywood File (originally published in 1929, and reissued by Academy Chicago in 2000), it takes the form of an epistolary novel. Some of the great comic characters inhabit the pages of this book, and like all comedy, they contain more than a grain of truth. The book tells, in the...

Jason Kennly muss sich das graue Halsband einfach näher ansehen, das er bei einer Science-Fiction-Messe im Verkaufsraum entdeckt hat, obwohl er es sich von seinem knappen Studentenbudget auf keinen Fall leisten kann. Aber anschauen kostet ja schließlich nichts. Doch dann entdeckt er etwas, was er...

A series of stories - some realistic, some whimsical, some fantastic - illustrative of life in late-Victorian Britain and its colonies. Originally published in the 1890s as part of John Lane's 'Keynotes' series of contemporary fiction.

La fuente de la salud está escrito desde el punto de vista de la medicina integrativa, que parte de la medicina naturista clásica e incorpora los valores de la llamada medicina biológica, al tiempo que integra los conocimientos tanto diagnósticos como terapéuticos de la medicina convencional. Este...

CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The...