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Christ's Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion by Jonathan Clements
Category: History
The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the innermost circle of believers. Its priests preached love and kindness, but helped local warlords acquire firearms. They encouraged believers to cast aside the ...Show more
Confucius by Jonathan Clements
Category: History
Heroes may be brave, but not all of those who act bravely are necessarily heroes. Confucius is one of the most important figures in Chinese history, the philosopher-founder of an intellectual, ethical tradition that has shaped a quarter of the world's population. Often overlooked outside his native coun ...Show more
Dirty Rotten Vikings: Three Centuries of Longshops, Looting and Bad Behavior by Jonathan Clements
Category: PICTURE BOOKS | Series: Dirty Rotten
Who was vicious, who was vile and who was just very, very bad - or just mad? Discover what the Vikings were really like and what they were up to, and learn whether they really were that rotten. These colorful books are packed with the fun and grossness kids love, and also the real historical facts that ...Show more
Japan at War in the Pacific - The Rise and Fall of an Empire, 1869-1945 by Jonathan Clements
Category: History
By the time of Japan's surrender in 1945, an entire generation had grown up knowing nothing but conflict; but the transformation of Japan into a militarist power began decades earlier, with the toppling of the old samurai regime, and the rush of the formerly isolated nation onto the world stage. Jap ...Show more
Little Book of Main Street Money by CLEMENTS Jonathan
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Mao Zedong by Jonathan Clements
Category: Biography | Series: Life and Times Ser.
Mao Zedong went from being a poor farmer's son to a revolutionary leader, a general in World War II and the ruler of the world's most populous nation. Alternately glorified and demonized, not only in the Western world, but also in the China that he once ruled, his influence persists to this day. This ne ...Show more
Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
Category: History
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller tha ...Show more
The Anime Encyclopedia - A Century of Japanese Animation by Jonathan Clements; Helen McCarthy
Category: Performing Arts
"Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessive--The Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work."--Neil Gaiman Over one thousand new entries . . . over four thousand updates . . . over one million words. . . This third edition of the landmark reference work has six additional years of inf ...Show more
The Art of War: A New Translation by Jonathan Clements
Category: Business
A new translation for the 21st century "The Art of War by Sun Tzu" is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This gateway edition for the 21st century reader rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited by generals from a dozen Chinese dynasties, inte ...Show more
The Emperor's Feast by Jonathan Clements
Category: History
'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of a rich, ancient and perhaps surprisingly multicultural tradition' FUCHSIA DUNLOP, SPECTATOR 'A tasty portrait of a nation' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'A s ...Show more