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Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 (Rev) 5 reviews
Michihiko Hachiya
University of N. Carolina Press, 1995
Very moving account of the Hiroshima bombing
I read this book when I was in college, as a chemistry/chemical engineering major. As a young scientist, I was enamored of the sheer power contained with atoms, and was intrigued by atomic/nuclear weapons. My goal was to earn a PhD in nuclear engineering and to pursue a career at a National Laboratory such as Los Alamos or Sandia, where I hoped to work in the development of these sort of ...
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The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq 58 reviews
Rory Stewart
Harcourt, 2006
A troublesome perspective
The author tells us his experience while never giving his opinion. At the end, it is very difficult not to have a very sad picture of how our intervention in Irak is going to end. It is easy to read, it is important to read it.
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Sake and Satori: Asian Journals -- Japan (Asian Journals)6 reviews
Joseph Campbell, David Kudler
New World Library, 2002
A rare glimpse into a brilliant scholar's immersive journeys in post-war Japan
[Review written Aug 2004]
This review covers "Sake & Satori", which is part 2 (of 2) of a real-life journey around the world undertaken by Joseph Campbell. "Baksheesh & Brahman" (part 1 of 2) covers the first half of his adventure.
Allow me to backpedal a bit, because, as with nearly all of Dr. Campbell's works, a bit of background information and explanation is required in order to put ...
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Asian Landscape Journal (Notebook, Diary) (Guided Journal Series) 1 review
Peter Pauper Press, 2005
The Real Deal
These journals are definately the real deal. I've seen them in bookstores at twice the price they are on Amazon. I absolutlely love mine although when I bought it I still had my doubts. I was expecting something cheesy and thrown together but got the complete opposite. The picture they have does not do it justice. It truly looks like an old guilded addition. The paper inside is top quality ...
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Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals - India (Campbell, Joseph, Works.)3 reviews
Joseph Campbell
New World Library, 2002
Campbell in India
Before I read Baksheesh and Bramhan, all I knew of Campbell was that he was an author of formidable intellect and also engaging wit (if the print version of Moyers series is to be believed)with a deep understanding of Oriental faiths. Campbells' account of his encounter with the land of these faiths - India - is at once insightful of the man and India in the 1950s. Confronted by the actual India ...
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Essays in Idleness4 reviews
Columbia University Press, 1998
Quiet and quirky
Much of this little book works as well today as seven hundred years ago, when it was written. The observations on people and their manners sound a little old-fashioned, but still applicable. At another level, this book is credited with the first clear statements of esthetic principles that guide modern Japanese design. The translator's footnotes show how it draws on works from Confucius, Lao Tzu, ...
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The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (New Directions Book)5 reviews
Thomas Merton
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1975
Fascinating journal of Christian monk encountering the East
This book is a must-read for fans of Merton, and for anyone interested in encounters between Western Christianity and Eastern religions (particularly Hinduism and Buddhism). Merton achieved incredible realizations and great insight into Buddhism despite the fact that he lived most of his life as a monk and hermit isolated at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, USA. At the end of his life, invited to ...
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Japanese Screen Journal (Notebook, Diary) (New Journals)2 reviews
Peter Pauper Press
Peter Pauper Press, 2004
Pretty and Pleasing
This journal is lovely. It is actually prettier than the picture; there are metallic gold highlights on the cover. I cannot say anything particularly fascinating about the contents as it is a blank book and the contents are decided by the owner. ^_^
The only issue I have with it is that the magnetic clasps tend to wear on the cover.
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The Tso Chuan 2 reviews
Columbia University Press, 1992
Ian Myles Slater on History Disguised as Commentary
The "Tso Chuan" is a massive history -- or set of chronicles and stories -- of early China, originally presented as commentaries on the extremely concise "Spring and Autumn Annals" ascribed to Confucius. In fact it amounts to a remarkable account of the Chinese feudal states and their rulers as the Chou Dynasty faded. Burton Watson has presented some of the most famous stories, set out to make ...
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The Journey to the West, Volume 33 reviews
University Of Chicago Press, 1984
Journey to the west volume 3
This has got to be one of the best stories ever made. and this volume is my personal favorite. It keeps you thinking from start to end. If you are someone who enjoys mythology then this is a great book. It's also a must have for the die hard Dragon Ball fans.
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Modern Japanese Diaries
Donald Keene
Columbia University Press, 1999
-- New York Times Book Review
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A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal9 reviews
Asne Seierstad
Perseus Books Group, 2006
A glimpse of war
And I say a glimpse, because Asne is not allowed "before" the war to interview people or mingle much. She must go do tourist type activities and have a minder at all times.
This was a great book, not as great as Bookseller in Kabul, but still readable and is eye opening.
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The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949: Survivors Accounts of Japanese Invasion and ...4 reviews
McFarland & Company, 2003
Voices from a forgotten history
This is history they didn't teach us in school! Jan Krancher has compiled 24 personal accounts from survivors of a brutal -and nearly forgotten- episode of World War II: the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and imprisonment of thousands of its people. This 3 1/2 year occupation was immediately followed by a bloody revolution and the creation of modern Indonesia. These deeply ...
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Assessment with satellite data of the urban heat island effects in Asian mega cities [An article from: ...
H. Tran, D. Uchihama, ...
Elsevier
This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: This study focuses on using remote sensing for comparative assessment of surface urban heat island (UHI) in 18 mega cities in ...
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A Journal of the First Afghan War2 reviews
Florentia Sale
Oxford University Press, USA, 2003
READ IT BEFORE YOU ARE DEPLOYED
I am surprised that I should be the first to review a book written in the 1840s that contains so much relevance for today. This is a story of one of the greatest epic expeditions ever to be completely annihilated at the hands of Afghan tribesman.
The first Afghan expedition has always held a certain romance for me... it is the ultimate failure. But that romance is tempered by the fact that ...
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A Traveler in Siam in the Year 1655: Extracts from the Journal of Gijsbert Heeck, 16 November 1654 and 12 ...
University of Washington Press, 2008
Gijsbert Heeck (1619-1669) was a medicinal specialist with the Dutch East India Company (VOC). His journal is based on the daily notes he made during his third trip to the East. This volume carries the selections from his journal that deal with Siam, accompanied by the original Dutch text. Heeck reveals how Siamese authorities reacted to a violent confrontation between the Dutch and the Portuguese. He gives a detailed description of the ...
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The Tosa Diary (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)1 review
Ki No Tsurayuki, William N. Porter
Tuttle Publishing, 2005
Are We There Yet?
You know, there's always some level of hype about the "latest translation" and all, but this wonderful translation of "The Tosa Diary" by William Porter, originally published in 1912, demonstrates that we are not always so much more clever than those who came before. Porter is carefully faithful to the sense of the original while capturing its tone and mood in English with great talent. And his ...
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The Only War We Had: A Platoon Leader's Journal of Vietnam (Texas a&M University Military History Series)8 reviews
Michael Lee Lanning
Texas A&M University Press, 2007
GREAT BOOK!!!
This is one of the best books I've ever read, when it comes to documenting the day to day events of a soldier in war. Based on the writer's journal as an Infantry platoon leader, and reinforced with letters sent & kept by the authors wife, this book is both poignant and detailed.From simple remembrances of c-rations and malaria pills, to major battles and the loss of friends, Lanning's book ...
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Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women's Memoirs
Edith Sarra
Stanford University Press, 1999
The history of Japanese memoir literature began over a thousand years ago, its greatest practitioners being women of the ?middle ranks? whose literary talents won many of them positions as ladies-in-waiting at the Heian imperial court. As female writers they both inhabited and helped create a discursive world obsessed with the arts of concealment and self-display, the perils and possibilities?erotic, political, and literary?of real and ...
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