Where else can you find such an incredible collection of 14 young comic, anime and manga artists willing to share the secrets of their techniques? Each artist includes a brief biography, the most representative work and a gallery of their best work with step-by-steps on how to create the work. The last chapter features a who’s who in the industry or "Tree of Japanese Com...(展开全部)

Japan's output of manga is massive, accounting for a staggering forty percent of everything published each year in the country.Outside Japan, there has been a global boom in sales, with the manga aesthetic spreading from comics into all areas of Western youth culture through film, computer games, advertising, and design. Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics presents an acce...(展开全部)

Japanese woodblock prints, or "ukiyo-e," are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the beginning of the Japanese woodblock print in the 1680s until the year 1900, "Japanese Woodblock Prints" provides a detailed survey of all the major artists, along with the images...(展开全部)

Patrick Drazen，於芝加哥大學與南伊利諾大學Carbondale分校教授日本流行文化課程 ，也兼任WSIU-FM電台的主持人。他的著作有《Channels of Communication》、《Journal of Popular Culture》，目前與妻子定居於芝加哥。

Moe is a huge cultural phenomenon and one of the driving forces behind the enormous success of Japanese anime and manga—not just in Japan but now throughout the world. In Japan, avid fans of manga comics, anime films and video games use the term Moe to refer to the strong sense of emotional attachment they feel for their favorite characters. These fans have a powerful desire to...(展开全部)

Book Description "Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists"?the title says it all. This book does something that other shader books don?t. It focuses solely on shaders and their creation. You?ll use ATI?s RenderMonkey platform, giving you an easy-to-use framework for shader development and allowing you to focus your energy on shader development rather than the development of fr...(展开全部)

Book Description "Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists"?the title says it all. This book does something that other shader books don?t. It focuses solely on shaders and their creation. You?ll use ATI?s RenderMonkey platform, giving you an easy-to-use framework for shader development and allowing you to focus your energy on shader development rather than the development of fr...(展开全部)

"Zen and Japanese Culture" is one of the twentieth century's leading works on Zen, and a valuable source for those wishing to understand its concepts in the context of Japanese life and art. In simple, often poetic, language, Daisetz Suzuki describes his conception of Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the rel...(展开全部)