New York Times Bestseller: A ';virtually faultless' account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (The New York Times Book Review). By midsummer 1945, J

A WORLD INSIDE All Hiroto has ever known is a life on a tiny coastal speck of Japan. Much of the country has been swallowed by Yokohama Station, a mysterious, ever-growing series of buildings that's been around for as long as anyone can remember. The few who live outside its many entrances have never seen Inside and know only rumors and legends of the station's interior. That a...(展开全部)

As a complex organization, an interesting building has always an interesting epic, a story that is embedded in the organization of matter. It is this epic of making a building that is described in this book, the first in the series of "Verb Monographs", as a small homage to all those who were involved in the project. The book is structured as a replica of the way in which the b...(展开全部)

This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Professor Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts. The first is a most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language. The second part deals ex...(展开全部)

This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman’s authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, government and politics, culture, literature, media, foreign relations, imperialism, and industrialism. Up...(展开全部)

This authoritative and accessible book charts the history of Japan from c.8000 bc to the 1990s.

康拉德·托特曼（Totman C.），美国耶鲁大学荣誉教授，同时在加利福尼亚大学、西北大学教授日本史课程，出版专著10余种，包括《日本简史》（1981年）、《早期的现代日本》（1993年）、《前工业化时期朝鲜和日本的环境观》（2004年）等。

康拉德·托特曼（Totman C.），美国耶鲁大学荣誉教授，同时在加利福尼亚大学、西北大学教授日本史课程，出版专著10余种，包括《日本简史》（1981年）、《早期的现代日本》（1993年）、《前工业化时期朝鲜和日本的环境观》（2004年）等。

Review "This work is more of what we have come to expect from Cambridge: a rock-solid summary of scholarship in the field by distinguished senior historians." Bob Tadashi "This volume will remain the standard reference in English for nineteenth century Japanese history for decades to come." Journal of Asian and African Studies "...provide both the non-specialist and specialist ...(展开全部)

This unique volume presents a new approach ??? the general theory of information ??? to scientific understanding of information phenomena. Based on a thorough analysis of information processes in nature, technology, and society, as well as on the main directions in information theory, this theory synthesizes existing directions into a unified system. The book explains how this ...(展开全部)