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Kazuko Kuramoto was born and raised in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia.

Told against the backdrop of World War II and the Korean War, the author recounts the events of her childhood as a foreigner in Japan and her subsequent return to Korea.

Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury.

In 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There - looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once wate

"In recent years there has been a tendency to intervene in the military, political and economic affairs of failed and failing states and those emerging from violent conflict.

This book offers abundant exercises to help the student develop techniques for working productively at each stage of the scholarly writing process, mastering and summarizing difficult scholarly sou

In Trinidad the martial arts dancer, Aldrick Prospect, fights the commercialization of the Mardi Gras carnival.

Explores the contribution of brain structures, especially the cerebral cortex, to various aspects of movement preparation and execution, presenting evidence from the study of anatomical connections

The classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind.