Author: Kodansha International
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: kodansha, children, classics, idioms, japanese, dictionary, basic, kodanshas
Number of Pages: 669
Published: 2002-03-28
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 4770027974
ISBN-13: 9784770027979

Author: Theodore Zeldin
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: globe, kodansha, french
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1996-11-15
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 1568361572
ISBN-13: 9781568361574

A BOOK FOR ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN IRRITATED, IGNORED, AMUSES, OR PERPLEXED BY THE FRENCH.French cuisine, French style, and French wine are internationally renowned and familiar, but for most of the English-speaking world, the French people remain an enigma. In his engaging, eye-opening book, Theodore Zeldin introduces scores of French men, women, and children to answer the questions that confound every visitor to France: When do you laugh at a Frenchman’s stories and when should you look solemn? How can you tell what a French person wants to achieve in a business negotiation? Why do they tr

Author: Roger Shattuck
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: globe, kodansha, experiment, forbidden
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-10-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1568360487
ISBN-13: 9781568360485

On a cold morning just a few days into the year 1800, the citizens of the southern French village of Saint-Sernin awoke to a strange vision: a hairy boy, naked, who appeared as if by some witchcraft from the nearby woods. Captured while digging up vegetables from a tanner’s garden, the boy did not--could not--speak. Instead, he emitted a few weird cries, trying to hide himself from his puzzled captors. The next day, the gendarmes took the boy to a hospice in a nearby town. From there, writes the historian and literary scholar Roger Shattuck, his path took this "prisoner without a crime,"

Author: Frederic Morton
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: series, globe, kodansha, rothschilds
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1998-09-30
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 156836220X
ISBN-13: 9781568362205

First published in 1962, Morton’s classic saga of the Rothschild family, the most magical of European dynasties, is being reissued with a new Afterword by the author. 17 photos. 20 illustrations.

Author: Kodansha International
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: guide, bilingual, atlas, japan
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-07-14
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 4770030266
ISBN-13: 9784770030269

The only atlas of its kind to feature place-names in both English and Japanese, Kodansha’s perennial favorite has been newly revised to reflect the many changes that have resulted from the government’s policy of consolidating Japanese cities, towns and villages. The volume includes:-- 21 large-scale maps of the regions of Japan, including Greater Tokyo and the Kanto area, the Greater Osaka area, and almost all of the officially registered Japanese municipalities;-- 10 maps of the major metropolitan areas, from Naha in Okinawa to Hiroshima, Kyoto, Nagoya, Tsukuba, Sapporo and many o

Author: Jack Halpern
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: dictionary, learner, kanji, kodansha
Number of Pages: 1060
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 4770028555
ISBN-13: 9784770028556

The Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary answers the urgent need for an easy-to-use kanji dictionary compact enough to be easily carried around, yet detailed enough to satisfy the practical needs of the beginning and intermediate learner.Its basic goal is to give the learner a thorough understanding of kanji by providing instant access to a wealth of useful information on the meanings, readings, and compounds. Normally, the learner must memorize numerous compounds as unrelated units. A unique feature of this dictionary that overcomes this difficulty is the core meaning, a concise keyword

Authors:Kodansha International, Atsushi Umeda,
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: guide, bilingual, atlas, city, tokyo
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2004-12-10
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 4770025033
ISBN-13: 9784770025036

This is the updated third edition of an atlas first published in 1998. During the past six years, the transportation network of the metropolitan area of Tokyo has changed a good deal. In the case of the subway system, lines have been extended, and some rapid-transit lines have been added, so code numbers for each station are given in our atlas for foreign travelers to identify them easily. In addition, as a result of urban development in areas such as Roppongi, Shinagawa, and Shiodome, quite a few new company buildings, stores, and hotels have appeared. These developments are also covered in t