Author: Shiga Naoya
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Keywords: naoya, shiga, stories, door, paper
Number of Pages: 177
Published: 2001-01-15
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0231121571
ISBN-13: 9780231121576

No modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. The Paper Door and Other Stories showcases the concise, delicate art of this writer who is often called "the god of the Japanese short story." Doyen of Japanese letters Donald Keene ranks some of Shiga´s stories "among the most brilliant achievements in this genre by any twentieth-century Japanese writer." Shiga´s unique style is concise and simple, with no unnecessary words. With the subtlest of gestures, he evokes the fullness of experience. Lane Dunlop´s masterly translation of seventeen of Shiga´s finest stories has provid

Author: Jason Shiga
Publisher: Amulet Books
Keywords: possibilities, story, path, pick, meanwhile
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0810984237
ISBN-13: 9780810984233

Chocolate or Vanilla? This simple choice is all it takes to get started with Meanwhile, the wildly inventive creation of comics mastermind Jason Shiga, of whom Scott McCloud said “Crazy + Genius = Shiga.” Jimmy, whose every move is under your control, finds himself in a mad scientist’s lab, where he’s given a choice between three amazing objects: a mind-reading device, a time-travel machine, or the Killitron 3000 (which is as ominous as it sounds). Down each of these paths there are puzzles, mysterious clues, and shocking revelations. It’s up to the reader to lead Jimmy to success or

Author: Masako Gavin
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: enlightener, forgotten, shigetaka, shiga
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2001-02-16
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0700713042
ISBN-13: 9780700713042

Shiga Shigetaka was a pioneering advocate of the preservation of Japan’s cultural identity in the face of increasing pressure from the west. This book presents a realistic picture of Shiga’s beliefs and thus gain insight into modern Japanese intellectual history.

Author: Roy Starrs
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: selected, study, translations, japan, library, critical, naoya, art, zen, aesthetic, shiga, artless
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1998-02-25
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 1873410646
ISBN-13: 9781873410646

Shiga Naoya was a giant of Japanese literature but he is barely known outside Japan. This book is the first study of Shiga to explore in depth his affinities - both aesthetic and philosophic - with the long tradition of Zen art.

Authors:Kenji Ueno, Koji Shiga, Shigeyuki Morita,
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematical, world, gift
Number of Pages: 131
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0821832832
ISBN-13: 9780821832837

This book brings the beauty and fun of mathematics to the classroom. It offers serious mathematics in a lively, reader-friendly style. Included are exercises and many figures illustrating the main concepts. The first chapter talks about the theory of trigonometric and elliptic functions. It includes subjects such as power series expansions, addition and multiple-angle formulas, and arithmetic-geometric means. The second chapter discusses various aspects of the Poncelet Closure Theorem. This discussion illustrates to the reader the idea of algebraic geometry as a method of studying geometric

Author:
Publisher:
Keywords: coli, producing, toxin, shiga, escherichia
Number of Pages: 492
Published:
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1555811299
ISBN-13: 9781555811297

Authors:Dana Philpott, Frank Ebel,
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: methods, molecular, medicine, protocols, coli, toxin, shiga
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-09-26
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0896039390
ISBN-13: 9780896039391

Offers tools for illuminating the molecular and cellular microbiology of STEC’s bacterial pathogenesis, as well as the mechanisms of its toxicity. Features protocols for diagnosis of STEC, methods to uncover the strain, outlines animal models, and creates deletion mutants. Expanded-outline. DNLM: Escherichia coli Infections--pathology.