Yura and Tsuchigumo are under attack in Tsuchigumo's home territory of Kyushu! The Gokadoin clan's Hiruko, a descendant of the evil Seimei, is more powerful than they had expected. Meanwhile Rikuo seeks advice from his grandfather - how will he gather enough fear to defeat this fearsome enemy?![...]
Key members of the Nura clan plunge into battle with the Gokadoin clan, but as the battle wears on, Rikuo struggles to keep his clan energized for battle. Meanwhile, Ryuji seeks a way to penetrate the Gokadoin stronghold...Aoi Spiral Castle![...]
While the day belongs to humans, the night belongs to yokai,supernatural creatures that thrive on human fear. Caught between these worlds is Rikuo Nura. He's three-quarters human, but his grandfather is none other than Nurarihyon, the supreme commander of the Nura clan, a powerful yokai consortium. [...]
A manga adaptation of the bestselling novel All You Need Is Kill, from the creator of the smash-hit Death Note.[...]
Previously published as All You Need is Kill, Edge of Tomorrow is a new edition to tie-in to the major new movie starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.[...]
In recent years, the role of plant secondary metabolites as protective constituents in the human diet has been a growing area of research.[...]
This book features 30 paper-folding projects to create creepy cult characters from TV, movies, and myths. The projects range from simple to advanced. It comes with bonus online projects. These 30 whimsical paper projects are frightfully delightful! In just a few easy steps, crafters can create an ar[...]
Origami takes flight with these 25+ beautiful bird projects, from a cockatiel, horned owl, and hummingbird to the exotic albatross and extinct dodo. Just photocopy the templates onto cardstock; score, cut, and fold; and finally, interlock the joints to create a dimensional creature. All the projects[...]
When 20th Century Fox planned its blockbuster portrayal of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, it looked to Akira Kurosawa - a man whose mastery of the cinema led to his nickname "the Emperor" - to direct the Japanese sequences. Yet a matter of three weeks after he began shooting the film in December 19[...]
Here is a collection of ancient Chinese maxims on strategy, battlefield tactics, and deception--in the spirit of such classics as "The Art of War" and "The Book of Five Rings"--made fresh and relevant with contemporary examples and explanation. The origin of "The 36 Strategies of the Martial Arts" i[...]
This is the Edo-era samurai guts. Controversial, tough, angry, highly skilled and lost in a time of peace, the characters of "Satsuma Gishiden" tell a quasi-historical tale of social caste and brutal reprisal. Readers with a taste for Kazuo Koike's gritty "Lone Wolf & Cub" will go nuts for master ge[...]
Japan's samurai past is riddled with stories of great fighting prowess and deeply ingrained systems of honor and discipline. But behind the stern demeanor was a society coming apart at the seams. Clashes in class systems and the need for a nation to come together threaten to break up the old ways of[...]
Water is a force to be reckoned with. It can break metal in an instant, or over time. And it surely can shatter a society crippled by politics and fear. This is the story of Edo-era Japan, of a nation divided by social strata and infighting. A few bold samurai must force many disparate and poor regi[...]
This book shows how to use a combination of origami and kirigami to make 38 charming animals. It includes amazing projects that range from sheep and ostriches to dragons and pandas. It provides full-size templates, which can be photocopied for multiple uses. In origami, a flat piece of paper is fold[...]
This is an insightful and intelligent re-thinking of Japanese art history & its Western influences. This broad-ranging and profoundly influential analysis describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late nineteenth century. In the 1870-80s, artists and gov[...]
After having problems finding a job, Shinji starts attending his step-mother's continuing education school to get some sort of certification. However, the school is full of perverted female teachers looking to bear his child, who would be in line to take over the school... The battle for his seed is[...]
Nearly double the size of the previous edition, the third edition of this classic reference provides a comprehensive, easy-to-access collection of elastic stress solutions for crack configurations. For each configuration, The Stress Analysis of Cracks Handbook present crack tip stress intensity form[...]
This issue, a true tribute ti Sugimoto, is rooted in "The World is Dead Today," a story written by Sugimoto for his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, juxtaposed against his own eclectic antiques collection, and never before seen images of his work, all recounting the end of modernity. Texts include[...]
Wonderfully illustrated...sets the bar quite high...recommended for any surgeon considering middle ear and mastoid surgery. -- Otology and Neurotology (of the first edition) Based on more than 30 years' experience and over 20,000 clinical cases, the second edition of Middle Ear and Mastoid Microsur[...]