This bilingual (Japanese-English) guide to "media English" covers nearly 200 connectors, phrasal verbs, idiomatic verb phrases, and everyday expressions. There are tips on reading news,... More > sports, and finance articles online, and students can test themselves with mini-quizzes and a final exam.< Less
“Reading English News on the Internet” helps the intermediate to advanced English learner make sense of “media English” as found in online news, sports, and finance articles.... More > This handy guidebook outlines computer-related vocabulary and key features of news article style, and provides practice with dozens of connectors, phrasal verbs, idiomatic verb phrases, and everyday expressions. There are also mini-quizzes after each section, and a comprehensive final exam. English online is difficult. Let this easy-to-use guide help boost your learning curve.< Less
The new, updated edition of 'Reading English News on the Internet' makes it even easier for intermediate-to-advanced English learners to master 'media English' as found in online news, sports, and... More > financial articles. This handy guidebook outlines computer-related vocabulary and key features of news article style, and provides practice with dozens of connectors, idiomatic/phrasal verbs, and everyday expressions. The book also includes mini-quizzes after each section, as well as a comprehensive final exam. Online English can be difficult. Let this easy-to-use guide help boost your learning curve.< Less
The new, updated edition of 'Reading English News on the Internet' makes it even easier for intermediate-to-advanced English learners to master 'media English' as found in online news, sports, and... More > financial articles. This handy guidebook outlines computer-related vocabulary and key features of news article style, and provides practice with dozens of connectors, idiomatic/phrasal verbs, and everyday expressions. The book also includes mini-quizzes after each section, as well as a comprehensive final exam. Online English can be difficult. Let this easy-to-use guide help boost your learning curve.< Less
This handy guidebook offers an integrated, communicative approach to writing and reading hiragana script, the entry point to the Japanese language. With step-by-step explanations of 46 basic... More > characters and scores of derivatives, plus writing practice, grammar lessons, flashcards, and quizzes to consolidate learning, the Absolute Beginner’s Guide is a great way to make headway on your own, or to reinforce formal Japanese classes. Find out for yourself just how accessible the language can be.< Less
This bilingual (Japanese-English) guide to "media English" covers nearly 200 connectors, phrasal verbs, idiomatic verb phrases, and everyday expressions. There are tips on reading news,... More > sports, and finance articles online, and students can test themselves with mini-quizzes and a final exam.< Less
Richly illustrated, and based largely on sources inaccessible to the non-Japanese speaker, this book provides a rare glimpse into kagura (Shinto theater), a performance style with roots predating... More > even noh drama. Coverage includes the history of the art; the kagura stage; schools of performance; synopses of plays and ceremonies; movement and choreography; kagura costumes; masks and mask-making; implements, decorations and special effects; the music of kagura; and related folk arts. There are also additional sections with comparative materials on noh and kabuki. A new world of theater awaits...< Less
“Reading English News on the Internet” helps the intermediate to advanced English learner make sense of “media English” as found in online news, sports, and finance articles.... More > This handy guidebook outlines computer-related vocabulary and key features of news article style, and provides practice with dozens of connectors, phrasal verbs, idiomatic verb phrases, and everyday expressions. There are also mini-quizzes after each section, and a comprehensive final exam. English online is difficult. Let this easy-to-use guide help boost your learning curve.< Less
Richly illustrated and with a wealth of materials never before available in English, Prayers in Stone provides an overview of more than 200 of Nagasaki's A-bomb heritage sites, including:
bells;... More > bridges; cemeteries; churches; fountains; memorials; museums; parks; schools; shrines; statues; temples; trees; and tunnels.
The entries are organized into a series of tours for the convenience of tourists actually visiting the city, and to give the general reader a sense of the layout and the proximity to the hypocenter.
In addition to a foreword, introduction, postscript, and reference section, the book also includes all-new translations of A-bomb literature by several atomic survivors.
Journey to Nagasaki, and discover the lessons the city has to offer.< Less
Richly illustrated and with a wealth of materials never before available in English, Prayers in Stone provides an overview of more than 200 of Nagasaki's A-bomb heritage sites, including: bells;... More > bridges; cemeteries; churches; fountains; memorials; museums; parks; schools; shrines; statues; temples; trees; and tunnels. The entries are organized into a series of tours for the convenience of tourists actually visiting the city, and to give the general reader a sense of the layout and the proximity to the hypocenter. In addition to a foreword, introduction, postscript, and reference section, the book also includes all-new translations of A-bomb literature by several atomic survivors. Journey to Nagasaki, and discover the lessons the city has to offer.< Less
