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Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian

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5.0

The Fall of Saigon: Scenes From the Sudden End of a Long War by David Butler, David Butler

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5.0

Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 - Aug. 5, 1944; Revised by John Keegan

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5.0

Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan by Robert A. Rosenstone

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5.0

The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan by Carmen Blacker

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5.0

NTC's New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Jack Halpern, National Textbook Company

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5.0

The Granta Book of Reportage by Ian Jack

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5.0

The Best of Granta travel by Bill Buford, Bill Buford

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5.0

The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation by Karel Van Wolferen

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2.0

Interesting book, but Van Wolferen does not read Japanese, so I kind of wonder about a lot of his assumptions.

Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins by Akira Sadakata, Hajime Nakamura

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5.0

Provides a wonderful introduction to basic Buddhist concepts, and is a great help for understanding Buddhist art and architecture.