This is an English-language anthology dedicated to the short stories of Kurahashi Yumiko 1935-, a Japanese novelist of profound intellectual powers. The eleven stories included in this volume suggest the breadth of the author\'s literary production, ranging from parodies of classical Japanese literature to cosmopolitan avant-garde works, from quasi-autobiography to science fiction. Her subversive fiction

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An Island\'s Woman\'s Heart is a book of poetry about love, life, spirituality and everything else. This heartfelt book includes poetry that Dr. Elizabeth A. Garcia-Janis has written across the years. She added some of her musings as well as lyrics of songs she has written to create a musical entitled Heal. This poetry book gives us an insight to what a woman born in the islands of the Philippines\'s

pstrongDrawing on unprecedented access to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone--including insights gained while working as a tour guide and during an illegal stalker hike--Darmon Richter creates an entirely new portrait of Chernobyl\'s forgotten ghost towns, monuments and morestrongppSince the first atomic bomb was dropped, humankind has been haunted by the idea of nuclear apocalypse. That nightmare almost

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bIn the tumultuous aftermathb of the First World War, thousands of young Germans defied the social mores of their parents - and the constricting influence of the established churches - in search of freedom, social equality, nature, and community. Hiking clubs were formed and work camps organized, and hundreds of rural folk schools and communes sprang up across the country. In the 1930s, Nazism swallowed

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