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    Japanese Swords
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    Japanese Swords

    The Japanese sword is much more than just a weapon-it is a social and religious icon traditionally worn by the samurai warrior as an instrument of justice and courage, the sword was an embodiment of the soul of the person who...
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  • Japanese Homestyle Cooking
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    Japanese Homestyle Cooking

    Japanese Homestyle Cooking will enable you to prepare simple, authentic dishes to enjoy within the comfort of your own home. Learn the secrets behind preparing exquisite sushi and sashimi with an inexpensive bamboo sushi mat...
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    Clueless in Tokyo
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    Clueless in Tokyo

    Some people take photos, but artist Betty Reynolds captures memories with her paintbrush and watercolours. Clueless in Tokyo provides an outsider's take on everyday life in Japan's capital city-a place where vending machines talk,...
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    Japan Journeys
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    Japan Journeys

    From Mount Fuji to the temples of Kyoto, Japan Journeys offers a unique perspective on the country's most famous travel destinations. Art historian Andreas Marks has gathered together approximately two hundred...
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    Mind-Blowing Modular Origami
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    Mind-Blowing Modular Origami

    Complex, stunning, and exceedingly popular, modular origami has taken the origami world by storm. Using basic geometry concepts and simple paper folding techniques, folders can turn multiple flat pieces of paper into a dynamic three...
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  • Geometric Origami Mini Kit
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    Geometric Origami Mini Kit

    Geometric origami models made from multiple coloured paper sheets folded and fitted together have exploded onto the origami scene and become enormously popular. Just when you think everything has been seen and done...
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    LaFosse & Alexander's Essential Book of Origami
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    LaFosse & Alexander's Essential Book of Origami

    World-renowned origami artists Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander share their wisdom and expertise of the rich world of paper folding in LaFosse & Alexander's Essential Book of Origami. This comprehensive beginner's guide...
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    Origami Animal Sculpture
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    Origami Animal Sculpture

    Challenge yourself with these creative new innovations in the ancient art of origami paper folding! Origami Animal Sculpture offers a refreshing take on the endlessly fascinating field of zoomorphic origami paper folding. In...
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  • Making Out in Japanese
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    Making Out in Japanese

    Now in its third edition, Making Out in Japanese is your indispensable guide to contemporary Japanese as it's really spoken. This best-selling phrase book is the perfect introduction to everyday interactions in Japan,...
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    Kyoto Travel Map Fourth Edition

    The Kyoto Travel Map from Periplus is designed as a convenient, easy-to-use tool for travelers. Created using durable coated paper, this map is made to open and fold multiple times, whether it's the entire map that you want to view or...
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  • Tokyo Travel Map Fourth Edition
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    Tokyo Travel Map Fourth Edition

    The Tokyo Travel Map from Periplus is designed as a convenient, easy-to-use tool for travelers. Created using durable coated paper, this map is made to open and fold multiple times, whether it's the entire map that you want to view or one panel at a time...
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    Kyoto and Nara Tuttle Travel Pack Guide + Map
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    Kyoto and Nara Tuttle Travel Pack Guide + Map

    The only guide you'll need for getting around Kyoto and Nara. Everything you need is in this one convenient package; including a large pull-out map!This brand new Japan travel guide by award-winning author Rob Goss, a longtime Japan resident, is designed...
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    Japanese Throwing Weapons

    Master the Japanese art of shuriken throwing with this illustrated martial arts guide.Japanese Throwing Weapons: Mastering Shuriken Throwing Techniques is a detailed instruction manual for learning authentic shuriken throwing techniques as practiced in...
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    Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide

    "Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." -The Japan TimesThis is the most complete reader's guide available on Japan's highly revered novel, the eleventh-century...
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    Japanese Kanji for Beginners
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    Japanese Kanji for Beginners

    The method that's helped thousands in the U.S. and Japan learn Japanese successfully. The Japanese language has two basic writing systems, kanji characters which are based on Chinese characters and hiragana and katakana a mnemonics based alphabet. This...
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    Five Women Who Loved Love
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    Five Women Who Loved Love

    First published in 1686, Five Women Who Loved Love was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy, life-loving world that was Genroku Japan. And the novel's popularity has, if anything, increased with the years, making it today a classic like Boccaccio's...
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    Japanese Picture Dictionary
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    Japanese Picture Dictionary

    If a picture is worth a thousand words, students of the Japanese language have everything they need in Tuttle's Japanese Picture Dictionary. Deftly illustrating the use of more than 1,500 commonly used Japanese words and phrases, author Timothy Stout...
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  • Beer Hiking New England
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    Beer Hiking New England

    Your guide to great hikes and breweries across New EnglandBeer lovers and hiking enthusiasts: these 50 carefully selected New England hikes are for you! Each hike leads through stunning scenery, and features a nearby brewery or a brewpub where a...
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    Sweet & Swiss
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    Sweet & Swiss

    A culinary journey of Switzerland in 45 irresistible dessertsGold Medal, Swiss Gourmet AwardSweet Switzerland is irresistible and Sweet & Swiss brings together 45 recipes for cakes, pastries, tarts, breads, and more, from author Heddi Nieuwsma, an...
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    The Scene and the Unseen
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    The Scene and the Unseen

    Photographer Monika Rittershaus is regarded as an inspiring interpreter of today's musical theatre in all its diversity, opulence, and drama, but also in its human profundity, uniqueness, and veracity.As a highly sensitive observer, she looks...
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    LithoMania
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    LithoMania

    In LithoMania, the Department of Gemstones and Jewellery at the Trier University of Applied Arts/Campus Idar-Oberstein explores new perspectives in the artistic engagement with precious stones.Here the students address ethical issues regarding the mining...
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    The Man with the Butterfly Tie
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    The Man with the Butterfly Tie

    To mark the anniversary of the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, renowned scholars were asked to write about selected European ceramics that had been traded by the fair's founder Brian Haughton.This book is a celebration of the fortieth...
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    Unearthed
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    Unearthed

    In a country known for its lively azulejos (tiles) and clay crafts, local studio pottery in Portugal has remained practically unknown, yet throughout the last century a considerable number of potters and visual artists - from Portugal as well as Germany,...
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    Thomas Putze Performances 2000-2020
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    Thomas Putze Performances 2000-2020

    The first publication of Thomas Putze's performances in one volume: full-on physical exertion guaranteed. Presented in English and German.Thomas Putze, born 1968 in Augsburg, is at first glance a true 'art maniac'. His roughly hewn and impertinent...
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  • ROCKstars
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    ROCKstars

    ROCKstars presents works that focus on the 'eternal material' in jewelry: they are declarations of love, experimental snapshots, or rebellious works revolving around precious stones. At Campus Idar-Oberstein, newcomers to the gemstone...
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    Karl Fritsch: Ruby Gold
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    Karl Fritsch: Ruby Gold

    Karl Fritsch (b. 1963), master of extravagant rings, returns with a publication that lures us deep into his world. Ruby Gold is a 'no-frills' pared-back book, without pagination, without essays. Instead it comprises eighty-one rings from the past twenty...
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    Danner Prize 2020
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    Danner Prize 2020

    The Danner Prize is an award presented to distinguished artists from Bavaria. The 100th anniversary of its establishment is now cause to present the current award winners and other exceptional submissions in a large exhibition and this comprehensive...
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    Insights into 19 Ateliers
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    Insights into 19 Ateliers

    Insights into the secretive worlds of artists' studiosSibylle Mania's Insights into 19 Ateliers are more than just a chronicle of studios and workshops - they are windows into the world of creative processes. Yet in these analog black and-white...
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    Enric Mestre
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    Enric Mestre

    A celebration of Enric Mestre's best creations and a perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover his timeless work. Includes essays by David Whiting and Romn de la Calle. Presented in English and Spanish.Despite the fundamental functions that...
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  • Jewellery in Context
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    Jewellery in Context

    This is an indispensable and enlightening text by one of the most renowned art historians and design theorists, about the work of the great Marjan Unger. The Dutch art historian and jewellery expert Marjan Unger died back in 2018, at...
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    Margit Hart
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    Margit Hart

    A comprehensive documentation of a special conceptual position in artistic jewellery, this is Margit Hart's first autobiography that unites her jewellery with the abstract photographic works for the first time.Austrian jewellery artist Margit Hart has...
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    Claus Bury
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    Claus Bury

    This beautiful book features all of Claus Bury's monumental sculptures in one volume - an impressive development of Land Art to wooden and ultimately steel construction. Presented in English and German. The monumental architectonic works by...
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    Otto Prutscher
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    Otto Prutscher

    Otto Prutscher (18801949)was one of the innovators of Viennese Modernism, an architect and a designer in all applied arts media, as well as an exhibition designer, teacher and member of all the important arts and crafts movements, from the Secession to...
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    The Grotta Home by Richard Meier
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    The Grotta Home by Richard Meier

    An extensive look into the Grotta Home by Richard Meier, from conception to creation. A 'vessel for living' - such were the words Glenn Adamson used to describe the remarkable residence of the Grotta Home. Richard Meier designed it to house...
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    Sam Kramer
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    Sam Kramer

    Toni Greenbaum wittingly traces the life and work of Sam Kramer, one of the most eccentric American jewellery artists of the modern age. Presented in English. Kramer's strongly expressive, organic work and surreal workshops in New...
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    Amphora
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    Amphora

    A publication on the extraordinary vessels and glazed by the Belgian company Amphora, with large scale photographs that allow an in-depth study of the hand-thrown vessels. Rogier Vandeweghe established himself as an independent potter in Sint...
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    Sverre Bjertns
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    Sverre Bjertns

    Sverre Bjertns (*1976 in Tnsberg) began his career as a student of the Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum (*1944), who was successfully committed to the style of the Old Masters. It was here that Bjertns devoted himself primarily to classical portraiture,...
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    Pl Vigeland
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    Pl Vigeland

    Alongside stringency of form and precision of execution, Vigeland develops surprising variability in his handling of the material. From his beginnings in noble metals, which he used in his jewellery, his path led to an intensified and meanwhile almost...
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    Vessel/Sculpture 3

    This third volume of "Vessel / Sculpture. German and International Ceramics since 1946"continues the series, against a backdrop of a renewed and extensive increase of modern studio ceramics in the museum's collection. As in the previous publications, the...
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    Handmade in Germany
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    Handmade in Germany

    Manufacturers from Germany enjoy a worldwide reputation. Whether porcelain, watches, organs or writing implements, the origin of artisanal craftsmanship lies in the immaterial cultural heritage of traditional handicrafts training in central Europe...
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    Junger Kunstkreis Fulda
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    Junger Kunstkreis Fulda

    From 1958 to 1973 the Young Art Circle of Fulda (JUKU) was intensively engaged with post-war modernist art. With its mentor Karlfried Staubach almost a hundred exhibitions were carried out that not only enriched the cultural life of Fulda but shook it up...
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    Materiality
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    Materiality

    Materiality: The Miller Ceramic Art Collection features masterpieces highlighting the artistic ideals of numerous luminaries of mid-twentieth century to early twenty-first century American ceramic art.In addition, the collection includes important...
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    Tone Vigeland
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    Tone Vigeland

    Scandinavian studio jewellery is simply unimaginable without Tone Vigeland (b. 1938) and her work. Her distinctive objects flatter the human body, captivate through their dimensions and volume, and yet are assembled from a variety of the tiniest...
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    Izmir
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    Izmir

    With over 8,000 years of history, Izmir is among the world's oldest cities. Founded as Smyrna on the shores of the Aegean Sea, the city has been home to all manner of cultures over the centuries. Each one left behind its architectural traces, turning the...
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    Private Shelters
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    Private Shelters

    During the Covid-19 pandemic we have been forced to retreat into private shelters and to question the limits of residential typologies. The villa is an obvious example of such a shelter. It has reemerged as an object of desire, because of the urge to...
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    German Architecture Annual 2021
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    German Architecture Annual 2021

    The German Architectural Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for the past 40 years. This years edition of the annual presents the shortlist of 26 buildings selected...
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  • The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites
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    The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites

    The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites is the first book to present all 25 major global launch sites from Wallops Island in the United States to Tanegashima in Japan and Woomera in Australia. It explains their architecture and geography and is...
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    The History of Architecture
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    The History of Architecture

    Organised chronologically, this volume analyses the dynamics, convergences, and ideological clashes that have given life to the most significant movements of the twentieth century and today to the season of recent phantasmagoric buildings of the...
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