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Psychology Express: Sport Psychology - (Undergraduate Revision Guide) (Paperback): Mark Allen, Paul McCarthy Psychology Express: Sport Psychology - (Undergraduate Revision Guide) (Paperback)
Mark Allen, Paul McCarthy
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The 'Psychology Express' undergraduate revision guide series will help your students to understand key concepts quickly, revise effectively and make their answers stand out.

What I've Learned from You - The Lessons of Life Taught to a Doctor by His Patients (Hardcover): Scott Kelly What I've Learned from You - The Lessons of Life Taught to a Doctor by His Patients (Hardcover)
Scott Kelly; Edited by Paul McCarthy; Designed by Karen Minster
R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Sport and Performance - An Applied Practice Guide (Paperback): Paul McCarthy, Sahen Gupta,... Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Sport and Performance - An Applied Practice Guide (Paperback)
Paul McCarthy, Sahen Gupta, Lindsey Burns
R1,262 Discovery Miles 12 620 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Many sport and performance psychologists worldwide practice cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) as a therapeutic and applied practice approach. But no textbook currently offers a blueprint to understand and use CBT in sport and performance settings. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Sport and Performance: An Applied Practice Guide builds upon a tangible foundation for the practice of CBT and related techniques in sport and performance contexts. This new book presents key points to help students and practitioners bring CBT into the sport and performance context. We focus on the 'what is' and the 'how to'. Drawing upon the latest research and a wealth of applied practice experience, this easy-to-use guide takes the reader through each step of the CBT process with case examples, plain instructions, and worksheets to maximise the quality and depth necessary for effective CBT practice. As an applied guide, the book educates undergraduate and postgraduates in sport and performance psychology (and all its variants) This book is an instrumental guidance material for sport and exercise psychology students but also invaluable as a practice guide for performance psychology trainees in applied practice placements and as a refresher primer for established professionals.

Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology - Learning How to Counsel: Paul McCarthy, Zoe Moffat Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology - Learning How to Counsel
Paul McCarthy, Zoe Moffat
R1,258 Discovery Miles 12 580 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology is a new text that provides a ‘how to’ in basic counselling skills for sport psychology students and practitioners. The book supports scholarship in applied sport psychology at the upper undergraduate and postgraduate levels, especially those training to become sport psychology practitioners. Presented in ten chapters and an extensive appendix (of forms and letters) to cater to the ranging needs of students, the book addresses basic counselling skills, their place in applied sport psychology, and personal development. The core of the book lies in explore counselling models and how to counsel client-athletes through beginnings, middles, and endings. It delves more deeply into personal and professional development, especially understanding therapeutic modalities, supervision, and self-care. Providing a unique focus of basic counselling skills in applied sport psychology, concentrating on the professional relationship between the sport psychology practitioner and client-athlete in applied sport psychology practice, Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology is essential reading and practice for upper undergraduates and postgraduates in applied sport psychology and sport and exercise psychology.

Clouds above the Hill - A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 1 (Hardcover): Shiba Ryotaro Clouds above the Hill - A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Shiba Ryotaro; Edited by Phyllis Birnbaum; Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, Andrew Cobbing, Paul McCarthy
R2,554 Discovery Miles 25 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryotaro devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century. Volume I describes the growth of Japan's fledgling Meiji state, a major "character" in the novel. We are also introduced to our three heroes, born into obscurity, the brothers Akiyama Yoshifuru and Akiyama Saneyuki, who will go on to play important roles in the Japanese Army and Navy, and the poet Masaoka Shiki, who will spend much of his short life trying to establish the haiku as a respected poetic form. Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.

Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology - Learning How to Counsel: Paul McCarthy, Zoe Moffat Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology - Learning How to Counsel
Paul McCarthy, Zoe Moffat
R4,464 Discovery Miles 44 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology is a new text that provides a ‘how to’ in basic counselling skills for sport psychology students and practitioners. The book supports scholarship in applied sport psychology at the upper undergraduate and postgraduate levels, especially those training to become sport psychology practitioners. Presented in ten chapters and an extensive appendix (of forms and letters) to cater to the ranging needs of students, the book addresses basic counselling skills, their place in applied sport psychology, and personal development. The core of the book lies in explore counselling models and how to counsel client-athletes through beginnings, middles, and endings. It delves more deeply into personal and professional development, especially understanding therapeutic modalities, supervision, and self-care. Providing a unique focus of basic counselling skills in applied sport psychology, concentrating on the professional relationship between the sport psychology practitioner and client-athlete in applied sport psychology practice, Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology is essential reading and practice for upper undergraduates and postgraduates in applied sport psychology and sport and exercise psychology.

The FIRED Leader - Reinventing the Future of Leadership: Paul McCarthy The FIRED Leader - Reinventing the Future of Leadership
Paul McCarthy
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

To survive disruption, organizations need disruptive leaders. So they hire them. And then they fire them. It’s the open secret everyone in the leadership industry knows but nobody is addressing: leadership culture is toxic, and leadership systems have failed. Publicly, organizations say they want leaders to be innovative thinkers who challenge the status quo. Privately, conventional leadership culture wants nothing of the sort. Leaders deemed as ‘a bad culture fit’ quickly find themselves marginalized, ostracized, and even exorcised. The qualities that get them hired are the ones that get them fired. Yet, these rebels and nonconformists often embody the very leadership qualities that organizations so desperately need to navigate disruption and adapt to the “new normal” of constant change. Radically refreshing and practical, this book identifies five leadership qualities (F.I.R.E.D. Leadership™) that are key to tomorrow’s leadership success and offers a step-by-step blueprint to show organizations how to integrate these five crucial qualities into their current leadership identification, recruitment, onboarding, and development processes. Leadership renegade Paul McCarthy shows organizations how to reframe how they view their troublemakers, agitators, rebels, oddballs and shit-stirrers – to see the hidden leadership qualities driving those behaviors, and why they need them so desperately.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Sport and Performance - An Applied Practice Guide (Hardcover): Paul McCarthy, Sahen Gupta,... Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Sport and Performance - An Applied Practice Guide (Hardcover)
Paul McCarthy, Sahen Gupta, Lindsey Burns
R4,167 Discovery Miles 41 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Many sport and performance psychologists worldwide practice cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) as a therapeutic and applied practice approach. But no textbook currently offers a blueprint to understand and use CBT in sport and performance settings. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Sport and Performance: An Applied Practice Guide builds upon a tangible foundation for the practice of CBT and related techniques in sport and performance contexts. This new book presents key points to help students and practitioners bring CBT into the sport and performance context. We focus on the 'what is' and the 'how to'. Drawing upon the latest research and a wealth of applied practice experience, this easy-to-use guide takes the reader through each step of the CBT process with case examples, plain instructions, and worksheets to maximise the quality and depth necessary for effective CBT practice. As an applied guide, the book educates undergraduate and postgraduates in sport and performance psychology (and all its variants) This book is an instrumental guidance material for sport and exercise psychology students but also invaluable as a practice guide for performance psychology trainees in applied practice placements and as a refresher primer for established professionals.

Becoming a Sport Psychologist (Hardcover): Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones Becoming a Sport Psychologist (Hardcover)
Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones
R4,475 Discovery Miles 44 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sport psychology is a competitive profession with rigorous and demanding entry routes in terms of education, training and accreditation. Once qualified, the sport psychology practitioner will face complex, day-to-day professional challenges of the kind not always covered in conventional sport psychology textbooks. Becoming a Sport Psychologist is the first book to reveal the reality of working in sport psychology through the personal perspectives and narratives of some of the world's leading sport psychologists, top professionals with many years experience of working at every level of sport, from amateur to elite, in consulting and support roles, and in sport psychology research. With each chapter focusing on a key issue or issues in professional practice, each contributing psychologist discusses their own education, training and professional experience, their personal motivation and their approach to consulting and delivery, helping the reader to develop a rounded understanding of how to succeed in sport psychology. The book also explores key professional issues such as intervention style, work-life balance and the commercial aspects of sport psychology practice not covered in other books, plus it offers a summary of typical education and training routes and additional information on professional organisations and accreditation schemes. Becoming a Sport Psychologist is invaluable reading for anybody considering a career in sport psychology, or any practising sport psychologist looking to extend and develop their professional skills.

Single-Case Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Psychology (Hardcover): Jamie Barker, Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones, Aidan Moran Single-Case Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Psychology (Hardcover)
Jamie Barker, Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones, Aidan Moran
R4,478 Discovery Miles 44 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is single-case research? How can single-case methods be used within sport and exercise? Single-case research is a powerful method for examining change in outcome variables such as behaviour, performance and psychological constructs, and for assessing the efficacy of interventions. It has innumerable uses within the context of sport and exercise science, such as in the development of more effective performance techniques for athletes and sportspeople and in helping us to better understand exercise behaviours in clinical populations. However, the fundamental principles and techniques of single-case research have not always been clearly understood by students and researchers working in these fields. Single-Case Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Psychology is the first book to fully explain single-case research in the context of sport and exercise. Starting with first principles, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to the single-case research process, from study design to data analysis and presentation. Including case studies and examples from across sport and exercise psychology, the book provides practical guidance for students and researchers and demonstrates the advantages and common pitfalls of single-case research for anybody working in applied or behavioural science in a sport or exercise setting.

Single-Case Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Psychology (Paperback, New): Jamie Barker, Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones, Aidan... Single-Case Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Psychology (Paperback, New)
Jamie Barker, Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones, Aidan Moran
R1,561 Discovery Miles 15 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

  • What is single-case research?
  • How can single-case methods be used within sport and exercise?

Single-case research is a powerful method for examining change in outcome variables such as behaviour, performance and psychological constructs, and for assessing the efficacy of interventions. It has innumerable uses within the context of sport and exercise science, such as in the development of more effective performance techniques for athletes and sportspeople and in helping us to better understand exercise behaviours in clinical populations. However, the fundamental principles and techniques of single-case research have not always been clearly understood by students and researchers working in these fields.

Single-Case Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Psychology is the first book to fully explain single-case research in the context of sport and exercise. Starting with first principles, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to the single-case research process, from study design to data analysis and presentation. Including case studies and examples from across sport and exercise psychology, the book provides practical guidance for students and researchers and demonstrates the advantages and common pitfalls of single-case research for anybody working in applied or behavioural science in a sport or exercise setting.

The Gourmet Club - A Sextet (Paperback): Tanizaki Jun'ichiro The Gourmet Club - A Sextet (Paperback)
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro; Translated by Anthony Chambers, Paul McCarthy
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan's master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro- (1886-1965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters. Made accessible in English by the expertise of translators Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy, the stories in The Gourmet Club vividly explore an array of human passions. In "The Children," three mischievous friends play sadomasochistic games in a mysterious Western-style mansion. The sybaritic narrator of "The Secret" experiments with cross-dressing as he savors the delights of duplicity. "The Two Acolytes" evokes the conflicting attractions of spiritual fulfillment and worldly pleasure in medieval Kyoto. In the title story, the seductive tastes, aromas, and textures of outlandish Chinese dishes blend with those of the seductive hands that proffer them to blindfolded gourmets. In "Mr. Bluemound," Tanizaki, who wrote for a film studio in the early 1920s, considers the relationship between a flesh-and-blood actress and her image fixed on celluloid, which one memorably degenerate admirer is obsessed with. And, finally, "Manganese Dioxide Dreams" offers a tantalizing insight into the author's mind as he weaves together the musings of an old man very like Tanizaki himself-Chinese and Japanese cuisine, a French murder movie, Chinese history, and the contents of a toilet bowl. These beautifully translated stories will intrigue and entertain readers who are new to Tanizaki, as well as those who have already explored the bizarre world of his imagination.

A Cat, A Man, and Two Women (Paperback): Jun'ichiro Tanizaki A Cat, A Man, and Two Women (Paperback)
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Translated by Paul McCarthy
R390 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R27 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The three pieces in this collection-the novella "A Cat, A Man, and Two Women" and two shorter pieces "The Little Kingdom" and "Professor Rado"-are lighthearted and entertaining variations on one of Tanizaki's favorite preoccupations: dominance and submission in relationships, complicated even further here by customs, public opinion, and comic grotesqueries. In the title piece, the bumbling Shozo is caught in the middle of an ongoing struggle between his ex-wife and her younger successor. Shozo would prefer to stay out of it and be peacefully left alone with his elegant tortoiseshell cat Lily, but he keeps getting dragged back into the battles and arguments. The result is an oddball love triangle centered around Lily, the only true object of Shozo's affections-"one of the finest pieces of literature concerning cats ever written" (Choice).

Parkett No. 73 Paul McCarthy, Ellen Gallagher, Anri Sala (Paperback): Paul McCarthy, Ellen Gallagher, Anri Sala Parkett No. 73 Paul McCarthy, Ellen Gallagher, Anri Sala (Paperback)
Paul McCarthy, Ellen Gallagher, Anri Sala; Edited by Nikki Columbus
R793 Discovery Miles 7 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Longing and Other Stories (Hardcover): Jun'ichiro Tanizaki Longing and Other Stories (Hardcover)
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Translated by Anthony Chambers, Paul McCarthy
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut in 1910. This book presents three powerful stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki's career that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go on to explore. "Longing" recounts the fantastic journey of a precocious young boy through an eerie nighttime landscape. Replete with striking natural images and uncanny human encounters, it ends with a striking revelation. "Sorrows of a Heretic" follows a university student and aspiring novelist who lives in degrading poverty in a Tokyo tenement. Ambitious and tormented, the young man rebels against his family against a backdrop of sickness and death. "The Story of an Unhappy Mother" describes a vivacious but self-centered woman's drastic transformation after a freak accident involving her son and daughter-in-law. Written in different genres, the three stories are united by a focus on mothers and sons and a concern for Japan's traditional culture in the face of Westernization. The longtime Tanizaki translators Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy masterfully bring these important works to an Anglophone audience.

Becoming a Sport Psychologist (Paperback, New): Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones Becoming a Sport Psychologist (Paperback, New)
Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones
R1,490 Discovery Miles 14 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sport psychology is a competitive profession with rigorous and demanding entry routes in terms of education, training and accreditation. Once qualified, the sport psychology practitioner will face complex, day-to-day professional challenges of the kind not always covered in conventional sport psychology textbooks. Becoming a Sport Psychologist is the first book to reveal the reality of working in sport psychology through the personal perspectives and narratives of some of the world's leading sport psychologists, top professionals with many years experience of working at every level of sport, from amateur to elite, in consulting and support roles, and in sport psychology research. With each chapter focusing on a key issue or issues in professional practice, each contributing psychologist discusses their own education, training and professional experience, their personal motivation and their approach to consulting and delivery, helping the reader to develop a rounded understanding of how to succeed in sport psychology. The book also explores key professional issues such as intervention style, work-life balance and the commercial aspects of sport psychology practice not covered in other books, plus it offers a summary of typical education and training routes and additional information on professional organisations and accreditation schemes. Becoming a Sport Psychologist is invaluable reading for anybody considering a career in sport psychology, or any practising sport psychologist looking to extend and develop their professional skills.

Clouds above the Hill - A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 1 (Paperback): Shiba Ryotaro Clouds above the Hill - A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Shiba Ryotaro; Edited by Phyllis Birnbaum; Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, Andrew Cobbing, Paul McCarthy
R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryotaro devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century. Volume I describes the growth of Japan's fledgling Meiji state, a major "character" in the novel. We are also introduced to our three heroes, born into obscurity, the brothers Akiyama Yoshifuru and Akiyama Saneyuki, who will go on to play important roles in the Japanese Army and Navy, and the poet Masaoka Shiki, who will spend much of his short life trying to establish the haiku as a respected poetic form. Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.

Paul McCarthy/Damon McCarthy - Rebel Dabble Babble (Hardcover): Donatien Grau, Paul McCarthy, Damon McCarthy Paul McCarthy/Damon McCarthy - Rebel Dabble Babble (Hardcover)
Donatien Grau, Paul McCarthy, Damon McCarthy
R1,958 R1,544 Discovery Miles 15 440 Save R414 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This publication presents photographs shot during the making of "Rebel Dabble Babble," a collaboration between Paul McCarthy and his son Damon McCarthy. "Rebel Dabble Babble" is an installation and video projection work inspired by both Nicholas Ray's 1955 classic Hollywood film "Rebel without a Cause" and the rumors attending the off-set relationships between its director and his stars James Dean, Nathalie Wood and Sal Mineo. This densely layered opus expands beyond its references to the 1955 movie to offer a meditation on the archetypes and Oedipal tensions that define family dynamics. In the film, McCarthy and his actors (including Hollywood star James Franco) play hybrids both of Ray's cinematic characters and the actors who played them. With this mind-bending series of doubles, binaries and inversions, "Rebel Dabble Babble" presents perversions of interchangeable roles and fetish relationships.

Paul McCarthy: Caribbean Pirates (Hardcover): Paul McCarthy Paul McCarthy: Caribbean Pirates (Hardcover)
Paul McCarthy; Text written by Damon McCarthy, John C. Welchman
R3,445 Discovery Miles 34 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Longing and Other Stories (Paperback): Jun'ichiro Tanizaki Longing and Other Stories (Paperback)
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Translated by Anthony Chambers, Paul McCarthy
R593 R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Save R110 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut in 1910. This book presents three powerful stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki's career that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go on to explore. "Longing" recounts the fantastic journey of a precocious young boy through an eerie nighttime landscape. Replete with striking natural images and uncanny human encounters, it ends with a striking revelation. "Sorrows of a Heretic" follows a university student and aspiring novelist who lives in degrading poverty in a Tokyo tenement. Ambitious and tormented, the young man rebels against his family against a backdrop of sickness and death. "The Story of an Unhappy Mother" describes a vivacious but self-centered woman's drastic transformation after a freak accident involving her son and daughter-in-law. Written in different genres, the three stories are united by a focus on mothers and sons and a concern for Japan's traditional culture in the face of Westernization. The longtime Tanizaki translators Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy masterfully bring these important works to an Anglophone audience.

Fever Pitch - The Rise of the Premier League 1992-2004 (Hardcover): Paul McCarthy Fever Pitch - The Rise of the Premier League 1992-2004 (Hardcover)
Paul McCarthy; Foreword by Alan Shearer
R617 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R69 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

THE INCREDIBLE FIRST 12 YEARS OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE AS TOLD BY THE LEGENDS WHO WERE THERE 'I met Jack Nicholson and when a Hollywood superstar asks about Manchester United, you realise how big the Premier League is around the world' David Beckham Based on the acclaimed BBC Series, with a foreword by Alan Shearer The Premier League is the most watched sports league in the world, broadcast into 188 countries and watched by 3.2 billion people worldwide. It revolutionised football, transforming the beautiful game into a multi-billion-pound business and making its biggest stars millionaires. Fever Pitch tells the inside story of the formation of the league, from the early discussions with Rupert Murdoch about how Sky could be at the heart of this new league, to the bitter rivalries and radical new managers who changed the face of football forever. With insight from football's biggest names, this is the inside track on the Premier League as you've never heard it before. From David Beckham to Eric Cantona, Peter Schmeichel to Gary Neville, this book is full of exclusive interviews that give fascinating insight into the biggest sports league in the world from the people who made it happen. 'The recognition our game gets is astonishing and the love of the Premier League is undeniable' Alan Shearer 'England is special. It is more than football, it is like the players are rock stars' Eric Cantona 'It's what it should be about - enthralling, exciting, magic, taking risks, playing attacking football' Gary Neville

Clouds above the Hill - A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 2 (Paperback): Shiba Ryotaro Clouds above the Hill - A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 2 (Paperback)
Shiba Ryotaro; Edited by Phyllis Birnbaum; Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, Andrew Cobbing, Paul McCarthy
R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryotaro devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century. In Volume II, Meiji Japan is on a collision course with Russia, as Russian troops stationed in Manchuria ignore repeated calls to withdraw. Admiral Togo leads a blockade and subsequent skirmish at the strategically vital and heavily fortified Port Arthur, whilst Yoshifuru's cavalry in Manchuria maneuvers for position as it approaches the Russian Army lines. The two armies clash at the battle of Liaoyang, where Japan seals a victory which shocks the world. Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.

Clouds above the Hill - A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 2 (Hardcover, New): Shiba Ryotaro Clouds above the Hill - A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 2 (Hardcover, New)
Shiba Ryotaro; Edited by Phyllis Birnbaum; Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, Andrew Cobbing, Paul McCarthy
R2,555 Discovery Miles 25 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryotaro devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century. In Volume II, Meiji Japan is on a collision course with Russia, as Russian troops stationed in Manchuria ignore repeated calls to withdraw. Admiral Togo leads a blockade and subsequent skirmish at the strategically vital and heavily fortified Port Arthur, whilst Yoshifuru's cavalry in Manchuria maneuvers for position as it approaches the Russian Army lines. The two armies clash at the battle of Liaoyang, where Japan seals a victory which shocks the world. Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.

Oh, Tama! - A Mejiro Novel (Paperback): Mieko Kanai Oh, Tama! - A Mejiro Novel (Paperback)
Mieko Kanai; Translated by Tomoko Aoyama, Paul McCarthy
R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Oh, Tama! describes the haphazard lives of Natsuyuki Kanemitsu and his loosely connected circle of dysfunctional acquaintances and family. Natsuyuki is prevailed upon by his friend Alexandre, an occasional porn-film actor, to adopt the very pregnant cat Tama, who gives birth and remains throughout the novel as a silent observer of her human hosts. Further complications arise surrounding the mystery of who the father of Alexandre's sister Tsuneko's unborn child is, with Tsuneko (a bar owner) happy to collect money from anyone who may be responsible. One of these possible dads turns out to be Natsuyuki's half-brother, abandoned and forgotten long ago as easily as Tama has parted with her kittens. A "fast and comedic novel," Oh, Tama! plays out against a backdrop of cramped apartments and cheap food and drink where everyone seems to have an opinion on film, photography, and fashionable French art theory. It is part of the author's esteemed series of "Mejiro" novels, named after the northwest area of Tokyo that so richly informs their urbanity and outlook.

Red Roofs and Other Stories - Tanizaki Jun’ichir? (Paperback): Anthony H Chambers, Paul McCarthy Red Roofs and Other Stories - Tanizaki Jun’ichir? (Paperback)
Anthony H Chambers, Paul McCarthy
R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tanizaki Jun'ichir? (1886–1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, andTwo Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers ofthe twentieth century. The four stories in this volume date from the firstand second decades of Tanizaki’s long career and reflect themes thatappear throughout his work: exoticism, sexuality, sadomasochism,contrasts between traditional and modern societies, disparities betweenappearance and reality, the power of dreams, amorality, an interestin cinema, and a fascination with the techniques of storytelling. Thestories—translated into English here for the first time—are: ""The StrangeCase of Tomoda and Matsunaga"" (""Tomoda to Matsunaga no hanashi,""1926), ""A Night in Qinhuai"" (""Shinwai no yo,"" 1919), ""The Magician""(""Majutsushi,"" 1917), and ""Red Roofs"" (""Akai yane,"" 1925).

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