Center, Katherine:The Bright Side of Disaster
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Vintage, UK, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 384 pages. Available Now. Book Description: Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, is the only non-Japanese wom… Altro …
Vintage, UK, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 384 pages. Available Now. Book Description: Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, is the only non-Japanese woman ever to have become a geisha. This is her unique insight into the extraordinary, closed world of the geisha, a world of grace, beauty and tradition that has long fascinated and enthralled the West. Taking us to the heart of a way of life normally hidden from the public gaze, Liza Dalby shows us the detailed reality that lies behind the bestselling Memoirs of a Geisha and opens our eyes to an ancient profession that continues to survive in today's modern Japan. (2000-09-02) : Amazon Review: In the mid-1970s, an American graduate student in anthropology joined the ranks of white-powdered geisha in Kyoto, Japan. Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district, trailing behind older sisters bemused by this long-legged Westerner intent on learning their arts and customs. In Geisha, this observant ethnographer paints an intoxicating picture of the flower and willow world to which she gained entry. Why are you studying geisha? asks one slightly belligerent older sister. Geisha are no different from anybody else. Not quite, says Dalby dryly, pointing out that geisha and wives play utterly divergent, though complementary, roles in traditional Japanese society. Geisha are supposed to be sexy where wives are sober, artistic where wives are humdrum, and witty where wives are serious. While hardly feminists, they reap freedoms unknown to other women. Dalby illustrates broader cultural differences, too, with a million tiny details about boisterous customers, how many hundred-weight of tabi (split-toed socks) geishas go through, what defines iki (chic), why maiko (young apprentices) are drawn to the life, and what geisha wear, from the skin out. Acknowledging that her growing personal stake in the masquerade prevented objectivity, Dalby frees the reader to enjoy a fluid and fascinating look at one aspect of Japanese culture. --Francesca Coltrera : Review: Liza Dalby, as the only foreigner to ever have become an actual geisha, knows more about the subject than I'll ever know, and she writes about it with grace and eloquence (Arthur Golden, Author Of 'memoirs Of A Geisha'): A loving, beautifully designed tribute to one of Japan's most tantalising traditions... Geisha offers intriguing glimpses into Japanese politics, culture and history (Newsweek): The authoritative work on the geisha. It is filled with facts and history, shot through with insights and understanding. Her working as a geisha, her experiencing their world, is responsible for the breadth of her understanding (New York Times Book Review): Elegantly balanced...beautifully constructed...invigorating and refreshing (Washington Post Book World): A meticulously researched work of scholarship, but is also a delightfully personal account of Dalby's year among the geisha. Geisha remains [Dalby's] best-known work and is the bible of geisha studies to this day (Times Literary Supplement) Size: 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm. 384 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Paperback; ISBN: 0099286386. ISBN/EAN: 9780099286387. Inventory No: B242-1084.. 9780099286387, Vintage, 2000, Black Swan, UK. First Edition. Softcover. Fair Condition. 432 pages. Available Now. Book Description: It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else.: Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging: their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn't get much better than this... : Amazon Review: These evocative descriptions of Australia and its lifestyle are accurate and interesting. Facts, figures, history, extent and division of territories, flora and fauna; how they look, how deadly or how tame they are, and how many of them exist, will stir exciting memories for those who have been Down Under and paint a precise picture in the mind for those who haven't. : Events, how people look and what they say are recorded faithfully and with master of observation Bill Bryson's wonderful facility for making you laugh out loud, there are plenty of reasons for doing so. His running commentary on a radio broadcast cricket match, a game about which he knows nothing, is brilliantly inventive. There's not a single actual word or expression associated with the game but the nuance is stunning. Spiky conversations with his English producer friend as they drive to Ayres Rock, the sighting of a rotary clothes-line in the depths of the outback, confrontations with receptionists and waiters, a beer-drinking man at the bar of the Nambucca telling him Dining room's closed mate. The chef's crook. Must have ate some of his own cooking and a full tuckerbag more, are entertainingly, albeit rather hastily, delivered by the reader. --Running time 3 hours -- Lyn Took --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. : Review: Bryson makes you laugh out loud...Down Under is filled with quirky stories', (Sunday Express): The thing that Bryson most loves about Australia - its effortlessly dry, direct way of viewing the world - is, in fact, his own. They're a perfect fit (The New York Times Book Review): Bryson is the perfect travelling companion... when it comes to travel's peculiars the man still has no peers (The Times): Bill Bryson is a very talented writer and an enormously funny and perceptive one. He is an artist who needs a big canvas. Australia has provided this. He's painted a masterpiece in travel literature (Globe & Mail Toronto) Size: 12.7 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm. 432 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Paperback; ISBN: 055299703X. ISBN/EAN: 9780552997034. Inventory No: B248-1005.. 9780552997034, Black Swan, New Delhi, India: Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., 1998. Jammu And Kashmirhlu has basically been a Teacher of English literature but while working in the Amar Mahal Museum and Library, Jammu for the last two and half decades his mind got yoked to many Devotions of Jammu and Kashmir Art and architecture, History and culture, Mysticism and literature. And he passes from one devotion to the other with athletic ease.The present book is divided into two parts: one is concerned with Jammu and the other with Kashmir. Then each part is subdivided into various sections; first, art and architecture; second, history and third, literature.Essays on art and architecture: this section attempts at a descriptive and critical Study of ancient monuments of Jammu and Kashmir. The Author has detailed the Geographic and scenic beauty of the places with actuality and narrated the historical background in quite a succinct manner. He has examined the Religious aspect and then in the case of paintings his analytical faculty marks the critical one.Historical Essays: In this section Prof. Wakhlu writes about the historical personages with vivid dramatic effectiveness without sacrificing the historical accuracy. He has written only about the great and noble historical figures ignoring many others of less significance.Literary Essays: In the domain of literature he indeed has self-confidence and ease. Apart from English he also had the opportunity to study both the Dogri and Kashmiri literature in depth. In this section he has taken care to include only a few chosen representative poets.By a slightest reflection on this work one can feel that he possesses a firm Sense of composition, a sweep, and compact and delightful verve and eloquence.Printed Pages: 372.. Hardcover. New/New., Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., 1998, New York, NY: N.Y. / New York: Merrimack Publishing, 1984 ( Facsimile Reproduction of a 19th Century Children's Book ), 1st Facsimile Edition, First Printing , 1984. -------------softcover, about 5w x 9h inches, cut out in the shape of a pretty Victorian girl carrying a basket of peaches, a Near Fine copy, unpaginated (about 12 pages plus covers, colour and b&w illustrations, rhymes and snippets include: Peaches; Kittens; A Quiet Drive (a little girl and her pretend horse and carriage); Now Sit Still (a girl and her doll); Up (and Down in the World (a little boy and his fence climbing); Rub-adub-dub (not the rhyme we all know but instead about children and their toy soldiers); The painted Dolly (a mischievous boy paints a moustache on his sister's doll); Gallopy-Gallopy (a child and its hobbyhorse; plus some untitled offerings, quite charming, done in the manner as one would see with McLoughlin Bros. or Donohue publications from the late 19th century, , any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine (see description). Illus. by Uncredited Cover Art., N.Y. / New York: Merrimack Publishing, 1984 ( Facsimile Reproduction of a 19th Century Children's Book ), 1st Facsimile Edit, 1984, Random House, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. Number line: 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 250 pages. Offers credible descriptions of first-time motherhood, affecting characters and situations and low-key charm. Kirkus Reviews Stellar . . . Center paints an accurate and humorous view of motherhood. Booklist Jenny Harris always expected that she'd fall in love, get married, and have a baby in that order. Now, very pregnant and not quite married, she actually doesn't mind that she and her live-in fiancé, Dean, accidentally started their family a little earlier than planned; she's happy to have so much to look forward to. But Dean whom Jenny loves enough to overlook his bad facial hair, his smoking habit, and his total commitment to a cheesy cover band is acting distant, and not in a pre-wedding-jitters kind of way. The night he runs out for cigarettes and just doesn't come back, he demotes himself from future husband to sperm donor. And the very next day, Jenny goes into labor. In the months that follow, Jenny plunges into a life she never anticipated: single motherhood. At least with the sleep deprivation, sore boobs, and fits of crying (both hers and the baby's), there's not much time to dwell on her broken heart. And things start looking up. She learns how to do everything one-handed, makes friends in a mommy group, and even manages to give dating tips to her sweet, clueless father-who's trying to court her sassy mother again, fifteen years after their divorce. She also gets to know a handsome, helpful neighbor with a knack for soothing babies who invites her out dancing. But Dean is never far from Jenny's thoughts or, it turns out, her doorstep, and in the end Jenny must choose between the old life she thought she wanted and the new life she's been lucky to find. A spirited debut novel with a terrifically appealing voice, a fantastic sense of humor, and a lot of heart, The Bright Side of Disaster reminds us that sometimes it takes the worst-case scenario to show us the best in everything.., Random House, 2007<