The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld 1957363576, 9781957363578

The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld 1957363576, 9781957363578

The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before in this gripping, true crime story by t

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The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld 1957363576, 9781957363578

The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before in this gripping, true crime story by t

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Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld 9780520953819

Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eigh

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The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II 9780307754622, 0307754626

Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines  sources never before available to create a  fascinating portrait of th

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Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyō Tradition 9781400872954

Puppets of Nostalgia is the first major work in any Western language to examine the ritual origins and religious dimensi

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Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyō Tradition 069102894X, 9780691028941

Puppets of Nostalgia is the first major work in any Western language to examine the ritual origins and religious dimensi

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On the Line: Life – and death – in the Metropolitan Police

'A warts-and-all memoir of an ex-cop from probationer days on. Fascinating' IAN RANKIN 'A humane but unfl

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Night Comes : Death, Imagination, and the Last Things 9781467445054, 9780802871183

When he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed hi

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The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence of the Law 9781350354555, 9781350354548, 9781350354586

Adopting a comparative approach, this book examines how Dickens (as a voice of literature) and Derrida (as a philosopher

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Seventeen Years in the Underworld 9781984309396

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