The story of Korean history's most astonishing military victory by its greatly revered strategist, Admiral Yi Sunshin, who lures over 300 Japanese ships into a deadly trap where they meet their fate against only thirteen battle ships.

In 1942, during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, two seasoned homicide detectives--one a Eurasian, caught between two worlds, and the other, a pacifist Japanese escaping dark and tragic secrets at home--are thrown together to solve a high-profile murder and come to terms with each other under the yoke of a brutal and corrupt military regime. Eurasian homicide detective, Martin Bach, has survived the war and the surrender: now all he has to do...

"Two women's lives and identities are intertwined-through World War II and the Korean War-revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th century. "Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories." -Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author Can't I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant...

Joining Merriam-Webster's best-selling line of bilingual dictionaries. 15,000 headwords, 44,000 references and 44,000 translations. Developed in cooperation with Collins Publishers; c. Harper Collins Publishers Ltd 2010.

Japanese From Zero! is an innovative and integrated approach to learning Japanese that was developed by professional Japanese interpreter George Trombley, Yukari Takenaka and was continuously refined over eight years in the classroom by native Japanese professors. Using up-to-date and easy-to-grasp grammar, Japanese From Zero! is the perfect course for current students of Japanese as well as absolute beginners. In volume four of the Japanese From...

The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimages, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat...

A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.

Introduces methods and techniques for getting started with both Japanese gardening and growing bonsai, featuring a plant directory and a discussion of gardening styles while providing a history of both art forms.