Eleanor Harz Jorden and Mari Noda, authors of the widely used language textbook Japanese: The Spoken Language, now offer the first volume of the much anticipated companion to it, Japanese: The Written Language. This new series is designed to enable the learner of Japanese to establish a solid foundation for communicating with the Japanese through ...
This three-volume textbook stresses Japanese as it is spoken today in Japan. Jorden has introduced the language in a totally systematic fashion and in manageable segments, so that students who have mastered the material in the book can handle the spoken language with considerable facility. Supplementary material provides outlines for the ...
This supplement to "Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part 1" has been prepared to guide the instructor and the student step by step through the explanations of structure that are found in the main text-book. The question-and-answer format makes the material easier to follow.
This interactive CD-ROM programme is a tool for novice learners of Japanese. It is based on the popular textbook "Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part 1" (Yale University Press, 1987). The two-disc set - available in Macintosh and PC formats - reflects "Japanese: The Spoken Language"'s sound methodology and, in a multimedia environment, complements ...
Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 "Tokyo Story" is regularly rated among the top films ever made and will soon be reissued on DVD. Ozu and cowriter Kogo Noda viewed the script as literature; once completed, it was little changed during filming. Here is a translation of the Japanese screenplay to "Tokyo Story," with critical observations by Donald Richie on Ozu ...
Eleanor Harz Jorden and Mari Noda, authors of the widely used language textbook Japanese: The Spoken Language, now offer the first volume of the much anticipated companion to it, Japanese: The Written Language. This new series is designed to enable the learner of Japanese to establish a solid foundation for communicating with the Japanese through ...
Full to bursting with bright, gorgeous flowers and delicate, friendly bugs, this is a unique and irresistible bedtime book--a lullaby that revels in the beauty of the natural world. Full color.
Written by well-known experts in their respective fields, this book synthesizes recent work on the biology of bone cells at the molecular level. Cellular and Molecular Biology of Bone covers the differentiation of these cells, the regulation of their growth and metabolism, and their death resorption. The authors' special comprehensive treatment of ...
Photonic Crystals are the newest types of optical material being developed for commercial applications in industry. They are likely to provide an exciting new tool for the manipulations of photons and have received the attention of both academia and industry. "Roadmap on Photonic Crystals" gives a detailed explanation of the background of photonic ...
This thirty-something Japanese artist brings the passions of the orient to his work. A master of the Asian airbrush you can explore his world through these pages -- a world where the boundaries between possible and impossible start to fade away...
This book constitutes the ninth official archival publication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the achievements presented at the RoboCup 2005 International Symposium, held in Osaka, Japan in July 2005 in conjunction with the RoboCup Competition. The 34 revised full papers and 38 revised short papers presented together with 2 award-winning papers ...
In this poetic picture book as young child sends a letter to the world, thanking it for all the things that are wonderful about life on Earth. Colorful cut-paper collage illustrations accompany the text.
This Japanese typescript supplement, containing the Core Conversations, Breakdowns and Supplementary Vocabulary, and Drills. This book was prepared for use by Japanese instructors for whom the Japanese writing system is more familiar and therefore easier to read than romanization. It is NOT intended as a textbook for teaching the writing system.
This Japanese typescript supplement, containing the Core Conversation, Breakdowns and Supplementary Vocabulary, and Drills of 'Japanese: The Spoken Language, ' Part 3, was prepared for use by Japanese instructors for whom the Japanese writing system is more familiar and therefore easier to read than romanization.
This book includes Thermal Stresses in Bars, Thermal Stresses in Beams, Heat Conduction, Basic Equations of Thermoelasticity, Plane Thermoelastic Problems, Thermal Stresses in Circular Cylinders, Thermal Stresses in Spherical Bodies, Thermal Stresses in Plates, Thermally Induced Instability, Thermodynamics of Thermoelasticity, Appendix A. Inverse ...
This interactive CD-ROM programme is a tool for novice learners of Japanese. It is based on the popular textbook "Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part 1" (Yale University Press, 1987). The two-disc set - available in Macintosh and PC formats - reflects "Japanese: The Spoken Language"'s sound methodology and, in a multimedia environment, complements ...
Two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy has recently received keen interest from various fields of spectroscopy because it provides new opportunities for analyzing optical spectra. In the 2D approach, the spectral peaks are spread over the second dimension, thereby simplifying the visualization of complex spectra consisting of many overlapped ...
Students who have completed a year of German read Brecht in their second year, those of Spanish read Cervantes. Teachers of first- and second-year Japanese can often find nothing comparable. "Why aren't your students reading literature?" they are asked. "Why not Soseki? Or Murakami?" What are instructors of Japanese doing wrong? Nothing, according ...
A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her.
In a land far away a stranger is washed up near an isolated fishing village. Unable to understand his language or why he looks so different, the villagers decide he is a demon and must be destroyed. Only one woman, also an outcast, befriends him. Shot through with wit, ingenuity and sly humour, it reveals the conflict between compassion and ...
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