One of the major transformations in world history during the twentieth century has been the slow shift of world economic and political power from the Atlantic to the Pacific Rim. Japan has played a key role in spurring this transformation. 

The Nineteenth Century provides the most comprehensive account available in any Western language of Japan's transformation from a feudal society to a modern nation state.

Japan's ancient age was a period of radical and political change during which a Chinese-style empire emerged. This volume of The  History of Japan spans the beginnings of human existence to the end of the eighth century, focusing on the thousand years between 300 BC and 784, the end of the fabulous Nara period. 

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics Structuralism, Post-structuralism and Beyond provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts, defining over 500 critical terms.

 

Although especially geared to the needs of film students, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics is an impressive guide that will be useful for scholars in all areas of the arts, philosophy, and literature where an awareness of semiotic terminology and methodology has become indispensible to serious theoretical work .

Dedicated to you Hellentch

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:

• "The Centaur" by May Swenson
• "I, Too" by Langston Hughes
• "Oranges" by Gary Soto
• "Ye Goatherd Gods" by Sir Philip Sidney
• "Young" By Anne Sexton
• And more