Vanpac complaint update

Well folks, it's been awhile and I'm sorry that I haven't been able to update this before now, but the issue that we had with VanPac was not completely wrapped up until the end of November and then we all know what December is like in Canada!

The 'wrap up' with VanPac consisted of their agreeing to pay us 50,000 yen (approx $600 Cdn) for the 1/3 empty space in our 20' container (which they had told us was completely full).  Because they sub-contracted the pickup of our stuff (three different trucks), there was no way we could know exactly how many cubic feet we had used up and when they told us it was full, we had to scramble to give away or throw away valuable stuff--which was worth at least $2000.  On top of that, they didn't pack our furniture very carefully (including antique furniture which they assured us would be moved very carefully) and because there was empty space in the container, things got damaged because of all the jostling around.  The furniture repairman quoted us $950 for repairing all the scratches, stains, and chips in our furniture.  Fortunately, the insurance company paid in full, but considering we paid approximately $15,000.00 Cdn to move our container door-to-door, my position is that it never should have been damaged in the first place!

All in all, if I had to do it all over again, I guess I'd start living like a Spartan five years before my move so that I had nothing that needed to be shipped.  If I had something that I absolutely could not part with, I would have it crated and moved by a company that specialized in moving sentimental or valuable items.  This isn't a realistic way of looking at moving, however, most people are going to need a shipper/mover upon whom they can rely.  We moved our stuff in storage from Calgary with Halifax Transfer and I would mostly recommend them.  They lost a stool that my husband used for playing his upright bass due to the way it was described on the waybill, but the truck driver paid us for it out of his own pocket rather than having to register the oversight with his company.

On the lighter side, I'm happy that we can now call this move and all its associated issues finished.  We love our new home and are looking forward to the new year and our new lives.  I think it was time for us to come back to Canada and even though this is not without its challenges, it is nice to be back home.  I will always have a big place in my heart for Japan and all the lovely people I met there, but this is where we belong.  Hope you all are feeling the same sense of home.  Happiness, peace, and prosperity to you all in 2013!

Van Pac being very slow in resolving issue with shipment

Just a quick update: people at Van Pac are being very slow in resolving our complaints.  I would have to say at this point that if we were to move from Japan again, we probably wouldn't use them.  Allied seemed good during our first steps of looking at different shippers, so they might be a good alternative if anyone reading this is planning to move from Japan with a household.  I'll keep updating this to detail the response of Van Pac.  Who knows?  They might come through and prove themselves to be honest, competent movers...on the other hand...maybe not!  We'll see.

Van Pac trouble

Hi folks,

Thought we had found a good shipper in Van Pac, but we had some problems and are now in the process of trying to sort them out.  So far, not much luck in doing so.  If you want the details, please email me and I'll give you the full story, but for now I'd just like to say to be careful in choosing your shipper and good luck with your move.  I'll post details later when (and I suppose 'if') the aforementioned problems have been resolved.

Best always,
Paige

Notes from our move from Japan back to Canada

Now that we are unpacked and living in our new abode in Canada, we are finding that there are many things we wished we hadn't left behind.  I'm not talking about all the souvenirs and clothes that we sold, gave away, or threw out, but the day-to-day items that we thought wouldn't be necessary for us to bring here.  Turns out, everything we used in Japan, we need here and since we had shipped a container (based on volume, not weight), we would have saved ourselves money if we had brought it all.

Some of this regret is our own mistake.  Little fiddly things like lamps, cleaning supplies, kitchen gadgets, etc. were felt to be 'clutter' and and since we wanted to de-clutter our lives anyway, decided to leave them behind.  However, a lot of bigger or bulkier stuff was left because our shipper said it wouldn't fit in our container, which was absolutely their miscalculation--we had about 10 cubic meters of free space in our container when it arrived at our door in Canada!

My advice (and I know you're wondering!), is to make sure your shipper is loading the actual container at your door in Japan, or that you see the container before it is sealed at least.  Our mover couldn't bring the actual container to the door since our neighbourhood streets were too narrow and, instead, did two separate pick ups on two different days with a total of three trucks!  I don't think there was good communication between the office staff (with whom we did most of our communication) and their warehouse so the woman I spoke with told me our container would only have 1 or 2 cubic meters free and that we should leave this for packing material.

If you're organizing a move from Japan, I hope this helps you avoid some of things we regret. :)

moving house and taking your computer

I didn't think that packing our computers up and shipping them trans-Pacific was necessarily a good idea (at least that's what most of the 'experts' cautioned in my search results via the Internet), yet my desktop is running perfectly.  I think that we saved our original boxes helped with the packing.  It wasn't easy getting all the components back in their boxes--the fit of my tower was especially snug--but it was worth the time and frustration.  After we had them in their dedicated boxes, we put them in bigger boxes with LOTS (and I mean LOTS) of padding.  We bubble-wrapped the entire interior of the bigger box and then padded it with clothing and more bubble wrap.  Then to be extra safe, we put those little white popcorn type packing thingies in all the loose space.  We're pretty much finished all our unpacking and all the stuff we packed ourselves has nary a scratch whereas the stuff packed by the movers didn't fare so well.  I don't think they were especially careful and we didn't have any special instructions on the bigger boxes housing our computer components (or any of our other electronic equipment), so I really do think it was our packing that saved the day.  My advice, (if you want it)?  Don't give away or dispose of your computer when you move.  With some extra work and attention to detail, you CAN move your computer safely.

That's all folks!

Thanks for all the views and to the people who bought/got donated to--it was a pleasure transacting with you!  We leave our house tomorrow and everything has gone or been spoken for.
Best to all of you,
Paige

falling off the radar?

Hi there,

This is a message to a couple people who have been in touch with me ONCE about items that they wanted from my blog.  I'm not sure if you got my reply/replies because I have heard nothing back from you since I replied to your one inquiry in which you stated you wanted the item and would pay the delivery.  I do not want to ship the item(s) you were interested in without another confirmation from you that you want to pay the COD charge that I estimated and emailed to you.  Even though the delivery charge will be paid by you and if you decline the package we will be here to be charged double by the delivery company, I do not want to leave the delivery company on the hook for the expense.

Please check your spam folder if you think I have not replied to you--this is where most of the communication break downs occur--and add my email address to your contacts so we can maintain good communication.  We only have a couple more days in our home and I need an answer by tonight as to what to ship out and what to throw out. 

Best,

Paige

TAKEN: Brother telephone w/ answering machine

Easy to use (manual all in English) with answering machine and remote accessing of messages possible.  It's also a fax machine, but there's a 'paper jam' and it can't receive faxes anymore.  Sending faxes is still possible and, of course, it may be possible to repair the fax out function.

TAKEN: laundry hangers

Free--best picked up

TAKEN: 3 small waste bins

Free--will be sent COD or pick up

HAD TO THROW AWAY (sob!): wicker 'telephone' table

Free--best picked up

TAKEN: garden hose in storage caddy

Free, can deliver COD but probably best to pick up (we also have lots of potted plants you can take)

TAKEN: wicker chest of drawers

Free, just pay COD charges

TAKEN: lamp (cat not included)

Free, just pay COD charges

TAKEN: hair dryer

Free, just pay COD charges

remaining books all donated: BOOKS ARE ALL FREE!

The list I have posted is not up to date.  Email if you're interested in a title or titles and I'll check to see if we still have it.

Free to pick up, so you're welcome to come out and browse.  I won't be able to deliver any from the the post office--sorry, just TOO busy with move--but if you want more than five or so, I'm sure the takkyubin (COD delivery charge) will be less than what the books would typically cost you second hand.

TAKEN: triangular corner cabinet

TAKEN: neat antique folding tables

TAKEN: rubberized weights, bar bell, and press bench (pick up only) 4000 yen

oops, forgot to take picture of bench--it's nothing special, but email me if you're interested.

TAKEN: extendable table w/ two matching chairs (pick up only)

GONE: collector's limited ed of TV series 'Angel'

Brand new, still in cellophane seal.  Bought to give as a gift but changed our minds on suitability.  Selling on Amazon Japan for about 9300yen used, or about 11,000yen new.  Our price is 6500 including shipping or 5000 if you pick up.

Now the big job of organizing all our stuff for give away/sale

Just realized there's loads more organizing to do: I want to get everything laid out so people can come here and look through our stuff easily.  We live in a neighbourhood that gets constant foot traffic (especially during holidays), so I'm thinking of putting stuff on a table where they can just take it and (if they want) leave a donation.  I've seen people do this in this neighbourhood and others.  It's amazing that you can do still do that in some places of the world (not our home country unfortunately!).  Anyway!  If you live in the Kansai area and you want to come out to have a browse through the items we have left, please email me at: ocean_paige@yahoo.ca

Cheers!
Paige

Shippers have done their job!

Wow!  First time we ever used movers and I'm impressed.  Those guys can really move fast and carry A LOT!

Most of our stuff we had planned to send to Canada managed to fit inside the container.  The sofa bed didn't unfortunately, so we're still looking for a buyer for that.  Also have that wonderful refrigerator that's been up on my blog for ages.  Can't believe no one wants it.  Make me an offer!

Other big items that we decided not to take:

--weights (make me an offer):  pairs of rubberized weights (10kg, 15kg, 20kg), barbell, and bench.  The bench is nothing to brag about but it does the job.
--wicker 6-drawer set (free for pick up).

If you're interested, email me and I'll get photos up on the blog ASAP.

TAKEN: water heater Zojirushi CD-EZ30J-CH 400 yen

Water heater and box 

All packed with manual--ready to go!

TAKEN: ironing board (FREE FOR PICK UP ONLY)

Picture of board ready for action

Picture of board in storage mode

ALL DONATED: books for sale list

Greetings all,

Here is our revised books for sale list with prices (not including shipping).  My husband and I are overwhelmed by the amount of stuff we are taking back to Canada, so we have decided to offer the books at half-off listed price below if you want them delivered via the PO.  If you are willing to take them COD takkyubin or COD yamato bin, divide by three and then divide that amount by two.  Even BIGGER discounts for people who will pick up from our house and BIGGEST for people who will take large numbers of books.

Thanks for looking,

Paige

codes: library [llb], paperback [ppb], hardcover [hrdc], and plastic covers [plstc]).

For easier navigation of this lengthy list I've included an index at the top of the page:

1) ANTHROPOLOGY

2) ART AND ARCHITECTURE

3) BUSINESS

4) COOKBOOKS

5) CULTURAL STUDIES

6) DICTIONARIES

7) EDUCATION

8) ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE/LITERATURE

9) FILM AND TELEVISION

10) FRENCH REVOLUTION AND DEMOCRACY

11) HISTORY

12) JAPANESE LANGUAGE LEARNING

13) JAPAN RELATED

14) KOREAN LANGUAGE

15) LINGUISTICS

16) LITERATURE

17) LITERARY CRITICISM

18) MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS

19) MANGA

20) MAPS

21) MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

22) MUSIC

23) NON-FICTION/REFERENCE

24) PHILOSOPHY

25) POLITICS/POLITICAL SCIENCE/WORLD POLITICS/WORLD ORDER

26) PSYCHOLOGY (currently all are SOLD but more to be added later)

27) RARE AND OUT OF PRINT BOOKS

28) SOCIAL THEORY

29) SOCIAL WELFARE/HUMAN RIGHTS/SOCIAL MOVEMENTS/ETC.

30) SOCIOLOGY

31) SPIRITUAL

32) TRAVEL BOOKS

33) WOMEN'S STUDIES

1) Anthropology

Tribes Without Rulers: Studies in African Segmentary Systems edited by John Middleton and David Tait (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

[SOLD]Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 750 yen

2) Art & Architecture

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (1989 revised edition) by Betty Edwards  (hrdc) (llb) 900 yen

Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts, 2nd edition by Joshua C. Taylor (ppb) (plstc) 1,500 yen

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King (ppb) 1,500 yen

From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History, 6th edition by James Smith Pierce (ppb) 1,200 yen

3) Business

Thomas Nevins (Management, Human Relations, and Labour Relations)

(The duplicate listing is not a mistake (there are two books of the same title)

Japan True or False: People Problems, Costs, Restructuring  5000 yen

Know Your Own Bone: Help Where We Can 1000 yen

Know Your Own Bone: Help Where We Can 1,000 yen

Labor Pains and the Gaijin Boss 1,000 yen

[SOLD]The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor by Robert G. Hagstrom (ppb) 450 yen
[SOLD]Stocks Bonds Options Futures: Investments and Their Markets by the staff of the New York Institute of Finance Ed Stuart R. Veale (ppb) 300 yen

[SOLD]The Intelligent Investor: The classic Bestseller on Value Investing (hrdc) 2700 yen

[SOLD]"Smart Money" magazine: June 2007, July 2007, August 2007 300 yen for 3 issues

[SOLD]"Business Ethics" Vol 16 Nos 2,3-4,5-6 and Vol 17 No 1 2002-2003 300 yen for all 5 issues

[SOLD]Consumer Reports May 2005 1 issue only 90 yen

4) Cookbooks

Nature's Miracle Protein: The Book of Soybeans by Tokuji Watanabe with Asako Kishi (ppb) (llb) 450 yen

[SOLD]The Book of Sushi by Kinjiro Omae and Yuzuru Tachibana (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 900 yen

Vegan Delights: Gourmet Vegetarian Specialties by Jeanne Marie Martin (ppb) 1,200 yen

Simple Foods for the Pack: The Sierra Club Guide to Delicious Natural Foods for the Trail (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Eat Right, Live Longer by Neal Barnard (ppb) 900 yen

Pagkaing Pinoy: The Most Popular Recipes of the Philippines (ppb) 1,500 yen

Vegetarian Times, April 2005 (magazine) 300 yen

5) Cultural Studies

Reading the Popular by John Fiske (ppb) 1,200 yen

Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman by Paul du Gay, Stuart Hall, Linda Janes, Hugh Mackay, and Keith Negus (ppb) 1,500 yen

Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jugen Habermas by Wuthnow, Davison-Hunger, Bergesen and Kurzwell (llb) 350 yen

Cuture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold Ed: J. Dover Wilson (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

The Discourse of Modernism by Timothy J. Reiss (hrdc) (llb) 500 yen

The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought Eds Alan Bullock and Oliver Stallybrass (ppb) (poor cond: binding loose pages detached) 100 yen

6) Dictionaries

New Sunrise Japanese-English Dictionary (hrdc) 450 yen

[NEW]The Kenkyusha English-Japanese, Japanese-English Learner’s Pocket Dictionary (ppb) (plstc) 900 yen

Si-Sai Elite English-Korean & Korean-English Dictionary (ppb) 900 yen

Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus in Dictionary Form (ppb) 120 yen

Webster’s New World Dictionary, 3rd College Edition (hrdc) 600 yen

The American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd edition (ppb) 450 yen

Random House Webster’s Dictionary, 4th edition (ppb) 450 yen

The Oxford Spanish Minidictionary: Spanish-English, English-Spanish 840 yen

7) Education

Cracking the GRE, 1996 edition by Robinson & Katzman (ppb) 120 yen

Psychology in Teaching, Learning, and Growth by don Hamachek (ppb) (used, good cond) 300 yen

What is the Name of this Book by Raymond Smullyan (ppb) 600 yen

[SOLD]Montessori: A Modern Approach by Paula Polk Lillard (plstc) (llb) 600 yen

[SOLD]The Montessori Method by Maria Montessori (plstc) (llb) 600 yen

[SOLD]Essential Montessori (Updated Edition) by Elizabeth Hainstock (plstc) (llb) 600 yen

The Cambridge Program for the High School Equivalency Exam (ppb) 3,000 yen

The English Language by C. L. Wrenn (hrdc with dust jacket) 600 yen

There You Go! A Little Book with a Big Message by Oren Ginzburg (ppb) 120 yen

[TAKEN]Better Chess For Young Players by McLeod, Mongredien (hrdc) 2,100 yen

Kyouiku Konnanko no Kanousei: Teijisei Koukou no Genjitsukara (Series Kyouiku no Chousen) (Japanese) (ppb with dust jacket) 450 yen

8) Environmental Science/Literature

Small is Beautiful (1975) by E. F. Schumacher (ppb) (poor condition: cover very worn and staining) 30 yen

Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life by William J. Baumol & Wallace E. Oates (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

Environmental Regulation and the U. S. Economy Eds Henry M. Peskin, Paul R. Portney, Allen V. Kneese (hrdc) (llb) 300 yen

Blueprint for the Environment: A Plan for Federal Action Ed T. Allan Comp (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

Global Ecology Ed Charles H. Southwick (pstc) (llb) 600 yen

Emissions Trading: An Exercise in Reforming Pollution Policy by T. H. Tietenberg (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Controlling Industrial Pollution: The Economics and Politics of Clean Air by Robert W. Crandall (hrdc) (llb) 400 yen

Measuring the Benefits of Clean Air and Water by Allen V. Kneese (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

9) Film & Television

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films by Donald Bogle (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 900 yen

The Celluloid South: Hollywood and the Southern Myth by Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. (hrdc) (llb) 1,800 yen

Federico Fellini: Comments On Film edited by Giovanni Grazzini translated by Joseph Henry (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction by John Brosnan (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Ideology and the Image by Bill Nichols (ppb) 2,700 yen

[SOLD]The Actor's Book of Movie Monologues edited by Marisa Smith and Amy Schewel (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 750 yen

Concepts in Film Theory by Dudley Andrew (ppb) 1,200 yen

Western Films: A Complete Guide (ppb) 3,000 yen

American Culture and the Classic Western Movie by Mark Siegel annotated by Toshio Saito and Toshinori Tamai (ppb) 1,500 yen

Television by Michael Winship (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

The Technique of Film  Editing, 2nd edition by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar (ppb) (llb) 1,200 yen

Film Magic: The Art and Science of Special Effects by David Hutchison (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,200 yen

The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era by Thomas Schatz (ppb) 1,200 yen

Star Wars Episode I, The Phantom Menace: Illustrated Screenplay (ppb) 450 yen

10) French Revolution and Democracy

Thomas Jefferson on Democracy selected and arranged with an intro by Saul K. Padover (ppb) (llb) 300 yen

Tocqueville and the Problem of Democracy by Marvin Zetterbaum (hrdc) (llb) 600 yen

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (hrdc) (llb) 1200 yen

Rousseau's Social Contract: The Design of the Argument by Hilail Gildin (hrdc) (llb) 1200 yen

Tradition and Contract: The Problem of Order by Elizabeth Colson (hrdc) (llb)  600 yen

Utopia by Sir Thomas More (unabridged) (ppb) 150 yen

The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics 5th Ed by Thomas R. Dye and L. Harmon Zeigler (ppb) (llb)  1200 yen

The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert (plstc) (llb) 900 yen

Age of the French Revolution V. 1: Twilight of Old Order 1774-1778 by Claude Manceron (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

Age of the French Revolution V. 2: The Wind from America 1778-1781 by Claude Manceron (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

Age of the French Revolution V. 3: Their Gracious Pleasure 1782-1785 by Claude Manceron (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

 Marie Antoninette by Joan Haslip (hrdc) (llb) 600 yen

Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot translated by Michael Henry (ppb) 900 yen

11) History

[NEW]Titanic by Michael Davie (hrdc) (llb) 1500 yen

[NEW]A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

[NEW]The New Archaeology of the Ancient Maya by Jeremy A. Sabloff (hrdc with dust jacket) (llb) 2,400 yen

A Comparative Approach to American History edited by C. Vann Woodward (ppb) 300 yen

Greek and Roman Slavery by Thomas Wiedemann (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 3,000 yen

A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers by Henry D. Thoreau (hrdc) (llb) 3,000 yen

Slavery: A World History by Milton Meltzer (ppb) (plstc) 1,500 yen

Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis (ppb) (plstc) (lots of highlighting) 2,700 yen

From Humanism to Science by Robert Mandrou (hrdc) (llb) 900 yen

In Flanders Fields by Leon Wolff (ppb) 300 yen

Essays in English History by AJP Taylor (ppb) 600 yen

American History

Black Protest: Issues and Tactics by Robert C. Dick (hrdc) (llb) 900 yen

Resistance at Christiana: The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1851: A Documentary Account by Jonathan Katz (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass, edited with an Introduction by William L. Andrews (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginal Hamilton (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Black and White Styles in Conflict by Thomas Kochman (hrdc) (llb) 600 yen

Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834-1850 by Aileen S. Kraditor (hrdc) (llb) 1,500 yen

The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865 by John R. McKivigan (hrdc) (llb) 3,000 yen

Crusade Against Slavery: Friends, Foes, and Reforms 1820-1860 by Louis Filler (hrdc) (llb) 1,800 yen

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded Together with Corroborative Statements verifying the Truth of the Work by Harriet Beecher Stowe (hrdc) (llb) 3,000 yen

A Comparative Approach to American History edited by C. Vann Woodward (ppb) 600 yen

Slavery in American Society edited with an introduction by Lawrence B. Goodheart/Richard D. Brown/Stephen G. Rabe (ppb) 1,500 yen

Growing Up Black: From slave days to the present—25 African-Americans reveal the trials and triumphs of their childhoods (ppb) (plstc) 1,800 yen

The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley (ppb) 300 yen

American Slavery 1619-1877 by Peter Kolchin (ppb) (plstc) (lots of highlighting) 1,200 yen

The Separate Problem: Case Studies of Black Education in the North, 1900-1930 by Judy Jolley Mohraz (hrdc) (llb) 2,400 yen

Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau (ppb) (plstc) (highlighting) 1,200 yen

The Myth of the Negro Past by Melville J. Herskovits (ppb) (plstc) 1,200 yen

Roots by Alex Haley (ppb) (plstc) 1,200 yen

12) Japanese Language Learning

Japanese Language Proficiency Test study materials

[NEW]The 1999 Japanese Language Proficiency Test: Level 1 and 2 Questions and Correct Answers (including cassettes) (ppb) 1,800 yen

[NEW]The 1999 Japanese Language Proficiency Test: Levels 3~4 listening cassettes free with the materials below.

Nihongo Nouryoku Shiken 3 kyu bunpo practice book (half used) (ppb) 600 yen

Nihongo Nouryoku Shiken 3 kyu bunpo & goi practice book (half used) (ppb) 600 yen

Nihongo Nouryoku Shiken 2 kyu textbook & cassettes (ppb) 6,000 yen

Nihongo Nouryoku Shiken 2 kyu bunpo practice book (half used) (ppb) 600 yen

[NEW]Kodansha’s Pocket Kanji Guide (ppb) (plstc)

[SOLD]Strategies for Reading Japanese: A Rational Approach to the Japanese Sentence by Aihara Setsuko (ppb) 1,200 yen

Teach Yourself Japanese: A Complete Course for Beginners by H. J. Ballhatchet and S. K. Kaiser (ppb) 30 yen

Bunka Chukyu Nihongo I: textbook and workbook (ppb)  (first few pages of workbook have been used) 1,500 yen

Japanese (kokugo) High School Textbook (ppb) 1,500 yen

Japanese History High School Textbook (ppb) 900 yen

[SOLD]Kanji no Hon 1 Nen Sei—6 Nen Sei (elementary school kanji textbooks) (ppb) (plstc) 1,800 yen

Nihongo Notes 2—6 by Osamu Mizutani and Nobuko Mizutani (ppb) 6,000 yen

Japanese For Beginners (ppb) 1,800 yen

Berlitz Japanese Phrase Book & Dictionary (ppb) 300 yen

Making Out in Japanese by Todd & Erika Geers (ppb) 450 yen

[SOLD]Chuukyu Kara Manabu Nihongo Teema betsu textbook & workbook (partially used) 3,000 yen

[SOLD]Kinki Japanese: The dialects and culture of the Kinki region by DC Palter & Kaoru Horiuchi Slotsve (ppb) (plstc) 1,800 yen

[SOLD]Kansai Japanese: The Language of Osaka, Kyoto, and Western Japan by Peter Tse (ppb) (plstc) 3,000 yen

[SOLD]Nihongo Hanasou 3 textbook (ppb) 2,700 yen

[SOLD]Real Life Japanese: The Japanese that Your Friends speak!! by Craig Dibble & Setsuko Matsumoto (ppb) 1,200 yen

13) Japan Related

[SOLD]New Japanalia Past and Present by Lewis Bush (ppb) (2 copies) 1,800 yen each

The American Who Couldn’t Say Noh: almost Everything You Need to Know About Japan by Charles Danziger (hrdc) 2,700 yen

Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants and Immigrants to Japan (English and Japanese) by Arudou Debito and Higuchi Akira (ppb) 3,000 yen

14) Korean Language

Berlitz Korean Phrase Book (ppb) 300 yen

15) Linguistics

Noam Chomsky

[NEW]Rules and Representations (hrdc) (llb) 1,950 yen

[NEW]The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (hrdc) (llb) 5,100 yen

[SOLD]The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker (ppb) 350 yen      

16) Literature (with collections lists headed by author & by genre)

Drama

Ibsen

The Wild Duck translated and edited by Dounia B. Christiani (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen

The Master Builder and Other Plays (ppb) 300 yen

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays (ppb) 900 yen

Eight Plays (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen

 Eugene O’Neill

Ten "Lost" Plays (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

More Stately Mansions (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Long Day's Journey Into Night (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,200 yen

The Iceman Cometh (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Shakespeare

Great Books of the Western World 26. Shakespeare: Volume 1 (hrdc) 1,500 yen

Henry IV Part Two (ppb) 300 yen

Macbeth (Labo Cassette Library) (English-Japanese) 150 yen

Waiting For Godot: A tragicomedy in two acts by Samuel Beckett (ppb) 300 yen

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello (ppb) 1,200 yen

Modern Drama: Nine Plays edited by Otto Reinert (ppb) 900 yen

Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw (ppb) 300 yen

Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (ppb) 300 yen

Equus: A Play by Peter Shaffer (ppb) 600 yen

Fantasy / Science Fiction

Clive Barker

[NEW]The Hellbound Heart (ppb) 750 yen

[NEW]The Thief of Always (ppb) 450 yen

Terry Brooks

The Shannara Trilogy (The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara, The Wishsong of Shannara) (ppb) 900 yen

The Heritage of Shannara (The Scions of Shannara, The Druids of Shannara, The Elf Queen of Shannara, The Laismans of Shannara) (ppb) (llb) 1,500 yen

The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem (ppb) (plstc) (llb) (broken spine) 600 yen

[TAKEN]The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (Penguin Student Edition) (ppb) 2,100 yen

The Aliens Among Us by James White (ppb) (plstc) 900 yen

[SOLD]The Zap Gun by Philip K. Dick (ppb) 300 yen

Poetry

Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, 8th edition by Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp (ppb) (plstc) 2,400 yen

Homer

The Odyssey translated by Robert Fitzgerald (ppb) 150 yen

The Odyssey translated by W. H. D. Rouse (ppb) 150 yen

Sylvia Plath

Ariel (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 900 yen

The Bell Jar (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Walt Whitman

The Complete Poems (ppb) 900 yen

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose edited by James E. Miller, Jr. (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen

The Selected Poetry and Prose of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited with an introduction by Donald A. Stauffer (ppb) 600 yen

W. B. Yeats Selected Poetry edited with an introduction and notes by A. Norman Jeffares (ppb) 450 yen

Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth by Dorothy and William Wordsworth (ppb) 600 yen

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke translations by M. D. Herter Norton (ppb) 900 yen

Selected Poems by Robert Graves (ppb) 900 yen

Victorian Poetry and Poetics, 2nd ed. (hrdc) 3,000 yen

Poetry for the Earth: A collection of poems from around the world that celebrates nature edited by Sara Dunn (ppb) 1,500 yen

The Best of the Best American Poetry edited by Harold Bloom (ppb) 600 yen

The Complete Poems by William Blake (ppb) (llb) 3,000 yen

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (ppb) 1,350 yen

Prose

Maya Angelou

Gather together in my name (hrdc) (llb) 1,500 yen

I know why the caged bird sings (hrdc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas (hrdc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Camus

The First Man (ppb) 450 yen

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer (ppb) (plstc) (highlighting and underlining) 300 yen

Heart of Darkness (ppb) (highlighting and underlining) 300 yen

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 900 yen

Moll Flanders (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 900 yen

Dickens

Little Dorrit (ppb) 1,200 yen

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (ppb) 1,200 yen

Our Mutual Friend (Heinemann Guided Reader Upper Level) (ppb) 1,500 yen

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes From Underground (ppb) (plstc) (highlighting and underlining) 300 yen

The Brothers Karamazov (ppb) 300 yen

The Adolescent (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Crime and Punishment (ppb) 900 yen

Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man and selections from The House of the Dead (ppb) 150 yen

Ralph Ellison

Shadow and Act (ppb) (plstc) 900 yen

Invisible Man (ppb) 300 yen

Faulkner

[SOLD]The Wild Palms (ppb) 150 yen

The Wild Palms (ppb) 300 yen

[SOLD]The Sound and the Fury (ppb) 150 yen

The Sound and the Fury (ppb) 150 yen

Go Down Moses (ppb) (plstc) 150 yen

[SOLD]The Unvanquished (ppb) 150 yen

Sartoris (ppb) 300 yen

A Glossary of Faulkner’s South by Calvin S. Brown (hrdc with dust jacket) 2,700 yen

Patrick Leigh Fermor

A Time of Gifts (ppb) 1,500 yen

Between the Woods and the Water (ppb) 1,500 yen

A Time To Keep Silence (ppb) 1,500 yen

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: The Novel, the Critics, the Background by Henry Dan Piper (ppb) 1,500 yen

Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea (hrdc with dust jacket) 2,700 yen

The Old Man and the Sea (hrdc with dust jacket) 2,700 yen

The sun Also Rises (hrdc with dust jacket) 2,700 yen

The Complete Short Stories: The Finca Vigia Edition (hrdc with dust jacket) 2,700 yen

True At First Light: A Fictional Memoir, with an Introduction my Patrick Hemingway (hrdc with dust jacket) 2,700 yen

A Farewell To Arms (hrdc with dust jacket) 2,700 yen

A Moveable Feast: Sketches of the Author's Life in Paris in the Twenties (hrdc with dust jacket) 2,700 yen

Hermann Hesse

Narziss and Goldmund (ppb) 150 yen

Damian (ppb) 150 yen

Beneath the Wheel (ppb) 150 yen

Kipling

[SOLD]Kim (ppb) 600 yen

[SOLD]The Jungle Books (ppb) 750 yen

Thomas Mann

[SOLD]Death in Venice (ppb) 150 yen

[SOLD]The Magic Mountain (ppb) 150 yen

Buddenbrooks (ppb) 600 yen

W. Somerset Maugham

The Razor's Edge (ppb) 750 yen

Of Human Bondage (ppb) 150 yen

[TAKEN]Catalina (ppb) 1,500 yen

Nabokov

Laughter in the Dark (ppb) 150 yen

Pale Fire (ppb) 750 yen

The Defense (first English edition) (hrdc with dust jacket) (llb) 9,000 yen

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (ppb) (plstc) 1,500 yen

The Portable Nabokov (ppb) 1,500 yen

Anaïs Nin

[NEW]Winter of Artifice: three novels (ppb) (plstc) (llb) (the glue has dried and pages have come loose) 600 yen

[NEW]Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories (first edition) (hrdc) (llb) 6,000 yen

Flannery O'Connor

The Violent Bear It Away (ppb) 1,500 yen

Mystery and Manners (ppb) 2,100 yen

Wise Blood (ppb) 1,500 yen

The Complete Stories (ppb) (plstc) (broken spine) 150 yen

Gordon Parks

The Learning Tree (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 900 yen

Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror, An Autobiography (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Edgar Allan Poe

The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (ppb) 600 yen

Selected Tales (ppb) 600 yen

Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead (hrdc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Anthem (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 750 yen

Atlas Shrugged (ppb) (poor cond: binding, pages detached) 30 yen

Voltaire

[NEW]Candide and Other Tales (hrdc) 600 yen

[NEW]Candide  (ppb) 450 yen

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Slaughterhouse-Five (ppb) 300 yen

Slaughterhouse-Five (ppb) 150 yen

Galapagos (ppb) 150 yen

Oscar Wilde

[SOLD]Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (ppb) 600 yen

The Picture of Dorian Gray (ppb) 900 yen

 Virginia Woolf

The Voyage Out (ppb) 150 yen

Jacob's Room (ppb) 600 yen

To The Lighthouse (ppb) 750 yen

Richard Wright

Lawd Today (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Native Son (hrdc) (llb) 4,500 yen

American Hunger (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,200 yen

[NEW]Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger (ppb) 450 yen

[NEW]Germinal by Émile Zola (ppb) 450 yen

[TAKEN]The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (ppb) 600 yen

[NEW]Wives and Lovers by Jane Elizabeth Varley (ppb) 600 yen

[NEW]Best of Friends by Cathy Kelly (ppb) 750 yen

[NEW]The Joke by Milan Kundera (ppb) (very poor condition) free with any COD order

[NEW]Sleeping Arrangements by Sophie Kinsella (ppb) 750 yen

The Sorrows of Young Werther (paperpack) 750 yen

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (ppb) 900 yen

Ulysses by James Joyce 900 yen

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe (hrdc) (llb) 1,500 yen

The Misanthrope & Tartuffe by Molière (ppb) (llb) 1,500 yen

Juliette by Marquis de Sade translated b y Austryn Wainhouse (ppb) 600 yen

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon by William Thackeray (ppb) 150 yen

Cuts by Malcolm Bradbury (ppb) 300 yen

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (ppb) 300 yen

Justine by Lawrence Durrell (ppb) 300 yen

The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle (ppb) (some water damage, but legible) 300 yen

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (ppb) 750 yen

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (ppb) 300 yen

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (ppb) 300 yen

Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (ppb) 750 yen

Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell (ppb) 300 yen

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (ppb) 600 yen

Pincher Martin by William Golding (ppb) 600 yen

A Misalliance by Anita Brookner (ppb) 300 yen

Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky (ppb) 3,000 yen

Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (ppb) (some highlighting) 300 yen

White Oleander by Janet Fitch (ppb) 300 yen

Scarlet and Black by Stendhal (ppb) 900 yen

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (ppb) 150 yen

Opium and Other Stories by Géza Csáth (ppb) 3,000 yen

Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (ppb) 1,200 yen

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (ppb) 900 yen

Lust for Life: A Novel Based on the Life of Vincent Van Gogh by Irving Stone (ppb) 150 yen

Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel by Richard Brautigan (hrdc with dust jacket) 3,000 yen

[SOLD]Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce (ppb) 750 yen

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume One: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park (ppb) (llb) 300 yen

The Castle: Definitive Edition by Franz Kafka (ppb) 1,500 yen

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (ppb) 750 yen

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer (ppb) (llb) 600 yen

Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje (ppb) 300 yen

Jonathan Wild by Henry Fielding (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen

East of Eden by Steinbeck (ppb) 300 yen

[TAKEN]All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (ppb) 900 yen

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (ppb) 600 yen

Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood (hrdc with dust jacket) 2,700 yen

50 Great American Short Stories edited by Milton Crane (ppb) 600 yen

[TAKEN]Collected Stories by Dylan Thomas (ppb) 1,200 yen

[SOLD]The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (ppb) 900 yen

Don Quixote by Cervantes (ppb) 750 yen

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (ppb) 900 yen

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff (ppb) (plstc) (llb) 600 yen

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (ppb) 750 yen

Concise Anthology of American Literature, 2nd edition (ppb) 1,350 yen

The Norton Anthology of American Literature Volume 2, 3rd edition (ppb) 1,350 yen

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (ppb) 600 yen

Borkmann’s Point: An Inspector van Veeteren Mystery by Håkan Nesser (ppb) 900 yen

[TAKEN]Naked Lunch by William Burroughs (ppb) 600 yen                      

Silk by Alessandro Baricco (ppb) 600 yen

The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières (ppb) 450 yen

[TAKEN]Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson (ppb) (plstc) 900 yen

The Help by Kathryn Stockett (ppb) 1,200 yen

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (ppb) (plstc) 1,500 yen

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (ppb) 900 yen

17) Literary Criticism

Criticism: The Major Texts, Enlarged Edition by W. J. Bate (hrdc) 3,000 yen

18) Magazines & Journals

[NEW]Back issues of KTO (Kansai Time Out) (Nos. 241-243, 246, 248-251, 253-254, 257, 259-263, 265, 268, 271, 274, 276, 278-280, 282-286, 288-291, 293, 295-303, 305-306, 309, 313, 315-316, 321)

[NEW]Back issues of Adbusters (vol. 9:5; vol. 10:4-6; vol. 11:1-6; vol. 12:1-6; vol. 13:1-6; vol. 14:1-3, 5) 3,000 yen per issue

[NEW]Poster of Adbusters Corporate Flag of America 3,000 yen

[NEW]Journal of Popular Culture (vol. 24:3, vol. 25:3, vol. 27:3) (llb) 2,700 yen

[NEW]U. S. News & World Report August 29, 2006 “Secrets of the Da Vinci Code” 450 yen

[NEW]Time Asia April 3, 2006 “Special Report: Global Warming” 450 yen

Time International January 30, 1995 “The Quake” 1,500 yen

Time April 14, 1997 “Japan’s High-Tech Comeback: Hot New Gadgets, Great New Games” 600 yen

Time Special Double Issue May 3—May 10, 1999 “Young Japan” 300 yen

Newsweek November 16, 1998 “Japan’s Tough Teens: The Troubled Economy Leads to a Wave of Violent Crime” 600 yen

Oprah December 2011 900 yen

Reader’s Digest May 2009 Free with any Takkyubin COD delivery

19) Manga

[TAKEN]Doraemon, volume 1 (Shogakukan English Comics) 750 yen

[TAKEN]Nana 1 by Ai Yazawa (ppb) 900 yen

[TAKEN]Cartoon History of Japan Encyclopedia of People (in Japanese) (ppb) 450 yen

[TAKEN]Jarinko Chie (Action Comics): volumes 1—4, 6—10 (missing volume 5) (in Japanese) (ppb) (plstc) 6,000 yen

[TAKEN]Shonen Jump April 2005, Volume 3, Issue 4, No. 28 (ppb) 1,500 yen

20) Maps

Japan Railroad Map for Sightseeing 150 yen

Detailed Map of Osaka, Kobe & Vicinity 150 yen

Nancy Chandler’s Map of Bangkok: Alias the “Market Map and Much More” 600 yen

[SOLD]Dekka Map Nara & Yamato street map (Japanese) 450 yen

[SOLD]Dekka Map Osaka 24 wards street map (Japanese) 450 yen

21) Mexican-American Studies

Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (4th ed.) by Rodolfo Anuña (ppb) (plstc) (some highlighting) 1,200 yen

Mexico Views Manifest Destiny, 1821-1846: An Essay on the Origins of the Mexican War by Gene M. Brack (hrdc) (llb) 1,500 yen

The Mexican-Americans of South Texas by Willam Madsen (ppb) (llb) 600 yen

North From Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States by Carey Williams (ppb) (plstc) (some highlighting) 1,200 yen

22) Music

MTV: The Making of a Revolution by Tom McGrath (hrdc) (no dust jacket) 900 yen

I, Tina: My Life Story by Tina Turner (ppb) 1,200 yen

Neil Young: Don't Be Denied by John Einarson (ppb) 600 yen

American Musicians: Fifty-Six Portraits in Jazz (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Black Women Composers: A Gensis by Mildred Denby Green (hrdc) (llb) 3,000 yen

Elvis Costello: God's Comic: A Critical Companion to his Lyrics and Music (ppb) 750 yen

Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s by Dave Marsh (hrdc) (llb) 750 yen

Lush Life: A Biogaraphy of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu (ppb) 1,200 yen

23) Non-Fiction / Reference

The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider (ppb) 600 yen

He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo (hrdc with dust jacket) 1,500 yen

Shorthand: Complete Course For Self-Instruction by John Comstock Evans (ppb) 300 yen

Jane and May Morris: A Biographical Story 1839-1938 by Jan Marsh (ppb) 4,500 yen

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston (ppb) 900 yen

Emerson: Essays and Lectures (The Library of America edition) (hrdc with dust jacket) 3,000 yen

Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Canada, Eh! by The Bathroom Readers’ Institute (ppb) 1,800 yen

The Rough Guide to the Internet 2001 by Angus J. Kennedy (ppb) 600 yen

The Rough Guide to Shopping Online (ppb) 600 yen

Pocket Guide to APA Style by Robert Perrin (ppb) (coil binding) 1,200 yen

1998 Writer’s Market (ppb) 1,800 yen

Guide to American Literature From Its Beginnings Through Walt Whitman (ppb) (plstc) 1,800 yen

Genius: The Natural History of Creativity by Hans Eysenck (ppb) (used, good cond) 1000 yen

The Elsewhere Community by Hugh Kenner (ppb) 1,200 yen

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy (ppb) (plstc) 1,200 yen

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (hrdc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Don’t Go to the Cosmetic Counter Without Me, 6th edition (ppb) 420 yen

The Twenty-Something American Dream by Michael Lu-Cohen (ppb) 600 yen

I’m OK, You’re OK by Thomas A. Harris (ppb) 420 yen

Working It Through by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 300 yen

24) Philosophy

Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer Derrida Encounter by Michelfelder & Palmer (hrdc) (llb) 500 yen

Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger (plstc) (llb) 200 yen

Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings trans by Cottingham, Stoothoff& Murdoch (hrdc) (llb) 400 yen

Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (1938 first edition) by John Dewey (hrdc) (llb) 1,000 yen

Science (Theory/Autobiography/Philosophy)

Charles Darwin’s Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of his big Species Book Written From 1856 to 1858 Ed R. C. Stauffer (hrdc) (llb) 1500 yen

The Tao Of Physics by Fritjof Capra (ppb) 150 yen

Philosophy and the New Physics by Jonathan Powers (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

Einstein’s theory of Relativity by Max Born (1962 edition) (plstc) (llb) 450 yen

Einstein by Jeremy Bernstein (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel by Banesh Hoffmann (plstc) (llb) 600 yen

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science by Michael White & John Gribbin (ppb) 300 yen

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking (ppb) 300 yen

The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering simplicity in a Complex World by Jack Cohen and Ian Sewart (ppb) 300 yen

25) Politics / Political Science / World Politics / World Order

Constitutional Government: The American Experience by James A. Curry, Richard B. Riley, & Richard M. Battistoni (hrdc) 1200 yen

Politics, Power, and Bureaucracy in France: The Administrative Elite by Ezra N. Suleiman (hrdc) (llb) 600 yen

Freedom and Domination: A Historical Critique of Civilization by Alexander Rustow (hrdc) (llb) 3600 yen

The Quest for World Order by Robert Cooley Angell (plstc) (llb) 1800 yen

How Nations Behave: Law and Foreign Policy 2nd ed by Louis Henkin (hrdc) (llb) 3000 yen

The Logic and Limits of Trust by Bernard Barber (hrdc) (llb) 3000 yen

Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre (hrdc) (llb) 700 yen


The Portable Machiavelli ed/trans by Bondanella and Musa (plstc) (llb)  600 yen


The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli ed by Crick/trans by Walker (plstc) (llb) 600 yen


Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Robert D. Kaplan (ppb) 900 yen

Balkand Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan (ppb) 900 yen


The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War by Robert D. Kaplan (ppb) 900 yen

Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East by John Keay (hrdc) 900 yen

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer (plstc) (llb) 600 yen

26) Psychology

[SOLD]Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud transl by James Strachey (ppb) 900 yen

[SOLD]Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Simund Freud (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

[SOLD]The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud Vs I-III by Ernest Jones (hrdc) (llb) set: 6000 yen

[SOLD]Sigmund Freud’s Letters: the Origins of Psychoanalysis by Eds Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, Ernst Kris, transl by Mosbacher and Strachey  First Edition (hrdc) (llb) 1200 yen

[SOLD]Clinical Papers and Essays on Psychoanalysis by Karl Abraham (hrdc) (llb) 900 yen

[SOLD]The Growth of Logical Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence by Barbel Inhelder and Jean Piaget (hrdc) (llb) 450 yen

[SOLD]Man and his Symbols by Carl G. Jung (ppb) 300 yen

[SOLD]Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C. G. Jung (ppb) 300 yen

[SOLD]The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung (ppb) 300 yen

[SOLD]Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung (ppb) 1200 yen

[SOLD]Mandala Symbolism by C. G. Jung (ppb) 1800 yen

[SOLD]Psyche & Symbol: A Selection from the Writings of C. G. Jung Ed de Laszlo (ppb) 120 yen

[SOLD]Introducing Jung (a graphic book) by Maggie Hyde and Michael McGuinness (ppb) 600 yen

[SOLD]An Introduction to Jung’s Psychology by Frieda Fordham (ppb) 300 yen

[SOLD]A Primer of Jungian Psychology by Calvin S. Hall & Vernon J. Nordby (ppb) 300 yen

[SOLD]About Behaviorism by B. F. Skinner (plstc) (llb) 450 yen

[SOLD]Reflections on Behaviorism and Society by B. F. Skinner (hrdc) (llb) 600 yen

[SOLD]Particulars of My Life by B. F Skinner (plstc) (llb) 600 yen

[SOLD]The Social Psychology of Knowledge Eds: Daniel Bar-Tal and Arie W. Kruglanski (hrdc) (llb) 1800 yen

[SOLD]Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett (ppb) 300 yen

[SOLD]Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of The Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare (ppb) 600 yen

27) Rare & Out-Of-Print Books

[GONE]Crusaders and Compromisers: Essays on the relationship of the Antislavery Struggle to the Antebellum Party System edited by Alan M. Kraut (hrdc) (llb) 15,000 yen

[GONE]The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews Volume I: 1841-46 edited by John W. Blassingame (hrdc) (llb) 30,000 yen

[GONE]Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790 volume 1: Virginia and North Carolina compiled by Lathan A. Windley (hrdc) (llb) 30,000 yen

[GONE]Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790 volume 2: Maryland compiled by Lathan A. Windley (hrdc) (llb) 18,000 yen

[GONE]Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790 volume 3: South Carolina compiled by Lathan A. Windley (hrdc) (llb) 15,000 yen

[GONE]Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790 volume 4: Georgia compiled by Lathan A. Windley (hrdc) (llb) 9,000 yen

[GONE]The American Negro: A Study in Racial Crossing by Melville J. Herskovits (hrdc) (llb) 9,000 yen

[GONE]The Invisible Visible Minority: Japan's Burakumin by I. Roger Yoshino & Sueo Murakoshi (ppb) (llb) 9,000 yen

[GONE]Conquerors and Slaves: Sociological Studies in Roman History, Volume 1 by Keith Hopkins (hrdc) (llb) 9,000 yen

28) Social Theory

Social Theory by/about Emile Durkheim

Social Theory (Durkheim, Parsons, Mannheim, Simmel, Merton, and Goffman)

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Emile Durkheim transl by Swain (plstc) (llb) 1200 yen

On Morality and Society by Emile Durkheim Ed Robert N. Bellah (plstc) (llb) 1500 yen

Durkheim and Modern Society by Steve Fenton 2400 yen

Social Theory by Jurgen Habermas

The Theory of Communicative Action V. 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society transl by McCarthy  (plstc) (llb) 2,400 yen

Legitimation Crisis transl by McCarthy (plstc) (llb) 1200 yen

Knowledge and Human Interests transl by Shapiro (ppb) 4200 yen

Social Theory (miscellaneous)

Social Theory and the Crisis of Marxism by Joseph McCarney (hrdc) (llb) 900 yen

The Sociology of Georg Simmel tranlated/edited by Kurt H. Wolff (plstc) (llb) 1500 yen

Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim transl by Wirth and Shils (plstc) (llb) 1200 yen

The Intellectual Development of Karl Mannheim by colin Loader (hrdc) (llb) 2100 yen

The Chicago School of Sociology : Institutionalization, Diversity, and ...by Martin Bulmer (plstc) (llb) 2400 yen

On Theoretical Sociology: Five Essays, Old and New by Robert K. Merton (ppb) 2100 yen

Sociological Ambivalence and Other Essays by Robert K. Merton (hrdc) (llb) 2100 yen

Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction by Erving Goffman (plstc) (llb) 1800 yen

Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior by Erving Goffman (plstc) (llb) 400 yen

The Structure of Social Action Vol. II: Weber by Talcott Parsons (plstc) (llb) 2100 yen

The Social System by Talcott Parsons (plstc) (llb) 3000 yen

29) Social Welfare / Human Rights / Social Movements, etc.

The Struggle for Humanity: Agents of Nonviolent Change in a Violent World by Majorie Hope and James Young (plstc) (llb) 600 yen

Outbreaks: The Sociology of Collective Behavior by Jerry D. Rose (plstc) (llb) 1,200 yen

The Psychology of Social Movements by Hadley Cantril (hrdc) (llb) 900 yen

Social Movements and Social Change (hrdc) (llb) Ed. Robert H. Lauer 300 yen

Civil Liberties: Policy and Policy Making Ed Stephen L. Wasby (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

Human Rights by David Selby (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

Strategy for a Living Revolution by George Lakey (plstc) (llb) 1,200 yen

The Welfare State and Equality: Structural and Ideological Roots of Public Expenditures by Harold L. Wilensky (plstc) (llb) 900 yen

The Social Responsibilities of Business (1988) by Morrell Heald (hrdc) (llb) 2,400 yen

Social Problems (Explanation, Analysis, Gandhian perspective)

Constructing Social Problems by Malcolm Spector and John I. Kitsuse (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Possible Trouble: an analysis of Social Problems by Clayton A. Hartjen (hrdc) (llb) 300 yen

Contemporary Social Problems Fourth Edition by Robert K. Merton and Robert Nisbet (1976) (hrdc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict by Joan V. Bondurant (plstc) (llb) 2,100 yen

30) Sociology

Polls and Surveys: Understanding What They Tell Us by Norman M. Bradburn and Seymour Sudman (hrdc) 300 yen

Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum by William Foote Whyte (ppb) 1,500 yen

How The Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis (ppb) 900 yen

Toward Humanist Sociology by Alfred McClung Lee (llb) (poor condition: no writing but binding bad with detached pages) 100 yen

Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective by Peter L. Berger (plstc) (llb) 600 yen

Polls & Surveys: Understanding What They Tell Us by Norman M. Bradburn 300 yen

31) Spiritual

Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, book 1 by Neale Donald Walsch (ppb) 300 yen

Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, book 2 by Neale Donald Walsch (hrdc with dust jacket) 900 yen

Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, book 3 by Neale Donald Walsch (ppb) 600 yen

Tranquility Without Pills: All About Transcendental Meditation by Jhan Robbins and David fisher (ppb) 300 yen

32) Travel Books

Lonely Planet

Hiking in Japan (ppb) 2,100 yen

Japan (3rd ed.) by Ian L. McQueen (ppb) 600 yen

Japan (6th ed.) (ppb) 300 yen

Japan (6th ed.) (ppb) 600  yen

North-East Asia on a shoestring (4th ed.) (ppb) 600 yen

Korea (3rd ed.) (ppb) 300 yen                                        

Vietnamese Phrasebook (ppb) 600 yen

Vietnam (ppb) 900 yen

Australia (new condition) (ppb) 1,200 yen

Britain (ppb) (plstc) 1,200 yen

Thailand (7th ed.) by Joe Cummings (ppb) 300 yen

Bangkok City Guide (2nd ed.) by Joe Cummings (ppb) 1,500 yen

Thai Phrasebook (ppb) 600 yen

The Rough Guide to Thailand (ppb) 900 yen

[SOLD]Zen Koku Minshuku Guide (in Japanese) (ppb) 450 yen

[SOLD]Japan’s Hidden Hot Springs by Robert Neff (ppb) 3,000 yen

[SOLD]Japan For the Impoverished: A Travel Guide by Jim Rickman (ppb) 600 yen

33) Women's Studies

Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen (ppb) (like new) 1,200 yen

History of Ideas on Woman: A Source Book by Rosemary Agonito (plstc) (llb) 1,200 yen

The Dictionary of Feminist theory by Maggie Humm (plstc) (llb) 900 yen

Of Marriage and the Market: Women's subordination internationally and its lessons Eds: Kate Young, Carol Wolkowitz and Roslyn McCullogh (plstc) (llb) 300 yen

Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience by Bettina Aptheker (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

[SOLD]Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers Eds: John Peradotto and J.P. Sullivan (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 600 yen

Reflections of Women in Antiquity Ed. Helene P. Foley (hrdc) (llb) 1,500 yen

Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy by Mary Daly (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen

French Women and the Age of Enlightenment Ed Samia I. Spencer (hrdc) (llb) 1,200 yen

Women in Medieval Society Ed Susan Mosher Stuard (plstc) (llb) 1,500 yen