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A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu-a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese literary tradition, which may explain why few examples have been translated into English.The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays presents a representative selection of more than one hundred zuihitsu from a range of historical periods written by close to fifty authors-from well-known figures, such as Matsuo Basho, Natsume Soseki, and Koda Aya, to such writers as Tachibana Nankei and Dekune Tatsuro, whose works appear here for the first time in English. Writers speak on the experience of coming down with a cold, the aesthetics of tea, the physiology and psychology of laughter, the demands of old age, standards of morality, the way to raise children, the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the thoughts that accompany sleeplessness, the anxiety of undergoing surgery, and the unexpected benefits of training a myna bird to say "Thank you." These essays also provide moving descriptions of snowy landscapes, foggy London, the famous cherry blossoms of Ueno Park, and the appeal of rainy vistas, and relate the joys and troubles of everyone from desperate samurai to filial children to ailing cats.

J5940 --- J5630 --- J5910 --- J5920 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose -- essays, columns, social and cultural criticism --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Literature -- fiction and prose -- anthologies, selections, series, sōsho --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose ( -1868) --- E-books --- Japanese essays --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. --- Japanese literature

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Columns, walls and floors make up the skeleton of nearly every building. This third volume in the series Scale, Support Materialise, takes an in-depth look at these load-bearing structures, covering the development and realization of appropriate constructions from idea and design intention all the way to constructional implementation.

Mur --- Cloison --- Sol --- Construction --- Columns --- Walls --- Floors --- Structural engineering. --- Fondations (construction) --- Bases (architecture) --- Colonnes --- Murs --- Sols --- Design and construction. --- Conception et construction --- 69 --- 69.01 --- 69.07 --- 692.2 --- 692.5 --- 693.9 --- 692 --- 69(035) --- Constructie-elementen van gebouwen ; wanden, muren --- 69.06 --- Draagconstructies --- Bouwelementen --- Vloeren --- Muren --- Kolommen ; steunkolommen --- Bouwtechniek --- Bouwconstructie --- Constructie --- Skeletbouw --- Bouwdelen --- Constructiedelen --- Bouwwezen. Constructie ; handboeken --- Bouwwezen ; draagconstructies, pneumatische constructies, overspanningen --- Constructie-elementen van gebouwen ; vloeren, zolderingen, plafonds --- Conception et construction.

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Whether he was taking us along for a journey down the Mississippi with a couple of runaways or delivering speeches on the importance of careful lying, Mark Twain had an innate ability to captivate readers and listeners alike with his trademark humor and sarcasm. Twain never lacked for material, either, as his strong opinions regarding most issues gave him countless opportunities to articulate his thoughts in the voice that only he could provide. A frequent outlet for Twain's wit was in letters to the editors of various newspapers and periodicals. Sharing his thoughts and opinions on topical issues ranging from national affairs to local social events, with swipes along the way at woman suffrage, potholes, literary piracy and other scams, slow mail delivery, police corruption, capital punishment, and the removal of Huck Finn from libraries, Twain never hesitated to speak his mind. And now thanks to Gary Scharnhorst, more than a hundred of these letters are available in one place for us to enjoy. From his opinions on the execution of an intellectually brilliant murderer, to his scathing review of a bureau he perceived as "a pack of idiots" running on a currency of doughnuts, Twain's pure, unbridled voice is evident throughout his letters. Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics gives readers a chance to delve further than ever before into the musings of the most recognizable voice in American literature.

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