Worth Looking For

The Birds of Japan • Mark Brazil • REFERENCE • OUT OF PRINT • Brazil's landmark guide, based on a decade of field work and with illustrations by Masayuki Yabuuchi, covers 583 species of birds in Japan, their status and distribution in detail. (JPN214, $99.95)
Japanese Beyond Words, How to Walk and Talk Like a Native Speaker • Andrew Horvat • GUIDEBOOK • OUT OF PRINT • A long time resident of Tokyo, Horvat explains how to dress, walk, talk, slurp, and bow your way to cultural fluency in Japanese. (JPN194, $14.95)
How to Look at Japanese Art • Stephen Addiss • ART & ARCHITECTURE • OUT OF PRINT • An outstanding introduction to the traditional arts of ceramics, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, woodblock prints and gardens, this brief guide features 60 exemplary and illustrated examples. (JPN61, $19.95)
Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth • Maurice Krafft • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • This illustrated pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series, featuring hundreds of full color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992). (GEO06, $12.95)
Seabirds of the World, A Photographic Guide • Peter Harrison • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT • A definitive, compact guide to all the world's seabirds, featuring 740 photographs. (FG16, $29.95)

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