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Ancient Maya State, Urbanism, Exchange, and Craft Specialization

Chipped Stone Evidence from the Copán Valley and the La Entrada Region, Honduras

By: Kazuo Aoyama

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Ancient Maya State, Urbanism, Exchange, and Craft Specialization

Chipped Stone Evidence from the Copán Valley and the La Entrada Region, Honduras

By: Kazuo Aoyama

An exhaustive analysis of political and economic change right through the sequence of Maya civilization, based on the direct evidence of chipped stone assemblages from a wide variety of contexts in two regions. The acquisition of raw materials, the production of tools, and the use of tools are all fully considered for what they can tell us about long-distance political and economic relations and local economic organization. An unexpected bonus of the study was information on the use of chipped stone in warfare. The full dataset is provided electronically. Complete text in English and Spanish.

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Center for Comparative Arch

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1877812544

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9781877812545

Marketing and Consumption in Modern Japan

By: Kazuo Usui

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Marketing and Consumption in Modern Japan

By: Kazuo Usui

This book explores the development of marketing, consumption and marketing thought in Japan during the twentieth century. It shows how Japan had a long established indigenous traditional approach to marketing, separate from Western approaches, and discusses how the Japanese approach to marketing was applied in the form of new marketing activities, responding to changing patterns of consumption, which contributed considerably to Japan's economic success. The book concludes with a discussion of how Japanese approach to marketing is likely to develop at a time when globalisation and international marketing are having an increasing impact in Japan.

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277

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Routledge

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1134350740

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9781134350742

The Transformation of the Japanese Economy

By: Kazuo Sato

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The Transformation of the Japanese Economy

By: Kazuo Sato

During the rapid growth period of the Japanese economy, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, the economic system that became entrenched in Japan -- the so-called Japanese-style capitalism -- was based on the government-business-bureaucracy triad. Although its distinct features survived the subsequent two decades of slow growth, there are many indications that the Japanese economy is once again struggling to transform itself. These translations from the Japanese economic literature expertly address this transformation.

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Routledge

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1315285274

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9781315285276

Asian and Pacific Coasts 2003

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference : Makuhari, Japan, 29 February - 4 March 2004

By: Yoshimi Goda,Wataru Kioka,Kazuo Nadaoka

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Asian and Pacific Coasts 2003

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference : Makuhari, Japan, 29 February - 4 March 2004

By: Yoshimi Goda,Wataru Kioka,Kazuo Nadaoka

This book presents the experience of coastal and port engineering development, as well as coastal environmental problems, in Asian and Pacific countries. It also provides information and promotes technological progress and activities, international technical transfer and cooperation, and opportunities for engineers and researchers to maintain and improve scientific and technical competence. The subject areas are not limited to the classical topics of coastal engineering but are extended to related fields, including environments, marine ecology, coastal oceanography, fishery, etc.

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World Scientific

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9812703047

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9789812703040

Kominka

The Beauty and Wisdom of Japanese Traditional Folk Houses

By: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Kominka

The Beauty and Wisdom of Japanese Traditional Folk Houses

By: Kazuo Hasegawa

For centuries, traditional wooden folk houses known as “ kominka” have embodied the cultural values of the agrarian, merchant, and samurai societies of pre-modern Japan. Their huge sturdy posts and powerful beams have withstood earthquakes and other natural disasters, demonstrating the artistry of Japanese carpenters and the strength of handcrafted wood joinery. Preserved and reconstructed today, kominka offer silent testimony to the enduring beauty and resilience of Old Japan.Kazuo Hasegawa' s profusely illustrated book introduces readers to the vernacular architecture, equips travelers with a guide to Japan' s 101 must-visit kominka and villages, and is a useful reference for those who are planning to embark, as the author did, on a kominka renovation journey of their own.

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Museyon Inc.

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1940842719

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9781940842714

Dry Etching Technology for Semiconductors

By: Kazuo Nojiri

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Dry Etching Technology for Semiconductors

By: Kazuo Nojiri

This book is a must-have reference to dry etching technology for semiconductors, which will enable engineers to develop new etching processes for further miniaturization and integration of semiconductor integrated circuits. The author describes the device manufacturing flow, and explains in which part of the flow dry etching is actually used. The content is designed as a practical guide for engineers working at chip makers, equipment suppliers and materials suppliers, and university students studying plasma, focusing on the topics they need most, such as detailed etching processes for each material (Si, SiO2, Metal etc) used in semiconductor devices, etching equipment used in manufacturing fabs, explanation of why a particular plasma source and gas chemistry are used for the etching of each material, and how to develop etching processes. The latest, key technologies are also described, such as 3D IC Etching, Dual Damascene Etching, Low-k Etching, Hi-k/Metal Gate Etching, FinFET Etching, Double Patterning etc.

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Springer

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3319102958

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9783319102955

Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

By: Heribert Hirt,Kazuo Shinozaki

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Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

By: Heribert Hirt,Kazuo Shinozaki

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity. Apart from biotic stress caused by plant pathogens, there are a number of abiotic stresses such as extremes in temperature, drought, salinity, heavy metals and radiation which all have detrimental effects on plant growth and yield. However, certain plant species and ecotypes have developed various mechanisms to adapt to such stress conditions. Recent advances in the understanding of these abiotic stress responses provided the impetus for compiling up-to-date reviews discussing all relevant topics in abiotic stress signaling of plants in a single volume. Topical reviews were prepared by selected experts and contain an introduction, discussion of the state of the art and important future tasks of the particular fields.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540200371

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9783540200376

Amoeba Management

The Dynamic Management System for Rapid Market Response

By: Kazuo Inamori

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Amoeba Management

The Dynamic Management System for Rapid Market Response

By: Kazuo Inamori

Especially effective in dynamic and highly competitive environments, the Amoeba Management System has received attention from the Harvard Business Review and has already been successfully adopted at more than 400 companies around the world. At the heart of this innovative management system is a business philosophy based on doing the right thing as

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CRC Press

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1466578912

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9781466578913

Crystal Growth of Si Ingots for Solar Cells Using Cast Furnaces

By: Kazuo Nakajima

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Crystal Growth of Si Ingots for Solar Cells Using Cast Furnaces

By: Kazuo Nakajima

Crystal Growth of Si Ingots for Solar Cells Using Cast Furnaces is the first book written to both comprehensively describe these concepts and technologies and compare the strengths and weaknesses of various techniques. Readers will learn about the basic growth and characterization of Si crystals, including sections on the history of cast methods for Si ingots for solar cells. Methods discussed include the dendrite cast method, as well as other significant technologies, including the high-performance (HP) cast and mono-like cast methods. These concepts, growth mechanisms, growth technologies, and the problems that still need to be solved are all included in this comprehensive volume. - Covers the concept of crystal growth, providing an understanding of each growth method - Discusses the quality of Si ingot, mainly from the viewpoint of crystal defects and their control - Reviews fundamental characterization concepts to discern the quality of ingots and wafers - Discusses concepts and technologies to establish a low-temperature region in a Si melt using the NOC method in order to obtain a uniform and large Si single ingot with low stress

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Elsevier

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0128200707

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9780128200704

Physical Principles of Biomembranes and Cells

By: Kazuo Ohki,Hidetake Miyata

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Physical Principles of Biomembranes and Cells

By: Kazuo Ohki,Hidetake Miyata

This book describes how biologically available free energy sources (ATP, chemical potential, and membrane potentials, among others) can be used to drive synthetic reactions, signaling in cells, and various types of motion such as membrane traffic, active transport, and cell locomotion. As such, it approaches the concept of the energy cycle of life on Earth from a physical point of view, covering topics ranging from an introduction to chemical evolution, to an examination of the catalytic activity of enzymes associated with the genome in Darwinian evolution. The author introduces the relationship between functions and physical properties in biomembranes, explaining the methods and equipment used in biophysics research to help researchers unravel the still-unsolved mysteries of life. The physical principles needed to understand the cellular functions are provided; these functions are associated with biomembranes and regulated by physical properties of the lipid bilayer such as membrane fluidity, phase transition, and phase separation, as shown in lipid rafts. Other key dynamic aspects of life (cell locomotion, cytoskeletal dynamics, and sensitivities of the cell to physical stimuli such as external forces and temperature) are also discussed. Lastly, readers will learn how life on Earth and its ecological system are maintained by solar energy, and be provided further information on the problems accompanying global warming.

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Springer

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4431568417

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9784431568414

Infrared and Raman Spectra of Inorganic and Coordination Compounds, Part B

Applications in Coordination, Organometallic, and Bioinorganic Chemistry

By: Kazuo Nakamoto

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Infrared and Raman Spectra of Inorganic and Coordination Compounds, Part B

Applications in Coordination, Organometallic, and Bioinorganic Chemistry

By: Kazuo Nakamoto

The 6th edition of this classic comprises the most comprehensive guide to infrared and Raman spectra of inorganic, organometallic, bioinorganic, and coordination compounds. From fundamental theories of vibrational spectroscopy to applications in a variety of compound types, it is extensively updated. Part B details applications of Raman and IR spectroscopy to larger and complex systems. It covers interactions of cisplatin and other metallodrugs with DNA and cytochrome c oxidase and peroxidase. This is a great reference for chemists and medical professionals working with infrared or Raman spectroscopies and for graduate students.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470405872

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9780470405871

Growth and Business Cycles with Equilibrium Indeterminacy

By: Kazuo Mino

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Growth and Business Cycles with Equilibrium Indeterminacy

By: Kazuo Mino

Over the past two decades, the issue of equilibrium indeterminacy has been one of the major research concerns in macroeconomic dynamics. Growth and Business Cycles with Equilibrium Indeterminacy discusses the main topics in this literature. Based on comprehensive surveys and the author’s original research, this book explores sunspot-driven fluctuations in real business cycle models, multiple equilibria in endogenous growth models, and the stabilization effects of fiscal and monetary policy rules. The book also considers equilibrium indeterminacy in open economy models.

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Springer

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4431556095

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9784431556091

Welcoming the Japanese Visitor

Insights, Tips, Tactics

By: Kazuo Nishiyama

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Welcoming the Japanese Visitor

Insights, Tips, Tactics

By: Kazuo Nishiyama

The premiere book in understanding the Japanese tourist market. Welcoming the Japanese Visitor offers invaluable practical advice on how to conduct business successfully with specific market segments of Japanese visitors.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824817591

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9780824817596

Ancient Maya State, Urbanism, Exchange, and Craft Specialization

Chipped Stone Evidence from the Copán Valley and the La Entrada Region, Honduras

By: Kazuo Aoyama

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Ancient Maya State, Urbanism, Exchange, and Craft Specialization

Chipped Stone Evidence from the Copán Valley and the La Entrada Region, Honduras

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Center for Comparative Arch

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1877812544

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9781877812545

The Art of Lying

By: Kazuo Sakai,Nakana Ide

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The Art of Lying

By: Kazuo Sakai,Nakana Ide

In this intriguing study of the role of lies in human behavior, a noted Japanese psychiatrist and a successful businessman argue that despite everything we've been taught in America, lies make the world go 'round. They bring to light the benefits of lying that long have been hidden behind the universal belief that lying is wrong.

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Hatherleigh Press

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1578260558

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9781578260553

An Artist of the Floating World

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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An Artist of the Floating World

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

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Vintage

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0307829065

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9780307829061

A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.

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Vintage

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0307829073

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9780307829078

Nocturnes

Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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Nocturnes

Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available * In Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood Hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme - the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older, relationships founder and youthful hopes recede. 'Each of these stories is heartbreaking in its own way, but some have moments of great comedy, and they all require a level of attention that, typically, Ishiguro's writing rewards.' Observer '[They] come up on you quietly, but then haunt you for days . These little pieces could only be the work of a great composer.' Evening Standard 'A fine and moving collection of stories, displaying his unique combination of the sad, the stoic and the consoling. It's about failure, but it dignifies failure, and with it, the human condition.' Margaret Drabble, Guardian

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Faber & Faber

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0571252621

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9780571252626

When We Were Orphans

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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When We Were Orphans

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.

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Vintage

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0375412654

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9780375412653

The Remains of the Day

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Remains of the Day

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?'In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past...A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

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Faber & Faber Limited

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0571258247

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9780571258246

Never Let Me Go

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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Never Let Me Go

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.If you enjoyed Never Let Me Go, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.

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Faber & Faber

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0571272126

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9780571272129

Pelukis di Atas Awan (An Artist of the Floating World)

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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Pelukis di Atas Awan (An Artist of the Floating World)

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Ketika negerinya menghadapi masa penuh penderitaan, seniman Masuji Ono membaktikan seninya tidak hanya untuk merayakan keindahan material. Ia berkarya untuk mendukung gerakan imperialis yang membawa Jepang memasuki Perang Dunia II. Sekarang, ketika Ono yang telah menua berjuang melewati masa paska peperangan, ia melarikan diri ke dalam kenangan masa muda dan “dunia di atas awan” —dunia malam yang penuh kenikmatan, hiburan, dan alkohol. Dicela masyarakat karena kekalahan negerinya dan dicaci karena pilihan estetika masa lalunya, Ono mengenang kembali sejarah hidupnya yang menjadikan ia pahlawan dan pengecut, tapi lebih daripada segalanya: manusia.

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242

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Gramedia Pustaka Utama

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6020664503

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9786020664507

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