Lady Snowblood Volume 1

Lady Snowblood Volume 1
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-11-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630082740

From the pen of Kazuo Koike, of Lone Wolf and Cub fame, comesLady Snowblood. A story of pure vengeance, Lady Snowblood tells the tale of a daughter born of a singular purpose, to avenge the death of her family at the hands of a gang of thugs, a purpose woven into her soul from the time of her gestation. Beautifully drafted and full of bloody, sexy action, Lady Snowblood lives up to its title and reputation. • From Kazuo Koike, writer of Lone Wolf and Cub, Crying Freeman, and Samurai Executioner. FOR MATURE READERS

Understanding People

Understanding People
Author: Trevor Butt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1350318043

Understanding People provides an overview and critique of current psychological assumptions about people and what differentiates them, and replaces them with a set of ideas taken from social constructionism. It begins with an examination of contemporary theories, then explores the critique of the social constructionists, before laying out the basis of an understanding of human action and behaviour, drawing on phenomenology and personal construct theory. Using everyday experience to illustrate the issues in personality theory (Is behaviour situation-specific? Why do we have a sense of self? Is there an unconscious?), this book will breathe life into an area of psychology that is so often arid, and, in the eyes of students, divorced from their world.

Lady Snowblood Volume 3: Retribution Part 1

Lady Snowblood Volume 3: Retribution Part 1
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006-04-11
Genre: Assassins
ISBN: 1593074581

Yuki works as a master assassin, living out an old tradition of vengeance for crimes committed against a family she never met.

Lady Snowblood Volume 3

Lady Snowblood Volume 3
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2014-11-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630082767

Lady Snowblood is a woman born with a singular purpose, revenge. Revenge for the death of her father at the hands of greedy criminals. Revenge for the life of her mother, who birthed her in a prison to continue this demon's path of death. Sometimes this path is odd, sometimes sexy, often painful, and always violent. By means of a world's worth of skills, Lady Snowblood will find her revenge. But who knows what lies at the end of this path. • Skillfully written by Kazuo Koike of Lone Wolf and Cub fame and master-drafted by Kazuo Kamimura, Lady Snowblood is a sexy story of a woman bound by dire desires.

Lady Snowblood Volume 2

Lady Snowblood Volume 2
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2014-11-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630082759

The path of revenge can have many twisted turns, and Lady Snowblood's is no exception. Born in a prison, a product of her mother's grudge, Yuki is a child of hell. What will she do for revenge? Pose as a nun? Become another woman's lover? Possibly. In this volume we learn about Yuki's training and youth, see her woo some allies, and embark on the first steps of her angry path. Written by Kazuo Koike of Lone Wolf & Cub fame, Lady Snowblood is a tale of a woman's path in hell. FOR MATURE READERS

Unchained Melody

Unchained Melody
Author: Tom Mes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2017
Genre: Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN: 9780993306044

"In this volume, expert Tom Mes takes us through the extraordinary career of this Japanese actess, whose commanding screen presence and piercing gaze defined an entire age of Japanese cinema from the 1960s onwards. From her early years in the wildly popular films of the Nikkatsu studio to career-defining roles in Lady Snowblood and Female Prisoner Scorpion, Tom als explores Kaji's many collaborations with master film-makers such as Kinji Fukasaku and Kon Ichikawa and delves into her twilight reign on the television screens of Japan, as well as spolighting Meiko Kaji the singer. Unchained Melody profiles her collaborating directors and looks at the varied cinematic tastes of Japanese film audiences over a period of several decades, providing an intriguing snapshot not only iinto Meiko Kaji's career and the film industry of the time, but also of Japanese culture itself"--Page 4 of cover.

A Couple of Jitte

A Couple of Jitte
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2004
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 1593072791

The Shogun's executioner has received many strange last requests from those about to lose their head, some stranger than others. A woman condemned for murder wants her locks severed by the killing blade to be given to a lost love. An old man asks that his own decapitation follow that of his prized chrysanthemum, and that his executioner grow another from its cuttings. And elsewhere, the woman who once stole the weapons of samurai policemen is asked to serve as a cop herself to use her own unique skills to help solve a puzzling murder.

Path of the Assassin

Path of the Assassin
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007
Genre: Assassins
ISBN: 1593075081

A master ninja's duty is to protect the boy who would grow up to become Shogun and unify Japan.

Lady Snowblood Volume 4

Lady Snowblood Volume 4
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-11-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630082775

As samurai were losing their bearings in a time of change, Yuki brought back the demonic spirit of vengeance. And the good part about this last volume of Lady Snowblood is that she saved her most hated targets for last. Yet, in the midst of a maelstrom of sex and violence, the reader will still catch a few glimpses of warmth and human compassion. That's because Kazuo Koike, the creator of the popular Lone Wolf & Cub manga, knows how to build around good characters, and Lady Snowblood is certainly no exception. See how it all ends in volume 4, the second part of "Retribution." • From Kazuo Koike, writer of Lone Wolf & Cub, Crying Freeman,and Samurai Executioner. • Lady Snowblood is published in the authentic Japanese format. FOR MATURE READERS

Color of Rage

Color of Rage
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630084719

Two slaves free themselves from a slave ship, one a Japanese man, the other an African American. After escaping they find themselves on the shore of Edo-era Japan, a society with a strong caste system, isolated from the world. How will the Japanese people perceive this giant black man, how will they survive? But first things first, how will they get these shackles off their feet? Fans of Kazuo Koike know how he loves to turn out a sensational samurai-era yarn with a certain sense of chauvinist violence and pulpy sexiness, and Color of Rage is by no means a slacker in these categories. Drafted by pin-up artist and mangaka Seisaku Kano, Color of Rage features plenty of action, fighting, blood, sexiness, and more fighting.